The night of Trump’s presidential
victory in November 2016, Roth, then part of Twitter’s design team
working on its privacy protections, tweeted, “I’m just saying, we fly
over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason.” On
Jan. 22, 2017, the day after the first Women’s March and two days after
Trump’s inauguration, Roth tweeted that there were Nazis in the White
House.
Roth, who is Jewish, has led efforts to
address the recent surge of anti-Semitic harassment on Twitter. He said
in 2018 that a focus was on bot networks spreading anti-Semitism.
Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein were encouraged by the FBI’s “sting” to travel to New Jersey to use violence, only if needed, to induce a fictional husband to authorize a Jewish divorce for a female FBI agent who had been trained to simulate an “agunah.”
Rabbis Mendel Epstein and Jay Goldstein (aged 74 and 66) are now at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., under 10-year and eight-year jail terms imposed after the FBI perpetrated against them the same, if not more scandalous, injustice that it recently inflicted on Flynn. The rabbis were fooled by a meticulously orchestrated theatrical performance into believing that they would free a “chained woman” (agunah) with a trip to a New Jersey warehouse in October 2013. Because violence was a possibility (and was conjectured by Rabbi Epstein), Orthodox Jewish men recruited to assist in the performance of a religiously mandated duty were arrested and charged while they waited for the arrival of a fictional husband. According to the FBI’s script, the husband had fled to South America without giving his Orthodox Jewish wife a get, a religious divorce.
The FBI made these "saintlty" men scheme to commit violence on their fellow Jews! a new definition of chutzpa. The old one was a child who kills his parents asking for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan! or Dershowitz' clalim that since politicians are motivated to act for the public good - they can not be held accountable for such crimes
Michael J. Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North
Carolina who specializes in conflicts between Congress and the
President, disputed another aspect of Dershowitz’s claim. “Professor
Dershowitz made what I think was a very bizarre argument about if a
president believes something’s in his purse — if he believes that what
he’s doing is in the nation's best interest — he apparently can do
anything he wants, and that strikes me as completely wrong,” Gerhardt
said. I
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Obama played 98 rounds of golf through
this point in his presidency, according to data provided to CNN by Mark
Knoller, a veteran CBS News White House correspondent who is known for tracking presidential activities. By contrast, Knoller said, Trump has spent all or part of 248 days at a golf course.
"I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." --Donald J. Trump, August, 2016
Our President made a promise to
the American people. Here we track his fulfillment of that promise. You
can view our full list of Trump's golf outings here, and see this explanation for more information. Or just watch this video to hear it straight from the President himself.
Trump levied frequent criticism of Barack Obama’s regular golf outings when he was president.
“Can you believe that with all of the problems and difficulties
facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than
Carter,” Trump tweeted in October 2014 during the Ebola epidemic in West
Africa, comparing Obama to former President Jimmy Carter.
Late Sunday night, Trump took
to Twitter to defend his golf outings while firing back at Biden and
lashing out at former President Barack Obama.
"Sleepy Joe's representatives
have just put out an ad saying that I went to play golf (exercise)
today. They think I should stay in the White House at all times," Trump
tweeted.
The President continued, "What they didn't
say is that it's the first time I've played golf in almost 3 months,
that Biden was constantly vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals
with other countries, & that Barack was always playing golf, doing
much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii -
Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the gruesome death of a
great young man by ISIS!"
The Chinese researcher known as the “bat woman” warns that the deadly
coronavirus the world is battling now is “just the tip of the iceberg”
in terms of what humans could face without a global effort to prevent
similar infectious-disease outbreaks.
“If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next
infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these
unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early
warnings,” Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese scientist specializing in viral
transmissions from bats, told CGTN in an interview that aired Monday.
“If we don’t study [the viruses], there will possibly be another
outbreak,” warned Shi, dubbed the “bat woman” by the press because of
her research involving those flying mammals.
When I became a baal t’shuva 37 years ago, I benefited
greatly by studying the writings of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsh,
especially his Commentary on the Torah and his Commentary on the Book of
Psalms. In the year 1836, he wrote in his book, “Nineteen Letters” that
the mission of Am Yisrael, the Jewish people, in the Exile was to be a
light to the nations.
With the Festival of Shavuot approaching, I asked a group of
influential Rabbis in Israel if, after the establishment of the State of
Israel, the Jews in the Diaspora still had the same mission?
