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Trump's Germany troops pullout may be his last gift to Putin before the election

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/02/politics/trump-germany-troops-russia-intl/index.html

Since he came to office, US President Donald Trump has obsessively picked at the ties that bind America to its allies.

This week in one apparently wanton yank, he ripped one of those cords by announcing a plan to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from Germany. This thin green thread of forces, woven through Germany's historic towns, rolling fields and dense forests, has for three generations helped ensure peace in Europe, embodying an unbreakable commitment between the former foes.

The relationship now though, particularly if Trump is reelected later this year, is in freefall, destination unknown.

His decision, if his tweets have been correctly divined, seems to be to punish Germany.

"Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year for Energy, and we are supposed to protect Germany from Russia. What's that all about?" Trump wrote in one post.

"Also, Germany is very delinquent in their 2% fee to NATO. We are therefore moving some troops out of Germany!"

It Was All a Lie review: Trump as symptom not cause of Republican decline

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/it-was-all-a-lie-review-trump-republican-party

In short, stripped “of any pretense of governing philosophy, a political party will default to being controlled by those who shout the loudest and are unhindered by any semblance of normalcy”. The first casualty is the truth. “Large elements of the Republican party have made a collective decision that there is no objective truth” and that a cause or simple access to power is more important.

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LTC Vindman Serves the Country, While Jared Kushner's Virus-Testing Task Force Sells Out the Country

'Wrong!': Trump slams Fauci over testimony on Covid-19 surge

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/01/wrong-trump-rebukes-fauci-in-tweet-390150

President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday, forcefully rejecting the nation’s top infectious disease expert's testimony on why the U.S. has experienced a renewed surge in coronavirus cases.

“Wrong!” Trump wrote in a retweet of a video where Fauci explained to a House subcommittee that the U.S. has seen more cases than European countries because it only shut down a fraction of its economy amid the pandemic. “We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases,” the president added.

Donald Trump claims Anthony Fauci 'wrong' about cause of Covid-19 surge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/01/trump-covid-19-fauci-cases-testing

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on his own top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, arguing against the doctor’s claim that high rates of infection in the US stem from a less aggressive reaction to the virus in terms of economic shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.

Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/alexander-vindman-retiring-oped/?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-a-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Despite some personal turmoil, I remain hopeful for the future for both my family and for our nation. Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence of a pandemic, a financial crisis and the stoking of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people. A groundswell is building that will issue a mandate to reject hate and bigotry and a return to the ideals that set the United States apart from the rest of the world. I look forward to contributing to that effort.

Rav Kaminetsky thinks Trump presidency increases respect for religion

• “You see the matzav, the anarchy… it’s frightening. G-d has become a dirty word in much of America, religion and religious institutions are their enemy – we need Rachamei Shamayim [heavenly mercy]. If Trump doesn’t win in November, it’s worrisome," he told Mishpacha magazine.

It is obvious that Rav Shmuel is right! Trump continually does or says things that elicit exclamations of  "G-d help us" as per the famous assertion there are no atheists in a foxhole.  Trump views himself as G-d's messenger and even is willing to destroy democracy for the sake of a photo op with a borrowed Bible in front of a church. Definitely raised the status of religion and G-d has become less of a dirty word in America!

'Nobody likes me,' Trump complains, as even his allies fade

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/01/politics/donald-trump-allies-election/index.html

Lamenting his plunging popularity this week, a self-pitying President Donald Trump wondered how it all went wrong.

"Nobody likes me," he said, confounded at how his administration's health experts could be receiving accolades while he is accused of ignoring and denying the raging public health crisis.

"It can only be my personality," Trump said, "that's all."

That's one answer.

The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/health/coronavirus-children-camp.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks, the C.D.C. reported. Singing and cheering may have helped spread the virus.

Report: Kushner's Covid-19 testing plan 'went poof into thin air'