The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on election security and administration issues. Witnesses included former Solicitor General Ken Starr, U.S. Election Assistance Commissioner Donald Palmer (R), several Trump campaign attorneys, and Christopher Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Mr. Krebs told committee members the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history. In addition, Mr. Krebs said, "I think that continued assaults on democracy and the outcome of this election that only serves to undermine confidence in the process is ultimately, as you both have said, ultimately corrosive to the institutions that support elections."
środa, 16 grudnia 2020
niedziela, 6 grudnia 2020
'No Way We Lost': Trump Tweets Video of His Supporters, Claims Yet Again That He Won US Elections
Trump posted a short video of one of his campaign rally which showed Republican supporters and reiterated that there's 'no way they lost the elections'.
Despite failing to cite specific evidence of voter fraud, Trump has continuously tweeted on how the Republicans did not lose the polls on November 3. But Twitter has also hunted down his tweets, labelling most of his posts on election fraud as disputed.
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Ever since the hotly contested US Presidential elections resulted in Democrat Joe Biden wresting the White House top job from Donald Trump, the incumbent US President has time and again accused the opposition of voter fraud. Trump, who is very active on Twitter has continued to hit out at the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration of using rigged means to secure votes.
Despite failing to cite specific evidence of voter fraud, Trump has continuously tweeted on how the Republicans did not lose the polls on November 3. But Twitter has also hunted down his tweets, labelling most of his posts on election fraud as disputed. But the Republican president doesn't seem like he will relent, if his latest tweet is anything to go by.
Trump posted a short video of one of his campaign rally which showed Republican supporters and said, " NO WAY WE LOST THIS ELECTION!". https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/no-way-we-lost-trump-tweets-video-of-his-supporters-claims-yet-again-that-he-won-us-elections-3129761.html
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piątek, 27 listopada 2020
Bob Dylan’s Thanksgiving Radio Show: A Playlist of 18 Delectable Songs
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If you're looking for a soundtrack for Thanksgiving, you could do worse than to let Bob Dylan create it for you.
From May 2006 until April 2009, Dylan hosted the Theme Time Radio Hour, a weekly radio show on XM Satellite Radio. Each show revolved around a different theme (e.g., "Weather," "Drinking" or "Baseball"). But the episodes all had one thing in common — they presented listeners with an eclectic mix of music, everything from LL Cool J and Chuck Berry, to They Might Be Giants, Billie Holiday, and Johnny Cash. Trying to describe the radio show, theater critic Terry Teachout wrote in The Wall Street Journal: "To listen to Theme Time Radio Hour is to rediscover the sense of musical adventure that old-fashioned disc jockeys with strongly individual personalities offered in the days before big-money stations pinned their fiscal hopes to the rigid Top 40-style playlists that took the fun out of radio."
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Today we bring you Episode 30 of Season 1, "Thanksgiving Leftovers," which originally aired on November 22, 2006. The show features 18 songs, selected and introduced by Dylan. The songs (find a list below) aren't dishes cooked fresh. No, they're "leftovers" — tunes that Dylan had hoped to squeeze into previous radio shows but never quite managed to do. Yet, together, they make for a pretty good meal. You can stream them all above. And if you like what you hear, head over to the Theme Time Radio Hour Archive, where they've apparently archived all 100 episodes, audio included.
- "Turkey In The Straw" — Liberace (1952)
- "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum" — Harry McClintock (1926)
- "Let Me Play With Your Poodle" — Tampa Red & Big Maceo (1942)
- "Yard Dog" — Al Ferrier (1972)
- "The Turkey Hop" — The Robins with Johnny Otis Orchestra (1950)
- "Honeysuckle Rose" — Fats Waller (1934)
- "Twelve Red Roses" — Betty Harris (1966)
- "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" — Skeets McDonald (1952)
- "Them There Eyes" — Billie Holiday (1939)
- "Angel Eyes" — Jesse Belvin (1959)
- "Gunslingers" — Mighty Sparrow (1963)
- "Let's Be Friends" — Billy Wright (1955)
- "Whiskey Is The Devil (In Liquid Form)" — The Bailes Brothers (1947)
- "Teach Me Tonight" — Dinah Washington (1954)
- "Teacher Teacher" — Rockpile (1980)
- "Iodine In My Coffee" — Muddy Waters (1952)
- "You Eat Too Much" — Harold Burrage (1956)
- "Pie In The Sky" — Cisco Houston (1960)
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czwartek, 26 listopada 2020
Proclamation on Thanksgiving Day, 2020
On Thanksgiving Day, we thank God for the abundant blessings in our lives. As we gather with family and friends to celebrate this season of generosity, hope, and gratitude, we commemorate America's founding traditions of faith, family, and friendship, and give thanks for the principles of freedom, liberty, and democracy that make our country exceptional in the history of the world.
This November marks 400 years since the Mayflower and its passengers faced the unknown and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Propelled by hope for a brighter future, these intrepid men and women endured two long months at sea, tired and hungry, to arrive in a new world full of potential. In the winter weather that greeted their arrival, they lost nearly half of their fellow travelers to exposure, disease, and starvation. Despite unimaginable hardships, these first Americans nevertheless remained firm in their faith and unwavering in their commitment to their dreams. They forged friendships with the Wampanoag Tribe, fostered a spirit of common purpose among themselves, and trusted in God to provide for them. The following year, they celebrated a successful harvest alongside their Native American neighbors — the first Thanksgiving. This seminal event in the history of our Nation is a continual reminder of the power of faith, love, perseverance, prayer, and fellowship.
The Mayflower's arrival to the New World in 1620 also marks the arrival of the first seeds of democracy to our land. Absent the rule of a monarch in an uncharted wilderness, these early settlers resolved to create their own government through what is known as the Mayflower Compact. Defined by majority rule through elected leaders responsible for creating "just and equal laws," the Mayflower Compact represents the first chapter in the long tradition of self-determination and rule of law in America. One hundred and fifty-six years later, our Nation's Founding Fathers resolved to break free from England, building upon the Mayflower Compact to establish an enduring government whose authority came solely "from the consent of the governed."
