Judge grants Jack Smith’s request to pause proceedings in election interference trial
The choose overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case has granted a request from the particular counsel’s workplace to pause proceedings in his trial on costs associated to attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
As we reported earlier, Jack Smith requested choose Tanya Chutkan to pause the case towards the president-elect to “assess the unprecedented circumstances” by which the workplace finds itself.
In a submitting earlier on Friday, Smith mentioned that “on account of the election” the prosecution “respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines within the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to evaluate this unprecedented circumstance.”
Smith’s workforce mentioned it could inform the choose of “the results of its deliberations” by 2 December.
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We nonetheless have no idea the winners of Arizona and Nevada’s electoral votes or Senate races. Trump is predicted to win the previous, whereas Democratic candidates seem to have benefits within the latter.
Bob Casey, Pennsylvania’s Democratic senator, misplaced his bid for re-election yesterday, the Associated Press confirmed. But he has not conceded, and a outstanding Democratic election lawyer has indicated there could also be a struggle over poll counting brewing.
Million of Americans could lose medical health insurance protection subsequent 12 months, if Congress doesn’t resolve to increase subsidies beneath the Affordable Care Act.
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Special counsel Jack Smith asks choose to pause Trump’s 2020 election meddling case – report
With Donald Trump headed again to the White House, NBC News studies that particular counsel Jack Smith has requested a federal choose to pause proceedings in his trial on costs associated to attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
Continuing the case appeared untenable after Trump received Tuesday’s election, since justice division coverage prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents – one thing Trump will quickly be, as soon as once more.
NBC News studies that, in his submitting, Smith mentioned that “on account of the election” he “requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines within the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to evaluate this unprecedented circumstance.”
Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that Smith will finish each the election interference case towards Trump, and a separate prosecution for allegedly taking and hiding categorized paperwork. Neither case had gone to trial previous to Trump’s election victory on Tuesday:
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Signs that Iran was attempting to assassinate Donald Trump elevated within the run-up to the election, main his marketing campaign to reportedly request extraordinary safety lodging. Here’s a glance again at these, from the Guardian’s Victoria Bekiempis:
Donald Trump’s workforce has requested for officers to offer him with a dramatic array of army protections because the presidential marketing campaign wraps, together with journey in army plane and autos, in line with studies.
Trump’s marketing campaign has additionally requested ramped-up flight restrictions round his residences and rallies, and “ballistic glass pre-positioned in seven battleground states” for his workforce’s use, the Washington Post reported, citing inside emails and sources acquainted with the requests. The New York Times first reported on these requests.
The calls for have been each “extraordinary and unprecedented”, the Post famous, as not a single latest presidential nominee has been shuttled in army plane earlier than an election. A supply informed the Times that these types of high-level, categorized army assets are used solely for sitting presidents.
Trump’s asks adopted intelligence supplied to his marketing campaign workers that Iran is in search of to assassinate him and after his workforce expressed fear about drones and missiles concentrating on him. Trump was shot throughout a failed assassination try in Pennsylvania on 13 July, and a person was arrested in an alleged assassination try on 15 September; neither gunman is believed to have had Iranian ties.
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Justice division costs Iran Revolutionary Guard member with attempting to kill Trump
The justice division has introduced costs towards a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards paramilitary group for plotting to assassinate Donald Trump previous to Tuesday’s presidential election, the Associated Press studies.
According to the AP, the grievance unsealed in a Manhattan federal court docket says an unnamed official of the guard, which is formally often known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, instructed a contact in September to create a plan to surveil and kill Trump.
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Signs are persevering with to mount that Elon Musk can be concerned in Donald Trump’s administration. But the Guardian’s Dan Milmo reported earlier this week that even when he decides to remain out of politics, Musk seems set to achieve from the Republican’s return to the White House:
Hours earlier than it turned official that Donald Trump had returned to the White House, his greatest supporter was already contained in the Oval Office.
Elon Musk, who has been a key backer of Trump’s return to the presidency, was in his default wind-up mode as he used his X platform to submit a superimposed image of himself – holding a sink – contained in the seat of US energy.
“Let that sink in,” he wrote.
It was amateurish however Musk’s contribution to Trump’s victory has been severe and can reap advantages for the world’s richest individual.
