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“I think the long term impact of this could be devastating… It’s important to be outspoken. That’s why I decided to put this on the line. We’ve lost our moral authority to be outraged. When you end up where principles don’t matter, beliefs don’t matter, it’s just about who can be the loudest and kind of maintain power through raw anger and aggression, you’re no different than a lot of Latin American countries at that point.”
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), telling Politico that the Republican Party has lost its way.
25
The Washington Post surveyed all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate beginning the morning after Trump posted a 46-minute video in which he wrongly claimed he had defeated Joe Biden and leveled wild and unsubstantiated allegations of ‘corrupt forces’ who stole the outcome from the sitting president. Just 25 Republican lawmakers said Biden was the winner, while two said Trump won. Another 222 were either unclear or would not answer.
“That guy in the middle, the tall, handsome fella in the gray suit, that is Representative Matt Putz — oh sorry, Matt Gaetz, and based upon his past performances, it is obvious being a knucklehead is not beyond the pale for him. He was actually Sarah Palin’s backup act for this event. … I hope you’re watching Matt — you are not welcome in New Jersey, and frankly I don’t ever want you back in this state.”
— New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) referred to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as “Matt Putz” in a press briefing Friday after the congressman traveled to New Jersey for a Young Republicans event where no one was social distancing and there were no masks in sight, NBC New York reports.
$1.1 million
“President Trump’s campaign and its affiliated committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of the 2020 campaign — continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in which Trump has converted $6.7 million from his campaign donors into revenue for his businesses since taking office,” the Washington Post reports.
245,000
Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 245,000 in November, well below Wall Street estimates of 440,000 as rising coronavirus cases coincided with a considerable slowdown in hiring, CNBC reports.
$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.
“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.
$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.
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.
“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.”
