Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Doctor Says 'Lying' Fauci Is Playing With Lives
The physician, who voiced unsubstantiated claims
about hydroxychloroquine's impact on COVID-19 earlier this week,
targeted NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Revenge of the Never Trumpers: Meet the Republican Dissidents Fighting to Push Donald Trump Out of Office
https://time.com/5870475/never-trumpers-2020-election/
Jack Spielman has been a Republican his whole life. But over the past four years, he has come to two realizations.
Increasingly upset by President Donald Trump’s
“appalling” behavior, his cozy relationships with dictators and the
ballooning national debt, Spielman says his first epiphany was that he
couldn’t cast a ballot for Trump again. But for the retired Army
cybersecurity engineer, the final straw was the President’s retaliation
against impeachment witness Lieut. Colonel Alexander Vindman, who
retired in July after Trump fired him from the National Security Council
in February. Spielman decided he had to do more than just vote for
presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden; he had to persuade others to
do the same. So Spielman filmed a video for a group called Republican
Voters Against Trump (RVAT), explaining his views. “I want to do some
part,” Spielman tells TIME, “to try to correct the wrong that I did in
voting for this man.”
Trump ends press briefing after defending pro-hydroxychloroquine doctor who says virus has a 'cure'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-press-briefing-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-doctor
President Trump
abruptly ended a tense press conference at the White House on Tuesday,
after he defended Houston Dr. Stella Immanuel as a "very impressive" for
touting hydroxychloroquine -- just hours after Twitter deleted the
president's retweet of a video featuring Immanuel speaking about the
drug.
At the briefing, CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins highlighted some of
Immanuel's past comments, including that alien DNA is being used in
medical treatments and that doctors want to make people immune from
religion.
She was on-air, along with many other doctors. They were big fans of
hydroxychloroquine. I thought she was very impressive. ... She said that
she's had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. I
thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her."
Collins continued shouting questions, prompting the president to head out.
CNN
has its own history of questionable claims about hydroxychloroquine:
Last week, Dr. Harvey Risch, a Yale epidemiology professor, rejected a CNN anchor’s "ludicrous" claim that the drug is too dangerous to even talk about as a potential COVID-19 treatment.
Trump sticks by discredited hydroxychloroquine
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53575964
US President Donald Trump has again
defended the use of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus,
contradicting his own public health officials.
He said the malaria medication was only rejected as a Covid-19 treatment because he had recommended its use.
His remarks come after Twitter banned his eldest son for posting a clip promoting hydroxychloroquine.
There is no evidence the drug can fight the virus, and regulators warn it may cause heart problems.
Last month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned against the use of the drug for treatment of the coronavirus, following reports of "serious heart rhythm problems" and other health issues.
Trump undermines his pandemic response with more misinformation and self-obsession
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-response/index.html
President Donald Trump's return as the face of the Covid-19 response has deteriorated into a misinformation masterclass that explains why America is in such a mess.
In an extraordinary performance Tuesday, as the daily death toll again soared toward 1,000 and the number of Americans dead approached a tragic milestone of 150,000, Trump again foreswore the most basic requirements of national leadership in a crisis.
At a White House briefing
that turned almost into a parody of his own mismanagement of the
pandemic, he complained that the government's top infectious diseases
expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, had better approval ratings than he did.
He
painted a misleading picture of a viral surge still raging across
Southern and Western states that is showing new signs of spreading
deeper into the heartland, saying large portions of the country were
"corona-free."
And he launched a stunning new pitch for
hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug beloved by conservative media
but that has not been shown in rigorous clinical trials to be an
effective treatment for Covid-19.
Given
the trail of sickness and death that has unfolded in recent months, it
was bizarre though not surprising that the President would return to the
controversy over hydroxychloroquine. On Monday night, he retweeted videos describing hydroxychloroquine as a "cure" that meant Americans didn't need to wear masks.
Minneapolis Police Reportedly Identify Viral 'Umbrella Man' As White Supremacist
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/28/896515022/minneapolis-police-reportedly-identify-viral-umbrella-man-as-white-supremacist
Police say the masked, umbrella-wielding man who smashed windows at a
Minneapolis auto parts store two days after George Floyd's death has
ties to a white supremacist group and specifically sought to inflame
racial tensions.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Minneapolis police arson investigator Erika Christensen wrote in a
search warrant affidavit filed this week that the man's actions created a
hostile atmosphere and sparked a series of events that turned
previously peaceful protests chaotic. She said she believed his "sole
aim was to incite violence."
Trump Jr. bashes Twitter over suspension: 'This never happens to ... the left. It only hurts conservatives'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-jr-responds-twitter-suspension-hydroxychloroquine
Donald Trump Jr. joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
Tuesday to respond to the 12-hour suspension of his Twitter account
after he posted a video featuring doctors endorsing the use
of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus.
"I've
been saying this for a long time," the presidents eldest son told host
Tucker Carlson. "I wrote my first book about justice and censorship
coming from the big tech giants from California -- as homogenous a group
as you could possibly imagine. If they are censoring my account, they
are censoring others and they've been trying to do this for a while.
"I've
been talking about the deplatforming, that demonetization of people
that are preaching conservative values," Trump Jr. added, "because you
have to note, this never happens to someone saying something that
benefits the left. It only hurts conservatives."
Trump abruptly ends briefing after being pressed over retweeting misinformation
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-briefing/index.html
Even amid an attempt by President Donald Trump's aides to shift his focus back to coronavirus,
he continues to hear from a wide range of associates -- including the
CEO of a far-right television network -- who are undermining the
administration's health experts and questioning their approach to the
pandemic, people familiar with the conversations say.