Trump acknowledged Musk in his victory speech on Wednesday, even when it required prompting from the viewers, and indicated that Musk can be nicely handled beneath his administration.
“We have to guard our geniuses, we don’t have that a lot of them,” mentioned Trump.
Musk, who’s value $264bn (£205bn), can simply afford the greater than $100m he has given to the man billionaire’s marketing campaign through his Super Pac.
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Musk joined Trump’s name with Zelenskyy – report
In one more signal of Elon Musk’s clout with the second Trump administration, Axios studies that he was on the road when Donald Trump referred to as Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his election win.
Two sources knowledgable concerning the name mentioned Zelenskyy was “considerably reassured” by what Trump informed him. On the marketing campaign path, the president-elect promised to finish the warfare in Ukraine in “24 hours” after taking workplace, which raised considerations he would dealer a deal that might profit Russia.
According to Axios, the decision between Trump and Zelensky lasted about 25 minutes, and “the president-elect mentioned he’ll assist Ukraine, however didn’t go into particulars.”
“Three sources briefed on the decision all informed Axios that Zelensky felt the decision went nicely and that it didn’t improve his anxiousness about Trump’s victory. One supply mentioned it ‘didn’t depart Zelensky with a sense of despair,” Axio mentioned.
As for Musk, Axios mentioned he “weighed in through the name to say he’ll proceed supporting Ukraine by way of his Starlink satellites, the sources mentioned. Musk didn’t reply to a request for remark.”
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Number-two House Republican indicators deal with taxes, border, function for Musk
Steve Scalise, the Republican House majority chief, mentioned that if the celebration maintains its management of the chamber, their prime priorities can be passing laws to increase tax cuts carried out throughout Donald Trump’s first time period, making good on his promise to crack down on migrants, and rising oil and gasoline manufacturing.
Saying the Republicans would move a invoice utilizing the finances reconciliation course of, which might enable them to avoid a filibuster by Senate Democrats, Scalise mentioned:
There are a whole lot of issues you would put in that. We laid it out as a primary 100-day agenda. And we might put issues like renewing the Trump tax cuts, a lot of these which expired that we handed in 2017. We need to renew these cuts in order that households don’t see a tax improve.
He additionally made clear that the House was able to approve proposals by Trump to cease folks from crossing into the United States from Mexico, in addition to methods to extend America’s already excessive oil manufacturing:
The capacity to provide extra vitality in our nation, it can decrease prices for issues like gasoline and meals for households who’re struggling. And it actually takes leverage away from nations like Russia, like Iran, like Venezuela. So geopolitically has a whole lot of advantages, too.
Finally, Scalise signaled that Trump would certainly get billionaire Elon Musk concerned in his administration someway, saying:
Let’s rightsize authorities. Elon Musk goes to be very concerned in that.
Here’s the complete interview:
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EU leaders are gathering in Budapest for a casual summit on the bloc’s ailing competitiveness – a process given added urgency by the specter of protectionist “America first” commerce insurance policies promised by the US president-elect Donald Trump.
“Don’t ask what the US can do for you, ask what Europe ought to do for itself,” the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, mentioned because the assembly bought beneath means. “Europe should discover a steadiness. We know what we’ve to do.”
European officers are alarmed by Trump’s impending return not simply due to his hostility to Nato and ambivalence in the direction of Ukraine, but in addition the financial penalties of his risk to make the EU “pay a giant worth” for not shopping for sufficient US imports.
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Trump Media shares rise after Trump says he has ‘no intention of promoting’ Truth Social
In one of many first statements he has made on social media since profitable the presidential election, Donald Trump says he has no intention of promoting Truth, the X-like community that has turn into one among his prime technique of communication since leaving the White House.
He made the announcement in a submit on Truth itself, in his signature fashion:
The president-elect made the foray into social media within the run-up to his profitable marketing campaign to return to the White House, however Truth Social has but to turn into as huge as X, Facebook and different social media mainstays, with Trump being its most outstanding consumer.
Share of his firm Trump Media have in latest days seen heavy volatility in buying and selling, however are up by about 8.5% as of 10.53 am ET:
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Democrats retain majority in Pennsylvania home regardless of losses elsewhere
Democrats have managed to hold on to their majority in Pennsylvania’s home of representatives by a single seat, the Associated Press studies, regardless of shedding the state’s electoral votes to Donald Trump and failing to re-elect their US senator.
