Monday, August 3, 2020
Trump health official: Time to ‘move on’ from hydroxychloroquine
A top official in the Trump administration's Covid-19 response effort said Sunday there is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus, despite President Donald Trump's continued promotion of the anti-malaria drug.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," administration testing czar Brett Giroir said he could not recommend hydroxychloroquine because trials "do not show any benefit."
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Kushner scrapped his own COVID testing plan to make blue states suffer: report
White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led a task force to fight COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, abandoned efforts to create a nationwide testing scheme after it was decided that it would be politically advantageous to let Democratic-controlled states suffer outbreaks, Vanity Fair reported Thursday.
Vanity Fair reported in May that several volunteers from the financial sector had signed up to help him, only to be disillusioned by their work environment and what they saw as Kushner’s inexperience and incompetence, with one going so far as to file a whistleblower report with the House Oversight Committee.
Trump's Germany troops pullout may be his last gift to Putin before the election
It Was All a Lie review: Trump as symptom not cause of Republican decline
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.