Ahead of tomorrow’s Presidential inauguration ceremony…
…the scale of the security effort can be put into perspective by comparing the number of Guard members in Washington to the number of troops currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. National Guard members have been arriving in the U.S. capital from all over the country and it is estimated that 25,000 will be present for the inauguration.
That’s five times as high as troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan combined with around 2,500 service members serving in each country, according to a recent Department of Defense press release.
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.
A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller’s action, or whether President Trump approved.
Miller’s move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration.
A Pentagon official said that the reason was that the staff involved in the transition is “overwhelmed.”
In statehouses across America, 538 electors will formally cast their votes for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump based on the popular votes in their states.
Biden and Harris are expected to receive 306 electoral votes, topping 232 for Trump. The electoral votes will then be counted at a special joint session of Congress on January 6. before Biden and Harris are inaugurated Jan. 20.
Part of a 22-page preliminary report compiled by a 7-member team from Allied Security Operations Group
“The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.”
This afternoon.
Lansing, Michigan, USA
A Michigan judge has decided that supporters of President Donald Trump may publicly release and discuss information they’ve collected from an analysis of voting machines and data in Antrim County…
…Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit Court had ordered “forensic imaging” of the Dominion Voting Systems voting tabulators and related software after Antrim County resident William Bailey filed a lawsuit that challenged the integrity of the election equipment, citing errors in how the county initially reported its unofficial results.
Over 100 Republican lawmakers and 17 state attorneys general are backing a lawsuit at the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Ken Buck on Friday are leading a group of 18 lawmakers in sponsoring a resolution in the House that backs efforts by President Trump regarding voter fraud.
The president’s most recent action includes a request to join the Texas lawsuit aiming to block four states’ presidential electors from casting their votes
The one-page resolution includes no “whereas” statements as most resolutions do. It moves directly to the resolution supporting the president and also condemns voter fraud, which Trump and his allies have said was more likely to happen in the presidential election because of significant expansions of mail-in voting.
Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler declines to acknowledge Joe Biden as her President-elect during a debate with Democrat challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock dominated by election fraud claims.
The US senate hangs on the outcome of the 5 January election in Georgia with two seats at stake determining whether Republicans or Democrats will hold an effective majority in the upper chamber.
US President Donald Trump presents video of alleged election fraud during the US Presidential Election count in Atlanta at a rally in Georgia on Saturday night.
Meanwhile…
"Trump's denial during his final days in office is darkening America's winter of sickness and death, damaging democracy, hampering Joe Biden's nascent presidency and jeopardizing Republican hopes of clinging to the Senate," @StCollinson writes. | Analysis https://t.co/cnjOBCPHPs
During the Georgia Senate Government Oversight Committee looking at voting irregularities during the 2020 US Presidential Election.
Video footage from a count shows suitcases apparently filled with ballots pulled from under a table after supervisors told poll workers to leave and four people stayed behind to allegedly keep counting votes.
Meanwhile…
BREAKING: Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp calls for a signature audit after CCTV footage was leaked of hidden ballots being secretly counted.
Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp roused the ire of President Trump in recent days for not doing more in response to reports of election fraud in his state. But that may be changing now that Gov. Kemp is calling for a signature audit after CCTV footage was presented on Thursday showing election workers purportedly unloading suitcases of hidden ballots.
Hours after the hearing, Gov. Kemp is reportedly now calling for a signature audit to be conducted in the state.
Joe Biden is asked about his disagreements with Kamala Harris on certain issues:
"Like I told Barack, if I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign." pic.twitter.com/SLcvrwaPCA
“This is not just about honoring the votes of 74 million Americans who voted for me. It’s about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election. And in all future elections.”
US President Donald Trump delivers a 46 minute speech on alleged voting fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election.
President Trump displayed two slides of voting data during and after Election Day in Wisconsin and Michigan highlighting the ‘irregularities’ that happened in the middle of the night.
The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.
US President Donald Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, said yesterday that the justice department so far had “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election”.
what the Attorney General stated. The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.” @ClareHymes22@CBSNews
No incumbent president in nearly a century and a half has gained votes in a re-election campaign and still lost. President Trump gained more than ten million votes since his 2016 victory, but Biden’s appeal was so substantial that it overcame President Trump’s record support among minority voters. Biden also shattered Barack Obama’s own popular vote totals, really calling into question whether it was not perhaps Biden who pulled Obama across the finish lines in 2008 and 2012.
2. Winning Despite Losing Most Bellwether Counties
Biden is on his way to winning the White House after having lost almost every historic bellwether county across the country. The Wall Street Journal and The Epoch Times independently analyzed the results of 19 counties around the United States that have nearly perfect presidential voting records over the last 40 years. President Trump won every single bellwether county, except Clallam County in Washington.
3. Biden Trailed Clinton Except in a Select Few Cities
As one pollster put it, in those “big cities in swing states run by Democrats…the vote even exceeded the number of registered voters.” In the states that mattered most, so many mail-in ballots poured in for Biden from the cities that he put up record-breaking numbers and overturned state totals that looked like comfortable leads for President Trump.
4. Biden Won Despite Democrat Losses Everywhere Else
Randy DeSoto noted in The Western Journal that “Donald Trump was pretty much the only incumbent president in U.S. history to lose his re-election while his own party gained seats in the House of Representatives.” Now that’s a Biden miracle!
5. Biden Overcame Trump’s Commanding Primary Vote
In the past, primary vote totals have been remarkably accurate in predicting general election winners. Political analyst David Chapman highlighted before the election…No incumbent who has received 75 percent of the total primary vote has lost re-election. President Trump received 94 percent of the primary vote in 2020.
The 78-year-old Democrat slipped while playing with his German Shepherd, Major, on Saturday and visited an orthopedist in Delaware for an examination on Sunday afternoon.
While initial X-rays showed “no obvious fracture,” a subsequent CT scan “confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot,” according to a statement from his doctor Kevin O’Connor.
The president-elect could be seen limping as he left the doctor’s office to head to an imaging center for the CT scan, though he walked without a crutch or other help.
Emergency Order just entered by Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr.:
“Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”
