Tuesday, July 14, 2020
How did Florida get so badly hit by Covid-19?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53357742
"There's a lot of misinformation all over the web about the
seriousness of this outbreak," says Dr Aileen Marty, a Florida
International University infectious disease expert who has been working
with state officials on the pandemic response. She says this is partly
why Florida is now among the worst-hit regions.
"Since we don't have a consistent message in our state, let alone our country, there's even more confusion."
The Republican governor has also downplayed the severity of Florida's
outbreak by pointing to the increase in testing and younger Floridians
being infected - particularly those aged 25 to 34 - as well as a lower
death rate.
"Generally, deaths follow about two weeks behind when
we get the positive tests," Dr Marty explains. She pushes back against
the notion that America is doing well with deaths from this virus,
saying even looking at just the raw data shows the nationwide rate -
around 5.6% - is concerning.
"That's considering the fact that
we're better at it now than we were," she adds. "We're getting people in
beds sooner, moving people to ICUs sooner."
Testing, despite
delays in getting results, has also aided mitigation. Medication is
helping, though Florida has run out of the Remdesivir antiviral drug and
is awaiting new shipments.
"I just don't understand people who say our death rate is great," Dr Marty says.
The median age of infections in Miami-Dade County, the state's most
populous region, is 40. In Tallahassee, the median recently hit a low of
25 years old.
Monday, July 13, 2020
Los Angeles, San Diego schools to resume online classes in fall due to jump in coronavirus cases
https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-san-diego-schools-wont-reopen
California's two largest school districts announced Monday that they would not be opening its facilities to students in the fall but will resume classes online.
In a letter to parents, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent
Austin Beutner said the nation’s second-largest school district had
decided to resume online classes due to a resurgence of the novel coronavirus.
“We
made the decision to close school facilities before there was any
occurrence of the virus at our schools, and this proved to be the right
call,” Beutner said. “Science was our guide then, and it will continue
to be. Unfortunately, Covid-19 continues to spread in the Los Angeles
area and the virus is going to impact how we start the new school year.”
Trump Predicts ‘Beginning of the End’ for Fox News
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-predicts-beginning-of-the-end-for-fox-news
President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at Fox News even as the network continued to defend him
at every turn of the ongoing impeachment trial. “Really pathetic how
@FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by loading the airwaves
with Democrats like Chris Van Hollen, the no name Senator from
Maryland,” Trump tweeted, equating political correctness with any
attempt to hear from the “other” side.
“So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews,” he continued. “Only I
know! Chris Wallace and others should be on Fake News CNN or MSDNC.
How’s Shep Smith doing? Watch, this will be the beginning of the end for
Fox, just like the other two which are dying in the ratings. Social
Media is great!”
Judge asks if Trump ally Roger Stone must serve probation after prison sentence commuted
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/judge-asks-if-roger-stones-probation-still-applies-after-trumps-commutation.html
A
federal judge ordered the parties in Roger Stone’s criminal case to
clarify the “scope” of President Donald Trump’s executive action
commuting the prison sentence of his longtime ally.
- U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson asked those parties to address whether Trump’s clemency applies only to Stone’s prison term or also to the two-year probation period included in his sentence.
- Jackson also asked for a copy of Trump’s executive order.
Trump retweets game show host Chuck Woolery’s baseless claim that ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/coronavirus-trump-cites-chuck-woolery-questioning-covid-19-on-twitter.html
Soon after Trump shared the post, the president retweeted another comment by Woolery about the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
“There is so much evidence, yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and it’s overwhelming. BUT NO,” wrote Woolery, whose game show resume also includes acting as the first host of “Wheel of Fortune,” and hosting “Scrabble,” “Greed” and “Lingo.”
President Donald Trump retweeted a post by game show host Chuck Woolery that baselessly claimed “everyone is lying” about the coronavirus pandemic in a possible effort to thwart Trump’s reelection by harming the economy.
The
conservative Woolery, who hosted shows such as “Love Connection,” wrote
on Sunday evening, “The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid
19.”
“Everyone
is lying. The CDC [federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention],
Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to
trust,” Woolery wrote.
Soon after Trump shared the post, the president retweeted another comment by Woolery about the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
“There is so much evidence, yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and it’s overwhelming. BUT NO,” wrote Woolery, whose game show resume also includes acting as the first host of “Wheel of Fortune,” and hosting “Scrabble,” “Greed” and “Lingo.”
