Mellissa Carone, the witness in Rudy Giuliani’s Wednesday’s hearing with the Michigan House Oversight Committee who is taking social media by storm, might have wanted to cleanse her internet accounts before testifying.

The Michigan mother of two, who claimed to have personally witnessed election fraud without having any actual evidence of the fraud she claims, has tried her hand at modeling to gain fame before joining Rudy at the witness table.

While she claims to not have any more social media, she responded to multiple claims on social media that she was under the influence during her testimony.  “Absolutely not!” she responded on her Twitter account–an account she claimed she had to delete before her testimony.  Her Twitter account (@DominionCarone) was deactivated Thursday evening, but not after liking posts that compared her to Rocky Balboa.

I love and support the @NRA and have been a longtime member, but I don’t want Wayne’s job. This story is total fake news.

PS: While you're here, if you're not already a member, you can sign up to join the nation's oldest civil rights group below!https://t.co/gM51MFUqwN pic.twitter.com/lh6cnHpdgO

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 4, 2020

“Wisconsin Supreme Court DENIES Republican petition to bring an original action in the state Supreme Court challenging the certification of the 2020 election results. Trump and his allies are now 1-42 in post election litigation” reports Dem elections attorney Marc Elias.

Washington Post: “An uncommon ‘ivu,’ or ice shove, is possible in northern Alaska on Thursday night, bringing the chance of coastal erosion as a shattered sheet of ice piles up against the coast. The Arctic coastline of Alaska’s North Slope is readying for the ice shove, with the local National Weather Service forecast office urging residents to remove property from area beaches. Ivus occur when strong winds push sea ice up against the coast. The fetch of wind blowing over long sheets of ice gives it enough momentum that it is unable to stop upon colliding with the shore.”

“That results in the ice fragmenting or breaking, accumulating in heaps along the coast. And where winds and wave action are strong enough, the force of an ivu can cause damage. ‘They’re fairly infrequent,’ said Luke Culver, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. Most of Alaska’s North Slope is sparsely populated. Utqiagvik, formerly Barrow, and Wainwright both sit along the coast but are settled far enough inland that the ice shove may prove benign. However, 280 miles to the east-southeast in Kaktovik, the Barter Island Airport’s runway may need to be watched if mounds of ice accumulate, but that appears unlikely.”

The moment I knew it was all over but the crying was at 11:24 pm EST, November 3rd, 2020, when Fox News called Arizona for Biden. My apprehension had been steadily building after Trump won Florida so decisively and so early in the night, shutting the door on a quick Biden win. There was an hour or two there when I had to entertain the possibility that there might be a second Trump term. Not that I had any real doubt that Fox News would do the right thing in terms of calling the election honestly (incongruous with their propaganda, of course), I was just surprised it happened so early.

It’s really hard to overstate the importance of that call. As we now know, shit went very badly behind the scenes at the White House right then and there. It was like a bucket of cold water being poured on the bonfire before Trump could start really burning things with it. Watch that “victory speech” he gave to the crowd at the White House at 2:30 am that night – You can tell he didn’t even believe half the shit that was coming out of his mouth. Trump was PISSED and he couldn’t hide it.

Alyssa Farah has resigned her position as White House Communications Director, effective Friday, ending a three-and-a-half year tenure within the administration, the Washington Post reports.

Farah, the daughter of WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah, started as press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, then moved to become the Pentagon’s spokesperson.  She became the communications director of the White House in April.

Her departure demonstrates that the reality of outgoing president Donald Trump’s loss in the November election is starting to sink in with even the most ardent Trump supporters in the White House.

Donald Trump, Jr.–a.k.a. Lucky Sperm–is considering running for a leadership role within the National Rifle Association, according to a report from Business Insider based on people close to Junior.

With no outside business experience aside from working for his father’s company, and with his only applicable skill set being his desire to kill things, Junior’s chances of taking over for NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre appear slim.  Junior has also been barred by the State of New York from taking a leadership position in any non-profit organization due to his and his family corruption of the defunct Trump Foundation, which was found to be a personal slush fund for his father and his family. 

Washington Post: “Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Thursday that he believes Trump may no longer have a viable path toward contesting the election results, going further than he previously has in acknowledging the president’s loss. ‘So far, it looks to me like the pathway for the president has narrowed, if not closed,’ Cornyn told Texas reporters when asked about Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results in court, according to the Texas Tribune.”

Non-Correction: The current version of this article misspelled Senator John Cornyn’s name as ‘Cornhole’ in the headline. National Zero does not regret the error and will not be correcting it.

Conservative muckraking group Project Veritas secured more than half a million dollars in bailout money from the Paycheck Protection Program, designed to help at-risk companies maintain their workers’ employment, a program accountability website posted.

Currently making a small ripple on Fox News because of recorded CNN editorial planning calls, Project Veritas has just seven employees, according to its LinkedIn corporate profile.  That would amount to roughly $80,000 per year in compensation for each employee of the well-funded organization.

