Day: December 4, 2020
RNC Bought $300k Worth of Don Jr.’s Book
$300,000
The RNC paid more than $300,000 in October to a company owned by Donald Trump Jr. to purchase copies of his new, self-published book, Liberal Privilege, the Daily Beast reports.
Humbled by COVID Professionally and Personally
“This virus has humbled me as a professional and a person. I did not think this level of failure in a federal response was possible in the United States. We have a lot of work to do.”
— Michelle Odden, Stanford professor of epidemiology, quoted by the New York Times.
Trump Telethon Has Raised $207 Million Since Nov. 3
$207 million
“President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee raised more than $207.5 million in the weeks after Election Day, his campaign announced Thursday, revealing how his unsupported claims of voting fraud have created a financial windfall that can finance his future political ambitions,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump Considering Pre-Emptive Pardons for Friends and Family
20
“President Trump is considering preemptively pardoning as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office, frustrating Republicans who believe offering legal reprieves to his friends and family members could backfire,” Politico reports.
Is Trump Crazy or Cynical?
“There are only two possible conclusions from listening to this folly: either the President actually believes what he is saying, in which case he is crazy, or he does not, in which case he is engaged in the most cynical attack on American democracy ever to come from the White House.”
— Susan Glasser
USPS Did Pretty Well Delivering Mail in Battleground States
99.9%
“US Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the nation’s mail ballots in-time to be counted,” NBCLX reports.
“However, it also appears the USPS disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters – who mailed legally-cast ballots the week before the election – through substandard performance.”
Trump Faults Barr’s Election Investigation
“He hasn’t done anything, so he hasn’t looked. When he looks he’ll see the kind of evidence that right now you are seeing in the Georgia senate. They are going through hearings right now in Georgia and they are finding tremendous volumes. So, they haven’t looked very hard. Which is a disappointment, to be honest with you, because it’s massive fraud.”
— President Trump expressing his disappointment in Attorney General Bill Barr for saying that the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, The Hill reports.
Grifter-In-Chief
Since losing the race, Trump’s been more than miffed,
But his response to losing was savvy and swift.
He set up a PAC
To fund his comeback,
‘Cause when a scam is working, a grifter’s gonna grift.