Heart scans of Covid-19 patients show range of abnormalities
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/13/heart-scans-of-covid-19-patients-show-range-of-abnormalities
Heart scans of coronavirus patients in hospital have revealed a range
of abnormalities that can disrupt the ability to pump blood and in
severe cases lead to a life-threatening failure in the organ.
Doctors at Edinburgh University examined ultrasound scans known as
echocardiograms from more than 1,200 patients in 69 countries and found
heart problems in 55%, with one in seven exhibiting signs of “severe
abnormalities”.
The scans found damage to the ventricles – the two main chambers of
the heart – in more than a third of the patients, while 3% had
experienced heart attacks and a further 3% had inflamed heart tissue.
The majority had no known heart disease before the scans were done.
French Bus Driver Beaten to Death After Asking Passengers to Wear Face Masks
https://time.com/5866326/french-bus-driver-beaten-masks/
The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for “exemplary punishment” for his killers.
The assault on Philippe Monguillot has scandalized
France. President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday dispatched the interior
minister to meet the driver’s widow after his death was announced
Friday. He had been hospitalized in critical condition after the July 5
attack.
Coronavirus unlikely to be spread by children, research suggests
https://www.pe.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are/
For months, we’ve kept children carefully isolated, pleading with
them to behave, wear masks, wipe their boogers and not hug Gram and
Grandpa. We’ve assumed this new virus acts just like the flu and common
cold — so classrooms full of kids would create one giant cootie colony.
But a growing body of research suggests young children aren’t responsible for most viral transmission. Adults are.
Based on these findings, school-based transmission could be a
manageable problem, particularly for elementary school aged-childrenwho
appear to be at the lowest risk of infection, according to a recent commentary in the journal Pediatrics.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump team's false comfort on schools, virus
https://www.startribune.com/ap-fact-check-trump-team-s-false-comfort-on-schools-virus/571737892/
President Donald Trump's aides are misrepresenting the record on kids and the coronavirus as they push for schools to reopen.
White House
press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday inaccurately characterized
what the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
said on the matter. A day earlier, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos also
was wrong in stating that the research shows there is no danger "in any
way" if kids are in school.
No such conclusion has been reached.
McENANY: "Just last week you heard Dr.
Redfield say that children are not spreading this." — Monday on Fox News
Channel's "Fox and Friends"
THE FACTS: No,
Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, did not say that. He said
officials don't have evidence that children are "driving" infections at
this point. But they have not ruled out that children spread the virus
to adults.
Dr. Deborah
Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said last week the
government doesn't have enough data to show whether and to what degree
kids can infect others.
The bulk of data
has been collected from adults and particularly from those who were
sick, leaving questions about children still unanswered, Birx said. She
said children under 10 are the least tested age group.
The officials did not reach a conclusion that "children are not spreading this." Nor does the evidence prove that they are.
The government has counted tens of thousands
of children who have been infected with the virus and in some cases
hospitalized. Overall, public health officials believe the virus is less
dangerous to children than adults.
Lockdowns go into effect in neighborhoods of 5 cities, as virus hits new high
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lockdowns-go-into-effect-in-neighborhoods-of-5-cities-as-virus-surges/
Lockdowns came into effect at 1 p.m. on Friday in neighborhoods in
five towns and cities hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, a day after
cabinet ministers approved the measure as the number of new cases in
Israel continued to surge.
Parts of Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Lod, Ramle and Kiryat Malachi
became “restricted zones” for seven days. The restrictions will be
lifted at 8 a.m. on July 17.
In Jerusalem, the neighborhoods of Romema, Kiryat Sanz and Matersdorf
— all majority ultra-Orthodox areas — have been closed; in Beit
Shemesh, the areas of Nahala and K’ne Habosem; in Lod, Ganei Ya’ar and
Sach; in Ramle, Amidar Beilav; and in Kiryat Malachi, the Rotner area
and Chabad neighborhood.
Other parts of Lod will be closed for five days.
An Indefensible Commutation
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/an-indefensible-commutation/
Trump has commuted the sentence of
Roger Stone. The timing, late on Friday, suggests internal embarrassment
over the move, and we wish there were more.
