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December 14, 2020 – Trump announced that Attorney General William Barr was resigning, less than two weeks after the attorney general disputed Trump by saying that his department did not uncover any election fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/william-barr-attorney-general.html
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December 5, 2020 – In his latest attempt to reverse his election loss, Trump asked Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to push the state legislature to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia. The president also tried to have Kemp mandate an audit of absentee ballot signatures, which Kemp had said was not within his power.
#ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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December 2, 2020 – In a 46-minute videotaped speech, Trump railed against the “tremendous voter fraud” of an election system that he said was “under coordinated assault and siege.”
A day earlier, his own attorney general, William Barr, said, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/politics/trump-election-video.html
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December 2, 2020 – The Trump administration helped wealthy companies benefit from the Treasury Department’s coronavirus emergency fund that was intended for small businesses.
More than half of the $522 billion for small businesses went to larger companies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/01/ppp-sba-data/
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November 30, 2020 – Trump raised roughly $170 million in donations after the election, claiming that he needed money for an Official Election Defense Fund — an account that does not exist.
“I need you now more than ever,” one fundraising appeal reads. “The Recount Results were BOGUS.”
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November 30, 2020 – Joe DiGenova, Trump’s campaign lawyer, said Christopher Krebs, the former head of U.S. cybersecurity should be “shot.”
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November 26, 2020 – Trump said that he would step down if the Electoral College voted for Joe Biden. The next day, however, he said Biden “can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous ‘80,000,000 votes’ were not fraudulently or illegally obtained.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/trump-election-georgia.html
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November 25, 2020 – Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, one of six associates convicted in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Flynn had pleaded guilty for lying to the FBI.
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November 24, 2020 – As record numbers of new COVID-19 cases were being reported, Trump appeared in the White House briefing room for the first time since the election — but for only one minute.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/24/trump-briefing-impromptu-speech-440321
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November 23, 2020 – Trump said that “in the best interest of our Country,” he approved of allowing Joe Biden to begin his transition to become president.
Trump still refused to concede, though, writing on Twitter that “Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/politics/trump-transition-biden.html
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November 22, 2020 – Trump briefly took part in a virtual Group of 20 summit, but he skipped a conference on the pandemic attended by, among others, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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November 22, 2020 – Sidney Powell, a member of Trump’s legal team, said that a Trump campaign lawsuit over election results in Georgia “will be biblical.”
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November 21, 2020 – A federal judge dismissed the Trump campaign’s lawsuit to block Pennsylvania’s certification of its election results, but Trump’s legal team said it would appeal the decision.
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November 12, 2020 – November 12, 2020 – In his continued efforts to discredit the election, Trump referenced a report on voting machines by OANN, a fringe network.
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November 12, 2020 – Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to Trump’s reelection campaign, was the latest person to contract the coronavirus after attending an election night party at the White House.
According to reporters, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was the only prominent figure wearing a mask when Trump addressed the crowd at 2:30 a.m.
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November 10, 2020 – The White House told federal agencies to work on a budget proposal for the next fiscal year — even though the proposal is usually issued in February, by which point Trump is scheduled to be out of office.
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November 10, 2020 – At a news conference, Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was asked if the Trump administration would ensure a smooth transition to Biden’s presidency.
“There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration,” Pompeo said with a smile.
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November 9, 2020 – Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, gave federal prosecutors the go-ahead to investigate “substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities” — circumventing Justice Department policies that prevent prosecutors from getting involved in election outcomes.
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November 9, 2020 – Trump’s campaign sued Pennsylvania’s secretary of state and seven of the state’s counties, attempting to block them from certifying election results. Similar lawsuits by the campaign have been rejected as meritless in Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.
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November 9, 2020 – The Trump administration removed Michael Kuperberg, the head of the program that produces the National Climate Assessment, the government’s most important report on climate change.
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November 9, 2020 – The Trump administration removed Michael Kuperberg, the head of the program that produces the National Climate Assessment, the government’s most important report on climate change.
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November 9, 2020 – Two Trump administration officials and a campaign adviser who attended an election night party in the White House East Room tested positive for the coronavirus.
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November 9, 2020 – Two months before his term was set to end, Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the latest on a long list of political appointees who have resigned or been dismissed.
The firing created instability atop the military chain of command at an uncertain time when the president refused to concede his loss in the election.
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November 8, 2020 – A day after the election was called, Trump again insisted that he won and that the other side committed fraud.
“We believe these people are thieves,” the president wrote on Twitter.
“The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election… We have a history in this country of election problems.”
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August 17, 2020 – Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was accused of deliberately slowing mail delivery to give the president a boost in the November election.
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June 29, 2020 – Trump retweeted a video of a white couple threatening peaceful protesters outside their St. Louis mansion. The man brandished a semi-automatic rifle, and the woman pointed a handgun at the crowd.
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June 28, 2020 – Trump tweeted, then deleted, a video that showed a supporter of his shouting “white power” at anti-Trump protesters at The Villages, a Florida retirement community. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” he wrote in his tweet.
#TrumpKillsEverything #WhitePower #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol
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June 23, 2020 – Trump’s family filed a petition to block the publication of a tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the president’s niece. Trump said Mary Trump was “not allowed” to write the book because of a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2001.