This year, as our Nation continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, we have once again joined together to overcome the challenges facing us. In the midst of suffering and loss, we are witnessing the remarkable courage and boundless generosity of the American people as they come to the aid of those in need, reflecting the spirit of those first settlers who worked together to meet the needs of their community. First responders, medical professionals, essential workers, neighbors, and countless other patriots have served and sacrificed for their fellow Americans, and the prayers of our people have once again lifted up our Nation, providing comfort, healing, and strength during times of uncertainty. Despite unprecedented challenges, we have not faltered in the face of adversity. To the contrary, we have leveraged our strengths to make significant breakthroughs that will end this crisis, rebuilding our stockpiles, revamping our manufacturing capabilities, and developing groundbreaking therapeutics and life-saving vaccines on record-shattering timeframes.
During this season of gratitude, we also acknowledge those who cannot be with their families. This includes the brave American patriots of our Armed Forces who selflessly defend our sacred liberty at home and abroad. And we pause to remember the sacrifices of our law enforcement personnel and first responders. We are deeply grateful for all those who remain on watch over the holidays and keep us safe as we celebrate and give thanks for the blessings in our lives.
This Thanksgiving, we reaffirm our everlasting gratitude for all that we enjoy, and we commemorate the legacy of generosity bestowed upon us by our forbearers. Although challenges remain, we will never yield in our quest to live up to the promise of our heritage. As we gather with our loved ones, we resolve with abiding faith and patriotism to celebrate the joys of freedom and cherish the hope and peace of a brighter future ahead.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 26, 2020, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
środa, 18 listopada 2020
So true. Thanks Jody!
So true. Thanks Jody!
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Rep. Jody Hice
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· 18 lis
As more votes are uncovered in Georgia, this race has continued to narrow. Americans want a fair vote with an honest count — it should not be a difficult ask. Georgia's election officials owe us a legitimate election.
niedziela, 15 listopada 2020
Remarks by President Trump During an Update on Operation Warp Speed Issued on: November 13, 2020
Rose Garden
4:25 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you. It's beautiful out here this time of year. In the past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in U.S. history — pioneering, developing, and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Numbers like nobody has seen before.
No medical breakthrough of this scope and magnitude has ever been achieved this rapidly, this quickly. And we're very proud of it, and I had tremendous help from the military — generals, admirals — and many of the great people at the White House.
Operation Warp Speed is unequaled and unrivaled anywhere in the world, and leaders of other countries have called me to congratulate us on what we've been able to do, and we've helped many countries with their ventilators and all of the problems they were having.
And I'd like to congratulate everyone involved in this effort. It's been an incredible effort. As a result of Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer announced on Monday that its China virus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective. This far exceeds any and all expectations. Nobody thought they'd get to that level. And we have others coming which we think will be at equal level — maybe more, if that's possible.
In July, my administration reached an agreement with Pfizer to provide $1.95 billion to support the mass manufacturing and distribution of 100 million doses, with the option to purchase a total of 600 million doses shortly thereafter. Our investment will make it possible for the vaccine to be provided by Pfizer free of charge.
Pfizer said it wasn't part of Warp Speed, but that turned out to be a unfortunate misrepresentation. They are part. That's why we gave them the $1.95 million — billion dollars. And it was an unfortunate mistake that they made when they said that.
We will work to secure an emergency use authorization, which should be coming down extremely soon. And my administration will then coordinate the distribution of the vaccine, and it will be approved, I think — again, it will be approved very, very quickly, we hope.
The average development timeline for the vaccine, including clinical tests and manufacturing, can take 8 to 12 years. Through Operation Warp Speed, we're doing it in less than one year. If you had a different administration with different people, what we've done would have taken, in my opinion, three, four, five years, and it would have been in the FDA forever.
This is five times faster than the fastest prior vaccine development in history. Five times faster. Say it again: five times faster. Nobody can believe it, actually.
Three other vaccines are also in the final stages of trial. They'll arrive within a few weeks, and they will also be mass produced, and the delivery will be very rapid. We're ready to go.
The vaccine will be distributed to frontline workers, the elderly, and high-risk Americans immediately. It will be very — a matter of weeks. Get out very, very much ahead of schedule. Any schedule that I said, we're going to be far ahead of that.
We know that this virus primarily targets older populations and those with underlying health conditions. Well, over 99.98 percent of those under the age of 50 make a full and quick recovery. By giving the vaccine to high-risk individuals right away, we will dramatically reduce hospitalizations and deaths.
Case levels are high, but a lot of the case levels are high because of the fact that we have the best testing program anywhere in the world. We've developed the most and the best tests. And we test far more than any other country, so it shows, obviously, more cases.
By vaccinating the elderly and the high-risk, we will effectively end this phase of the pandemic and allow seniors to reclaim their golden years — the golden years of their lives, which is so incredible. And it's about time that they can have those golden years.
Again, this process is starting right away. Millions of doses will soon be going out the door. They're all ready, waiting for that final approval. As soon as April, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population, with the exception of places like New York state, where, for political reasons, the governor decided, they say — and, you know, I don't think it's good, politically; I think it's very bad from a health standpoint — but he wants to take his time with the vaccine. He doesn't trust where the vaccine is coming from.
These are coming from the greatest companies anywhere in the world, greatest labs in the world. But he doesn't trust the fact that it's this White House, this administration. So we won't be delivering it to New York until we have authorization to do so, and that pains me to say that.
This is a very successful, amazing vaccine at 90 percent and more. But — so, the governor, Governor Cuomo, will have to let us know when he's ready for it. Otherwise, we — we can't — we can't be delivering it to a state that won't be giving it to its people immediately. And I know many — I know the people of New York very well. I know they want it.
So the governor will let us know when he's ready. He's had some very bad editorials recently about this — this statement and what's happened with respect to nursing homes and his handling of nursing homes, and I hope he doesn't handle this as badly as he's handled the nursing homes.
But we're ready to provide it as soon as they let us know that they'll actually use it. And again, it's a very safe and a great vaccine.
Already, we have among the lowest case-fatality rates — our country — anywhere in the world, the entire world. And we performed significantly better than our peer countries.
As far as therapeutics are concerned, my administration has also made critical investments in therapies that have helped reduce the mortality rate by 85 percent. That's, to me, one of the most exciting things. It's incredible, some of the antibody vaccines and others that have come out and have really helped people — 85 percent.
Last month, the FDA approved remdesivir, and we've secured enough remdesivir to treat 850,000 patients.
My administration finalized an agreement with Eli Lilly to purchase the first doses of their antibody therapy, which shows amazing results. This treatment will be available completely free of cost to patients. Five thousand units have already been shipped, and many more are going out the door as we speak.