A White House letter issued in response to concerns from a prominent
Republican senator does little to explain the decision-making behind
Trump’s recent upheaval of the inspector general community. It is
unlikely to quell outrage from Democrats and good-government groups who
fear the president is moving to dismantle a post-Watergate network of
watchdogs meant to root out corruption, fraud and other problems inside
federal agencies.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa — a longtime, self-appointed
defender of inspectors general and congressional oversight — requested
that the White House explain the basis for the firings in April and May
of the inspectors general for the intelligence community and the US
State Department.
The response Tuesday from White House counsel Pat Cipollone does not
provide those details, instead making the points that Trump has the
authority to remove inspectors general, that he appropriately alerted
Congress and that he selected qualified officials as replacements.
A BBC team tracking coronavirus misinformation has found
links to assaults, arsons and deaths. And experts say the potential for
indirect harm caused by rumours, conspiracy theories and bad health
information could be much bigger.
At a Rose Garden news conference on healthcare on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Trump was asked if he had seen the widower's letter.
"Yeah, I have," he said. "I'm sure that ultimately they want to get to the bottom of it and it's a very serious situation."
He added: "It's a very suspicious thing and I hope somebody gets to the bottom of it. It would be a very good thing.
"As you know there's no statute of limitations."
White
House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said earlier on Tuesday when asked
about Mr Klausutis' appeal: "I don't know if [Mr Trump] has seen the
letter, but I do know that our hearts are with Lori's family at this
time."
For the first time, Twitter called tweets from Donald Trump "potentially
misleading" — a decision that prompted the president to accuse the
social media platform of election meddling.
On Tuesday, Twitter
highlighted two of Trump's tweets that falsely claimed mail-in ballots
would lead to widespread voter fraud, appending a message the company has introduced to combat misinformation and disputed or unverified claims.
"Get the facts about mail-in ballots," read the message beneath each tweet. It linked to a curated fact-check page the platform had created filled with further links and summaries of news articles debunking the assertion.
Twitter said the move was aimed at
providing "context" around Trump's remarks. But Twitter's unprecedented
decision is likely to raise further questions
about its willingness to consistently apply the label to other Trump
tweets that have been deemed misleading by third parties, particularly
as the president has lobbed baseless allegations against former Rep. Joe
Scarborough regarding the death of a congressional staffer years ago.
Shortly after the labels were applied, Trump took to Twitter to claim the company "is interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election" and "stifling FREE SPEECH." He added that he "will not allow it to happen!"
Twitter's actions quickly led to criticism from some of its users,
however, who said the measures did not go far enough. Some faulted
Twitter for not explicitly saying in the label that Trump's tweets
contained false information; other users said the company should have
used a larger font size.
The municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai (BMC) has decided to roll
out a seven-week-long course of chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine
(HCQ) mass community prophylaxis for the people living in slums [7].
The decision is apparently backed by the announcement of the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR) dated 22nd of March, for the
prophylaxis of asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in the care of
suspected or confirmed cases of covid-19 and asymptomatic household
contacts of confirmed cases [8].
This is a baffling decision for while some of the studies suggest
these antimalarial drugs may be effective [9–12] as well as safe
[13,14], there are also concerns [15,16] that the evidence is not robust
and adverse effects will be likely if the drugs are rolled out
indiscriminately for mass prophylaxis, without rigorous monitoring [17].
Contradictory statements have been issued about ongoing studies and
trials for CQ and HCQ prophylaxis in India [15] and concern expressed
about promoting its use as a prophylactic therapy on the basis of
insufficient evidence [17]. Muddled and contradictory messages about the
benefits and risk of using antimalarials for mass prophylaxis to the
marginalised communities in the slums are fuelling confusion and
mistrust.
We read with interest the Correspondence from Sahaj Rathi and colleagues1
on hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis for COVID-19 contacts in India. The
authors see the decision by the Indian Council of Medical Research,
under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to recommend
chemoprophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine in select groups of contacts at
high risk as an abandonment of scientific reasoning in desperate times.
We present our counterview on this issue.
The criticisms made by Rathi and
colleagues overlook the fact that prophylactic hydroxychloroquine would
be targeted to individuals at high risk rather than the general
population. Projection of adverse events to the population level causes
unjustified alarm. The advisory from the Indian Council of Medical
Research includes a section of key considerations that address all such
concerns, which have been ignored by Rathi and colleagues. In addition,
the argument that there will be a shortage of the drug is not tenable.
Production has been ramped up and the Government of India is supplying
hydroxychloroquine to more than 50 countries, which has received
widespread appreciation.
