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Florida Neighbors to Trump: You Can't Live at Mar-a-Lago

They say he's welcome in Palm Beach but can't live at private club

(Newser) - "Where will Donald Trump go after he leaves office?" That's the question posed by Town & Country last week, and if neighbors of his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., have anything to do with it, it won't be to there. As speculation grows about a move...

Trump Reacts to McConnell's Dose of Election Reality

'Too soon to give up': president implores Senate majority leader

(Newser) - Mitch McConnell has spoken, recognizing Joe Biden Tuesday as the next president of the US, and the current president wasn't pleased with the Senate majority leader's concession—so much so that he addressed the subject after midnight on Tuesday. In a tweet accompanying a Daily Mail article titled...

Mitch McConnell Calls It
Mitch McConnell Calls It
Dec 15, 2020 9:50 AM CST

Mitch McConnell Calls It

Senate majority leader acknowledges Biden as the winner for first time

(Newser) - Some holdouts remain—including President Trump—but top Republicans who have previously refused to recognize Joe Biden as president-elect are changing their tune. The most notable example came Tuesday morning when Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to say, "The Electoral College has spoken . So today I want...

Trump Backers See One Last Challenge in January
Trump Challenges May Lead
to Big Test for Pence
the rundown
Dec 14, 2020 11:34 AM CST

Trump Challenges May Lead to Big Test for Pence

When Congress meets to certify Electoral College count, things could get interesting

(Newser) - It's Electoral College day . Electors from all the states and DC have begun meeting in their state capitals to formally cast their ballots for Joe Biden or President Trump. While this is normally a ho-hum formality, the 2020 process is anything but because of Trump's refusal to acknowledge...

This Should Be Milestone Day for Joe Biden

Electoral College meets to formally cast their votes for the presidency

(Newser) - Monday is a significant day in the US on two fronts: Not only do COVID vaccinations begin but the Electoral College meets. The latter is the next big step in the selection of the president, and one with added significance in 2020 because of President Trump's continuing challenge of...

Trump Backtracks on WH Staffers Getting Vaccinated

President says White House staffers won't cut the line, 'unless specifically necessary'

(Newser) - Nationwide distribution of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine kicked off Sunday as trucks carrying millions of doses rolled out of a Michigan manufacturing site. Health care workers and nursing home residents are set to be first in line to get vaccinated, but after that it could be a "messy" prioritization...

Wisconsin Justice Takes Trump Lawyer to Task

Suit 'smacks of racism,' she says

(Newser) - A lawsuit from President Trump seeking to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Wisconsin "smacks of racism," a justice on that state's Supreme Court said during a Saturday hearing, Business Insider reports. Trump attorney Jim Troupis had asked the court to invalidate more then 221,...

Trump: I&#39;m Planning to Veto $740B Bill
Trump: I'm Vetoing That Bill
Dec 13, 2020 12:55 PM CST

Trump: I'm Vetoing That Bill

The president tweets about $740B defense policy bill

(Newser) - President Trump on Sunday tweeted that he intends to veto a wide-ranging defense policy bill, raising new but unspecified concerns about China as a reason to reject a traditionally bipartisan measure with a nearly 60-year track record of being signed into law, the AP reports. "The biggest winner of...

Gates to Biden: Let's Not 'Blow' the Vaccine Rollout

Lack of communication between administrations could impede the process, he says

(Newser) - Developing, testing, and distributing a coronavirus vaccine is tough enough. But Bill Gates pointed out something else Sunday that's compounding the difficulties. "The transition is complicating," Gates said on CNN . The Microsoft co-founder is encouraged, however, because "the new administration is willing to rely on actual...

4 Stabbed After Trump Rally in Washington

More than 20 arrested as violence breaks out at night

(Newser) - Thousands of supporters of President Trump returned to Washington for rallies on Saturday, and things turned violent after sundown, per the AP . Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators. WRC-TV reported that four people were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department told...

Trump Buzzes Crowd Rallying in Washington

The president flies by thousands of supporters

(Newser) - Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington on Saturday for rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden, the AP reports. They cheered as Trump flew overhead on the Marine One helicopter on his way out of town for...

Trump, Texas GOP Chair React to Supreme Court Ruling on Suit

Allen West floats new 'Union' of 'law-abiding states'; Trump blasts SCOTUS for 'no wisdom, no courage'

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Texas lawsuit trying to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's election victory, and the leader of the Texas Republican Party isn't happy with the decision. After the complaint brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and backed by 126 GOP House members and...

Report Won't Help Relations Between Trump, Barr

AG resisted pressure to reveal Hunter Biden investigations before election: WSJ

(Newser) - This isn't likely to make President Trump any friendlier toward his attorney general: The Wall Street Journal reports William Barr knew about multiple investigations into Hunter Biden's finances since at least spring "and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign." Trump again...

This Guy May Have Lessons for Trump
This Guy May Have
Lessons for Trump
OPINION
Dec 11, 2020 8:55 AM CST

This Guy May Have Lessons for Trump

Grover Cleveland won non-consecutive terms, and Hugh Hewitt looks at how

(Newser) - On Thursday, a columnist laid out why a 2024 run by President Trump won't happen. Not so fast, writes conservative Hugh Hewitt in the Washington Post . Hewitt draws lessons from the example of Grover Cleveland, the only man to win nonconsecutive terms in the White House. He first won...

Biden Blames Party Losses on 'Defund the Police'

President-elect tells civil rights leaders that cost Democrats elections

(Newser) - In suggesting civil rights leaders choose their words carefully when debating criminal justice changes with Republicans, President-elect Joe Biden had an example of the risk. "That's how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we're talking about defunding the police,"...

Skeptic Lays Out 3 Reasons Why Trump 2024 Is Doomed

Personality-based politicians have always faded, writes John F. Harris at Politico

(Newser) - President Trump and his supporters are making noises about a run in 2024, but John F. Harris predicts in a column at Politico that it's not going to happen. In fact, he thinks Trump's influence will fade pretty quickly once he's out of office. "Outsized outsiders...

Trump Sees &#39;Dangerous Moment&#39; Ahead for US
Trump, Limbaugh
Warn of Trouble Ahead
Dec 10, 2020 12:01 PM CST

Trump, Limbaugh Warn of Trouble Ahead

President sees 'dangerous moment' for US, while radio hosts warns of a secession

(Newser) - President Trump's complaints about the election seemed to escalate Thursday as he warned of the US approaching a "dangerous moment," reports Mediaite . Meanwhile, ally Rush Limbaugh spoke of a possible "secession" on his radio show. The twin warnings were being highlighted Thursday at the conservative and...

Time's Person of the Year Comes Down to These 4

Recipient to be named Thursday on NBC

(Newser) - For the fifth straight year, Donald Trump is on the short list for Time 's Person of the Year. The president is one of four finalists revealed Wednesday on the Today show . The person "who affected the news or our lives the most, for better or worse" in...

Giuliani 'Better Than Ever' After COVID, Heading to Georgia

Trump's lawyer thanks the president after being released from DC hospital

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's Tuesday update that he was doing much better after being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 now has a further update. The former New York City mayor, now a personal lawyer for President Trump, was spotted giving the thumbs-up as he left MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in...

Once-Protected Dunes at Trump Course Lose Status

Scottish dunes don't have 'enough of the special, natural features for which they were designated'

(Newser) - Conservation officials in Scotland said Wednesday that the coastal sand dunes at President Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort have lost their special status as a protected environmental site. NatureScot, Scotland's nature agency, says that following construction of the Trump International Golf Links course at Menie, north of Aberdeen, the...

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