The Department of Justice has closed insider trading investigations into three of four United States senators who made major stock trades in the period of time between the coronavirus outbreak spreading through Wuhan, China, and the American economy tanking. 
According to The Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors informed Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), James Inhofe (R-OK) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) that the investigation into their financial trades would be closing. 
Loeffler, who is running for Senate against Congressman Doug Collins (R-GA), praised the development as a “clear exoneration,” calling the criticism of her stock activities a “politically-motivated attack promoted by the fake news media and my political opponents.”
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Today’s clear exoneration affirms what I’ve said all along: I did nothing wrong.
This was a politically-motivated attack promoted by the fake news media and my political opponents. I’m continuing to focus my full attention on results for Georgia. <a href="https://t.co/F9vdoypIvd">https://t.co/F9vdoypIvd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gapol</a>
— Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) <a href="https://twitter.com/KLoeffler/status/1265390782082473984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
Inhofe made a statement to <a href="https://oklahoman.com/article/5663204/inhofe-says-justice-department-has-cleared-him-in-stock-sale-inquiry">The Oklahoman</a> on Tuesday afternoon indicating that he had been cleared, a conclusion to the investigation that he long anticipated. 
“As I’ve said all along, I wasn’t even at the briefing and do not make my own stock trades,” Inhofe told the news agency. “I did nothing wrong, and I’m pleased the Justice Department has exonerated me.”
The Journal reports that a spokesperson for Senator Feinstein did not have an “immediate comment.” When the first reports on the stock trading emerged, Feinstein <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1241010796496330752">maintained</a> that she keeps her assets in a blind trust and doesn’t have any input in her husband’s financial decisions, which are also reported to the Senate under U.S. law. 
However, officials &#8220;familiar with the matter&#8221; told The Journal that the investigation into Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, will continue. 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-senate-intelligence-chairman-steps-away-from-role-amidst-stock-trade-investigation">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Burr stepped down as chairman of the intelligence committee after his phone was taken by federal agents who served him with a warrant. He told reporters that he was stepping down as a temporary measure, so as to not distract from the “hard work of the committee.”
Information about Burr’s stock activities was unearthed in late March by <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness">ProPublica</a>, which reported that the senator and his wife “sold off a significant percentage of his stocks” over the course of 33 transactions in a single day. The trades amounted to between $628,000 and $1.72 million, reports the news agency.
Burr has <a href="https://apnews.com/27957dd84cbfaba7c8c26cd354711956">denied wrongdoing</a>, and maintains that his financial decisions were based on publicly available information. The Journal reports that Burr’s actions could be protected under the Constitution, citing a former federal prosecutor who specializes in public corruption cases. 
“Insider-trading cases are often based on the use of inside information obtained through corporate channels,” Justin Shur, the prosecutor, told The Journal. “The allegations here, however, are based on the use of information obtained through legislative channels.”
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President Trump Joins GOP Senators At Policy Luncheon On Capitol Hill

Report: Feds Drop Pre-Lockdown Insider Trading Investigation For Three Of Four US Senators

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Dianne Feinstein

James Inhofe

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Richard Grenell, who up until today was the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), reportedly declassified more documents related to the Russia investigation in his final days as DNI including one that is &#8220;very significant&#8221; to the origins of the investigation.
The documents include transcripts of the phone calls that then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn had with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which is at the center of the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;unmasking&#8221; scandal.
The newly declassified documents will have to be released by new Director John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in on Tuesday morning.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grenell-declassifies-slew-of-russia-files-as-ratcliffe-takes-helm-as-dni">reported</a> &#8220;that Grenell also completed the declassification review of other documents related to the origins of the Russia probe — including one that a senior intelligence official told Fox News was &#8216;very significant in understanding how intelligence was manipulated to support launching the Russia investigation.'&#8221;
U.S. Attorney John Durham is currently conducting a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation.
Grenell declassified numerous documents related to the Russia investigations that took place over the first three years of the Trump administration, including testimonies that were given to the House Intelligence Committee that showed that Obama administration officials had no evidence that the Russians colluded with the Trump campaign.
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U.S. Ambassador Grenell At Berlin 4th Of July

