Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Mary Trump's disturbingly credible assessment of her 'dangerous' Uncle Donald
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/opinions/mary-trump-book-dangerous-donald-dantonio/index.html
No one will ever fully explain
Donald Trump: the cruelty, the vanity, the insecurity converted to
massive overconfidence. However, in "Too Much and Never Enough: How My
Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," his niece Mary L. Trump
comes closer than anyone to describing the making of a seemingly
heartless person who won his way to the White House.
On page after page of this book,
to be published next Tuesday, the author relies on her perspective as
an insider and her expertise as a psychologist to reveal the family
dynamic that produced a person capable of the kind of outrageous acts
Trump has committed. This is, after all, a man who used insult, racism,
and lies to gain and maintain power. A president whose leadership
contributed to lethal fiascos involving asylum-seeking children, hurricane victims and, now, a pandemic made far worse by his bungling. Through it, he has seemed immune to feelings of regret, grief and empathy.
Once a source of pride, Israel’s virus response now a cautionary tale for world
https://www.timesofisrael.com/once-a-source-of-pride-israels-covid-response-now-a-cautionary-tale-for-world/
After inspiring worldwide praise, Israel’s handling of the
coronavirus pandemic has now emerged globally as a blueprint for how not
to reopen the economy too fast as a second wave of infections, worse than the first, sweeps the nation.
While many countries had looked to Israel’s early closing of
borders and initial flattening of the curve as a guide, recent
international reports have focused negatively on the Jewish state,
asking what went wrong and how that can be avoided in other countries.
Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/coronavirus-churches-outbreaks.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Weeks after President Trump demanded
that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new
outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the
country where services have resumed.
The
virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers and
Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches
that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the
pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new
limits on numbers of worshipers.
Tucker Carlson ratchets up criticism of Duckworth, calls her a 'coward'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/506322-tucker-carlson-ratchets-up-criticism-of-duckworth-calls-her-a-coward
Fox News host Tucker Carlson escalated his criticism of Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Tuesday night, calling her a “coward” for refusing to come on his show without a public apology.
The
Fox News host said his show reached out to the Illinois Democrat’s
office to invite her on the program to have a “vigorous, reasoned
exchange between adults.” But he said a representative “informed us that
before even considering our request, we must first issue a public
apology for criticizing” the senator.
“Keep in mind that Tammy Duckworth is
not a child, at least not technically – she is a sitting United States
senator, who is often described as a hero,” he said. “Yet Duckworth is
too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable TV show. What a
coward.”
Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Its decision to
carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths
without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United
States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.
This is what has happened: Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better.
“They
literally gained nothing,” said Jacob F. Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at
the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “It’s
a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.”
The results of Sweden’s experience are relevant well beyond Scandinavian shores. In the United States, where the virus is spreading with alarming speed, many states have — at President Trump’s urging
— avoided lockdowns or lifted them prematurely on the assumption that
this would foster economic revival, allowing people to return to
workplaces, shops and restaurants.
Five shocking passages in Mary Trump's tell-all book
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53328654
A tell-all memoir written by
President Donald Trump's niece claims that he is a "narcissist" who now
threatens the life of every American.
'More than narcissism'
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," his niece, who has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, writes of Mr Trump. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
University 'cheater'
Ms Trump claims that her uncle paid a friend to take the SAT test for
him - a standardised exam which determines university placement -
because he was "worried that his grade point average, which put him far
from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted".
President Donald Trump tweets to Bubba Wallace urging apology for noose ‘hoax’
https://www.foxsports.com/nascar/story/bubba-wallace-president-donald-trump-noose-hoax-070620
“Whether it was tied sometime throughout 2019, the fall race there, someone did it with whatever intent they had,” Wallace said. “We weren’t in that garage stall at that time, so we can’t say it was directed toward me, which is good. It wasn’t directed toward me or my family.
“But somebody still knows how to tie a noose and whether they did it as a bad joke or not, who knows? But it was good for the public to see. It still won’t change some people’s mind of it being a hoax, but it is what it is.”
“Whether it was tied sometime throughout 2019, the fall race there, someone did it with whatever intent they had,” Wallace said. “We weren’t in that garage stall at that time, so we can’t say it was directed toward me, which is good. It wasn’t directed toward me or my family.
“But somebody still knows how to tie a noose and whether they did it as a bad joke or not, who knows? But it was good for the public to see. It still won’t change some people’s mind of it being a hoax, but it is what it is.”
Phelps stressed June 25 that Wallace had nothing to do with the
reporting of the noose. It was found by Richard Petty Motorsports
crewman David Cropps, who is Black, and Wallace never saw the noose
itself.
“Bubba Wallace and the 43 team had nothing to do with this,” Phelps
said June 23. “Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport
with courage, class and dignity.
No other garage stall on the NASCAR circuit has a garage pull shaped
as a noose, NASCAR said June 25 after it had tracks inspect all garage
stalls.
“We’re in a crucial time in the world right now,” Wallace said June
26. “And, we see what’s going on outside of the sport. And the way we
reacted to it and the way it was brought to my attention, I thought it
was done in the right way.
“[Should the statement be] worded it differently? Sure. You can’t let
that slip-up and be just like, ‘Oh, it might be a mistake.’ I
encouraged him to do the same thing over and over again. I tried to do
my research behind the scenes with my guys to make sure it wasn’t a
garage pull. You’ve seen the numbers and how many garage stalls they
inspected. Eleven had knots and only one had a noose.”
Trump’s Misguided Tweet Seeking Wallace Apology for Noose ‘Hoax’
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-misguided-tweet-seeking-wallace-apology-for-noose-hoax/
President Donald Trump misdirected blame when he questioned why NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace had not “apologized
to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his
aid … only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX.”
Why the media raced to cover Trump, NASCAR and the Confederate flag
https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-the-media-raced-to-cover-trump-nascar-and-the-confederate-flag
A few points: NASCAR’s only fulltime black driver didn’t initiate the
probe of a noose found in his stall, which turned out not to have been
targeted at Bubba. NASCAR’s ratings aren’t down. And the president was
clearly critical of the league’s decision to ban the Confederate flag at
its races.
Now it would be easy to say the media are utterly obsessed with this
issue. It fuels the journalistic narrative that the president is stoking
white resentment with his attacks on angry mobs and left-wing fascism,
not to mention his threat to veto a major defense bill if it renames
bases that honor Confederate generals.
hat’s more, the reporters were frustrated by McEnany’s repeated
insistence that Trump has no position on displaying Confederate flags.
But most of all, the contretemps reflects the president’s decision to drive the news cycle through Twitter.
Since
that social network is the primary way he communicates with his 83
million followers, Trump has the power to change the national
conversation with a couple of sentences. Sometimes this chokes off
positive coverage he had been getting, to the dismay of his advisers,
and sometimes it helps him turn the page from negative coverage.
But
the White House can’t very well complain that journalists are creating a
distraction when they covering the president’s own words, not when he
has used Twitter to make major announcements, push policies, attack
opponents and otherwise generate headlines.
There are many
well-documented instances of Trump stunning his top aides by tweeting a
big decision that they thought they were still debating.
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.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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.
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.
RJJ Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society - YUTorah
https://www.google.co.il/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjyzvP4ubvqAhUMXsAKHfCyDacQFjAAegQIBhAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.yutorah.org%2F1981%2F1053%2F735653.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1_MPQtj5UomeQZHZdgAqor
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
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.
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