המאבק וההוקעה של הרב ברלנד נמשך. הערב מצרף הדיין המפורסם הגר"מ שפרן את
חתימת ידו למכתב הדיינים משלושה בתי דין נגד הרב ברלנד ומוסיף כי הוא בא
לחזק את דבריהם | לצד זאת, מערכת 'קול הלשון' הסירה את כל שיעוריו של הרב
ברלנד ותלמידיו משחר ההיסטוריה
In general, Twitter has taken a hands-off approach to political
leaders, contending that publishing controversial tweets from
politicians helps hold them accountable and encourages discussion. It
modified those rules last year to say that world leaders “aren’t
entirely” above the rules and some tweets violating its policy could be
slapped with warning labels.
The husband of a woman whose 2001 death Donald Trump
has repeatedly used for a political smear has demanded that Twitter
take down tweets in which the president spreads the “horrifying” lie
that the woman was murdered.
In a letter to Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey published on Tuesday by the New York Times, Timothy Klausutis made a heartfelt plea: “Please delete those tweets … My wife deserves better.”
Trump has spread the pernicious lie about the death of Lori Klausutis
as a means of attacking a television host, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC.
With his wife, Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough frequently criticizes Trump
on the Morning Joe program. Trump has also attacked Brzezinski in brutally personal terms.
But in a statement on Tuesday morning, a spokesperson said the company would not remove the president’s tweets.
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Twitter says it’s “deeply sorry” about President Donald Trump’s
tweets suggesting that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough murdered a former
staffer — but is not removing the president’s messages.
The husband of the woman who died accidentally in a district
office of then–Republican Rep. Scarborough two decades ago is demanding
that Twitter remove Trump’s tweets.
“My request is simple: Please delete these tweets,” wrote Timothy Klausutis to Twitter
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Twitter’s policy carve-out for world leaders
is facing another test with President Donald Trump’s latest tweets
resurrecting baseless claims that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough should be
investigated for the death of his former staffer.
Earlier this
month, Trump tweeted questions about when an investigation would be
opened into the “Cold Case” of “Psycho Joe Scarborough.” The unfounded
accusation refers to the death in 2001 of Lori Klausutis, who was
working for Scarborough when he was a Republican congressman for
Florida. At the time, the medical examiner concluded Klausutis, 28, had
fainted due to an undiagnosed heart condition and hit her head on the
way down, finding no evidence of foul play. Scarborough was in
Washington, D.C., when Klausutis died in his district office in Fort
Walton Beach, Florida.
Trump’s
tweets revived a baseless theory that Scarborough was allegedly
involved in Klausutis’ death. On Thursday, her widower, Timothy
Klausutis, wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey requesting the company
delete Trump’s tweets referencing those claims.
Twitter is not immediately removing President Donald Trump’s tweets about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough, even though her widower asked the platform’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, to remove them.
Timothy Klausutis, the husband of Lori Klausutis, wrote in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week, “My request is simple: Please delete these tweets.”
The widower of Lori Klausutis, an aide to Joe Scarborough when he was a
member of Congress who died in 2001, called on Twitter to take down
President Trump’s tweets baselessly accusing the MSNBC host of murdering
her.
A former student at Baltimore
yeshiva Ner Yisrael rammed his car into the vehicle of a staff member
and then attempted to run over the yeshiva principal walking nearby,
barely missing him.
President
Donald Trump's disapproval rating has continued to climb this month as
coronavirus deaths have neared 100,000 in the U.S., according to new
data. The FiveThirtyEight approval rating tracker found that
Trump's average disapproval rating stood at 53.5 percent on
Monday—putting it at its highest level since mid-January. By
comparison, the president's average approval rating slumped to 42.7
percent—a little more than three points down on his post-acquittal peak
last month.
Court rules Malka
Leifer, alleged sexual abuser from Melbourne, has been simulating mental
illness and is fit to be tried; ruling was made after Leifer's lawyers
contested experts who deemed her fit for trial back in January
Judge says former school principal feigned mental
illness to avoid facing 74 counts of child sex abuse in Australia;
defense plans appeal after July 20 extradition hearing
In a major ruling, the Jerusalem District Court has determined that
alleged serial pedophile Malka Leifer is mentally fit for extradition to
Australia to stand trial on charges of 74 counts of child sex abuse.
The decision handed down by Judge Chana Miriam Lomp to reject
Leifer’s claims that she was unfit to stand trial seemingly caps a
years-long struggle by Leifer’s alleged victims and Australian
authorities to see her returned to face justice.
