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The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of unevidenced claims centered on the false allegation that while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, he engaged in corrupt activities relating to the employment of his son Hunter Biden by the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.[1] They have been spread primarily in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's presidential campaign.[2]

The conspiracy theory alleges that then-Vice President Biden withheld loan guarantees to pressure Ukraine into firing a prosecutor to prevent a corruption investigation into Burisma and to protect his son. Although the United States did withhold government aid to pressure Ukraine into removing the corrupt and ineffective prosecutor,[3] this was the official and bipartisan policy of the federal government of the United States, which, along with the European Union, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, believed the prosecutor to be too lenient in investigating corruption.[4][5]

A New York Post article published in October 2020, with the involvement of Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, brought renewed attention to the allegations during the presidential election campaign.[3] Its veracity was strongly questioned and rejected by most mainstream media outlets and analysts.[6][7]

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Computer repairman at center of Hunter Biden laptop scandal sues Twitter

Dec. 28 - A Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive is now suing Twitter for defamation — claiming its content moderation unfairly branded him a “hacker.”

In October, The Post exclusively reported on the tranche of damaging documents on the laptop that was left at John Paul Mac Isaac’s repair store in April 2019 but never collected.

The emails detailing Hunter Biden’s shady overseas business dealings are reportedly now part of a federal tax probe into President-elect Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son, but social media giant Twitter immediately blocked users from sharing it online, claiming the reporting relied on “hacked materials.”     continue to read

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White House News (白宮消息) | Dec. 29 2020

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GOP lawmaker sues Pence in bid to overturn Biden win
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Dec. 28 - Vice President Pence was sued Sunday by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and several other Republicans in a far-fetched bid that appeared aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden's election win.

The lawsuit focuses on Pence’s role in an upcoming Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count states’ electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President Trump. Typically, the vice president’s role in presiding over the meeting is a largely ceremonial one governed by an 1887 federal law known as the Electoral Count Act.
 
But the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law as unconstitutional. The GOP plaintiffs go further: They ask the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to effectively overturn Trump’s defeat in key battleground states.     continue to read

Louie Gohmert sues Pence in far-fetched bid to overturn election results on Jan. 6

Legal experts were quick to debunk the Tyler representative’s last-ditch attempt to change the election results for Trump.

Dec. 29 - Rep. Louie Gohmert of Tyler is suing Vice President Mike Pence in an improbable bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Gohmert and several other Republicans named in the suit, including the Republican slate of electors from Arizona, aim to allow Pence to overturn President Donald Trump’s defeat in some key states when Congress meets to count Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. The vice president traditionally presides over this meeting as president of the Senate, where the official results of the election are announced.

The lawsuit challenges the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which dictates the vice president’s role in announcing the results as a ceremonial one. Instead, it says this federal law violates the 12th Amendment, which provides for separate Electoral College votes for president and vice president. The lawsuit is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.     continue to read

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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, outside the Capitol, December 3, 2020.

Congressman, other Republicans sue Vice President Pence in last-ditch effort to overturn Biden win

Dec. 29 - Rep. Louie Gohmert became the latest Republican to file a long-shot lawsuit attempting to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s victory — this time by suing Vice President Mike Pence.

The last-ditch legal effort, filed Sunday, came from Gohmert, an eight-term congressman from Texas, along with 11 Arizona residents who had been nominated by that state’s Republican Party to serve as electors.

It comes over a week before Pence is scheduled to preside over a joint session of Congress where the Electoral College votes for Biden and President Donald Trump will be tallied up.

Electors had already cast their votes two weeks earlier. Biden received 306 electoral votes — 36 more than he needed to win — while Trump received 232.

The suit asks federal Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee in eastern Texas, to declare that Pence has the “exclusive authority and sole discretion” to decide which electoral votes from a given state should be counted.     continue to read

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Dec 28, 2020

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Latest Polls Of The Georgia Senate Runoffs

Two runoff elections on Jan. 5 will determine which party controls the SenateNo candidate in either of Georgia’s Senate races won a majority of the vote on Nov. 3, triggering a runoff for both seats, with the top two candidates in each race facing off. Control of the Senate now hinges on the outcome of these two races.    click here for more information

Family and supporters hold runoff signs as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Raphael Warnock speaks during an election night event.
Georgia’s Runoffs Will Determine Control Of The Senate. Here’s What We Know So Far.

