Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, a member of the self-proclaimed “Elite Special Force Team,” claims on MSNBC that lame duck president Donald Trump “won in a landslide.”

FACT CHECK: Trump lost the popular vote by more than 6 million and he lost the Electoral College by a 306-232 margin, a difference he described as “a historic landslide” in 2017.  His legal team is 1-32 in court.

https://youtu.be/ayEy5n-fUxw

“The law apparently no longer matters in America… Stop paying taxes.”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Mail-In/Absentee Ballots with No Dates or Handwritten Name/Address Can be Counted“.

A unmasked Trump supporter wearing an inner tube with the likeness of lame duck president Donald Trump has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he approached demonstrators in front of Trump’s Virginia golf course and intentionally breathing on them, DCist reports.

https://youtu.be/-HDqw4yt7Jw

Sixty-one-year-old Raymond Deskins of Sterling, Virginia was charged after he intentionally came into close contact with the demonstrators and one of them cautioned Deskins, saying, “You’re in my face and you don’t have a mask.”

“In some ways, Mr. Trump had seemed to imagine his Washington life more closely resembling a rolling turkey pardon — the pomp and splendor, yes, but also a world largely amenable to his boss-man bearing and binary whims: This bird is spared. Those birds are not. He’d have his people call the turkey people and hammer out the fine print later. But through it all, his word would be final. This instinct has likewise fueled Mr. Trump’s affection for people-pardoning: He has used his pardon and clemency powers with abandon to reward allies and others whose causes are backed by celebrities. He is still considering a wave of such pardons for the final weeks of his tenure. But for Mr. Trump, the more consistent reality of the presidency, laced with briefings and congressional obstacles and impeachment and criticism, has never quite measured up. He has generally relished the aspects of the job that allow him to preside over something, fowl-based or otherwise – forums well suited to a leader for whom attention can seem less a wish than a psychic need.”

“The trappings and the title have plainly pleased him the most, placing him at the center of major celebrations for the mere fact of being president. He has marveled at the Bastille Day parade in Paris, taken to the ‘beautiful phones’ at the White House and delighted in serving fast food to college football champions. In July, Mr. Trump, who has for years pressed the federal government to stage an elaborate fireworks display at Mount Rushmore, finally got his way. He has also amused himself showing off Air Force One and the Lincoln Bedroom. Then there is the study off the Oval Office, which he converted into a small dining room — the space, he has informed guests with a twinkle, where Monica Lewinsky would visit President Bill Clinton” – New York Times.

TheGreggJarrett.com: “Biden’s likely pick for national security adviser sent and received hundreds of classified emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private email server and, as an adviser to Clinton’s presidential campaign, helped perpetuate the since-debunked Russia collusion story. Jake Sullivan was one of Clinton’s top policy advisers when she served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and served as national security adviser to Joe Biden while he was vice president. He was also a senior foreign policy adviser to both the Clinton and Biden campaigns. Sullivan was a central figure in the Clinton email saga, in which Clinton and her group of top aides exchanged thousands of emails on a private server – used for government business – that the FBI and other agencies found to have contained classified information, according to the Daily Caller.”

…fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2020

CNN: “The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from Administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN. The letter is the first step the administration has taken to acknowledge President Donald Trump’s defeat, more than two weeks after Biden was declared the winner in the election. Murphy said she had not been pressured by the White House to delay the formal transition and did not make a decision ‘out of fear or favoritism. Please know that I came to my decision independently, based on the law and available facts,’ Murphy wrote. ‘I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official – including those who work at the White House or GSA – with regard to the substance or timing of my decision. To be clear, I did not receive any direction to delay my determination.'”

“The letter signals that Murphy has formally signed off on Biden’s victory, a normally perfunctory process known as ascertainment. The move will allow the transition to officially begin, permitting current administration agency officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden team, and providing millions in government funding for the transition. The move toward ascertainment comes after Michigan formally certified its election results on Monday and Georgia certified its razor-thin presidential results on Friday. Pennsylvania is nearing certification of its election results, too.”

🚨NEW: Trump Legal Team Statement on State Certifications pic.twitter.com/JzNJeyYr8a

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) November 23, 2020

Reuters: “The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a new temporary rule that could require tourist and business travelers from two dozen countries, most in Africa, to pay a bond of as much as $15,000 to visit the United States. The U.S. State Department said the temporary final rule, which takes effect Dec. 24 and runs through June 24, targets countries whose nationals have higher rates of overstaying B-2 visas for tourists and B-1 visas for business travelers. The Trump administration said the six-month pilot program aims to test the feasibility of collecting such bonds and will serve as a deterrence to overstaying the visas.”

Fun fact: It says “This website is not affiliated with any political candidate or party” in the very tiny fine print at the bottom of the web page. So these clowns are marketing these dumb Trump products without sending him or his campaign a dime.

Markets jumped about 0.5 percentage points this afternoon when it was released that former Fed Chair Janet Yellen was President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of the Treasury.

Worded leaked of Biden’s selection around 2:30 p.m. ET, spurring the DJIA to rise 130 points in about 30 minutes.

An economist, Yellen is well-respected in financial markets for her management of the markets as Fed Chair from 2014-2018.  She’s a known entity familiar to investors for her management of financial markets after the Great Recession.

An Ivy League Ph.D., Yellen will be the first woman to head Treasury.  She’ll take over for film producer and investment banker Steven Mnuchin.

Another failure for Trump’s attempt to dis-enfranchise millions of voters. All 83 counties certified their respective elections. The final formal vote for certification of the 2020 election result in Michigan is three aye, one abstention. The abstainer was MAGA-loving Board of Canvassers member Norman Shinkle.

Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday asked a federal appeals court for permission to request an emergency injunction blocking Pennsylvania from certifying the election result while the campaign seeks to revise a lawsuit over mail-in ballots. The filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia signals that Trump hasn’t given up his effort to block Pennsylvania from certifying his election loss, even though the state’s 67 counties are required by law to certify their results by Monday evening.”

“Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a Democrat who is a defendant in the suit, could affirm statewide results swiftly after the counties certify their results. The request is part of the campaign’s appeal of a Saturday decision by U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann for denying its request to file a second revised complaint in the case. In the same decision, Brann dismissed the campaign’s first amended complaint, saying it was far too short on evidence.”

“President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary, a historic decision that could result in the nation’s first woman to lead the department, according to people familiar with the matter. Yellen, 74, is widely seen as a politically ‘safe’ pick for the role, likely to garner support from Senate Republicans as someone capable of pursing bipartisan compromise during an otherwise fragile time for the economy” – CNBC.

“General Motors abandoned President Trump’s battle to nullify California’s fuel economy rules meant to curb global warming, the strongest sign yet that corporate America is moving on from Mr. Trump and adapting to an incoming Democratic administration. The company also signaled that it was ready to work with President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has promised swift action to reduce climate-warming emissions in the auto sector” reports The New York Times.

“‘President-elect Biden recently said, ‘I believe that we can own the 21st century car market again by moving to electric vehicles.’ We at General Motors couldn’t agree more,’ Mary Barra, the General Motors chief executive, wrote in a letter Monday to leaders of some of the nation’s largest environmental groups. Ms. Barra said her company, one of the largest automakers in the world, was withdrawing its support for Trump administration litigation that seeks to strip California of its ability to set its own, strict fuel economy standards, and she urged Toyota and Chrysler to do the same.”

“The president has been complaining to aides and allies about his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and recently-removed lawyer Sidney Powell’s over-the-top performances at a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters last week, these people said. Both Giuliani and Powell have continued to make conspiratorial and baseless claims about widespread voter fraud, for which they have provided no evidence. The president is concerned his team is comprised of ‘fools that are making him look bad,’ said one source familiar with the thinking. Asked why he would not fire them, this person replied, in essence, who knows?” reports NBC News.

“The president grew less impressed with Powell over the weekend, as she continued to make outlandish comments, including falsely accusing Georgia’s Republican governor and its secretary of state of being part of a scheme to alter votes. Trump was also not pleased with the optics of the brown substance, presumed to be hair dye or a makeup product, dripping down Giuliani’s face during the nearly two-hour news conference Thursday, according to one of the sources familiar with the president’s reaction. Outside allies are also irritated about how disorganized and haphazard the legal strategy has appeared, and they have conveyed that to the White House, according to several people close to the president.”

Washington Post: “The Trump campaign has experienced almost nothing but setbacks in its efforts to overturn the election results. But its recent, particularly brutal flameout in court in Pennsylvania, combined with the president’s efforts to run around the election results through state legislatures, have spurred some elected Republicans to finally publicly acknowledge that Joe Biden is going to be the next president. Far more elected Republicans are still implicitly backing him as he asks courts to throw out thousands of votes and attempts to strong-arm state lawmakers in states such as Michigan to give electors to him.”

“The Pennsylvania case may be remembered as a turning point for the holdouts. It pushed Republicans away from Trump’s false fraud claims for good reason, said Jessica Levinson, host of the legal podcast Passing Judgment. The ruling the judge issued Saturday underscored with finality that the Trump campaign does not have evidence of widespread fraud, in Pennsylvania or elsewhere. ‘It’s like the legal equivalent of being run over by a forklift, a tractor, a van and then a small SUV just for good measure just to make sure you’re really dead,’ she said. ‘It’s rare to see a legal opinion saying absolutely not, don’t come back in this courtroom.'”

Sex Pistols star Johnny Rotten bitten by a flea on his penis after rescuing squirrels https://t.co/UVRWVGeUHt pic.twitter.com/2wGuY4mLDW

— 1News (@1NewsNZ) November 23, 2020

Amy Walter: “One of the theories given for why pre-election polling underestimated President Trump’s share of the vote was that pollsters failed to anticipate the huge surge in turnout among Trump’s base. One hypothesis is that these voters presented themselves as ambivalent voters — showing less interest in voting than others — and as such, didn’t make it through a likely voter screen. However, given the fact that the long-stated goal of the Trump campaign was to find, register and turn out every single person who fit into the Trump demographic —especially white voters living in small town and rural areas of the Midwest — the fact that these voters ultimately showed up Election Day shouldn’t necessarily come as such a surprise.”

“Regardless, the battle over ‘what the pollsters got wrong’ is missing the bigger picture: Trump’s all-base-all-the-time strategy was a failure. As I’d written about a lot during the campaign, Trump had a 50 percent problem. In 2016, Trump won six states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — with less than 50 percent of the vote. Without a significant third-party candidate or candidates on the ballot this year, getting a plurality of the vote would not be enough to win a state. Back in June, I wrote: ‘Biden doesn’t need to win all of these states to win. He just needs a combination of three of them to get to 270… That’s why it’s more important than ever to understand if Trump’s vote share in 2016 was his ceiling, or whether he has room to grow.’ The results show that he did grow his showing — but only slightly — and not enough to get to 50 percent in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin or Arizona. Moreover, he actually lost ground (1.1 percent) in Georgia — a state he had carried with just 50.4 percent in 2016.”

Will both Republicans on the four member board sacrifice their legitimacy to the Orange God Emperor? Or will they become spinless RINOs, hated for an eternity? So exciting!