- PoliticsYahoo News
The Trumps are refusing to turn over the keys to the Bidens — and Michelle and Barack Obama have had enough
Two days after the 2016 election, the Obamas welcomed then-President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump to the White House in a symbolic gesture epitomizing the peaceful transfer of power. The Trumps have afforded the Bidens no such invitation.
- PoliticsBusiness Insider
Fox News launched its new primetime slogan, 'Standing Up For What's Right,' soon after Trump stepped up his war with the network
Fox News has put a new slogan into action, replacing 'Democracy 2020' with a defiant statement, as Trump continues to unleash fury at the network.
- PoliticsThe New York Times
Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work
Rudy Giuliani, who has helped oversee a string of failed court challenges to President Donald Trump's defeat in the election, asked the president's campaign to pay him $20,000 a day for his legal work, multiple people briefed on the matter said.The request stirred opposition from some of Trump's aides and advisers, who appear to have ruled out paying that much, and it is unclear how much Giuliani will ultimately be compensated.Since Giuliani took over management of the legal effort, Trump has suffered a series of defeats in court, and lawyers handling some of the remaining cases have dropped out.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesA $20,000-a-day rate would have made Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who has been Trump's personal lawyer for several years, among the most highly compensated attorneys anywhere.Reached by phone, Giuliani strenuously denied requesting that much."I never asked for $20,000," said Giuliani, saying the president volunteered to make sure he was paid after the cases concluded. "The arrangement is, we'll work it out at the end."He added that whoever had said he made the $20,000-a-day request "is a liar, a complete liar."There is little to no prospect of any of the remaining legal cases being overseen by Giuliani altering the outcome in any of the states where Trump is still fighting in court, much less of overturning President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College and popular vote victory. Some Trump allies fear that Giuliani is encouraging the president to continue a spurious legal fight because he sees financial advantage for himself in it.The Trump campaign has set up a legal-defense fund and is said to be raising significant sums to continue legal challenges in places like Pennsylvania and Georgia.A Trump campaign spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.Giuliani had sought compensation for his work dating to the day after Election Day, when Trump began publicly claiming that he won despite the results, according to people familiar with the request, who asked for anonymity to speak about sensitive discussions.At $20,000 a day, Giuliani's rate would be above the top-of-the-line lawyers in Washington and New York who can charge as much as $15,000 a day if they are spending all their time working for a client.Trump's insistence that widespread voter fraud cost him the election has no basis in fact but has stoked skepticism about the outcome among his base, including some who violently protested this past weekend in Washington.Giuliani has encouraged Trump to believe a number of conspiracy theories about voting machine irregularities, according to multiple people close to the president who were not authorized to discuss the conversations publicly. Late last week, Giuliani repeatedly insisted to the president that his other advisers haven't been telling him the truth about his chances of success in his legal battles to overturn the results of the election.Friday, as Trump's legal fight in Arizona appeared to peter out when the campaign dropped a suit in Maricopa County that was destined to fail, the president put Giuliani in charge of all election-related litigation and communications for it.On Monday, day before a key hearing on a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania, Giuliani forced out a lawyer who had been leading the case, two people briefed on the events said. That left Trump's team scrambling for a replacement. The local lawyer now handling the case has referred to Biden as the winner of the election and has said the lawsuits won't change that outcome.The judge in the case declined Monday night to postpone the hearing despite a request from the Trump team. And Tuesday morning, Giuliani told the Pennsylvania court that he would appear personally on behalf of the president in the case.Beginning in April 2018, in the midst of the Mueller investigation, Giuliani began representing Trump for free as his personal lawyer. Although Giuliani said he made nothing from Trump, it gave him direct access to the president and his administration -- access that Giuliani used to help his other clients, including foreign business executives under investigation by the Justice Department.After the Mueller investigation ended in April 2019, Giuliani continued his work for Trump, concentrating on trying to develop damaging information in Ukraine about Biden's son, Hunter -- an effort that ultimately led to the House impeaching Trump.Last year, the intelligence community warned the White House that Giuliani had become the target of a foreign influence operation by the Russian government, which was seeking to feed misinformation to him in the hopes of undermining Biden's presidential campaign.The president has refused to allow a formal transition from one administration to the next to begin, blocking Biden's team from having access to the agencies they will take over and from receiving briefings on the pandemic and national security threats to the country. National security experts have said this could leave the Biden administration at a disadvantage as it takes over the government in January, and Biden has said the delay could prove costly in treating the spreading coronavirus pandemic.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
- CelebrityPeople
Machine Gun Kelly Says Finding Girlfriend Megan Fox Took Him 'Out of the Fast Lane'
In his NYLON cover story, the "Bad Things" musician also opened up about his rough upbringing and why he feels love isn't encouraged in this day and age
- EntertainmentINSIDER
Bryce Dallas Howard confirms fan theory she paid homage to father Ron Howard's 'Apollo 13' in 'The Mandalorian' episode
The actress-turned-director paid tribute to her father with an impressive sequence at the start of "The Heiress" episode.
- PoliticsReuters
Trump lawyer Giuliani claims voter 'fraud' in long-shot Pennsylvania challenge
Lawyers for Pennsylvania rejected Giuliani's fraud allegations and asked U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in a federal court hearing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to throw out Trump's lawsuit. As the hearing unfolded, Pennsylvania's highest state court issued a ruling against Trump's campaign in a separate lawsuit that could hobble his case before Brann.
- CelebrityHuffPost
Candace Cameron Bure Shares Note From Lori Loughlin Amid Two-Month Prison Term
Loughlin, who has been embroiled in legal proceedings after her involvement in a college admissions scandal, is serving two months in prison.
