Opinion

Jenna Ellis, an attorney who has been unsuccessful in her endeavors to get any court to overturn election results for Donald Trump based on allegations of voter fraud, attempted to put some distance between herself and attorney Lin Woods after days of bizarre accusations on Twitter.

Following a week in which Woods has accused the son of Justice Antonin Scalia of having a hand in the death of his father, linked Chief Justice John Roberts to accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and said Vice President Mike Pence would be arrested and tried for treason, Ellis appeared to have enough.

She then tweeted, "To be clear: I do not support the statements from Attorney Lin Wood. I support the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution."

As one commenter was quick to point out, "Too late now Jenna."

You can see more of that below:

Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois has been feuding with Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks and other fellow Republicans over their plans to contest 2020's Electoral College results when the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives meet for a joint session of Congress on January 6. The conservative Illinois congressman has made it abundantly clear that he accepts Joe Biden as president-elect, and in a video posted on New Year's Eve, Kinzinger explained why he is refusing to go along with Republicans who won't publicly admit that President Donald Trump lost the election.

"The president doesn't want to admit defeat, and nobody would," the 42-year-old Kinzinger explains in his video. "But he's currently trying to discredit the election results through falsehoods and conspiracies. As someone trusted to lead, I have a choice. I can be quiet, and I can survive by taking the easy path. Or, I can speak up and lead without concern for the consequences. I choose to lead without fear."

President Donald Trump fumed on Friday after the Senate voted by a wide margin to override his veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, the legislation that funds the Pentagon.

While Trump has usually touted his push for increased funding of the military, he decided to use the transition period as an opportunity to block the $740 billion bill as leverage to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The provision protects online platforms from liability for posts by users, and the right wing has — for reasons that are not entirely clear — latched on to the idea that repealing it will address their major grievances with tech companies.

When President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20, he will inherit a long list of problems — from a deadly pandemic to a painful recession to domestic terrorism by white nationalist groups. Regardless, many GOP partisans obviously have no desire to help Biden's incoming administration, and journalist Dana Milbank cites Russell Vought as one of the worst partisans in a Washington Post column published on New Year's Eve.

"If, in the new year, pandemic vaccines aren't available as promised, Americans can't return to work because economic relief isn't delivered or an adversary successfully attacks the United States because national security agencies couldn't pay for new defenses, a hefty share of the blame should be placed on a man you've probably never heard of: one Russell Thurlow Vought," Milbank writes.

David French would not be unhappy if a traditional Reaganesque Republican were being sworn in as president on January 20, but the conservative journalist has been a vehement critic of President Donald Trump. And he is not only glad that Joe Biden defeated him, but also, has been lambasting the Trump supporters who refuse to acknowledge Biden as president-elect. In a blog article posted on New Year's Eve, French slams the House and Senate Republicans who are planning to contest the Electoral College results at a joint session of Congress on January 6.

"One of the most dispiriting aspects of a dispiriting year has been watching the supremely cynical post-election contest by conservative lawyers and conservative politicians who know exactly what they're doing," French laments. "Intimidated by Trump and desperate for the approval of Trump's base, they have lent their own gravitas to utterly frivolous arguments, used their platforms to falsely whip up public concerns about election integrity, and then used the concerns they helped create as the justification for continuing a fruitless fight."

Outgoing president Donald Trump was reminded in no uncertain terms that he is a one-term president on New Year's Day after he kicked off the morning by tweeting out "HAPPY NEW YEARS!" only to have critics suggest that he "start packing."

Trump, who is still hoping that Republicans in Congress will help his stay in office by contesting the election results, returned early to Washington D.C. from his Mar-a-Lago resort in anticipation of an attempt by GOP lawmakers to disrupt Congress when it reconvenes to certify the Electoral College votes that show former Vice President Joe Biden won.

Tweeting out a simple, "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" the president was immediately told "back atcha, big guy. now go pack your big smelly bags, you're toast."

That was the general tenor as you can see below: