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MondAy, nov. 30 12:30 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 200 block of DE SOTO DRIVE 2:26 a.m. — Shots fired, 1900 block of GRANDE CIRCLE 7:35 a.m. — Vandalism, 1400 block of OLIVER ROAD 7:50 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2300 block of COURAGE DRIVE 8:04 a.m. — Grand theft, 400 block of LOPES ROAD 8:15 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 1600 block of FAIRFIELD AVENUE 8:24 a.m. — Rape, 700 block of CAPRICORN CIRCLE 8:41 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of COMMERCE COURT 9:52 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 200 block of SANTA CRUZ DRIVE 10:01 a.m. — Vehicle burglary, 3000 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 10:16 a.m. — Vehicle theft, TABOR AVENUE 10:24 a.m. — Grand theft, 2500 block of CLAY BANK ROAD 11:02 a.m. — Battery, 1200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 11:18 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 900 block of BECK AVENUE 11:48 a.m. — Indecent exposure, SUISUN VALLEY ROAD 12:23 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 100 block of GROBRIC COURT 1:18 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:39 p.m. — Forgery, 1600 block of RIVER OAKS CIRCLE 2:26 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 700 block of MISSOURI STREET 2:40 p.m. — Vandalism, 4900 block of RIALTO AVENUE 2:43 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 4:28 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 800 block of OHIO STREET 5:09 p.m. — Battery, 1300 block of GATEWAY BOULEVARD 8:33 p.m. — Battery, 3500 block of NELSON ROAD 10:32 p.m. — Shots fired, 1600 block of JAMES STREET 10:43 p.m. — Vandalism, 1900 block of DOVER AVENUE SundAy, nov. 29 12:15 a.m. — Arson, 600 block of WEBSTER STREET 12:36 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 11:14 a.m. — Fight with a weapon, 600 block of PARADISE COURT 11:20 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 1000 block of OLIVER ROAD 11:34 a.m. — Drunken driver, BECK AVENUE 12:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE 12:38 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2000 block of PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE 12:59 p.m. — Commercial burglary, 5200 block of WATT COURT 2:11 p.m. — Grand theft, 5000 block of PEABODY ROAD 3:11 p.m. — Residential burglary, 3000 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:52 p.m. — Grand theft, 5000 block of PEABODY ROAD 4:17 p.m. — Reckless driver, ISABELLA WAY 4:18 p.m. — Shots fired, 1600 block of JAMES STREET 4:46 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 1300 block of HOLIDAY LANE 5:22 p.m. — Reckless driver, AIR BASE PARKWAY 5:42 p.m. — Shots fired, 1800 block of UNION AVENUE 6:24 p.m. — Vandalism, 900 block of FIFTH STREET 7:27 p.m. — Shots fired, 2400 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 7:31 p.m. — Battery, 600 block of NEVADA STREET 7:38 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 300 block of BECK AVENUE 8:08 p.m. — Reckless driver, OLIVER ROAD 8:08 p.m. — Battery, 4300 block of CENTRAL PLACE 8:40 p.m. — Battery, 3100 block of EVERGREEN DRIVE 8:56 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 300 block of EAST TABOR AVENUE 10:01 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1400 block of ASTORIA DRIVE 10:23 p.m. — Shooting into a dwelling, 1500 block of OLIVER ROAD SAturdAy, nov. 28 8:08 a.m. — Battery, 2800 block of VISTA GRANDE 0:09 a.m. — Reckless driver, 3300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:23 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 1100 block of KENTUCKY STREET 2:28 p.m. — Reckless driver, 300 block of ACACIA STREET