We also reached an agreement with AstraZeneca for the largescale manufacturing of their antibody treatment, which is excellent. We expect to issue emergency use authorizations for a number of additional treatments in the near future. Tremendous promise. But remember the 85 percent number. That's an incredible, incredible number. But we have some tremendously promising drugs on line and ready to come out.
We have ensured that our frontline workers have all the tools they need. My administration has invoked the Defense Production Act and related authorities over 100 times, and have made a historic investment into our industrial base. All states that requested PPE from the federal government have received the PPE almost immediately upon request.
Every American who needed a ventilator has had access to a ventilator. Think of that. A very complicated piece of equipment. Very expensive. And we haven't had one person in this whole country that has requested or needed a ventilator that hasn't had it. Every single request has been immediately filled. So that was something. That was a great job.
And now we're helping the rest of the world with ventilators, because it's a very hard thing. We're producing them, thousands of — thousands of ventilators a month.
The federal government has 22,000 beds immediately available for states and jurisdictions that need additional capacity, but we think that it's going to start going down, possibly very quickly. We'll see what happens. But with the vaccine, it'll — you'll see numbers going down within a matter of months, and they'll go down very rapidly.
As we continue to combat the virus, our economy is rebounding far beyond any expectations. I see the stock market is up almost 400 points today again, and it's ready to break the all-time record.
Our jobs records are incredible. The job numbers are incredible. In the last six months, we've created over 13 million jobs and slashed the unemployment rate by more than half.
Last quarter, we witnessed the fastest economic growth ever recorded in the history of our country: 33.1 percent. It's a number that is more than double our highest — that was in 1952, and we've more than doubled it.
The United States experienced the smallest economic contraction and the most rapid economic recovery of any major Western nation. We went down less and we went up more, which is quite a combination of facts.
While healthy Americans have gone back to work and to school, we continue to spare no expense to protect the elderly and the vulnerable. According to some estimates, a national lockdown costs $50 billion a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day.
Ideally, we won't go to a lockdown. I will not go — this administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the — the — whatever happens in the future — who knows which administration it will be? I guess time will tell. But I can tell you, this administration will not go to a lockdown. There won't be necessity. Lockdowns cost lives, and they cost a lot of problems.
The cure cannot be — you got to remember — cannot be worse than the problem itself, and I've said it many times. And when you look at what happens during a lockdown — I just say it very loudly — it's horrible what happens with drugs, alcohol, depression, loss of jobs, business closures. It's a terrible thing.
So this administration will not go, under any circumstances — will not go to a lockdown, but we'll be very vigilant, very careful. We understand the disease. It's a — it's a complicated disease, but we understand it very well.
We ask all Americans to remain vigilant, especially as the weather gets colder and it becomes more difficult to go outside and to have outside gatherings.
And with that, I just want to ask some very talented people to come up and say a few words. General Perna and Dr. Slaoui have been incredible. The General is really getting started right now, but he's really — what we don't know and what people don't know, he started putting this all together six months ago, and you're going to see some real action.
So, General, maybe you'll start it off? And then, Doctor, you'll go right after that. Thank you very much.
And then we're going to finish it off with Mike Pence. Okay? Thank you, please. Thank you. Sure.
DR. SLAOUI: Thank you, Mr. President. Hi, everybody. So Operation Warp Speed's mission is to enable and accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutics to help control the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives.
On May 15th, almost six months ago to the day, we stated the goal of the operation, which was to have vaccines and therapeutics available and approved for use in the U.S. population by the end of the year 2020. We said then that, while very challenging, the goal was credible and therefore was worth trying with the best — our best to achieve it.
Today, we're almost six months later, and I think we can say that significant progress has been made. And while we are not there yet, we are close to the objective.
Let me share with you some facts. If I look at the vaccine side, we've selected a portfolio of six vaccines, using three different platform technologies, and we elected to have two vaccines from each platform technology. The first platform is what's called "messenger RNA," and two vaccines using that platform were in the portfolio: one by Pfizer and one by Moderna.
The second platform is using what is called "live viral vectors," and we had one vaccine from J&J and one vaccine from AstraZeneca, in partnership with Oxford University.
And the third platform was the recombinant protein platform, with one vaccine from a biotech company here in the U.S. called Novavax and another one from a partnership between Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline.
These vaccines are now — six vaccines are all in the clinical development stages, and four of them are in phase three trials. And of the four that are in phase three trials, two have effectively completed enrollment in the phase three trial. And one of the two has announced on Monday — to, I think, thrilling information — that they had 90 percent efficacy — that was the Pfizer vaccine — demonstrating that vaccination is possible against COVID-19, that the kind of choices we have made in terms of the antigen selected was effective, and made us optimistic that other vaccines may also be effective.
On Wednesday, the same week — just this Wednesday — Moderna, the other company with the vaccine using similar platform technology — messenger RNA — announced that they have achieved the number of cases in their trial to allow for a first interim analysis, and I would expect that shortly — probably next week — we may hear what I hope to be another very good information regarding an efficacious vaccine.
The two other vaccines that are in phase three trial that are using the live vector platform — the J&J vaccine and the AstraZeneca vaccine — have recruited already a few thousand subjects in their trials. I would like to take this opportunity to invite as many Americans as possible who would like to volunteer to participate in these clinical trials, as that's the only way we are able to achieve a demonstration of the safety and the efficacy of these vaccines.
The last two vaccines — the protein recombinant protein vaccines — are planned to start their phase three trials within the next few weeks. And while we are developing these vaccines, we haven't only looked at the clinical development, of course, in partnership with the companies that are the sponsors for the vaccine; we also invested very significantly in the manufacturing of this vaccine, in such a way as to when we have the clinical efficacy demonstration with these vaccines, we would also have vaccine doses to be able to immunize the U.S. population.
So the two vaccines that are completing their phase three trial are likely to be filing their files with the FDA for a potential emergency use authorization within the next few weeks. And hopefully, if approved, they could be used for immunization in the U.S. population in the month of December. And we have — we plan to have enough vaccine doses available for use in the U.S. population to immunize about 20 million individuals in the month of December, and another 25 to 30 million per month on an ongoing basis from there on. And as of the month of February or March, if we have more vaccines approved, such as the live vector vaccine, we may be able to immunize a larger number of Americans, on an ongoing basis, per month.
Operation Warp Speed didn't only focus on vaccines; we also looked at therapeutics. And we have worked with a number of companies developing monoclonal antibodies, in particular, that are able to neutralize the virus.
