Chapter 21: Fake Leader

Be outraged, don't accept the election results…and send money.

Those aren’t my words. They’re the words of Former CIA Director John Brennan who has a few other choice parting words for the outgoing President. The Hill “For four years, I spoke out vigorously against Donald Trump’s craven dishonesty, corrupt pursuit...

Trump's campaign blitzed U.S. courts with new lawsuits this week. Judges have so far rejected most of them.

President Donald Trump took one minute out of his day on Tuesday to hold a press conference in which he took credit for gains in the stock market, which came after President-elect Joe Biden’s transition was allowed to formally begin. At his press conference which lasted almost exactly one minute, Trump credited his administration for […]

There’s a meeting of Trump and GOP lawmakers in Gettysburg PA where they will discuss a fraud to which Rudy has yet to admit under oath in court. The path to the bunker is circuitous, and the choice of an historic site raises the question of the...

Of more than 1.3 million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, over 257,900 of them have been in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore — and the worst might be yet to come this winter. Dr. Irwin Redlener, founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia U...

Ever since Election Night became Election Week, we have been collectively wondering when Donald Trump might take the hint and bow out gracefully. Not that we ever really expected it, based on past behavior, but we hoped that a candidate now thirty...

President Donald Trump is making several moves ahead of leaving office on Jan. 20, 2021, to destroy President-elect Joe Biden's term in office, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat explained in part of a video series Sunday.Ben-Ghiat explained that she started the series of videos because she knew that Trump wo...

Overturning elections sounds like the stuff of secret deals in smoke-filled rooms, but President Donald Trump's not even trying to hide his effort to subvert the results of the election as President-elect Joe Biden's margin widens to more than 6 million votes.

Despite what President Donald Trump may say, he lost the election. The White House is the people’s house, not the exclusive domain of any politician or potentate no matter what party.

President Donald Trump's four-year history of undermining American rights and legal norms is fittingly ending with his attack on one of the most fundamental: the right to vote.

Silence is complicity.

The man who always has to be the alpha is about to be the biggest loser. It'll likely leave him unhinged, uninhibited and more dangerous than ever before.

Trump was already destined to go down in history as a lousy president. Now he seems intent on shredding what was left of his reputation.

Critics say the dismissals threaten to destabilize the federal bureaucracy in the fragile period during the handover to the next administration.

For a week and half Donald Trump has been throwing an infantile tantrum over having lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, someone he has tried unsuccessfully to characterize as a mentally deficient socialist. And he even worried that he would...

‘It’s almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,’ says Andrew McCabe

"The president seeks an unconstitutional 'restriction on the right to vote'... He is violating his duty to defend the Constitution."

Over and over again over the past week, Trump's lawyers have been forced to account for their lack of evidence. It often hasn't gone well.

Former Ambassador Susan Rice, writing for The New York Times, frames the danger involved in depriving President-elect Joe Biden of access to top intelligence briefings normally afforded to the incoming commander in chief of our armed...

Even election losing, lame duck, impeached Donald Trump's pet Attorney General William Barr can't find an excuse to help him overthrow the results of this election. Sixteen assistant U.S. attorneys who were tapped specifically to monitor the 2020...

Prominent law firms have sought to withdraw from representing the Trump legal effort in Arizona and Pennsylvania, while other efforts fizzle in court.

The election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. We examine what’s been ignored and undermined and why preserving presidential norms is essential.

Lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have all said they won't intervene in selecting electors.

“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver confessed that he didn’t want to be talking about the 2020 election again, but there was too much to deal with. “Instead, we have to talk about this as*hole,” said Oliver pointing to a photo of President Donald Trump. Typically, when a president loses, the country moves on, but […]

Secluded in the White House, Trump concentrates on his future and how to accept a loss without publicly acknowledging it as such.

The conspiracy theory of the stolen election of 2020 is here to stay.

A barrage of lawsuits and investigations led by President Donald Trump's campaign and allies has not come close to proving a multi-state failure that would call into question his loss to...

GOP officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia are being pressed to take more drastic measures to help President Trump.

White House officials are reportedly seeking to terminate some Department of Defense staffers because they applauded Acting Under Secretary for Policy Jim Anderson after he reportedly resigned. Longtime conservative columnist Bill Kristol revealed that he had spoken with former DOD officials after Trump fired a large portion of the civilian leadership at the department. As […]

Donald Trump has already formed a political action committee in an attempt to retain control of the Republican party even after losing the election. The leadership PAC is heavily geared toward squeezing donations from low-dollar donors, accepting no...

The same impulses that helped lift the president to victory in 2016 contributed to his undoing four years later.

Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams tore into President Donald Trump for continuing to push allegations of voter fraud, faulting him for trying to convince his base the election was invalid. 

President Donald Trump's campaign has sued Pennsylvania elections officials over mail balloting. But legal experts say the case is baseless.

The next 11 weeks could be the most dangerous in US history, some analysts believe, with a vengeful and fearful lame duck incumbent

CAROLINE GRAHAM: Donald Trump will never accept that he lost the election, even if his legal challenges fail, according to sources close to the White House.

Are we finally changing the channel?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar...

He genuinely believes that talking about Hunter Biden and whining about voter fraud will help him.

Sen. Martha McSally, an Arizona Republican, has paid her bootlicking dues. She's repeatedly gone out of her way to show obeisance to Donald Trump, most famously in January when she yelled "liberal hack" repeatedly at a CNN reporter who asked her if the Senate should consider evidence before rushing ...

More than 2,000 attorneys across the United States are pushing back against President Donald Trump and his repeated assault United States' democracy.In an open, collective letter released on Wednesday, the Lawyers Defending American Democracy (LDAD) highlighted various "fundamental democratic princi...

President Donald Trump has reportedly become increasingly frustrated with federal law enforcement officials due to their opposition to opening an investigation into his opponent Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and their other associates. Now, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) director Christop...

This will be his last Hail Mary pass, to convince voters that all the lies he tells his crowds and himself are true.

President Trump on Tuesday delivered his harshest attack on vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, mocking her name and saying she would be an "insult to our country."

The rock legend called for an "exorcism" in Washington on Election Day.

The Times editorial board warned in March 2016 that Trump was unfit to serve as president of the United States. He's been proving us right ever since.

Putting Trump in context is the best way to highlight and understand his betrayals. History is the highest court, and its verdict can't be appealed.

President Trump ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to stop negotiating with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accusing her of failing to negotiate in good faith. His move disappointed some members of his party who were hoping to be able to deliver new relief to their constituents. “Clearly, the White House is in complete disarray,” Pelosi said in a statement.

Lowering the numbers will take leadership, though, which is something the United States lacks at the moment.

We always sort of knew, but now we really know, you know?