“This abusive woman has been
exploiting Israeli courts for 6 years! Intentionally creating obstacles,
endless vexatious arguments – only lengthening our ongoing trauma!”
said one of Leifer’s alleged victims, Dassi Erlich, in a statement
immediately after the ruling. “Too many emotions to process!!! This is
huge!”
By February 25,
the World Health Organization said the virus had already killed
thousands in China and was spreading through northern Italy, but at the
time there were just 13 confirmed cases and no deaths in the UK. While
the government ordered hospitals to prepare for an influx of patients,
its advice to some of the country's most vulnerable people -- elderly
residents of care or nursing homes -- was that they were "very unlikely" to be infected.
That
guidance would remain in place over the next two-and-a-half weeks, as
the number of coronavirus cases in the UK exploded. By the time the
advice was withdrawn on March 13 and replaced with new guidance, there were 594 confirmed cases, and it was too late.
Data published on LTCcovid shows that more than half of all coronavirus deaths
in nations including Belgium, France, Ireland, Canada and Norway
occurred in care homes or among care home residents in all settings. In
the US, data collated by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
from 35 states and included in the LSE report showed that care home
residents accounted for 30,130, or at least 34.6%, of the more than
87,000 coronavirus deaths recorded as of May 15. Care home residents
are also overrepresented in some countries with relatively few deaths,
accounting for 26 out of the first 99 deaths documented in Australia,
or more than a quarter of all fatalities through May 18.
Sweden
has repeatedly defended its controversial decision to remain relatively
permissive in its restrictions on movement, but Health Minister Lena
Hallengren admitted a "big failure" to protect the elderly and said care
homes were now of the utmost importance, according to Swedish media.
There had been 1,661 coronavirus deaths among care home residents out
of 3,395 total coronavirus deaths in Sweden by May 14, or 49%, according
to LTCcovid's report.
Hong Kong says it has not had a single
infection in a care home, and only four deaths and just over 1,000 cases
in total. In Singapore, just two of 18 deaths have taken place among
care home residents.
"There's been
a lot of focus in hospitals and focus on community transmission, but
not in care homes. And I think that reflects the low status that the
care sector has in many countries," said Comas-Herrera.
The
authors of the JAMA report on Seattle write that: "Although many prefer
not to think about nursing homes, they are a critical safety net for
frail older adults and part of the fabric of our society."
The deep inequality in Peru is one
reason, according to Dr. Elmer Huerta, a Peruvian doctor and contributor
to CNN en Español. "What I have learned is that this virus lays bare
the socio-economic conditions of a place," he said.
Many of Peru's poor have no choice but to venture outside their homes for work, food or even banking transactions.
"You're supposed to avoid human contact in a society where one can't stay at home," Huerta said.
People have also ended up crowding at banks as they attempted to access coronavirus relief funds.
The
government's stimulus package to help millions of Peru's most
vulnerable families was a good idea, but its distribution was poorly
designed, said Kristian Lopez Vargas, a Peruvian economist and assistant
professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
COVID-19 has given ventilators an undeservedly bad reputation, says Dr. Colin Cooke, an associate professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Michigan.
"It's
always disheartening to know that some people are out there saying if
you end up on a ventilator it's a death sentence, which is not what we
are experiencing — and I don't think it's what the data are showing,"
Cooke says.
Early reports
from China, the United Kingdom and Seattle found mortality rates as
high as 90% among patients on ventilators. And more recently, a study of some New York hospitals seemed to show a mortality rate of 88%.
But
Cooke and others say the New York figure was misleading because the
analysis included only patients who had either died or been discharged.
"So folks who were actually in the midst of fighting their illness were
not being included in the statistic of patients who were still alive,"
he says.
About
a quarter of coronavirus patients who needed ventilators to help them
breathe died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study of New
York's largest health system showed.
It found that, overall, about 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 25% of those placed on ventilators
died. A ventilator is a device that forces air into the lungs of
patients who cannot breathe on their own because of severe pneumonia or
acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Other, smaller reports have indicated that patients who need ventilation are unlikely to survive.
Yet
despite, and perhaps because of, his earlier cavalier attitude, Trump
spent the long holiday weekend bemoaning everything but the tragic roll
call of death -- while also finding time to claim he got "great reviews" for handling the crisis.
