In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’ By Michael Kranish August 22, 2020 at 9:51 PM EDT Maryanne Trump Barry was serving as a federal judge when she heard her brother, President Trump, suggest on Fox News, “maybe I’ll have to put her at the border” amid a wave of refugees entering the United States. At the time, children were being separated from their parents and put in cramped quarters while court hearings dragged on. “All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by her niece, Mary L. Trump. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.” Barry, 83, was aghast at how her 74-year-old brother operated as president. “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” she said. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.” .... https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maryanne-trump-barry-secret-recordings/2020/08/22/30d457f4-e334-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html Mary Trump sues President and his siblings for fraud, calling it the family 'way of life' https://archive.vn/l35ve https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/politics/mary-trump-lawsuit/index.html Former White House national security adviser John Bolton called President Donald Trump "naive and dangerous," in an ABC News interview that aired Sunday, adding that he hopes his former boss will be remembered as a one-term president. The remarkable statement made by a former key adviser to the sitting US president comes after details of Bolton's upcoming book, "The Room Where it Happened," leaked this week despite the fact that it remains the focus of an ongoing legal dispute. "I hope (history) will remember him as a one-term president who didn't plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can't recall from. We can get over one term -- I have absolute confidence, even if it's not the miracle of a conservative Republican being elected in November. Two terms, I'm more troubled about," Bolton told ABC News' Martha Raddatz. https://archive.is/wip/su7V0 https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/bolton-calls-trump-naive-dangerous/index.html Mattis told Coats Trump is 'dangerous,' 'unfit': Woodward book https://archive.vn/wRFYF https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/515673-mattis-told-coats-trump-is-dangerous-unfit-woodward-book James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another. https://archive.vn/XkDni https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/ Mattis goes after Trump: The president ‘tries to divide us’ https://archive.vn/hgqdO https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/mattis-trump-letter-protest-299562 BIDEN ENDORSEMENTS: https://archive.vn/wip/lDHxG https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/new-england-journal-of-medicine-trump-anti-endorsement/ Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy. The magnitude of this failure is astonishing. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,1 the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in much larger countries, such as China. The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lower-middle-income countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000. Covid-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity. But the one we can control is how we behave. And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly. ... Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs. https://archive.vn/Fh8Jy https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812 Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02852-x Consensus of 3 leading science, medical journals with *unprecedented* editorials; lies, anti-science, "dangerously incompetent" 1. @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/4UZLKn9BAd 2. @TheLancet https://t.co/yFMk1SKHdS 3. @NEJM https://t.co/yFMk1SKHdS https://t.co/87fGoJCa6v https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1313982286430302208?s=19 Unprecedented. Editors @Nature on Trump (disregard for science, truth, facts w/ devastating consequences) and endorsement for Biden. Adds to @ScienceMagazine @NEJM @Lancet https://t.co/YmVxJS66Ny https://t.co/DjHqYRZyih https://t.co/jFNrrqRj9P https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1316369393387880448?s=19 ‘Character counts’ — Carly Fiorina, GOP presidential candidate in 2016, explains why she’ll vote for Biden https://archive.vn/EbHIw https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/ex-gop-presidential-candidate-carly-fiorina-on-her-vote-for-joe-biden.html "The president calls the Democratic vice presidential candidate 'a monster;' he repeatedly labels the speaker of the House 'crazy;' he calls for the Justice Department to put the prior president in jail; he attacks the governor of Michigan on the very day a plot is discovered to kidnap her," Romney said. https://archive.vn/wip/RZUSD https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/13/mitt-romney-reprimands-trump-democrats-vile-political-rhetoric/5979016002/ https://archive.vn/CuSPu https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520163-trump-calls-harris-a-monster http://archive.is/tEaTT https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden1/ Other endorsements. Mary Trump Colin Powell William Cohen Chuck Hagel Carla Hills Carly Fiorina Ray LaHood Tom Ridge William H. Webster Christine Todd Whitman Meghan McCain Cindy McCain Bill Kristol Anthony Scaramucci Alexander Vindman Jeff Flake John Kasich Arne Carlson Jim Edgar Marc Racicot Rick Snyder Sully Sullenberger George Will Mark Hamill Patrick Stewart George Takei Tom Hanks Samuel L. Jackson Chris Evans Dwayne Johnson Stephen King Steven Colbert Jon Stewart Madonna Taylor Swift Amy Lee Jimmy Buffett Bruce Springsteen Neil Young The Chicks Pearl Jam LeBron James Magic Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements_from_organizations Another conservative endorsement of biden https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/media/new-hampshire-union-leader-democrat-endorsement-joe-biden/index.html Another endorsement, this one from USA today https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5919435002 LIES https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president-trump-has-made-more-than-20000-false-or-misleading-claims/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=donald-trump&ruling=false https://projects.thestar.com/donald-trump-fact-check/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracity_of_statements_by_Donald_Trump https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Trump+lies AMY CONEY BARRETT How McConnell’s Bid to Reshape the Federal Judiciary Extends Beyond the Supreme Court When President Trump took office, he had more than 100 vacancies to fill in the lower courts, including 17 in the U.S. courts of appeals — all of them lifetime appointments. The Supreme Court hears around 80 cases a year, while the courts of appeals handle tens of thousands of cases annually — often making them the last word in most cases that impact the lives of Americans. During the first 2020 presidential debate on Sept. 29, President Trump boasted of the “record” number of judges he had appointed, adding that one of the reasons he had the chance to appoint so many was because former President Barack Obama had left so many vacancies. “When you leave office, you don’t leave any judges,” Trump said. “That’s like, you just don’t do that.” It wasn’t President Obama’s decision to leave the judicial vacancies, however. Just as McConnell helped cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come, judicial experts and journalists who spoke to FRONTLINE for Supreme Revenge, a 2019 documentary examining the political battle over the highest court, credited McConnell with holding open vacancies that Trump then filled with conservative federal judges at a breakneck pace. McConnell himself took credit for the strategy in a December 2019 interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News. When Hannity wondered why President Obama left so many vacancies, McConnell said: “I’ll tell you why. I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-mcconnell-and-the-senate-helped-trump-set-records-in-appointing-judges/ Mitch McConnell Brags About Blocking Obama For 2 Years, Then Laughs About It The Senate majority leader boasted about stacking the courts with conservative judges under Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday night bragged about blocking President Barack Obama’s attempt to fill federal judicial vacancies for two years. Then, he laughed about it as he discussed the Republican Party’s effort to stack the courts with conservative judges under President Donald Trump. “I was shocked that former President Obama left so many vacancies and didn’t try to fill those positions,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said to McConnell. Obama didn’t leave those vacancies so much as he was blocked from filling them by a GOP-controlled Senate led by McConnell ― something the majority leader was quick to point out. “I’ll tell you why,” he said. “I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.” Then, he laughed: https://archive.vn/wip/Yz3RF https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-blocks-obama-laughs_n_5df32430e4b0deb78b517322 'They won't be able to do anything about this': McConnell revels in Barrett supreme court vote “By tomorrow night,” Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans on Sunday, after they voted to limit debate and advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, “we’ll have a new member of the United States supreme court. “A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone sooner or later by the next election,” the majority leader said on the Senate floor. “They won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.” https://archive.vn/UljIo https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/oct/25/mitch-mcconnell-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-republicans-democrats-mike-pence-covid Two years ago at The Atlantic Festival, Senator Lindsey Graham defended the Republican decision to block President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland. “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process is started, we’ll wait to the next election,” Graham said. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/opinion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-supreme-court-nomination.html Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) in a closed-door meeting on Oct. 29, 2016, saying, “If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I’m gonna do everything I can do to make sure that four years from now, we’ve still got an opening on the Supreme Court.” https://archive.vn/6oXEb#selection-1421.33-1421.269 https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-coney-barrett-has-broken-john-oliver-it-is-hopeless Barrett, a disciple of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, is anti-LGBT, anti-reproductive rights, and anti-immigrant. She belongs to a fringe Charismatic Christian sect called People of Praise, which believes women are second-class citizens to men and the highest level they can attain within the group is that of women’s-issues advocate, which until recently they called “handmaiden.” https://archive.vn/6oXEb https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-coney-barrett-has-broken-john-oliver-it-is-hopeless https://archive.vn/TmJmv https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927640619/senate-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court On January 12, 2016, President Obama nominated Selby[5] to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge John Daniel Tinder, who took senior status on February 18, 2015. The Republican-majority Senate refused to hold a hearing on her nomination, which then expired on January 3, 2017 with the end of the 114th Congress[6]. This seat was filled by Amy Coney Barrett. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_C._Selby Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." https://archive.is/Awl3Y https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/100306972/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-champion-of-gender-equality-dies-at-87 In written responses submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee and released Tuesday night, Barrett, 48, refused to answer questions about her father’s ties to the American Petroleum Institute, the nation’s largest and most powerful oil and gas lobby. https://archive.is/01iV0 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amy-coney-barrett-oil-lobby-climate_n_5f905f09c5b62333b2413aa6 Amy Coney Barrett Won't Discuss Ties To The Country’s Biggest Oil Lobby The Supreme Court nominee refused to answer written questions about her connections to the American Petroleum Institute. By Alexander C. Kaufman and Chris D'Angelo 10/21/2020 01:21 PM ET https://huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f905f09c5b62333b2413aa6/ Barrett declines to commit to recusing herself from a Trump election case Joan Biskupic, CNN Digital Expansion 2018 By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Updated 4:41 PM ET, Tue October 13, 2020 https://archive.is/UlQXq https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/barrett-recuse-presidential-election/index.html https://archive.is/u3A1x https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928385599/a-newly-sworn-in-justice-barrett-faces-a-motion-to-recuse-herself-in-election-ca Amy Coney Barrett Doesn’t Want to Say Whether a President Should Commit to a Peaceful Transfer of Power https://archive.is/I06UF https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-cory-booker-peaceful-transfer-of-power.amp Barrett punts on climate, oil industry recusals in written responses BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 10/21/20 11:48 AM EDT https://archive.is/wip/1XrSE https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/522052-barrett-punts-on-climate-oil-industry-recusals-in-written-responses Roe V. Wade we’re coming for you 😇 https://archive.is/4Miq1 https://twitter.com/theangiestanton/status/1320898443641032711 Amy Coney Barrett left open the possibility that a woman could be sentenced to death for getting an abortion. https://t.co/5PKSmG3Zxy https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-capital-crime This Is What It Feels Like to Live Under Minority Rule The powerlessness is the point. By DAHLIA LITHWICK OCT 26, 2020•5:50 AM https://archive.vn/8mWF8 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/minority-rule-exhaustion-powerless.html Unqualified Impunity: Amy Coney Barrett Once Ruled That a Cop Wasn't Responsible for a Black Teenager's Death Because Breathing Isn't a Constitutional Right michaelharriot Michael Harriot 10/21/20 9:30AM Amy Coney Barrett is a right-wing extremist. She does not believe George Floyd had a right to breathe. She doesn’t believe that screaming the n-word is necessarily “hostile.” She does believe in Jesus, though. While Judge Barrett has displayed a Mitch McConnell-like ability to evade direct questions about her legal opinions on a woman’s right to control her own body, whether or not poor people deserve to die if they can’t afford healthcare, or if Social Security is constitutional, we already know Barrett’s judicial positions in one important area of the law. As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeal’s Seventh Circuit, the right-wing star of the literal handmaid’s tale has repeatedly joined her fellow conservative bench mates in asserting the right of police to do whatever they want—the Constitution be damned. When it comes to police brutality, one does not have to speculate or engage in conjecture to know the opinion of the woman set to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on America’s highest court. Barrett may be able to duck and dodge questions about her well-documented anti-choice stance or her pro-death healthcare views, but her judicial record makes one thing obvious: Amy Coney Barrett clearly does not believe Black lives matter. He Couldn’t Breathe On Sept. 26, 2015, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a call after a loss prevention officer alleged that eighteen-year-old Terrell Day had stolen a watch from the Burlington Coat Factory at Indianapolis’ Washington Square Mall. Day ran out of the mall, followed by a police officer and a security guard who said that Day was carrying a gun, according to the Indianapolis Star. When the discount outlet watch recovery team caught up with Day, he had collapsed on a grassy slope across the street. IMPD officer Randall Denny arrived on the scene and noticed that the 312-pound teenager had defecated on himself and was “sweating and breathing heavily.” Officer Denny handcuffed Day, told him to take a few deep breaths and sat the teen in an “upright seated position.” But Day, still out of breath, kept laying down and eventually rolled down the slope with his hands cuffed behind his back. “At this point, the gun was no longer on Day’s person but was lying in the grass a few feet away and out of his reach,” according to the Seventh Circuit ruling. Then Sgt. Franklin Wooten arrived. “Day complained to Sergeant Wooten that he could not breathe,” reads the circuit court opinion. “Sergeant Wooten was skeptical of these complaints because Day also claimed to have done nothing wrong and was asking to be released. All the same, Sergeant Wooten called for an ambulance to evaluate Day approximately five minutes after Day was initially detained. After paramedics said Day didn’t go to the hospital, Wooten signed a form that said Day refused treatment,” placed another set of handcuffs on Day and called for a police wagon to transport Day to jail. When the wagon arrived, the officers tried to lift Day, but he was unresponsive. The driver called a second ambulance. But Wooten waited. Wooten waited while Day lay on the ground in his own feces. Wooten waited while Day complained that he couldn’t breathe. Wooten waited until Day was a listless Black thing. Sgt. Franklin Wooten, who received CPR training by the IMPD that specifically informed him about the dangers of positional asphyxiation, which it said can occur “when a suspect, especially a larger one, is placed on their chest or stomach, with the suspect’s arms and legs restrained behind the back,” waited while Day lay on the ground in his own feces, handcuffed twice, complaining that he couldn’t breathe... For forty-two minutes. When a coroner arrived on the scene, he saw no visible signs of trauma but when he saw the handcuffs still on Day, he immediately knew what had happened. The autopsy report verified it. Eighteen-year-old Terrell Day’s official cause of death was listed as “Sudden Cardiac Death.” But it wasn’t just a heart attack. “Listed as a contributing cause,” writes the Indianapolis Star’s Crystal Hill, “was Day’s hands being cuffed behind his back.” In May 2019, a federal District Court agreed that Terrell Day’s mother, Shanika Day, had the right to sue Franklin Wooten, ruling that “reasonable officers would know they were violating an established right by leaving Day’s hands cuffed behind his back after he complained of difficulty breathing.” But then Wooten appealed and Amy stepped up. The most conservative judge on the most conservative court. Amy Coney Barrett is a right-wing radical. Looking at Barrett’s judicial record, Five Thirty-Eight didn’t just categorize her as a right-leaning justice on one of America’s most conservative courts. They concluded that “Barrett is one of the more conservative judges on the circuit — and maybe even the most conservative.” And considering the other judges, that’s quite a statement. When Franklin Wooten appealed to Barrett’s court, the Supreme Court nominee was flanked by two Reagan appointees who are still the greatest examples for packing the court with unqualified, conservative judges: Daniel Anthony Manion: Like Barrett, Manion is a Notre Dame alumnus who is notorious for his inability to write, spell or quote the Constitution. Manion was a supporter of the radical, right-wing John Birch Society which, among other things, alleged Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist who wanted to institute a “Soviet Negro Republic.” At the time of Manion’s nomination, he received one of the lowest American Bar Association judgeship rankings in history. Frank H. Easterbrook: His ABA ranking was even worse than Manion’s because some members said was outright “unqualified.” The Chicago Council of Lawyers called him an “arrogant and intolerant” judge who “disregards the facts or the law.” But according to the data, Barrett is more of a right-wing radical than either of these mediocre white men. And it’s not just abortion rights. Barrett has displayed the most far-right ideology in the areas of civil rights, criminal rights and discrimination suits. So when Wooten appealed to the Seventh Circuit, Coney and her unqualified justices reached an astonishing conclusion: Terrell Day didn’t have the right to breathe. The court accepted every fact of the case but determined that Wooten shouldn’t even stand trial. They essentially ruled that Wooten was immune from the consequences of his actions because “the only right [Day] can assert would be the right of an out-of-breath arrestee to not have his hands cuffed behind his back after he complains of difficulty breathing.” However, the judges woefully admitted that they could “find no Seventh Circuit precedent clearly establishing such a right.” They wrote that down on paper. One of Shanika Day’s attorneys called it a “radical departure” from prior cases while co-counsel Faith Alvarez said the ruling put the burden of proof “on the person who’s dying. It’s no longer on the police to be trained.” The Unknown Amy Barrett This is not even the tip of the Amy Coney Barrett iceberg. She has also written that being called a “stupid-ass nigger” by one’s work supervisor doesn’t necessarily constitute a hostile work environment. She also voted to deny employees of Autozone a rehearing after her colleagues ruled that the auto parts giant didn’t violate the civil rights of its Black employees by forcing them to work exclusively in Black neighborhoods. She wrote that gun rights are as important as voting rights. In a campus sexual assault appeals case, she literally argued against believing women. In a separate decision, a woman won a lawsuit after she sued for being “repeatedly raped by a prison guard.” A circuit court ruled that the prison shared responsibility for the sexual assaults. Amy Comey Barrett voted to overturn it. In a unanimous decision, Amy and the Conservative Court Jesters decided that the prison and the county could not be held liable because the numerous rapes “fell outside of the guard’s official duties” and “were in no way actuated by a purpose to serve [the] county.” https://archive.vn/hAZFE https://www.theroot.com/unqualified-impunity-amy-coney-barrett-once-ruled-that-1845429637 Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise Barrett, a federal appellate judge, has disclosed serving on the board of a network of private Christian schools affiliated with the group. The organization, however, has declined to confirm that she is a member. In recent years, it removed from its website editions of a People of Praise magazine — first those that included her name and photograph and then all archives of the magazine itself. ... A 2010 People of Praise directory states that she held the title of “handmaid,” a leadership position for women in the community, according to a directory excerpt obtained by The Washington Post. ... In 2010, Barrett was one of three handmaids in the South Bend branch’s northwest area, according to the directory obtained by The Post. She and 10 other area handmaids were overseen by the branch’s principal handmaid. ... Connolly said in a 2018 statement that the title was dropped out of a recognition that its meaning had “shifted dramatically in our culture in recent years.” The phrase took on a particular meaning in popular culture after Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was adapted for television in 2017. Atwood said in a tweet last month that she was inspired by “a different but similar” group. ... The community was led by men, who taught members to run their families according to their interpretation of biblical views of gender roles, according to former members and group documents. “Women were homemakers; they were there to support their husbands,” one former member said in an interview. “My dad was the head of the household and the decision-maker.” A person who was raised in the community said she was instructed by elders not to “emasculate” her male peers by getting the better of them in conversation. “I was made aware of the difference from a young age,” the person said. “I was aware that it would have been better if I had been born a boy.