Grenell Declassifies Document That Is ‘Very Significant’ To Origins of Russia Investigation

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) filed a lawsuit against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday evening in an attempt to block the House of Representatives from allowing representatives to vote on behalf of up to ten other members of Congress as a designated proxy voter. 
In addition to McCarthy, nearly two dozen Republican members of Congress have signed on as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which also names the sergeant-at-arms and House clerk, two figures who serve a notable role in the proxy voting plan, as defendants. 
“I just filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn Speaker Pelosi’s unconstitutional proxy voting scheme,” tweeted McCarthy on Tuesday evening. “It could allow as few as 20 Representatives to control the votes of 220. This is NOT the representative democracy our Founders envisioned or what our Constitution allows.”
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I just filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn Speaker Pelosi’s unconstitutional proxy voting scheme.
It could allow as few as 20 Representatives to control the votes of 220. This is NOT the representative democracy our Founders envisioned or what our Constitution allows.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1265422040795951110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
The lawsuit states that, so far, 55 members of Congress had sent letters to the House clerk designating another representative as their official proxy voter. As of Tuesday evening, an additional four members of congress <a href="https://clerkpreview.house.gov/ProxyLetter#AllProxies">officially designated</a> another representative as their proxy, bringing the total to 59 members, all of whom are Democrats. 
The lawsuit, a copy of which was posted by <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6969-lawsuit-proxy-voting/578a3999d796eabcbe57/optimized/full.pdf#page=1">The New York Times</a>, accuses the Majority of ignoring “what the constitution demands of it,” and asks that the court “not do the same” in its ruling. 
<blockquote>In the 231-year existence of the United States Congress, neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate has ever permitted a Member to vote by proxy from the floor of the chamber. Through the Civil War; through the burning of the Capitol during the War of 1812 and the terrorist attack on Washington on 9/11; and through the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 and the Spanish FluPandemic of 1918, the Congress of the United States has never before flinched from its constitutional duty to assemble at the Nation’s Capital and conduct the People’s business in times of national peril and crisis. So it was for more than two centuries. Until now.
Defying this unbroken record of historical precedent, and heedless of every relevant constitutional provision, a majority of the UnitedStates House of Representatives voted on May 15, 2020, to adopt House Resolution965, 116th Congress (“H.Res. 965”), thereby authorizing its Members to vote by proxy. In an instant, and over the objections of 189 Members of the House from both political parties, the 231-year constitutional tradition of in-person assembly, deliberation, and voting among the People’s representatives came to an end.
It is simply impossible to read the constitution and overlook its repeated and emphatic requirement that Members of Congress actually assemble in their respective chambers when they vote, whether on matters as weighty as declaring war or as ordinary as naming a bridge….That requirement is no less mandatory in the midst of a pandemic, see INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 959 (1983), as the House’s forebears amply demonstrated when facing a far more deadly pandemic a little more than a century ago.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-blasts-house-dems-for-precedent-breaking-rule-change-never-ending-spring-break">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, the House voted to allow the Speaker to enact the rule change along party lines in mid-May, with three Democrats voting against it. Under the terms of the rule change, Pelosi can establish a proxy voting period of 45-days, which can be extended or shortened based on public health information provided by the sergeant-at-arms. 
Any member of Congress who wishes to vote by proxy must notify the House clerk, which provides notice to the public on its website. Per the clerk’s office, “members designated as proxies may only cast votes on behalf of other members once they have received separate exact instruction with respect to each vote.” 
In a statement made after the lawsuit was filed, Pelosi accused the House Republicans of engaging in a “sad stunt,” and that the Constitution supported the move she made as falling under the power of each Chamber to enact its own procedural rules.
“House Republicans’ sad stunt shows that their only focus is to delay and obstruct urgently-needed action to meet the needs of American workers and families during the coronavirus crisis,&#8221; said Pelosi. “The House’s position that remote voting by proxy during a pandemic is fully consistent with the Constitution is supported by expert legal analyses. Further, the Supreme Court made clear over a century ago that the Constitution empowers each chamber of Congress to set its own procedural rules.&#8221;
“As our nation approaches the heartbreaking milestone of 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19, House Republicans must stop their dangerous obstruction and join Democrats to save lives, defeat the virus and grow the economy,&#8221; she continued.
During a speech on the Senate floor last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats for “playing games with the Constitution so they can continue their never-ending spring break well into July.” 
“Since the early days of this crisis, the self-described ‘People’s House’ has been suspiciously empty of people,” said McConnell. “I understand they’ve convened for legislative session a grand total of two days — two — in the last eight weeks.”
“But there’s a new wrinkle: House Democrats jammed through a precedent-breaking remote voting scheme that will let one member cast ten additional votes,” he continued. “There will be enormous constitutional questions around anything the House does if they fail to demonstrate a real quorum but plow ahead anyhow.”
The lawsuit cites numerous examples of lawmakers meeting in person despite extenuating circumstances, such as in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, noting that it killed 10% of the population of Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government. 
<blockquote>In response to the crisis, some members advocated relocating Congress, but it was acknowledged that “Congress would have to meet within the legal limits of Philadelphia if only in some open field for just long enough to select another place.&#8221;</blockquote>
Another example the lawsuit cites is when President Abraham Lincoln convened Congress several days after the start of the Civil War: 
<blockquote>And the members assembled in the Capitol, even though they arrived to find hundreds of soldiers quartered there in the Spring of 1861. They met, even after beds had been set up in the Rotunda, in Statuary Hall, and in the corridors of the Capitol to treat wounded Union soldiers from First Bull Run. They met, even as Union soldiers stood sentry at every door. And they continued to meet throughout the war, even as 655,000 Americans lost their lives on battlefields surrounding the seat of government, in Virginia, Maryland, andPennsylvania. The war that cleaved the Union did not prevent the Members of Congress from assembling at the seat of government. </blockquote>
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Nancy Pelosi Press Conference in Washington, US

