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Sarah K. Burris and Raw Story October 25, 2021 A slate of Republican members of Congress is being outed by those who attended planning meetings for the protest that resulted in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a new report in Rolling Stone. Two sources, according to their story, revealed that Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ),…

Read More Pro-Trump activists reveal Republican elected officials who participated in planning of Jan. 6 rallies: report

Paul Davidson USA TODAY While the COVID-19 pandemic ratcheted up the financial pain for millions of low-wage workers, the roaring stock market was feathering the nests of the world’s richest people. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos held on to his top spot on Forbes magazine’s 2021 list of the globe’s wealthiest individuals with a net worth of $177 billion, up…

Read More Jeff Bezos keeps top spot on Forbes wealthiest list while Elon Musk jumps to No. 2

By Nicholas Fandos Dec. 14, 2020 Support for President Trump’s attempt to overturn his election loss began to collapse in the Senate on Monday after the Electoral College certified President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, with many top Republicans saying the time had come to recognize results that have been evident for weeks. While they insisted that Mr.…

Read More After Electoral College Votes, More Republicans Warily Accept Trump’s Loss

293,000+ deaths from COVID-19 to date more than 25,000 false or misleading statements the national debt increased by $7 trillion more recognition of Israel by Arab countries 666 children separated at the border from their parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown (others located) paid $750 in taxes in 2016 withdrew from 13 international treaties, agreements, and…

Read More Assessing 45

By Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner November 28, 2020 at 7:08 p.m. EST The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost. But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a torrent of private conversations, Trump was,…

Read More 20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election

BY DANIEL MENDELSOHN  NOV 17, 2020 “I concede nothing.” With those three words, tweeted out nearly two weeks after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which handed him a decisive electoral and popular defeat, Donald Trump took his place in one of the longest and most distinguished traditions that history offers: the sore loser. But if history and…

Read More The Etiquette of Defeat: What Donald Trump Can Learn From History’s Biggest Losers

By Samuel Huneke November 16, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST While there are critical differences between what this administration is suspected of doing and the violence committed by Nazi Germany, the commentariat often compares Trumpism to Nazism. [I]f denazification’s principal purpose was to convince ordinary Germans of the wrongness of Nazism, then it was at best a…

Read More Can we hold Trump and his allies accountable without further splitting America?

By Perry Bacon Jr. At nearly 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Election Day 2016, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Around the same time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned Trump to concede, a call she made at the urging of then-President Barack Obama. That Thursday, less than 48 hours after the…

Read More What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

In a sense, the election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. Now, as Trump shatters yet another norm by refusing to accept the result of the vote count, the office’s structural weakness, one that allows chief executives to act in ways the framers of the Constitution never imagined, has been exposed. There are calls from…

Read More The Abnormal Presidency