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Wall Street Journal: “President Trump accused federal law-enforcement agencies run by his own appointees of ignoring his claims of mass election fraud, as his legal setbacks continued to mount. ‘Missing in action,’ Mr. Trump said during an interview Sunday on Fox News. ‘You would think if you’re in the FBI or Department of Justice, this is the biggest thing you could be looking at. Where are they? I’ve not seen anything.’ No evidence of widespread voter fraud has surfaced, and homeland-security officials in early November called the 2020 contest won by former Vice President Joe Biden ‘the most secure election in U.S. history.'”

Federal officials also have agreed with state election authorities that they have seen no evidence that voting systems were tampered with. Multiple federal judges-including some appointed by Mr. Trump-have dismissed Trump campaign complaints, saying they lacked proof backing up allegations of fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to comment Sunday on Mr. Trump’s remarks. The Justice Department didn’t respond to a request for comment. Sunday’s complaints about the two agencies follow earlier criticism by Mr. Trump against officials at both. The president has expressed frustration in recent months with Attorney General William Barr for not more aggressively probing shortcomings in the FBI’s investigation into members of Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and any links to Russia’s election-interference efforts. Mr. Trump on Sunday maintained claims of widespread fraud in Mr. Biden’s victory. ‘And how the FBI and Department of Justice-I don’t know,’ he said. ‘Maybe they are involved. But how people are allowed to get away from this stuff-with this stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged.'”

President-elect Joe Biden’s accident while playing with his German Shepherd Major earlier today was a little more serious than initially thought, with Biden breaking some bones in his foot, WCAU CBS-10 in Philadelphia reports.

Initial x-rays came back negative, so the first reports stated Biden had twisted his ankle.  A more detailed CT scan was ordered by his doctor, which showed small fractures in his metatarsal bones, which will require Biden where a recuperative boot for a few weeks.

Otter Globe and Intelligencer: “Barack Obama was absolutely correct when he said in a recent interview that the GOP had convinced rural and working class whites that they were victims. If the Democratic Party is to succeed at attracting support from working class voters, it is essential that the party leadership make a greater effort to understand where that sense of victimization comes from, and make an effort to describe how Democratic Party policies are likely to produce more positive outcomes for working class voters. In this article I will present what I believe is the root of that sense of victimization. The root of modern day GOP propaganda involves a blame-shift, where labor unions, environmental regulations, and Democratic Party policies are blamed for the loss of working class factory jobs in America. The root of working class anxiety is the loss of steady employment, and the substitution of far lower paying ‘Gig’ and retail jobs.”

“The real cause of that job loss has been the rotation of points of production and consumption among different countries; an outgrowth of economist Milton Friedman’s principle of ‘shareholder primacy’ and improvements in international shipping. Friedman was an idol to business friendly conservatives, and his ideology is rarely questioned among modern day business leaders. In short, Republicans managed to weaponize disinformation by blaming the Democratic Party for economic conditions that occurred because of the ideology of conservative business leaders.”

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul tweeted a continuation of outgoing president Donald Trump’s debunked conspiracy theory that random nefarious forces changed votes in the early morning hours after Election Day, when in fact, the vote counts changed as mail-in ballots were counted.

Interesting . . . Trump margin of “defeat” in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud? Look at the evidence and decide for yourself.(That is, if Big Tech allows u to read this)

Anomalies in Vote Counts; https://t.co/DgBlYj9zUP

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 29, 2020

We have some big things happening in our various litigations on the Election Hoax. Everybody knows it was Rigged. They know Biden didn’t get more votes from the Black community than Obama, & certainly didn’t get 80,000,000 votes. Look what happened in Detroit, Philadelphia, plus!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2020

Reuters: “President-elect Joe Biden will receive on Monday his first presidential daily briefing, a report with information from the intelligence agencies of the United States, Biden’s office said. In a short statement released on Sunday regarding Biden’s plans for the following day, his office said that following the briefing, Biden would meet with advisers.”