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/amy-coney-barrett-people-of-praise/2020/10/06/5f497d8c-0781-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html Revealed: ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett faith group tell of trauma and sexual abuse People of Praise hire lawyers to investigate historical sexual abuse allegations as former members speak of ‘emotional torment’ Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington @skirchy Wed 21 Oct 2020 05.00 EDT Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the supreme court has prompted former members of her secretive faith group, the People of Praise, to come forward and share stories about emotional trauma and – in at least one case – sexual abuse they claim to have suffered at the hands of members of the Christian group. ... “The basic premise of everything at the People of Praise was that the devil controlled everything outside of the community, and you were ‘walking out from under the umbrella of protection’ if you ever left,” said one former member who called herself Esther, who had to join the group as a child but then left the organization. “I was OK with it being in a tiny little corner of Indiana, because a lot of weird stuff happens in tiny little corners in this country. But it’s just unfathomable to me – I can’t even explain just how unfathomable it is – that you would have a supreme court justice who is a card-carrying member of this community.” ... But former members paint a different picture. Allegations and concerns center on claims of the intense subjugation of women by the community leaders; control of members’ lives and decisions, including marriage, living arrangements, and child rearing; and in one case, the mishandling of allegations of sexual abuse. Members who admit to having gay sex are expelled from the group, which staunchly opposes same-sex marriage. For Sarah (Mitchell) Kuehl, a 48-year-old former member who grew up in the community, discussions about Barrett’s possible nomination prompted her – after years of trying to figure out how to address it – to send an email on 23 September to Craig Lent, the current head of People of Praise who also works as a professor at Notre Dame. In it, Kuehl claimed she had been sexually abused decades earlier by a “household member”, a male member of “the community” who had lived with the Mitchell family as part of the group’s communal living practices. Single people were expected to be celibate and live in family households which were expected to provide an example of married life, former members say. After her alleged abuser – who along with her family was technically a member of a precursor group called Servants of the Light/Lord that merged in 1984 with People of Praise – admitted to her father that he had been molesting Kuehl, he was moved to another household and eventually had a marriage “arranged” for him, she said. She was four years old when the abuse began and it lasted for two years. At the time, her family also lived with other single men and women. It’s unfathomable to me that you'd have a supreme court justice who is a card-carrying member of this community “I have struggled for years on whether to hold PoP accountable for what they knew, when they knew it and their attempt to hide and cover up. Like the Catholic church, who covered up and moved priests around, PoP has had a history of these same behaviors,” Kuehl alleged in her email to Lent. Letters provided to the Guardian by Kuehl dating back to the late 1980s and early 1990s substantiate claims of abuse and attempts by her parents to address the issue with senior leaders of People of Praise. The documents include references to a psychological evaluation of the alleged abuser and confirmation that he did abuse Kuehl. The documents also revealed there were additional victims and that other minors were at risk. Years later, when Kuehl sought to discuss the issue with her “handmaid” – a female guide and senior member of the organization, when she was at college – she said she was discouraged from talking about it. “She told me NOT to talk about it with anyone because it could ‘hurt the reputation of the community’,” Kuehl wrote in her letter to Lent. ... Esther, who approached the Guardian but did not want to be identified, described how her parents had become members of People of Praise after a family tragedy upended their lives. The next eight years of her life, she said, were filled with “emotional torment” as she watched her parents “obediently embrace one conspiracy after another”. “Anyone who was not charismatic was not to be trusted and most likely an operator for ‘the evil one’. The devil was always trying to trick us and the only way to stay safe was to follow obediently the rules set up by ‘the co-ordinators’,” she said. “I was not allowed to watch TV for two years until that was no longer a directive; my mother could only cook with natural foods until that was no longer a fad … I was prohibited from owning a record/tape unless it was Christian rock.” She added: “We were devout Catholics too but there were strong insinuations that the diocese had strayed and could not be trusted.” https://archive.vn/0R4y1 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/amy-coney-barrett-people-of-praise-trauma-abuse Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies Michelle R. Smith and Michael Biesecker Associated Press Published 12:42 a.m. ET Oct. 21, 2020 Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that openly gay and lesbian teachers weren’t welcome in the classroom. The policies that discriminated against LGBTQ people and their children were in place for years at Trinity Schools Inc., both before Barrett joined the board in 2015 and during the time she served. ... The AP spoke with more than two dozen people who attended or worked at Trinity Schools, or former members of People of Praise. They said the community’s teachings have been consistent for decades: Homosexuality is an abomination against God, sex should occur only within marriage and marriage should only be between a man and a woman. Interviewees told the AP that Trinity’s leadership communicated anti-LGBTQ policies and positions in meetings, one-on-one conversations, enrollment agreements, employment agreements, handbooks and written policies – including those in place when Barrett was an active member of the board. ... Nearly all the people interviewed for this story are gay or said they have gay family members. They used words such as “terrified,” “petrified” and “frightening” to describe the prospect of Barrett on the high court. Some of them know Barrett, have mutual friends with her or even have been in her home dozens of times. They describe her as “nice” or “a kind person,” but told the AP they feared others would suffer if Barrett tries to implement People of Praise’s views on homosexuality on the Supreme Court. About half of the people asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation against themselves or their families from other members of People of Praise, or because they had not come out to everyone in their lives. Among those interviewed were people who attended all three of its schools and who had been active in several of its 22 branches. Their experiences stretched back as far as the 1970s, and as recently as 2020. NOT WELCOME Tom Henry was a senior at Trinity School in Eagan, Minnesota, serving as a student ambassador, providing tours to prospective families, when Barrett was an active member of the board. In early 2017, a lesbian parent asked him whether Trinity was open to gay people and expressed concern about how her child would be treated. Henry, who is gay, said he didn’t know what to say. He had been instructed not to answer questions about People of Praise or Trinity’s “politics.” The next day, Henry recalled, he asked the school’s then-headmaster, Jon Balsbaugh, how he should have answered. Henry said Balsbaugh pulled a document out of his desk drawer that condemned gay marriage, and explained it was a new policy from People of Praise that was going into the handbook. “He looked me right in the eye and said, the next time that happens, you tell them they would not be welcome here,” Henry recounted. “And he said to me that trans families, gay families, gay students, trans students would not feel welcome at Trinity Schools. And then he said, ‘Do we understand each other?’ And I said, yes. And I left. And then I quit the student ambassadors that day.” SCHOOL POLICIES Multiple people who spoke with the AP detailed how Trinity’s leadership articulated and put in place policies that effectively barred gay families and employees. A 2018-19 enrollment agreement obtained by the AP says “the only proper place for human sexual activity is marriage, where marriage is a legal and committed relationship between one man and one woman.” It goes on to say that activities such as “fornication, pornography, adultery and homosexual acts, and advocating or modeling any of these behaviors” are at odds with the school’s core beliefs. ... In addition to the written policies, school administrators made clear verbally they did not want to admit children of gay families, multiple people told the AP. One described a faculty meeting at the Trinity School in Minnesota, where Balsbaugh, who was then headmaster, said in response to a question that people who subscribed to a religion other than Christianity would be welcome at the school because they were still “seeking truth.” Children of gay couples, on the other hand, would not be accepted, “because their life is so contrary to our beliefs, and essentially that it was a choice,” the person recalled Balsbaugh saying. ... A faculty employment agreement in place for the 2014-15 school year, obtained by the AP, states that “Blatant sexual immorality (for example, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, etc.) has no place in the culture of Trinity Schools.” Several people told the AP they were unaware of any openly gay employees and said it was understood that they were not welcome. One gay man spoke with the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of being ousted from his position at the school. ... Many former students described a controlling and repressive environment where even a friendly hug could earn a detention. Michael Leehan spent six years at Trinity School in Minnesota, graduating in 2015. Leehan, who is gay and had come out to his friends at school, recalled being reprimanded by a dean for hugging a platonic male friend. “I don’t know how else to describe it. He just got a kind of a mean look in his eye and venom in his voice,” Leehan said, recalling that the dean told him, “Don’t do that stuff here.” Leehan remembered a surge of anger – “the feeling of I’m dirty, in the context of this school.” ... Cara Wood, 28, attended Trinity School at Meadow View in Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of the nation’s capital, and recalled the only time the school addressed homosexuality was when students read the “Inferno” and learned about gay men being in hell. Wood, who is bisexual, graduated in 2010. “They called it sexual preference rather than … sexual orientation and typically we just wouldn’t address it at all,” Wood told the AP. During her confirmation hearing last week, Barrett also framed sexuality as a “preference.” That wording is rejected by LGBTQ advocates because it suggests sexual orientation is a choice. ... Andrea Turpin-King transferred to the South Bend school in 1990, in the middle of her 7th grade year, after her father was struck and killed by a drunken driver after leaving a well-known gay bar. Her mother hoped she could get a fresh start after she was bullied at another school. The teachers at Trinity were told about what had happened, she said. Turpin-King recalled that during 9th grade one of her teachers told the class that all gay people go to hell. “When she said that, all I could picture was my dad’s face, and all I could think about was how much I missed his hugs,” Turpin-King told the AP. “And so, I said, I don’t think that’s true. And she said that I was going to go to hell, too.” Turpin-King said: “It felt like a request for me to disavow my father’s humanity. Even in death. And I couldn’t do that.” ... Many former members told the AP they struggled to reconcile People of Praise’s and Trinity Schools’ religious teachings with their sexual identity, and suffered fear, anxiety and trauma. Many felt they had to leave, even at the risk of being shunned by friends and family. One 2015 Trinity graduate who grew up in People of Praise recalled members requesting that the community pray that their gay loved ones would “recover” from their homosexuality. Another Trinity graduate, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because his parents are still in People of Praise and his sexuality remains a sensitive topic for them, was forced to undergo conversion therapy after Trinity administrators learned he was gay at age 16. He also recounted being counseled by a senior People of Praise leader that same-sex attraction was “changeable” with treatment and prayer. The widely discredited practice has been condemned by mental health organizations and LGBTQ advocacy groups as pseudoscientific, unethical and psychologically harmful. ... Asked directly if a married same-sex couple or someone who is openly gay would be welcome within the community, Connolly responded, “People of Praise holds the standard Christian teaching, based on the New Testament, that sexual activity is meant for marriage, understood as the union of a man and a woman.” Camellia Pisegna’s family was expelled from the community they had been a part of for 15 years in South Bend when she came out as a lesbian around 1990, she and others told the AP. Pisegna’s children were shunned, even from lifelong friends. Even now, Pisegna said, no one has apologized, even though she still lives in the area. “Any one of these hundreds of people could very easily find me,” Pisegna said. “But that’s never happened in 30 years.” https://archive.vn/aysK8 https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/21/barrett-trustee-private-school-anti-gay-policies/6002465002/?fbclid=IwAR3aU5EIqvTLRAAzmXPzBZg-tEZVpBUPE_Sg37gLk8nhHE923K1c8FOH_RI Judges Are Already Testing How Far Amy Coney Barrett Will Go for Republicans In a shocking opinion, two judges tried to hijack Minnesota’s election law to throw out mail ballots. By MARK JOSEPH STERN OCT 30, 2020 https://archive.vn/20ewC https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/minnesota-judges-barrett-absentee-ballots.html ABA committee explains its 'not qualified' rating for 8th Circuit nominee BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS OCTOBER 31, 2017, 9:35 AM CDT https://archive.vn/pdWWK https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/aba_committee_explains_its_not_qualified_rating_for_8th_circuit_nominee I worry about the lives of LGBTQ+ families when Barrett defended supreme court dissenters on the landmark marriage equality case Obergefell v Hodges. I worry about the lives of Black, Native, Asian and Latinx Americans when Barrett has pointed out what she perceives as flaws in Brown v The Board of Education: the landmark case that desegregated schools. I worry about the lives of transgender youth and adults when, in lectures, Barrett stated she did not know if transgender bathrooms were necessary given the text of Title IX and when she misgendered transwomen, calling them “physiological males.” https://archive.vn/p7PT9 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/12/amy-coney-barrett-bad-choice-women Murkowski announces she will vote yes to confirm Amy Coney Barrett https://archive.vn/86WL6 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/24/politics/murkowski-yes-vote-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court/index.html Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski Signals She'll Vote Against Confirming Amy Coney Barrett https://archive.vn/ofLwD https://www.newsweek.com/republican-lisa-murkowski-signals-shell-vote-against-confirming-amy-coney-barrett-1541453 Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of “unconscionable cruelty” in teen rape case Barrett decided to overturn a $6.7M jury award to a teen allegedly raped in a jail run by ex-Sheriff David Clarke https://archive.is/Z9m29 https://www.salon.com/2020/10/16/watchdog-group-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-unconscionable-cruelty-in-teen-rape-case/ I was wondering if this was one of those "applying precedent leads us to this unfortunately result..." cases but, no, the reality is that Barrett plowed through state law and a jury's factual findings to cheat the plaintiff out of her fair compensation. /1 https://archive.is/wV10K https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1317596060932624385 Barrett Doubles Down On Climate Denial After a Daily Poster report, Dems pressed Barrett to commit to recuse from oil company cases. In response, she is refusing — and reiterating her assertion that climate science is “controversial.” https://archive.is/uxWvc https://www.dailyposter.com/p/barrett-doubles-down-on-climate-denial Amy Coney Barrett has ties to an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. Why do advocates claim it’s a hate group? Alliance Defending Freedom doesn't just want to restrict LGBTQ+ rights. It wants to litigate LGBTQ+ people out of existence, say advocates. https://archive.is/6QYmL https://19thnews.org/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-anti-lgbtq-hate-group/ Kamala Harris grilling prompts doubtful claim from Amy Coney Barrett https://archive.vn/rZ0EH https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/13/kamala-harris-amy-coney-barrett-senate-hearing ********************** https://archive.vn/nL7yu https://www.vox.com/2020/9/21/21449061/trump-bemidji-fayetteville-rallies-rbg-supreme-court This is the language of an abuser: “I was only joking.” https://archive.is/SEC9z https://twitter.com/mollysmcdonough/status/1253730753634017280 Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he's told more than 150 times https://archive.vn/FCBmG https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-veterans-choice-paula-reid/index.html https://archive.vn/ysHpP https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/10/28/is-president-donald-trump-a-flight-risk-433313 “I have also made an ironclad pledge to American families,” Trump claimed. “We will always protect patients with preexisting conditions.” The bad news for people with preexisting conditions is that this “ironclad pledge” is a lie. Trump and his administration have fought hard — in all three branches of government — to strip people with preexisting health conditions of the protections they enjoy under the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, if Trump has his way, those protections will cease to exist. https://archive.vn/UOHRD https://www.vox.com/2020/2/4/21123495/biggest-lie-trump-state-of-the-union-2020-preexisting-conditions 19 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Here's what their stories have in common. https://archive.vn/Hi21R https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/10/21/trump-sexual-assault-allegations-share-similar-patterns-19-women/5279155002/ A former model has accused Trump of groping and forcibly kissing her in his private box at the 1997 US Open https://archive.vn/wyVWc https://www.businessinsider.com/former-model-says-donald-trump-sexually-assaulted-her-1997-2020-9 First Thing: 'I was in Trump's grip, and I couldn't get out of it' https://archive.vn/dqLJa https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/first-thing-i-was-in-trumps-grip-and-i-couldnt-get-out-of-it Justice Department blasted for late bid to defend Trump in rape defamation lawsuit by writer E. Jean Carroll https://archive.vn/wH7NE https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/justice-department-intervenes-in-trump-and-e-jean-carroll-case.html Trump got his biggest, earliest evangelical endorsement because his personal lawyer helped cover up incriminating photos of the evangelical's [Falwell's] wife screwing the pool boy while he watched. You really could not make this stuff up. https://archive.is/wxIXq https://twitter.com/drvox/status/1307057136745226242 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/jerry-becki-falwell-affair-giancarlo-granda-trump/2020/09/18/456a1568-eccc-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html ‘Who’s Putting These Ideas in His Head?’ The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans will never learn the full story about Trump’s relationship with Russia. https://archive.vn/74I7W https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/anne-applebaum-interviews-peter-strzok/616003/ Trump visibly distressed over Atlantic story fallout from claims he disparaged the military https://archive.vn/93q56 https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/trump-military-fallout/index.html Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed https://archive.vn/k0M4S https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/07/politics/trump-attack-military-leadership/index.html https://archive.vn/k0M4S War is 'a last resort,' Army chief says after Trump's comments https://archive.vn/tpMxy https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/08/war-is-a-last-resort-army-chief-trump-409934 As world leaders condemn Russian aggression, Trump says he and Putin 'get along' https://archive.vn/5Dx7v https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-putin-relationship/index.html Alexei Navalny: Trump refuses to condemn Russia over poisoning https://archive.vn/ehzhp https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54039710 'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth St https://archive.vn/am1G6 https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html Trump says he has no regrets about Covid-19 response, claims he ‘up-played’ virus despite downplaying it https://archive.vn/rVgKG https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/15/trump-claims-he-up-played-the-coronavirus-after-he-admitted-downplaying-it.html 200,000 dead as Trump vilifies science, prioritizes politics https://archive.vn/SKlgl https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-donald-trump-archive-pandemics-2c6af8d90eb758cbaa3a40c3cbd7c515 IN TRUMP'S OWN WORDS, BIDEN WILL LISTEN TO THE SCIENTISTS! https://archive.vn/6c9gz https://thehill.com/homenews/521638-trump-biden-will-listen-to-the-scientists-if-elected https://archive.vn/wip/SSmxS https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/listen-to-scientists/ Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors' By Michael Warren, Jamie Gangel and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Updated 1657 GMT (0057 HKT) October 28, 2020 Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, comments that came as more than 40,000 Americans already had died from the virus, which was ravaging New York City. https://archive.vn/HeMh1 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/woodward-kushner-coronavirus-doctors/index.html American Medical Association is now pushing back on Trump's false claim that doctors & hospitals are jacking up death tolls to make more money saying, "The suggestion is ... a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge." https://archive.is/9HpsL https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1322284418686439424 https://archive.is/wip/pfUAB https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-statements/ama-statement-ongoing-attacks-physicians-treating-covid-patients HEALTH AND SCIENCE U.S. reports record 88,521 new Covid cases as scientists warn of ‘exponential growth’ PUBLISHED FRI, OCT 30 2020•12:05 PM EDT|UPDATED FRI, OCT 30 2020•3:35 PM EDT https://archive.vn/Op4t7 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/30/us-reports-nearly-90000-new-covid-cases-a-record-high-as-e.html (CNN)Appearing on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show Thursday night, Donald Trump Jr. was asked about Dr. Sanjay Gupta's recommendation that anyone who attends a campaign rally for the President self-quarantine for two weeks. He responded this way (bolding is mine): "I mean, give me a break, Laura, the reality is this ... if you look, I put it up on my Instagram a couple days ago, because I went through the CDC data because I kept hearing about new infections, but I was like, 'Well, why aren't they talking about deaths?' Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing." The number is 1,004. As in, 1,004 Americans died of coronavirus on Thursday. That's 1,004 people with families, friends and colleagues who will never get to talk to them, hug them or see them ever again. https://archive.vn/lJ1H9 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/politics/donald-trump-jr-covid-19-2020-election/index.html President Trump on Friday teased Fox News host Laura Ingraham for wearing a mask at his Michigan campaign rally, chiding her for being "politically correct." "I do believe Laura Ingraham is here some place. Where is Laura? Where is she?" Trump said, scanning the crowd for the Fox News host. "I can’t recognize you. Is that a mask?" Trump said, appearing surprised. "No way. Are you wearing a mask? I’ve never seen her in a mask. "She’s being very politically correct," he added. The president's comments are the latest example of him mocking others for wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has previously swiped at Democratic nominee Joe Biden for wearing masks, and he accused a journalist earlier this year of wanting to be "politically correct" when he would not remove his mask to ask a question in the Rose Garden. https://archive.vn/ogyBw https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/523609-trump-teases-laura-ingraham-for-wearing-a-mask-at-his-rally White House science office says Trump ended coronavirus pandemic as US hits record cases https://t.co/cXPEThE483 https://t.co/CYgRjRM0WO https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1321437596963213314 https://archive.is/9LEaE https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/27/white-house-science-office-ending-pandemic-432827 CNN's @AlisynCamerota: "Hospitals in WI are near capacity. Does that give you any pause about going there and holding a big rally?" Trump 2020 Press Sec. Hogan Gidley: “No, it doesn’t … the VP has the best doctors in the world around him." https://t.co/aBRe6IYgCF https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1321435418987024384 https://archive.is/zzI9x https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/31/trump-study-coronavirus-rallies-433760 https://archive.is/wip/6R1RL https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/health/covid-trump-rallies-counties-cases/index.html https://archive.is/1Fw9q https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/politics/covid-outbreaks-trump-campaign-events/index.html https://archive.is/8g6f6 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2020/10/26/492430/trump-rallies-often-followed-increases-local-covid-19-cases/ https://archive.is/4c4yG https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/10/22/trumps-campaign-made-stops-nationwide-then-coronavirus-cases-surged/3679534001/ Trump move to end WHO funding would be 'catastrophic' for polio programs, experts warn “If you’re the sole provider of a vital service, and then you take it away, that’s catastrophic,” said Dr. Jack Chow. If President Donald Trump carries out his threat to pull American funding for the World Health Organization, the impact on polio eradication efforts around the world could be “catastrophic,” experts told NBC News on Wednesday. “It’s heartbreaking,” said Dr. Jack Chow, 59, the former assistant director-general at the WHO, where he was responsible for combating HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. Chow, who previously served as the State Department’s special representative on global HIV/AIDS under Secretary of State Colin Powell, added the move was a "torpedo" that could “potentially sink” the United Nations’ agency responsible for international public health, which was founded in 1948. https://archive.vn/wip/jfEDo https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-move-end-who-funding-would-be-catastrophic-polio-programs-n1184651 https://archive.vn/RcyLW https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/517708-despair-at-cdc-after-trump-influence-i-have-never-seen-morale-this-low A 'distressed' Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say https://archive.vn/XUPPi https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/deborah-birx-white-house-task-force/index.html The Guardian: Debacle of Trump's coronavirus disinfectant comments could be tipping point. https://archive.is/xkfrM https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/25/donald-trump-coronavirus-disinfectant-sarcastic-tipping-point NBC News: Trump says he was being sarcastic with comments about injecting disinfectants. https://archive.is/ZFEZb https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-was-being-sarcastic-comments-about-injecting-disinfectants-n1191991 New York Daily News: Spike in NYC residents ingesting householder cleaners: Poison Control Center. http://archive.li/Lq3Rw https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-new-yorkers-household-cleaners-trump-20200425-rnaqio5dyfeaxmthxx2vktqa5m-story.html Breaking NYT: On Feb. 24, Trump's economic team privately addressed the Hoover Institution and implied that a COVID outbreak could prove worse than advisers were signaling to the public. Aides appeared to be giving wealthy party donors an early warning. https://archive.vn/Cscxy https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1316529229740208129 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/stock-market-coronavirus-trump.html https://archive.vn/ZylhU https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/25/trump-hhs-ads-coronavirus-421957 https://archive.is/gM2Qh https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc/ Trump embraces idea behind 'herd immunity' as Fauci calls concept 'total nonsense' https://archive.vn/GuWPo https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-embraces-idea-herd-immunity-fauci-calls-concept/story?id=73634243 Trump calls Dr. Anthony Fauci a ‘disaster,’ says Americans ‘are tired of Covid’ as nation faces spiking cases https://archive.vn/eAh2G https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/coronavirus-trump-calls-fauci-a-disaster-says-people-are-tired-of-covid.html https://archive.vn/WwmCg https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/politics/donald-trump-anthony-fauci-2020-campaign/index.html https://archive.vn/wip/JLIAK https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-covid-adviser-scott-atlas-apologizes-for-interview-with-russian-state-media-network-rt The White House blocked the US Postal Service from sending face masks to every US household in April https://archive.vn/FyN49 https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-blocked-usps-from-sending-face-masks-to-all-households-2020-9 White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says https://archive.vn/eyFFv https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/17/white-house-abandoned-plan-to-deliver-650-million-face-masks-across-us-report-says.html U.S. Will Revive Global Virus-Hunting Effort Ended Last Year A federal agency is resurrecting a version of Predict, a scientific network that for a decade watched for new pathogens dangerous to humans. Joe Biden has also vowed to fund the effort. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Thomas Kaplan Published Aug. 30, 2020 Updated Sept. 2, 2020 A worldwide virus-hunting program allowed to expire last year by the Trump administration, just before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, will have a second life — whatever the outcome of the presidential election. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has promised that, if elected, he will restore the program, called Predict, which searched for dangerous new animal viruses in bat caves, camel pens, wet markets and wildlife-smuggling routes around the globe. The expiration of Predict just weeks before the advent of the pandemic prompted wide criticism among scientists, who noted that the coronavirus is exactly the sort of catastrophic animal virus the program was designed to head off. In a speech on Thursday, Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, briefly alluded to the controversy as she attacked President Trump ahead of the last night of the Republican National Convention. “Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a program, called Predict, that tracked emerging diseases in places like China,” she said late in her 20-minute speech. “Trump cut it.” The government agency that let Predict die last October has quietly created a $100 million program with a similar purpose as Predict, but it has a different name. The new program, set to begin in October, will be called Stop Spillover. Predict, which was started in 2009 as part of the Obama administration’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program, was inspired by the 2005 H5N1 bird flu scare. Predict was run by the United States Agency for International Development, which is an independent foreign-aid agency overseen by the State Department. Predict was an odd fit for USAID, experts said. Unlike the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health, the agency is not normally a home to cutting-edge science. The American response to pandemics is strangely fragmented. The C.D.C. investigates outbreaks, while the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases pursues vaccines. Much research into tropical diseases and bioweapons is done by the military, legacies of the Spanish-American War and the Cold War, while the State Department coordinates global campaigns against AIDS. Some experts have called for a more centralized arrangement, a sort of Pentagon for diseases. In the public health arena, USAID is home to programs like the President’s Malaria Initiative and campaigns to bring clean drinking water to rural villages. But those programs rely on long-established interventions, like well-drilling, mosquito nets and anti-malaria drugs. Interviews with former Predict officials and grantees indicate that the program was not actively targeted by the White House in 2019, but that it was allowed to die by cautious administrators who were already under pressure to cut budgets and who feared running afoul of Mr. Trump’s hostility to foreign aid. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/health/predict-pandemic-usaid.html I just keep thinking about how one person can claim to have both "total authority" and "no responsibility" and how insanely dangerous that is https://archive.is/csi6h https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1253737850421510144 “I take full responsibility. It’s not my fault.” Actual, unedited quote. https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1319447636123017217 TRUMP PREVIOUSLY SAID OBAMA SHOULD ACCEPT ALL RESPONSIBILITY, THEN SAID HE TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR FIRING PANDEMIC TEAM (WHICH HE CLAIMED NOT TO KNOW OF, BUT TURNS OUT HE EXPLICITLY SAID HE'S A BUSINESSMAN AND DOESN'T LIKE PAYING LOTS OF PEOPLE TO DO NOTHING, AND THEY CAN ALWAYS BE REHIRED LATER)TRUMP SAID OBAMA SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RESIGN AFTER *2* AMERICANS DIED DURING EBOLA (RIGHT?) OUTBREAK! INCLUDE VIDEO OF YAMICHE WHO CONFRONTED TRUMP ABOUT A LOT OF THESE ISSUES! ("YOU SAID EVERYONE WHO WANTED A TEST WOULD GET A TEST. WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN" AND HIS INSANE RESPONSE). ALSO, THERE WAS ANOTHER VIDEO AROUND APRIL 12 WHERE ANOTHER FEMALE REPORTER CONFRONTED TRUMP ABOUT SOMETHING AND HE BLEW UP "ENOUGH!" HERE IT IS, I THINK https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1249828326534975488 fired pandemic team, then lied about it and called question "nasty" - video Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite him saying in early April that "I didn't know about it" http://archive.is/RbyCW https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-video-trump-pandemic-team-cut-2018-a9405191.html WOW PUT THIS RIGHT AFTER TRUMP SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE PANDEMIC TEAM BEING FIRED! "Isn't the WORLD tired of hearing President Obama say he knew nothing about anything-time to take responsibility for all of your mistakes! 4:17 AM · Oct 31, 2013" http://archive.is/FfKSI https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/395872174722273280 "President Obama has a personal responsibility to visit & embrace all people in the US who contract Ebola! 7:32 AM · Oct 15, 2014" http://archive.is/tEFki https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/522394479429689344 Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible. 11:01 AM · Nov 8, 2013 http://archive.is/yK3Yc https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/398887965302091776 President Donald Trump on Friday deflected blame for his administration’s lagging ability to test Americans for the coronavirus outbreak, insisting instead — without offering evidence — that fault lies with his predecessor, Barack Obama. “I don't take responsibility at all,” Trump said defiantly, pointing to an unspecified “set of circumstances” and “rules, regulations and specifications from a different time.” http://archive.is/uuEek https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/trump-coronavirus-testing-128971 "If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa,has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign! 4:38 PM - 23 Oct 2014" http://archive.is/s2xOK https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/525431218910027776 LINK ALONG WITH TRUMP TWITTER ARCHIVE  (  http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com   ): https://factba.se/topic/deleted-tweets "your Governor, Gretchen “Half” Whitmer is way in over her head, she doesn’t have a clue. Likes blaming everyone for her own ineptitude!" http://archive.is/XWoB8 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1243726993537073152 Biden/Obama were a disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu. Polling at the time showed disastrous approval numbers. 17,000 people died unnecessarily and through incompetence! Also, don’t forget their 5 Billion Dollar Obamacare website that should have cost close to nothing! 9:25 AM · Apr 17, 2020 http://archive.is/wip/Mn8GQ https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1251185023459483653 Why didn’t the I.G., who spent 8 years with the Obama Administration (Did she Report on the failed H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died?), want to talk to the Admirals, Generals, V.P. & others in charge, before doing her report. Another Fake Dossier! 8:22 AM · Apr 7, 2020 http://archive.is/wip/GR6y1 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1247545358705664002 ....The USA was never set up for this, just look at the catastrophe of the H1N1 Swine Flu (Biden in charge, 17,000 people lost, very late response time), but it soon will be. Great decision to close our China, and other, borders early. Saved many lives! 10:02 AM · Mar 15, 2020 http://archive.is/wip/ZWJPR https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1239235411463020544 Trump Issues Order Giving Him More Leeway to Hire and Fire Federal Workers The move would give the president greater freedom to weed out what he sees as a “deep state” bureaucracy. The executive order, which could be rescinded if he is not re-elected, was condemned by civil service unions. By Eric Lipton Oct. 22, 2020 WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order this week that could substantially expand his ability to hire and fire tens of thousands of federal workers during a second term, potentially allowing him to weed out what he sees as a “deep state” bureaucracy working to undermine him. The executive order, issued late Wednesday and described by one prominent federal union leader as “the most profound undermining of the Civil Service in our lifetimes,” would allow federal agencies to go through their employee rosters and reclassify certain workers in a way that would strip them of job protections that now cover most federal employees. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-executive-order-federal-workers.html Because of trump's trade war? For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States — specimens needed to develop vaccines and treatments, according to federal health officials. Despite persistent requests from government officials and research institutions, China has not provided samples of the dangerous virus, a type of bird flu called H7N9. In the past, such exchanges have been mostly routine under rules established by the World Health Organization. Now, as the United States and China spar over trade, some scientists worry that the vital exchange of medical supplies and information could slow, hampering preparedness for the next biological threat. ... Recent trade tensions could worsen the problem. The Office of the United States Trade Representative in April released a proposed list of products to be targeted for tariffs — including pharmaceutical products such as vaccines, medicines and medical devices. So far, none of those medical products have landed on the final tariff lists. But lower-level trade negotiations with China concluded on Thursday with few signs of progress, increasing the likelihood of additional tariffs. http://archive.fo/Q34NL https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-samples.html Nov 30, 2011 Newly released emails prove that scientists have manipulated data on global warming. The data is unreliable. wsj.com/articles...
