Trump has the worst jobs record of any president since Herbert Hoover in 1933.
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Biden removes Winston Churchill bust from display in Oval Office, U.K. tabloids erupt | National Post
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Biden signs order rejoining Paris climate accord hours into presidency | CTV News
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ORB blimey . . . what a shot. A rookie photographer uses the setting sun to create stunning silhouette montages. Krutik Bharat Thakur, 19, borrowed a camera and roped in friends and family as mod…
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A Florida Sheriff has been forced to lock up one of his own deputies over a series of "absolutely frightening" threats made against fellow law enforcement.
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As of this moment Trump is no longer President. Thank God for that !!!!
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It has been confirmed that Trump actually left a letter for Biden as most recent Presidents have for their successors. Here are some previous letters left. I sincerely doubt Trump's will be comparable (unless it was written for him).
This is the sincere letter Obama left for Trump
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... Dear Mr. President,
Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes
in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded
prosperity and security during your tenure.
This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I
don’t know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful. Still,
let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years.
First, we’ve both been blessed, in different ways, with great good
fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It’s up to us to do everything we
can (to) build more ladders of success for every child and family
that’s willing to work hard.
Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It’s
up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international
order that’s expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and
upon which our own wealth and safety depend.
Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us
guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions — like rule
of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties —
that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and
pull of daily politics, it’s up to us to leave those instruments of our
democracy at least as strong as we found them.
And finally, take time, in the rush of events and responsibilities, for
friends and family. They’ll get you through the inevitable rough
patches.
Michelle and I wish you and Melania the very best as you embark
on this great adventure, and know that we stand ready to help in
any ways which we can.
Good luck and Godspeed,
BO
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George W. left a heartfelt letter for Barack
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Dear Barack,
Congratulations on becoming our President. You have just begun a
fantastic chapter in your life.
Very few have had the honor of knowing the responsibility you now
feel. Very few know the excitement of the moment and the
challenges you will face.
There will be trying moments. The critics will rage. Your “friends”
will disappoint you. But, you will have an Almighty God to comfort
you, a family who loves you, and a country that is pulling for you,
including me. No matter what comes, you will be inspired by the
character and compassion of the people you now lead.
God bless you.
Sincerely,
GW
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Here is the wonderful letter President Bill Clinton wrote to Bush
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Dear George,
Today you embark on the greatest venture, with the greatest honor,
that can come to an American citizen.
Like me, you are especially fortunate to lead our country in a time
of profound and largely positive change, when old questions, not just
about the role of government, but about the very nature of our
nation, must be answered anew.
You lead a proud, decent, good people. And from this day you are
President of all of us. I salute you and wish you success and much
happiness.
The burdens you now shoulder are great but often exaggerated. The
sheer joy of doing what you believe is right is inexpressible.
My prayers are with you and your family. Godspeed.
Sincerely, Bill
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And here’s the letter President George H.W. Bush wrote to Clinton
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Dear Bill,
When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of
wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel
that, too.
I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some
Presidents have described.
There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism
you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice;
but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.
You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well.
I wish your family well.
Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for
you.
Good Luck — George
All of these men acted Presidential. They offered advise and heartfelt
support despite being from different parties. Will Trump
will follow suit?
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Ratings have fallen behind CNN and MSNBC.
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www.insider.com/china-conspiracy...
Chinese state media is playing up a conspiracy theory about the novel coronavirus' origins while also questioning the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine's safety in older people.
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Some Republicans have argued a former president can't be the target of an impeachment trial.
Former President Donald Trump can be convicted in an impeachment trial for his role in inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 even though he is no longer in office, a bipartisan group of constitutional law scholars wrote in a letter Thursday.
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“We differ from one another in our politics, and we also differ from one another on issues of constitutional interpretation,” wrote the signatories, which include the co-founder and other members of the conservative Federalist Society legal group. “But despite our differences, our carefully considered views of the law lead all of us to agree that the Constitution permits the impeachment, conviction, and disqualification of former officers, including presidents.”
More than 150 legal scholars signed on to the letter, which was obtained by POLITICO. They include Steven Calabresi, the co-founder of the Federalist Society; Charles Fried, who served as solicitor general under Ronald Reagan and is now an adviser to the Harvard chapter of the Federalist Society; Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University and adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute; and Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University and leading scholar on the specific question of whether former officials can be impeached.
The House impeached Trump last week, for the second time, in a 232-197 vote for "incitement of insurrection” following the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that left five people dead. As the impeachment process moves into its next phase in the Senate, the signatories of the letter are seeking to counter an argument that has been gaining steam among some Republican senators: that it would be unconstitutional for the Senate to hold an impeachment trial for Trump now that he is a private citizen.
“The Senate lacks constitutional authority to conduct impeachment proceedings against a former president,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a statement last week. “The Founders designed the impeachment process as a way to remove officeholders from public office—not an inquest against private citizens.”
Many Republicans have taken a cue from the conservative former federal appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig, who argued in the Washington Post earlier this month that “once Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him — even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment.”
The constitutional scholars who signed on to the letter disagree with that assessment, arguing that because the Constitution’s impeachment power has two aspects — removal from office and disqualification from holding office again in the future — it must also be extended to former officials who could try to run for reelection.
“Impeachment is the exclusive constitutional means for removing a president (or other officer) before his or her term expires,” they wrote. “But nothing in the provision authorizing impeachment-for-removal limits impeachment to situations where it accomplishes removal from office. Indeed, such a reading would thwart and potentially nullify a vital aspect of the impeachment power: the power of the Senate to impose disqualification from future office as a penalty for conviction.”
Trump had signaled before leaving office that he might try to run for president again in 2024, and has reportedly mulled forming his own political party. But if the Senate were to hold an impeachment trial and convict him, he would be barred from holding public office ever again. That provision of the impeachment power, the legal scholars wrote, “is an important deterrent against future misconduct.”
"If an official could only be disqualified while he or she still held office, then an official who betrayed the public trust and was impeached could avoid accountability simply by resigning one minute before the Senate’s final conviction vote,” they noted. “The Framers did not design the Constitution’s checks and balances to be so easily undermined.”
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The prophecies did not come true. And people are fuming about it.
The pardons went to Democrats, lobbyists and rappers, with nary a “patriot” among them. The mass arrests of Antifa campaigners never came. The inauguration stage at the Capitol, full of America’s most powerful politicians, was not purged of Satan-worshipping pedophiles under a shower of gunfire. Even the electricity stayed on.
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The moment the clock struck noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, it was over — and the extreme factions of Trump’s diehard base were left reeling.
Inauguration Day 2021 was supposed to be a culminating moment for the legion of online conspiracy theorists and extremists who have rallied around the now former president. But the lengthy list of prophecies they’d been told would eventually happen under Trump’s watch never came.
In the days leading up to Trump’s departure from office, his online followers watched with horror as his pardons that were supposed to go to allies and supporters instead went to people who were inherently swampy: white-collar criminals convicted of tax fraud, family friends, Steve Bannon, even Democrat Kwame Kirkpatrick.
“So just to recap: Trump will pardon Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, high profile Jewish fraudsters … No pardons for middle class whites who risked their livelihoods by going to ‘war’ for Trump,” fumed a user in a white supremacist channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging service that has gained thousands of new subscribers since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Conspiracies flew — out of the mouth of Fox News host Tucker Carlson — that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had blackmailed Trump out of pardoning Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, further infuriating MAGA hardliners. Trump’s anti-immigrant base, who’d been with him since his initial run for the presidency in 2015, flipped out when he granted amnesty to tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
“Please vote to convict,” Ann Coulter tweeted to GOP senators.
And the QAnon community, a group that had desperately hoped Trump had one final ploy to stay in power and fight against the nebulous forces of darkness in Washington, erupted in despair as Joe Biden became president of the United States. It got so bad that one prominent QAnon online forum threatened to ban any users who posted negative content.
“There's a lot of grief and confusion in Q world over the plan seeming to fizzle out, and feeling as if Q abandoned them,” Mike Rothschild, a disinformation researcher working on a book about QAnon, told POLITICO. “But I think that will very quickly turn into determination to continue down the path they've committed to.”
Taken together, the reactions across MAGA internet reveal a mosaic of anger, denial and disappointment that the former president let them down in his final days.
Without their leader to direct next steps, the MAGA coalition — the extremist militants, the hate groups, the conspiracy theorists, and the stans — is starting to turn on itself.
“The movement is self-driving now,” said Shane Creevy, a disinformation researcher at Kinzen, a data analytics firm that tracks online falsehoods and works with social media companies to counter potential threats. “With Trump gone, the head has been decapitated, but that doesn’t mean this is going away. The big question is what happens next?”
Since the Jan. 6 riots, which resulted in five deaths and scores of arrests nationwide, more mainstream right-wing influencers like Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino scaled back their support for potential challenges to the results of the November election. But rather than calming their millions of online followers, the efforts have produced a backlash, with posters calling these high-profile personalities traitors for not fully supporting insurrection.
Conspicuously missing was any direction from Trump.
Without his Twitter account, the ability to communicate with his base was muted. The polished videos posted on the White House’s official Twitter account were greeted with suspicion. But in the build up to Inauguration Day, Trump supporters, QAnon acolytes and extremist militias still, at a minimum, held out hope that the outgoing president would stick it to the establishment on the way out the door.
On encrypted message boards and digital apps, followers labeled Jan. 19 as “national popcorn day” in the hopes that they would have a front-row seat to the mass arrests of Antifa campaigners and, possibly, Trump imposing martial law in an effort to turn the election.
As the hours ticked closer to Biden’s swearing in, the online chatter became more tense, with different online users questioning the loyalty of others, while increasingly getting desperate that “The Storm,” or the violent overthrow of deepstate agents, would never materialize.
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In the final hours of his presidency, Trump used his powers to help those close to him and his family. And Lil Wayne.
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The first known dinosaur butthole has been discovered.
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Federal law enforcement officials are examining a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the second trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump nears, including ominous chatter about killing legislators or attacking them outside of the U.S. Capitol, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
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The congressman’s involvement underlined how far the former president was willing to go to overturn the election, and Democratic lawmakers have begun calling for investigations into those efforts.
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McConnell privately says he wants Trump gone as Republicans quietly lobby him to convict | CTV News
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You threw away your career, your reputation, and your duty to this nation. Was it worth it, Josh?
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