Video: No feeling your pain, no bullhorn, and no tears: How Donald Trump is NOT meeting the deadliest pandemic in a century with a president's balming words
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Fact check: Trump has spent far more time at golf clubs than Obama had at same point
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/25/politics/fact-check-trump-obama-golf/index.html
Obama played 98 rounds of golf through
this point in his presidency, according to data provided to CNN by Mark
Knoller, a veteran CBS News White House correspondent who is known for tracking presidential activities. By contrast, Knoller said, Trump has spent all or part of 248 days at a golf course.
Trump Golf Count: 251
https://trumpgolfcount.com/
Cost to Taxpayer: About $134,000,000
Why we are doing this
"I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." --Donald J. Trump, August, 2016
Our President made a promise to
the American people. Here we track his fulfillment of that promise. You
can view our full list of Trump's golf outings here, and see this explanation for more information. Or just watch this video to hear it straight from the President himself.
Trump plays golf for 1st time since the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.foxsports.com/other/story/trump-plays-golf-for-1st-time-since-the-coronavirus-pandemic-052320
Trump levied frequent criticism of Barack Obama’s regular golf outings when he was president.
“Can you believe that with all of the problems and difficulties
facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than
Carter,” Trump tweeted in October 2014 during the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa, comparing Obama to former President Jimmy Carter.
Trump Fires Back After Biden Ad Attacks Him For Golfing During Pandemic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/05/25/trump-fires-back-after-biden-ad-attacks-him-for-golfing-during-pandemic/#6725e7b74b49
Late Sunday night, Trump took
to Twitter to defend his golf outings while firing back at Biden and
lashing out at former President Barack Obama.
"Sleepy Joe's representatives
have just put out an ad saying that I went to play golf (exercise)
today. They think I should stay in the White House at all times," Trump
tweeted.
The President continued, "What they didn't
say is that it's the first time I've played golf in almost 3 months,
that Biden was constantly vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals
with other countries, & that Barack was always playing golf, doing
much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii -
Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the gruesome death of a
great young man by ISIS!"
Coronavirus is ‘the tip of the iceberg,’ warns Chinese researcher nicknamed ‘bat woman’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-warns-chinas-top-bat-researcher-2020-05-26
The Chinese researcher known as the “bat woman” warns that the deadly
coronavirus the world is battling now is “just the tip of the iceberg”
in terms of what humans could face without a global effort to prevent
similar infectious-disease outbreaks.
“If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next
infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these
unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early
warnings,” Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese scientist specializing in viral
transmissions from bats, told CGTN in an interview that aired Monday.
“If we don’t study [the viruses], there will possibly be another
outbreak,” warned Shi, dubbed the “bat woman” by the press because of
her research involving those flying mammals.
A Light unto the Nations: What do today's rabbis say?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280967
When I became a baal t’shuva 37 years ago, I benefited
greatly by studying the writings of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsh,
especially his Commentary on the Torah and his Commentary on the Book of
Psalms. In the year 1836, he wrote in his book, “Nineteen Letters” that
the mission of Am Yisrael, the Jewish people, in the Exile was to be a
light to the nations.
With the Festival of Shavuot approaching, I asked a group of
influential Rabbis in Israel if, after the establishment of the State of
Israel, the Jews in the Diaspora still had the same mission?
White House defends watchdog firings, but does not offer explanation
https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-defends-watchdog-firings-but-does-not-offer-explanation/
A White House letter issued in response to concerns from a prominent
Republican senator does little to explain the decision-making behind
Trump’s recent upheaval of the inspector general community. It is
unlikely to quell outrage from Democrats and good-government groups who
fear the president is moving to dismantle a post-Watergate network of
watchdogs meant to root out corruption, fraud and other problems inside
federal agencies.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa — a longtime, self-appointed
defender of inspectors general and congressional oversight — requested
that the White House explain the basis for the firings in April and May
of the inspectors general for the intelligence community and the US
State Department.
The response Tuesday from White House counsel Pat Cipollone does not
provide those details, instead making the points that Trump has the
authority to remove inspectors general, that he appropriately alerted
Congress and that he selected qualified officials as replacements.
The human cost of virus misinformation
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-52731624
A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found
links to assaults, arsons and deaths. And experts say the potential for
indirect harm caused by rumours, conspiracy theories and bad health
information could be much bigger.
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