When Donald Trump first decided to run for president, he confided to friends that his real goal was to get publicity for his brand and squeeze a larger payment out of NBC for his TV show. He even bragged that he'd be the first person to make money running for the White House.

Once he unexpectedly won, he turned that into a business opportunity, redirecting over $100 million of government money into his own properties and businesses.

Now, with the possibility of losing the presidency, he's setting up his Plan B, his next business opportunity.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "'Simply wrong': Pennsylvania governor hits out at Trump lawsuit to stop votes being counted" by Mayank Aggarwal.

Article: "Trump campaign to escalate legal fight with Nevada lawsuit" by Steve Holland, Tom Hals.

Article: "GOP Senate wins wreak havoc on Biden transition plans" by Hans Nichols, Mike Allen.

Article: "McConnell flexing his obstructionist muscle already. Biden needs to fight fire with fire" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Trump Ally Ric Grenell Runs Away From MSNBC Reporter Demanding Proof for Voter Fraud Claims" by Justin Baragona.

Tweet: "Once this election is finalized and behind us, it will be time for us to do what we've always done as Americans: To put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us." by Joe Biden.

Tweet: "Don't you friggin' dare." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The biggest political mistake in history. It's the radio, stupid." by certainot.

Article: "False News Targeting Latinos Trails the Election" by Patricia Mazzei and Nicole Perlroth.

Article: "Bev Harris" by Wikipedia.

Site: Black Box Voting.org.

Article: "Researchers Assembled over 100 Voting Machines. Hackers Broke Into Every Single One." by AJ Vincens.

Article: "An 11-Year-Old Hacked Into a U.S. Voting System Replica in 10 Minutes This Weekend" by Alix Langone.

Article: "Non-Partisan Watchdog Accuses Trump Campaign Of 'Laundering' $170 Million" by Andrew Solender.

Article: "Court Greenlights Lawsuit Alleging Trump's Inaugural Committee Funneled Money to His Personal Businesses" by Jerry Lambe.

Article: "Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't." by Philip Bump.

Article: "Trump Campaign Automatically Opts Donors Into Recurring Weekly Contributions" by Blake Montgomery.

Article: "The Swamp That Trump Built" by Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, Steve Eder, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, Grace Ashford, Michael LaForgia, Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael Rothfeld and Larry Buchanan.

Article: "US election results: Trump sues as path to victory over Biden narrows" by BBC.

Article: "1940 Review of Mein Kampf" by George Orwell.

Video: Historical perspective on the 2020 election (Michael Beschloss).

Article: "Air America (radio network)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats raise $1.5 billion in third quarter through ActBlue" by Tal Axelrod.

Article: "Maricopa County Elections Center in Phoenix Livestreams Vote Tabulating".

Article: "Eric and Donald Trump Jr. push bogus theory that Trump lost Arizona due to bias against Sharpie pens" by David Edwards.

Article: "Sharpies can be used on voting ballots in Arizona, officials say" by FOX 10.

Article: "Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy" by Charles M. Blow.

Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Tweet: "Fox News Exit Poll
Change to a government-run health care plan
Favor 72% Oppose 29%" by Political Polls.

Article: "All 4 members of 'The Squad' reelected to House" by Lauren Dezenski.

Hour Two: A California Setback For Gig Economy Workers -
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Proposition 22, California gig-work ballot measure backed by Uber and Lyft, passes" by Carolyn Said.

Article: "Florida votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour" by Eli Rosenberg.

Article: "Presidential Election Results" by NYT.

Article: "Trump-loving pastor who blamed COVID-19 on fornication dies from COVID-19" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Abortion, guns and freedom: How Madison Cawthorn's platform won WNC voters" by Paul Moon.

Article: "'Armed Camps': McConnell Plans to Do to Biden What He Did to Obama - but Not Just With Judges, With Cabinet Nominees" by David Badash.

Article: "Justice Department tells prosecutors armed officers are permitted in ballot-counting centers: report" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Scott Walker suggests Biden's Wisconsin lead too big for recount" by Zack Budryk.

Article: "Florida poll worker details the physical and verbal abuse he experienced from Trump 'cult members' on Election Day" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "How the Republican and Democratic Parties Got Their Animal Symbols" by Elizabeth Nix.

Article: "How Maine's unique ranked-choice voting system could impact its pivotal Senate race" by Ella Nilsen.

Article: "ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World 3rd Edition" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Air America (radio network)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan González: The Media Has It Wrong. Record Latinx Turnout Helped Biden. White Voters Failed Dems" by Democracy Now!

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Jared Kushner's Real-estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade" by Clayton Swisher, Ryan Grim.

Article: "Joseph Goebbels" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State" - Joseph Goebbels.

Article: "Tillis-Cunningham US Senate race too early to call" by Gary D. Robertson.

Article: "Control of Senate is nail-biter as BOTH Georgia seats head for runoffs" by Katelyn Caralle.

Article: "Explore Trump and Biden's Paths to Victory" by Charlie Smart.

Hour Three: Georgia Would Not Be This Close Without Purging
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters.

Article: "'The issue we have in Georgia is it's close': Ballot official attempts to explain result delay and says state is down to its last 47,227 votes as Trump's tight lead HALVES in 24 hours to just 9,000" by Jennifer Smith.

Article: "Debra Messing, DiCaprio and Palast Release 'The Purged'" by Rachel Yang.

Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).

Article: "Georgia, do I really have to sue you again?" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Election Day Mayhem Began Two Years Ago With Massive Voter Purges" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Wisconsin election officials reject Trump campaign's unsubstantiated ballot claims" by Soo Rin Kim And Cheyenne Haslett.

Article: "Biden narrowly wins Wisconsin; Trump to call for a recount" by Scott Bauer.

Article: "Michigan Agrees To Stop Unlawful Voter-purge Programs" by ACLU.

Article: "Rush to Vote-by-Mail could cost Dems the Election: Mail-in Voting puts Millions of Minority Ballots at Risk" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Presidential Election Dates" by Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections.

Article: "The Presidents" by Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections.

Article: "All eyes on Nevada: Election officials are 'working feverishly' but won't rush vote count in presidential race" by James Dehaven.

Article: "23 states accepting ballots after election day, including these battleground states" by Ryan Morgan.

Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"

Trump's Need To Sue
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch)

Article: "How Donald Trump is trying to sue his way out of his political problems" by Chris Cillizza.

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D..

Article: "Trump Dad Reportedly Helped Son With $3 Million Chip Buy" by AP.

Article: "Trump claimed he turned a 'small' $1 million loan from his father into an empire. The New York Times says it was more like $60.7 million in loans" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit" by BBC.

Article: "How 2020 Democrats Are Building Volunteer Armies" by Gideon Resnick.

Site: Mobilize.

Site: NextGen America.

Video: Tom Steyer Says Election Is About Climate Change.

Article: "Terror management theory" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.

Site: Democracy Docket.

Article: "2019 Bolivian political crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "MAS Victory in Bolivian Elections a "Triumph for Democracy," CEPR Co-Director Says" by Mark Weisbrot.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

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