Oregon governor Kate Brown, until Friday, could not get President Donald Trump on the phone. She noted this the day before, when she also revealed her state has never seen this amount of uncontained wildfire. The skies have turned into a literal hellscape and more than one million acres have …
Read More »Jake Tapper: 'Trump Stands With Dead, Racist Losers' by Honoring Confederate Commanders
Once again, President Trump has decided to stand with racism and align himself with America’s racist history. With protests sparked nationwide by racist police brutality, a new effort has begun to rename U.S. military bases that are named after confederate officers, but the current president won’t consider the issue. He …
Read More »Audio: In 'Unhinged' Call, Trump Tells 'Weak' Governors to 'Dominate' Protesters
President Trump pushed governors to use more aggressive tactics against protesters, according to leaked audio of Monday video teleconference call. Several reports quoted the president telling the governors that they are “weak” and “not doing enough” to quell demonstrations. Trump also said that the governors “were a laughingstock all over …
Read More »'Needless Suffering and Death': Fauci to Warn Senate About Danger of Reopening Country
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, who has stood beside President Trump throughout much of the administration’s response to the coronavirus, will tell the Senate Tuesday that Americans will experience “needless suffering and death” if the country reopens prematurely. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines …
Read More »While Trump Advised Against Wearing Masks, White House Staff Were Provided with Thousands
Responding to an urgent March 14 appeal from the National Security Council, Taiwan sent the United States hundreds of thousands of masks — 3,600 of which were specially earmarked for White House staff and officials. At the same time they were privately scrambling to procure these masks, the Trump administration …
Read More »How Long Will Schools Need To Stay Closed? A Pandemic Expert Weighs In
As American parents scramble to educate their kids at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth asking: How effective are school shutdowns at halting the spread of the disease? Dr. Isaac Chun-Hai Fung is an infectious-disease epidemiologist Georgia Southern University, and he’s published science demonstrating how lengthy school shutdowns can …
Read More »Trump's Coronavirus Response Will Be His Toxic Legacy
His handling of this pandemic is how history will remember Donald Trump. Fifty years from now, historians will not spend much time on Russiagate, Robert Mueller, or dirty dossiers and alleged pee tapes, nor will massive tax cuts for the rich or the endless petty insults and the litany of …
Read More »Trump Flatly Admits He'd Leave Americans Stranded to Hold Coronavirus Numbers Static
President Trump is the master of saying the quiet part out loud, and on Friday he showed no signs of relinquishing that title. While speaking at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Trump said he would prefer not to allow the more than 3,500 people aboard …
Read More »Coronavirus Is Loose in America. An Expert Explains Why You Shouldn't Panic
Efforts to block the global spread of coronavirus appear to have failed, but that does not mean you should panic, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist who serves on the faculty at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s school of public health. Related: The CDC’s ‘Disease Detectives’ Are …
Read More »Trump Threatens to Sue 'Everyone All Over the Place'
President Trump threatened to sue Robert Mueller and the prosecutors who were involved with the Roger Stone case. Per usual, the president’s rant came via Twitter. In a rambling burst of Tuesday morning tweets, Trump threatened to sue “everyone all over the place.” The president’s latest outburst came after Judge …
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