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liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said the election was "illegitimate." "So this was a tainted election," he said in an op-ed this week. "It was not, as far as we can tell, stolen in the sense that votes were counted wrong, and the result won't be overturned. But the result was nonetheless illegitimate . . . Last weekend on CBS's "Face the Nation," liberal Slate writer Jamelle Bouie also said the hacking had cast a shadow on Trump's win, rendering it a farce. . . . Others have argued that when the Electoral College electors convene Monday to...

President-elect Donald Trump needs to heal, not revel. That is, he must work on healing the divided country he is about to lead, not continue to revel in his victory with a round of thank-you rallies. Instead, we see: Trump griping about the political correctness of being named "person of the year." Quieting, but not really, chants of "lock her up." Revving up the crowd against the "very dishonest" media. Thanking African Americans who "didn't come out to vote." Jabbing at the "foolish" White House press secretary for daring to point out that candidate Trump had encouraged Russian hacking....

Despite public images of getting along and pledges of support, President Obama is raising money for a war chest to fight President-elect Donald Trump after he leaves office. "Help Democrats fight back," said the president in an fundraising email sent a week before Christmas. "Stand with me, work with me, let's finish what we started," he adds.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m not putting another f-g dime in until someone tells me what just happened,” one donor from the Midwest told Politico. “Everybody’s still frankly stunned, and in the back of their minds they think they’re going to wake up tomorrow morning and all of this never happened, including me,” added donor Alan Patricof.

Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson has come out and said that the recent brouhaha over “fake news” is nothing more than a “propaganda campaign” in order to censor free speech and freedom of the press by the Obama administration and the likes of Hillary Clinton. Appearing on Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Attkisson said, “Before about September 13, if you searched the news you won’t find many or any mentions of fake news. But as soon as there was, in my view, a propaganda campaign to put this on the plate of the American public, the news...

DALLAS - The Republican elector who has gotten national attention for refusing to vote for Donald Trump at the Electoral College on Dec. 19 was apparently not a first responder on September 11, 2001 as he has stated for years and has a questionable career history, according to an investigation by WFAA.

A young Muslim woman in New York who said she was threatened on a subway train by Donald Trump supporters made the story up, according to police. New York police arrested Yasmin Seweid, 18, on Wednesday and charged her with obstructing governmental administration and filing a false report, according to a statement.

Hillary Clinton is "hurting" following her election loss to Donald Trump, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday. "I think it is fair to say she’s hurting," Feinstein said during an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. The Democrat had lunch with Clinton last week when the former secretary of state visited Capitol Hill to attend Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s retirement party. "She is brave," Feinstein said of Clinton. "She is a real professional in the sense of her values, care, concern. I think all of us know who watch that campaign, it was a very hard campaign for her - the...

A group of celebrities created a video to urge Electoral College members to cast their votes for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump on Monday. “You have the position, the authority, and the opportunity to go down in the books as an American hero who changed the course of history,” several celebrities say in turn. Unite for America, a group formed to try to prevent Trump from becoming president, created the video published Wednesday, which features actors Martin Sheen, Debra Messing and Bob Odenkrik, among others. . . . . .Despite media coverage, chatter and protests from a handful of...

Full title: "I posted this picture 94 days ago. This image of a man cheering on Trump's plane from a mile away is the embodiment of why we won. MAGA incoming folks." You never know, maybe he made a difference. It's been a long, grueling day. Three rallies in two different states. You [Trump] are down 10 points in even the most optimistic polls. Every pundit, comedian, and reporter has been gleefully mocking your every move for months. It's tempting to just let the country have its crooked dictator, let the country spiral into hell. You get the president you...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says Russian hacking during this presidential election cycle is as significant as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Watergate scandal and called for a special commission to investigate. "I think this is as big a deal as Watergate, as 9/11," he told BuzzFeed at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. "I think they should have a 9/11-type commission. I know that [Sens.] Dianne Feinstein [D-Calif.], Ben Cardin [D-Md.] and others are calling for that. I think it’s a step in the right direction. This is a scandal that’s been uncovered.

