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Trump Organization Indicted By Manhattan DA

Former President Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been charged by New York authorities over a 15-year-long “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme which saw Weisselberg collect more than $1.7 million in “off-the-books” income and benefits. It is the first criminal case against Trump’s company.

Senate GOP Blocks Jan. 6 Commission

Despite compromises by the Democratic Party, Senate Republicans have blocked an effort lead by the Democrats to establish a bipartisan commission investigating the riots and insurrection at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6. With a bipartisan commission now officially off the books, the only other solution left for the Democrats may be to establish a congressional select committee into investigating the attack, which is sure to be more partisan.

Liz Cheney Likely to Be Removed After Impeaching Trump

Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming, is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The daughter of one of the country’s most prominent (and polarizing) politicians and former Vice President Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, the third most powerful House Republican, is now in hot water from her own party. After having voted to convict former President Donald Trump back in January, she is now expected to be given the boot and ousted from her leadership position.

Trump Dominates CPAC, Showing the Future of the GOP

In his first major public appearance since leaving office, former President Donald Trump used a lie-filled speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., to vilify President Biden’s administration, showed no remorse for the Jan. 6 insurrection, repeated his lies about election fraud, and signaled that he would run for president again in 2024. His comments at CPAC demonstrates that the Republican Party is still very much a party centered around Trump.

Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Final Bid to Shield Tax Records

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way to allow the Manhattan district attorney to obtain eight years of federal income tax and financial records of former President Donald Trump after it denied Trump’s last-ditch Supreme Court petition to get the court to hear his case. The decision marks the end of a long-running battle of prosecutors’ access to the documents.

Trump Acquitted for 2nd Time in Impeachment Trial

Former President Donald Trump was acquitted for a second time in his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday, drawing one of the fastest-ever impeachments to an end in the Democratic Senate. He had been impeached by the Democratic House of Representatives after his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection for high crimes and misdemeanors, more specifically, for “incitement of insurrection.”

Trump Displeased With His Impeachment Defense

The impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump began on Tuesday afternoon in the Senate, just over a year after he was last acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors in his first trial. Trump has been accused of inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Though there had been debate over whether or not the trial of a former official left office was constitutional, the Senate voted to continue with the trial in the end.

Trump Impeachment Trial Begins Tuesday

In an unprecedented move, the House impeached now-former President Donald Trump in the middle of January over his alleged role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The impeachment now moves on into its last stage: a trial in the Senate. After this trial, scheduled to begin on Tuesday, the Senate will vote as to whether or not Trump is guilty over the articles of impeachment filed by the House.

2020 Election Recap: Most Tumultuous Election of Our Time

With the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, the 2020 election season officially comes to an end, marking the end of one of the most tumultuous, most defining elections of our lifetimes. A record-breaking 158 million Americans voted in this election, and 74 million of them voted for the Donald Trump-Mike Pence ticket, and 81 million voted for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket. It was the first time in history any ticket surpassed 70 million votes.

Trump Likely To Be Acquitted In the Senate

Senate Republicans largely voted against trying former President Donald Trump after he was impeached with just a few days left in his term in the House for incitement of insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Only five Republican senators voted against tabling a bill forced by Sen. Rand Paul from Kentucky, which, if passed, would have declared the trial unconstitutional and ended.

Arizona GOP Censures Three of Its Top Members

The Arizona Republican Party may have just spelled out its own death sentence. The state GOP approved resolutions on Saturday to censure three of its most prominent members, including Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake, and Cindy McCain, the widow of former Sen. John McCain. Including its previous censure of McCain five years ago, before his death in 2018, the Arizona GOP has now censured almost all of its members who have managed to win statewide in recent years.

A New Day In America: Biden Prepares to Be Sworn In as 46th POTUS

At precisely noon EST on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Mike Pence will cease to be president and vice president of the United States respectively. At the same time, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the 46th President and 49th Vice President of the United States. The swearing-in of Biden and Harris will flip open a new page in American history and will also simultaneously mark the end of the Trump era.

