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Increasingly frustrated Trump redoubles efforts to challenge election result Updated: December 21, 2020 Published December 21, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising the idea of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines and a 13th-hour appeal to the Supreme Court. On Sunday, Trump said in a radio interview that he had spoken with Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., about challenging the electoral vote count when the House and Senate convene on Ja...

US President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising the idea of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines and a 13th-hour appeal to the Supreme Court. "He's so excited," Trump said of Tuberville. "He said, 'You made me the most popular politician in the United States.' He said, 'I can't believe it.' He's great. Great senator." Tuberville's campaign did not respond to a request for comment on Trump's statement, which the president made in an interview with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, on New York's WABC ra...

Put me at the front of this angry mob.  The head of the Pentagon sits atop a sprawling bureaucracy whose budget dwarfs other departments. He or she will inherit an agency badly mismanaged and which saw a revolving door of secretaries, disagreements over the timeliness of troops withdrawals from current wars and organizational shakeups on oversight over special operations.  But more important, the United States is traditionally a country where civilians sit atop the military chain of command and that is no accident. It is a reflection of deeply entrenched democratic values but also of fe...

© Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images Then-Commander of US Central Command Gen. Lloyd Austin III conducts a media briefing on Operation Inherent Resolve, the international military effort against (IS) Islamic State group, on October 17, 2014, at the Pentagon (Photo credit should read ) Joe Biden's pick to be the next Secretary of Defense, according to reports on Monday night, is recently retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin, III. The choice of Gen. Austin further erodes the once-sacred American norm that military officials will be barred from exercising control over the Pentagon until substantial ...

We need a civilian, not a soldier, in charge of defense Biden's nomination of General Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense is not a good idea. The Founders sought to keep the profession of arms out of politics for a reason. Lionel Beehner The selection of recently  retired Army officer, General Lloyd J. Austin III, as Secretary of Defense has set off a chorus of boos within the civilian national security establishment. Put me at the front of this angry mob.  The head of the Pentagon sits atop a sprawling bureaucracy whose budget dwarfs other departments. He or she will inherit an agenc...