Date Published on Nov. 13, 2020
Election Day 2020 has come and gone, and we still don’t know which party will control the Senate next year. As of Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern, it looks as though Democrats will have 48 seats1 in the next Senate, while Republicans will have 50. (We don’t yet know who won Alaska, but at this point, it will be very difficult for Democrats to make up their current vote deficit there.) So that leaves the two Senate seats from Georgia to determine control of the chamber in a rare double-barreled runoff election nearly two months from now.     continue to read


Related: Democrats Needed A Big Blue Wave To Win The Senate, And It Looks Like They Didn’t Get It

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Thomas Jonathan Ossoff (/ˈɒsɒf/; born February 16, 1987)[1][2] is an American politician and investigative journalist.[3] He is the Democratic Party nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, running against Republican incumbent Senator David Perdue.[4] Neither candidate reached the 50% threshold on the November 3 general election, triggering a runoff election on January 5, 2021.[5]

Ossoff was the Democratic nominee in the historically expensive 2017 special election for Georgia's 6th congressional district, which had long been considered a Republican stronghold. After finishing first, but without a majority in the all-party primary election, he lost the runoff with 48.2% of the vote to Republican Karen Handel's 51.8%.[6][7][8][9]
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Jon Ossoff (Democrat) is challenging incumbent David Perdue (R) in a runoff election to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate on January 5, 2021. In the November 3 general election, Ossoff received 47.9% of the vote to Perdue's 49.7%.

Ossoff completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read his survey answers.

Ossoff is the CEO of an investigative media production company. He ran against Karen Handel (R) in the 2017 special election to represent Georgia's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House. That race went to a runoff, where he lost 48% to 52%. It was the most expensive House race in U.S. history as of that time. Ossoff raised more than $23 million.[1]

• Click here for more on the Jan. 5, 2021, Senate runoff election.
• Click here for more on the Nov. 3, 2020, Senate general election.

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Prime Minister Ana Mercedes Diaz speech at the Executives' Congress of Asgardia
Nov 25, 2019
Asgardia Prime Minister, Ana Mercedes Diaz, spoke at the Executives' Congress in Estonia about the government of Asgardia and the work that they have undertaken.

Ana Mercedes Díaz Cardozo (born March 24, 1960, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan lawyer and elector. From 2018 to 2020, she was the Prime Minister of the Space Kingdom of Asgardia. From 1991 to 2004, she was deputy director-general and then director-general of Political Parties of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela.[citation needed]

Professional career[edit]From 1997 to 2004, Díaz worked at the National Electoral Council of Venezuela (previously the Supreme Electoral Council), the highest Venezuelan electoral body. In 1989, she began working for the council's Directorate of Political Parties. In 1991, she was appointed as the deputy director-general, and in 2003 she was appointed as the director-general.[1][2][3][4][5]

In 2004, Díaz was fired from her position at the National Electoral Council after speaking out about election fraud in the Venezuelan recall referendum. She then emigrated to the United States, where she lives as of 2018.[2][3] Díaz has said that fraud, falsifications, and other violations of the law are common in the Venezuelan election process.[6]

In October 2017, Díaz joined several Venezuelan advocates and lawyers, among them Blanca Mármol, in an address to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela. They demanded that preparations for the upcoming regional elections cease due an unconstitutional change of the election date.[7] Regional elections were initially to be held on December 10, 2017,[8] but during the 5th session of the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, it was suggested to move the elections forward to October 2017.[9] A month beforehand, October 15, 2017, was selected as the date for regional elections.[10]

In recent years, Díaz has spoken at conferences regarding democracy and fair elections in the United States, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Italy, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Spain.[citation needed]

Díaz has also worked on elections outside of Venezuela. She was an independent observer of the Ecuadorian general election in February 2017. She spoke out about falsifications and fraud during the elections. Her opinions were criticized by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador.[2][11][12][13] In 2018, Díaz warned of possible election fraud in Spain after changes to the electoral system were proposed.[14][15][16]
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An Autopsy of Sidney Powell's 'Kraken' Reveals Suspiciously Similar Affidavits

Federal judges have been underwhelmed by the former Trump campaign lawyer's evidence of massive election fraud.

Dec. 25 - As part of her attempt to show that the presidential election was stolen through an elaborate international conspiracy, former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell has submitted two affidavits from Venezuelans who purport to expose the roots of fraud-facilitating software that Powell claims switched Trump votes to Biden votes. Those affidavits include strikingly similar language that suggests they were written or edited by Powell or her colleagues rather than the affiants.

"I want to alert the public and let the world know the truth about the corruption, manipulation, and lies being committed by a conspiracy of people and companies intent upon betraying the honest people of the United States and their legally constituted institutions and fundamental rights as citizens," says a redacted affidavit from an unnamed individual who claims to have served on "the national security guard detail" for Venezuela's president. "This conspiracy began more than a decade ago in Venezuela and has spread to countries all over the world. It is a conspiracy to wrongfully gain and keep power and wealth. It involves political leaders, powerful companies, and other persons whose purpose is to gain and keep power by changing the free will of the people and subverting the proper course of governing."

An affidavit from Ana Mercedes Díaz Cardozo, a naturalized U.S. citizen who says she was "a career official for 25 years at the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela,"     continue to read

PBS NewsHour full episode, Dec. 25, 2020
Dec 26, 2020
Friday on the NewsHour, police investigate an explosion in Nashville they believe to be intentional, what’s behind a surge of COVID-19 in California, and a Christmas tribute to a few of the more than 330,000 people who have died this year from COVID-19.

