Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/woodward-kushner-coronavirus-doctors/index.html

The statement reflected a political strategy. Instead of following the health experts' advice, Trump and Kushner were focused on what would help the President on Election Day. By their calculations, Trump would be the "open-up president."

Why deaths aren't rising as fast in Covid-19's second wave, despite big spikes in new infections

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/28/europe/coronavirus-death-rate-second-wave-lower-intl/index.html

The most obvious reason for the lower death toll is age.

The first wave of the pandemic hit Europe's elderly people particularly hard, spreading in hospitals and care homes, but this has changed over the summer, with the virus circulating more widely among younger people going to restaurants, bars and other public places.

 

 

10 Leaders Who Stuttered

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27126/quick-10-10-leaders-who-stuttered 

10. Joe Biden. Vice President Joe Biden came out very publicly a few years ago and said that he overcame a stutter after years of childhood teasing, including taunts from his seventh-grade teacher who mocked him in front of the whole class.

President Donald Trump’s Most Epic Gaffes of All Time

Jared Kushner has some thoughts on Black success and they’re definitely not the delusions of a spoiled white brat

 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jared-kushner-fox-news-black-people-trump-complaining-success-b1350114.html

 Jared Kushner is a privileged white man whose greatest accomplishments include being born into a privileged family and then marrying into an even more privileged one. Somehow, this makes him think he’s qualified to lecture Black people about how to make it in America. So much so that he effectively implied that Black Americans don't want to be successful on Fox News this morning.

 

Trump attacked Biden for warning against '4 more years of George,' but the Democrat was probably referring to moderator George Lopez

 https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-appears-confuse-trump-george-bush-campaign-gaffe-2020-10

• Trump seized on the apparent gaffe to attack Biden on Monday, tweeting: "Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn't remember my name. Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview."
• The campaign event was being hosted by the comedian George Lopez.
• Biden has been open about his stutter and previously described himself as a "gaffe machine."
• Trump's campaign has long sought to portray Biden as mentally unfit for office. In a separate interview, Biden said he was happy to have his mental capabilities compared with Trump's.

 

 

Biden was speaking to George Lopez in widely shared video

 https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-george-lopez-social-media-27e0006230358f0d0d98bf0e4c5959ca

 CLAIM: In an interview, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden confused President Donald Trump with former President George W. Bush.

  AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. Biden and his wife, Jill, were being interviewed by actor and comedian George Lopez during the virtual “I Will Vote” concert Sunday.

 THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a 27-second clip of Joe and Jill Biden to suggest that Biden is not mentally fit to run for office ahead of Election Day. But the clips being widely shared lack context.

 

Did Joe Biden confuse Donald Trump with George W. Bush?

 https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/26/context-did-joe-biden-confuse-donald-trump-george-/

 In the clip, Biden says "George" while discussing the significance of the upcoming election, which some viewers took as an allusion to former President George W. Bush.

The clip was shared on Twitter by Republican National Committee rapid response director Steve Guest, who used it to attack Biden’s mental acuity. The next day, media outlets including Fox News, Sky News, and the Today Show published stories on Biden’s comments, and Trump tweeted about it.

Some reporters, however, pointed out that Biden could have been referring to his interviewer, comedian George Lopez. 

 

 Joe Biden: "Well, first of all, the reason they should vote is that there’s a lot on the ballot this year. I mean, this is the most consequential… Not because I’m running but because of who I’m running against. This is the most consequential election in a long, long, long time. And the character of the country in my view is literally on the ballot, what kind of country are we going to be. Four more years of George uh… George, we’re going to find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected, we are going to be in a different world. And so… The reason I think people should be voting is out of their own self-interest right now, because look, you know, everything is at stake from the environment to our health. You heard what his, his, his chief of staff —"

 

 

Obama blasts Kushner for suggesting that Black Americans need to 'want' to be successful

 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/obama-blasts-kushner-black-american-comments-432829

 Kushner made the comments during an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning during which he also referred to raising concerns about racial inequality as “complaining” and suggested that those who protested systemic racism over the summer were more interested in “virtue signaling” than solving those issues.

 "The thing we've seen in the Black community, which is mostly Democrat,” Kushner argued, “is that President Trump's policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they're complaining about, but he can't want them to be successful more than they want to be successful."

Jared Kushner Faces Backlash Over Comments Considered Racist | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Trump tries to distract Americans on pandemic in final election sprint

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/donald-trump-confirmation-amy-coney-barrett-joe-biden-election-2020-supreme-court/index.html

President Donald Trump launched a new attempt to mislead America over the state of the fast-worsening pandemic Tuesday, after his prime time televised celebration of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation failed to distract from the mishandled emergency that is threatening his reelection hopes.

Coronavirus: Trump labels U.S. COVID-19 spike a media conspiracy

Haredim and Coronavirus: Policy Recommendations for Exit from Second Lockdown

 https://en.idi.org.il/articles/32679

 Large portions of the ultra-Orthodox community and their leadership have come to the conclusion that the risk posed by the virus is not as severe as claimed by the experts and professionals. This stems from their skepticism about the authorities but also from their dismissal of scientific and medical knowledge. The fact that the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel is among the youngest communities in the world, has intensified this feeling, especially among the younger generation, that “It won't happen to me," and encouraged them to ignore the rules.

 

No matter who wins the US election, the world's 'fake news' problem is here to stay

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/25/world/trump-fake-news-legacy-intl/index.html

But the specter of disinformation and foreign electoral interference, which has loomed large over the 2020 presidential race, is perhaps not as pernicious as the language now coming out of the White House itself. Less than two weeks out from the election, Trump has touted unfounded narratives and conspiracy theories casting doubt over mail-in voting and the November results -- which could leave Americans even more vulnerable to further manipulation, experts warn. 

 

"There is no question that the fact that the President of the United States is using this term to attack independent media gives an element of license to other politicians elsewhere, including some authoritarian leaders to dress up their own attacks on independent media and point to the example of the US," said Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.