NEW: Trump has talked to associates in recent days about starting a new party after he leaves the White House.
He wants to call it the Patriot Party.
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- NEW: Cindy McCain is joining the board of Joe Biden’s presidential transition team:
- President Biden — flanked by Secret Service — goes for a bike ride on the beach in South Carolina
00:00 - When Trump arrived in Minnesota, he offered to take photos with local officials. Photos show he was less than a foot away from the officials. The officials haven't been contacted by the WH about contact tracing. wsj.com/articles/trump…
- NEW: The White House wants all federal agencies to cancel their New York Times and Washington Post subscriptions: on.wsj.com/2Pkd7gL
- Overheard in the White House press room after reporters left a rambling Oval Office pool spray with President Trump and Kanye West: "Working here is officially insane."
- NEW: The White House is pushing back forcefully against those who are harassing @SabrinaSiddiqui for asking PM Modi a fair and straightforward question about human rights last week. NSC’s John Kirby calls it “completely unacceptable” and antithetical to Democracy
- FWIW: Asked about Trump's claim, Bill Clinton's spokesman says: "He did not. In fact, they’ve not talked since the inauguration."So much to chew over in Trump’s Rose Garden speech, but I’m stuck on this: He claimed previous presidents have told him they wish they’d built a border wall. Really? Obama? Bush 43? Clinton? Bush 41? Carter? None has signaled in any way that he is pro-wall.
- The publisher of the National Enquirer agreed to pay $187,500 as part of a settlement with the Federal Election Commission over a 2016 scheme to buy and suppress the story of a woman who alleged an affair with former President Donald Trump. wsj.com/articles/natio…
- Massive crowd of people waiting to enter the BOK Center in Tulsa. Most aren’t wearing masks
- NEW: From Election Day through Wednesday, the president’s family members, lawyers and a group of allies posted more than 200 times about election fraud on Twitter. Those posts were retweeted nearly 3.5 million times and liked more than 9 million times
- I guess I’m covering UFC now. Trump has arrived at Madison Square Garden, after a motorcade ride through New York. This is the White House press corps’ view:
- Pretty remarkable: The US Air Force left Afghanistan late Sunday with 640 Afghans crammed onto a C-17. Panicked Afghans climbed onto the plane's ramp as it was taking off, and US officials decided not to force them to get off:
- More Biden in South Carolina Reporters: “Will you come talk to us?” Biden: “No.” He told us we should get our bathing suits
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