CISA director Chris Krebs learned he was fired by reading Trump’s tweet. Trump and the bunker path of scorched earth could end in Trump fleeing Berlin and driving a scooter into a lake. “Like a drowning man, he grabs on to whatever false accusation he can as a lifeline.”
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Update from U.S. district court in Williamsport, Pa., one of the Trump campaign's last stands:
GIULIANI: “I’m not sure what 'opacity' means. It probably means you can see.”
Biden must play a careful double game — the DoJ and a special prosecutor and/or a Trump crime commission, while trying to fix a post-pandemic economy and renewing/revising the US role in the world.
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Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. @JoeBiden doesn’t understand his mandate. He must do to the Trump administration what Obama failed to do to the bankers who defrauded and cratered the economy: prosecute every single criminal. https://t.co/FGqiGNWbzr
President Trumphas ousted Christopher Krebs, the top U.S. cybersecurity official, he announced Tuesday evening.
Krebs, a Trump appointee, has served as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since CISA’s establishment in 2018. Krebs previously helmed CISA’s predecessor agency, the National Protection and Programs Directorate.
The Hill and other news outlets reported last week that Krebs expected to be fired by the White House, after attracting attention for his efforts to debunk conspiracies about voter fraud and the security of the election.
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As expected >>Christopher Krebs, the top U.S. cybersecurity official, has been booted by Trump. https://t.co/VcqTAW0HcJ
For four years, the United States had a paranoia-fueling conspiracy theorist as president. And that's how @realDonaldTrump is exiting the presidency. My latest. Please read and share.https://t.co/1NiRsKrDdZ
Now, as Trump faces the biggest loss in his public life, he is whipping out the same game plan: issue outlandish charges that focus on underhanded plots. With Biden the apparent winner in a decisive electoral and popular vote count, Trump is refusing to acknowledge reality and spinning dark allegations of a massive plot against him. The counting was rigged. The election software was rigged. Like a drowning man, he grabs on to whatever false accusation he can as a lifeline. Last week, Trump embraced an unfounded conspiracy theory that claimed a software company had switched millions of Trump votes to Biden votes. AsMother Jonesreported, this claim had originated with an anonymous internet poster who had previously accused Biden of being a sex criminal and of being bad for white people. This particular conspiracy theory jumped from this poster to a rightwing blogger and then was picked up by OAN, the to-the-right-of-Fox network. There was no confirmation of the details. And after OAN reported on this “analysis,” Trump tweeted it out, citing OAN. A conspiracy theory with no basis had hit the right-wing disinformation transmission belt and ended up being blessed and exploited by the president of the United States.
The details—and the truth—don’t matter for Trump. Since even before the vote-counting began, he was claiming that a cabal would try to cheat him out of the presidency. (He started concocting this cover story four years ago, when he contended the 2016 election would be rigged against him.) And once he began losing key states, he kicked his conspiracy-mongering into high gear. He has hurled tweet after tweet declaring the election was stolen from him. And Rudy Giuliani, his consigliere who took over the assorted going-nowhere Trump campaign legal challenges in swing states, has been dutifully echoing the nonsense.
On Sunday night, the Trump campaign sent out a fundraising email signed by Trump with a subject heading befitting a tyrannical autocrat: “I’m not going anywhere. Biden did NOT win.” The message declared, “I am the American People’s ALL-TIME favorite President,”and it proclaimed that Democrats and “the Left…RIGGED THE ELECTION!” The evidence? Well, no evidence was presented. But the email included an electoral map that showed Trump ahead of Biden 232 electoral votes to 227. (A candidate needs 270 to win.) It claimed the key swing states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia—had not yet been decided. They have, but the email asserted that these states “should immediately be put in the Trump WIN column. Biden did not win, he lost by a lot!”
Since the election, President Trump has spent most of his time behind closed doors, but people have described him as an outgoing president with a lot on his to-do list. Wouldn't expect the next two months to pass by quietly.https://t.co/AvYE3L1vp9
The chase led to Lake Shasta where “Piercey abandoned his truck” and “pulled something out of it, and swam into Lake Shasta,” the prosecutor continued.
“Piercey spent some time out of sight underwater where law enforcement could only see bubbles. He remained in the frigid water for approximately 25 minutes,” Hales wrote. “Law enforcement arrested Piercey at that point, approximately an hour after their initial contact in Redding.”
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A fleeing Ponzi scheme suspect dove into a Northern California lake with an underwater scooter before FBI agents waited him out to make the arrest on Monday, authorities said. https://t.co/jb2UDrZngx
The global meltdown on Twitter that day supports this thesis: “The 'mirage' of a Trump wave pervaded prime time, with little context of Democratic votes yet to be counted, and set the stage for the president’s baseless claims of fraud.” https://t.co/78tzCBmbKt
NEW/OLD VIDEO: NBC reports Biden hesitates to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. On the eve of his inauguration, Obama faced this, and I warned that to fail to prosecute meant future presidents would ignore laws. Guess what.