The celebration had received management of the chamber two years in the past, additionally with solely a one-seat margin, however had hoped to develop their majority additional. That mentioned, the GOP did preserve their majority in Pennsylvania’s senate, denying Democratic governor Josh Shapiro the trifecta wanted to totally implement his agenda.
Here’s extra on the Democratic victory within the Keystone State, from the AP:
The win by incumbent Rep. Frank Burns is the ultimate House race to be referred to as in a 12 months when not one of the 203 districts are altering fingers. It gave Democrats a 102-101 margin and dashed Republican hopes of returning to regulate after two years within the minority.
Burns beat Republican Amy Bradley, chief govt of the Cambria Regional Chamber of Commerce and a former tv information anchor and reporter.
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams mentioned retaining the House majority was “one of the crucial difficult but necessary priorities of the cycle,” and that her celebration can be “a important verify on Republican extremism.”
Burns, a conservative Democrat who helps gun rights and opposes abortion, has commonly discovered himself voting towards his fellow House Democrats. He has lengthy been an electoral goal of Republicans, whereas many different equally located western Pennsylvania districts way back flipped to the GOP.
The district consists of Johnstown and a large swath of Cambria County.
Burns’ win is a few comfort to Democrats in what has in any other case been a banner electoral 12 months in Pennsylvania for the Republican Party. Former President Donald Trump received within the state, Dave McCormick beat Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, two Democratic congressional seat have been flipped and Republican candidates received all three of the state row workplaces.
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The Washington Post studies that, along with organising a customary post-election win assembly with him on the White House, Joe Biden will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration:
Staffers for Biden and Trump are working to schedule a gathering between the 2 leaders, one thing that didn’t happen 4 years in the past when it was Trump who was leaving the White House and Biden who was coming in. Biden’s aides say he’ll attend Trump’s inauguration, one thing Trump additionally refused to do when Biden took the oath of workplace, breaking a long-standing custom.
Trump didn’t attend Biden’s inauguration, after spending weeks fruitlessly attempting to stop him from taking workplace by propagating baseless claims of fraud in 2020.
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Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris have public appearances scheduled as we speak.
The president will come close to reporters briefly within the afternoon as he travels to Delaware for the weekend, however there’s no telling if he’ll converse to them. Harris is in Washington DC and holding undisclosed conferences.
Yesterday, Biden spoke from the White House, and pledged a clean switch of energy to Donald Trump:
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Also writing within the New York Times, Ben Rhodes, a former deputy nationwide safety advisor to Barack Obama, shared his views on what went flawed for Democrats:
Now Mr. Trump has decisively received again the presidency. I might by no means declare to have all of the solutions about what went flawed, however I do fear that Democrats walked into the lure of defending the very establishments — the “institution” — that the majority Americans mistrust. As a celebration considering competent technocracy, we misplaced contact with the anger folks really feel at authorities. As a celebration that prizes information, we seized on indicators of development and job creation as proof that the financial system was booming, although folks felt crushed by rising prices. As a celebration motivated by social justice, we let revulsion at white Christian nationalism bait us into id politics on their phrases — whether or not it was debates about transgender athletes, the busing of migrants to cities, or shaming racist MAGA personalities who can’t be shamed. As a celebration dedicated to American management of a “rules-based worldwide order,” we defended a nationwide safety enterprise that has failed repeatedly within the twenty first century, and made ourselves hypocrites by way of unconditional army assist for Israel’s bombardment of civilians in Gaza.
What Donald Trump did proper (and Harris misunderstood):
Kamala Harris introduced new vitality and noteworthy self-discipline to the marketing campaign’s ultimate months, revitalizing the collaborative pleasure important to Democratic politics. But her ties to an unpopular incumbent — and a world post-pandemic backlash towards any incumbent — held her again. Democrats understandably have a tough time fathoming why Americans would put our democracy in danger, however we miss the fact that our democracy is a part of what angers them. Many voters have come to affiliate democracy with globalization, corruption, monetary capitalism, migration, endlessly wars and elites (like me) who speak about it as an finish in itself somewhat than a method to redressing inequality, reining in capitalist techniques which are rigged, responding to international battle and fostering a way of shared nationwide id.