As Mr. President said, we have announced partnerships with Eli Lilly, with Regeneron, and with AstraZeneca. And, on Monday, Eli Lilly's monoclonal antibody was granted an emergency use authorization to treat the patients that are infected and at risk of hospitalization. The Regeneron monoclonal antibodies have been also filed for emergency use authorization, which is currently under review and is potentially reaching approval within the next few weeks.
And finally, AstraZeneca, just in the last few days, has received a green light to start two large phase three trials with their monoclonal antibodies, supported by Operation Warp Speed, to prevent the acquisition of COVID-19 disease in very frail subjects or in very high-risk subjects, as a protective alternative to a vaccine.
So, potentially two vaccines and two therapeutics may be granted an emergency use authorization before the end of this year. I think it's a remarkable achievement within a period of six to seven months.
It is important to know that this progress has been achieved without any political interference. I said it many times. And at every step has been and is being judged by independent expert bodies, whether it's when the FDA grants the green light to go into clinical trials, or whether when the Data Safety Monitoring Boards review the safety of the studies on an ongoing basis and sometimes put them on hold, as I'm sure you have witnessed with the AstraZeneca vaccine, for instance.
And these same Data Safety Monitoring Boards are the independent boards of experts that analyze the efficacy of the vaccines and the safety of the vaccines and tell the companies whether they should progress with the filing of an emergency use authorization or not.
So it's not the companies. It's not Operation Warp Speed. It's not the U.S. government. It is independent experts that assess the safety and the efficacy of the vaccines that are being tested.
And when the FDA will review these vaccines and therapeutics, they will also have the advice — public advice from boards; one of them is called the "VRBPAC," that is the advisory board to the FDA for vaccine reviews — after review of the data transparently and available to everybody to look into before the FDA then makes its decision to either authorize the vaccine or not authorize it.
On that basis, I personally feel very comfortable to say that the vaccines and the therapeutics that we have helped develop and accelerate will be judged independently, and, if approved, should be used by all in the population. Because I believe vaccination is likely to be the cornerstone among all the other measures that we have to take to help us really control this pandemic.
I will now pass to my co-leader, General Perna, who will tell you more about the support that the operation has provided to manufacturing of the vaccine and also to their distribution.
Thank you very much.
GENERAL PERNA: Mr. President, thank you for allowing me to continue service of our great nation as the co-leader with Dr. Moncef Slaoui on this mission.
Let me start by emphasizing, for me, what is Operation Warp Speed about: It is about saving lives, and it is a herculean task that the President put us on many months ago. And as Dr. Slaoui just laid out, we are making steady progress and we are ready to execute.
Through the whole-of-America approach, we have leveraged the best of nation in federal government, local, states, industry, and academia to expand the capacity and capability to achieve our mission. It has been powerful.
We have capitalized on the best contracting, logistics, and planning experts available to synchronize and integrate all phases of the operation, from development of the vaccine, manufacturing of the vaccine, and finally distribution of the vaccine.
Six months ago, the capacity did not exist in our nation's pharmaceutical production base. We went to work building brick and mortar manufacturing facilities, bringing in the right specialized machinery, and prioritizing supply-chain materials through the Defense Production Act.
Today, we expect to have tens of millions of doses immediately following EUA, and we will distribute them as soon as the FDA applies the EUA. We will do that within 24 hours of the EUA. We are harnessing the strength of commercial industry and the existing vaccine delivery capabilities and infrastructure. Our nation deserves this. Vaccines will be allocated pro rata by population so that we ensure fair and equitable across.
We need the states who are part of the planning to accept the vaccine. We are working closely along with the CDC, the 64 jurisdictions, and states to ensure a vaccine can safely and quickly get to those who need it first. And then we have plans to ensure that it spreads exponentially across our country and that no place is left without a vaccine. At the end of the day, our success is going to be judged by the availability of the vaccine as shots go in arms.
It is the partnerships we have formed with the pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna; distribution companies like McKesson, FedEx, and UPS; and pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens that have agreed to do things differently, to think, "How can we get this to the American people in the most rapid and expedition- — expeditious way?" We will be successful because of this all-of-America approach, this collaboration, this effort that everybody is leading towards.
I will end where I started: This is about saving lives, the lives of the great American people. And we will not rest until we are successful and that we have irreversible momentum to returning our nation back to normal. Thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, General, very much. Great job.
Alex, please.
SECRETARY AZAR: Thank you, Mr. President, for providing the leadership that's gotten us where we are today. The success that Operation Warp Speed has realized so far has been made possible only because of the bold vision you announced not even six months ago, right here in the Rose Garden.
To highlight three of the remarkable accomplishments we see just this week: First, Pfizer announced very promising data on its vaccine candidate.
Second, Eli — second, the FDA authorized and we have begun to distribute and administer Eli Lilly's monoclonal antibody to help Americans at risk for serious disease stay out of the hospital.
Third, another vaccine company, Moderna, announced that it's reached a critical clinical trial milestone, meaning we may see data from them within days.
Back in the spring, we were told by all of the experts that a vaccine was a year or a year and a half away, and the announcements I just highlighted would have been unthinkable. The President said, "That's not acceptable." And thanks to the support he's provided, we're now on track to deliver a safe and effective vaccine to our most vulnerable this year.
As I worked with the President to assemble this team and organize this effort, his support was indispensable at each step of the way. We went out and found the very best people on the planet to do the job, who you just talked with: Dr. Slaoui, the world's most successful vaccine developer; General Perna, one of the world's most qualified logistics leaders.
When I first talked to Dr. Slaoui and General Perna about our goals and recruited them to this effort, we dreamed of being at the point we're at today: on track to achieve the incredibly ambitious goal we set together.
The President gave us the full financial support we needed, enabling us to invest more than $10 billion to de-risk vaccine companies' development efforts and manufacture product in advance.
Our completely unprecedented partnership with the Defense Department has given us a comprehensive public-private plan for distribution and help each Operation Warp Speed vaccine maker secure what they needed for manufacturing, including Pfizer's ongoing production this week.
Operation Warp Speed has always had one goal: saving lives. The President has given OWS the independence it needs to achieve that goal and ensure that we're following the procedures that Americans expect for any medical product they take. At every step, ensuring patient safety has been our top priority.
This process has been driven solely by science and data. So it's a shame that some — one example being the Governor of New York — have actually injected politics into the process and suggested the possibility of intentionally delaying access to an FDA-authorized vaccine, which is simply unconscionable.
