Author: Freedom Watch
Biden, Harris pledge to keep politics out of DOJ By Morgan Chalfant TheHill December 4, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden pledged Thursday that the Justice Department will be run independently and not be influenced by politics when he takes office. “It’s not my Justice Department. It’s the people’s Justice Department,” Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper. The president-elect said the officials he chooses to lead the Justice Department will have the “independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t.” Biden made the comments in response to a question about reports that President Trump is considering offering pardons to…
‘One of the nuttier things I’ve seen’: MAGA civil war erupts in Georgia By Marc Caputo POLITICO December 4, 2020 Georgia’s Republican civil war just got a lot messier. A new schism — this one between MAGA forces — is taking shape, further threatening GOP unity in advance of the Jan. 5 runoffs for the state’s two Senate seats. At the center of the conflict is pro-Trump trial lawyer Lin Wood. His advocacy for President Donald Trump — and his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud — have been so extreme that he’s now taken to publicly discouraging people…
Beverly Hills City Council votes to oppose L.A. County’s outdoor dining ban By Hayley Smith Los Angeles Times December 4, 2020 The Beverly Hills City Council has unanimously voted to oppose Los Angeles County’s outdoor dining ban amid the worst COVID-19 surge the state has seen. In a resolution approved Tuesday that calls for the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to repeal the ban, the council cited the detrimental impact on local businesses and said there was a lack of scientific evidence to support the ban. The council also asked city staff to research the idea of forming…
Freedom Watch TV December 4, 2020
CNN Exclusive: Biden says he will ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days he’s in office By Dan Merica CNN December 3, 2020 (CNN)President-elect Joe Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that he will ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days after he takes office, in a sign of how Biden’s approach to the virus will be dramatically different from President Donald Trump’s response. “Just 100 days to mask, not forever. One hundred days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction,” Biden said for the first time in the interview…
Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info AP NEWS December 3, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press. Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago.…
By Matt Zapotosky Washington Post December 3, 2020 President Trump remained livid at Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday, with one senior administration official indicating there was a chance Barr could be fired — not just for his public comments undercutting Trump’s unfounded claims of election-shifting fraud, but also for steps he did not take on a probe of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Trump’s campaign. A day after Barr told the Associated Press that he had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” Trump continued to complain about…
Freedom Watch TV December 3, 2020
Trump Blasts Durham for Not Finishing Probe Before Election By Eric Mack Newsmax December 2, 2020 President Donald Trump stood before a White House lectern and delivered a 46-minute address he called “the most important speech” of his presidency, focusing on his campaign’s allegations of election fraud and blasting special counsel John Durham for moving too slowly. Trump lamented that findings from Durham’s investigation into potential FBI malfeasance in its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 political cycle didn’t surface before the most recent election last month, effectively altering the course of the race. “We caught them…
Georgia group founded by Stacey Abrams under investigation for seeking out-of-state, dead voters By Brooke Singman Fox News December 2, 2020 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched investigations into several groups, including one founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, for seeking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” before the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections. Raffensperger’s office on Wednesday said the investigations are into groups including America Votes, Vote Forward and The New Georgia Project — which was founded by Abrams and previously chaired by Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock. Raffensperger for…