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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump is reportedly weighing whether to launch a 2024 re-election bid on the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration.
On Saturday, The Daily Beast cited three sources who confirmed he is considering a 2024 run, and two of them said he had floated the idea of holding an event on 20 January.
According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the president has privately bragged that he would still remain in the spotlight, even if Mr Biden is in the Oval Office, because the media finds Mr Biden “boring.”
The report comes after the Trump campaign suffered a humiliating court defeat in Pennsylvania, where Republican-appointed judges unanimously ruled to toss out the campaign’s attempt to challenge the election result there.
“Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” judge Stephanos Bibas wrote in the court's ruling.
By Saturday evening the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had also dismissed a case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly and others to disallow millions of mail-in ballots in the state.
Biden highlights need to support small businesses during pandemic
Voices: Trump’s worst crime must not be forgotten
Patrick Cockburn writes:
It was the worst crime of Donald Trump’s years in the White House. In October 2019 he ordered US troops to stand aside, greenlighting Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria that led to the murder, rape and expulsion of its Kurdish inhabitants.
Eighteen months earlier, Trump did nothing as the Turkish army occupied the Kurdish enclave of Afrin and replaced the population there with Syrian Arab jihadis.
It is, unfortunately, unlikely that Trump will ever stand trial but, if he does, then his complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Kurds should top the charge sheet. This was an act of evil in itself and also the betrayal of an ally since American-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters had led the counter-attack against Isis, closing in on its last strongholds just as Turkey invaded Afrin.
Trump’s treachery provoked too little international outrage at the time but I am certain it was the direct cause of murders, kidnappings, disappearances and the expulsions of hundreds of thousands of people.
Read the full article here.
The worst crime of Donald Trump’s presidency must not be forgotten | Patrick Cockburn
Eyewitness testimony lays bare the atrocities committed in territory occupied by Turkey
Trump complains about Fox News being ‘unwatchable’
Back at Camp David after a trip to his golf club in Virginia accompanied by his sons, the president is back in front of the TV complaining about Fox News’ daytime schedule.
Describing it as “virtually unwatchable” on Twitter, he then plugged his two new favourite networks OAN and Newsmax “or almost anything else”.
All 50 states are now seeing surges in cases of the coronavirus with 13.15 million confirmed cases, and 265,394 officially recorded deaths.
Footage of Trump and his sons Don Jr and Eric at the Trump-branded golf club in Virginia having been flown there from Camp David in Marine One.
Trump claims ‘massive proof’ in Pennsylvania and case coming in Wisconsin
The president is tweeting about recounts again and claims that there is “massive proof” of electoral in Pennsylvania, but that “some people just don’t want to see it”.
"They want nothing to do with saving our country. Sad!!!" he wrote.
Trump also says that the intention of the recount in Wisconsin is not about finding mistakes, but about finding people that voted illegally and that a case will be brought there on Monday or Tuesday.
Carter Page sues FBI for $75m over Russia probe surveillance
The Trump administration may be on its way out, but disputes over the Mueller investigation aren’t going anywhere, writes Josh Marcus.
Ex-Trump aide sues FBI for $75 million over Russiagate surveillance
The Trump administration may be on its way out, but disputes over the Mueller investigation aren’t going anywhere
Can a member of the cabinet be too ‘professional’?
As Ron Klain says, if that’s the worst you can say about them…
Trump claims Pennsylvania appeal coming
The Trump campaign will reportedly challenge more ballots than the 81,000 vote margin in Pennsylvania.
Tweeting from Camp David, the president claims that fraud and illegality are a big part of the case.
Trump recount adds to Biden vote total
Try not to laugh, but the Wisconsin recount cost the Trump campaign $3m and gave Joe Biden an additional 132 votes.
Trump spent $3 million on a Wisconsin recount which has boosted Biden’s total vote
Joe Biden won Wisconsin by 20,600 votes, and a recount that cost Mr Trump $3 million has so far added 132 to that total
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