The book’s subtitle calls her uncle “the world’s most dangerous man.”
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June 23, 2020 – Trump aides said he was joking when he had told his administration to slow down coronavirus testing. But Trump said he was not being sarcastic. “I don’t kid,” he said.
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June 14, 2020 – Trump testily defended himself after videos shot at West Point showed him tentatively walking down a ramp and struggling to drink from a glass of water.
Though the day was sunny and hot, Trump tweeted that the ramp was “very slippery.”
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May 3, 2020 – The coronavirus death toll could reach 100,000, Trump said during a Fox News town hall broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial. The figure was double the estimate he predicted only two weeks earlier. Nevertheless, he said the country should still reopen its economy.
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April 27, 2020 – If Americans were ingesting or injecting disinfectants to fight the coronavirus, it wasn’t his fault, Trump said. States reported numerous cases of people drinking cleaning products after Trump’s comments.
At his daily briefing, the president was asked if he accepted any responsibility for people improperly using cleaning products. “No, I don’t,” he said.
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April 23, 2020 – Prompting widespread alarm, Trump speculated about ingesting or injecting disinfectants to fight the coronavirus. “Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that,” he said at his daily briefing.
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April 22, 2020 – Dr. Rick Bright, who headed the agency to develop a coronavirus vaccine, cast doubts on whether hydroxychloroquine could prevent Covid-19.
Questioning the drug touted by Trump cost him his position: Bright was ousted as director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
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April 15, 2020 – As a result of waiting for months to obtain N95 respirator masks, the Trump administration paid companies $5 per mask — almost eight times what the price was earlier in the year.
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April 14, 2020 – Trump said that he would cut off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization, claiming that the WHO engaged in a coverup of the outbreak in its early days in China. “We have not been treated properly,” he said of the organization.
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April 13, 2020 – Trump held a 2½-hour news conference in which he attacked the press. “You know you’re a fake,” he told one reporter. “Everything we did was right,” he said.
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April 13, 2020 – The Treasury Department ordered that Trump’s name appear on the $1,200 stimulus checks that millions of Americans were to receive.
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April 12, 2020 – “Time to #FireFauci” read a message that Trump retweeted after the nation’s top infectious disease expert said fewer Americans would have died had the country gone under lockdown earlier. Trump didn’t only go after Fauci; in a series of tweets, he condemned, China, the World Health Organization, and President Obama.
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March 27, 2020 – Trump singled out the governors of Michigan and Washington for not being sufficiently grateful for federal government aid during the pandemic.
“I want them to be appreciative,” he said. “If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call.”
#AgentKrasnov #BystanderTrump #ArrestTrump #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #USPol
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March 27, 2020 – Trump boasted that “We’ve now established great testing. … We’ve tested now more than anybody.”
The U.S. did test more people for the coronavirus than South Korea, but South Koreans were tested much earlier, conducted five times as many tests per capita than the U.S., and had a per capita death toll twenty-five times lower than the United States death toll per capita.
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March 26, 2020 – Although health experts around the world have been warning about a pandemic for years, Trump claimed that the coronavirus crisis caught the U.S. by surprise.
“This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country,” he said. “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”
#AgentKrasnov #ArrestTrump #COVID #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #USPol
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March 24, 2020 – Trump told Fox News that he “would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.”
On Twitter, he wrote, “THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM!” In February, Trump said the number of coronavirus cases would soon be “down to close to zero.”
By Easter, the number exceeded half a million.
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March 23, 2020 – Trump vowed that “America will again and soon be open for business — very soon.”
At his daily press conference on the crisis, Trump equated the alarming increase in coronavirus deaths to automobile fatalities. “You look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we’re talking about,” he said. “That doesn’t mean we’re going to tell everybody no more driving of cars.”
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March 21, 2020 – Trump endorsed the combination of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, to treat coronavirus—despite a lack of testing or backing by the FDA.
In fact, respected medical professionals warned that taking the drugs together could be dangerous.
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March 20, 2020 – Republican Senators Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler were urged to resign following reports that they sold millions of dollars in stocks between late January and early February — ahead of the stock market’s decline due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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March 18, 2020 – Trump announced that the U.S.-Mexico border would be sealed off to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But as NPR reported, there were roughly 100 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Mexico—far less than the 8,000 cases in the United States.
The measure, though, allowed the administration to deport migrants without due process. Deja vu!
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March 18, 2020 – Even though the World Health Organization advised him not to, as his words could give rise to racial profiling, Trump defended his use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to COVID-19.
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March 15, 2020 – Officials from Germany’s Health Ministry said that Trump “offered large sums of money” to CureVac, a German company working on a coronavirus vaccine, in order to give the U.S. exclusive access to its information.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell claimed that the story was wrong, but CureVac’s CEO confirmed the meeting with the White House.
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December 20, 2019 – Mark Galli, editor in chief of Christianity Today, called for Trump’s removal from office based on the president’s “moral deficiencies.” In a harshly worded tweet, Trump slammed the conservative publication as a “far left magazine.”
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