In an interview with the AP, Attorney General William Barr questioned the allegations through Donald Trump and some of his allies that there was widespread fraud in the election and said other people were confusing the role of the federal criminal justice system.
Trump has tried to undermine the effects of the elections by pointing to the regime in an election (questions about signatures, envelopes and postage stamps) as evidence of widespread electoral fraud imputed to him by the elections.
Trump and some of his allies also have strange resources for fraud, such as linking Biden’s victory to election software created in Venezuela “under the leadership of Hugo Chavez,” the former Venezuelan president who died in 2013.
“There is a statement that would be systemic fraud and would be the declaration that the machines were mainly programmed to mow election results. And DHS and DOJ have analyzed it, and so far we haven’t noticed anything corroborating it,” Barr said. .
Barr said other people are confusing the role of the federal criminal justice formula and asking it to interfere with accusations made in civil trials that are considered through state or local officials, and not through the Ministry of Justice. Barr said:
There is a growing tendency to use the unscrupulous justice formula as a kind of default solution, and other people don’t like anything they need the Justice Department to interfere with and “investigate. “
First he told AP there’s going to have to be a basis to believe there’s a crime to investigate.
“Most fraud allegations are very express for a specific set of circumstances, actors or behaviors. These are systemic accusations, and those were in bad shape, they’re in bad shape,” Barr said. . They were monitored. “
U. S. Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had exposed widespread voter fraud in an interview with The Associated Press.
“To date, we’ve noticed fraud on a scale that may have had other final results in the election,” Barr told AP.
Barr’s confirms what election experts, in addition to those of the federal government, have said at all times and reduces the number of Trump aides who continue to support the president’s false and damaging claims that the presidential election was fraudulent. the president’s staunchest aides.
Last month, Barr legalized U. S. attorneys to investigate “substantial allegations” of electoral irregularities across the country, breaking with long-standing practice and despite a lack of evidence of primary fraud.
The move led the department’s most sensible election crime officer to resign in protest.
The Guardian’s U. S. affairs editor Dominic Rushe has a total of $908 billion in bipartisan economic measures announced this morning.
The measure is not enshrined in legislation and has not been approved by the Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden, or Senate or House leaders, all of whom would be needed to pass it.
But that comes with that of an organization of conservatives and moderates who claim it will attract a wide diversity of Congress.
Lawmakers expect to complete their paintings until mid-December through mid-December, but still have a large government investment bill to approve or threaten signature closures starting December 12. If the bipartisan coronavirus aid bill gains ground, it may be linked to the expense bill or move down a separate path.
President-elect Joe Biden holds a press conference to announce to his economic team, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary and Neera Tanden as Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
“We act urgently, ” said Yellen. ” Inaction will produce a recession that will strengthen itself and cause even more devastation. “
Over the weekend, Dominic Rushe, editor-in-chief of Guardian US, and I wrote about how Yellen can replace the course:
Teresa Marez has never heard of Yellen, but she and millions of Americans rely heavily on the decisions Yellen will make if she shows up next year.
The coronavirus has turned Marez’s life around, her savings are almost exhausted and she is worried about her unemployment benefits, which are depleted next week. “It’s so hard. It’s a disaster,” said the mother of two in San Antonio. , Texas. ” We just want Congress to make a decision,” Marez said. “As long as they’re in limbo, we’re in limbo. “
. . . As Treasury secretary, Yellen will have more strength to act, in theory, than in the Fed, defining fiscal policy, regulating banks, and overseeing priorities as the country addresses its massive debt payments. other people and has a budget of $20 billion. Yellen will take fifth place after the presidency and his signature will appear in the country’s currency.
But the 2020 election gave Biden a split congress and Yellen will have to win Republican votes for any primary initiative. To this day, omens bode well.
A bipartisan organization of senators and members of Congress unveiled a $908 billion plan for new economic relief measures to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting recession.
The multitude of proposals includes:
The legislative framework has been approved through the leaders of either party, nor through the White House, so it is transparent how it can move forward.
He designed through legislators, adding Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah; Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine; Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Independent Senator Angus King of Maine.
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri wrote a captivating article: “Here are the most productive cats for the white house mascot role. “
The humor column written in reaction to the first girl, Jill Biden, who said over the weekend that she would like to have a talk after she and President-elect Joe Biden move into the White House.
Petri writes about the first felines:
Olivia, Meredith, and Benjamin: Taylor Swift’s cats are unlikely to resign from their existing positions in the personal sector, but never bother to ask.
For his part, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he needed to verify any of those cats, but provided a list of cats belonging to the Federalist Society that he would be pleased to see through the Senate.
The Biden had shown in the afterlife that their dogs, Major and Champ, would move to the White House. For the past 4 years, the White House has been exceptionally pet-free: Donald Trump is the first president since 1897 to have no pets. mandate.
Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump will stick to her best-selling exhibition on her dysfunctional circle of family life with a new e-book on “American national trauma,” her editor announced.
