PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
Pretty sure electors who do not vote for who their state voted for will have their shyt tossed as a “faithless elector” I looked it up the other week and it has happened a few times.
Official Biden vs. Trump 2020 General Election Thread (Biden WINS 306 Electoral College Votes)
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The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Like I said Trump brought out the crazies for this election to the tune of 5% more in votes... Come 2022 the crazies will go back in their bunkers
If I was representing the DNC I would have a field day with Trump's lawyers.
"we verified it b/c of the CAPTCHA"
CAPTCHA CAN'T DETECT LYING!
NaijaProdigy Redux
Veteran
Whose calling for civil war on the Blue side? Hopefully it doesn't come to that. There needs to be mass labor strikes if he is successful in stealing this.
most states have statutes stating the electors are required by law to cast their ballots in accordance with the popular vote. a few don’t tho, but I don’t remember which ones. it won’t be enough to help Trump.
trump is finished. I know some of you are young, but this is basically what it was like back in 2000, when they took a month to finally declare Bush president. Gore wasn’t as stupid and unpredictable as trump, but the election is over.
TRUMP IS TRYING TO COVER UP HIS COLLUSION IN 2016 ON THE WAY OUT THE DOOR!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...1d31a4-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
A furious behind-the-scenes battle to counter Trump’s threat to national security
CIA Director Gina Haspel attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House in July 2019. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Opinion by
David Ignatius
Columnist
November 10, 2020 at 6:23 p.m. EST
President Trump’s senior military and intelligence officials have been warning him strongly against declassifying information about Russia that his advisers say would compromise sensitive collection methods and anger key allies.
An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero — the moment when his political problems began.
CIA Director Gina Haspel last month argued strongly at a White House meeting against disclosing the information, because she believed that doing so would violate her pledge to protect sources and methods, a senior congressional source said. This official said a bipartisan group of Republican and Democratic senators has been trying to protect Haspel, though some fear that Trump may yet oust her.
Rumors have been flying this week about Haspel’s tenure, but a source familiar with her standing as CIA director said Tuesday that national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had both “assured her that she’s good,” meaning she wouldn’t be removed. Haspel also met personally with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday. She sees him regularly as a member of the “Gang of Eight” senior congressional leaders. But Tuesday’s visit was another sign of GOP support.
Haspel’s most unlikely defender has been Attorney General William P. Barr, who opposed a pre-election push to declassify the sensitive material, according to three current and former officials. At a showdown meeting at the White House, Barr pushed back against revealing the secret information.
Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, has also argued vehemently against disclosure, according to a senior defense official and the senior congressional source. Like Haspel, Nakasone took the unusual step of directly opposing White House efforts to release the intelligence, because he feared the damage that disclosure would cause.
President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper in a Nov. 9 tweet, marking the fourth Pentagon chief the president has let go during his administration. (Reuters)
The issue may have played a role in Trump’s surprise decision on Monday to fire Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper. According to the senior defense official, Esper wrote a letter last month to John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, strongly endorsing Nakasone’s position and “urging that the information not be released due to the harm it would do to national security, including specific harm to the military,” the senior defense official said.
Trump’s ceaseless attempts to argue that the Russia investigation was a “hoax” — and to force the intelligence community to declassify information he believes would support this view — may animate some of his otherwise inexplicable moves.
At the Pentagon, Trump replaced Esper with acting defense secretary Christopher Miller, a former National Security Council official who had been nominated in March to run the National Counterterrorism Center. The job was vacant because Trump had fired Russell E. Travers, the previous acting NCTC chief, who had worked closely with former acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire, who was bounced in February. Maguire’s supposed crime was that he had allowed intelligence officials to brief Congress on Russian efforts to support Trump in the 2020 election.
At the NSA, the Trump team just installed as general counsel Michael Ellis, a former chief counsel to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a locus of pro-Trump arguments that the Russia investigation was poisoned fruit. As the spy agency’s chief legal officer, Ellis could be an ally in a Ratcliffe-led campaign to declassify intelligence that would otherwise be tightly held because it might reveal sources and methods.
Senate Republicans, who might stop the post-election revenge campaign, face a growing tension between Trump’s demands and the country’s interests. The senior congressional source described it this way: “How much do you stay quiet during the tantrum period? What damage will it do to national security? That’s a real-time discussion that’s going on.”
Trump will depart the White House Jan. 20, barring an unlikely legal miracle. The question is how much damage he will do to national security before he leaves.
You see his soul leave his body after she calls him bald
Literally. That made him mad af
Somebody is about to get fired