[Snip] White America has prided itself as a nation based on acquired citizenship, freedom of religion and the rule of law, and formed by immigration. But that ideology was dominant two generations ago. The defining distinction, from the beginning, has been race and color, not religion or nationality. What post-Trump white America has expressed by endorsing Trump's campaign to "Make America Great Again" is not merely anger against elites in general but targeted resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color. The racism in this year's election was not about an older stereotype of the Willie Horton-type,...

There's been plenty of alt-news sites posting stories about FAITHLESS Electors....and now some whack job Harvard Professor is talking about 20+ faithless electors that are from the States that the GOP won.... really hard to know what's real or fake. So my question is, has there been any confirmation of Trump's 306 Electors and where they stand, from CREDIBLE SOURCES. Trump_Train people are saying...don't worry....I would never happen....a lot people said Trump would never get nomination, then that he would never win. Thoughts?

"MSNBC is under pressure from [parent network] NBC to toe a Trump line and we need some alternative media out there," said Brock. "I know that there are hosts at MSNBC now who feel their jobs are at risk because the brass is for Trump." Asked if he has heard that directly from a host at MSNBC, Brock said, "One has, yeah. And I've heard of others."

There's more but, unfortunately for the folks trying to game the system, the polls were wrong. All the strategic guidance, financial support and public endorsements Google gave to help catapult Clinton into the highest office in the land were for naught. President-elect Trump's victory is something the vaunted Google algorithms failed to predict, meaning its tremendous run in Washington is about to come to a screeching halt. . . . Google's trying to make nice but Trump has a long memory, especially where those who opposed him are concerned. Company executives are headed to Trump Tower for a meeting, ironically...

With her three-state recount effort effectively over, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Tuesday announced her plans for what’s next: to ask donors which organizations should receive the campaign’s leftover money At latest count, Stein had raised $7.33 million for the recount in just 2.5 weeks, and from more than 161,000 donors. The campaign’s latest estimate of costs puts the total recount-related expenses at about $7.4 million -- meaning as of now, there would not necessarily be money left over.

Herewith some unsolicited free advice for the Democratic Party. Whether it's worth more than the price I leave up to Democrats to decide. The first thing to remember is that the Democratic Party is the oldest political party in the world. It's had its ups and downs over many years. Under any fair reading of history, it has done many good things for this country and the world. It is not going away any time soon. But it is in a bad way. Its chances of recapturing the presidency in 2020 depend largely on decisions by Republicans and on events...

The 538 delegates to the Electoral College will gather at governors’ offices and statehouses across the country Monday to make President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton official. The results aren’t expected to deviate much from Election Day, when Trump won 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232. Despite media coverage, social media chatter and announcements from a handful of electors who have made their protest votes public, it’s unlikely that electors will defect in significant numbers. Even so, scattered groups of liberals are using every means at their disposal — lawsuits, petitions, and public and private pressure — to...

It is unprecedented for American democracy to blame a foreign power for influencing an election and use that as a tool to overturn the democratic process.... ....The White House has made some new allegations against President-elect Donald Trump over his supposed ties with Russia. According to the editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications Gregory R Copley, “the White House is doing something almost unprecedented in US presidential history and the history of transitions. It is trying to go to great length to discredit an incoming administration. What is remarkable is how softly President-elect Trump is responding to this –...

Paul Joseph Watson's latest video, once again, systematically deconstructs the hypocrisy of the left and their latest dangerous effort to undermine the entire 2016 presidential election by utilizing their friends in the media to spin the Russian election hacking narrative without a single shred of actual evidence. While the full video is posted below, as always below are a couple of our favorite lines. On the left's inability to process their loss and willingness to risk anything and everything to have it overturned: The post-election riots failed. The death threats against electoral college members failed. Jill Stein's recount failed. Your...