And he indulged his preoccupations on
his tax returns, Hillary Clinton, Fox News, slanders against MSNBC host
Joe Scarborough, the Russia investigation, Joe Biden's mental health, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
mail-in voting in November and highlighted dangerous and unproven
Covid-19 therapies promoted on conservative media he has tested himself.
After three years of Trump deliberately
trampling the normal codes of presidential behavior -- partly to show
supporters he remains an anti-elite outsider, none of this is
surprising.
But that doesn't mean
it isn't jarring, as the most wrenching moment so far approaches in the
nation's battle against a pandemic that while ebbing in terms of total
deaths is trending up in 18 states, is steady in 22 and easing in 10
more. More than 98,000 people in the US
have now died from the coronavirus and more than 1.6 million have been
infected. More than 30 million Americans have lost their jobs and the
unemployment rate is approaching Great Depression levels.
There was little evidence of a deeper
meaning to his presidency at this stage than personal and political
grievances. Also missing is a more sweeping policy framework for a
potential second Trump term. And other than a relentless push to support
an aggressive opening of the country, for instance in a new demand for
schools to open, Trump seems far less interested in how the task can be
accomplished safely -- other than retweeting CDC hand washing advice --
than his boiling political feuds.
A group of about a hundred Hasidic men and boys milled about on a
dark street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park, a gleam of fire
in the distance. Women watched from balconies above the street at the
crowd that had gathered — in violation of New York City’s
social-distancing guidelines — to celebrate the minor Jewish holiday Lag
B’Omer.
Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider who is himself Hasidic
and lives in the neighborhood, was passing the crowd on his way home
when a man recognized him — and started screaming “Muser, muser!” Traitor.
Since the start of the pandemic, Kornbluh has been tweeting to his
17,000 followers about coronavirus developments in Boro Park, and
reporting violations when necessary — even as he himself was battling
the virus at home.
A widely shared conspiracy theory on Facebook alleges that Dr.
Anthony Fauci is knowingly advocating against a treatment for the novel
coronavirus.
First: The article relies on a 2005 study
about the effect of chloroquine on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome,
more commonly called SARS. Chloroquine is chemically similar to
hydroxychloroquine, but it is a different drug and is primarily used to treat malaria. Both drugs pose risks for people with heart problems.
The 2005 study found that chloroquine — not hydroxychloroquine — was
"effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV," the
official name for SARS. The research was conducted in "cell culture
conditions," meaning the drug was not administered to actual SARS
patients. The authors wrote that more research was needed on how the
drug interacts with SARS in animal test subjects.
Racks of breezy spring maxi-dresses and colorful long-sleeve tops
hang inside Sareka on Saddle, freshly unwrapped and never tried on. The
women’s modest clothing shop has been shuttered since March, when the
state mandated all non-essential businesses closed to help stem the
spread of COVID-19.
Now, nearly three months later, Deena Bechhofer and her parents
are beginning to worry. They jointly own the shop in Airmont, adjacent
to Monsey, New York, a heavily ultra-Orthodox area. If they don’t start
selling the inventory it will mean a significant loss next quarter.
The virus has ravaged nursing homes
across Europe and the United States. But the death toll in British homes
— 14,000, official figures say, with thousands more dying as an
indirect result of the virus — is becoming a defining scandal of the
pandemic for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Orange County officials say they ordered
a Kiryas Joel school to close on Thursday after discovering “hundreds”
of boys in the building in violation of a state mandate in March that
closed all schools in New York and that remains in effect.
The
county Health Department served the cease-and-desist order after
officials visited the school one day earlier, accompanied by state
troopers, and “found what appeared to be hundreds of students inside,
not wearing personal protective equipment, not social distancing, and
plainly in violation of the Governor’s Executive Orders,” the county
announced in a statement.
The school is part of the
United Talmudical Academy, the largest of three Hasidic school systems
serving roughly 14,500 children in and around Kiryas Joel.
The
World Health Organization announced Monday that it was pausing an
ongoing trial of how hydroxychloroquine impacts hospitalized COVID-19
patients over safety concerns of the anti-malaria drug—medicine that
President Donald Trump said he was taking for at least two weeks. A
"temporary pause" of the WHO's hydroxychloroquine trial was instituted
while "safety data is reviewed," said WHO Director General Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The trial halt comes the day after Trump revealed in an interview
with Sinclair Broadcasting that he was no longer taking the unproven
coronavirus treatment and prevention method that health experts and
officials—including within the Trump administration—have warned not to
take outside hospital or clinical trial settings because of its
potentially deadly side effects.