READ IT: House Republicans Sue Pelosi For Defying ‘231-Year Constitutional Tradition’ With Proxy Voting. Pelosi Responds.

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Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer admitted on Tuesday that her husband, Marc Mallory, asked a boating company for special treatment because he was married to her, which comes after Whitmer&#8217;s office called the allegation a &#8220;rumor&#8221; yesterday and suggested that it could be &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
The controversy surrounded a report that her husband called a boating company and asked them to put their boat on the water before Memorial Day weekend and, when told it wouldn&#8217;t be done by then, asked for special treatment because he was &#8220;the husband to the governor.&#8221; Adding to the controversy was the fact that Whitmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmers-husband-asked-for-special-treatment-in-getting-boat-on-water-after-she-urged-people-to-not-go-to-area-report-says">urged</a> people to not go to that area if they did not live there, and while she and her husband own a second home there, it&#8217;s an approximately 200-mile drive from their main residence, the governor&#8217;s mansion, in Lansing. She later claimed that he drove across the state to rake leaves at the second home and then came home.
Whitmer addressed the controversy during a press conference saying, &#8220;I do feel compelled to address the most recent one about my husband Marc. My husband made a failed attempt at humor last week when checking in with a small business that helps with our boat and dock up north.&#8221;
&#8220;Knowing it wouldn&#8217;t make a difference, he jokingly asked if being married to me might move him up in the cue,&#8221; Whitmer continued. &#8220;Obviously, with the motorized boating prohibition in our early days of COVID-19, he thought it might get a laugh. It didn&#8217;t and to be honest I wasn&#8217;t laughing either when it was relayed to me because I knew how it would be perceived. He regrets it, I wish it wouldn&#8217;t have happened and that&#8217;s really all we have to say about it.&#8221;
WATCH:
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This video of Democrat Governor Whitmer explaining why her husband sought special treatment from a marina to get their boat in the water sooner needs VEEP credit music&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/irToVxs5b1">pic.twitter.com/irToVxs5b1</a>
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The incident came after Whitmer <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-press-conference-transcript-may-18">urged</a> people during a press conference last Monday to not travel to region six and region eight if they did not live there [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>Now, this is a big step and it’s right before the holiday weekend. We know Memorial Day weekend is coming up a week from now. And so I want to encourage everyone to stay smart and to stay safe, keep your wits about you. Let’s not all go rushing out and force a closure eventually. What we want to do is keep moving forward. And so everyone needs to be a part of this and to do your part. So if you’re in Northern Michigan or the Upper Peninsula and you want to go out to eat with your family, just make sure you do everything in your power to protect yourself from the virus. That means wearing the mask, unless you are about to take part in your meal. It means washing your hands and staying six feet away from others.
And if you don’t live in these regions, region six and region eight, please think long and hard before you take a trip into them. We’re still seeing positive cases of COVID-19 across the state of Michigan. We still have COVID-19 present in the vast majority of our counties. And we’re still losing family members and loved ones to this virus</blockquote>
The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/25/purported-northern-michigan-boat-request-fuels-controversy-gretchen-whitmer/5254889002/">reported</a> that Whitmer&#8217;s office responded to the controversy by saying that they do not discuss personal matters related to the governor or her family.
&#8220;And we’re not going to make it a practice of addressing every rumor that is spread online,&#8221; a Whitmer spokesperson said. &#8220;There’s been a lot of wild misinformation spreading online attacking the governor and her family, and the threats of violence against her personally are downright dangerous.&#8221;
Later during the press conference, a reporter asked Whitmer: &#8220;When you opened regions six and eight, you advised people to not rush up there and overwhelm the area. Just moments ago, you mentioned that your family has been staying home for the past several weeks but there were some reports that you did spend time up north. Are those reports true?&#8221;
&#8220;So, as you know, a few weeks ago we dropped the travel bans, so that if people had a second residence, it was permitted to go to a second residence,&#8221; Whitmer responded. &#8220;My husband did go up to our place in [inaudible] county and rake some leaves and came home. So he was there. We did not all pile in the car to go enjoy our second although that would have been permitted if we had. But the fact of the matter is, he was there, briefly, for a night, one or two nights and came right back home after he raked our leaves.&#8221;
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Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claims that despite advisories, her husband went to second home to rake leaves<a href="https://t.co/X48zzdAeZt">https://t.co/X48zzdAeZt</a> <a href="https://t.co/1OtG0pmO92">pic.twitter.com/1OtG0pmO92</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1265386591213813766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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General Motors Co. Makes Announcement Amid Feud With Trump

Whitmer Admits Husband Asked Boating Company For Special Treatment, Claims He Was Joking