Nov 2, 2012 Global warming is based on faulty science and manipulated data which is proven by the emails that were leaked forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor...
Nov 6, 2012 .@ABFalecbaldwin Alec--it's not science, it's a con--read the e-mails.
Jan 26, 2014 Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don't believe it $$$$!
Jan 29, 2014 The weather has been so cold for so long that the global warming HOAXSTERS were forced to change the name to climate change to keep $ flow!
Feb 5, 2014 Massive record setting snowstorm and freezing temperatures in U.S. Smart that GLOBAL WARMING hoaxsters changed name to CLIMATE CHANGE! $$$$
Jan 29, 2014 Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!
Dec 6, 2013 We should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!
Dec 6, 2013 Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!
Jan 25, 2014 NBC News just called it the great freeze - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?
Dec 28, 2013 We should be focused on clean and beautiful air-not expensive and business closing GLOBAL WARMING-a total hoax!
Dec 30, 2013 The con artists changed the name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE when GLOBAL WARMING was no longer working and credibility was lost!
Mar 4, 2014 Baltimore just set a record for the coldest day in March in a long recorded history - 4 degrees. Other places likewise. Global warming con!
Mar 28, 2012 Global warming has been proven to be a canard repeatedly over and over again. on.wsj.com/H7ob9d The left needs a dose of reality.
Jul 31, 2013 Surprise? 1970's global cooling alarmists were pushing same no-growth liberal agenda as today's global warming wattsupwiththat.com/2013...
Dec 12, 2013 This is one of the COLDEST WINTERS ever, freezing all over the country for long periods of time! So much for GLOBAL WARMING.
Oct 21, 2013 Where's the global warming? 2013 was one of the least extreme years in weather on record climatedepot.com/2013...
Sep 9, 2013 So much for 'global warming.' Earth is cooling at a record pace telegraph.co.uk/environment/
Jul 18, 2013 For the disciples of global warming, in 150 summers (years) there have been 20 heat waves as bad or worse than current-this has happened b4!
May 4, 2012 In the 1920's people were worried about global cooling--it never happened. Now it's global warming. Give me a break!
Mar 25, 2013 They changed the name from "global warming" to "climate change" after the term global warming just wasn't working (it was too cold)!
Feb 19, 2014 "@Nospin_43: @realDonaldTrump @tan123 climate change allows them to stay on the gravy train whatever happens."
Feb 17, 2014 It's not climate change,it's global warming.Don't let the dollar sucking wiseguys change names midstream because the first name didn't work
Feb 17, 2014 Don't let the GLOBAL WARMING wiseguys get away with changing the name to CLIMATE CHANGE because the FACTS do not let GW tag to work anymore!
Feb 18, 2014 "@Michael_KSC: @realDonaldTrump @thedropkicks Whether Global Warming or Climate change. The fact is We didn't cause it. We cannot change it.
Nov 6, 2012 The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
Nov 1, 2012 Let's continue to destroy the competitiveness of our factories & manufacturing so we can fight mythical global warming. China is so happy!
Nov 5, 2012 We can't destroy the competitiveness of our factories in order to prepare for nonexistent global warming. China is thrilled with us!
Dec 5, 2013 The problem w/ the concept of "global warming" is that the U.S. is spending a fortune on "fixing it" while China & others do nothing!
Jun 26, 2013 China loved Obama's climate change speech yesterday. They laughed! It hastens their takeover of us as the leading world economy.
Apr 23, 2013 The Chinese talk of climate change and carbon footprint but don't clean up their factories-but they sell us the equipment to clean up ours!
Mar 12, 2012 China talks about the so-called "carbon footprint" and then, behind our leaders backs, they laugh. They could not care less about pollution--they only talk the game. We clean our factories and they don't clean theirs.
Dec 15, 2013 We should be focusing on beautiful, clean air & not on wasteful & very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit! China & others are hurting our air
Jun 24, 2013 We are being embarrassed by Russia and China on Snowden (and much more) yet Obama is talking about global warming on Tuesday.
May 13, 2016 .@thehill Your story about me & the carbon tax is absolutely incorrect-it is just the opposite. I will not support or endorse a carbon tax!
Oct 19, 2015 It's really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!
Feb 19, 2015 Record setting cold and snow, ice caps massive! The only global warming we should fear is that caused by nuclear weapons - incompetent pols.
Feb 18, 2015 Among the lowest temperatures EVER in much of the United States. Ice caps at record size. Changed name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE
Feb 15, 2015 Wow, 25 degrees below zero, record cold and snow spell. Global warming anyone?
Feb 15, 2015 Record low temperatures and massive amounts of snow. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING?
Jan 26, 2015 Where the hell is global warming when you need it?
Jan 26, 2015 "@blazaruk: "RT Where the hell is global warming when you need it?" I dearly hope you are able to take up the flag of the GOP in 2016"
Jan 8, 2015 "@DuttyVal202: "@realDonaldTrump: It's record cold all over the country and world - where the hell is global warming, we need some fast!"
Jan 8, 2015 It's record cold all over the country and world - where the hell is global warming, we need some fast!
Jan 26, 2014 "@dawson_Stock: Don't forget. "Global warming" can also mean earth is getting colder! That way they cover both sides of the fence!"
Nov 19, 2014 For those that constantly say that "global warming" is now "climate change"-they changed the name. The name global warming wasn't working
Nov 18, 2014 Just like Jonathan Gruber viciously lied & called Americans "stupid" on ObamaCare, many consultants are doing the same on Global Warming.
Nov 18, 2014 There are many Jonathan Gruber types selling the global warming "stuff" - and they really do believe the American public is stupid.
Nov 17, 2014 The entire country is FREEZING - we desperately need a heavy dose of global warming, and fast! Ice caps size reaches all time high.
Oct 29, 2014 Just out - the POLAR ICE CAPS are at an all time high, the POLAR BEAR population has never been stronger. Where the hell is global warming?
Oct 13, 2014 As ISIS and Ebola spread like wildfire, the Obama administration just submitted a paper on how to stop climate change (aka global warming).
Sep 17, 2014 Great article on so-called climate change, formerly known as global warming. nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science...
Sep 9, 2014 Windmills are the greatest threat in the US to both bald and golden eagles. Media claims fictional 'global warming' is worse.
Jul 28, 2014 It's late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It's now CLIMATE CHANGE
Jul 16, 2014 Tremendous cold wave hits large part of U.S. Lucky they changed the name from global warming to climate change - G.W. just doesn't work!
Jul 14, 2014 The only global warming that people should be concerned with is the global warming caused by nuclear weapons because of our weak U.S. leader
Jul 14, 2014 They only changed the term to CLIMATE CHANGE when the words GLOBAL WARMING didn't work anymore. Come on people, get smart!
Jul 14, 2014 Record cold temperatures in July - 20 to 30 degrees colder than normal. What the hell happened to GLOBAL WARMING?
Jun 23, 2014 I wonder if when Secy. Kerry goes to Iraq and Afghanistan he pushes hard for them to look at GLOBAL WARMING and study the carbon footprint?
May 7, 2014 The global warming we should be worried about is the global warming caused by NUCLEAR WEAPONS in the hands of crazy or incompetent leaders!
Apr 1, 2014 In New York, March was the coldest month in recorded history - we could use some GLOBAL WARMING!
Feb 26, 2014 Congrats to Charles @krauthammer for his statements on climate change, formerly known as global warming!
Jan 29, 2014 Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air - not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense.
Feb 3, 2014 Watch commodity prices soar because of the freezing cold. Will be bad for the economy. We could use some global warming.
Feb 5, 2014 When will our country stop wasting money on global warming and so many other truly "STUPID" things and begin to focus on lower taxes?
Feb 13, 2014 A big part of the country, even the southern states, is under massive attack from snow and freezing cold. Global warming anyone?
Jan 30, 2014 Obama said in his SOTU that "global warming is a fact." Sure, about as factual as "if you like your healthcare, you can keep it."
Jan 29, 2014 With one of the worst and most prolonged cold spells in history, with Atlanta, Texas and parts of Florida freezing- Global Warming anyone?
Jan 6, 2014 We are experiencing the coldest weather in more than two decades-most people never remember anything like this. GLOBAL WARMING anyone?
Jan 4, 2014 "@princebe: Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest EVER recorded, global warming is NOT eroding it' reg.cx/29dW via @theregister"
Jan 3, 2014 Record snowfall & freezing temps throughout the country. Where is Global Warming when you need it?!
Jan 2, 2014 "@MeleMallory: @realDonaldTrump You know it's actually called CLIMATE CHANGE, right? That's only because GLOBAL WARMING wasn't working!
Jan 1, 2014 This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
Dec 30, 2013 What the hell is going on with GLOBAL WARMING. The planet is freezing, the ice is building and the G.W. scientists are stuck-a total con job
Dec 29, 2013 Temperature at record lows in many parts of the country. 50 degrees below zero with wind chill in large area. Global warming folks iced in!
Dec 28, 2013 The global warming scientists don't want to be airlifted off the ship-they are having too much fun and that is too simple a solution-FAME!
Dec 28, 2013 The rescue icebreaker, trying to free the ship of the GLOBAL WARMING scientists, has turned back-the ice is massive (a record). IRONIC!
Dec 27, 2013 It is really too bad that the scientists studying GLOBAL WARMING in Antarctica got stuck on their icebreaker because of massive ice and cold
Dec 15, 2013 They call it "climate change" now because the words "global warming" didn't work anymore. Same people fighting hard to keep it all going!
Dec 15, 2013 59% of the United States, by area, is now covered in snow-highest % in many years. The "global warming" name isn't working anymore-SORRY!
Dec 14, 2013 Wow, it's snowing in Isreal and on the pyramids in Egypt. Are we still wasting billions on the global warming con? MAKE U.S. COMPETITIVE!
Dec 4, 2013 Wow, record setting cold temperatures throughout large parts of the country. Must be global warming, I mean climate change!
Dec 3, 2013 Denver, Minnesota and others are bracing for some of the coldest weather on record. What are the global warming geniuses saying about this?
Dec 2, 2013 The least number of hurricanes in the U.S. in decades. So they change global warming (too cold) to climate change-now what will they call it
Nov 23, 2013 They changed the name global warming to climate change because the concept of global warming just wasn't working!
Nov 23, 2013 The people that gave you global warming are the same people that gave you ObamaCare!
Nov 23, 2013 Snow and ice, freezing weather, in Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma - what the hell is going on with GLOBAL WARMING?
Nov 17, 2013 I wonder if the Rutgers coach who had the audacity to yell at the player is a proponent of global warming?
May 27, 2013 It's 46º (really cold) and snowing in New York on Memorial Day - tell the so-called "scientists" that we want global warming right now!
May 25, 2013 "@OldManConroy: It's called "climate change". No, they changed it to "climate change" when "global warming" wasn't working anymore-too cold!
May 25, 2013 It's freezing outside, where the hell is "global warming"??
May 14, 2013 32º in New York - it's freezing! Where the hell is global warming when you need it?
May 1, 2013 Snow and freezing weather all over mid-section of Country. Global warming specialists better start thinking fast!
Apr 24, 2013 "@Jenil93_: @realDonaldTrump No melting of ice caps in the degree that global warming predicted. On the contrary increased ice in Antarctica
Apr 23, 2013 Wrong, used to be called global warming and when that name didn't work, they deftly changed it to climate change-because it's freezing!
Apr 23, 2013 It's freezing in New York-where the hell is global warming?
Apr 16, 2013 Via @financialpost: "Climate changing for global warming journalists" by Lawrence Solomon bit.ly/ZxJNyk Consensus is "cracking."
Apr 3, 2013 Another freezing day in the Spring - what is going on with "global warming"? Good move changing the name to "climate change" - sad!
Mar 25, 2013 UK is freezing through longest & coldest winter in over 50 years thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/brrr-uk... Where's the global warming? @gatewaypundit
Mar 25, 2013 It's springtime and it just started snowing in NYC. What is going on with global warming?
Mar 22, 2013 Looks like the U.S. will be having the coldest March since 1996-global warming anyone?????????
Mar 21, 2013 It's snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?
Jan 25, 2013 The freezing cold weather across the country is brutal. Must be all that global warming.
Jan 24, 2013 Watch Obama push major global warming legislation early in his second term...
Jan 14, 2013 It is snowing in Jerusalem and across Lebanon. Global warming!
Nov 7, 2012 It's freezing and snowing in New York--we need global warming!
Nov 5, 2012 Great article in the @NewYorkPost by Ben Garrett--"Don't Blame Sandy on Global Warming" nypost.com/2012/11/02/dont-blame...
Nov 5, 2012 It's extremely cold in NY & NJ-not good for flood victims. Where is global warming?
Nov 1, 2012 Do you believe @algore is blaming global warming for the hurricane?
May 4, 2012 According to @BarackObama the War on Terror is over bit.ly/KkEDo9 but global warming is a national security threat. bit.ly/IAUOuZ Feel safe?
Mar 30, 2012 Waste! With a $16T debt and $1T budget deficit, @BarackObama is sending $770M overseas "to fight global warming" cnsnews.com/news/article/obama...
Nov 1, 2011 It snowed over 4 inches this past weekend in New York City. It is still October. So much for Global Warming.
Jul 15, 2014 "@devhop: @realDonaldTrump they renamed it Climate Change so it could be devastating either way the temperature goes."
Jun 8, 2014 The man made "climate change" that our "great" president should be focused on is of the NUCLEAR variety brought upon us because of weakness!
May 7, 2014 Russia is on the move in the Ukraine, Iran is nuking up & Libya is run by Al Qaeda, yet Obama is busy issuing 'climate change" warnings.
Apr 1, 2014 "@shaneandstamp: @realDonaldTrump your a respected businessman. Why do you deny peoples knowledge about climate change. You mean GLOBAL W
Jun 26, 2013 Obama's speech on climate change was scary. It will lower our standard of living and raise costs of fuel & food for everyone.
Nov 19, 2012 The World Bank is tying poverty to 'climate change' theblaze.com/stories/world-bank... And we wonder why international organizations are ineffective.
May 18, 2012 Reckless! Why is @BarackObama wasting over $70 Billion on 'climate change activities?' Will he ever learn? thedc.com/JnQpHU
Dec 19, 2015 President Obama spends so much time speaking of the so-called Carbon footprint, and yet he flies all the way to Hawaii on a massive old 747.
Nov 20, 2012 The EU just dropped their self-imposed carbon tax. I bet they wish they had all that money back!
Feb 27, 2012 "If @Barack Obama is really concerned about carbon emissions and air pollution, then maybe he should have grounded his wife before she jetted off with forty of her 'closest friends' on a lavish vacation to Spain on the taxpayers' dime." TimeToGetTough bit.ly/wNYhAc amzn.to/zPKh0I
Jun 29, 2012 Interesting -- studies show that wind farms have a warming effect on the climate
Jun 28, 2013 Obama's carbon tax plan will finance more windmills in America. More real estate depreciated, wildlife killed, incl. bald eagles
May 22, 2013 "@gshuba: @realDonaldTrump Windmills not worth the trouble. Worse for the planet than oil, carbon, et al." True!
May 23, 2013 "@MrWalrusQ: @moronwatch Here ya go. "@gshuba: @realDonaldTrump Windmills not worth the trouble. Worse for the planet than oil, carbon.
Nov 30, 2013 "@noturbine: Turbines will also kill more birds than developer will admit to & ruin lives of folks living close & not reduce CO2
Feb 21, 2015 "@NewsTodayUSA: Two Canadian Coast Guard ships sent to rescue U.S. freighter stuck in ice. #globalwarming? @algore pic.twitter.com/UUJVHkK1qr"
Jul 18, 2013 "@PolitiGal2012: Hey @realDonaldTrump how come no #globalwarming #climatechange talk this week?" Heat 10 years ago was far worse!
Jul 29, 2016 "@AnnCoulter: "I believe in science" Dem code for "we're shutting down coal mines, steel plants and any other remaining manufacturing""
Jul 29, 2014 "@TheHawk4221: @realDonaldTrump where is Al Gore now! Coolest Summer On Record In The US | Real Science stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014..."