Yes, that is unfair: Republican insurance policies from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush did way over Democrats to create this mess. But Mr. Trump’s campaign towards the previous elites of his personal celebration — from the Bush household to Mitch McConnell — credentialed him with a public hungry for accountability, whereas the Harris marketing campaign’s embrace of Dick Cheney conveyed the other message.
And, lastly, what may work to undermine Trump over the subsequent 4 years:
Out of the wreckage of this election, Democrats should reject the impulse to easily be a resistance that condemns no matter outrageous factor Mr. Trump says. While confronting Mr. Trump after we should, we should additionally deal with ourselves — what we stand for, and the way we inform our story. That means acknowledging — as my Hong Kong interlocutor mentioned — that “the narrative of liberalism and democracy collapsed.” Instead of defending a system that has been rejected, we have to articulate another imaginative and prescient for what sort of democracy comes subsequent.
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Democrats are going to spend the approaching days, months and years digesting their brutal defeats in Tuesday’s election.
Among these pondering what occurred is congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who seems (the Associated Press has not referred to as it) to have received re-election in a crimson Washington state district, regardless of losses by fellow Democrats elsewhere. In a Q&A with the New York Times, she shared some ideas on how she has managed to carry on to her seat in what’s in any other case hostile territory for her celebration:
You have been thought of essentially the most weak House Democrat, and but you’re set to win by a reasonably snug margin in a really tough political setting. How did that occur, and what can Democrats study from you?
I simply refused to let this race be nationalized. It’s not concerning the message. It’s about my loyalty to my group. The messenger is the message in a whole lot of methods. My consciousness of my group has been sturdy, and it’s reflective in my vote report. That is a big asset.
The elementary mistake folks make is condescension. A number of elected officers get calloused to the ways in which they’re disrespecting folks.
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How do you assume Democratic lawmakers have been disrespecting folks?
I used to be speaking to a lady who runs one of many largest labor and supply wards. She mentioned 40 p.c of the infants there have at the very least one mum or dad hooked on fentanyl. What is empathetic — to inform them that’s their drawback, or to take border safety significantly?
People are placing their groceries on their bank card. No one is listening to the rest you say when you attempt to discuss them out of their lived experiences with information factors from some economists.
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Last night time, the Associated Press reported that Republican David McCormick had unseated Pennsylvania’s longtime Democratic senator Bob Casey.
But the incumbent has not conceded. Instead, he posted a message saying that there are nonetheless ballots to depend:
I’ve devoted my life to creating certain Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard, whether or not on the ground of the Senate or in a free and honest election. It has been made clear there are greater than 100,000 votes nonetheless to be counted. Pennsylvania is the place our democratic course of was born. We…
— Bob Casey Jr. (@Bob_Casey) November 8, 2024
Meanwhile, Marc Elias, a outstanding Democratic election legislation lawyer who has labored for Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns, appeared to recommend that there could also be a court docket struggle brewing over ballots within the race:
🚨BREAKING: David McCormick has filed TWO new lawsuits to problem and throw out provisional ballots in Philadelphia. Admits Philly has 15-20k provisional ballots left.
Pro Tip: Candidates who imagine they’ve received do not file lawsuits like this. Very robust Trump 2020 vibes.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 8, 2024
Whether all this may have an effect on the end result stays to be seen. While it was all the time seen as tough for Democrats to maintain their Senate majority past this 12 months as a result of three crimson state seats they must defend to take action, Casey’s seat was seen as winnable for the celebration. His defeat seems tied to Donald Trump’s sweep of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.
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Ballot counting continues in Nevada, Arizona with Senate seats in play
We nonetheless have no idea which candidate received Nevada and Arizona’s electoral votes, with poll counting ongoing in each western states, and the Associated Press but to find out a winner.
Donald Trump is forward in each states to date, however even when he slips, it could not change the end result of the presidential election. The actual races to observe within the states are for its Senate seats, which additionally haven’t but been referred to as by the AP.
Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen appears to have the sting over her Republican challenger Sam Brown in Nevada, with 96% of the ballots counted.
In Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego has a lead over Republican Kari Lake, although solely 76% of outcomes have been reported.
Even if each Democrats win, it is not going to stop the GOP from taking management of the Senate subsequent 12 months. Their victories in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana, together with Trump’s re-election, ensured their majority.
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