Peter Navarro is the Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the White House....how does he have any responsibility for US Elections + so why is he releasing a report. The electorial college reports to congress election results for President and Vice Presidents. Congress counts the votes in the first week of January before a joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, presided over by the current vice president, as president of the Senate.
Why is this Navarro report "T H E- I M M A C U L A T E -D E C E P T I O N: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities" being released as a "private citizen" when he is a government employee, conference occurred during work time ???
Peter Navarro, President Trump's White House trade advisor, on Thursday released a report, in his private capacity, on the integrity of the 2020 election. The report, titled "The Immaculate Deception" is 36 pages long and was presented in a 53-minute press conference.
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Attorney Lin Wood is tweeting " arrest Pence for treason, let him face firing squad".... Why hasn't Secret Service/FBI arrested him. Several lawyers have submitted info to Bar association to have him disbarred.
Language is getting very dangerous. Best Pence stay in CO on vacation thru Tuesday,
AttorneyLin Wood is tweeting " arrest Pence for treason, let him face firing squad".... Why hasn't Secret Service/FBI arrested him. Several lawyers have submitted info to Bar association to have him disbarred.
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a GOP-led lawsuit aimed at empowering Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, contending that the plaintiffs — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and 11 Arizona Republicans who would have been electors for Donald Trump — lacked standing to sue.
U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee based in Tyler, Texas, said the suit, which was filed against Pence, couldn’t be brought by an individual member of Congress, since it alleged an injury that would apply to the entire House and Senate.
After a federal judge dismissed his lawsuit Friday seeking to empower Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election in President Donald Trump’s favor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) suggested the ruling means street violence is the only option for Trump supporters who believe the president’s baseless voter fraud claims.
Someone needs to cast aspersions on Louie's asparagus.
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Well now Sen. Hawley and 10 additional Senators --led by Ted Cruz will object to electorial votes from PA and other contested states. IMHO, this is political grandstanding to gain Trumps voter base and will split Republican party. They've LOST in court 1-60 cases brought in contested states. All FIFTY state governors have certified electorial college members votes that were sent to Congress.
Get your popcorn socked in for Wednesdays joint Congress session. fireworks --states 1PM. Each states electorial votes presented in alphabetical order and an objection can be raised to that states vote--2 hour debate can be held after written objection. So with ~ 6 states electors votes expected to be objected, this process can take 24 hrs or more.
Expect to crack open new bottle Maalox tabs along with brewing pot of Constant Comment Tea to settle tummy.
They will object "unless and until" the completion of a 10-day audit.
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...A group of GOP senators has come out with an extraordinary claim about “allegations of voter fraud” and “irregularities” that they say hasn’t been seen “in our lifetimes” -- claiming they will object on Wednesday during a joint session of Congress to count electoral votes "unless and until" a 10-day audit of election returns in disputed states is completed...
The senators -- Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; James Lankford, R-Okla; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; John Kennedy, R-La., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Mike Braun, R-Ind., as well as Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan.; Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.; and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. -- say they expect their efforts to fail and join Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who also has announced his intention to object.
The U.S. Code requires that the presiding officer open and present the certificates of electoral votes in alphabetical order. Then the certificate from each state is read by "tellers." House and Senate leadership will appoint two "tellers" apiece ahead of the joint session to read the certificates, and they are typically members of the Senate Rules and House Administration Committees, which have jurisdiction over election-related matters.
In 2017, when the joint session of Congress convened to count the electoral votes and affirm Mr. Trump's win, Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri and Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota were tellers on the part of the Senate, while GOP Congressman Gregg Harper of Mississippi and Democrat Congressman Bob Brady of Pennsylvania were the House's tellers.
Once the votes have been read, the tellers will record and count them. The presiding officer will then announce if any candidates have received the majority of votes for president and vice president.
How can members of Congress challenge election results?
Federal law details the procedures for how lawmakers can make an objection to a state's electoral votes.
After the certificate from each state or the District of Columbia is read, the presiding officer will call for objections, if there are any. An objection must be made in writing and signed by at least one member of the Senate and one member of the House.
It also must "state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof."
If an objection is properly made, the joint session suspends, and each chamber of Congress meets separately to consider it. Debate is limited to no more than two hours, and each member can speak only once and for a maximum of five minutes.
The Senate and House both vote on whether to agree to the objection, with a simple majority the threshold to affirming it.
But if a simple majority does not sustain the objection, it fails, and the state's electoral votes are counted.
An objection to a state's votes was last considered in 2005, when Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, both Democrats, objected to the electoral votes cast in Ohio, citing voting irregularities. Both chambers, however, overwhelmingly rejected their objection, and Ohio's electoral votes for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were counted.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defense cautioned Sunday against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.”
The 10 men, both Democrats and Republicans, signed on to an opinion article published in The Washington Post that implicitly questioned Trump’s willingness to follow his Constitutional duty to peacefully relinquish power on Jan. 20. Following the Nov. 3 election and subsequent recounts in some states, as well as unsuccessful court challenges, the outcome is clear, they wrote, while not specifying Trump in the article.
This will be an interesting bit of the Senate impeachment hearing, I bet.
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Clark, the people said, somehow connected with Trump and conveyed he felt fraud had impacted the election results. Then Clark began pressuring Rosen and others to do more on voter fraud — such as holding a news conference to announce they were investigating serious allegations, or taking particular steps in Georgia — though Rosen refused. At some point, Rosen was informed Clark would replace him, and he pushed for a meeting with Trump in person, the people said. It was theoretically possible that, if Clark were installed, he could push for some type of challenge to the election results.
At the meeting were Trump, Clark and Rosen, along with Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general; Steven A. Engel, the head of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel; and Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, the people familiar with the matter said. The people said Rosen, Donoghue, Engel and Cipollone pushed against the idea of replacing Rosen, and warned of a mass resignation.
Cipollone, one person said, pushed hard against a letter Clark wanted to send to Georgia state legislators, which wrongly asserted the department was investigating accusations of fraud in their state and Biden’s win should be voided, insisting it was based on a shoddy claim.
“Pat pretty much saved Rosen’s job that day,” said one senior Trump White House official.
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Attorney Lin Wood is tweeting " arrest Pence for treason, let him face firing squad".... Why hasn't Secret Service/FBI arrested him. Several lawyers have submitted info to Bar association to have him disbarred.
Language is getting very dangerous. Best Pence stay in CO on vacation thru Tuesday,