Impeached Again: Trump Impeached for a 2nd Time

President Donald Trump has become the first president (and first-ever federal official for that matter too) in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives for a second time, this time for “incitement of insurrection.” In the most bipartisan impeachment ever, 10 Republicans bucked the party line and voted to impeach a president from their own party.

Trump’s Presidency Will End With Second Impeachment

Representatives in the House said they would move to impeach the president on Wednesday, after formally calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office Tuesday. The sole article of impeachment accuses the president of “willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States,” after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week.

Silicon Valley Bans Show Where Power Truly Lies

On Jan. 8, Twitter announced that effective immediately, President Trump’s Twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump, would be permanently banned from the platform for inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Other platforms later jumped onto the bandwagon. Later that day, Google and Apple announced bans over the Parler app, a popular platform for conservatives, and Amazon stopped hosting the website beginning today. The removal of Trump’s megaphone and a conservative hotbed by Big Tech in Silicon Valley shows where power truly lies.

Donald Trump Could Be Impeached Again

While Congress certified the electoral votes to affirm Joe Biden’s victory on Wednesday, an armed insurrection, egged on by President Trump’s claims of voter fraud, of the United States Capitol Building took place. Insurgents and rioters attempted to stop Congress certifying Biden’s victory after Trump called for people to go to the Capitol Building. Now, the president is now being accused of causing the insurrection, and Democrats floating the idea of impeaching Trump for the second time.

Violent Rioting Mob Storms Into US Capitol

After a proud moment for the Democrats and the country yesterday as the party took back the United States Senate for the first time in six years, yesterday, Wednesday, January 6, 2021, marks a sad and disgraceful day in the history of the United States. A violent mob, encouraged by the words of President Trump, rioted in the nation’s capital city, eventually breaking into the U.S. Capitol and causing the building to be evacuated, just as Congress began certifying electoral votes for President-Elect Joe Biden.

Trump Demanded Georgia Officials to ‘Find’ Votes So He Wins

In a stunning hour-long phone call on Saturday afternoon made public by The Washington Post, President Trump demanded Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes in order to overturn the results of the election after his decisive loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. The call raised legal questions from experts and is causing issues for the GOP in the Georgia runoffs, which are just two days away.

GOP Plans To Challenge Electoral College Vote Will Fail

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is planning to object to Congress certifying the Electoral College vote for President-Elect Joe Biden when on Jan. 5, after the 117th Congress is sworn in. He is expected to be joined by over 140 House Republicans in objecting to the vote, citing voter fraud, which has already been debunked thoroughly, including Trump-loyalist former Attorney General William Barr and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The move, though has attracted criticism not just from across the aisle but also from fellow Republicans.

House Overrides NDAA Veto; Passes $2,000 Stimulus Checks

In a special holiday session between Christmas and New Year, the House of Representatives convened again to do two things, presenting a major issue to the GOP and causing a fracture within the party: scheduling two votes, one to override the veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and another to increase the amount offered to Americans via stimulus checks in the stimulus bill from $600 to $2,000.

Trump Signs Relief & Funding Bill, But Only After Aid Lapses

President Trump has finally signed the massive $2.3 trillion combined COVID-19 relief and government funding bill for the next fiscal year, despite calling the bipartisan bill, which passed both houses of Congress with overwhelming veto-proof majorities, a “disgrace” a few days earlier on Twitter. Though signing the bill will avert a federal government shutdown which would’ve begun Monday, the bill was only signed after two critical unemployment provisions lapsed.

Trump Demands More Stimulus, Throwing Relief Bill Into Doubt

After Congress finally managed to negotiate a bipartisan coronavirus relief deal after months of arguments and it passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming veto-proof majorities, President Trump is now throwing doubt as to whether or not the bill can be passed by demanding that the bill include more money than the proposed $600 stimulus checks and to cut back the non-coronavirus related spending (the bill is tied to an omnibus government funding package, which means it has lots of unrelated provisions).