Check it out at USA.gov/About-The-US. You can also follow the United States of America on YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. There’s no TikTok though. Also, you can shop at the official United States of America web store at usa.gov/collectibles.

There doesn’t seem to be any singular ‘Contact Us’ or ‘FAQ’ pages.

A Pennsylvania state senator who has advocated for the legislature to throw out the votes of the state’s residents and replace them with ones that would appoint Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus while he was in a White House meeting with Trump, the Associated Press reports.

Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano was meeting with Trump and his staff Wednesday to outline potential plans to undermine the state’s election when a COVID screening test he took before the meeting came back positive.  Upon learning of the result, he left the meeting with Trump.

Mastriano had brought his son and his son’s friend to the Oval Office.  All three tested positive. 

Psaki is a CNN contributor and served in different communications roles in the Obama White House, per Jim Acosta. Also, Kate Beddingfield will serve as White House Communications Director. Beddingfield was Biden’s chief campaign spokesperson.

Jim Acosta is probably happier than Stephanie Grisham at an open bar that he can actually have questions answered now after years of dealing with psychos like Grisham, Huckabee, and McEnany.

“On background from the Office of President-elect Biden: On Saturday Nov. 28, President-elect Biden slipped while playing with his dog Major, and twisted his ankle. Out of an abundance of caution, he will be examined this afternoon by an orthopedist” reports MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin.

Bored? Watch my periscope live chat with some you. We’re talking about the news of the day.

— Sharyl Attkisson SharylAttkisson Sunday, November 29, 2020

Salt Lake Tribune: “The tower of stainless steel in a remote alcove in San Juan County attracted international attention after wildlife biologists caught a glimpse of it from the air earlier this month. The obelisk even has its own Wikipedia page. Unfortunately for anyone who was hoping to make the pilgrimage to see it in person, it has disappeared. The Salt Lake Tribune went to the former location of the obelisk Saturday to confirm its absence. All that was left of the tower was a triangular metal piece that used to be on top and a hole where the base of the tower stood. There are trails and tracks in the area around the obelisk from the many visitors who have come to see it over the past week.”

“‘We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the monolith has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party,’ said BLM spokesperson Kimberly Finch in a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune. ‘The BLM did not remove the structure which is considered private property. We do not investigate crimes involving private property which are handled by the local sheriff’s office. The structure has received international and national attention and we received reports that a person or group removed it on the evening of Nov. 27.’ Colorado resident Riccardo Marino told The Salt Lake Tribune that he drove eight hours through the night to get to the obelisk. He said he was 30 minutes from the trailhead at 10:40 p.m. when he saw a truck with a large, rectangular object in the back driving away from the site. He said he finished the trip to the site and found that the obelisk was gone.

“She is correct. If Biden takes the oath of office on January 20th, I will never vote again or participate in any election. They are rigged and my vote no longer matters. Like Harry Reid said, ‘I will lie, cheat and steal as long as it gives me the result I want’. Our Country is corrupt to the core. The democrats built this.”

The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “If GOP Leaders Refuse to FIGHT NOW – Trump Supporters Will Abandon GOP and It Will Cease to Exist! — Attorney Lin Wood Goes Off on Weak-Kneed GOP ‘Leaders’” posted Sunday afternoon.

NBC News: “As the 2020 campaign wound down, President Trump held rallies across the country to fire up his supporters and get them out to vote. Many saw the rallies as a sign of big enthusiasm for Trump, but the data suggest the visits did not produce the desired impact for the president.”

“Comparing Trump campaign stops over the last two weeks of the race to election results shows that in the overwhelming majority of cases, Trump underperformed his 2016 margins in the counties he visited, in some cases by large amounts. There were 30 Trump campaign stops in that period, according to an NBC News tally, in states from Arizona to Nebraska to Pennsylvania. In five counties that Trump visited he saw better results than he did in 2016, but in the remaining 25 his margins of victory got smaller, his margin of defeat grew or the county flipped Democratic.”