Because the President has delivered the full funding we need, the best people on the planet, and real independence for this project, Operation Warp Speed is doing something that has never been done before in history. This success means there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Right now is not the time to let our guard down. We continue to encourage Americans to follow the three "W's": Wash your hands; watch your distance; wear a mask when you can't watch your distance; and avoid settings where you can't do those things.
Because of the incredible American spirit, because of what great scientists and public servants and innovators have done through Operation Warp Speed, we have such a bright future ahead of us. If we continue to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities, then I firmly believe that future will be here very soon.
Thank you, Mr. President, for making that very bright future possible for the American people.
THE PRESIDENT: Appreciate it. Thank you.
Mike Pence, please.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Mr. President. And on behalf of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, I was grateful to just have a few minutes today to commend the team of Operation Warp Speed.
It was your vision that we could harness the ingenuity and the creativity of America's greatest pharmaceutical and research companies to speed, in record time, a vaccine that would save American lives.
You told the American people that we would have a vaccine before the end of the year, and some scoffed at that timetable. But I can tell you, the team on Operation Warp Speed didn't; these great research companies didn't.
And as you've articulated here, Mr. President, the American people can be comforted with all the news this week that help is on the way. That literally, pending FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine and perhaps very soon another vaccine that will be submitted by Moderna and even other companies — that before the year is out, we'll be able to administer a vaccine to tens of millions of Americans, as you've said Mr. President, beginning with those most vulnerable, beginning with our seniors all across this country, beginning with our healthcare workers and first responders at the point of the need.
It is an unprecedented medical mobilization, the greatest in the history of our country. And I join you in commending this team.
Let me also say, Mr. President, that the White House Coronavirus Task Force will be meeting with our nation's governors in our regular conference call this Monday. We'll be reviewing with them the progress on the development of a vaccine, our plans for distribution. But we'll also be reviewing each and every state's specific plans for distributing the vaccine, continue to urge governors to have those plans developed and prepared and ready for immediate implementation.
And finally, Mr. President, as we see cases rising around the country, as we see hospitalizations rising around the country, I want to encourage the American people with the news that, as we have done from the very beginning, we're going to continue to move Heaven and Earth to make sure that your family has access to the level of healthcare that we'd want any one of our members of our family to have.
I spoke to FEMA today, and as we heard reported at our last taskforce meeting, Mr. President, we're receiving requests from states for PPE, for personnel, but we're meeting all of those requests. And according to our team on the ground, we continue to believe that we'll be able to meet the requests for PPE and equipment — both from the Strategic National Stockpile, also from the commercial market — to make sure that those needs are all met.
And the American people can also be confident, because of the system that you established, that since this past July, we're actually able to track PPE — gowns and gloves and N95 masks — on a hospital-by-hospital basis, so we can continue to deliver, as you said, Mr. President, on that extraordinary record in America, where no American who has ever required a ventilator has ever been denied a ventilator, no American who has ever been required an ICU bed has ever been denied an ICU bed.
So the good news today, through Operation Warp Speed, Mr. President, is help is on the way. It's on the way right around the corner. As one of the members of our task force said recently, the cavalry is coming. But we want to encourage every American that we're going to continue to make sure that our healthcare system has the resources, the support, the equipment and supplies that they need.
And we also, Mr. President, as — as we see cases rising, particularly in — in the Heartland of this country, but in communities all across America, we encourage every American, as the Secretary did and as you have, to continue to practice good hygiene, wash your hands, practice social distancing, wear a mask when that's not possible.
We all have a role to play. We all know what to do to protect the vulnerable and to look after our families and our neighbors and friends. And we encourage every American, with all the good news this week, to continue to be persistent in putting the health of yourself, your family, your neighbors, coworkers, and friends first.
And — and we'll get through this, and we'll get through this together. Thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Mike. And thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.
END 4:58 P.M. EST
czwartek, 12 listopada 2020
Radio Jedynka, to było grane
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Stan Borys‚ Blackout - Anna
środa, 11 listopada 2020
Stan Borys: budzę się do życia
- Od samego początku walczyłem z myślą, żebym nie został na wózku. Niektórzy lekarze nawet mówili, że są takie perspektywy - mówi w Programie 1 Polskiego Radia Stan Borys, który powoli wraca do zdrowia po przebytym udarze. Którą piosenką zaśpiewa jako pierwszą?
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Stan BorysFoto: Wojciech Kusiński / PR
Stan Borys - wokalista, kompozytor, aktor i poeta - na początku 2019 roku trafił do szpitala w wyniku udaru niedokrwiennego. Przez kilka dni był na oddziale OIOM, ale nigdy nie stracił przytomności. Po kilkudniowej walce o życie okazało się, że muzyk jest częściowo sparaliżowany. Dzięki systematycznej rehabilitacji, artyście udaje się odzyskiwać sprawność.
- Jest coraz lepiej. Że tak powiem, budzę się do życia. Cały czas pracuję nad tym. Niektórzy sportowcy piszą do mnie: "Ty wstaniesz! Ty już stoisz!". Cieszę się, bo to dodaje sił - opowiada Stan Borys. - Od samego początku walczyłem z myślą, żebym nie został na wózku. Niektórzy lekarze nawet mówili, że takie są perspektywy. Ja cały czas byłem pozytywnie, motywacyjnie związany z moim życiem i z moimi planami na przyszłość. Na to jak będę biegał, jak będę chodził, jak moi koledzy tenisiści i golfiści mówili: "Czekamy na ciebie". To było dla mnie strasznie motywujące - dodaje.
>>>[CZYTAJ RÓWNIEŻ] Stan Borys: trzeba upaść, żeby móc się podnieść
To dzięki jego partnerce
Gość Jedynki jest w coraz lepszej formie. Maria Szabłowska zwróciła uwagę, że widać poprawę po tym, jak Stan Borys chodzi i porusza się.
- Jestem pilnym studentem, ponieważ uczę się wszystkiego, co we mnie zanikło, czyli sprawności. Ale najważniejszą machiną w tym wszystkim jest osoba. Moja ukochana Ania (partnerka artysty - red.), która nieprzerwanie jest ze mną w każdym szpitalu i w każdym ośrodku rehabilitacyjnym. Popycha mnie do tego, żeby było lepiej - tłumaczy Stan Borys.
