https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/politics/house-republicans-trump-biden/index.html House conservatives urge Trump not to concede and press for floor fight over election loss (CNN)President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College vote next week, calling on their party's leader to battle it out all the way to the House floor in January as he makes unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.
Trump declares ‘this Fake Election can no longer stand’ in after-midnight Twitter rant https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/tr...-longer-stand-in-after-midnight-twitter-rant/
Trump is ‘depressed’ Republicans aren’t overturning the election — and wants Fox News to ‘pay’ for betrayal https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/tr...nd-wants-fox-news-to-pay-for-betrayal-report/ President Donald Trump has continued to hold out false hope that the 2020 presidential election could be overturned — and has an enemies list of Fox News personalities who didn’t go along with his conspiracy theories — according to a new report. The story, by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, is titled, “Scoop: Trump’s frenetic, fanciful, bitter final plea.” “Right up to Monday’s Electoral College vote, President Trump held the false hope that Republican-controlled state legislatures would replace electors with allies who’d overturn Joe Biden’s win, two people who discussed the matter with him told Axios. The big picture: Through the past week, the sources said, the president browbeat GOP legislators in multiple states, launched tirades against Republican Govs. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Brian Kemp of Georgia, vowed to make Fox News ‘pay’ for accurately calling the race, and tested ways to say he didn’t win without acknowledging he had lost,” Swan reported. Trump’s feud against Fox News continues. “Trump also has been telling confidants that “people at the highest levels of Fox” have reached out to his people to try to repair the relationship but that he has no desire to do that,” Axios reported. “He’s focused in particular on Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.” “Another source said that Trump seems depressed at the realization that his backers have given up on 2020: ‘He’s saying, ‘We won these states, we won those states,” and adding that what he took away from conversations with his pollster John McLaughlin was that if he could get as many votes as he did, he also must have won,” Axios reported. Trump reported said he will say “I don’t win” to describe the outcome to avoid saying the word “lose.” Trump did lose, but has refused to concede.
One of Trump's deranged lawyers is threatening jail time for two Republicans for not overthrowing the election in their state.
Hey GOP and GOP voters ... how do you feel about putting a clown into the highest office in the world now?
Yeah... we have an imbecile here in North Carolina. Added bonus -- the guy is totally cuckoo. NC senator OK with suspending civil liberties in wake of Trump's defeat https://www.wral.com/nc-senator-ok-...liberties-in-wake-of-trump-s-defeat/19431251/ A North Carolina senator suggested Tuesday that the president might suspend basic liberties to overturn an election that he believes, without evidence, was stolen. Sen. Bob Steinburg, R-Chowan, paraphrased on his Facebook page comments that retired Gen. Thomas McInerney made earlier this month on a conservative talk show. Among other things, McInerney suggested President Donald Trump declare a national emergency, invoke the Insurrection Act and suspend habeas corpus. Steinburg told WRAL News on Tuesday evening that he wasn't endorsing the idea, just "putting out there options that others say still remain on the table," though he later said he'd be on board with it. In an extended harangue, Steinburg also made it clear he believes the recent presidential election was stolen and that Trump is the victim of a conspiracy to which multiple countries, the media, U.S. government agencies, officials and judges are either a part or turning a blind eye. “There’s something going on here bigger than what anybody is willing to talk about," he said. "I’m not nuts. … I’m not a conspiracy theory person. I don’t like them. I don’t like conspiracy theories at all. But something is going on here that’s bigger than meets the eye.” Steinburg then offered, unprompted, to take a psychiatric evaluation. He said the CIA and FBI both know there's a coup d'etat going on in the country but won't do anything about it. "They think we’re just bunch of boobs out here in the hinterland," he said. "Well, these boobs are waking up.” Steinburg offered no evidence for his claims, which are a rehash of conspiracy theories racing around the internet and conservative media in the wake of Trump's re-election loss. Asked why so many courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, rejected lawsuits intended to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win in the November election, Steinburg said, "let’s take a look at Justice John Roberts." He then suggested "somebody's got something" on the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and, as evidence, said a lot of retired FBI and CIA agents live in his district and have told him so. "I hear this all the time," Steinburg said. "All the time.” Asked about his habeas corpus post, Steinburg said he was "merely quoting what the general said," but he also said it should be an option if the president feels there was foreign intervention in the election, as Steinburg himself certainly believes. Chris Krebs, head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said last month that there is no evidence of any foreign country changing vote tallies or preventing Americans from voting. The president then fired him. Steinburg struggled to define habeas corpus in any way, replying to questions on the topic at one point with, "I'm not an attorney." Suspending habeas corpus would let authorities detain people indefinitely without bringing them before a judge. That explained, Steinburg replied: “If that's what needs to be done, if there are people who have been identified as folks who are suspected of high crimes and misdemeanors, who are threatening the very security and foundation of our nation … for whatever period of time it takes to round them up, then yes.” The Insurrection Act, also mentioned in Steinburg's post, allows the president to deploy the military on U.S. soil. The post also notes that presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt suspended habeas corpus. Lincoln did so during the Civil War, Roosevelt during World War II. During WWII the U.S. government held Japanese-Americans in concentration camps. Steinburg, 72, won re-election last month and will return to the state Senate next year for his second term. He served three terms previously in the state House. The Facebook post appeared on his personal Facebook page, but it would not be out of character on his official page, where he frequently posts conspiracy theories from conservative media outlets. A spokesman for Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, the Republican leader in the state Senate, declined to comment Tuesday.
Trump has reportedly been convinced he actually won, tells advisers he may not vacate the White House https://news.yahoo.com/trump-reportedly-convinced-actually-won-051947795.html President Trump was privately coming to terms with his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, but he "has now reversed and dug in deeper — not only spreading misinformation about the election, but ingesting it himself," CNN reports, "egged on by advisers like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis who are misleading Trump about the extent of voting irregularities and the prospects of a reversal." One adviser told CNN, "He's been fed so much misinformation that I think he actually thinks this thing was stolen from him." Even the Electoral College formalizing Biden's win "did not appear enough to shake Trump from his delusions of victory," CNN says, "but it is adding urgency to a push by several of his advisers to gently steer Trump toward reality." Discussions of Trump's post-presidency future tend to go nowhere because Trump "all but shuts down," CNN reports. "In his moments of deepest denial, Trump has told some advisers that he will refuse to leave the White House on Inauguration Day, only to be walked down from that ledge. The possibility has alarmed some aides, but few believe Trump will actually follow through." "To be perfectly clear about this, Trump 100 percent will leave the White House on Inauguration Day, if not well before," Jonathan Chait writes at New York. "Even the scholars who expressed the deepest fears of Trump's intentions to undermine the system did not put credence in the possibility he could defy the outcome by simply refusing to leave. Squatting is not one of the tools in his authoritarian tool kit." But the fact that Trump thinks that's even a viable option suggests he's "engaged in more than a scheme to grift his supporters," Chait says. He's "drinking his own poisoned Kool-Aid." If Trump does have to be forcibly removed from the White House, you can credit Bill Maher with the prediction.