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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Combative Under House Democrats’ Questioning: ‘Get Used To Me!’
In a House hearing on Wednesday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admitted that the Postal Service has “persistent problems” and that the agency “fell far short of meeting out service targets” during 2020. DeJoy, an ally and donor to former President Donald Trump, was appointed in May 2020 and stirred outrage from Postal workers and Democrats alike when he ordered mass-removal of mail sorting machines nationwide andseverely cut overtime for employees during the pandemic. When questioned by the House Oversight Committee, DeJoy stood by his controversial measures telling Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenness...
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Dominion Voting Systems Sues MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell For $1.3 Billion
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit on Monday against the founder and CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow, Mike Lindell. The company accused Lindell of saying they were responsible for rigging the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit filed in the federal court in the District of Columbia alleges that Lindell ignored repeated warnings from Dominion. The company has filed lawsuits against Donald Trump and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on similar charges. Lindell went to the White House to promote his theories in the final days of the Trump administration. Dom...
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Supreme Court Throws Out Pennsylvania’s GOP 2020 Election Challenge
With no public comment, the Supreme Court on Monday passed on hearing a Pennsylvania GOP challenge to the 2020 presidential election. The challenge pushed by former President Donald Trump and the Pennsylvania Republican Party hoped to reverse a state court decision extending the deadline ballots could be received in the state by three days. The state court made the decision because of concerns relating to COVID-19. The election challenge had no meaningful chance to change the outcome of Pennsylvania’s already-certified election results. Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by 80,555 votes and the total ...
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GOP Donor Fred Eshelman Wants A Refund For Millions In ‘Stop The Steal’ Donations
GOP megadonor Fred Eshelman, who gave $2.5 million to True the Vote, a group that investigates voter fraud, wants his money back. Eshelman said that his decision to donate to the organization was based on the “noise around cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Philadelphia” during the 2020 presidential election. “I wanted to determine if this was legit,” he said. “Can we find a real smoking gun?” However, despite the organization’s efforts, the operation to investigate voter fraud in the election was largely unsuccessful. True the Vote offered Eshelman a $1 million refund, resulting in ...
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Trump Doubles Down On Election Lies In First Post-Insurrection Interview
Former President Donald Trump called into Fox News on Wednesday night for his first interview since the Capitol insurrection on January 6. While Trump was there to talk about his history with radio host Rush Limbaugh who died on Wednesday, Trump spent most of his time on air maintaining his lie that he won the 2020 presidential election. “Rush thought we won, and so do I, by the way — I think we won substantially,” Trump said to hosts Harris Faulkner and Bill Hemmer. “I don’t think that could have happened to a Democrat. You would have had riots going all over the place if that happened to a D...
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Rep. Bennie Thompson Sues Donald Trump For Inciting Capitol Insurrection
On Tuesday, the House Homeland Security Chairman accused former president Donald Trump of inciting the Jan 6. Capitol riot. The charge is part of a larger federal lawsuit against Trump, which also alleges that the former president conspired to prevent Congress from verifying his electoral defeat. News of the lawsuit comes just days after Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who played a role in starting the lawsuit, said, “All I wanted to do was do my job, and the insurrection that occurred prevented me from doing that.” Jason Miller, a s...
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Poll Finds Trump 2024 Support Down 20% With GOP Voters From December
A survey by Echelon Insights asked people if they would “like to see Donald Trump run for president in 2024,” and found that compared to December 20% fewer Republicans said yes. While Republicans 65% of Republicans in December 2020 said would like to see a Trump 2024 run, only 45% of Republicans polled in January said they would like a Trump run. Echelon’s poll also found that 57% percent of voters want Trump to be banned from holding public office, and only 30% of Republicans agreed. Echelon’s data marks a sharp turn in Republican perception of the former president, as a Morning Consult surve...
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Nikki Haley Slams Trump: ‘We Shouldn’t Have Followed Him’
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that she believes former President Donald Trump “let us down” during the Capitol riots. “We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Hailey told Vanity Fair. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” Haley went on to discuss Trump’s betrayal of former Vice President Mike Pence. “When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement,” she said. “I am so disappointed in the fact that [despite] the loyalty and friendship he had wi...
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Ex Fox News Editor Chris Stirewalt, Fired Over Early Call Of Arizona That Upset Trump, Slams Network
Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt approved Fox News’ early call that Joe Biden had won Arizona during its election night coverage on November 3. While Stirewalt’s call turned out to be accurate, the editor endured the ire of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Stirewalt was subsequently fired from the network. In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Stirewalt addressed the situation saying it was born from “a nation of news consumers both overfed and malnourished.” “Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths an...
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Arizona Legislature Debates GOP Bill To Allow It To Overturn Presidential Election Results
The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature is currently debating a collection of bills that would allow the state to overturn presidential election results. The pending bill would permit the Legislature to appoint its own slate of electors that do not have to reflect the candidate who won the state’s election. The massive proposal also hopes to purge several thousands from Arizona’s permanent early vote by mail list and ban the prohibition of certain pens as a response to the widely debunked “sharpie scandal” in Arizona. State Rep. Shawnna Bolick (R-Phoenix) introduced the set of bills on F...
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