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Trump calls to halt vote counting, prematurely declares victory
President Donald Trump appeared in the East Room of the White House early on Wednesday morning to claim falsely that he had already beaten Democrat Joe Biden, and the election was being stolen from him in a massive act of fraud. He vowed to mount a challenge in the Supreme Court and declared that he had already won states that were still counting votes, including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
The election has not yet been won, and the President and the former vice president are still locked in a tight battle for the decisive states with millions of votes still being counted.
Trump’s remarks essentially amounted to a demand for the legally cast votes of American citizens not to be recorded in a historic act of disenfranchisement. And they brought closer the potential constitutional nightmare that many have feared since Trump started to tarnish an election that he apparently worried he could lose months ago. His rhetorical broadside was also notable because it came at a moment of huge tension in a deeply divided nation — a time when a president, one whose political fate is in the process of being written — could be expected to call for calm.
Trump’s comments were especially remarkable since it appears that the President has a good chance of winning outstanding states in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan, which could hand him a second term. And the implication of his authoritarian remarks was that the President wants vote counting to stop in those states but to go on in Arizona, where he trails Biden.
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Update: Fauci had invoked the right over 100 times
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US government response to the Covid-19 pandemic, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, refusing to testify Wednesday just minutes into a Capitol Hill hearing that Republicans outwardly hoped would undermine the scientist and open him to claims of perjury.
Appearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed by Sen. Rand Paul, Fauci cited what he characterized as the Republican chairman’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution” as his reason for refusing to speak.
0:00 Fauci has pleaded the Fifth 70+ times at Covid response hearing
1:20 Congressional Correspondent on why the attorney was kicked out of the hearing
3:14 The White House reaction to the hearing
6:30 Legal analyst on the right to invoke the Fifth
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former oligarch and one of Vladimir Putin’s best-known critics, says that the end of the Putin regime is “far closer” after Wagner Group rebellion.
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The 18-year-old pleaded not guilty in court to charges of murder in the deaths of teens Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, whom prosecutors allege he struck with a Jeep in Cranford, New Jersey.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV’s lung nodule that was removed during surgery was found to be cancerous, the Vatican said.
“The procedure was successfully completed, on schedule and as planned, and the Holy Father has returned to his room,” the Vatican press office said in a statement.
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