Trump
resumed his daily news briefings on Tuesday afternoon, where he again
touted advancements on vaccines and treatments for the virus. After
largely ignoring the pandemic for weeks and denying its severity, the
White House revived the briefings last week to demonstrate presidential
leadership.
But the approach has hit early stumbling blocks.
When
Trump was pressed by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about his words of support
for a doctor who downplayed masks and suggested alien DNA was used in
medical treatments, he cut the briefing short and stormed out.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Barr clashes with Democrats over policing and Roger Stone sentencing: 'I'm telling my story — that's what I'm here to do'
Democrats launched into several
impassioned attacks on Barr, and in multiple exchanges he and the
lawmakers raised their voices and interrupted one another. When
Democrats cut off Barr during their time to question him, he often used
the next round of Republican questioning as a chance to respond.
House
Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, pressed Barr
on whether federal troops deployed to cities were being used as "props"
for Trump's reelection. Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas
pushed him on whether the Trump administration was fighting systemic
racism in policing, and Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia accused
Barr of aiding Trump's longtime friend Roger Stone and first national
security adviser Michael Flynn.
Barr
dismissed the Democratic charges, saying that he acted independently to
protect the rule of law in the Stone and Flynn cases, that he disagreed
there was systemic racism in police departments and that federal
officers had been sent to protect federal buildings "under attack" and
combat violence crime.
'Shame on you': Democrats attack Barr for carrying out Trump agenda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/28/william-barr-hearing-democrats-federal-agents-trump
Democrats
clashed angrily with Donald Trump’s attorney general on Tuesday, over
the aggressive deployment of federal agents to US cities three months
before a presidential election.
The attorney general denied the interventions were motivated by Trump’s re-election.
Don Lemon, Chuck Todd make cameos at Barr hearing when Jim Jordan plays video of 'peaceful' protesters
A variety of MSNBC and CNN hosts made cameos during Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday when Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, used
his opening statement to put an emphasis on mainstream media’s efforts
to paint sometimes violent protesters as “peaceful.”
“I
want to thank you for defending law enforcement, for pointing out what a
crazy idea this defund the police policy ... whatever you want to call
it, is, and standing up for the rule of law,” Jordan said. “We have a
video we want to show that gets right to this point.”
Jordan then played a powerful video montage featuring a variety of
mainstream media members referring to recent protests as
“peaceful,” which included everyone from CNN’s Don Lemon to NBC News’
Chuck Todd dismissing violence amid images of burning buildings and
attacks on law enforcement.
Trump Pushes Fake COVID Cure From Fringe Doctors, Banned by Facebook
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pushes-fake-covid-cure-from-fringe-doctors-banned-by-facebook
At least one of the accounts
the president retweeted on Monday night was from a follower of QAnon,
the conspiracy theory that alleges a “deep state” cabal of pedophiles is
plotting against Trump.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube scrub platforms of viral video making false coronavirus claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/28/tech/facebook-youtube-coronavirus/index.html
A
video featuring a group of doctors making false and dubious claims
related to the coronavirus was removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
after going viral online Monday.
The
video, published by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News,
featured a group of people wearing white lab coats calling themselves
"America's Frontline Doctors" staging a press conference in front of the
US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
President
Trump shared multiple versions of the video with his 84 million Twitter
followers Monday night despite the dubious claims running counter to
his administration's own public health experts. Spokespersons for the
White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Donald Trump says Dr. Fauci misled the public on hydroxychloroquine and shares a video of a doctor saying the drug can prevent the virus in Twitter spree
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8566907/Donald-Trump-goes-Twitter-binge-retweets-posts-praising-hydroxychloroquine.html
- President Donald Trump retweeted a slew of posts praising controversial drug hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 on Monday night
- He shared a retweeted that slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for 'misleading' the country by dismissing hydroxychloroquine, and supporting drug Remdesivir
- He shared video of Dr. Stella Immanuel's speech outside Capitol Hill on Friday where she claimed the anti-malaria drug is a 'cure' for the virus
- She slammed 'fake doctors' who doubt the efficacy of the drug and said to the public 'you don’t need a mask'
- Trump shared videos of her speech twice, and both were removed
Georgia Republican senator removes ad that made Jewish opponent’s nose bigger
https://www.timesofisrael.com/georgia-republican-senator-removes-ad-that-made-jewish-opponents-nose-bigger/
Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia has taken down a digital
campaign ad featuring a manipulated picture of his Democratic opponent
Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose.
Before being removed, the Facebook ad
showed grainy pictures of Ossoff and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York,
who is also Jewish, above a banner reading “DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO BUY
GEORGIA! HELP DAVID PERDUE FIGHT BACK.”
A spokeswoman for Perdue said in a statement Monday that the image
has been removed from Facebook, calling it an “unintentional error” by
an outside vendor, without naming the vendor.
“Anybody who implies that this
was anything other than an inadvertent error is intentionally
misrepresenting Senator Perdue’s strong and consistent record of
standing firmly against anti-Semitism and all forms of hate,” the
spokeswoman said.
How Tom Cotton accidentally told an appalling truth
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/opinions/tom-cotton-slavery-comments-1619-project-bailey/index.html
It's a belief likely held by millions of White Americans and also by
a number of white historians. It's just that Cotton said it more
plainly and directly than most. It's that ability -- White Americans'
penchant for compartmentalizing and rationalizing when it comes to
issues of race -- that has made it possible for a president as inept and
racist as Donald Trump to have any chance of being re-elected.
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