The commutation is a move fully within the president’s powers and in
keeping with the long-established pattern of presidents’ pardoning or
commuting the sentences of associates caught up in special-counsel
probes, although usually the associates aren’t as sleazy as Stone. We’re
a long way from George H. W. Bush’s pardoning Cap Weinberger, the great
Reagan-era defense official, who had been indicted for perjury and
obstruction of justice in the Lawrence Walsh investigation.
No one would think of letting Roger Stone anywhere near any serious
responsibility, and even the Trump campaign in 2016 had the sense to
keep him at arm’s length.
There is no doubt, though, that Stone was guilty of perjury and a
laughably ham-handed attempt at witness tampering. He was justly
convicted of these charges and deserved to go to jail; in our system of
justice, self-parody is no defense.
Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly opposed the commutation and was
right to do so. The act of clemency is made worse by the fact that
Stone repeatedly argued that he was owed it for his loyalty to the
president.
Terms of Michael Cohen's return to prison under scrutiny
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/michael-cohen-prison-paperwork-dispute/index.html
After spending the past several weeks on New York's tony Upper East Side,
Michael Cohen has found himself back in federal prison after a dispute
with the government over what his lawyers say were restrictions in
paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book about the
president.
The form
in question, a two-page document titled "Federal Location Monitoring
Program Participant Agreement," had called for Cohen to abstain from
communicating with members of the media — a provision that he had balked
at given the pending release of his tell-all book, and one which his
legal team has claimed is unusual.
Defense
attorneys and legal experts that CNN spoke with Friday said that the
form appeared to be tailored to Cohen, the flamboyant former fixer to
President Donald Trump, whose affinity for the press is well known. Some
called it unfair.
A spokesman for the Administrative
Office of the US Courts, the judiciary agency that oversees the federal
probation system, declined to comment on the specifics of Cohen's case,
but added that no standard probation forms include language related to
media contacts.
Shlach: Repairing the Sin of the Spies
http://www.ravkooktorah.org/SHLACH_65.htm
Rav Kook wrote that even today we still suffer
the consequences of this catastrophic error. The root
cause for the exiles and humiliations of the
Jewish people, throughout the generations, is due to
our failure to correct the sin of the
spies.
To repair this national failure, a teshuvat hamishkal is needed,
a penance commensurate with the sin which
will “balance the scales.” The spies defamed the
Land of Israel, as it says, “They despised
the desirable land” (Psalms 106:24). We must do
the opposite and show our unwavering love for
the Land.
The Sin of the "Spies"
https://www.etzion.org.il/en/sin-spies
According to the
Ramban (13:1 and 13:27) and the Akeidat Yitzchak (77) it appears that
the sin of the spies lay in overstepping the bounds of their authority,
in their transition from being faithful reporters – which was the
mandate given to them - to becoming advisors with their own independent
views and evaluations – which lay outside the bounds of their mission.
Indeed, such a distinction exists in modern intelligence bodies, where
the function of the information gatherers is to report on what they have
seen or heard, and that of the intelligence evaluators is to evaluate
the situation or even to provide advice, on the basis of that
information. In the transition from one function to the other they did
indeed overstep their authority, but ultimately this was no more than a
formal sin. Is this really what constituted the true sin of the spies?
Is Aliyah a Mitzvah?
https://www.ou.org/blog/is-aliyah-a-mitzvah/
Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l (Igros Moshe E.H. 102) discusses whether
there is a mitzvah to make aliyah and why many rabbanim have lived in
the Diaspora. He writes that even according to the opinion of the
Ramban, that there exists a biblical obligation, the nature of this
obligation is different than many other mitzvos. He feels that this
mitzvah is “kiyumis” not “chiyuvis”.
To fully appreciate this distinction, it is necessary to offer an
introduction regarding different types of mitzvos. There exist two types
of mitzvos: 1) “kiyumis”- A mitzvah that is not obligatory, rather if
one fulfills this mitzvah one receives reward (ex. Eating in the Succah
following the first night. For the following meals one does not need to
eat in the Succah, if one were to choose, one can refrain from eating
bread and the like and would not be in violation of any prohibition.
However, if one chooses to eat bread then one must eat it in the succah.
Thus this mitzvah is “optional”.) 2) “Chiyuvis”- A mitzvah that one
must fulfill and is obligatory in nature. (ex. Wearing Tefillin. One
must wear tefillin every day and if one neglects this mitzvah and does
not wear tefillin has done something wrong. Thus this mitzvah is
“obligatory”.)