Gretchen Whitmer

The Republican National Committee (RNC) released a new ad on Tuesday afternoon that highlighted scandals from the Obama-Biden administration after former Vice President Joe Biden, currently the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, has claimed on numerous occasions that the administration had no scandals.
The video highlights the following scandals from the Obama administration:
<ul>
<li>The administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-benghazi-report-slams-administration-response-to-attacks">response</a> to the Benghazi attacks.</li>
<li>Former President Barack Obama being <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/">awarded</a> the &#8220;lie of the year&#8221; for falsely claiming that &#8220;if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.&#8221;</li>
<li>The Obama administration&#8217;s IRS <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups">investigating</a> conservative groups.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-made-1-7-billion-transfer-to-iran-in-foreign-cash-treasury-says">Sent</a> pallets of cash to Iran, which is the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fast-and-furious-hearing-rips-holder-doj-for-deception-in-gun-running-scandal">Armed</a> Mexican drug cartels with weapons that were used to kill U.S. federal agents.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/shinseki-resigns-amid-va-crisis-1401463093?mod=article_inline">Attempted</a> to hide long wait times across the VA health system.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/remember-solyndra-loss-of-taxpayer-millions-seems-forgotten-expert-says">Funded</a> Solyndra by giving the struggling company, which eventually collapsed, hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded money.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/06/05/us-army-commander-approves-bergdahl-sentence-no-prison-time/">Traded</a> <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/10/30/5-freed-from-gitmo-in-exchange-for-bergdahl-join-insurgents-in-qatar-taliban-says/">five terrorists</a> for a U.S. soldier who &#8220;abandon[ed] his post in Afghanistan.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
&#8220;The Biden campaign, along with their friends in the media, repeatedly try to whitewash the scandal ridden Obama/Biden administration, but the American people know the truth,&#8221; RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest. &#8220;From the IRS investigating conservative groups, to sending pallets of cash to the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, arming drug dealers, and lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack, Obama-Biden continuously put their political interests ahead of the American people and Joe Biden would do so again if given the chance.&#8221;
WATCH:
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The examples highlighted by the RNC are by no means exhaustive as there are numerous other scandals that occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.
Another major scandal was the revelation that the Obama-Biden administration had “prosecuted more whistle-blowers for leaks and gone after more journalists than any of its predecessors,” according to The New York Times. By going after journalists, The Times is referring to the Obama-Biden administration <a href="https://apnews.com/ffc60235c26c470c9047e0da6ff19f95/AP-FACT-CHECK:-Obama-doesn%2527t-always-tell-the-straight-story">spying</a> on reporters and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/06/08/seizing-journalists-records-an-outrage-that-obama-normalized-for-trump/">seizing</a> their records.
There was also a bombshell Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/">report</a>, which most of the mainstream media largely ignored, that revealed that Obama killed a massive federal investigation into the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, which allowed the group to expand and continue to engage in trafficking narcotics into the U.S.
Currently, another scandal is being unraveled from the Obama-Biden administration that involved allegedly using law enforcement and intelligence agencies that Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ol0bKk7kZo">said</a> last year amounted to “spying” on the Trump campaign. In an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">interview</a> with CBS News earlier this month, Barr said that he believes that the activities that the FBI was engaging in “was not a legitimate counterintelligence investigation.” The criminal investigation, dubbed “the Durham investigation” for U.S. Attorney John Durham, is on going but is reportedly looking at a “pattern of conduct” that includes “a number of related acts” that targeted the Trump campaign. Barr has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-barr-what-obama-admin-did-to-trump-with-russian-collusion-actions-is-unprecedented">said</a> that actions that were taken by Obama-era officials against the Trump campaign were “unprecedented in American history” and represented a “grave injustice.”
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend The South Carolina Convention

RNC Releases Ad Highlighting Scandals From Obama-Biden Admin After Biden Claimed They Didn’t Have Any

