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Anonymous ID: 0ebe4f Nov. 27, 2020, 5:39 a.m. No.11806436   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6444 >>6462

Trump Says He Will Leave White House If Biden Wins Electoral College Despite "Rigged" Election

 

President Trump took questions from reporters on Thursday evening for the first time since Election Day. And after confirming a few days ago via Twitter that he would tell the GSA to formally begin the transition process, the president confirmed to a group of MSM journalists that he would formally surrender power to Biden should Trump's rival win the Electoral College vote.

 

During the scrum, Trump took about 25 minutes to rehash a series of allegations his legal team has so far made (but provided little or no evidence for, and thus hasn’t raised in court appearances) - while saying flatly that Biden couldn't have done as well as he did without "fraud".

 

Reporters of course leapt at the opportunity to ask all kinds of salacious questions: Trump was asked if he’d physically leave the White House if the Electoral College affirms Biden’s victory - Trump replied "certainly I will, and you know that.”

 

After a round of antagonistic questions, Trump started lashing out at various states for dropping the ball and ruining his chances at a second term, while reiterating that this was "a rigged election…at the highest level".

 

Trump slammed Georgia’s Republican secretary of state - who penned an op-ed slamming Trump and his supporters - as an “enemy of the people.” He added that he would soon stage a rally in Georgia, where voters return to the polls in early January for a pair of runoff Senate races that will determine control of the Upper Chamber.

 

Finally, Trump repeatedly returned to questioning Joe Biden’s raw vote total, insisting the Democrat couldn’t have done so well as compared to previous Democratic candidates, although population growth historically drives growth in voting numbers while 2020 led to a particularly charged political atmosphere.

 

“This is not a candidate that can get 80 million votes,” he said of Biden. “The only way he got 80 million votes is through a massive fraud.”

 

Trump declined to say if he’d attend Biden’s inauguration, as is the custom for an outgoing president. “I’ll be honest, I know the answer, but I just don’t want to say it yet,” he said, before adding that it's "not right" that Biden has already started picking his cabinet.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-says-he-will-leave-white-house-if-biden-wins-electoral-college-despite-rigged?

Anonymous ID: 0ebe4f Nov. 27, 2020, 5:43 a.m. No.11806454   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Six U.S. Oil Executives Are Convicted of Corruption in Venezuela

 

CARACAS, Venezuela — A Venezuelan judge on Thursday found six American oil executives guilty of a wide-ranging corruption scheme and immediately sentenced them to prison.

 

The so-called Citgo 6 — employees of the Houston-based Citgo refining company, which is owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA — had been lured to Venezuela three years ago for a business meeting and arrested.

 

The men — Gustavo Cárdenas, Jorge Toledo, Tomeu Vadell, Jose Luis Zambrano, Alirio Jose Zambrano and Jose Angel Pereira — each face more than eight years in prison. Five are Venezuelan-Americans with roots in Texas and Louisiana, and one is a permanent U.S. resident, according to media reports.

 

Five of the men were sentenced to prison terms of eight years and 10 months, while one received a 13-year sentence. A defense lawyer, Jesus Loreto, said the five with lesser terms could be released on parole in a couple of years.

 

Relatives of the men say they had been wrongly convicted, and defense lawyers vowed to appeal Thursday’s verdicts. Alirio Rafael Zambrano, whose two brothers are among the defendants, said that they were “undeniably innocent” and victims of “judicial terrorism.” No evidence presented in the case supports a guilty conviction, he said.

 

“We, the family, are heartbroken to be separated even further from our loved ones,” Mr. Zambrano said by phone from New Jersey. “We pray that the leaders of our nation step forward and continue to fight unceasingly for their freedom and human rights.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/americas/venezuela-citgo-oil-americans.html