The Reckoning will be published through St Martin’s Press in July 2021 and, according to St Martin’s, “will examine American national trauma, rooted in our history, but dramatically exacerbated by the effect of America’s existing occasions and corrupt and immoral policies. “the Trump administration. “
Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. , the president’s older brother who died at the age of 42 in 1981 from an alcohol-related illness. Much of Mary Trump’s first book, Too and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World, was reported through her father’s remedy through her siblings and parents.
“I don’t think he has a political ideology,” he told the Guardian in July. “I would say he’s behaving like a white supremacist, certainly. “
Scott Atlas, the debatable coronavirus adviser who resigned Monday, had been denounced through Stanford University School for his “lies and misrepresentations of science. “
Stanford is home to the conservative Hoover Institution, of which Atlas is a member, and also taught at the University of Medicine.
In September, more than a hundred professors signed a letter saying that “Atlas’ revisions and statements go against established science.
After Atlas announced his resignation Monday night, the university that signed the previous letter said his resignation “is long and highlights the triumph of science and facts about lies and misinformation,” in a joint statement.
“Their movements have undermined and threatened public fitness even when countless lives have been lost because of COVID-19,” he said.
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph Giulani, discussed with the president last week the option of being granted a “preventive pardon,” according to the New York Times, which cited two unidentified sources.
It is unclear why federal crime Giuliani would want a pardon, he was investigated last summer through federal prosecutors for his business in Ukraine.
Giuliani spokeswoman Christianne Allen told the New York Times: “Mayor Giuliani’s comment on the discussions she has had with her client. “
According to the Times:
A pardon so broad that preventing any fee or conviction is very unusual, however, it has a precedent: George Washington pardoned the conspirators from lifting the whisky, protecting them from treason prosecution. In the most prominent example, Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon for all his actions, movements as president. Jimmy Carter forgave thousands of American men who have illegally moved away from the Vietnam War project.
Last week, Trump pardoned his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to the FBI for having had contacts with a Russian official.
And yesterday, conservative commentator Sean Hannity said on his radio show that Trump “must forgive his entire circle of relatives already himself. “
U. S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he would speak on the phone with house majority leader Nancy Pelosi to discuss an investment bill to avoid government closures.
“This is the first precedence and I am sure that we will also mention the Covid issues,” Mnuchin said.
Congress is under pressure to approve an economic aid plan opposed to coronaviruses with a previous bill that will expire by the end of the year.
Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell are testifying before the Senate Banking Committee to discuss the federal government’s reaction to the global pandemic.
Crystal Mason, the black woman sentenced to five years in prison for unknowingly voting in 2016, is asking the Texas criminal court to overturn her sentence.
The new presentation overdue Monday night is the latest challenge in a case that has attracted national attention and has been highlighted by many as a flagrant example of voter suppression.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has the discretion to accept the case or not. Mason has been released from the criminal on bail since 2018, while his case is being brought to court.
In 2016, Mason was on supervised release, similar to probation, for a federal tax offense, but no one told her she was not eligible to vote, although officials who were tracking her at the time said mason had not been told she was not eligible to vote. eligible to vote, a Texas appeals court previously ruled earlier this year that its lack of wisdom “did not apply to its prosecution. “In his case Monday, Mason’s lawyers dispute this conclusion, noting that Texas law states that someone will have to “know” that they are not eligible to vote and that they do so anyway to enshrine a crime.
When Mason went to the polls in 2016, a student presented him with an interim poll because he was not on the electoral roll, which he was required to do under federal law. Mason filled out the survey, sent it in, and ultimately it was not counted. Mason’s attorneys say that because her vote was ultimately rejected, she did not vote, however the appeals court for the decline earlier this year disagreed.
Since 2014, at least 12,668 provisional votes have been cast in Tarrant County, where Mason lives in Texas, and more than 11,000 of them were rejected. Mason appears to be the user who declined a provisional survey and has been processed.
Throughout the hour, the president has shared a series of tweets from unreliable sources.
One of the false messages accused Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak of sharing a fake hospital photo, though it’s genuine. The message came here from a so-called “networkinvegas,” where some of the site’s publications appear to be generic things like “the most productive local youth assembly puts in Las Vegas” and the other side appear to be crude and hyperbolic diatribes opposed to the Sisolak and Covid-19 restrictions. This is not genuine news.
Another article, the effects of the Michigan election, was obtained by The Epoch Times, which the New York Times described as “one of the leading disinformation providers on the right. “
And he shared a video for One America News Network, which was suspended from YouTube last week after selling a fake remedy for Covid-19.
A panel from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to vote today on who will have the first to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the United States.
Two drug manufacturers, Pfizer and Moderna, requested emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the vaccine, and health officials said the first distribution of the vaccine is expected to begin in the coming weeks.
The committee, known as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), is an external organization of medical experts that advises the CDC and is scheduled to discuss from 2 p. m. at 5pm ET on how the vaccine will be distributed.
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Public fitness officials and medical experts said physical care staff are vaccinated first, stand firm through vulnerable Americans, adding the elderly, others with pre-existing situations, and must-have staff. CAIP will send its recommendation to CDC. Al end, it will depend on states complying with CDC rules on vaccine distribution.