President Trump deliberately downplayed the severity of the coronavirus despite knowing in early February that the virus was “deadly.” according to a new book from Bob Woodward. “I wanted to always play it down,” he told Woodward on March 19th, according to audio obtained by CNN. “I still like playing …
Read More »Judge Orders Michael Cohen Released From Prison, Says Return Was 'Retaliation'
A federal judge ordered Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen to be released to home confinement after finding that the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for Cohen’s plan to write a book about the president. Cohen had been held in solitary confinement in a New York federal …
Read More »Biden Visits Protest Site While Trump Endorses Violent Pushback
The difference between the two presidential candidates played out in stark contrast on Sunday. While Joe Biden was using social media to share a message of understanding, acknowledging the country’s pain, President Trump used the same medium to endorse a call for violence in response to the protests raging across …
Read More »Trump Says He's Taking Hydroxychloroquine, But He Also Lies Daily
Trump is all-in on hydroxychloroquine, a drug he has touted without proof as a miracle cure for those afflicted with COVID-19. The president told the press he has been taking the controversial drug — which he has promoted despite scientists finding it does not help treat COVID-19 — for the …
Read More »Obama Strikes Uplifting Tone in Speech to High School Grads
Following performances from Dua Lipa, H.E.R., Kevin Hart and others, former president Barack Obama addressed the teens graduating high school amid a pandemic. “I couldn’t be prouder of all of you in the graduating class of 2020 as well as the teachers and the coaches and, most of all, parents …
Read More »Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Director and FDA Chief All in Self-Isolation
Dr. Anthony Fauci will go into “modified quarantine” after coming into contact with an unnamed White House staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus. A member of the White House’s coronavirus task force told CNN that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ contact with the …
Read More »Broadcasting Trump's Coronavirus Briefings Live Is a Danger to Public Health
WASHINGTON — It took practically the entire 2016 presidential campaign for many in the media, including the powerful TV networks, to realize that Donald Trump‘s casual attitude toward truth and facts required a new approach to covering him. The first step was obvious: Stop airing his rallies live. The Trump …
Read More »Watch Parishioners Turn Their Backs on Bloomberg at Selma Church Service
A number of parishioners stood and turned their backs to presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg as he addressed members of the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday. At least nine people took part in the protest, according to CNN, as they gathered to commemorate the 55th anniversary …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump's Choice of 'Pray on It' Pence to Oversee Coronavirus Response
President Donald Trump named Vice President Mike Pence to oversee the government’s response to the coronavirus this week, raising immediate concerns because of how the former governor of Indiana mishandled an HIV outbreak in the state during his tenure. Following Trump’s Wednesday press conference on the coronavirus, candidate Bernie Sanders …
Read More »In Leaked Audio Bloomberg Defends Big Banks, Calls Warren 'Scary' in 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said that if he had run for president in 2016 and won, defending the banking industry would have topped his agenda. In a 2016 audio recording from what is thought to be a private Goldman Sachs event, Bloomberg first can be heard referring to the …
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