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Federal law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday that they charged Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in West Virginia, for alleged attempted election fraud.
&#8220;Cooper, age 47, of Dry Fork, West Virginia, is charged with &#8216;Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election.&#8217; According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Cooper held a U.S. Postal Service contract to deliver mail in Pendleton County,&#8221; The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/pendleton-county-mail-carrier-charged-attempted-election-fraud">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;In April 2020, the Clerk of Pendleton County received &#8216;2020 Primary Election COVID-19 Mail-In Absentee Request&#8217; forms from eight voters on which the voter&#8217;s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered.&#8221;
Some of the ballots were reportedly changed from Democrat to Republican while other ballots were altered in other ways.
The investigation was conducted by the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, the West Virginia Election Fraud Task Force, the FBI, and prosecutors from multiple U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices in West Virginia.
The news comes as Twitter started attaching <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-fact-checking-trumps-tweets-using-wapo-and-cnn">warning labels</a> to President Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday that led to a series of articles from left-wing media organizations that claimed that Trump’s warnings about fraud coming from mail-in voting were “unsubstantiated.”
The notion that voter fraud does not exist is categorically false as <a href="https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud">thousands</a> have been charged and convicted for voter fraud, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-voterfraudcases.pdf">including</a> with respect to using mail in ballots to vote.
Last week, an election official in Philadelphia pled guilty to stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots for Democrat candidates, with the total number of fraudulent ballots being cast comprising a significant portion of the total votes that were cast.
“During his guilty plea hearing, [Domenick J.] DeMuro admitted that an unnamed political consultant gave DeMuro directions and paid him money to illegally add votes for certain Democratic candidates,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. “These candidates were individuals running for judicial office whose campaigns had hired the consultant, as well as other candidates for various federal, state, and local elective offices who were preferred by this consultant for a variety of reasons.”
“After receiving payments ranging from between $300 and $5,000 per election from the consultant, DeMuro would add fraudulent votes on the voting machines, also known as ringing up votes, for the consultant’s clients and preferred candidates thereby diluting and distorting the ballots that were cast by actual voters,” United States Attorney William M. McSwain said at a press conference. “DeMuro would add these fraudulent votes to the totals during election day and then he would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate. He would add the fraudulent votes by literally standing in the voting booth and voting over and over and over again as fast as he could when he thought that the coast was clear.”
“In May 2014, DeMuro stuffed the ballot box with 27 fraudulent ballots during the primary election. In May 2015, he padded the ballot box with 40 fraudulent votes. In 2016, it was 46 fraudulent votes,” McSwain said. “Now these numbers may sound relatively small, but they made up a significant percentage of the total votes that were cast at the polling place. In 2014, 118 total ballots were reported in the 36th Division of the 39th Ward. That means that DeMuro’s fraudulent votes accounted for over 22% of the total voting in that division in 2014. In 2015, his fraud accounted for over 15% of the total votes in the division. In 2016, his fraud accounted for over 17% of the votes.”
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Mail in ballot

Mail Man Charged With Attempted Election Fraud, Changed Mail-In Ballots That Were Given Out Due To Pandemic, Feds Say