Now we can understand the ruling of Rav Moshe. He explains that
although there is a mitzvah to live in Israel, however, this mitzvah is
“optional”. Meaning that one is not obligated to move to Israel, rather,
if one lives in Israel he fulfills a mitzvah. Rav Moshe continues, that
because there is no prohibition of living outside of Israel it might be
preferable to do so for the reasons given by Rav Chaim Kohen (namely
that there are many mitzvos and prohibitions that apply specifically to
the Land of Israel and it is difficult to fulfill all of those
obligations.)
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt”l agreed with the premise of Rav Moshe
Feinstein. He also felt that the mitzvah to live in Israel is a mitzvah
“kiyumis” and not “chiyuvis” (oral ruling cited by Rav Hershel Schachter
shlit”a sefer Peninei Harav).
Trump says Fauci 'made a lot of mistakes'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-fauci-made-lot-mistakes-n1233402
President Donald Trump on Thursday publicly criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying that one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts "has made a lot of mistakes."
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump was asked what he makes of hotspots like Texas and Florida and of some of Fauci’s latest comments, though Hannity didn't specify which remarks he was referring to.
White House takes aim at Fauci as he disagrees with Trump on virus
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/fauci-trump-coronavirus/index.html
As coronavirus cases surge in the United States, the White House is taking aim at the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In
a statement Saturday, a White House official told CNN that "several
White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci
has been wrong on things." The official went on to provide a lengthy
list of examples, citing Fauci's comments early in the pandemic and
linking to past interviews.
President Trump has now spent 100 days at his golf clubs since he took office
https://www.fox4now.com/news/national/president-trump-has-now-spent-100-days-at-one-of-his-golf-clubs-since-he-took-office
But the primary criticism has stemmed from how Trump, as a private
citizen, slammed Barack Obama for hitting the links while president.
"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties
facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump
tweeted in 2014. "Worse than Carter."
Norm Eisen, the chief White House ethics lawyer under Obama, called
Trump's 100th day at a golf property as president "an ignominious
anniversary."
Trump Insists Obama Played More Golf as President. The Numbers Say Otherwise.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-falsely-claims-obama-played-more-golf-president.html
President
Donald Trump is apparently none too happy that people are criticizing
him for playing golf as a pandemic is raging in the United States. The
commander in chief took to Twitter Sunday to defend his frequent trips
to the golf course saying that it is the only exercise he gets and that
his predecessor “played more and much longer rounds.” And that was “no problem” but when he decides to play, “Fake News, CNN, and others”
go to great lengths to get a picture and show people how the president
is playing golf. “Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on
the golf course, and also get a ‘tiny’ bit of exercise,” Trump wrote.
That
Trump doesn’t gets any other exercise beyond the golf course may very
well be true. But his claim to play less frequently than his predecessor
just isn’t. Trump went to his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, for the
second time this weekend on Sunday, marking the 276th time he’s visited a golf course as president.
Numbers vary slightly. Mark Knoller of CBS News, for example, specifies
that Trump has made 193 visits to golf courses over at least part of
258 days during his presidency. NBC News, meanwhile, says Trump has spent 269 days at one of his golf properties.
Regardless
of which number you use, though, the conclusion is still the same:
Barack Obama was nowhere near Trump’s levels during the same point of
his presidency. According to Knoller, Obama had played 102 rounds of
golf. CNN says that Trump “has played more than twice as many rounds of golf than former President Barack Obama had at the same point in his presidency.” In his whole first term in office, Obama played 113 rounds of golf, according to Golf Digest. The website Trumpgolfcount.com even has a handy chart
that makes crystal clear that Trump has played more golf than Obama.
It’s difficult to know exactly how many times Trump has actually played
golf at his properties because it’s something the administration doesn’t
usually confirm unless the president is playing with a dignitary or
celebrity. “However, if he’s going to the golf club for about 4-5 hours,
you can be pretty sure he’s playing golf,” notes Golf News Net.
Mary Trump is releasing a book. Michael Cohen is finishing a book. Both are being restricted
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/media/mary-trump-michael-cohen-books-reliable-sources/
Michael Cohen's sudden return to prison
is under scrutiny because his lawyers say the dispute
centered on
"restrictions in paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book
about the president."
