In his latest effort to politicize the COVID-19 pandemic as the country approaches nearly 200,000 fatalities from the infectious disease, President Trump on Wednesday singled out “blue states” for the country’s jarring COVID-19 death rate. Continue reading “Trump Suggests Alarming COVID Death Rate Would Decrease ‘If You Took Blue States Out’”
Trump Claims He Called CDC Director To Correct Him On COVID Vaccine Timeline
President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he called the Centers for Disease Control director to remind him that a COVID-19 vaccine would be available before the November election.
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Why Has Ohio’s Top Election Official Changed His Tune On Ballot Dropboxes?
Ohio’s Republican secretary of state has both publicly and privately praised the option of ballot drop boxes, and has claimed that he had only limited their use to one dropbox per county because he didn’t think authorizing any more would be legal.
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Biden: No Trust For Trump On COVID-19 Vaccine
The Trump administration is placing the COVID-19 vaccine at risk by aligning its release with the campaign calendar, Democratic candidate Joe Biden said in a Wednesday speech.
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Trump Takes His Big Anti-Immigrant Power Grab To The Supreme Court
The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to have the Supreme Court decide whether undocumented immigrants can be excluded from the apportionment count of the 2020 census.
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McEnany Tells Reporter To ‘Join Us’ At WH If They Want To Know About Trump’s Health Care Plan So Bad
You want to know what President Donald Trump’s plan for “very good” health care is? Sorry, you’ll need to get hired at the White House for that kind of information.
Even Trump’s CDC Director Thinks Masks Might Be More Effective Than Vaccine
CDC director Robert Redfield reiterated the importance of mask-wearing during a Senate hearing on Wednesday, just as the Trump administration released detailed plans for the nationwide distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months just in time for the November presidential election. Continue reading “Even Trump’s CDC Director Thinks Masks Might Be More Effective Than Vaccine”
Barr Takes A Page From Trump And Urges Sedition Charges For Some Protesters
Attorney General Bill Barr encouraged federal prosecutors to choose the most serious charges for those arrested for violent crimes during protests, including by way of a rarely used sedition law that would charge the demonstrators with plotting to overthrow the U.S. government.
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Where Things Stand: Both Barr And Caputo Hype Sedition, But Only One Is Leaving
Michael Caputo, the longtime Trump hype man and HHS official, is taking a leave of absence from the Department of Health and Human Services.
This follows a tumultuous few days in which reports surfaced showing Caputo and one of his close aides at HHS were involved in a scheme to pressure the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into cooking the books on COVID-19 reporting data to more closely adhere to President Trump’s rosy rhetoric on the pandemic.
Trump Official Gives New Reasons For State Inspector General’s Firing
A senior Trump administration official on Wednesday rolled out some new after-the-fact justifications for the firing of Steve Linick, the former State Department inspector general who was investigating an emergency arms sale to Saudi Arabia at the time of his dismissal.
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