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Multiple news outlets are reporting that House Republicans plan to file a lawsuit in federal court against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over a recent pandemic-related rule change that allows a single member of Congress to serve as a proxy vote for up to 10 other members of Congress. 
According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-republicans-move-to-block-proxy-voting-11590525018">The Wall Street Journal</a>, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will lead the lawsuit and be joined by nearly two dozen other legislators, including GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). 
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/house-lawsuit-proxy-voting-coronavirus.html">reports</a> the lawsuit will argue that the rule change, while temporary, will fundamentally transform the nature of the legislature as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. According to <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2020/05/20/pelosi-activates-45-day-authorization-for-proxy-voting-remote-committee-meetings/">Roll Call</a>, Pelosi can extend the 45-day proxy voting period, or shorten it, based on public health information provided by the Sergeant-at-Arms. 
After publication, McCarthy posted a statement on Twitter acknowledging the lawsuit and blasting Pelosi&#8217;s &#8220;voting scheme&#8221; as empowering 20 representatives &#8220;to control the votes of 220.&#8221;
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I just filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn Speaker Pelosi’s unconstitutional proxy voting scheme.
It could allow as few as 20 Representatives to control the votes of 220. This is NOT the representative democracy our Founders envisioned or what our Constitution allows.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1265422040795951110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
Earlier this month, the House voted along party lines to allow Speaker Pelosi to temporarily change the voting rules, with Pelosi noting that &#8220;if some people should stay home because of a health issue — thank you for not sharing. We’d rather you do stay home. And if transportation is difficult in that regard we want their voices to be heard,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/nancy-pelosi-defends-proxy-voting-rule-change-we-w/">The Washington Times</a>. 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-blasts-house-dems-for-precedent-breaking-rule-change-never-ending-spring-break">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, three Democrats voted against the bill and no Republicans voted for it — although Congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL), who was absent the day of the vote, later expressed support for the move. 
In the time since Pelosi enacted the rule change, fifty-six members of Congress have <a href="https://clerkpreview.house.gov/ProxyLetter#AllProxies">submitted letters</a> to the clerk’s office designating other members of Congress as their proxies. According to the clerk’s office, “members designated as proxies may only cast votes on behalf of other members once they have received separate exact instruction with respect to each vote.”
During a speech on the Senate floor last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats for “playing games with the Constitution so they can continue their never ending spring break well into July.” 
“Since the early days of this crisis, the self-described ‘People’s House’ has been suspiciously empty of people,” said McConnell. “I understand they’ve convened for legislative session a grand total of two days — two — in the last eight weeks.”
“But there’s a new wrinkle: House Democrats jammed through a precedent-breaking remote voting scheme that will let one member cast ten additional votes,” he continued. “There will be enormous constitutional questions around anything the House does if they fail to demonstrate a real quorum but plow ahead anyhow.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said in a memo that the “new proxy voting system has been developed to afford members greater flexibility to safely record their votes during this national pandemic.”
Article updated with tweet from McCarthy.