Nov 6, 2012 In the 1950's our climate was far more unstable than it has been over the last 5 years.
Feb 17, 2014 Do you believe this one - Secretary of State John Kerry just stated that the most dangerous weapon of all today is climate change. Laughable
Oct 11, 2015 President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight. He said CLIMATE CHANGE is the most important thing, not all of the current disasters!
Dec 28, 2017 In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
Nov 21, 2018 Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?
BEFORE THIS ONE THERE ARE SOME TWEETS IN GMAIL! Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)! 2:04 PM - 10 Feb 2019 http://archive.is/FVMFV https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094718856197799936 Thanks to Trump Twitter Archive for most of these tweets. http://archive.is/QV7h1 https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/white-house-climate-panel-william-happer/index.html http://archive.is/p7kgj https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18233378/william-happer-trump-climate-change-panel http://archive.is/xpSTp https://www.npr.org/2019/03/01/698073442/heres-the-white-houses-top-climate-change-skeptic Trump repeats false claim there is no climate change crisis as he brands science 'fake' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-climate-change-fake-science-tweet-a8819201.html Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html Trump Cuts Weight of Climate Change in Environmental Reviews https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/trump-cuts-weight-of-climate-change-in-environmental-reviews Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/23/agriculture-department-climate-change-1376413 http://archive.is/w2Cj7 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/11/mike-pence-confirms-reports-pride-flag-banned-embassies/1417031001/ Mike Pence's unbelievable answer on whether climate change is a threat https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/politics/mike-pence-climate-crisis/index.html E.P.A. to Roll Back Regulations on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/climate/epa-methane-greenhouse-gas.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/trump-to-roll-back-methane-climate-change-regulations.html 6 Major Climate Change Rules the Trump Administration Is Reversing https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/climate/climate-rule-trump-reversing.html REMEMBER TO LINK THAT TWEET WITH DETAILS OF TRUMP'S "FIRST 100 DAYS" AGENDA REGARDING CLIMATE, "RESCUING" COAL INDUSTRY, ETC. LINK Here are the particularly objectionable parts: 'An America First Energy Plan ... For too long, we've been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan... embrace the shale oil and gas revolution ... take advantage of the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own. ... The Trump Administration is also committed to clean coal technology, and to reviving America's coal industry, which has been hurting for too long. ...' http://archive.is/sW3jo https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy http://archive.is/WSdE2 https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/823591908664635392 http://archive.is/emMHs https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/823948018529538048 http://archive.is/mhH5H https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/keystone-dakota-pipeline-trump.html?_r=1 http://archive.is/yQyT7 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X Lots of trump climate tweets here too, with links LINK http://archive.is/6MnCp https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/1/15726472/trump-tweets-global-warming-paris-climate-agreement http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/trump-kills-coal-health-study/ LINK https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/11/trump-says-nobody-really-knows-if-climate-change-is-real/ LINK https://thinkprogress.org/trump-climate-change-bunk-28c5c44cee#.pgkws5ltf LINK LINK Mr. Pompeo He also repeatedly attacked the Obama administration's record on climate change, and has been skeptical of the human role in causing warming. Since becoming director of the C.I.A., he has not spoken publicly about climate, though the agency did help put forward a Worldwide Threat Assessment that states climate change contributes to national security threats. http://archive.is/5ydbF https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/politics/pompeo-cia-trump-secretary-of-state.html TRUMP: ... there are people on the other side of that issue who are, think, don't even... Joe [Kernen] is one of them. But a lot of smart people disagree with you. ... we've had storms always... You know the hottest day ever was in 1890-something, 98. You know, you can make lots of cases for different views. I have a totally open mind. ... It's a very complex subject. I'm not sure anybody is ever going to really know. I know we have, they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the scientists. Where was that, in Geneva or wherever five years ago? Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what's this all about. ... JAMES BENNET: Do you think human activity is or isn't connected? TRUMP: I think right now ... well, I think there is some connectivity. There is some, something. It depends on how much. It also depends on how much it's going to cost our companies. You have to understand, our companies are noncompetitive right now. ... DUMB SCIENTIST NOTES: Aside from all his other mistakes, note that while 'answering' a scientific question ('Do you think human activity is or isn't connected?'), Trump said it 'also depends on how much it's going to cost our companies.' That's ridiculous; the actual answer to the scientific question Trump was asked DOESN'T depend on 'how much it's going to cost our companies'. LINK http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html Maybe skip this one? LINK http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/politics/climate-change-energy-department-donald-trump-transition.html Mike Pompeo "For President Obama to suggest that climate change is a bigger threat to the world than terrorism is ignorant, dangerous, and absolutely unbelievable," Pompeo said. LINK again and Rep. Pompeo Questions EPA Administrator McCarthy on Obama Climate Plan LINK Pompeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_O5jOCR6s&feature=youtu.be&t=2h16m1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmmMa-xMNVY Pompeo: 'I THINK THE SCIENCE NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. I AM HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT IT. THERE IS SOME WHO THINK WE ARE WARMING, SOME WHO THINK WE ARE COOLING. SOME WHO THINK THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN STABLE. ...' LINK ANOTHER TRANSCRIPT, WORKS A LITTLE BETTER: https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20130625_110000_Washington_Journal?q=us+look Eric Holthaus Verified account  ‏@EricHolthaus At least 9 senior members of Trump's transition team deny basic science. This is a systematic, unacceptable assault. again and The heads of Donald Trump's transition teams for Nasa, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, as well as his nominees to lead the EPA and the Department of the Interior, all question the science of human-caused climate change, in a signal of the president-elect's determination to embark upon an aggressively pro-fossil fuels agenda. LINK https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/donald-trump-environment-climate-change-skeptics Autism Autism rates through the roof--why doesn't the Obama administration do something about doctor-inflicted autism. We lose nothing to try.
Massive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism....
"@P01YN0NYM0U55: @jamandatrtl #vaccines #Shills insist #Autism starts in utero or genetic, but parents insist sudden onset after #vaccine"
"@OnlineOnTheAir: My friend's son, immediate #autism after #vaccines 10 yrs ago. So sad. Keep up good work Nay-sayers will understand soon."
So many people who have children with autism have thanked me-amazing response. They know far better than fudged up reports!
I'm not against vaccinations for your children, I'm against them in 1 massive dose.Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!
With autism being way up, what do we have to lose by having doctors give small dose vaccines vs. big pump doses into those tiny bodies?
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
Autism WAY UP - I believe in vaccinations but not massive, all at once, shots. Too much for small child to handle. Govt. should stop NOW!
If I were President I would push for proper vaccinations but would not allow one time massive shots that a small child cannot take - AUTISM.
"@KimStagliano: @realDonaldTrump When will NYT write about vaccine damage and its price? 3 girls w autism here, Mr. Trump." They should Kim!
Lots of autism and vaccine response. Stop these massive doses immediately. Go back to single, spread out shots! What do we have to lose.
Look what happened to the autism rate from 1983-2008 since one-time massive shots were given to children-http://on.fb.me/U6As0k
Many many people are thanking me for what I said about @autism & vaccinations. Something must be done immediately.
I've gotten many letters from people fighting autism thanking me for stating how dangerous 38 vaccines on a (cont) http://tl.gd/guf27o
Now they say obese women may cause Autism in children- nonsense, they use any excuse. The FDA should immediately (cont) http://tl.gd/gsvonf
A study says @Autism is out of control--a 78% increase in 10 years. Stop giving monstrous combined vaccinations (cont) http://tl.gd/gnfk06
"@P01YN0NYM0U55: ! @vikdam @jamandatrtl imagine how mad you'd be to watch your healthy child crash hard after vaccine then doctors mock you"
I am being proven right about massive vaccinations-the doctors lied. Save our children & their future.
"@LindseyScheibe @realDonaldTrump Erik's story breaks my heart. Vaccines destroyed his family. http://tinyurl.com/qcq3tkm " Very sad!
.@michellemalkin & @BuzzFeedAndrew: "Vaccine court awards millions to two autistic children damaged by vaccine" http://bit.ly/128akZe
http://web.archive.org/web/20161125015233/http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/#/highlights/vaccines Trump signs executive order to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in Arctic and beyond https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/28/15451652/donald-trump-executive-order-offshore-oil-gas-drilling-climate-change Trump's science envoy quits in scathing letter with an embedded message: I-M-P-E-A-C-H http://archive.is/Fwe6n https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/08/23/trumps-science-envoy-quits-with-scathing-letter-with-an-embedded-message-i-m-p-e-a-c-h/ The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change http://archive.is/xzJJO https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/ What Trump has undone A LOT OF STUFF! Rescinded a rule mandating that rising sea levels be considered when building public infrastructure in flood-prone areas. http://archive.is/SqMaM https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/24/what-trump-has-undone/ White House blocked State official's written testimony over climate references: report http://archive.is/cXA6C https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/447560-white-house-blocked-state-officials-written-testimony-over-climate Ebell appointment http://web.archive.org/web/20161124215423/https://www.greatagain.gov/news/president-elect-trump-announces-additional-agency-landing-team-members-0.html recent Ebell blog post http://web.archive.org/web/20161124215614/https://cei.org/blog/myron-ebell-promoting-sound-policy-real-environmental-improvement Scott Pruitt - Trump's EPA administrator LINK http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html LINK LINK 'Science tells us that climate is changing.. The degree to the extent of human impact is still being debate.' -Scott Pruitt #ConfirmPruitt http://archive.is/Kk9hP https://twitter.com/jiminhofe/status/821742315198943232 http://archive.is/7ApAu http://digg.com/2018/scott-pruitt-recordings-evolution http://archive.is/fHV86 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/02/scott-pruitt-epa-evolution-theory-abortion-gay-marriage-433284 http://archive.is/RDLlJ http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/climate-science-disputing-epa-head-also-disputes-evolution.html http://archive.is/PLgcT https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/climate/pruitt-climate-change.html http://archive.li/Epnxo https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/climate/epa-cafe-auto-pollution-rollback.html http://archive.li/bJ2UY https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/opinion/pruitt-epa-assault-science.html https://archive.li/J9KWI https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/opinion/pruitt-attack-science-epa.html http://archive.li/NORT1 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/climate/trump-environment-rules-reversed.html http://archive.li/fbaqL https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/us/politics/trump-kelly-pruitt-fired.html http://archive.li/HCNnK https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-rollbacks.html https://archive.li/GrDTr https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/opinion/scott-pruitt-epa-climate.html https://archive.li/wrOg1 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/climate/epa-pruitt-deputy-wheeler-confirmation.html https://archive.li/4ReCp https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/climate/epa-scott-pruitt-pasquale-perrotta.html http://archive.li/twWtP https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/opinion/scott-pruitt-ridiculous.html http://archive.li/HyJcw https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/scott-pruitt-oklahoma-epa.html http://archive.is/n8dcO https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/climate/pruitt-ethics-republicans.html http://archive.li/8PhcG https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/climate/pruitt-inhofe-epa-ethics.html http://archive.li/s3DmB https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/climate/congress-pruitt-epa-ethics.html http://archive.is/cHN3l https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/scott-pruitt-epa-ethics-spending/ http://archive.li/D2W4X https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/climate/epa-pruitt-emails-secrecy.html http://archive.li/w3Qwf https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/climate/noaa-climate-mission.html http://archive.is/u5vxD https://eos.org/articles/congressman-renews-call-for-epa-administrator-to-resign http://archive.li/7cvHg https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/climate/pruitt-epa-ethics.html http://archive.li/JDRHe https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/climate/anthony-kennedy-supreme-court-environment.html http://archive.fo/dpefm https://nytimes.com/2018/04/18/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-investigations-guide.html http://archive.fo/TCLlf https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-trump.html http://archive.fo/jf5KB https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/moist-mystery-of-scott-pruitt-resignation.html http://archive.fo/kiKLi https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/climate/wheeler-epa-pruitt.html http://archive.fo/OeCSD https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/opinion/scott-pruitt-resignation-wheeler.html http://archive.fo/NbXRW https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/scott-pruitt-epa-resigns-corruption.html http://archive.fo/xarje https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/us/pruitt-oklahoma.html http://archive.fo/ARUw5 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/politics/epa-coal-emissions-standards-william-wehrum.html http://archive.fo/sZJtJ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/19/trump-administration-oil-conservation-no-longer-ec/ http://archive.fo/Nh0fn https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/climate/epa-coal-power-scrubbers.html https://archive.fo/0C3Yr https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/climate/trump-auto-emissions-california.html http://archive.fo/uCrnS https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/climate/trump-clean-power-rollback.html http://archive.fo/oc6Dt https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/climate/epa-coal-pollution-deaths.html http://archive.fo/sx3qC https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006064751/coal-miner-to-trump-coal-mining-isnt-coming-back.html https://archive.fo/rGzzk https://archive.fo/InVtl https://archive.fo/EdqHW https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/climate/trump-california-fire-tweets.html https://archive.li/POLSQ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/business/epa-officials-questioned-scott-pruitt.html http://archive.is/87An6 https://www.desmogblog.com/david-schnare http://archive.is/jQVzo https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060069219 http://archive.is/gfYce https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_W._Schnare There's a serious danger to the soft climate denial pedaled by Trump's cabinet picks ... In hearing after hearing, Trump's cabinet nominees slipped through Democrats' grasp by uttering reasonable enough statements that still significantly mischaracterized the state of climate science, which holds that global warming is largely human-caused and is an urgent threat - one that can only be addressed by making drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. Yet by being slightly more sensible than Trump on climate change, each nominee - from secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson to energy secretary nominee Rick Perry - was able to wiggle away from the hearings without clearing up whether and how he would use his prospective office to address global warming. They moved from outright climate denial to a more subtle, insidious and risky form. ... On Jan. 11, Tillerson acknowledged that the climate is changing and that human activities are a factor, but made it known that he does not see global warming as an urgent threat. This puts him in opposition to the Pentagon and intelligence community, which views climate change as a threat multiplier and as a contributor to the devastating Syrian civil war. ... In response to written questions from Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Tillerson departed even further from the scientific consensus, saying that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning is "a factor in rising temperatures." However, he said: "I do not believe the scientific consensus supports their characterization as the ""key" factor." In reality, there is virtually no debate in the scientific community about whether greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of global warming in recent decades. Climate scientists told Mashable exactly why this take on global warming is incomplete at best, if not downright wrong. "To say that we don't understand the impacts or effects that a given scenario or amount of continued fossil fuel use will have on our planet was a correct statement to make in the 1800s," said Texas Tech University climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, in an email to Mashable. "In 2017? Not so much," she said. http://archive.is/aBQtG http://web.archive.org/web/20170202171128/http://mashable.com/2017/01/19/trump-cabinet-picks-climate-denial/#JXMkqeQX.OqY http://archive.is/2UC20 http://web.archive.org/web/20170120173425/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-climate-ambiguity-the-new-denial/ Mulvaney on cuts to climate science: "We're not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money." -via @MSNBC http://archive.is/b1e8G http://web.archive.org/web/20170318054641/https:/twitter.com/SenatorMRoberts/status/842622810153394176 Trump budget slashes climate funding, aid http://bit.ly/2mdK4hw http://archive.is/CUm9A http://web.archive.org/web/20170319042634/https:/twitter.com/SenatorMRoberts/status/843001079222607872 http://archive.is/TUKMq https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/842999354411704320 Trump administration has picked its NASA leader: Jim Bridenstine http://archive.is/Z4jMH http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/2012_Congress_NPAT_Jim_Bridenstine.htm http://archive.is/zuG9k https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/897587754166624257 https://thinkprogress.org/congressman-demands-obama-apologize-to-oklahoma-for-investing-in-climate-change-research-4d39d5e58fb9/ http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/317580-jim-bridenstine-for-nasa-administrator https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=coal%20from%3ARepJBridenstine&src=typd https://www.ofa.us/climate-change-deniers/jim-bridenstine-oklahoma/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcsAFnwC7k In a rapid-fire, but not contentious, exchange with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Bridenstine said he believed that humans were the leading contributor to global climate change, a view he acknowledged was an "evolution" from past statements. "The National Climate Assessment that includes NASA and the Department of Energy and NOAA has clearly stated that it is extremely likely that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, and