Trump leans into old failures in push to reopen schools as virus roars

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/donald-trump-schools-coronavirus-education/index.html

 

President Donald Trump's new push to open schools shows he's learned nothing from calamities sparked by his demands for premature state openings. 

He also delivered a fresh rebuke to his government's top infectious disease specialist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who had dismissed the President's discredited claims that the US has the world's lowest mortality rate.

And Trump conjured another wishful prediction: that the worsening battle against the virus, which has already killed 130,000 Americans and infected 3 million, would be far less serious within weeks. This all came a few days after another discredited claim -- that 99% of cases of the virus are harmless.

Sen. Duckworth, who lost both legs in the Iraq War, hits back at Tucker Carlson for suggesting she hates America

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/tammy-duckworth-slams-tucker-carlson-suggesting-she-hates-america/5389191002/

The senator has also drawn attention from the Trump campaign. Trump shared the video of Carlson's monologue on Tuesday, and his campaign released a statement later in the day saying she was "using her military service to deflect from her support for the left-wing campaign to villainize America’s founding."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs serving in Iraq, hits back after Tucker Carlson suggests she hates America

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/media/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson/index.html

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a US Army veteran who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq, rebuked Tucker Carlson after the conservative Fox News host attacked her on Monday night and suggested that she hates America.

"Does @TuckerCarlson want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?" Duckworth wrote on Twitter.

Duckworth was awarded the Purple Heart after she lost her legs in 2004 when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter she was co-piloting during the Iraq War.

But Carlson, whose controversial comments over the years have prompted multiple advertiser boycotts, sought to question her patriotism on his Fox News program.

Stelter: Book is essentially an anti-Trump campaign book

U.S. Marine DESTROYS Tucker Carlson for Saying Disabled Veteran Tammy Duckworth "HATES AMERICA!!!"

Deutsche Bank faces $150m fine for Jeffrey Epstein ties

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53324888

Deutsche Bank has been hit with a $150m (£120m) fine for failing to properly monitor its relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

New York state regulators said the bank had suffered "significant compliance failures", processing hundreds of transactions for the late financier.

Those included payments to Russian models and $800,000 in "suspicious" cash withdrawals.

Deutsche said it "deeply" regretted its relationship with Epstein.

But Deutsche has faced multiple penalties for its compliance failures in recent years, including over its failure to stop Russian money-laundering. Its relationship with US President Donald Trump has also brought scrutiny.

Here's what Trump said about Confederate flags in 2015

RJJ Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society - YUTorah

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Indeed, while. Jewish law clearly and unequivocally forbids intermarriage, the biblical source of this prohibition has been a matter of con- siderable debate and .

Mary Trump’s book says the president practices ‘cheating as a way of life’

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-mary-trump-book-president-trump-20200706-ttbg3kkxkvh5lnebtvuhbvacfa-story.html

 

A forthcoming book by President Trump’s estranged niece describes him as a “toxic” bully who practices “cheating as a way of life,” values money above anything and belittles his own family members, according to a Monday press release.

In addition to those damning details, the press release from publisher Simon & Schuster says Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” will now be released July 14, two weeks earlier than planned — even though the president’s brother is trying to block the tell-all in court.

Members of Congress took small-business loans — and the full extent is unknown

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/congress-small-business-loan-320625

At least four members of Congress have reaped benefits in some way from the half-trillion-dollar small-business loan program they helped create.

And no one knows how many more there could be.

Fact-checking Trump's claims that US coronavirus death rate is the lowest worldwide

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/trump-coronavirus-death-rate-lowest-fact-check/index.html

 As hospitals deal with a resurgent coronavirus outbreak, White House officials and the President himself continue to tout the country's alleged success at addressing the virus.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany implied that the US response to coronavirus should not be viewed so harshly when compared to the impact the virus has had on other countries.

"This President takes Covid seriously, but we should note the mortality rate and how well we're doing vis-à-vis to the rest of the world," McEnany told Fox News.

 

Dr. Peter Hotez, professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN that according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins, the President's statements were not accurate. Out of the at least 2.8 million cases of coronavirus in the US, as of Monday morning Johns Hopkins estimated a fatality rate of 4.5%, the sixth highest worldwide.

66% of coronavirus patients infected at home, just 2% at synagogue

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283125

 

Most coronavirus patients in Israel were infected at home, according to a report by Israel Hayom Tuesday morning.

According to the report, research conducted by the Knesset Research and Information Center, nearly two-thirds (65.8%) of people infected with the coronavirus were infected at home, while just 2.2% were infected at synagogues.

The government rejected calls by the Health Ministry and National Security Council to close all synagogues in the country, but did impose new restrictions, limiting the number of worshippers to 19 at a time.

NY Judge: Cuomo can keep Jewish summer camps closed

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283164

Last-ditch effort by Orthodox Jews to allow sleepaway camps to open fails as judge refuses to hear case in lawsuit.

Republicans accepting Trump losing Sen. Kennedy's advice to Americans: If Joe Biden wins, 'build a fallout shelter'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-kennedy-if-biden-wins-build-fallout-shelter

Sen. John Kennedy on Monday advised Americans to “build a fallout shelter” if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is elected president in November.

“The vice president says he will transform America. He will and the American people will pay a fearsome price,” Kennedy, R-La., told “Hannity.”

Kennedy said that Biden’s foreign policy is “hugs and hot cocoa” for America’s enemies.

“Build a fallout shelter. You’ll need it. Weakness invites the wolves,” Kennedy said.