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To: Brumar89 who wrote (22875)	12/21/2020 1:33:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46393

Barr and Pompeo have reached their Trump stopping point. The cultists on SI hate them for it now. You have to be willing to put Trump before EVERYTHING to be a loyal member of the cult. Its Trump Uber Alles. Barr: -Will not appoint special counsel on "election fraud." If there were a reason, he would have done it. - No evidence of widespread election fraud - No basis for seizing voting machines - No reason to appoint special counsel on Hunter Biden Bill Barr: ‘No Basis’ for Seizing Voting MachinesSHOT DOWN Justin Baragona Contributing Editor Published Dec. 21, 2020 11:47AM ET Outgoing Attorney General William Barr, who will officially leave his position on Dec. 23, said on Monday that there is “no basis” behind the idea Team Trump floated for the Department of Homeland Security to overtake voting machines. According to multiple reports, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani called Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli last week and asked about seizing machines as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election he lost. Trump, furthermore, inquired about issuing an executive order to seize the machines and appointing former campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who has peddled unhinged conspiracies about corrupt voting software “rigging” the election, as a special counsel on election fraud. Powell has held several meetings with Trump in recent days. “I see no basis now for seizing machines by the federal government, the wholesale seizures of machines by the federal government,” Barr said during a Monday morning press conference. The attorney general also stood by his earlier comments that the Justice Department hasn’t found “systemic or broad-based fraud that would affect the outcome of the election.” As for the president’s desire to empower Powell to investigate unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud, Barr waved off that idea: “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool, I would name one, but I haven’t and I don’t plan to.”

To: Brumar89 who wrote (22875)	12/21/2020 2:10:17 PM
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‘It’s sad and pathetic’: Trump insiders say the president’s plans with Sidney Powell leave them baffled and scared Trump has apparently seriously discussed the possibility of bringing in martial law in states that didn’t vote for him. Staunch Trumpists are now backing away, with even Rudy Giuliani trying to act as a ‘voice of reason’ Andrew Feinberg Washington DC @AndrewFeinberg 14 minutes ago independent.co.uk A deadly virus is killing thousands of Americans each day, a record number of people are now unemployed, and Russian intelligence operatives have wormed their way into computer networks across multiple government agencies. Yet with just 30 days remaining before his successor’s swearing-in, President Donald Trump remains hunkered down in the White House, increasingly out of touch with reality in a way that is causing even those loyalists to be alarmed over what could transpire during the month left in his presidency. With over 50 post-election lawsuits having been unceremoniously dismissed by a bevy of judges – including some of the most conservative in the country and a Supreme Court featuring three of his own appointees – and with top Republicans such as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell having congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on his victory, an increasingly distraught soon-to-be-ex-president has found succour in the arms of a loose-knit collection of bizarre fringe figures. “You’d be surprised who the ‘adults in the room’ are these days,” quipped one Trump confidante, employing a term once used to describe some of the steadier, more experienced foreign and domestic policy hands who once roamed the corridors of the Trump-era West Wing. The confidante later added that Trump has all but abandoned both the duties of the office he will hold for 30 more days and the aides who would otherwise be helping him carry them out. Instead, he has spent recent days ensconced in the White House residence, watching television, tweeting, and desperately dialling his phone in search of someone – anyone – who can provide him with a way to stave off the public defenestration that will come when Biden appears on the Capitol’s west front to take the oath of office. “He’s not really interested in anything that happens anymore,” the aide said. “It’s just sad and pathetic, how he’s plotting and scheming to remain in a job that he’s more or less given up because he doesn’t want to go back to being a regular rich guy who will still be one of the most famous men on Earth.” ... MORE independent.co.uk