In Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s first public remarks about the kidnapping plot revealed Thursday against her, she went after President Trump for refusing to condemn white supremacist groups.
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D.C. federal prosecutors charged high-flying GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy on Thursday over a wide-ranging foreign lobbying scheme, alleging that the 2016 Trump campaign fundraiser conspired to illegally lobby the U.S. government on behalf of a staggering array of foreign interests.
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The Senate majority leader’s hazy statements distancing himself from the administration’s missteps are a staple of his leadership in the Trump era.
President Donald Trump has now blamed police officers, soldiers and Gold Star families for infecting him and aide Hope Hicks with COVID-19.
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A duo of far-right fringe hoaxsters each face a $100,000 bond related to voter intimidation charges brought by the Michigan Attorney General. Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — who have been caught up in comically bogus plots to go after President Trump’s foes in the past — were accused last week of being behind robocalls that made false and racially-charged claims about mail-in voting.
The FBI intervened in an alleged militia plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), according to court records and remarks by federal and state officials Thursday. Six men face federal charges and seven others face state charges in connection with the plot, authorities said Thursday. All of them are in custody.
The plot allegedly included surveillance of Whitmer’s vacation home and construction of an improvised explosive device using a firework.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to offer false statements about the seriousness of coronavirus, suggesting that “when you catch it, you get better, then you are immune.”
“I’m back because I am perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young,” Trump joked to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, floating that a sparkling health record was the reason for his quick recovery. “I’m lucky in that way.”
The President bragged that he had none of the comorbidities that have put many Americans at risk, including heart problems and diabetes that have caused serious complications in treatment for the disease — at times ending in death.
The President repeatedly gushed to Bartiromo that he was “in good health,” suggesting that his worst health problem was a few extra pounds. Trump insisted that he hadn’t really needed drugs, even after his doctors disclosed over the weekend that the President had been administered steroids, supplemental oxygen and an experimental antibody treatment.
“I could have been out of the hospital in one day,” Trump said.
The comments come after President Trump shared a video on Wednesday, saying that getting COVID-19 was possibly a “blessing from God,” even as more than 210,000 people who contracted the virus in the United States have subsequently died from it.
Although he has been widely criticized for flouting the guidance of scientists to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, Trump appeared to throw his hands up on Thursday — further shirking all responsibility for mocking masks and refusing to wear one himself by suggesting that even lawmakers he’s seen who “wore a mask all the time” have been infected with coronavirus.
“Remember this, when you catch it, you get better, then you are immune,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump, fresh out of the hospital and currently still infected with COVID-19, reportedly aims to return to the campaign trail on Monday.
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President Donald Trump required staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to sign non-disclosure agreements before treating him during a surprise visit last year, four people familiar with the process told NBC News.
Trump required the NDAs from both physicians and non-medical medical staffers who were for the most part active-duty military service members during an unexpected visit to the hospital in November 2019, NBC News reported. At least two doctors at Walter Reed who declined signing the agreement, were not permitted to take part in President Trump’s care, two of the sources told NBC News.
At that time, Trump’s communication aides suggested the surprise visit was for a “routine physical exam,” although it was later reported that discussions regarding a need for Vice President Mike Pence to temporarily assume presidential powers in the case of emergency had been underway.
It was not known whether Trump had made the same requirement of staff previously uninvolved in his care during his most recent three-day stay at Walter Reed when he was admitted last week for treatment of coronavirus.
Trump has regularly required NDAs from employees at the Trump Organization, but legal protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guarantee patient privacy which stirs questions about why Trump would seek NDAs from Walter Reed staff.
“Any physician caring for the President is bound by patient physician confidentiality guaranteed under HIPAA, and I’m not going to comment on internal procedures beyond that,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said in a statement to NBC News.
In addition, all personnel assigned to the White House Medical Unit, which treats the president and the vice president day to day, are required to have achieved a high-level security clearance involving in-depth background checks.
With less than a month until the presidential election, concerns about the President’s health amid his COVID-19 diagnosis have been batted away by Walter Reed doctors who quickly discharged the President after only three days and were evasive about his lung health.
“We’ve done routine standard imaging. I’m just not at liberty to discuss,” White House physician Dr. Sean Conley told reporters Monday. He has repeatedly refused to disclose information about Trump’s health citing HIPAA and would not say and when he had last received a negative test for coronavirus.
Trump has closely orchestrated public appearances during his illness in a manner that projects strength, even suggesting on Wednesday that getting COVID-19 was a “blessing from God.”