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"Mogę cały koncert dla ciebie zaśpiewać"
Anna Maleady była również motorem napędowym do organizacji specjalnego koncertu charytatywnego "Nie jesteś sam" na rzecz muzyka, który odbył się w czerwcu w 2019 w Polskim Radiu. W koncercie wzięli udział: Kayah, Skaldowie, Halina Frąckowiak, Alicja Majewska, Włodzimierz Korcz, Krzysztof Cugowski, Marek Piekarczyk, Izabela Trojanowska, Jerzy Grunwald, Andrzej i Jacek Zielińscy, Olga Bończyk, Grzegorz Wilk i Agata Dąbrowska.
- Wówczas leżałem i nie wiedziałem, co się dzieje. Jak skończył się koncert, zadzwonił do mnie Krzysztof Cugowski. Wymienił mi wszystkich ludzi, którzy byli i powiedział: "No co ty mi dziękujesz, przecież to normalne. Ja mogę cały koncert dla ciebie zaśpiewać". To jest piękne, że są tacy ludzie - słyszymy.
>>>[CZYTAJ RÓWNIEŻ] "Nie jesteś sam". Polskie Radio włącza się w pomoc dla Stana Borysa
Plany na przyszłość
Stan Borys zamierza, po tym jak odbuduje zdrowie, powrócić do muzyki. Jak mówi, pierwszą piosenką, którą prawdopodobnie zaśpiewa za jakiś czas, będzie wiersz Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego "Rozmowa liryczna". Jest to jego ulubiony poemat.
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Tytuł audycji: "Muzyczne spotkania"
Prowadziła: Maria Szabłowska
Gość: Stan Borys (wokalista, kompozytor, aktor, poeta)
Data emisji: 27.02.2020
Godzina emisji: 23.05
https://player.polskieradio.pl/kolejka
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski - polityk i wirtuoz
Stronnictwo powinno być jedno: Polska, i temu jednemu służyć będę do śmierci - mówił wybitny pianista w 1918 roku.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, foto: PAP/DPA
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianista, kompozytor, działacz społeczny i mąż stanu, który jako premier i minister spraw zagranicznych podpisał w imieniu Polski traktat wersalski, urodził się 6 listopada 1860 roku (18 listopada według kalendarza juliańskiego) w Kuryłówce na Podolu, w ówczesnym zaborze rosyjskim.
W 1872 roku rozpoczął studia w Instytucie Muzycznym w Warszawie. Od 1881 roku kontynuował studia muzyczne w Berlinie, a następnie w Wiedniu, m.in. pod okiem słynnego profesora Teodora Leszetyckiego. W tym czasie powstawały jego pierwsze ważne kompozycje. W 1888 roku zagrał serię koncertów w paryskiej Salle Erard, które zapoczątkowały wielką karierę pianisty.
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Amerykański sen
Pierwsze amerykańskie tournée Paderewskiego, które odbyło się w 1891 roku, przyniosło mu kolejny sukces. Odtąd występował prawie we wszystkich krajach Europy i obu Ameryk, a także w Afryce (1912) i Australii (1904). Nadal zajmował się kompozycją. Napisał m.in.: Koncert a-moll na fortepian i orkiestrę op. 17 (1888), operę "Manru" (1900) i Symfonię h-moll "Polonię" (1907), która powstała jako "hołd patriotyczny dla ojczyzny".
Pomnik Grunwaldzki
Ukończenie symfonii i pierwsze jej wykonania – w latach 1909-1910 – zbiegły się z 500-leciem bitwy pod Grunwaldem i odsłonięciem w Krakowie Pomnika Grunwaldzkiego, którego Paderewski był fundatorem. Podczas tej uroczystości, w obecności 150 tysięcy ludzi, pianista wygłosił płomienne przemówienie. Działalność kompozytorską Paderewski porzucił około 1910 roku, kiedy był u szczytu kariery pianistycznej.
Wielka Wojna
Po wybuchu I wojny światowej zaangażował się w działalność społeczno-polityczną. Pomagał w prowadzeniu, założonego przez Henryka Sienkiewicza w styczniu 1915 roku, Generalnego Komitetu Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny w Polsce. W lutym 1915 roku wyjechał ze Szwajcarii i przez Francję i Wielką Brytanię dotarł do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Tam aktywnie wspierał różne inicjatywy na rzecz niepodległej Polski. Zorganizował ponad 300 spotkań połączonych z koncertami, na których przemawiał i zachęcał do udzielania pomocy walczącym o wolność Polakom. To m.in. w wyniku jego działań do Armii Polskiej we Francji zgłosiło się prawie 30 tysięcy ochotników z USA.
Dzięki osobistym wpływom Paderewski dotarł do prezydenta Thomasa Woodrowa Wilsona, przekonując go do wsparcia sprawy polskiej. W styczniu 1917 roku przedstawił mu memoriał dotyczący konieczności odbudowy niepodległego państwa polskiego. 28 sierpnia 1917 roku został członkiem Komitetu Narodowego Polskiego w Paryżu i jego przedstawicielem w USA. Przyczynił się do tego, że w ogłoszonym 8 stycznia 1918 roku orędziu prezydenta USA do Kongresu znalazł się punkt dotyczący odbudowy niepodległej Polski. Paderewski odegrał też istotną rolę w przyjęciu 3 czerwca 1918 roku deklaracji, w której Wielka Brytania, Francja i Włochy uznały powstanie zjednoczonej i wolnej Polski za warunek sprawiedliwego i trwałego pokoju w Europie.
Powstanie Wielkopolskie
25 grudnia 1918 roku na pokładzie brytyjskiego krążownika "Concord" Paderewski przybył do Gdańska. Następnego dnia dotarł do Poznania. Jego wizyta wywołała w mieście wielką patriotyczną manifestację, przyczyniając się do wybuchu Powstania Wielkopolskiego. Równie entuzjastycznie, na początku stycznia 1919 roku, przyjęto go w Warszawie, gdzie pod hotelem "Bristol" witany był przez wielotysięczny tłum. Przemawiając do zebranych ludzi, Paderewski oświadczył: "Nie przyszedłem po dostojeństwa, sławę, zaszczyty, lecz aby służyć, ale nie jakiemuś stronnictwu. Szanuję wszystkie stronnictwa, lecz nie będę należał do żadnego. Stronnictwo powinno być jedno: Polska, i temu jednemu służyć będę do śmierci".
Premier
16 stycznia 1919 roku Naczelnik Państwa Józef Piłsudski powołał Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego na stanowisko prezesa Rady Ministrów i ministra spraw zagranicznych oraz delegata polskiego na konferencję pokojową w Paryżu. W przekonaniu Piłsudskiego, osoba Paderewskiego, gwarantowała zasypanie podziałów między prawicą i lewicą w tak ważnym dla Polski momencie.
