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Republican officials worried US President may have alienated important GOP donor in tense phone call.
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Chronic fatigue syndrome a possible long-term effect of Covid-19, experts say
"Even after you clear the virus, there
are post-viral symptoms. I know, because I follow on the phone a lot of
people who call me up and talk about their course," said Dr. Anthony
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, in a July 17 interview with Medscape.
Trump signs executive actions after stimulus talks break down on Capitol Hill
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-executive-order-stimulus/index.html
President Donald Trump tried to assert executive power by signing four actions on coronavirus relief Saturday, one of which will provide as much as $400 in enhanced unemployment benefits after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach an agreement on a stimulus bill this week.
But
that memorandum on enhanced unemployment benefits -- 25% of which
states are being asked to cover -- has more strings attached than the
White House acknowledged and is seen as a cumbersome effort that may not
help a lot of the unemployed.
The other three actions he signed include a memorandum on a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, an executive order on "assistance to renters and homeowners" and a memorandum on deferring student loan payments.
Jewish groups take aim at Trump’s pick for ambassador to Germany
Jewish groups have put the man under fire for his past statements about Muslim immigrants and for downplaying the importance of Nazi history.
The nomination of Douglas Macgregor, a decorated combat veteran who now frequently appears on Fox News, made headlines this week after CNN’s K File unearthed a long history of the retired colonel’s comments. In 2018 he said “There’s sort of a sick mentality that says that generations after generations must atone sins of what happened in 13 years of German history and ignore the other 1,500 years of Germany.”
Doctor vs doctor
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/magazine/covid-drug-wars-doctors.html
In the absence of conclusive research for Covid-19 treatments, many doctors are having to rely on their experience to make judgment calls about medications.
Appeals court rejects key argument against McGahn subpoena
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/07/appeals-court-rules-mcgahn-must-testify-392562
A federal appeals court dealt a major setback Friday to President Donald Trump’s bid to prevent his former White House counsel Don McGahn from being forced to testify to a House committee.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday, 7-2, that the House has legal standing to use the courts to compel McGahn to appear in response to a House Judiciary Committee subpoena.
Fact check: Trump makes multiple false claims about Covid-19 relief as he signs executive actions
President Donald Trump made multiple egregious false claims about Democrats during a Saturday "news conference" at his New Jersey golf club where he signed a series of pandemic-related executive actions.
Trump also denied having said something he said on camera during a news conference Friday. And he walked out of the room
after he was challenged on one of his favorite lies -- the claim that
he is the one who got the Veterans Choice health care program created.
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Here’s What Trump Got Wrong About America’s COVID-19 Death Rate
https://time.com/5875411/trump-covid-19-death-rate-interview/
During an interview with Axios on HBO that aired Monday night, President Donald Trump mischaracterized the U.S. COVID-19 death rate and underplayed the high rate of deaths in proportion to the U.S. population.
During the interview, which was filmed on July 28, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan brought up the recent surge in COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S., pointing out that, at the time the interview was recorded, the U.S. was reporting over 1,000 deaths per day.
The President pushed back against Swan’s statement, referring to charts he had brought with him and saying, “Right here, the United States is lowest in numerous categories, we’re lower than the world, we’re lower than Europe.”
Friday, August 7, 2020
Doctors Combat Disinformation Campaign Against HydroxychloroQuine
https://yated.com/doctors-combat-disinformation-campaign-against-hydroxychloroquine/
As the FDA and the media continue to insist that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is not a viable treatment for Covid-19, a coalition of doctors from across the United States gathered for a two-day summit to reach out to the American public with information about the drug’s safety and efficacy in treating the disease.
The group, calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors,” held a press conference on July 27 in front of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. to combat what they call a “massive disinformation campaign” about HCQ.
Sponsored by Tea Party Patriots, a conservative Republican group, and broadcast by Breitbart, the video was posted to the three biggest social media platforms and quickly went viral, attracting 18 million viewers on Facebook alone.
'The Daily Show' mocks Fox News' one-sided treatment of gaffes in Trump montage
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Judge Denies Trump's Bid to Delay Defamation Suit From Woman Alleging Rape
https://time.com/5877213/donald-trump-defamation-lawsuit-delay-denied/
A New York judge knocked down President Donald Trump’s bid to delay a lawsuit from a woman who accused him of rape, ruling in a decision released Thursday that the presidency doesn’t shield him from the case.
Pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the president isn’t immune from a New York prosecutor’s criminal investigation, Manhattan judge Verna Saunders said the same principle applies to E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, in which Trump’s lawyers have argued that the Constitution bars presidents from being dragged into lawsuits in state courts.
“No, it does not,” Saunders wrote.
The decision allows Carroll — who’s
seeking Trump’s DNA as potential evidence — to keep pursuing her suit.
She says he slurred her in denying her claim that he raped her in the
1990s.
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