The States That Swung The Most In the 2020 Presidential Election

There were lots of surprises in terms of how each state voted in the 2020 election. A number of states shifted drastically in terms of how they voted this election compared to the 2016 election. And though this year was not the Democratic landslide many had hoped for, all states to see big swings were to the left.

Electoral College Affirms Biden Victory

President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was affirmed as the electors of the Electoral College cast their votes, giving Biden a 306 electoral votes to 232 for President Trump. Not one elector voted faithlessly. The Electoral College vote went smoothly with no dramas, and the vote successfully affirms Biden’s victory, putting a close to President Trump’s allegations of voter fraud and this election being “rigged” (no evidence has been found of election-rigging or voter fraud).

SCOTUS Rejects Texas Suit Trying to Nullify Election

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton which sought to nullify the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, effectively trying to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters and overturn the results of a fair, free election which found no evidence of voter fraud. The rejection effectively puts a rest to the shameless attempt by the Trump wing of the GOP to subvert the election.

Texas GOP Lawsuit To Invalidate Millions of Votes Is Ludicrous

On December 8, 2020, the Republican Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court alleging that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Michigan violated federal law by changing election law prior to the election, claiming that voter fraud would be “undetectable.” The lawsuit is basically asking the Supreme Court to disenfranchise millions of voters in battleground states and overturn the results of a fair, free election with no evidence of voter fraud.

SCOTUS Denies Pennsylvania GOP to Overturn Certification

In just one sentence, “[t]he application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday denied Pennsylvania Republicans’ request to overturn the results of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, where President-Elect Joe Biden won by 1.2 percent.

Texas Is Undoubtedly a Swing State

For the longest time, Texas has been a solid Republican stronghold. It has always voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976, and as recently as 2012, it voted for the Republican by a safe margin (Mitt Romney won the state by a whopping 16 points that year). Ever since then, though, the state has been moving gradually toward the left. There is little doubt that the results of the 2020 election in Texas show that the state is a swing state.

Trump Considering Preemtive Pardons for 20 Allies

President Trump is considering preemptively pardoning upward of 20 close allies and aides before leaving office in January, including his sons Eric and Donald Jr., his daughter Ivanka, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and even himself. The possible move is frustrating fellow Republicans, who are worried that such moves could cause massive backfire.

William Barr Breaks With Election Fraud Claims

President Trump’s fantastical election fraud claims received yet another credibility blow Tuesday. Attorney General William Barr, a staunch supporter of the President, admitted Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ), which he heads, found no instances of significant voter fraud. This comes as the Trump campaign has faced defeat after defeat in court over vain and longshot attempts to overturn the results of a legitimate, fair election. Republican governors and secretaries of states, including in Arizona and Georgia, have all certified their results for President-Elect Joe Biden.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Dismisses Another GOP Lawsuit

On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed yet another Republican-led lawsuit trying to invalidate all votes cast by mail in the state. All seven judges in the court unanimously voted to throw out the lawsuit brought by Rep. Mike Kelly and other top-level Republicans. With this lawsuit loss, the Trump campaign has lost 39 election-related lawsuits. The President, despite losing the election, has so far refused to concede, despite already approving the transition process to a Biden administration.

‘Rigged Election’ Claims Raise Concerns From Georgia GOP

The Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections will decide control of the United States Senate of the 117th Congress. Currently, the GOP sits at 50 seats in the Senate, while the Democrats are at 48. To win a majority, Democrats must win both seats in the upcoming runoff elections. It isn’t a stretch to say that this runoff will be a very, very important election. Yet, President Trump’s comments about the 2020 election being “rigged” is causing concern for many Republicans, especially the Georgia GOP.

Transition to Biden Presidency Formally Begins

Almost three weeks after Election Day, the Trump administration has finally formally approved to begin the transition progress to the incoming Biden-Harris administration. The announcement comes after Emily Murphy, the Trump-appointed head of the General Services Administration which leads transition, designated Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the 2020 election.

