Do we feel safe with the security of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris provided by intelligence agencies, Secret Service and other government institutions that are under Donald Trump’s control till noon on January 20th? Every precaution must be taken.
Nixon talked on secret tapes about putting loyalists on Ted Kennedy’s Secret Service detail, said to aide, "Plant two guys on him.” Nixon also discussed revoking Kennedy’s protection, saying, "If he gets shot, it's too damn bad.”
Anyone think Trump wouldn’t descend to this level?
What assurance do we have that White House Family Quarters will be safe, sanitary and secure immediately after noon on January 20, 2021? Sorry to bring up delicate subjects, but the issue is too important to the country.
Gerald Ford and his family stayed in their private house in Alexandria VA for ten days after he became President. LBJ and his family stayed in their DC house for two weeks after he became President. No necessity for a new President to move immediately into White House.
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Josh Hawley may remind some Americans of Joe Cantwell, the malicious, corner-cutting Presidential candidate in “The Best Man” (1964), played by Cliff Robertson, whose mother-in-law, in real life, built Mar-a-Lago:
"If Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had a conscience, he’d resign. He’ll have to be removed,” says Kansas City Star.
Simon & Schuster has just cancelled publication of Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book, reports @NYTimes:
McConnell should have drawn this line against Trump long ago.
All through history, Presidents have been disciplined by courageous leaders of their own party in Congress, but, in defiance of this history, Trump has been allowed to run roughshod for four years.
White House just announced that Trump will give Congressman Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “unmatched talent, unassailable integrity, and unwavering resolve” and helping to “thwart a plot to take down a sitting United States president”:
What determines which ones get Presidential pardons and which ones get Presidential Medals?
Does the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom now come with a free package of Trump Steaks and a free weekend at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas?
Any comment from Pence on the threat by twelve United States Senators to "reject the electors from disputed states” — or is he still on vacation and refusing to talk?
Mr. Vice President, any chance you could bother to express your reaction to the threat by twelve U.S. Senators to “reject" the Electoral College results?
Pence, we Americans don’t want to impose but it would be nice to hear at least something from you — sometime.
On this day in 1808 was born Andrew Johnson, whom many scholars consider to have been one of the most atrocious Presidents in American history:
Andrew Johnson (born today 1808) insisted that when he died (1875), he should be buried swaddled in an American flag, with his head on a copy of the Constitution. But as a lame-duck President leaving office, even Andrew Johnson never tweeted heroic videos about himself.
Ticket to the Senate trial of Andrew Johnson, first President to be impeached (born today 1808):