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UK scientists trial new treatment to stop Covid infection soon after exposure
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust Covid antibody tests

A new antibody treatment with the potential to give people immediate protection after being exposed to Covid-19 and prevent illness is being trialled in the UK.

Dec. 25 - The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) is looking into the use of an antibody which could offer long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine, as part of a new trial called Storm Chaser.

Scientists have also begun a second clinical trial named Provent, to examine the use of the antibody for people who may not benefit from vaccinations, such as patients with a compromised immune system, or those at increased risk of Covid-19 infection due to factors such as age and existing conditions.

NHS England national medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: “The continuing contribution of the NHS to pioneering global efforts to fight Covid-19 is remarkable.

“These two clinical trials are an important addition to testing new therapeutic approaches, as antibody treatments may offer an alternative to patient groups who cannot benefit from a vaccine, such as immunocompromised patients.”     more details

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Watch Chris Christie explain why Kushner's father was prosecuted
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During a 2019 interview with PBS, Chris Christie explained why he decided he had to prosecute Charles Kushner, father of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, while US attorney. Trump has since issued Kushner a full pardon.
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Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is a disbarred American attorney and real estate developer. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2005, he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, but received a federal pardon on December 23, 2020, by President Trump.[2][3]
His son, Jared Kushner, is the husband of Ivanka Trump and son-in-law and senior advisor to President Donald Trump.


Criminal conviction and pardon
On June 30, 2004, Kushner was fined $508,900 by the Federal Election Commission for contributing to Democratic political campaigns in the names of his partnerships when he lacked authorization to do so.[13] In 2005, following an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey,[14] U.S. Attorney Chris Christie negotiated a plea agreement with him, under which he pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.[15] The witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute he knew to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister.[16][17][18][15] He was sentenced to two years in prison.[16] He served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama[19][20] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence.[19][20][21] He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.[22]

As a result of his convictions, Kushner was disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey,[23] New York,[24] and Pennsylvania.[25]
On December 23, 2020, President Trump granted him a full pardon citing his "record of reform and charity".    source from Wikipedia

Senior advisors to the President Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 29, 2020.
Trump pardoned his son-in-law’s dad. Here’s what Charles Kushner did.

Dec. 24, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called it “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney.
After Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities, the wealthy real estate executive and father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared, hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation.

Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife.

The scheme didn’t work. Kushner later pleaded guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations in a case tailor-made for tabloid headlines.     continue to read

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Provocation trap: On Iran-American relations
Iran should rein in its proxies in Iraq and allow the Biden administration to reboot diplomacyThe rocket attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Sunday, which American military leaders called the largest attack on the highly fortified Green Zone in a decade, have sent tensions in the region soaring. President Donald Trump and senior leaders of the administration have pointed to Iran, saying that it supplied the rockets. The offensive appears to have been countered by the U.S.’s radar-guided defensive systems. Mr. Trump has warned that he would hold Iran responsible “if one American is killed”. The attack comes at a volatile time for Iran-American relations, which have collapsed after Mr. Trump took the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal unilaterally in 2018 and reimposed sanctions. He had reportedly sought options to launch strikes on Iran immediately after his election defeat but was dissuaded by Cabinet colleagues. With his exit soon from the White House, and Joe Biden, the next President, promising to revive the nuclear deal, there is a window of opportunity to restart the diplomatic process. But attacks like this threaten to push both the countries into an open conflict.

When the U.S. killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January this year, American officials claimed that the drone strike in the Iraqi capital had reestablished America’s deterrence. But Iran had launched retaliatory missile attacks on U.S. military camps in Iraq, wounding several soldiers. And since then, pro-Iran Shia militias in Iraq have launched missile attacks at the Green Zone that houses the Embassy and repeatedly targeted American supply lines inside Iraq. The U.S. had earlier downsized its Embassy staff, closed the consulate in Basra and decided to reduce troops in Iraq. If U.S.-Iran relations are now at an explosive stage, the primary responsibility lies with Mr. Trump. His actions derailed a functioning international deal and his ‘maximum pressure’ campaign turned an Iran fully compliant with the deal’s terms more dangerous. Besides targeting the American Embassy, Iran, directly or through proxies, had attacked oil facilities and tankers in the Gulf over the past two years. Earlier this month, a tanker off Jeddah was attacked, allegedly by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen. Iran is under pressure to counter the repeated attempts by the U.S. and its allies to scuttle its influence. Late last month, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top scientist, was killed inside Iran, allegedly by Israeli agents. But in a quest for revenge, Iran should not sleep-walk into the trap of provocation. Under any circumstance, attacks on diplomatic missions cannot be accepted. It should rein in the militia groups in Iraq that it supports. It must give the Biden administration a chance to reboot diplomacy, which is in the larger interests of Tehran as well as the wider west Asia.     source

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