Trump Makes Last-Ditch Effort To Overturn Election

There is no doubt about it: President-Elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election fair and square. Yet, make no mistake: President Donald Trump continues to deny the election results, refusing to concede the election. He has filed lawsuit after lawsuit to try and get courts to throw out hundreds of thousands of legally cast ballots and tried to attempt to change the results of the election so much that it may amount to a coup.

Georgia Finishes Recount; Biden Affirmed As Winner

After a very grueling recount, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, has officially declared President-Elect Joe Biden as the official winner of the 2020 Presidential Election in Georgia. The announcement comes as President Trump has sought to delegitimize the election results and pressured the secretary of state to not announce Biden the winner. It also comes as Georgia’s Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has also asked the secretary of state to resign or throw out ballots to allow Trump to win.

Were Polls Wrong In the 2020 Election?

We have analyzed lots of polls prior to the 2020 election, and they have formed a large part of our pre-election predictions. Obviously, there is no “one-size-fits-all” type analysis for the polls, since polls were wildly incorrect in some states but almost spot-on in others. In this post, we are going to take a look at some of the presidential polls and how they were very wrong (or right) about the results of this election.

President Trump’s Refusal To Concede Is Dangerous

Amid a global pandemic that has already claimed 246,000 American lives, lame-duck President Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede to President-Elect Joe Biden and continues to deny the integrity and security of the 2020 elections in an attempt to cast doubt on the safety of the nation’s voting systems. The refusal to concede by a sitting president in an election he clearly lost is unprecedented in such a nontight race and is dangerous to the United States as a whole.

As COVID-19 Spikes, the GOP Turns a Blind Eye

The United States is seeing its worse COVID-19 spike since the pandemic began in March. For the past 12 days, the U.S. has seen over 100,000 new confirmed cases. Texas and California both surpassed one million confirmed cases. Even in the Northeast, where, after a particularly disastrous outbreak in April, the states were able to stave off a second outbreak, cases are climbing up steadily once again. Throughout this crisis, the Trump administration and top Republican officials have been turning a blind eye.

Biden Wins the Electoral College With 306 Votes

With the Associated Press and most media calling the state of Georgia for President-Elect Joe Biden and the state of North Carolina called for President Trump, the President-Elect officially wins the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes over the President’s 232 votes. Ironically, Hillary Clinton lost with 232 votes back in 2016, so in terms of the number of votes, there has been a complete flip.

Joe Biden Declared As the 46th President of the United States

Following the announcement that the 2020 Presidential Election has been called for Joe Biden by most major news networks at 11:25 a.m. ET on Nov. 7, 2020, I would like to follow up with some quick analysis about the race. All major news networks have now called the race, with President-Elect Joe Biden winning 279 or 290 electoral votes currently.

BREAKING: JOE BIDEN WINS 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election by the Associated Press. CNN, NBC News, ABC News, The New York Times, Fox News, and more have called the race as well. More to come.

BREAKING: Decision Desk HQ CALLS Race For Biden

Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) has just called the presidential race for Joe Biden after Biden took the lead in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, declaring Joe Biden the victory of the 2020 Presidential Election and the 46th President of the United States. With DDHQ calling Pennsylvania and the entire race for Joe Biden, an Associated Press (AP) race call is imminent.

America Awaits Anxiously as Biden Leads In Georgia

Overnight, a number of new developments have occurred, the most significant being that Georgia, a traditional Republican stronghold, has flipped blue for the first time since 1996. As of writing, Biden currently takes a 1,096-vote lead, or a 0.0002 percent lead, with 99 percent of precincts reporting and 4,960,275 people voting. America now awaits anxiously for the race to be called.

What To Watch For On Election Night (Final Update)

Election Day is officially here. After a very, very long, very, very drawn-out campaign season, we have finally reached the last day that people will be able to cast their ballots all over the country. With the first polls closing at 6 p.m. Eastern and the last polls closing at 1 a.m., even if all the states were to be called immediately at poll closing (it won’t happen), that is still a five-hour wait. In this post, we are going to discuss which states and races to keep an eye on tonight, which could indicate in which direction the race goes.