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3:01 p.m. — Indecent exposure, PARADISE VALLEY DRIVE 3:25 p.m. — Vehicle theft, JELLY BELLY LANE 4:08 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 6:43 p.m. — Battery, 2700 block of VIOLET AVENUE 7:04 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 1300 block of EISENHOWER STREET 8:38 p.m. — Prowler, 2900 block of LAKEFRONT COURT 9:19 p.m. — Drunk and disorderly, 3400 block of MOSS VALLEY DRIVE 9:41 p.m. — Shots fired, 4400 block of CENTRAL PLACE 10:44 p.m. — Brandishing a weapon, 1200 block of TABOR AVENUE 11:49 p.m. — Hit-and-run with injury, 1500 block of ADAMS STREET FridAy, nov. 27 12:26 a.m. — Shots fired, TANAGER LANE 1:24 a.m. — Vandalism, 800 block of EAST TRAVIS BOULEVARD 5:54 a.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, CORDELIA ROAD 5:56 a.m. — Reckless driver, TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:49 a.m. — Commercial burglary, 200 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 9:52 a.m. — Vehicle theft, 3000 block of AUTO MALL COURT 10:46 a.m. — Battery, 700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:17 a.m. — Reckless driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 11:28 a.m. — Vandalism, 2300 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 11:35 a.m. — Robbery, 600 block of BECK AVENUE 12:44 p.m. — Assault with a deadly weapon, 1400 block of JEFFERSON STREET 12:55 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of WEST TEXAS STREET 1:03 p.m. — Drunken driver, EASTBOUND INTERSTATE 80 1:06 p.m. — Fight with a weapon, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:41 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2700 block of NORTH TEXAS STREET 1:43 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, 2500 block of SANCTUARY CIRCLE 1:57 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 1300 block of TRAVIS BOULEVARD 2:11 p.m. — Hit-and-run property damage, NORTH TEXAS STREET 3:24 p.m. — Residential burglary, 3100 block of POTRERO WAY 4 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2800 block of SUNSHINE CIRCLE 4:13 p.m. — Reckless driver, 1500 block of KENTUCKY STREET 6:20 p.m. — Battery, 2400 block of WATERMAN BOULEVARD 7:28 p.m. — Vehicle theft, 500 block of ALASKA AVENUE 9:14 p.m. — Rape, 3900 block of BUSINESS CENTER DRIVE 10:23 p.m. — Vehicle burglary, 2800 block of SUNSHINE CIRCLE 10:58 p.m. — Shots fired, MARIGOLD DRIVE 11 p.m. — Shots fired, 2400 block of PEACH TREE DRIVE

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MondAy, nov. 30 2:53 p.m. — Assault, THOMAS CIRCLE 7:10 p.m. — Reckless driver, LEMONWOOD WAY 8:36 p.m. — Robbery, GRIZZLY ISLAND ROAD SundAy, nov. 29 3:03 p.m. — Grand theft, 700 block of RAILROAD AVENUE SAturdAy, nov. 28 3:13 p.m. — Vandalism, 1600 block of PETERSEN ROAD 8:35 p.m. — Hit-and-run no injury, CRYSTAL STREET FridAy, nov. 27 8:11 a.m. — Assault, 1300 block of BLOSSOM AVENUE 1:35 p.m. — Vandalism, 200 block of RAILROAD AVENUE 1:27 p.m. — Reckless driver, WALTERS ROAD / PETERSEN ROAD 5:45 p.m. — Reckless driver, WALTERS ROAD / BELLA VISTA DRIVE

Giuliani denies talking with Trump about possible pardon

Tribune ConTenT AgenCy

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani pushed back against a Tuesday report that he recently asked President Donald Trump to give him a preemptive pardon, claiming he never made any such a request.

The New York Times, citing two anonymous sources, reported Giuliani and Trump talked about the potential pardon last week. The controversial topic came up in previous conversations between the two men as well, according to the report.

But Giuliani – who’s spearheading Trump’s baseless legal battle to subvert Joe Biden’s election victory – vehemently denied ever talking trump From Page One of victory in the state.

Theoretically, the courts could still step in. But almost all of the cases filed so far by Trump and his allies have been rejected for lack of actual evidence needed to invalidate legally cast votes.

Even as Trump rejects the outcome, the U.S. General Services Administration has the apparent winner and the president has called on his agencies to cooperate with the transition. Biden is moving forward to assemble his administration, with his economic team set to be introduced Tuesday.

The president’s last gasp may be trying to persuade Republican legislators in multiple states and appoint Trump electors, but that wouldn’t stop Biden’s inauguration, said Edward Foley, director of an election-law program at Ohio State University who has studied disputed elections.

“It’s checkmate in terms of the various chess moves on the board, but they could try to go for other moves anyway,” Foley said. “Normally when you see that it’s going to be checkmate, you sort of concede.”

If all legal challenges are resolved by Dec. 8, the so-called safe-harbor deadline, Congress must accept a state’s electors based on certified are still outstanding disputes in some states, the Biden electors in each state will cast their votes Dec. 14, and there’s no reason to think Congress won’t accept them when it meets Jan. 6 to count electoral votes, Foley said.

That hasn’t stopped Trump from insisting he can still win and raising money off the furor. Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, his personal attorneys, From Page One

The attorney general also said in the interview that he appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as a special counsel, enabling him to keep his ongoing inquiry into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe alive into Barr said he made that appointment in October.

The White House wasn’t notified until Tuesday that Durham had been appointed as a special counsel, according to a Justice Department official.

Barr has been one of Trump’s most ardent allies and repeatedly claimed before the election that the widespread about pardons with the president.

“Not true at all,” he said in a text message.

Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney and friend, echoed his client’s denial, but also suggested that if such a conversation were to ever take place, the public wouldn’t find out about it.