Many of the people who list Project Veritas as their employer on LinkedIn also have other concurrent employment, such as real estate agents.  Two are legal advisors.  Russell Verney is listed as Executive Director, he lives in Indianapolis, hundreds of miles away from the Project Veritas office in New York. 

AP: “The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press.”

“Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said. Stirrup is accused of approaching staffers in the department demanding they give her information about investigations, including election fraud matters, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.”

Wow! Blockbuster testimony taking place right now in Georgia. Ballot stuffing by Dems when Republicans were forced to leave the large counting room. Plenty more coming, but this alone leads to an easy win of the State!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 3, 2020

Huffington Post: “Prince Harry has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a rebuke from nature as he called for more action to tackle climate change. The prince spoke during a conversation about the environment with the chief executive of a streaming platform for climate documentaries. ‘Somebody said to me at the beginning of the pandemic, it’s almost as though Mother Nature has sent us to our rooms for bad behavior, to really take a moment and think about what we’ve done,’ Harry said. ‘It’s certainly reminded me about how interconnected we all are, not just as people but through nature. We take so much from her and we rarely give a lot back.'”

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have stated that they will get vaccinated for the coronavirus on camera to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of the vaccine to the public, ABC News reports.

Various polls have shown that at least half of the American public have doubts about the viability of a new vaccine, with some being skeptical of government clearance during the Trump administration and others wary of vaccines in general.

“If Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is safe, and can vaccinate, you know, immunize you from getting COVID, absolutely, I’m going to take it,” Obama told SiriusXM host Joe Madison.  “I may end up taking it on TV or having it filmed, just so that people know that I trust this science, and what I don’t trust is getting COVID.”

“BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court DENIES Trump petition to bring original action to challenge the results of the recount in state Supreme Court. Trump and his allies are 1-41 in court.” — Mark Elias of Democracy Docket

From the order:  “IT IS ORDERED that the petition for leave to commence an original action is denied. One or more appeals from the determination(s) of one or more boards of canvassers or from the determination of the chairperson of the Wisconsin Elections Commission may be filed by an aggrieved candidate in circuit court. Wis. Stat. § 9.01(6); and

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the motion to intervene is denied as moot.”

“President Trump has filed his own lawsuit challenging the results of the election he lost in Wisconsin. Unlike other cases, this one is brought in his name.

“Trump wants a federal district court to ‘uphold the exclusive authority of the Wisconsin Legislature,’ rule that various state laws were violated thereby also violating the U.S. Constitution and ‘remand this matter to the Wisconsin Legislature.’ Don’t see that often.”  —Brad Heath of Reuters

https://twitter.com/jezztoot/status/1333985391293181954

Yeah, this is really Jim ‘Gateway Pundit’ Hoft’s husband.

In an in-depth “tick-tock” review of the tumultuous 24-day tenure of Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, NBC News depicts a White House in upheaval after learning Flynn had been lying to the Administration and the FBI, contrasted with a President who didn’t care about the national security implications for fear of damaging his own image.

Contrary to public statements that Flynn didn’t think he had done anything improper in his discussions with FBI agents about conversations he had with Russian government officials, Flynn was concerned enough to stand over his assistant in the West Wing as she researched criminal defense lawyers online the day of his meeting with them.

Among the other revelations in the report:

• Now outgoing-president Donald Trump seemed unfazed by the accusations, as outlined by McGahn in a meeting, also attended by advisor Steve Bannon and then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.  Trump asked him to review the situation multiple times, finally commenting, “Not again, this guy, this stuff.”  Trump had been growing aggravated with Flynn throughout the transition and the early days in office in what one source called a “personality clash.”  Another told NBC News, “He couldn’t stand Mike Flynn.  He wanted to fire Flynn before he even got to the White House.”

“In a White House meeting about keeping the Senate with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.) and other aides, a discussion about the state took a wild turn when Trump brought up House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s support of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, according to people familiar with the discussion. ‘Q-an-uhn,’ he said, mispronouncing the name of the group, telling those present that it is made up of people who ‘basically believe in good government.’ The room was silent again before Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, leaned forward to say he had never heard it described that way. Trump had similarly praised QAnon, which the FBI has identified as a potential domestic terrorist threat, during an August news conference” – Washington Post.

New York Congressman Sean Patrick Mahoney has been elected chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the group tasked with defending and expanding the Democrats’ majority in the House, Politico reports.

Mahoney defeated California’s Tony Cárdenas to succeed Illinois’ Cheri Bustos for the chairmanship.  He’ll have a tough job ahead of the 2022 midterm elections as the moderate faction of the Party must unify with the progressive wing to maintain and expand the slim majority in the House.

Mahoney was first elected to Congress in 2012 for the New York 18th District, which includes the northern suburbs of New York City.  He sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as well as the Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

An openly gay member of Congress, Mahoney is seen as a strong opponent of outgoing President Trump.