Final 2020 Pre-Election Electoral College Prediction

This is it: tomorrow is the big day. In just one day, we will finally see the big showdown between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. This is the last Newshacker Blog Electoral College prediction, and, spoiler alert: Joe Biden continues to be the expected winner in this projection. Already, 94 million people have voted already based on data from the U.S. Elections Project, and Joe Biden has an approximately 90 percent chance of victory on FiveThirtyEight.

Final Presidential Debate Likely Isn’t Persuading Voters

The last presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on the night of October 22, just 12 days away from Election Day. With the U.S. Elections Project already reporting a vote count of 50 million (more than that of the total early vote count in the entire 2016 election cycle), unfortunately, it seems as though the President was not able to use this debate to flip his campaign around from the 10-point polling deficit he is seeing.

President Trump Catches COVID-19: Effect On the 2020 Election

Early October 2, President Trump announced on Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19, coming just hours that senior advisor Hope Hicks tested positive. This throws a major uncertainty into the 2020 presidential campaign race, throwing a major wrench into the president’s reelection campaign. The positive test comes after months of downplaying and minimizing the threat and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic by the current administration.

The Worst Presidential Debate Ever

On Tuesday night, Joe Biden and Donald Trump debated each other for the first time this election cycle in what could have been called the worst debate ever in the history of presidential debates. It was more like two people constantly shouting at each other rather than a “debate.” In fact, 83 percent of debate watchers in a CBS News/YouGov poll said the overall debate was “negative.” Last night’s debate took place in Cleveland, Ohio, and the moderator was Chris Wallace from Fox News, who is well known for his tough and ambitious interviews.

NYT Reveals Trump Paid Just $750 In Taxes

For what seems to be the hundredth time since becoming president, there has been another revelation about President Trump Sunday: The New York Times has found out that the President had paid zero dollars in federal income tax in 10 out of 15 years beginning in 2015, and that in two of the years in which he did pay, he paid just $750 in 2016 and 2017. Could this be the “October surprise” that may result in Trump losing the election this November, just as Hillary Clinton’s email allegations brought about her downfall in 2016?

Trump & GOP Threatening to Undermine Election Legitimacy

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to undermine election legitimacy and the integrity of the election, particularly in key battleground states. His words and actions indicate a total disregard of current election systems, which have worked well for decades, as well as a blatant disregard of American democracy.

Pres. Trump Admits Downplaying COVID-19 Severity & DHS Leaks

President Trump has admitted to intentionally downplaying the severity of COVID-19 in a series of new tapes released by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward. Separately, Brian Murphy, a whistleblower who was formally the head of the intelligence division at the Department of Homeland Security, accused the department of serving the president’s political interests.

Trump Down in Military Polls and Calls Servicemen ‘Losers’

(NEWSHACKER) – In a poll conducted by the Military Times before the conventions, more and more servicemen are turning away from President Trump and choosing to support Joe Biden instead. In an exclusive scoop from The Atlantic (and confirmed by the Associated Press), the President has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, called Americans who died in war “suckers” and “losers,” and lots more.

WaPo Releases Audio of Trump’s Elder Sister Blasting Trump

Maryanne Trump Barry, 83, has become the second in the Trump family to speak badly of President Donald Trump. On Saturday, August 22, The Washington Post released (article paywalled) a series of secretly recorded conversations taped by Mary L. Trump, 55, the niece of Donald Trump and the only other person in the family to speak out against him, while she was speaking with Maryanne.

President Trump is Sabotaging the US Postal Service

As discussed in a previous post, the U.S. Postal Service plays a hugely important role in the United States’ economy and was crucial to the founding of a nation. However, President Trump has been politicizing the Postal Service, cutting funding from it at its most crucial time, and trying to make the service worse, all ahead of the 2020 elections.

Twitter and Trump

On May 26, 2020, President Trump made a number of false tweets regarding mail-in voting in the 2020 election this November. Twitter “fact-checked” his tweet and flagged it, posting a little message that sais “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” noting that the tweet contained false information. This prompted outrage from the president.