New York Post, Saturday, November 14, 2020
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ELECTION 2020
More than 130 Secret Service
agents assigned to protecting the
White House or President Trump
are isolating after they tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus or had con-
tact with an infected colleague, ac-
cording to a new report.
The outbreak has been linked to
the slew of rallies that Trump did
in the weeks before the Nov. 3 pres-
idential election and has sidelinedapproximately 10 percent of the
agency’s core security team, the
Washington Post reported Friday.
It comes as the West Wing and
Trump 2020 campaign also deal with
growing clusters that include chief
of staff Mark Meadows, HUD Secre-
tary Ben Carson and senior cam-
paign adviser Corey Lewandowski.
In a blow to the campaign, ad-
viser David Bossie, who had onlyjust been named as the head of the
president’s legal battle, was also di-
agnosed with the respiratory bug.
Another eight staffers at the Re-
publican National Committee are
also sick with the disease.
One former senior Secret Service
supervisor told The Post: “Being
down more than 100 officers...
does not bode well for White
House security.” Ebony BowdenTwitter says it slapped warning labels on about 300,
“potentially misleading” tweets about the presidential elec-
tion in just two weeks.
Those posts accounted for 0.2 percent of all the election-
related tweets sent from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11, a period covering
the weeks leading up to and immediately following Election
Day, the social network said in a blog post.
Twitter said it hid 456 of the problematic tweets behind warn-
ing messages and blocked users from liking them, replying to
them or retweeting them without adding their own comments.
Several have come from President Trump. Noah ManskarAFP via Getty ImagesTeam Don
gives up
on Arizona
By Bruce GoldinGPresident Trump’s campaign
gave up on a lawsuit over his
projected loss in Arizona, as a
judge in Michigan refused to
order an audit of results there
that also favor Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, a law firm that
helped file Trump’s federal suit
challenging Biden’s win in Penn-
sylvania got permission to quit
the case amid outside pressure
and reported internal discord.
The move in Arizona came
after lawyers for Secretary of
State Katie Hobbs and other
defendants filed court papers
that said Biden was leading
Trump by 11,414 votes, with
10,315 left to be counted and
only 191 “overvotes.”
That tally means the race
can’t be decided by the over-
votes, which the Trump cam-
paign had claimed were the re-
sult of voting machines that
improperly read ballots
marked with Sharpie pens.
In response to the Arizona
setback, Trump tapped per-
sonal attorney and staunch
supporter Rudy Giuliani to
helm all of his campaign’s 2020
election result lawsuits and all
public statements concerning
them, The New York Times re-
ported Friday night.Giuliani’s supportive pres-
ence, however has “vexed” other
campaign officials, who fear he
is giving Trump unwarranted
optimism, the report said.
In Michigan, Third Circuit
Court Chief Judge Timothy
Kenny denied a request by two
Trump supporters for an inde-
pendent audit of the votes cast
in Detroit and surrounding
Wayne County, which voted
more than 2-to-1 for Biden.
Kenny rejected claims of
widespread voter fraud during
ballot-counting operations at
Detroit’s TCF Center, saying
“sinister” interpretations of
what went on there were “in-
correct and not credible.”
And in Pennsylvania, two
judges ruled against the Trump
campaign in a total of six chal-
lenges over absentee ballots.
Earlier Friday, lawyers with
the Pennsylvania firm Porter,
Wright, Morris & Arthur said in
court papers they’d “reached a
mutual agreement” with the
Trump campaign that it “will be
best served” without the firm.
The move came after the
anti-Trump Republican group
the Lincoln Project attacked
Porter, Wright and another firm
for participating in what it called
“unwarranted and dangerous at-
tacks on our democracy.”As judge nixes Mich. audit
300K tweet warnings Secret Service COV outbreak