memeorandum: Oh, Brother! Tears for Trump (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

6:45 AM ET, November 27, 2020

Top Items:

Trump commits to stepping down if electoral college votes for Biden — President Trump said on Thursday that he would leave the White House if the electoral college voted for President-elect Joe Biden next month, though he vowed to keep fighting to overturn the election he lost and said he may never concede.

Discussion: Politico, CNN, NBC News, Raw Story and UPI

Jill Colvin / Associated Press:

Angry Trump promises rally in battleground state of Georgia — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states led to his election defeat, and said he'll go to Georgia to rally supporters ahead of two Senate runoff elections.

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Times, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, New York Post, NPR, Portside, Election Law Blog and Politico

Charlie Nash / Mediaite:

'Don't Ever Talk to the President That Way': Trump Snaps at ‘Lightweight’ Reporter During Wild Thanksgiving Press Conference — President Donald Trump snapped at a reporter who spoke over him during a Thanksgiving press conference, calling the journalist a “lightweight” and telling him, “Don't ever talk to the president that way.”

Discussion: Raw Story and Townhall

Reuters:

Donald Trump says he will leave White House if electoral college votes for Joe Biden — President's comments are the closest he has come to admitting defeat in election and set stage for college vote on 14 December — Donald Trump has said that he will leave the White House …

Discussion: Mediaite, Reuters, The Guardian, Deadline, Daily Kos and New York Post

Joseph Choi / The Hill:

Trump says he'll leave White House if Biden declared winner of Electoral College — President Trump on Thursday said he would leave the White House on Jan. 20 if the Electoral College declares President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the election, but indicated he was not prepared to concede defeat.

Discussion: CNN, CNBC, Raw Story, TASS, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Washington Examiner and One America News Network

Nick Visser / HuffPost:

Unthankful Trump Refuses To Say If He Will Attend Biden Inauguration — “It's going to be a very hard thing to concede,” the president said in combative remarks between a bevy of falsehoods. — President Donald Trump refused on Thanksgiving to say if he will attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration …

Discussion: CNN, Business Insider, The Daily Beast and Toledo Blade

Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Give Up Power if Electoral College Backs Biden

Discussion: Raw Story, Fortune, Washington Times and IJR

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Midnight Ruling Exposes Rifts at a Supreme Court Transformed by Trump — The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions on religious services. — WASHINGTON — A few minutes before midnight …

Discussion: VICE, Gothamist and The Intellectualist

Reuters:

Cuomo calls U.S. Supreme Court's religious gatherings ruling ‘irrelevant’ — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday dismissed as “irrelevant” a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking coronavirus restrictions imposed on religious gatherings, saying it related …

Discussion: Business Insider, Cyprus Mail, CNN, Algemeiner.com and NBC 6 South Florida

New York Post:

Cuomo calls Supreme Court church ruling ‘irrelevant’ despite decision — The Supreme Court's order temporarily blocking New York from setting coronavirus capacity limits at houses of worship is “irrelevant” and “moot,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed Thursday. — In the 5-4 decision …

Discussion: Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, LifeNews.com and The Right Scoop

New York Times:
Cuomo Attacks Supreme Court, but Virus Ruling Is Warning to Governors

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner, Twin Cities, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Common Dreams and Political Wire

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Oh, Brother! Tears for Trump — No arguments — or turkey — this Thanksgiving. Just a cocktail. … ROCKVILLE, Md. — The mercurial presidency of Donald Trump apparently is over. Historians, 20 or 30 years hence, will be the impartial arbiters of his accomplishments …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, CNN and Washington Post

Joshua Bote / USA Today:

Dead minks infected with a mutated form of COVID-19 rise from graves after mass culling — Minks infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 in Denmark appear to be rising from the dead, igniting a national frenzy and calls from local officials to cremate mink carcasses.

Discussion: CBS News, The Guardian, The Daily Caller and Boing Boing

Dan Barry / New York Times:

‘Loser’: How a Lifelong Fear Bookended Trump's Presidency — The president's inability to concede the election is the latest reality-denying moment in a career preoccupied with an epithet. — In the now-distant Republican presidential primaries of 2016, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas handily won the Iowa caucuses.

Discussion: Raw Story and Townhall

Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:

Donor In Trump's Election ‘Fraud’ Fight Sues To Snatch Back His $2.5 Million Contribution — Venture capitalist Fred Eshelman blasts group that launched failed court cases that couldn't come up with any evidence of rigged voting. — A major contributor to a group backing President Donald Trump's fight …

Discussion: UPI and Law & Crime

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Pro-Trump Group Donor Sues Over Failure to Expose Election Fraud

Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:

Social Media's Liability Shield Is Under Assault — There is growing pressure to revise Section 230 to make internet businesses more accountable for online content — WASHINGTON—The law that enabled the rise of social media and other internet businesses is facing threats unlike anything …