Traktat wersalski
28 czerwca 1919 roku Paderewski w imieniu Polski złożył podpis pod traktatem wersalskim. Z funkcji premiera ustąpił 9 grudnia 1919 roku. W styczniu 1920 roku wyjechał do Szwajcarii. Za granicą nadal reprezentował Polskę, będąc delegatem przy Radzie Ambasadorów i delegatem do Ligi Narodów. Utrzymywał kontakt z krajem, wspierając finansowo, założoną z jego funduszy "Rzeczpospolitą", którą redagował Stanisław Stroński. W 1924 roku sprzedał gazetę i na pewien czas wycofał się z działalności politycznej.
Przeciwko sanacji
W latach 30. zaangażował się w proces jednoczenia sił opozycyjnych wobec rządów sanacji. W swojej willi w szwajcarskim Morges spotykał się z Wincentym Witosem, gen. Władysławem Sikorskim i gen. Józefem Hallerem, stając się jednym z inicjatorów powstania tzw. Frontu Morges. W 1937 roku poparł ideę zjednoczenia Narodowej Partii Robotniczej, Chrześcijańskiej Demokracji i Związku Hallerczyków w ramach Stronnictwa Pracy.
Tragiczny rok 1939
Po wybuchu II wojny światowej, mimo podeszłego wieku, objął przewodnictwo powstałej w grudniu 1939 roku we Francji Rady Narodowej RP. W tym czasie jego szwajcarska siedziba stała się ważnym ośrodkiem działalności polskiej emigracji politycznej. W sierpniu 1940 roku Paderewski podjął decyzję o wyjeździe do Stanów Zjednoczonych, aby ponownie szukać pomocy dla Polski.
W służbie do końca
W radiowym przemówieniu, wygłoszonym tuż przed opuszczeniem Szwajcarii, mówił: "Poświęciłem życie dla swojej Ojczyzny. Służyłem jej z całego serca i ze wszystkich sił moich, a wiecie, jak bardzo jest ona teraz nieszczęśliwa i jak cierpi. To ona wezwała mnie do służby. W takich okolicznościach nie liczy się ani wiek, ani stan zdrowia, ani ryzyko ciężkiej i długiej podróży".
Ignacy Jan Paderewski zmarł 29 czerwca 1941 roku w Nowym Jorku. Pochowany został na cmentarzu wojskowym Arlington w Waszyngtonie. W 1992 roku jego prochy zostały sprowadzone do Polski i złożone w archikatedrze św. Jana w Warszawie. Ignacy Jan Paderewski odznaczony był m.in. Wielką Wstęgą Orderu Orła Białego, Wielką Wstęgą Orderu Polonia Restituta i pośmiertnie Krzyżem Orderu Wojennego Virtuti Militari.
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sobota, 7 listopada 2020
Remarks by President Trump on the Election
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
6:48 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. I'd like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late — we're looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late.
I've already decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We won these and many other victories despite historic election interference from big media, big money, and big tech.
As everybody saw, we won by historic numbers. And the pollsters got it knowingly wrong. They got it knowingly wrong. We had polls that were so ridiculous, and everybody knew that at the time. There was no blue wave that they predicted. They thought there was going to be a big blue wave; that was false. That was done for suppression reasons. But instead, there was a big red wave.
And it's been properly acknowledged, actually, by the media. They were, I think, very impressed, but that was after the fact. That doesn't do us any good.
We kept the Senate, despite having twice as many seats to defend as Democrats. And in a really — much more competitive states, we've — we did a fantastic job with the Senate, and I think we're very proud of what's happened there. We had many more seats to defend.
They spent almost $200 million on Senate races in South Carolina and Kentucky alone — two races — and hundreds of millions of dollars overall against us. At the national level, our opponents' major donors were Wall Street bankers and special interests. Our major donors were police officers, farmers, everyday citizens. Yet for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldn't believe it: zero races. Very unusual thing. Zero. And actually won many new seats with, I think, many more on the way.
This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. That's a great achievement. I won the largest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years, including historic numbers of Latino, African American, Asian American, and Native American voters — the largest ever in our history. We grew our party by 4 million voters, the greatest turnout in Republican Party history.
Democrats are the party of the big donors, the big media, the big tech, it seems. And Republicans have become the party of the American worker, and that's what's happened. And we're also, I believe, the party of inclusion.
As everyone now recognizes, media polling was election interference, in the truest sense of that word, by powerful special interests. These really phony polls — I have to call them phony polls, fake polls — were designed to keep our voters at home, create the illusion of momentum for Mr. Biden, and diminish Republicans' ability to raise funds. They were what's called "suppression polls." Everyone knows that now. And it's never been used to the extent that it's been used on this last election.
To highlight just a few examples: The day before election, Quinnipiac — which was wrong on every occasion that I know of — had Joe Biden up by 5 points in Florida, and they were off by 8.4 points. And I won Florida easily. Easily. So, they had me losing Florida by a lot, and I ended up winning Florida by a lot. Other than that, they were very accurate. They had him up 4 points in Ohio, and they were off by 12.2 points. And I also won Ohio — the great state of Ohio — very easily.
The Washington Post had Biden up 17 points in Wisconsin, and it was basically even. They were off by about 17 points, and they knew that. They're not stupid people. They knew that. Suppression.
There are now only a few states yet to be decided in the presidential race. The voting apparatus of those states are run, in all cases, by Democrats.
We were winning in all the key locations by a lot, actually. And then our number started miraculously getting whittled away in secret, and they wouldn't allow legally permissible observers. We went to court, in a couple of instances, and we were able to get the observers put in. And when the observers got there, they wanted them 60, 70 feet away, 80 feet, 100 feet away — or outside the building to observe people inside the building.
And we won a case — a big case. And we have others happening. There are a lot of — lots of litigation. Even beyond our litigation, there's tremendous amount of litigation generally because of how unfair this process was, and I predicted that. I've been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It's — it's really destroyed our system.
It's a corrupt system. And it makes people corrupt even if they aren't by nature, but they become corrupt; it's too easy. They want to find out how many votes they need, and then they seem to be able to find them. They wait and wait, and then they find them.
And you see that on Election Night. We were ahead in votes in North Carolina by a lot — tremendous number of votes. And we're still ahead by a lot, but not as many because they're finding ballots all of a sudden. "Oh, we have some mail-in ballots."
