On Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," Trump claims some foreign leaders are calling and telling him this was the most "messed-up" election they've ever seen. He doesn't name any of these leaders.
Trump again trying to discredit the election results, arguing that he was ahead in the vote count on election night until "they did these massive dumps of votes."
Trump renewing his baseless claims about dead people voting en masse. "This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud. ... The media doesn't even want to cover it." There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the election.
Biden’s vote total crossed 80 million last Tuesday, by far the most votes received by a presidential nominee: washingtonpost.com/elections/2020…
Still, Trump claimed just now: "Joe Biden did not get 80 million votes."
"Well, we're trying to put the evidence in, but the judges aren't allowing us to do it," Trump tells host Maria Bartiromo when asked what he and his team are doing to contest the results.
Trump's legal team has failed time and again in their efforts in various states.
Trump says he told his lawyers he wanted to file one big, beautiful, tremendous lawsuit. He says he was told he didn't have standing. "What kind of a court system is this?"
Maria Bartiromo is not disputing any of the lies Trump is telling on her program so far, including the false claim that some states allowed voters to vote past Election Day.
Trump keeps prefacing his lies about election fraud with "everyone knows," which -- like his "Sir!" stories -- has become a telltale sign of a falsehood.
“I’m going to use 125 percent of my energy to do it,” Trump says of contesting the election results through the courts.
“My mind will not change in six months. There was tremendous cheating here.”
Most of the interview was focused on the election. Very little on coronavirus.
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Michael Steel (@michael_steel) former top aide to John Boehner, Paul Ryan and others, now a spokesman for Dominion Voting Systems, rebuts Sidney Powell's wild claims of voter fraud in this Fox interview. Very much worth watching. (1/x)
@michael_steel This exchange at the very end gets to the heart of the matter.
Q: They’re going to call you a RINO. What do these allegations do to the belief in our election system?
Steel: “I’ve worked for conservative causes, candidates and elected officials for nearly 20 years..." (2/x)
More Steel: "I think that these allegations are not allegations against Dominion Voting Systems. They are against our elected officials at the state and local level -- bipartisan poll watchers, the very system that inspires the confidence that we have ..." (3/x)
According to the man, one device captures your license plate number; another records how many people are in your car and has facial recognition tech; another can track your cell phone number, including whether one person is carrying multiple phones.
U.S. law enforcement has surveillance capabilities too, of course. But the far-reaching nature of state surveillance in China opens the door to a host of potential abuses. Even the thought of an officer using, or misusing, the available data can spur one to alter one’s behavior.
A brief personal example: A few years ago, I took a solo trip through western Sichuan province, mostly riding buses until I reached a town where the only way to keep going west (into eastern Qinghai) was to hire a driver.
On his show tonight, Tucker Carlson repeatedly mentioned a reporter named Murray Carpenter, suggesting Carpenter was writing a story for NYT that would mention Carlson's home address. Carlson then asked what might happen if he revealed the home addresses of Carpenter & NYT eds.
Twitter is already full of threatening messages aimed at Carpenter.
In 2018, an anti-fascist organization called Smash Racism D.C. posted Carlson's address on Twitter. A group of demonstrators later surrounded Carlson's home and chanted, "We know where you sleep at night." washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11…
“We have embers, and we do have flames," Trump tells Chris Wallace when asked about his "embers" comment on the coronavirus pandemic. "Florida became – more flamelike.”
Trump continues to dismiss the increase in coronavirus cases. "Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. ... Many of those cases shouldn't even be cases."
"I can tell you cases are 6,000 in the whole European Union. ... Is it possible that they don't have the virus as badly as we do?" Wallace asks.
"It's possible that they don't test, that's what's possible," Trump says. "We find cases and many of those cases heal automatically."
A few more thoughts after rereading this list of supposedly outrageous incidents mentioned in the Harper’s “cancel culture” letter. 1) As @samthielman points out, many of the descriptions of these episodes are extremely misleading or oversimplified to the point of absurdity. 1/x
“Editors are fires for running controversial pieces?” We don’t know who this one is about specifically, but one of the signatories is Ian Buruma, who left the NY Review of Books in 2018 after running a piece aiming to rehabilitate Jian Ghomeshi. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/s… 2/x
As the Guardian piece notes, Buruma’s defense of the piece in an interview with @IChotiner only made things worse: Buruma said he didn’t know whether the allegations that Ghomeshi had violently assaulted women were accurate, “nor is it really my concern.” 3/x
This story is just jaw-dropping: Eight minority Ramsey County corrections officers have filed discrimination charges with the state’s Department of Human Rights after they were barred from guarding or having any other contact with Derek Chauvin last month startribune.com/minority-corre…
"As Chauvin arrived, all officers of color were ordered to a separate floor, and a supervisor told one of them that, because of their race, they would be a potential 'liability' around Chauvin, according a copy of racial discrimination charges obtained by the Star Tribune."
"In explaining his actions, jail Superintendent Steve Lydon later told superiors that he was informed Chauvin would be arriving in 10 minutes, and made a call 'to protect and support' minority employees by shielding them from Chauvin. ... He has since been demoted."