"With media reports of leaders in Japan 'privately' concluding that they are too concerned about the pandemic for the 2021 Olympics to take place, there is still time to deploy a site selection team to Florida to meet with statewide and local officials on holding the Olympics in the Sunshine State," Patronis wrote in the letter. "I would welcome the opportunity to pitch Florida and help you make the right contacts to get this done."
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing whether any current or former official tried to help overturn President Joe Biden's election victory, apparently seeking to root out employees who lack loyalty to the new regime.In case there was any doubt as to which team the DOJ is playing for.
The investigation, announced by Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Monday, will be limited to current or former employees of the DOJ. Horowitz said he aims to "reassure the public that an appropriate agency is investigating the allegations."
Former President Donald Trump has been accused of trying to get the DOJ to take legal action to help overturn Biden's victory, based on his allegations of massive election fraud, but any appeal for help was apparently unsuccessful. In fact, ABC News host George Stephanopoulos and other media figures have cited a DOJ statement that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud as a talking point in their efforts to dismiss Trump's allegations as preposterous.
"The Department of Justice, led by William Barr, said there was no widespread evidence of fraud," Stephanopoulos said Sunday in an interview with Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). "Can't you just say the words, 'This election was not stolen.'"
The New York Times said on Friday that DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark plotted with Trump to oust acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and try to force Georgia lawmakers to overturn the state's election results. Like a steady stream of other anti-Trump articles by the newspaper, the story was based on comments by officials who declined to be identified.
The investigation marks the latest inquiry by the new Biden-led government into alleged wrongdoing by the Trump administration. The House this month voted to impeach Trump for a second time, and the Senate will hold a trial seeking to convict the former president even as it juggles with confirmation hearings and trying to push through Biden's legislative agenda.
The DOJ not only declined to launch the sort of comprehensive election fraud investigation that Trump sought, but also chose to keep probes involving Biden's son, Hunter Biden, from public view until after the election.
There is no such thing as a perpetual emergency.Before it becomes law, the measure must also pass through Wisconsin's State Assembly, where the GOP carries a 58-30 majority. The lower chamber is set to take up the bill on Thursday, which, if passed, would mark the first pandemic-related action taken by the legislature since April.
Comment: Politics need more no-nonsense voices such as Ms. Carone. Her testimony regarding the Dominion vote fraud in Detroit is worth watching in full: