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Michael Flynn endorses martial law and national re-vote for president By Andrew Kerr WND December 2, 2020 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn promoted a petition Tuesday calling on President Donald Trump to temporarily suspend the U.S. Constitution, declare martial law and order the military to oversee a national re-vote for the 2020 presidential election. The petition, published Tuesday by the Ohio-based non-profit group We The People Convention, said there was “no peaceful way left to preserve our Union” following President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory and urged Trump to exercise his “extraordinary authority” to avert a second civil…

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Trump pardons: US justice department unveils bribery inquiry BBC News December 2, 2020 The US justice department is looking into claims that lobbyists have tried to use bribes to secure a presidential pardon, unsealed court papers show. They say that in August investigators began investigating a “secret lobbying scheme” possibly involving attempts to contact White House officials. The redacted filings do not give any names, but the justice department says no government official is being probed. In a tweet, President Trump referred to the investigation as “fake news.” Continue Reading…..

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Trump declares war on GOP officials as Barr rejects fraud claims By Howard Kurtz Fox News December 2, 2020 As President Trump intensifies his election-fraud rhetoric, we are witnessing some serious Republican-on-Republican violence. Not the fisticuffs kind, although a couple of Trump allies have resorted to violent imagery in their rhetoric. But in terms of verbal warfare, a president who remains very popular in his party has taken to denouncing fellow Republicans who aren’t saluting his orders when it comes to the contested election. Trump’s own attorney general, Bill Barr, essentially broke with the president yesterday. A lifelong…

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By Josh Gerstein POLITICO December 2, 2020 A court ruling made public Tuesday indicates that federal prosecutors have been pursuing an investigation into potential bribery in connection with an effort to secure a pardon from President Donald Trump, although details of the inquiry remain murky. The opinion issued by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell in August and released in a heavily redacted form Tuesday shows that Howell granted prosecutors permission to examine emails involving lawyers and an effort to seek a pardon for someone whose name was deleted from the public version of the opinion. Howell ruled…

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Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud AP NEWS December 2, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election. Barr’s comments, in an interview Tuesday with the The Associated Press, contradict the concerted effort by Trump, his boss, to subvert the results of last month’s voting and block President-elect Joe Biden from taking his place in the White House. Barr told the AP that U.S. attorneys and FBI…

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Barr appoints John Durham as special counsel to investigate origins of Russia probe By Brooke Singman Fox News December 1, 2020 Attorney General Bill Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as special counsel to continue investigating the origins of the Russia probe in the next administration, Fox News has confirmed. The Associated Press first reported that Barr appointed Durham as special counsel. Fox News has learned that the appointment came on Oct. 19–two weeks before Election Day. Barr notified the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, in a letter dated Dec. 1 obtained by Fox News, that Durham would…

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Attorney General Barr: Justice Dept. finds no evidence of fraud to alter election outcome By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY December 1, 2020 WASHINGTON — In the most prominent break from President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has not found evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the vote. Barr’s comments in an interview with The Associated Press represented an especially public retreat from Trump’s repeated claims of voter fraud by one of the president’s closest allies in the administration. Barr said federal…

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By David Aaro Fox News December 1, 2020 Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl visited an eatery in Santa Monica, Calif., last week, just hours after she voted to ban outdoor dining at restaurants in the county due to COVID-19 safety concerns, according to a report. Kuehl was seen dining outside at Il Forno Trattoria, an Italian restaurant near her house, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported. She had referred to outside dining as “a most dangerous situation” during an L.A. County Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday. “This is a serious health emergency and we must take it seriously,”…

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