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Newly released emails show that Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s office gave the &#8220;green light&#8221; for taxpayer money to be awarded to Democrat groups as part of the state&#8217;s coronavirus tracing program.
&#8220;Whitmer’s office gave the &#8216;green light&#8217; for a COVID-19 contact tracing &#8216;arrangement&#8217; she denied knowledge of and canceled amid outcry over a contractor with Democratic ties,&#8221; Bridge Magazine, a local Michigan publication, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/emails-show-whitmer-team-okd-contact-tracing-firm-democratic-ties">reported</a>. &#8220;Emails obtained through a public records request appear to show Michigan officials tried to avoid controversy by shifting work to apolitical subsidiaries of firms with known partisan leanings.&#8221;
Andrea Taverna, a senior adviser in the Michigan Department of the Health and Human Services, said in an email to other Michigan government officials: “We got the green light from EOG [the executive office of the governor] to move forward with a slightly different organizational arrangement of the contact tracing volunteer work. This would still be working with Mike Kolehouse, so work there isn&#8217;t lost &#8211; it&#8217;s just organized somewhat differently &#8211; see below.”
In late April, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/michigan-governor-whitmer-awards-coronavirus-contract-to-dem-consulting-firm/">reported</a> that Whitmer had given control of the state&#8217;s contact tracing program to &#8220;one of the left’s biggest technology firms&#8221; and that the move was seen as potential way of her &#8220;using the coronavirus to strengthen the Democratic Party’s data operation.&#8221;
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michigan-cancels-contract-with-two-democratic-linked-firms-that-had-been-tapped-to-track-coronavirus/2020/04/21/161a23ce-8413-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html">reported</a> that the group that hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were going to go &#8220;would be managed in coordination with EveryAction, a firm that is closely linked to NGP VAN, a technology provider that boasts that it powers &#8216;nearly every major Democratic campaign in America.'&#8221;
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel highlighted an alleged Facebook post from a Democrat operative who also revived a contract from Whitmer’s administration that stated: “I hope [Trump] gets Coronavirus ASAP. Can someone do the country a favor and cough on that man.”
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Kolehouse recently posted on social media that he hopes President Trump gets coronavirus.
This is who <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a> is giving state contracts to? <a href="https://t.co/KTjPcepuFD">pic.twitter.com/KTjPcepuFD</a>
&mdash; Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1252716862816870400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Whitmer struggled to respond and had to resort to reading prepared notes when pressed during a news conference in April about why she awarded the contracts to partisan left-wing groups.
“When it was brought to my attention, I told them to cancel it,” Whitmer claimed. “This was an unnecessary distraction. Leadership is about solving problems. The correct process was not followed.”
Whitmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-gretchen-whitmer-grilled-over-contract-scandal-has-to-use-notes-to-answer">refused to answer</a> who was responsible for making the decision to use those companies.
Whitmer is currently facing <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/state-senator-lucido-calls-for-investigation-in-governor-whitmers-nursing-home-orders">calls</a> from Michigan state lawmakers to be investigated over her decision to send coronavirus patients to nursing homes.
The Detroit Free Press <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/17/nursing-home-data-needs-improvement-changes-coming/5199190002/">reported</a> that “thousands of nursing home residents across Michigan have fallen ill from the novel coronavirus and hundreds have died,” but the true extent of the devastation under Whitmer’s leadership is not known because “the state has yet to tally how many total nursing home residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the crisis began.”
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