“If there would have been such a discussion, it would have been between Giuliani and Trump. Do you think either one of them would be the source for The New York Times? It doesn’t make any sense. The whole story is ludicrous,” Costello told the Daily News.

Giuliani has not been charged with any crimes, but federal prosecutors in have been holding public meetings with Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan highlighting what they say are election irregularities, statistical anomalies and rejected claims of voting machine manipulation as part of an unproven Democratic conspiracy to steal

“President-elect Biden’s clear win in every state that Donald Trump’s campaign has contested has now been certified by a bipartisan array of election officials,” Biden spokesman Michael Gwin said. “As has been clear for weeks, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president come Jan. 20, 2021.”

Trump’s campaign and his allies are still filing lawsuits to challenge the election results, and more are expected – especially in Wisconsin and Arizona, which require results to be certified before the election can be contested.

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state results, primarily by attacking practices with absentee ballots in an election system that state officials have repeatedly defended.

Many of the other claims haven’t been presented in court, and those that have – such use of mail-in ballots could well lead to significant fraud. But in his interview he signaled his rejection of the post-election claims by Trump and his supporters of a massive scheme of a second term.

“There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to Barr said. “And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”

Trump’s legal team, led by Rudy Giuliani, quickly rejected Barr’s comments.

“With all due respect Manhattan are known to be investigating his business dealings in Ukraine and his role in the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to the European country – a move that prompted Trump’s impeachment.

The former New York mayor has also been the point person for Trump’s bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. As part of that fact-challenged effort, Giuliani has unleashed a torrent of unfounded accusations of voter fraud and even personally accused Biden of unspecified crimes.

Though unusual, presidents can pardon crimes preemptively. The most famous example was President Gerald Ford’s as Republican observers saying they weren’t the counting of mail-in ballots – have been almost universally rejected for lack of evidence of actual fraud to disqualify tens of thousands of votes.

“Although they allege massive fraud outside of court, when they’re forced to make their argument in court, they can’t quite build the case that they need to in order to justify having judges completely overturn the result – because that’s ultimately what they’re asking for,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor and election-law expert.

Trump’s legal team has mused about getting a case before the U.S. Supreme Court with its newly minted 6-3 conservative majority that tion, but even Trump said in an interview Sunday on Fox News that “it’s very hard to get a case to the Supreme Court.”

“Let’s be clear: The effort to change the election outcome in the courts is over and has been for a long time,” said Richard Pildes, a New York University professor of

Giuliani and Ellis have been pleading with Republican lawmakto the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation,” the team said in a statement. “We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined,” and the department “hasn’t audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth.”

Barr was seen at the White House just after the interview was published. Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said there for a previously scheduled meeting.

As Trump has escalated his claims of election fraud, he has even sug1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for any and all crimes that he may have committed as part of the Watergate scandal.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s estranged former personal attorney who remains in home confinement for crimes he committed on Trump’s behalf, said he has no doubt his former boss is considering a pardon for Giuliani.

“There’s nothing new that’s going on here. Donald Trump has dangled pardons like a drunken sailor going back to 2017,” said Cohen, whose attorneys were a.

Last week, Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national

acknowledged Biden as

to ignore the popular vote

results. But even if there

Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images/TNS file A woman holds a placard as President donald trump’s supporters gather during a car rally named Stop the Steal, nov. 22, in Long valley, new Jersey.

the election.

able to effectively monitor

could overturn the elec-

constitutional law.

security adviser. ers to use a legal theory to declare that the election has “failed” and appoint slates of Trump electors to compete with the duly appointed Biden ones – despite the fact the Nov. 3 popular vote has already been set as the method for choosing electors.

“This in no way impacts the state legislature’s ability to take back the proper selection of delegates,” Ellis said Monday on Twitter after Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and Republican Gov. Doug Ducey certified Biden’s victory in the state.

But that would require entire Republican delegations in at least three states to ignore the popular vote – a dubious legal and political step that GOP leaders in Michigan and Pennsylvania have already said they won’t take – with no expectation the Trump electors would be accepted by a Democratic-controlled House and a Senate with several Republicans who have acknowledged Biden’s victory, Persily said.

“For all practical purposes it is over, but they could try to create disorder either in the state legislatures or even on the floor of Congress,” he said. “But it’s not going to

Barr: Giuliani rejects AG’s comments

the Biden administration.

to deprive the president

skew the election results,”

the attorney general was

amount to anything.” gested that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation might have been in on rigging the election.

“This is total fraud,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. “And how the FBI and Department of Justice – I don’t know. Maybe they are involved.”

Barr told the AP that people were confusing allegations about criminal activity with disputes that should be pursued through civil lawsuits.

“There’s a growing tendency to use the criminal justice system as sort of a default fix-all, and people don’t like something they want the Department of Justice to come in and ‘investigate,’ ” Barr said.