The Electoral College finally confirmed it. It’s almost time for Trump, Ivanka and the rest of the nepotism gang to GTFO of the White House
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Molly and Rick think it’s only a matter of time before Trump cultists start treating Mar-a-Lago like the “real” White House—and Donnie looks for new ways to extract cash from his megafans
“I’m wondering how much it costs to get [Trump] to sign your boobs,” Molly says.
“Free—if you stop at the churro bar,” Rick answers. trib.al/dTuunQf
But before the festivities begin, there are still a few remaining questions, and Molly and Rick tackle them on today’s “The New Abnormal” by The Daily Beast trib.al/dTuunQf
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EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is weighing granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder and former administrator of the world’s most famous darknet drug market, Silk Road, The Daily Beast has learned trib.al/LeApQRK
According to three people familiar with the matter, the White House counsel’s office has had documents related to Ulbricht’s case under review, and Trump was recently made aware of the situation and the pleas of the Silk Road founder’s allies trib.al/LeApQRK
“We’re praying and remain hopeful that [President Trump] will show mercy on Ross, as he has others, and commute his sentence to time served and give my son a second chance at life,” Lyn Ulbricht, Ross’ mother, told The Daily Beast trib.al/LeApQRK
BONUS PODCAST: Rebekah Jones speaks out after Florida cops raided her home while investigating an alleged hack of the emergency message system trib.al/dOvnyJe
Jones claims she was fired from her job at the Florida Department of Health months ago because she refused to manipulate data, and she went on to create her own dashboard of COVID statistics and file a whistleblower complaint trib.al/dOvnyJe
NEW: The New York Young Republican Club doesn’t plan to let a little thing like a deadly pandemic stand in the way of its annual gala in Manhattan—and already, there are questions about the group’s plans to adhere to public health restrictions trib.al/L72WHxs
In a statement to The Daily Beast, club president Gavin Wax claimed the soirée headlined by Sarah Palin and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe would comply with what he called New York’s “capricious” guidelines trib.al/L72WHxs
Those guidelines include a 50-person limit on indoor gatherings–but a Facebook event for the gala with 68 people marked attending would suggest otherwise trib.al/L72WHxs
An Arizona man was sentenced to six years behind bars for smuggling pregnant women into America as part of an illegal adoption scheme that operated in three states and helped to bankroll his luxurious lifestyle trib.al/A5jT6vX
During his sentencing hearing, Paul Petersen denied knowing that his employees in the adoption fraud operation had coerced these women by threatening to take away their passports if they tried to back out of the deal trib.al/A5jT6vX
“I did treat everyone in their situation, on all sides of the adoption, with respect,” Petersen told the court. “I got into adoptions because quite simply I loved the Marshall Islands and the Marshallese people.” trib.al/A5jT6vX
Two Trump-appointed judges struck down a ban on juvenile gay conversion therapy in South Florida, arguing that therapists were having their freedom of speech violated by being banned from practicing trib.al/18DMZd6
Two survivors spoke to @TimTeeman about their experiences in gay conversion therapy and their reactions to the 11th Circuit ruling.
“Republicans did better than he did” in the general election. Not only does “that undercut his claim of fraud… it means that there were significant numbers of Republicans who couldn't stomach him.” trib.al/K4H6lvu
Baratunde Thurston—host of the new podcast How to Citizen—joins Molly for a frank discussion about what led to Trumpism, and how we avoid falling for it again trib.al/K4H6lvu