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Summary List PlacementThe Razzies, Hollywood's parody award show that honors the worst content created in the last year, has presented MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell with two awards.  Lindell won Worst Actor for his role in his own self-produced film, "Absolute Proof." He has called the film a "documentary," despite the fact that it's laden with disinformation about the 2020 presidential election. The movie, two...

In what seemed to be an effort to bolster political contributions in the heat of the 2020 election against now President Joe Biden, the Trump 2020 campaign reportedly duped supporters into making recurring donations without their explicit or known consent.An investigation of Federal Election Commission records done ...

Summary List PlacementDonald Trump lost Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes, but in a last-ditch effort to steal victory from the jaws of defeat, the outgoing president's legal team is asking the US Supreme Court to throw out over 110,000 mail-in ballots. Prior to the November election, Pennsylvania's highest court issued a unanimous decision that mail-in votes should not be rejected solely because a...

Summary List PlacementTwo Wisconsin counties are being denied the money they're owed for conducting election vote recounts, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The Trump 2020 campaign paid a total of $3 million to Dane and Milwaukee counties after demanding recounts there. President Donald Trump initially lost to Joe Biden by 0.6 percentage points. When the recount was finalized, Biden's margin of victory had increased....

Summary List PlacementFour Seasons Total Landscaping, the suburban garden center where Rudy Giuliani held a bizarre post-election press conference in November, made $1.3 million in merchandise sales, according to its owners. Sean Middleton, the center's director of sales, told Business Insider that ever since the event, the family-run business has been "overwhelmed" with thousands of orders for their official merchandise.  The business, which offers...

Summary List PlacementFormer White House advisor Kellyanne Conway admitted that Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is the winner of the 2020 election, going against President Donald Trump, who has yet to concede. "The president wants to exhaust all of his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that, and that is his right," Conway said in an interview with...

Summary List PlacementPresident-elect Joe Biden gained votes in Wisconsin's largest county on Friday after Trump's election campaign demanded a recount earlier this month. The Trump administration spent $3 million to request two recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties after the president lost Wisconsin to Biden by over 20,000 votes. But county election officials in Milwaukee County completed their recount on Friday and found that...

Summary List Placement Over half of all voters under the age of 30 voted in the 2020 elections, a record figure, and the demographic powered President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump, according to data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. The data revealed that 52% to 55% of registered voters under 30 cast...

Summary List PlacementAllies to President Donald Trump are exploring the possibility of acquiring and investing in conservative outlet Newsmax to set up a competitor to the Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal reported. There are ongoing discussions between Newsmax and Hicks Equity Partners, an investment firm connected to the Republican National Committee, according to the Journal. The deal would include a video-streaming service. ...

Summary List PlacementKayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, exaggerated the number of people who gathered in Washington, DC, on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's loss to President-elect Joe Biden.  "More than one MILLION marchers for President @realDonaldTrump descend on the swamp in support," she wrote Saturday morning.  AMAZING!More than one MILLION marchers for President @realDonaldTrump descend on the swamp in support. Best...

Summary List PlacementWhen President Donald Trump raked in 306 Electoral College votes in 2016, he and the advisors close to him called the victory a "landslide." President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday secured 306 Electoral College votes — the same amount that propelled Trump to the presidency four years ago. But this time, Trump has not acknowledged the number, and instead pushed baseless or downright...

Summary List Placement The Department of Homeland Security broke from President Donald Trump's baseless allegations of a "stolen" election on Thursday and said there is no evidence of fraud.  "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the DHS said in a statement.  The Department's Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees found "no evidence...

Summary List Placement Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company declined to ban Steve Bannon's account, after the former Trump advisor posted a video calling for the beheadings of federal officials, because Bannon had not violated enough policies, CNBC reported Thursday. "We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely," Zuckerberg told...

Summary List Placement Americans took to the streets after the 2020 presidential election was called for Joe Biden last weekend. Biden supporters celebrated, danced, and drank champagne, while some Trump supporters, following the president's lead, protested the victory. We followed supporters of both candidates in eight cities around the US to get a firsthand look at the celebrations and protests after the election. Visit...

Summary List PlacementIn an attempt to defend his assertion that the 2020 election results are not legitimate, President Donald Trump on Sunday cited a pollster who is accused of lying about his academic history.  Joe Biden, Trump's Democratic opponent in the race, surpassed 270 electoral votes by flipping swing state Pennsylvania Friday morning, paving the way forward for a Biden-Harris administration. Business Insider, along...

Summary List PlacementPolice in New York City closed off the area surrounding Trump Tower following news of Joe Biden's presidential victory. Barricades sectioned off five city blocks to cars and people around Trump Tower's location in Midtown Manhattan on Fifth Avenue. The iconic New York City avenue was left empty of cars, buses, bicycles, and people, except for police officers. Down at Trump Tower...

Summary List Placement Americans are lucky, because they get to elect someone to the most powerful office in the world.  But Americans are also particularly unlucky to live in a country where getting an accurate and complete vote count for the most powerful office in the world can't be accomplished in a manner that isn't so easily exploited by a serially dishonest demagogue.  Our...

Summary List Placement Louis Vuitton is painting boarded up windows its signature shade of orange, as the luxury retailer prepares for possible unrest around the 2020 presidential election.  Shopping destinations across America are bracing for the election, Business Insider's Thomas Pallini reports. Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills is shutting down completely. In Chicago, the Magnificent Mile will be armed with "everything from snow plows...

Summary List Placement Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had trouble voting on Monday after his primary address was falsely changed by a man who illegally accessed the state system, officials said this week. Anthony Guevara, 20, from Naples, Florida, was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and charged with altering a voter registration without consent and unauthorized access of a computer in connection to...

Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump was fielding questions from voters during a town hall on Thursday night for nearly an hour when one caught him off guard with a compliment. "I have to say, you have a great smile," said Paulette Dale, who NBC News host Savannah Guthrie introduced as a 2016 Hillary Clinton voter, now leaning toward choosing former Vice President Joe Biden...

Summary List PlacementThe dueling town halls Thursday night between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden were billed as a "split-screen" experience, but it was more like intentionally inflicting a technical glitch on a home entertainment system. Trump's town hall on NBC was loud, aggressive, and, at times, terse.  Biden's town hall on ABC was quiet, congenial, and almost boring. Yet former Vice...

Summary List Placement Election Day is 19 days away but more than 17 million Americans have already cast their vote, according to the US Election Project, In several swing states, more than twice the number of people have already sent in their ballot compared to 2016.  More than two million people have already voted in Florida, roughly twice the 992,584 early votes cast in...

Summary List Placement Engagement from misleading websites on Facebook has tripled since the 2016 US presidential election. The total number of user interactions with articles from "deceptive outlets" has increased by 242% between the third quarter of 2016 and the third quarter of 2020, according to a study published Monday by the German Marshall Fund Digital, the digital wing of the Washington, DC-based public...

Summary List Placement A representative of the Taliban said the group supports President Donald Trump's reelection on Friday, according to CBS News. "We hope he will win the election and wind up US military presence in Afghanistan," Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told the news organization. Mujahid reportedly added that it approved of the Trump campaign's "America first" slogan. Trump has mentioned the phrase in...