Trump spreads Newsmax-fueled conspiracy about Brad Raffensperger s nonexistent brother
President Trump is back with another far-fetched conspiracy theory about Georgia s election results.
As certified election results and multiple recounts proved, President-elect Joe Biden won the typically red state in the 2020 election. But that hasn t stopped Trump from launching lawsuits and lies aimed at invalidating the election results there, including early Wednesday morning, when he tweeted a provably false claim about the state s Republican secretary of state.
Brad Raffensperger, who runs the state s elections, has faced threats and wild conspiracy theories after refusing to listen to Trump and his allies attempts to overturn the election results. A commentator on the far-right network Newsmax, Dick Morris, tried to draw up another one Tuesday night, this time claiming Raffensperger s brother worked for the Chinese technology company Huawei. Trump repeated the claim in a Wednesday tweet
Education secretary candidates include ex-Howard University dean, Connecticut schools commissioner
Leslie Fenwick, dean emeritus of Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership, and Miguel Cardona, Connecticut s commissioner of education, have emerged as two of the top contenders for President-elect Joe Biden s education secretary, several people familiar with the matter told
The education secretary will help schools navigate the final phase of the pandemic, with Biden saying he wants the person to create clear, consistent, effective national guidelines. Biden s transition team is taking a close look at Fenwick and Cardona, several people told the
Post, but there are still others under consideration and nothing is set in stone. Biden is expected to announce his pick before Christmas.
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The Navajo Nation, which had the highest rate of COVID-19 infections anywhere in the U.S. last May, recently recorded zero cases and zero deaths in a 24-hour period, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez noted Sunday on CBS s
Face the Nation. The Navajo Nation has also vaccinated more of its population than any U.S. state â more than half the 170,000 residents of the tribal lands spanning New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are fully vaccinated,
The New York Times reports, and the nation of 300,000 enrolled members is averaging 11 infections a day, down from 250 a day in late November.
Nez said the Navajo Nation was able to tamp down COVID-19 through a strict lockdown, a year-old mask mandate, and a communal culture that convinced people to wear masks and get vaccinated. It wasn t about restricting people s freedoms when we told people to wear a mask or to stay home, he said on
Trump claims fired cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs was excoriated during his Senate hearing. He wasn t.
President Trump is once again trying to discredit his former cybersecurity expert Christopher Krebs.
After Krebs, who Trump fired last month after he debunked claims and conspiracies voter fraud in 2020 election, testified for the Senate, the president tweeted that Krebs was excoriated by Republicans on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. But as a publicly available livestream of the hearing made clear, that s just not what happened.
This is false. No one excoriated Krebs at todayâs hearing. He actually got a ton of bipartisan praise. https://t.co/HhmVrhRzGx
Education secretary candidates include ex-Howard University dean, Connecticut schools commissioner
Leslie Fenwick, dean emeritus of Howard University School of Education and a professor of educational policy and leadership, and Miguel Cardona, Connecticut s commissioner of education, have emerged as two of the top contenders for President-elect Joe Biden s education secretary, several people familiar with the matter told
The education secretary will help schools navigate the final phase of the pandemic, with Biden saying he wants the person to create clear, consistent, effective national guidelines. Biden s transition team is taking a close look at Fenwick and Cardona, several people told the
Post, but there are still others under consideration and nothing is set in stone. Biden is expected to announce his pick before Christmas.