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.
'Wrong!': Trump slams Fauci over testimony on Covid-19 surge
President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday, forcefully rejecting the nation’s top infectious disease expert's testimony on why the U.S. has experienced a renewed surge in coronavirus cases.
“Wrong!” Trump wrote in a retweet of a video where Fauci explained to a House subcommittee that the U.S. has seen more cases than European countries because it only shut down a fraction of its economy amid the pandemic. “We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases,” the president added.
Donald Trump claims Anthony Fauci 'wrong' about cause of Covid-19 surge
Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on his own top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, arguing against the doctor’s claim that high rates of infection in the US stem from a less aggressive reaction to the virus in terms of economic shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.
Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.
Despite some personal turmoil, I remain hopeful for the future for both my family and for our nation. Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence of a pandemic, a financial crisis and the stoking of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people. A groundswell is building that will issue a mandate to reject hate and bigotry and a return to the ideals that set the United States apart from the rest of the world. I look forward to contributing to that effort.
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Rav Kaminetsky thinks Trump presidency increases respect for religion
- “You see the matzav, the anarchy… it’s frightening. G-d has become a dirty word in much of America, religion and religious institutions are their enemy – we need Rachamei Shamayim [heavenly mercy]. If Trump doesn’t win in November, it’s worrisome," he told Mishpacha magazine.
'Nobody likes me,' Trump complains, as even his allies fade
The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp
The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks, the C.D.C. reported. Singing and cheering may have helped spread the virus.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle
As is often the case, Trump dashed off his attention-hoovering tweet at an opportune moment Thursday morning. The worst economic decline ever recorded in U.S. history had just been announced. An aid package to save tens of millions of consumers was stuck in a deadlock. The rampant pandemic at the core of the problem was spiraling further out of control. And his poll numbers were floundering just three months away from the election.
Trump defends tweet on possible Election Day delay at contentious press conference
Claiming at Thursday's White House briefing that the 2020 elections could be "fixed" and "rigged," President Trump again highlighted the risks of nationwide, universal mail-in balloting in stark terms -- including by citing news articles and experts who have raised similar concerns.
Before taking questions, Trump honored former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, noting that "unfortunately, he passed away from a thing called the China virus." Trump also hit Democrats' plans to keep schools and businesses closed, saying they would cause "probably more death" and economic destruction than coronavirus itself.
Within seconds, Trump was pressed on his tweet earlier in the day that suggested the election could be delayed due to mail-in ballot fraud. He responded that delays in mail-in ballot results, including lost ballots, could mean the election winner isn't clear for weeks or even months after Election Day.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
שיימינג נוסף בחסות בית הדין: נחשף האיש שאחראי לסרבנות הגט של בנו
כבר 15 שנה מעגן איש את אשתו שהפכה לנכה לאחר שלקתה באירוע מוחי. במרכזה של הפרשה הקשה עומד יעקב הופמן, אביו של הבעל, אדם אמיד תושב ארה"ב, שעל פי בית הדין הרבני הוא העומד מאחורי החלטת בנו להתנגד לגירושים. לאחר שצווי עיכוב יציאה מהארץ וקנס בסך כמיליון ש"ח שאושר בבג"ץ לא השפיעו על האב - הוחלט לפרסם את שמו ותמונתו
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky: 'Worrisome' if Trump not elected
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia and member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Agudas Yisroel of America, said the prospect of Trump not winning in the presidential election was "worrisome."