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"No standard probation forms include language related to media contacts," CNN's David Shortell and Mark Morales report. But the form presented to Cohen seemed to be tailored specifically to him. CNN has obtained a copy. This has all the appearances of an attempt to stifle Cohen's right to speak freely about his work for President Trump.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Criteria for imposing lockdowns on cities to be published in advance
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283404
PM agrees to demand by Aryeh
Deri to publish guidelines for declaring restricted areas amid reports
of discrimination against haredim.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri demanded at the weekly Cabinet meeting
Sunday that the criteria for the declaration of a neighborhood as a
restricted area be published before areas are closed off so that the
haredi community will not feel that it is being targeted by the
government.
Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted Deri's request and ordered that the
criteria for the closure imposed on each locality be published on the
prime minister's website.
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
A new Gallup poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating at 38%. His disapproval rating stands at 57%.
The average poll similarly shows Trump's approval rating hovering around 40%, while his disapproval rating is above 55%.
What's the point: Trump's approval rating isn't getting any better. In the polls, he is continuing to lose to former Vice President Joe Biden by double-digits. Trump could win a second term, but there is no clear path to doing so.
If gedolim dont follow halacha better to have them become idolators
Berachos 63a-b)
R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated. R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated.
Berachos (63b)Tell also our brethren in the Diaspora [not to listen to him]. If they listen to you, well and good; if not, let them go up to the mountain, let Ahia1 build an altar and let Hananiah play the harp,2 and let them all become renegades and say that they have no portion in the God of Israel’. Straightway all the people broke out into weeping and cried, Heaven forbid, we have a portion in the God of Israel. Why all this to-do? — Because it says, For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.3 We can understand that if he declared clean they should declare unclean, because this would be more stringent. But how was it possible that they should declare clean what he declared unclean, seeing that it has been taught: If a Sage has declared unclean, his colleague is not permitted to declare clean? — They thought proper to act thus so that the people should not be drawn after him.
WHCA president accuses McEnany of 'denying reality' during press briefings
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany may have resumed regularly scheduled press briefings, but ABC News correspondent Jon Karl argued Saturday that she's not conducting them the right way.
Karl,
who leads the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), penned an
op-ed in which he accused McEnany of giving partisan monologues and
"denying reality" during press briefings.
"The job is to inform
the public: to be an intermediary between the president and a press
corps the public relies on for information ... Denying reality and using
the White House podium for purely political purposes is a violation of
public trust," he wrote in The Washington Post.
He
added: "Briefings under the current press secretary rarely last 30
minutes -- which is short by traditional standards -- but routinely
include opening and closing messages that more closely resemble the
monologues of a partisan political talk show than a public official’s
briefing."
Trump’s refusal to appeal to centrists could make Biden president and give Dems Senate majority
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-trump-race-arnon-mishkin
Former Vice President Joe Biden is getting help in his presidential campaign from a surprising source — President Trump.
Rather
than trying to appeal to centrist voters — moderate Republicans,
independents and moderate Democrats — to widen his base of support, Trump is doubling down on his most extreme positions in an effort to boost turnout by his most fervent supporters in November.
In
addition to posing grave risks to the president’s reelection chances,
this unconventional strategy increases the chances Democrats will
capture majority control of the Senate and expand their majority in the
House of Representatives.
Roger Stone: Critics blast Trump for commuting ex-adviser's jail term
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53373128
Mr Biden's spokesman Bill Russo said Mr Trump could not be shamed and could only be stopped at the ballot box.
"President
Trump has once again abused his power, releasing this commutation on a
Friday night, hoping to yet again avoid scrutiny as he lays waste to the
norms and the values that make our country a shining beacon to the rest
of the world," he said.
House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff condemned Mr Trump's clemency.
"With
this commutation," said the top Democratic lawmaker, "Trump makes clear
that there are two systems of justice in America: one for his criminal
friends, and one for everyone else."
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren said it showed Donald Trump was the most corrupt president in history.
Sen. Mitt Romney Calls Trump's Decision to Commute Roger Stone's Sentence 'Historic Corruption'
https://time.com/5865809/mitt-romney-trump-roger-stone/
On Saturday morning, Utah Sen. Mitt
Romney became the first Congressional Republican so far to speak out
against President Donald Trump’s Friday night decision to commute the
sentence of his longtime associate Roger Stone.
Stone had been sentenced to 40 months in prison for multiple felonies
including lying to Congress and attempting to obstruct the Congressional
investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
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