Associated video: Biden hammers Trump for refusing to take motion on Russia
Donald Trump has issued a video assertion suggesting he may veto the $900bn Covid Reduction Invoice simply handed by Congress, calling it a “shame” and declaring that clauses associated to abroad help should be eliminated and its allotment of $600 stimulus cheques upgraded to $2,000 earlier than he would signal it, additionally hinting darkly that he may keep in energy past 20 January.
The president has in the meantime provoked recent anger by issuing 20 lame duck pardons in a single day to cronies together with George Papadopoulos and Alex van der Zwaan, who lied to FBI particular counsel Robert Mueller through the Russia investigation, ex-Republican congressmen Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins and Steve Stockman plus 4 Blackwater contractors concerned within the Nisour Sq. bloodbath in Iraq.
The president-elect, Joe Biden, has in the meantime warned Americans that “our darkest days are forward of us” within the fightback in opposition to the virus.
Michelle Obama writes passionate defence of Black Lives Matter: ‘Protesters aren’t criminals or troublemakers’
The previous first woman has taken to Instagram to concern a passionate defence of a motion often misunderstood and demonised by conservatives.
Shweta Sharma has this report on what she needed to say.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 13:25
What is going to Kayleigh McEnany do subsequent?
What a great query that’s.
Harriet Alexander could have the reply.
What will Kayleigh McEnany do next?
Kayleigh McEnany says that ‘God had deliberate’ for her to be the White Home press secretary. What has he received in retailer for her subsequent? Harriet Alexander writes
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 13:10
US secures deal for 100m additional doses of Pfizer Covid vaccine
Right here’s the very newest on the Pfizer/BioNTech shot.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 12:55
Trump and GOP sued for breaching KKK act with ‘coordinated conspiracy to disenfranchise black voters’
The Trump administration, the president’s re-election marketing campaign and the Republican Social gathering are focused in a brand new civil rights lawsuit alleging a “coordinated conspiracy to disenfranchise black voters” by way of a spurious authorized bid to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election and “intimidation and coercion of election officers and volunteers.”
An amended lawsuit filed by civil rights organisation the NAACP accuses the president and his allies of violating each the Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era legislation prohibiting using “pressure, intimidation or menace” in opposition to “any citizen who’s lawfully entitled to vote” in a presidential election.
The lawsuit was initially filed final month on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Group and three Detroit residents following the president’s makes an attempt to undermine election leads to the state.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 12:45
Deutsche Financial institution mortgage officer who supplied Trump with $300m resigns abruptly
Rosemary Vrablic, longtime banker to the president and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, has abruptly resigned from Deutsche Financial institution and can apparently depart her publish subsequent week.
Vrablic is chargeable for arranging a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value of loans supplied to Trump through the years.
The Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace is at present investigating Deutsche Financial institution as a part of its probe into whether or not or not Trump dedicated monetary crimes.
Graig Graziosi has slightly extra.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 12:25
White supremacists had been plotting to assault US energy grid over Trump loss
Neo-Nazi activists plotted to assault energy stations within the southeastern US within the occasion of Trump’s election defeat, in accordance with an FBI affidavit that was mistakenly unsealed final week.
Mayank Aggarwal has the story.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 12:05
‘A drive-by on the rule of legislation’: Livid response to politics of Trump’s pardons
Stuti Mishra has this overview of the offended response to the outgoing president’s newest spherical of pardons.
To offer you a style, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner informed MSNBC final night time: “It looks like there’s no line Donald Trump gained’t cross… It looks like what he simply did was like an indiscriminate drive-by on the rule of legislation.”
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 11:45
Kayleigh McEnany dodges query on how Trump can keep in energy
The White Home press secretary seems to have lastly given up even attempting to legitimise this president and his Magaworld conspiracy theories by this level and, truthfully, who can blame her?
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 11:30
Sidney Powell retweets declare that she would indict half a dozen individuals by January if she had been particular counsel
One other whacked out lawyer who can anticipate a lump of coal in her stocking this 12 months is Sidney Powell, final seen on the White Home on Sunday raving about George Soros and the ghost of Hugo Chavez fiddling voting machines (or one thing).
She’s now again on Twitter campaigning to be made a particular counsel to analyze the election and is promising indictments.
Graig Graziosi has this report from a secure distance.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 11:10
Giuliani blames Biden ‘secret police’ as prosecutors eye his emails
The president’s private legal professional should certainly be on Santa’s naughty record this 12 months.
He’s as soon as once more coming throughout like a confused grandfather as he mutters conspiratorially concerning the darkish forces out to get him as phrase emerges that proscecutors from the Southern District of New York have contacted the US Justice Division looking for entry to his emails.
Joe Sommerlad23 December 2020 10:50