I have no reason to doubt the science that comes from that," he said. ... Bridenstine won praise from Schatz and Van Hollen, the two Democrats who participated at the hearing, despite the fact that they and other Senate Democrats all voted against his nomination last month. "I just want to recognize your evolution on this issue," Schatz said of Bridenstine's comments on climate change. "I have come to the conclusion that this is a true evolution, that you respect the people with whom you work, you respect the science." https://archive.li/fdFFB http://spacenews.com/bridenstine-offers-senators-reassurances-on-nasa-programs/ Joni Ernst The leading contender for the Republican nomination to compete for Sen. Tom Harkin's (D-Iowa) seat doubts the science of climate change and rejects any response that calls for more than voluntary actions. In a May 9, 2014 interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board, Iowa state senator Joni Ernst, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, expressed her disbelief in the science of anthropogenic climate change. Yes, we do see climates change but I have not seen proven proof that it is entirely man-made. I think we do have cyclic changes in weather, and I think that's been throughout the course of history. What impact is man-made. . . but I do think we can educate people to make good choices. In reality, the carbon-dioxide greenhouse effect is a physical fact known since the 1800s. The only scientifically plausible systematic explanation for the rapid and continuing warming of the planetary climate since 1950 is industrial greenhouse pollution. When asked how she believes the nation should respond to "our current climate situation," her first recommendation was "encouraging people to, obviously, recycle." She repeatedly and adamantly opposed "cap and trade" as a "tax on energy" and a "mandate." She then argued the renewable fuel standard, which mandates the use of ethanol in gasoline, was not a mandate. http://archive.is/isNYX http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2014/05/19/iowas-joni-ernst-chalks-up-global-warming-to-cyclic-changes-in-weather http://archive.is/5D8Mh https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/importance-seeing-ernst http://archive.is/SPtzB https://www.barackobama.com/climate-change-deniers/joni-ernst-iowa/ Christopher Horner (EPA) ... A lawyer, Horner is the author of books such as Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. But he is best known for heading a series of lawsuits his coal industry-funded foundation launched in the last decade to acquire the email and unpublished work of climate scientists, and against the environmental agency itself, challenging its Clean Power Plan. CEI has even sought the phone bill of EPA administrator Gina McCarthy. "He is a horrifying choice to be on the EPA transition team," Lauren Kurtz, of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, told BuzzFeed News, noting that bankruptcy records show he has received funding from coal companies opposed to EPA clean air regulation. "His conflict of interest in overwhelming." Horner has suggested that "the atmosphere inarguably shows no appreciable warming," citing a reading of satellite measurements often advanced by climate change doubters. ... LINK For a decade, he has used open-records laws to pry loose some of the EPA's secrets. Now Christopher Horner is on the inside, part of President-elect Donald Trump's landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, preparing the way for the next administration. Perhaps no issue will see a greater change Jan. 20 than energy and environmental policy, and the EPA will be the epicenter of that upheaval, moving from a leadership committed to global warming science to a band of skeptics eager to upend the past eight years. ... his critics outside the agency say they don't see him as a constructive force. "Chris Horner has a history of targeting individual scientists and government employees and, through his years of FOIA work, has sought to pull phrases out of context to embarrass people in lieu of actually implementing policy," said Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. "If the goal at EPA is to work on policy solutions - rather than target individual civil servants - he is an odd and likely ineffective choice." ... LINK http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/18/christopher-horner-goes-behind-enemy-lines-at-epa-/ more: LINK https://www.desmogblog.com/chris-horner LINK ... Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the free-market environmental think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, attended the luncheon and pointed to the recent scientific indications that the planet Pluto is warming up despite moving away from the sun. "Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will -- with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine," Horner said. Horner also predicted that it would not be long before environmentalists came up with a theory on why Pluto was warming. "There will be inevitably and likely imminent claims that mankind is also causing Plutonian global warming," he said. https://web.archive.org/web/20080313042017/http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200307/CUL20030714c.html more: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ovQGr8dHUY8J:www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ati-law-center-asks-court-to-force-nasa-to-produce-ethics-and-outside-employment-records-of-dr-james-hansen-124303434.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://archive.is/v0q1T http://web.archive.org/web/20161227060555/http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/02/freedom-to-bully-ucs-2015_0.pdf http://archive.is/79Hzz https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/climate-science-into-the-unknown David Schnare (EPA) Many of the leading scientists working on climate change research around the country have found themselves targeted by David Schnare, an attorney working for a coal-industry-backed nonprofit. In recent years, Schnare has hounded academics with lawsuits and voluminous record requests as part of a campaign the Union of Concerned Scientists has called "harassment" designed to "chill their speech, and discourage them from tackling contentious topics." Now, Schnare is working for Donald Trump. On Monday, the Trump transition team named Schnare to the team revamping the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency that oversees climate change and pollution-related research and science. Schnare is one of many operatives with fossil-fuel ties to join Trump's EPA team, but his name stands out as someone who has gone beyond mere advocacy by actively working to intimidate individual scientists. Schnare, the general counsel for the Environment & Energy Legal Institute, a group formerly known as the American Tradition Institute, has gone after climate scientists for the last five years. ... LINK more: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ovQGr8dHUY8J:www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ati-law-center-asks-court-to-force-nasa-to-produce-ethics-and-outside-employment-records-of-dr-james-hansen-124303434.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://archive.is/nE8Wl https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/trump-transition-lawyer-has-spent-years-suing-for-climate-em https://archive.vn/j0khE https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/15/politics/trump-california-fire-disaster-assistance/index.html https://archive.vn/9Dl9V https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/16/trump-reverses-fema-denial-of-emergency-aid-for-california-fires-1326169 https://archive.is/oUUgL https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/09/14/trump-challenged-on-climate-change-during-wildfire-briefing.html https://archive.vn/RTOfQ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/trump-lifts-obama-era-regulations-on-climate-changing-methane-gas.html White House recruited climate critics for NOAA https://archive.vn/DWsuz https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063714831 Trump baselessly questions climate science during California wildfire briefing https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/donald-trump-wildfires-briefing-climate-change/index.html Trump asked @LesleyRStahl to "show him the scientists" who say Greenland is melting + climate change isn't just going to reverse... when there are over 350 scientists who wrote his admin's National Climate Assessment, and that's exactly what it says. https://t.co/szyjteKPpe https://t.co/noHvG2NCKc https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1319460504323182599 Trump's comments send a signal to his supporters about how to react if Biden prevails https://archive.vn/cWnaI https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/politics/donald-trump-election-democracy/index.html POLITICO: Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon. https://archive.is/BKTFI https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475 “I am the least racist person in this room,” Trump says to Kristen Welker, the first black woman to moderate a presidential debate since 1992. https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1319463083098734592 Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016 https://archive.vn/Ye4qd https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strategy-to-deter-millions-of-black-americans-from-voting-in-2016 https://archive.vn/9L72G https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team https://archive.vn/FNPXP https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-calls-ag-barr-indict-joe-biden-26-days-until-election-1537518 https://archive.vn/URfJD https://www.afr.com/politics/american-evangelicals-judging-trump-by-his-actions-double-down-20201006-p562jc Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry Dozens of pickup trucks, many with Trump flags, surrounded a Biden campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin. Kelly Weill Updated Oct. 31, 2020 3:19PM ET Published Oct. 31, 2020 11:52AM ET “These Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, surrounded the bus on the interstate and attempted to drive it off the road,” he alleged. “They outnumbered police 50-1, and they ended up hitting a staffer’s car.” A Biden campaign staffer told The Daily Beast that Trump supporters surrounded the bus on the highway and slowed down in front of it, attempting to stop it or run it off the road. The official sent a picture taken on the bus, showing Trump trucks surrounding the front of the vehicle. Staffers on the bus called police, who helped the bus reach its destination. Video from the highway shows trucks surrounding the bus, at one point colliding with an SUV. https://archive.vn/8zAJT https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-camp-cancels-austin-texas-event-after-pro-trump-ambush-on-campaign-bus https://archive.vn/wip/5j2Ut https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-now-investigating-maga-ambush-of-biden-campaign-bus-in-texas Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong," he said in a tweet about supporters who surrounded a Biden campaign bus in Texas. "You see the way our people, they — you know they were protecting his bus yesterday," Trump said while addressing supporters in Michigan. "Because they're nice. So his bus — they had hundreds of cars, Trump, Trump, Trump and the American flag. You see Trump and the American flag. Do you ever notice when you see the other side — I don't even see much of the other side." http://archive.vn/VfmZ3 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-lashes-out-after-fbi-announces-investigation-biden-bus-incident-n1245728 http://archive.vn/LhnGl https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1323072051402350592 https://archive.is/ARDYr https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/donald-trump-criticism-from-former-administration-officials/index.html "In Maine, Obama took away 5,000 square miles of ocean. Can you believe it? I gave it back to the people of Maine." -- Trump, making stuff up https://t.co/xXy8pgOACw https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1317254873474322432 I am the Governor's Deputy Digital Director. I see everything that is said about and to her online. Every single time the President does this at a rally, the violent rhetoric towards her immediately escalates on social media. It has to stop. It just has to. https://archive.is/xhzRK https://twitter.com/tori_saylor/status/1317590813539471364 Whitmer rips Trump campaign for attacking her after alleged kidnapping plot revealed https://archive.vn/PwImQ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-cnntv/index.html Trump Refuses to Denounce QAnon at NBC Town Hall https://archive.vn/lUGcM https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-refuses-to-denounce-qanon-at-nbc-town-hall Sen. Sasse Slams Trump In Constituent Call: He's 'Flirted With White Supremacists' https://archive.vn/S2g88 https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/924223530/sen-sasse-slams-trump-in-constituent-call-hes-flirted-with-white-supremacists Veterans Label Trump's Suggestion that Gold Star Families Caused his Covid Infection 'Disgusting' https://archive.vn/nfB4O https://www.newsweek.com/trump-suggestion-gold-star-coronavirus-disgusting-1537977 https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-dug-himself-a-mighty-hole-on-the-deaths-of-us-soldiers-then-he-kept-digging https://www.thedailybeast.com/senator-john-mccain-charlottesville-puerto-rico-fallen-soldiers-trumps-disrespect-for-the-dead https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-defenders-he-doesnt-hate-the-troops-he-just-sounds-like-an-asshole 5 takeaways from the dueling Biden and Trump town halls https://archive.vn/60GYI https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/biden-trump-town-hall-takeaways/index.html 11h, 18 tweets, 2 min read (1/18) Will American elections ever again be legitimate? … (2/18) Only an established, legal “right to vote“ can defeat Republican voter suppression. … (3/18) Republican politicians and conservative commentators are shocked, shocked! that Chief Justice John Roberts would say… (4/18) …that people who voted before election day in Pennsylvania but their ballots were delayed by Lewis DeJoy’s sabotage of the Post Office should have their vote counted. … (5/18) Increasingly, this election is coming down to the simple question of how effective 40 years of concerted Republican voter suppression efforts will be. … (6/18) Their main strategy, particularly since George and Jeb Bush got together in 2000 to use a Texas felon list to purge 90,000 Black people off voting roles in Florida, has been removing the names of people who are legitimate voters. … (7/18) Those people then go to the polls and are given “provisional ballots“ which, in most cases, are only counted if there’s a lawsuit. … (8/18) They think they voted, they tell pollsters they voted, but their votes don’t get counted. … (9/18) Back in 2004, fully 22 states experienced what has now come to be called “red shift”—where the exit polls are “wrong” but almost always in a way that benefits Republicans. … (10/18) For example, in the 2016 election, the exit polls showed Hillary Clinton carrying Florida by 47.7 percent to Trump’s 46.4 percent, although the “actual” counted vote had Trump winning by 49.0 percent to 47.8 percent. Trump gained 2.5 percentage points . . . somehow. … (11/18) In North Carolina, exit polls showed Clinton winning 48.6 percent to 46.5 percent, but the votes that were counted turned out with Trump’s 49.9 to Clinton’s 46.1, a red shift of 5.9 percentage points for the GOP. … (12/18) Pennsylvania’s exit polls showed that Clinton won 50.5 percent to Trump’s 46.1 percent, but when “eligible” votes were counted, Trump carried the state 48.8 percent to Clinton’s 47.6 percent—a red shift of 5.6 percentage points. … (13/18) In Wisconsin, it was Clinton beating Trump in the exit polls 48.2 percent to 44.3 percent, but the “real” count put Trump over the top at 48.8 percent to 47.6 percent, a red shift of 5.1 percentage points. … (14/18) Just these differences, reflecting thousands of people who showed up, voted, and didn’t realize their votes were never going to be counted because they had been purged from voting rolls prior to the election, handed the White House to Donald Trump. … (15/18) Perhaps even more interesting, in states without a Republican secretary of state, there is virtually no shift at all, either red or blue, and hasn’t been ever. The election results typically comport with the exit polls in blue states. … (16/18) While there is a clear contest between Trump and Biden, between Republicans and Democrats across the country, the real contest going on right now is for the legitimacy and accuracy of American elections. … (17/18) Republicans are doing everything they can to keep people from voting, and then, when people do vote, to try to prevent those votes from being counted. … (18/18) When this election is over, if American democracy survives, our first project has to be to establish a firm, irrevocable right to vote for all American citizens. https://twitter.com/Thom_Hartmann/status/1320405738397655040 https://archive.is/pth39 https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1320585162522906630 https://www.electiondefense.org/how-to-part-eleven **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** **************************************** The Atlantic: This Is Trump’s Fault. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/ https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52275939/coronavirus-reporter-grills-trump-on-pandemic-response The Linguistics of Disinfo: How Russia Portrays Kamala Harris https://archive.vn/GDsSk https://www.polygraph.info/a/kamala-harris-russian-disinfo/30783955.html Trump encourages supporters in N.C. to attempt voter fraud https://t.co/jxqyyyv4ZJ https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/trump-encourages-north-carolina-residents-222835378.html Ignoring warnings from election officials, Trump again suggests supporters should try to vote twice https://archive.vn/AG9Kf https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-vote-twice-north-carolina/index.html Trump calls on Fox News to fire reporter who confirmed some parts of Atlantic story https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/media/the-atlantic-trump-military-fox-news/index.html https://www.newsweek.com/fox-reporter-hits-back-after-trump-calls-her-firing-over-atlantic-story-1529907 https://archive.vn/AB8PR https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html Breaking via WaPo: The Trump admin will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved, a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic. https://t.co/dI1bS2I7cl https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1300876143734804481 "Joking"https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1276180394661076993 Except... Trump also said he "never kids" "nobody likes me" gif https://twitter.com/NotATweeter16/status/1293679923849289728 BREAKING: #60Minutes investigation reveals Trump knowingly allowed flawed #COVID19 antibody tests to circulate, leading to inaccurate data about virus spread, creating data to support re-openings, and potentially causing thousands more preventable deaths. http://archive.is/LrVWw https://twitter.com/richardhine/status/1276881827702153218 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/29/politics/trump-phone-calls-national-security-concerns/index.html Russian bounty on American soldiers https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1277034391710113793https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/trump-intel-briefings-russia/index.html As President Trump once again makes wild, unfounded claims about voter fraud, remember that he once established a presidential commission to look into his wild claims, but had to disband it when it quite embarrassingly came up empty. https://t.co/LXFwATQOnX https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1265397531082702849 President Trump warned Monday that the Republican Party could seek to move its 2020 convention if North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) cannot guarantee that coronavirus restrictions will be lifted, allowing the full use of Charlotte's Spectrum Center this summer. http://archive.is/0wD1f   https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499414-trump-threatens-to-move-gop-convention-over-north-carolinas-coronavirus   "Columbia is a liberal, disgraceful institution" -- Trump to Sharyl Attkisson on Columbia University study that found 30,000 lives could've been saved had his federal government recommended social distancing measures just one week earlier https://t.co/uYvqrpMEmChttps://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1264564368806686726*cough* Trump "University" *cough* Absolutely bizarre. The Bexar County GOP chair concludes this rally by stating that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetuated by Democrats, tells people to take off their masks, and then everyone hugs each other. https://t.co/1XOFeswMiO https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353 President Trump says governors must open places of worship and allow people to gather at them this weekend.He adds a threat, "If they don't do it, I will override the governors." https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1263890427188518912?s=19 HALF of Fox News viewers believe Bill Gates is plotting to use a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 to implant microchips in people & track their movements. only 26% say that's false.https://t.co/M5lNtNrn4o https://t.co/03KuImfknUhttps://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1263864499666325505?s=19 Vox.com: “Obamagate”: Trump’s press conference ends in meltdown over conspiracy theory. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21255214/trump-obamagate-philip-rucker-coronavirus-press-conference Trump says doing too much coronavirus testing makes the US 'look bad' as he pushes for the country to reopen https://t.co/VeIepnCT4i via @businessinsider https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1258985942708367368 Unethical pardons. https://archive.is/8hYIS https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/11/trump-arpaio-pardon-challenge-242562 http://archive.is/kxP2T https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/michael-flynn-criminal-case-dropped-by-justice-department.html http://archive.is/wip/pUntl https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21133622/roger-stone-prosecutor-aaron-zelinsky-resigns Pardoned 2 war criminals.  First: Matt Golsteyn https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/trump-dismisses-murder-charge-against-green-beret-pardons-army-officer-n1079941 Second: Clint Lorance https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1278673567702495239 4) One last thing, my husband's Dr. also told me on the phone that they are seeing a higher amount of deaths in people, that have COVID19 and listen to Fox News who believe in their conspiracies. https://twitter.com/KarenChristensn/status/1258195782173249536 https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1258956215431966726?s=19 Nazi at rally https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/1256609360140292096?s=19 At a White House briefing, President Trump theorized — dangerously, in the view of some experts — about the powers of sunlight, ultraviolet light and household disinfectants to kill the coronavirus nyti.ms/2Vz70YQ http://archive.is/wip/8FtEu https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1253556794405896192 LOOK AT DR. BIRX'S RESPONSE ON CAMERA 2! she's the one who told us how up-to-date on the scientific literature he was, wasn't she?? http://archive.is/wip/wXpYN https://twitter.com/past_is_future/status/1253514471932416003 Just going to put this out there to see who wants to defend this approach to “science.” Ready... set... GO!!! http://archive.is/yRql4 https://twitter.com/NC5PhilWilliams/status/1253487743046385670 Catherine Boerner@catboerner: You can see her soul briefly leave her body. Bill Hudgins: She's just realized that soul she sold can't be clawed back. Houndog5: Maybe another scarf will make it better. Sandi Bachom: I have zero compassion for her she's enabled him and sold her soul Gary_UU: Yeah but that’s the dynamic. It’s quite the dance dealing with an abuser and it always isn’t simple. Sandi Bachom: Totally she looked like a battered wife today crying I couldn’t watch Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT SCOOP  - Dr. Rick Bright says in statement he was pushed out of BARDA for a narrower, more limited role at NIH for wanting to use science to test treatments for COVID19, specifically the administration push to get chloroquines in wide use http://archive.is/wip/FRQ1l https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1253049457924542464 http://archive.is/K9pQx https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/hhs-ousts-vaccine-expert-as-covid-19-threat-grows-201642 http://archive.is/wip/9oJEG https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/06/851719205/trump-dismisses-top-scientist-rick-bright-as-disgruntled-employee Study finds that Sean Hannity helped enable the spread of coronavirus Economists Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth, and David Yanagizawa-Drott found that in the months of February and early March, Fox host Sean Hannity was either downplaying or ignoring the virus. “Using both a poll of Fox News viewers over age 55 and publicly available data on television-watching patterns, they calculate that Fox viewers who watched Hannity rather than Carlson were less likely to adhere to social distancing rules, and that areas where more people watched Hannity relative to Carlson had higher local rates of infection and death,” Vox’s Zack Beauchamp reports. “Greater exposure to Hannity relative to Tucker Carlson Tonight leads to a greater number of COVID-19 cases and deaths,” the study’s authors wrote. “A one-standard deviation increase in relative viewership of Hannity relative to Carlson is associated with approximately 30 percent more COVID-19 cases on March 14, and 21 percent more COVID-19 deaths on March 28.” The study hasn’t been peer-reviewed or accepted for publication at any science journals. http://archive.is/wip/bJ47t https://deadstate.org/study-finds-that-sean-hannity-helped-enable-the-spread-of-coronavirus/ https://archive.is/cDadk https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/22/21229360/coronavirus-covid-19-fox-news-sean-hannity-misinformation-death Trump tells Georgia governor he supports move to reopen despite public health experts' concerns, source says http://archive.is/wip/kNvWr https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/trump-pence-georgia-governor-brian-kemp/index.html CONTROL GROUP FROM SOCIAL DISTANCING! http://archive.is/wip/f8QU1 https://twitter.com/robingnelson/status/1253048256772235264 She spent 9 days in a coma and relearned how to walk. What this Covid-19 survivor wants protesters to know http://archive.is/wip/gfNP7 https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-survivor-response-to-protesters/index.html 'More important things than living': GOP Texas Lt. Gov. pushes for reopening state http://archive.is/wip/pTiCn https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/21/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-wants-state-reopened/2999327001/ GOOD GRIEF! In his weekly televised radio show, posted online on Sunday, Grenon read out the letter he wrote to Trump. He said it began: “Dear Mr President, I am praying you read this letter and intervene.” Grenon said that 30 of his supporters have also written in the past few days to Trump at the White House urging him to take action to protect Genesis II in its bleach-peddling activities which they claim can cure coronavirus. On Friday, hours after Trump talked about disinfectant on live TV, Grenon went further in a post on his Facebook page. He claimed that MMS had actually been sent to the White House. He wrote: “Trump has got the MMS and all the info!!! Things are happening folks! Lord help others to see the Truth!” Paradoxically, Trump’s outburst about the possible value of an “injection” of disinfectant into the lungs of Covid-19 sufferers came just days after a leading agency within the president’s own administration took action to shut down the peddling of bleach as a coronavirus cure around the US. Last week the US Food and Drug Administration obtained a federal court order barring Genesis II from selling what was described as “an unproven and potentially harmful treatment for Covid-19”. The FDA also ordered a disciple of Genesis II, Kerri Rivera, to remove claims that MMS cured coronavirus from her website. http://archive.is/DTSgz https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus A source close to the coronavirus task force said Trump was upset about the "flack" he was taking after those comments and that appears to be part of the reason why the President cut Friday's briefing short. During the earlier questioning from reporters on Friday, Trump said he was being "sarcastic" with his suggestion that people inject themselves with disinfectant, even though he was clearly being serious during Thursday's briefing. http://archive.is/J3btQ https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/white-house-briefings-coronavirus/index.html Fact check: Trump lies that he was being 'sarcastic' when he talked about injecting disinfectant http://archive.is/SDipS https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/fact-check-trump-disinfectant-sarcastic/index.html Trump, for the Life of Him, “Can’t Imagine Why” There’s a Spike in Disinfectant Use http://archive.is/wip/orxsw https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-no-responsibility-cant-imagine-why-state-spike-disinfectant-use.html wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://archive.is/wip/8tVNF https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/fact-check-trump-remarks-april-28/index.html Trump says he's a "cheerleader" after downplaying the thread of COVID-19 depressing overviewhttp://archive.is/Dpdh0 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/ 39. "Nice and easy, nice and easy, just relax." In which the president of the United States tells a female reporter -- Weijia Jiang of CBS News -- to "just relax" because she is asking him a tough question. Literally beyond belief. https://twitter.com/weijia 40. "Keep your voice down, please. Keep your voice down." Again this is Trump talking to Jiang. And, yes, he really told a female reporter to be "nice and easy," to "just relax" and to "keep your voice down." "You know what they are, though? They're scum. They're human scum." 49. "We inherited a lot of garbage. We took -- they had tests that were no good. They had -- all the stuff was no good. It came from somewhere, so whoever -- whoever came up with it." Fact check: False. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/politics/trump-briefing-fact-check-april-19/index.html http://archive.is/wip/KgIIl https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-sunday/index.html "The real plague" - anti-semitic poster held out of a car window at a protest. http://archive.is/HFfDw https://twitter.com/laurahancock/status/1251590879598559237 "Nobody knew there'd be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion," Trump said March 19 in comments in the Rose Garden. "Nobody has ever seen anything like this before." The crisis is "an unforeseen problem" that "came out of nowhere," Trump said on March 6. "We're having to fix a problem that, four weeks ago, nobody ever thought would be a problem," he said on March 11. "It's something that nobody expected," he said again on March 14. "Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened," he added on March 26th. SO MANY LINKS IN ABOVE PARAGRAPH!! http://archive.is/EgD4s https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics/kfile-officials-worried-over-pandemic-last-year/index.html 2019 SUMMIT: TIMOTHY MORRISON: ... In 1918 an influenza virus emerged probably in the United States that would spread around the world and one of its earliest appearances in lethal form came in Philadelphia. Before that worldwide pandemic faded away in 1920 it would kill more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. Plague in the 1300s killed a far larger proportion of the population. More than one-quarter of Europe. But in raw numbers, influenza killed more in plague then and more than AIDS today. One cannot know with certainty but if the upper estimate of the death toll was true, as many as 8 to 10% of all young adults then living may have been killed by the virus. And it continues. And as priests had done in the bubonic plague in 1918, even in Philadelphia, as modern a city as existed in the world, priests would drive down -- would drive horse-drawn wagons down the streets calling upon those behind doors shut tight in terror to bring out their dead. So when people ask me what keeps me up at night, it's issues like that. And this morning in just the open source literature, there was an article from a newspaper. A flight attendant has reportedly been hospitalized after a person with measles boarded a flight out of New York City. Measle. I then did a little Internet search. How many people are in the air flying at any given time? Tracking 6382 airborne aircraft with 490 million total flights in the database, 90,497 arrivals in the past 24 hours at any given moment there are at least a half a million people flying around the world in airplanes. So when you think about the influenza pandemic of 1918 which killed roughly 55 million people, according to reasonable estimates, and this was a pandemic spread by steamship. And you think about the threat factors we have available today with roughly 500,000 people flying around the heavens at any given moment, that's what keeps me up at night. And so as we sat down and we worked on the National Biodefense Strategy, we were informed by the influenza pandemic 101 years ago. We were involved by zika. We were involved by SARS. We were informed by ebola 2014 and of course we are neck deep in an ebola outbreak in the Congo today. http://archive.is/DlLzh#selection-707.590-735.289 https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/biodefense-strategy/Pages/advancing-biodefense-transcript.aspx When are people going to wake up. There is no virus. In conjunction with the media they have taken Flu and pneumonia deaths and attached and created a hoax. http://archive.li/wip/CNwyJhttps://twitter.com/Spjder1/status/1246849079256264712 "Keep your voice down" https://twitter.com/poppy_northcutt/status/1252392875746193408?s=19 Research by the epidemiologists Britta and Nicholas Jewell suggests that 90 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the United States could have been prevented by enacting social distancing policies two weeks earlier than we did. http://archive.is/jgshz https://slate.com/business/2020/04/coronavirus-new-york-city-outbreak-blame.html Blocking hospital entrance http://archive.is/ZkTlD https://www.thedailybeast.com/michigan-conservatives-not-concerned-about-covid-19-block-ambulance-during-protest-against-social-distancing Hey, maybe oversight would have been a good thing? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/20/white-house-gop-face-heat-after-hotel-restaurant-chains-helped-run-small-business-program-dry/ Those measures do not seem unusual, horrifyingly enough. Last month, 3 million masks ordered by the state of Massachusetts were seized by the federal government. Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, was arranging secret chartered flights of supplies as a way of outmaneuvering federal interference. “The governor has clearly outlined the challenges this administration has faced as we’ve worked around the clock to purchase PPE for our health-care workers and first responders,” a spokesperson for the governor told the paper. “The supply chain has been likened to the Wild West, and once you have purchased supplies, ensuring they get to the state is another Herculean feat,” he continued.  http://archive.is/hgofF https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-white-house-blockade-for-coronavirus-ppe.html "my ratings are awesome" Watch https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1252021987238690818?s=19 Protests https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1252015394589749250?s=19 https://twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1251988831559208963?s=19 https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1252011058757328896?s=19 https://twitter.com/beyerstein/status/1252087355172929538?s=19 "Hoax" https://twitter.com/WagsPhoto/status/1251578622151929856?s=19 Mr. Donald "BoneSpurs PussyGrabber" Trump"... the presidential candidate simultaneously mocked Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, for being regarded as a military hero. “I like people who weren’t captured," Trump said during a July 2015 interview.“Mr. Trump claimed (his medical deferment) was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery,”"http://archive.is/wip/PzEE7 https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ 1/THREAD: WHEN WAS IT CLEAR?Feb. 8, 2020: The purpose of this thread is to document and timestamp when it first became clear that nCov was likely to lead to a global pandemic.The purpose is to give something to cite when ppl later claim "But there was NO WAY OF KNOWING..."FEBRUARY 8!https://twitter.com/ErikSTownsend/status/1226281132301438977?s=19https://twitter.com/robustus/status/1251929187469987842?s=19 Surprising no one, United will lay off its workers after receiving a $5 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.Bail out people. Not corporations.https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1251194212357492736?s=19 Around April 16, a few people I follow on twitter were noting that last week there were a lot of stories about how Black people were dying from the virus more than white people. This week there are a lot of far-right protests against the shutdown, many of them waving confederate flags. This is exactly how they'd behave if they were simply trying to maximize the death toll among Black people.EXAMPLE (THERE'S AT LEAST ONE MORE THAT I LIKED AROUND THE SAME TIME): http://archive.is/wip/4UkMn https://twitter.com/rachelpowers/status/1250838986320310272two minutes before Trump’s Minnesota tweet — Fox News ran a segment about small groups of right-wing protesters in Minnesota and Virginia who have been agitating for governors there to relax stay-at-home orders so they can resume normal shopping and traveling activities. "I THINK THEY'RE LISTENING. I THINK THEY LISTEN TO ME. I THINK THEY'RE PROTESTERS WHO LIKE ME."http://archive.is/wip/lCkSI https://www.vox.com/2020/4/17/21225134/trump-liberate-tweets-minnesota-virginia-michigan-coronavirus-fox-news https://archive.vn/Fnm9H https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1251204940443389955 http://archive.is/wip/6sNYD https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/he-has-lost-his-mind-americans-stunned-and-horrified-after-trump-tries-to-provoke-an-uprising-against-democratic-governors/ VERY INFORMATIVE THREAD!michaelharriot @michaelharriot Dec 6, 2019 Thread: Nikki Haley said the Confederate Flag was a symbol of "service and sacrifice and heritage" I was born and raised in SC so I know a little about this. Here is the truth behind that statement:https://archive.is/wip/oNAFc https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1203170899572207617 PROTESTERS WITH ASSAULT RIFLES http://archive.is/NqGKf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions NOTE THE EMPHASIS ON THE *APPEARANCE* OF DOING A GOOD JOB, AND THE OBVIOUS LACK OF INTEREST IN *ACTUALLY* DOING A GOOD JOB.Of the first 46 crew and passengers who were tested for the virus, 21 were positive. President Trump suggested they should be prevented from disembarking. At the time the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. was still low, and Trump implied that the vessel’s caseload would make it look like the U.S. was doing a poor job of handling the pandemic. “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship,” he said. Reopening https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1250909943919763457 I retweeted a story about the EPA being suspended during the pandemic, even if lives were on the line. This reminds me of the pandemic being too serious for abortions in Texas and Supreme Court arguments in person, but not serious enough to stop in-person voting at 5 locations in Wisconsin (but those state Supreme Court justices voted by mail, right?). THE TWEET THIS WAS BASED ON HAS BEEN DELETED!!!!! COVID cases were trending down in Wisconsin when the state went forward with its in-person election April 7. Now they’re trending back up — which was the certain result of holding the election. https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1251340980671975430 Abortion https://twitter.com/poppy_northcutt/status/1250613658461376513 New epidemiology estimates that 90% of US death could have been prevented by just acting 2 weeks earlier. The estimated number of deaths falls sharply with earlier interventions - th US delay cost thousands of lives. #COVID19 https://t.co/FdSfUp6cck https://t.co/rpIntyyCww https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1250370089234444288 In response to the US republicans and Trump making facts political, here's a timeline of the actual @WHO COVID-19 response from December 2019 to late February 2020. Feel free to share and to add to this thread 1/11https://twitter.com/PKtje/status/1250361532531253248 I RETWEETED SOMETHING RELEVANT HERELaura Ingraham thinks "Americans should be furious" that the pandemic isn't as bad as originally projected https://t.co/Nz2ZZqOjyS https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1249882435237613569 INCREDIBLE PICTURE! JUST TOOK A SCREENSHOT http://archive.li/wip/IYjs1 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1183641 https://twitter.com/TheSciBabe/status/1250527333087211520 Is this the same as in the above tweet? https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/1250485344430104577 there's a nytimes article from before April 13 about Trump's response and how inadequate it was - THIS IS THAT ARTICLE! https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html A Complete List of Trump's Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus › 2020/03/15 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html lied about receiving memo, even though (supposedly?) he'd complained at the time about it being put into writing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/navarro-warning-trump-coronavirus.html More lies