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Jan 07, 2021
âThese people are not Americans,â Kimmel said.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel called out President Donald Trump as well as those whoâve enabled him after a day of political violence rocked Washington.Â
Trump supporters, egged on by the president, stormed the Capitol on Wednesday in a violent attempt at blocking the certification of the election, which was won by President-elect Joe Biden. In response, the âJimmy Kimmel Liveâ host described Trumpâs enablers as âscumbagsâ for helping him to spread lies about the election â and he named names.Â
âThatâs you, Josh Hawley. Thatâs you, Ted Cruz,â Kimmel said referring to the Republican senators from Missouri and Texas, who objected to the election results during a joint session of Congress.Â
Giuliani asked senator to block vote count in newly released phone recording
Giuliani, recorded asking Tommy Tuberville to commit election fraud, left his message on the wrong senator s phone.
Donald Trump.
Rudy Giuliani, the former-hero ex-mayor of New York City who has turned into a top adviser and attorney for Trump, has been recorded calling on a sitting U.S. senator to commit election fraud.
Trump confidant and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (left) has reportedly been recorded calling on Alabama Sen. Rommy Tuberville (right) to commit election fraud. (Photos by Drew Angerer/Getty Images and J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images)
Inflammatory Trump tweets on day of Capitol breach were final straw for loyal White House staffers Print this article
In the end, after a day of violence, weeks of baseless allegations that the election was stolen, and months refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, it was the tweets that pushed President Trump s loyalists into a flurry of resignations.
Former staffers accused Trump of stoking violence in tweets that called on supporters to disperse but still included inflammatory claims about voter fraud.
The final trigger was apparently an evening message in which he said the violence, during which a protester was shot dead, was the result of an election victory being stripped from “patriots.”
Trump insists, falsely, that Pence can decertify results
By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVINJanuary 6, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Tuesday tightened the screws on his most loyal soldier, pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to use powers he does not have to overturn the will of voters in a desperate, futile bid to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.
Pence finds himself in the most precarious position of his tenure as he prepares to preside over Wednesday’s congressional tally of Electoral College votes, bearing witness to the formalization of Trump’s and his own election defeat.
Trump claims Pence can decertify the election results, then send them back to the states. In fact, neither the Constitution nor congressional statute grants the vice president any such powers.