“The recount of presidential ballots in Wisconsin’s two largest counties finished Sunday, reconfirming that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Trump in the key swing state by more than 20,000 votes. After Milwaukee County completed its tally Friday and Dane County concluded its count Sunday, there was little change in the final breakdown of the more than 800,000 ballots that had been cast in the two jurisdictions. As a result of the recount, Biden’s lead over Trump in Wisconsin grew by 87 votes” reports the Washington Post.

The Trump Campaign paid $3 million for the recount, so the cost of increasing Biden’s lead in the state by 87 works out to roughly $34,482.75 per vote.

Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump acknowledged that the fight to overturn his re-election defeat ‘probably’ won’t reach the Supreme Court, which had been the goal of his legal team. ‘It’s very hard to get a case to the Supreme Court,’ Trump said in a Fox News interview conducted by telephone from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. ‘I probably can’t get a case.’ On ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ the president rehashed a litany of largely unfounded allegations about the Nov. 3 election without offering new evidence for his claim that millions of votes across several battleground states were fraudulent. He signaled that his legal options may be running out, but suggested there was no ‘drop-dead’ date for his challenges to finally come to an end.”

“Trump’s legal team has suffered a series of setbacks in a longshot bid to help him cling to power. The strategy has relied on recounts in several states that so far haven’t helped him, legal cases that have nearly all been dismissed, and appeals to state lawmakers to overrule the popular vote. ‘I’ve got the best Supreme Court advocates, lawyers, that want to argue the case if it gets there, but they said it’s very hard to get a case up there,’ Trump said. Trump’s legal team has shrugged off legal failures by saying it’s all part of a march to the Supreme Court. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority and three justices appointed by Trump — the latest, Amy Coney Barrett, was confirmed by the Senate just weeks ago.”

AP: “The real Christmas tree industry, which has been battling increased interest in artificial trees, is glad to see that more Americans appear to be flocking to fresh-cut evergreens this season, seeking a bright spot amid the virus’s worsening toll. It’s early in the season, but both wholesale tree farmers and small cut-your-own lots are reporting strong demand, with many opening well before Thanksgiving. Businesses say they are seeing more people and earlier than ever.”

“At some pick-your-own-tree farms, for example, customers sneaked in well before Thanksgiving to tag the perfect tree to cut down once the business opened. As demand surges, big box stores are seeking fresh trees up to a week earlier than last year, and Walmart is offering free home delivery for the first time. ‘The season is running approximately six to seven days ahead of what we’ve seen in the past. We’ve never seen the demand like we’ve had this year,’ said McKenzie Cook, who ships between 1.8 million and 2 million trees a year combined from McKenzie Farms in Oregon and Happy Holiday Christmas Trees in North Carolina. A number of reasons are driving the uptick in interest. More Americans are staying home for the holidays amid pandemic restrictions and are realizing that for the first time in years – or maybe ever – they will be home to water a fresh-cut tree.”

The Washington Post published an epic insider account of Trump’s ignominious November:

“The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost. But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a torrent of private conversations, Trump was, in the telling of one close adviser, like ‘Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won.’’ However cleareyed Trump’s aides may have been about his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, many of them nonetheless indulged their boss and encouraged him to keep fighting with legal appeals. They were ‘happy to scratch his itch,’ this adviser said. ‘If he thinks he won, it’s like, Shh . . . we won’t tell him.’”

“Trump campaign pollster John McLaughlin, for instance, discussed with Trump a poll he had conducted after the election that showed Trump with a positive approval rating, a plurality of the country who thought the media had been “unfair and biased against him” and a majority of voters who believed their lives were better than four years earlier, according to two people familiar with the conversation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. As expected, Trump lapped it up. The result was an election aftermath without precedent in U.S. history. With his denial of the outcome, despite a string of courtroom defeats, Trump endangered America’s democracy, threatened to undermine national security and public health, and duped his supporters into believing, perhaps permanently, that Biden was elected illegitimately.”