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Here are the damning Rudy Giuliani admissions that will help Dominion take him to the cleaners
January 25, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems filed a massive $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Monday over his false claims that the company rigged the 2020 election on behalf of President Joe Biden.
One challenge for Dominion will be not only showing that Giuliani's claims about the company are false, but that they were made with malicious intent, as proving malice is an essential component of any successful defamation lawsuit.
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1353700596407283721" target="_blank">Writing on Twitter</a>, attorney Akiva Cohen flags a section from Dominion's lawsuit that he says will give the company real proof that Giuliani maliciously lied about them as part of an effort to justify charging hefty legal fees to the Trump campaign.</p><p>Specifically, Dominion noted that Giuliani only talked about Dominion during public appearances, but went completely silent about the company when actually arguing before courts in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.</p><p>During a court hearing about the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, for instance, Giuliani admitted that the Trump campaign "doesn't plead fraud" and said that "this is not a fraud case."</p><p>"Although he was unwilling to make false election fraud claims about Dominion and and its voting machines in a court of law because he knew those allegations are false, he and his allies manufactured and disseminated the 'Big Lie,' which foreseeably went viral and deceived millions of people into believing that Dominion had stolen their votes," the company wrote in its lawsuit.</p>
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Church-going Black teens racially profiled and wrongly detained at California Target store
January 25, 2021
Three Black teenagers were wrongfully detained last week at a Target store in California, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The teens -- 17-year-old Malik Aaron, 16-year-old Gregory Kim and 16-year-old Aaron Frederickson -- say they were racially profiled by store employees who accused them of smashing through glass in the electronics section and stealing smartphones, reported the Ventura County Star.
<p>"We were being followed in the store by an employee who told us, 'Hey, I can't have you guys loitering,'" Aaron told the newspaper.</p><p>The boys said they were unaware of the shoplifting incident that took place while they were in the Westlake Village store, and security guards used shopping carts to barricade them inside as they tried to leave but allowed other shoppers to exit.</p><p>Three sheriff's deputies detained the Thousand Oaks teens in front of the store and refused to let Aaron record the encounter, but another friend recorded portions of the incident on her phone and tried to explain they had nothing to do with the theft.</p><p>"We were literally coming from church," said the girl, referred to only as Lydia in reports.</p><p>Aaron said he was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car for nearly 20 minutes, but all three boys were released after deputies determined they were not involved in the alleged grand theft.</p><p>The sheriff's department said an internal investigation found no evidence of excessive force or damage to one of the boy's cell phones, but Aaron and his family dispute those findings and have hired an attorney to file a civil rights lawsuit.</p><p>Target issued a statement saying the company had apologized to the teens and fired one of the security guards involved in the incident, and will require all the store's employees to retake security and racial bias training.</p><p class="media-headline">
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<em>A cellphone video recorded at Target in Westlake Village on Jan. 17 shows deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detaining three Black teenagers during a shoplifting investigation. The teens were later released after deputies found they were not involved with the crime.</em>
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According to a report from Politico, pro-Trump media outlets including One America News and Newsmax are jockeying for seats in the White House briefing room in order to gain a forum where they can harass the new administration of President Joe Biden.
With daily briefings returning under new White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki, the scramble for seats in a briefing room is more intense than ever with COVID-19 restrictions reducing seating from 49 spots to a meager 14.
<p>With the major networks guaranteed seats on a rotating basis, Trump administration boosters from ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer to ex-Fox News personality Eric Bolling plan to grab seats and, as Bolling put it, "hold this administration as accountable as the media held the Trump administration."</p><p>According to the report, "Trump showered his allies in the conservative media with VIP treatment, rewarding them with interviews and access, plugging their books and programs, and in some cases seeking their counsel on everything from immigration policy to military airstrikes. But they're on the outside now — and looking to draw blood from the new administration."</p><p>The report notes that the Biden administration will eliminate outlets that trade exclusively in conspiracy theories, which puts new organizations like OAN on the spot.</p><p>OAN personality Chanel Rion <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/oan-white-house-correspondents-coronavirus-160598" target="_blank">was banished</a> by the White House Correspondents' Association for failing to observe social-distancing rules. However, the White House interceded and let her back in. Now there is a question over whether the news network will be given a spot in the rotation. </p><p>"In recent days, the correspondents' association has informed nearly 20 additional outlets that they are being brought into the rotation to cover press briefings. The list includes Bolling's Sinclair as well as Breitbart, the far-right publication that in recent months focused extensively on <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/12/14/john-yoo-congress-should-only-decide-elections-if-serious-proof-of-wide-scale-voter-fraud/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">alleged </a><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/18/peter-navarro-if-election-investigation-reveals-voter-fraud-americans-deserve-a-different-outcome/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fraudulent</a><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/01/lin-wood-claims-vp-mike-pence-faces-arrest-for-treason-execution-by-firing-squad/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> voting</a> and Trump's <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/11/13/dershowitz-i-do-think-trump-win-pennsylvania-lawsuit-enough-votes-stake/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legal </a><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-campaign-lawsuit-over-pennsylvania-vote-heads-to-court/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">campaign</a> to overturn the election," the report states before adding, "WHCA representatives did not comment on the pending applications, though others outside the organization said it's not customary for anchors and hosts who don't cover the White House regularly in person to be granted full memberships."</p><p>You can <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/maga-media-white-house-briefing-462015" target="_blank">read more here</a>.</p>
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