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Trump caught on camera joking around with famous golfers day after his supporters' deadly Capitol riots
February 25, 2021
TMZ has obtained footage of former President Donald Trump joking around with two golfing professionals at the White House just one day after his supporters launched a deadly riot that left five people dead at the United States Capitol building.
The video shows the former president honoring golfers Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam at a White House ceremony that was supposed to be public but was taken private in the wake of the deadly pro-Trump insurrection.
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The video shows Trump awarding the two golfers a Presidential Medal of Honor while chiding Player for calling him overweight.
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"Gary earned the title 'Mr. Fitness,'" Trump says at one point. "He just told me, he said, 'Sir, lose a couple of pounds.' I said, 'Okay, Gary'... he said it in front of Annika. That was very rude, don't you think?! ! How rude can you be?"
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As TMZ notes, the White House ceremony took place even as the nation was still in shock from seeing Trump supporters storm the Capitol building in a failed attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral college victory.
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‘What?’ Congresswoman baffled as she learns of Capitol Police board’s fumbling amid the insurrection
February 25, 2021
A Democratic congresswoman was astonished by the bureaucratic malfunction ahead of the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) asked Yogananda Pittman, the acting chief of Capitol police, what role the Capitol police board plays in deploying law enforcement resources, and the lawmaker was shocked by the response.
<p>"It's important to note that by statute in order for U.S. Capitol police to have the National Guard on its grounds in a law enforcement capacity, the Capitol police board must first declare an emergency," Pittman testified.</p><p>DeLauro interrupted to ask whether an emergency was declared, or whether any of the intelligence information showing the potentially violent threat from then-president Donald Trump's supporters to Congress members.</p><p>"What?" DeLauro said. "Where was this board prior to and during this insurrection?"</p><p>Pittman said her predecessor requested the order before Jan. 6 but was denied, but she could not say whether the board was concerned about how National Guard troops would look guarding the Capitol as lawmakers certified Joe Biden's election win.<br/></p><p>"I was not privy firsthand to those conversations to say whether or not they said optics," Pittman said, "but I know the request was denied."</p><p><br/></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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The Colorado Republican Party is still pushing the false claim that the 2020 election was marred by mass voter fraud -- the very same claim that was the catalyst to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Axios reports.
Republicans are now using voter fraud conspiracy theories to justify a handful of bills that would make it harder to vote. According to Axios, top contenders for Colorado GOP chair, former Secretary of State Scott Gessler and current party vice chair Kristi Burton Brown, "are advocating for a recount of the 2020 vote and review of the Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Colorado."
<p>But as Axios points out, Colorado's voting system is considered "one of the safest in the nation because it conducts <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2020/11/16/2020-election-risk-limiting-audit-colorado/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">risk-limiting audits</a> that double-check the vote counts and machine integrity."</p><p>Read the full report over at <a href="https://www.axios.com/colorado-republicans-trump-stolen-election-voter-fraud-2108c941-c64d-442d-b5e0-01993257c54a.html" target="_blank">Axios</a>. </p>
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