It's amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided, too. I know that it's supposed to be to the advantage of the Democrats, but in all cases, they're so one-sided.
We were up by nearly 700,000 votes in Pennsylvania. I won Pennsylvania by a lot, and that gets whittled down to — I think they said now we're up by 90,000 votes. And they'll keep coming and coming and coming. They find them all over. And they don't want us to have any observers, although we won a court case. The judge said you have to have observers.
Likewise, in Geor- — and they're appealing. Actually, they're appealing. We won a case that we want people to watch and we want observers, and they're actually appealing, which is sort of interesting. I wonder why they'd appeal — that all we want to do is have people watch as they do the vote tabulations.
Likewise, in Georgia, I won by a lot — a lot — with a lead of over — getting close to 300,000 votes on Election Night in Georgia. And, by the way, got whittled down, and now it's getting to be to a point where I'll go from winning by a lot to perhaps being even down a little bit.
In Georgia, a pipe burst in a faraway location, totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four hours, and a lot of things happened. The election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.
We also had margins of 300,000 in Michigan. We were way up in Michigan; won the state. And in Wisconsin, we did likewise fantastically well. And that got whittled down. Every — in every case, they got whittled down.
Today, we're on track to win Arizona. We only need to carry, I guess, 55 percent of the remaining vote — 55 percent margins. And that's a margin that we've significantly exceeded. So we'll see what happens with that, but we're on track to do okay in Arizona.
Our goal is to defend the integrity of the election. We'll not allow the corruption to steal such an important election or any election, for that matter. And we can't allow silence –anybody to silence our voters and manufacture results.
I've never had — I've been doing a lot of public things for a long time; I've never had anything that's been as inspirational by people — calling, talking, sending things to us. I've never seen such — such love and such affection and such spirit as I've seen for this. People know what's happening, and they see what's happening, and it's before their eyes.
And there are many instances which will be reported very shortly. There's tremendous litigation going on. And this is a case where they're trying to steal an election, they're trying to rig an election, and we can't let that happen. Detroit and Philadelphia — known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily — cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential race — a very important presidential race.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats have gone to the State Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers, and very strongly. Now, we won the case, but they're — they're going forward. They don't want anybody in there. They don't want anybody watching them as they count the ballots, and I can't imagine why. There's absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process, because if it's straight, they would be — they should be proud of it. Instead, they're trying, obviously, to commit fraud. There's no question about that.
In Philadelphia, observers have been kept far away — very far away — so far that people are using binoculars to try and see, and there's been tremendous problems caused. They put paper on all of the windows so you can't see in, and the people that are banned are very unhappy and become somewhat violent.
The 11th Circuit ruled that, in Georgia, the votes have been in by Election Day — that they should be in by Election Day, and they weren't. Votes are coming in after Election Day. And they had a ruling already that you have to have the votes in by Election Day. To the best of my knowledge, votes should be in by Election Day, and they didn't do that.
Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. That's why they did the mail-in ballots, where there's tremendous corruption and fraud going on. That's why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever. And I've told everybody that these things would happen, because I've seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with this big, massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody — in many cases, totally unsolicited.
This was unprecedented in American history. This was by design. Despite years of claiming to care about the election security, they refuse to include any requirement to verify signatures, identities, or even determine whether they're eligible or ineligible to vote. People are walking in that they have no idea; they're just taking numbers. They're writing down things — the workers — and doing a lot of bad things. And we have a lot of information coming and litigation that you'll see that will shake even you people up, and you've seen it all.
The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that you've written about — and, for a long time, you've been writing about the corrupt Democrat machine. I went to school there, and I know a lot about it. It hasn't changed. It's a long time ago, and it hasn't changed. It's gotten worse.
In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election, and we think much more than that. And they are counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever. So you don't have postmarks; you don't have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place.
So you don't have postmarks; you don't have identification. There have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation. Our campaign has been denied access to observe any counting in Detroit. Detroit is another place — and I wouldn't say has the best reputation for election integrity.
Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots. But when our observers attempted to challenge the activity, those poll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their view so that they couldn't see what they were doing, and it became a little bit dangerous.
One major hub for counting ballots in Detroit covered up the windows, again, with large pieces of cardboard. And so they wanted to protect and block the counting area. They didn't want anybody seeing the counting, even though these were observers who are legal observers that were supposed to be there.
In Detroit, there were hours of unexplained delay in delivering many of the votes for counting. The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning and — even though the polls closed at eight o'clock. So they brought it in, and the batches came in, and nobody knew where they came from. We've also been denied access to observe in critical places in Georgia.
In multiple swing states, counting was halted for hours and hours on Election Night, with results withheld from major Democrat-run locations, only to appear later. And they certainly appeared, and they all had the name "Biden" on them, or just about all — I think almost all. They all had the name "Biden" on them, which is a little strange.
I challenge Joe and every Democrat to clarify that they only want legal votes. Because they talk about votes, and I think they should use the word "legal" — "legal votes." "We want every legal vote counted." And I want every legal vote counted. We want openness and transparency — no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after Election Day.
You have Election Day, and the laws are very strong on that. You have an Election Day. And they don't want votes cast after Election Day, and they want the process to be an honest one. It's so important. We want an honest election, and we want an honest count, and we want honest people working back there because it's a very important job.
So that's the way this country is going to win. That's the way the United States will win. And we think we will win the election very easily. We think there's going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof. And it's going to end up, perhaps, at the highest court in the land. We'll see. But we think there'll be a lot of litigation because we can't have an election stolen by — like this.
And I — I tell you, I would — I have been talking about this for many months with all of you. And I've said very strongly that mail-in ballots are going to end up being a disaster. Small elections were a disaster. Small, very easy-to-handle elections were disastrous.
This is a large-scale version, and it's getting worse and worse every day. We're hearing stories that are horror stories — absolute horror stories. And we can't let that happen to the United States of America. It's not a question of who wins — Republican, Democrat; Joe, myself. We can't let that happen to our country. We can't be disgraced by having something like this happen.
So it will be hopefully cleared up, maybe soon; I hope soon. But it'll probably go through a process — a legal process. And, as you know, I've claimed certain states and he's claiming states. So we can both claim the states, but ultimately I have a feeling judges are going to have to rule. But there's been a lot of shenanigans, and we can't stand for that in our country.
Thank you very much.
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