https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1250200719254306821 TRUMP VISITED THE CDC WEARING MAGA HAT AND SAID EVERYONE EXPRESSED AMAZEMENT ABOUT HOW MUCH HE KNEW TRUMP DIDN'T LET FAUCI ANSWER QUESTION, INCLUDE THAT ARTICLE ABOUT FAUCI/BIRX BEING HELD HOSTAGE!!!https://archive.vn/wip/4dj2A https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/survival-tips-for-drs-fauci-and-birx-from-a-former-fbi-hostage-negotiator Insists that voting by mail is full of fraud, explodes at reporter who points out that he had voted by mail himself! blamed obama for not having replenished the stockpile- after 3 years of being president! blamed obama for not having good tests... for a virus that wasn't even circulating among humans until 2019! Trump, who has been president for more than three years and had been warned about potential of a pandemic, again blaming Obama, now over ventilator shortages. “This is the system we inherited.” https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1250189211057225732 How Trump Is Worsening the Virus Now - The New York Times › 2020/03/22 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would ...www.nytimes.com › 2020/03/17 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html donors own stock in hydroxychloroquine company https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1250222163505950723?s=19 Trump expressed amazement about how many people die from the flu, when his grandfather probably died from the flu! (But he also doesn't know where his dad was born, so...) replied to question about how he would reassure americans by ranting at journalist said he had total authority, then :Video of President Trump walking back his comments on total authority and saying governors will be making that decision. https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1250196535993929732?s=19 http://archive.is/E2kTD https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/493113-new-ad-from-conservative-group-accuses-trump-of-thinking-hes-king waited absurdly long to do anything REFUSED TESTS FROM WHO, WHICH CRIPPLED OUR TESTING RESPONSE! CALLED CONCERN ABOUT THE VIRUS "THEIR NEW HOAX", ALSO LINK THE COMMERCIAL I RETWEETED WHICH HE SENT A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER TO!INCLUDE DAILY SHOW CLIP OF EVERYONE ON FOX NEWS MINIMIZING THREAT OF VIRUSINCLUDE NYTIMES (OR WAPO?) ARTICLE WHERE A REPORTER TALKED ABOUT HER HANNITY-WORSHIPPING MOM THINKING IT WAS ALL A HOAX!Also https://twitter.com/lisabodnar/status/1251851590354550785INCLUDE THAT TWEET ANALYZING GOOGLE SEARCHES BY POLITICAL AFFILIATION, NOTICING THAT REPUBLICANS STARTED TAKING CORONAVIRUS SERIOUSLY RIGHT AFTER TRUMP DECLARED EMERGENCYALSO:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/coronavirus-heaven-frilot-mark-frilot.html#click=https://t.co/vznBUD4ty4 "CHINA VIRUS" - INCLUDE THAT TWEET OF HATE CRIME AGAINST ASIAN KIDS! nobody could have seen this coming- nytimes has good list of people who did, including peter navarro who ACTUALLY WROTE TRUMP A MEMO (see above) and:“Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.” https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html Jan 22,dashboard created https://twitter.com/TexasDownUnder/status/1220014483516592129 ALSO LIST ALL THE SENATORS/CONGRESS MEMBERS WHO DID INSIDER TRADING- SELLING OFF STOCKS RIGHT AFTER THEY WERE TOLD ABOUT CORONAVIRUS!https://twitter.com/SBalaghi/status/1250154307745284097 Now more than ever, we need the truth. And the truth is that Donald Trump dismantled the infrastructure handed to him which was meant to plan for and overcome a pandemic, resulting in unnecessary deaths and economic disaster. @SpeakerPelosi The truth is that in January Donald Trump was warned about this pandemic, ignored those warnings, took insufficient action and caused unnecessary death and disaster. 7:04pm · 14 Apr 2020 http://archive.is/6Ig7a https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1250243446096437249 defunding WHO - April 14!Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, wrote that Trump’s decision was “a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity.” https://twitter.com/Mammals_Suck/status/1250291549377708038 https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1250284880212054018 http://archive.is/wip/d6VqQ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/against-humanity-trump-condemned-for-who-funding-freeze https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/15/835011346/a-timeline-of-coronavirus-comments-from-president-trump-and-who President Trump says U.S. is pulling funding to WHO because the group praised China's "transparency."Below is President Trump's tweet from January 24 praising China's transparency. https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1250188917430784004?s=19 Pres Trump is accusing WHO of what many have accused Trump of doing. He says the organization failed to identify pandemic early, wasted time, took too long to declare it a public health emergency & praised China for transparency.Note: Trump praised China's transparency on 1/24. https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1250188119481225216?s=19 Trump said the federal govt wasn't a delivery service Trump made a crude joke about being "under a model" during a briefing about thousands of deaths. You wanna know what white privilege is? Let's look at the credentials for the "Council to Reopen America" 1. Mark Meadows: Not only is Mark Meadows not a doctor, but his official gov't bio also says he only holds a bachelor's degree. That is a lie. http://archive.is/YS3xz https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1249871486644563969 reopening pressure https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/republicans-trump-economy-coronavirus-186452 Mr. Patrick volunteered to sacrifice himself and every other American over 70 by claiming he was ready to “get back to work” and “all in” on a hypothetical: “As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival, in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?” For a lot of reasons we are lucky — and grateful — that no one took Mr. Patrick up on his offer, but the luckiest septuagenarian of all may be Mr. Patrick himself, who would have been forced to find a way to weasel out of the patently empty promise he made in the first place. https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/16/opinion/coronavirus-texas-republicans.html compare to south korea, include fox news video clip where someone did exactly that on air. Seoul is 38 meters above sea level, it doesn't have 38 million people!  TRUMP DISABLED THE PROVISION IN THE ECONOMIC RESCUE BILL THAT CALLED FOR OVERSIGHT OF HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT! THE PART THAT WAS CRUCIAL TO GETTING IT PASSED!!! "More than 80 percent of the benefits of a tax change tucked into the coronavirus relief package Congress passed last month will go to those who earn more than $1 million annually, according to a report by a nonpartisan congressional body expected to be released Tuesday. ... About 82 percent of the benefits of the policy go to about 43,000 taxpayers who earn more than $1 million annually. Less than 3 percent of the benefits go to Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, the analysis found." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/14/coronavirus-law-congress-tax-change/ Simply put: Conway is wrong. Dead wrong. She simply either forgot her facts on why Covid-19 is called "Covid-19," or never knew them in the first place. (Theoretically, Conway might actually know the facts and chose to purposely misstate them, but that would be impossible to actually prove.) She wants viewers on Fox News -- the cable channel of choice for conservatives in the country -- to be suspicious of the WHO (as Trump has fomented suspicion in virtually every world organization including the United Nations and the World Trade Organization). And the idea that there were 18 other previous coronaviruses that the WHO didn't tell us about is too tempting for Conway to pass up. Even if it's totally and completely false. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/kellyanne-conway-covid-19-coronavirus/index.html Yamiche Alcindor (I retweeted this about Trump denying he said something) https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1244409447230947328 so, news tonight that the Trump administration killed a deal to accelerate the production of ventilators because it was worried it'd end up with too many ventilators. https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1243345214703534080 MULTIPLE GOP PEOPLE HAVE SAID THIS (INCLUDING A DUDE FROM TEXAS)! I'VE TWEETED IN RESPONSE TO A LAWYER IN CALIFORNIA WHO SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR: https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1243288141257007104 GOP congressman says letting more Americans die of coronavirus is lesser of two evils compared to economy tanking http://archive.is/h7D0V https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/trey-hollingsworth-coronavirus/index.html never in the history of time has there been an ironic swastika http://archive.is/om9XN https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1251290748739346432 Fox News host attacks Michigan governor for calling out swastikas at yesterday's protest against social distancing, saying that they were being displayed ironically http://archive.is/Crb0H https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1251260593107021824 The Michigan event had Proud Boys blocking a hospital. http://archive.is/wip/0XDns https://twitter.com/clairekope/status/1251510810062569473 In my absolutely darkest moments right after the 2016 election I could not imagine this moment: thousands of Americans dying a day, an economic contraction to rival the Great Depression and Trump just listing off the names of CEOs while congratulating himself for a job well done https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1250196753225256969 IS THIS ACTUALLY TRUE? LOOK INTO THIS BEFORE INCLUDING IT!EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration orders the president’s name to be printed on millions of Americans’ stimulus checks — which will delay their arrival. By @Reinlwapo washingtonpost.com/politics/comin… http://archive.is/wip/GubEO https://twitter.com/cathleendecker/status/1250226008613179392 MORE HOAX On March 1, Joe Joyce and his wife, Jane, set sail for Spain on a cruise, flying first to Florida. His adult children — Kevin, Eddie and Kristen Mider — suggested that the impending doom of the coronavirus made this a bad idea. Joe Joyce was 74, a nonsmoker, healthy; four years after he opened his bar he stopped drinking completely. He didn’t see the problem. “He watched Fox, and believed it was under control,’’ Kristen told me. Early in March Sean Hannity went on air proclaiming that he didn’t like the way that the American people were getting scared “unnecessarily.’’ He saw it all, he said, “as like, let’s bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.” ... But there was a way he might have avoided the trip, his daughter speculated. “If Trump had gone on TV with a mask on and said, ‘Hey this is serious,’ I don’t think he would have gone.” When her father began to feel sick, he resisted getting tested. “He didn’t think that he could have it,” Kristen said, “because he wasn’t 100 percent confident that it was a thing.” https://www.nytimes.com./2020/04/18/nyregion/coronavirus-jjbubbles-joe-joyce.html The lost month Trump says he took ‘strong action’ in February to stop coronavirus. Here’s the full picture. http://archive.is/AdLtm https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/politics/trump-covid-response-annotation/ The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s assertion that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States. The administration has also sharply criticized the Chinese government for withholding information. But the president, who often touts a personal relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is reluctant to inflict damage on a trade deal with Beijing, appears to view the WHO as a more defenseless target. I LINKED TO 2 TRUMP TWEETS ABOUT THIS TRANSPARENCY HYPOCRISY China “stalled for weeks” in allowing WHO experts to visit in January and February, Oakley said, “and the WHO never criticized them for the delay and even praised China for its ‘transparency.’ ” Until recently, Trump has repeatedly praised China for “working really hard” on the virus, and during this same period offered thanks for “their efforts and transparency.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html 2016 EXERCISE SAW THIS COMING! We knew we didn't have enough PPE and intensive care ventilators because a pandemic rehearsal was conducted in 2016. But the recommendations weren't implemented. Why? Because all resources were being wasted on preparing for a No Deal Brexit instead. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1251606121892241416 When Jared Kushner said something, they changed the website quickly to make his statement true. "STOCKPILE FOR FEDS, NOT FOR STATES!" attacks on trans people http://archive.is/GFrtk https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration How disgusting! In the middle of a deadly pandemic, the Trump administration extends the de facto ban on trans service members until September 12, 2020. Nobody paid attention because we're so focused on all of Trump's OTHER bigoted and incompetent actions https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1244360587091382272 Wow. The Trump administration just filed a statement of interest in CT to argue that girls who are trans are “biological males” and it violates Title IX to protect trans people. The audacity. This is so cruel. http://archive.is/wip/V71AN https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1242581844736061440 TRUMP IS TRYING TO ROLL BACK DISCRIMINATION LAWS AGAINST LGBT PEOPLE! http://archive.is/wip/IPlv9 https://twitter.com/chaosflower9928/status/1254182797851295744 http://archive.is/u9cfM https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/04/trump-administration-moves-allow-doctors-refuse-trans-patients-covid-rages/ And just like that, the Trump administration defines sex as defined by biology and wipes out health care discrimination protections for all trans people in the US. https://t.co/mHm2A7eUcd https://twitter.com/transscribe/status/1271540717958152193 https://twitter.com/Category_Fury/status/1271585634579124225 Gay adoption https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/adoption-agency-should-be-able-reject-gay-couples-trump-administration-n1224911 Melania Trump posts video that misleads on the President's LGBTQ policies Kate Bennett By Kate Bennett, CNN Updated 5:05 PM ET, Fri October 30, 2020 https://archive.vn/BJS44 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/politics/melania-trump-lgbtq-donald-trump/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/legal-issues/president-trumps-transgender-military-ban-is-back-in-court/2018/12/09/56a0c13a-f965-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html https://thinkprogress.org/secretaries-transgender-military-pentagon-misleading-claims-4b9478d53a4b/ https://www.npr.org/2019/04/11/711229419/how-the-trump-administrations-transgender-troop-ban-is-affecting-one-military-fa https://thinkprogress.org/opm-website-erases-transgender-guidance-ce3a65d09630/ https://thinkprogress.org/conservatives-panic-over-transgender-contestant-miss-universe-b9b47fa9f30a/ http://time.com/5465550/angela-ponce-miss-universe/ HUD moves to allow discrimination against homeless transgender people https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/hud-homeless-transgender-1468568 https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-admin-s-proposal-could-place-homeless-trans-women-men-n1009346 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-administration-releases-plan-to-let-health-care-providers-refuse-to-treat-transgender-people.html https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/24/726552816/trump-administration-proposes-rule-to-reverse-protections-for-transgender-patien http://archive.is/S7A3U https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-supreme-court-transgender-workers_n_5d57254be4b056fafd0be1aa http://archive.is/aLyUf https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-fight-make-transgender-discrimination-legal-may-make-sex-ncna1044026 http://archive.is/LjTGR https://time.com/5654844/title-vii-trump-transgender-department-of-justice-supreme-court/ https://archive.vn/3h5qe https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726784268/trump-administrations-proposed-hhs-rule-would-redefine-what-sex-means https://archive.is/wip/ZvRQI https://theconversation.com/trumps-efforts-to-redefine-gender-and-sex-106320 http://archive.is/xxBsF https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/trump-education-department-title-ix-trans-athletes-discrimination.html it's hard to say when this will be over given that our "leader" is a pathologically dishonest dumpster fire of crippling personality flaws. https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1242804956954009600 birther crap he projected on clinton- I've got screenshots annotated showing how absurd all that was! link to all the tweets I've sent about trump, including about trump lying during debate, and his bizarre interview where he denied saying it was a hoax and then said it was a hoax several sentences later. THESE SUBTWEETS MIGHT GET OVERLOOKED: https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1246500310241050625 https://twitter.com/DumbSci/status/1242804956954009600 IMPEACHMENT- ROMNEY'S STATEMENT! REMEMBER, THIS IS HOW TRUMP ACTS WHEN HE IS WORRYING ABOUT BEING RE-ELECTED! AS DEPRESSING AS THIS SOUNDS: IT *IS* POSSIBLE FOR THINGS TO GET WORSE!!! "Biden's creepiness"contrast with some deplorables' inability to recognize that Trump's behavior violates consent http://archive.is/wip/pRvHA https://twitter.com/eachus/status/1250277964677177344 threatened to keep college records sealed, teacher said trump punched him, trump still hasn't released tax returns, lied about why If I were Donald Trump, I would not want to emphasize that connection with Kane. You know, a megalomaniac in love with power and crushing everything in his path. The inability to have friends, the inability to find love. The moral that Trump takes from Kane—I mean, it’s one of the great lines that I recorded. I ask, “Do you have any advice for Charles Foster Kane, sir?” You know, let’s get down to the psychiatric intervention. How can we help this poor man? He’s obviously troubled. How can we help him? Donald, help me out here! And Donald says, “My advice to Charles Foster Kane is find another woman!” And you know, I thought, is that really the message that Welles was trying to convey? That Kane had made poor sexual choices, poor marriage choices? It’s not. It’s really not. http://archive.is/wip/JDVt0 https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/15/21221081/trump-mutiny-on-bounty-tweet-citizen-kane "If the commissioners had cracked down totally on Trump, it would have accentuated how often before they had given him a pass. To all of a sudden cut him down would have forced questions about the manner in which for years they so reliably had built him up. ... “They should have taken his license, given it to a trustee, and today we wouldn’t be dealing with Donald Trump in the White House,” David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered Atlantic City and the hearings of ‘91 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, told me. But “they could not bring themselves to go back and acknowledge that they got it completely wrong. They had to protect their position.”" “He learned in Atlantic City that people would always roll over for him.”"... I asked people who know Trump and know Atlantic City if they had any advice for Republicans currently in Congress.“What they should be thinking about, in my opinion, is that if they think they’ve seen the worst, they’re wrong,” O’Donnell said. “This behavior, so to speak, this outrageousness, whatever you want to call it, this lack of loyalty, is going to escalate.” “What you could say is, and which is true in Atlantic City, is you gave him a break,” said Simon. “And all he cared about was himself. And in the end, you could give him a break, if you’re a Republican, but he will do you in.” “Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is important to their long-term viability is either not very bright or kidding themselves,” O’Brien said. “He never shows any gratitude for the people who cut him slack. He just blames things on them.” The lesson, then, from 1991? “That if they tether their future to Donald Trump in the belief that without him they won’t have a bright or successful future,” he said, “they might as well just step right off the cliff with him.”" http://archive.is/7FG9l https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/01/the-five-people-who-could-have-stopped-trump-229894 “I went to him,” Frank Lorenzo, the former Texas Air chairman, who sold Trump the shuttle, diplomatically told me in an interview. “I think our number was 375, 385”—million—“and he negotiated it down”—to $365 million. “Your offering price is always higher than you think you’re going to get,” Lorenzo said. From Trump, he almost got it, anyway. https://archive.is/bp3Ib#selection-1316.0-1321.344 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/opinion/sexual-assault-college.html