Monday, June 22, 2020
Mismanaging the US Economy: How Trump Defeats Himself
https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-covid19-unemployment-2020-presidential-elections/
Whatever Donald Trump’s grievous failings on fact-based, empathetic leadership or his various failures on managing the coronavirus pandemic
and displaying compelling leadership by mitigating racial division, it
is another lost opportunity that is the only one that is truly
surprising.
Trump’s economic short-sightedness
Trump’s failure to craft an effective economic response to the COVID
19 pandemic is extremely short-sighted for a politician who is otherwise
so focused on the importance of a solid economic performance.
But Trump’s real challenge is the separate and far more consequential
erosion of public confidence in his skills as ship’s captain.
The odds that Mr. Trump can convince voters to book tickets on a
second voyage he would command yet again despite careening the previous
one onto the rocks are diminishing
Bolton, in interview, says Democrats 'almost as bad and somewhat equivalent to Trump'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-bolton-interview-democrats-trump-abc
Former national security adviser John Bolton warned in an interview airing Sunday night that President Trump's White House poses a "danger for the republic" -- but cautioned that congressional Democrats were "almost as bad" in their efforts to unseat him from office, which Bolton called a "partisan catfight."
Trump's 'kidding' on testing exposes his negligence as virus spikes
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-testing-tulsa-rally/index.html
Trump has meanwhile also helped to turn the wearing of masks, which is proven to slow transmission of the disease, into a culture war issue. And his rally in Oklahoma on Saturday night was a rebuke of the notion of social distancing -- even though, ironically, his smaller-than-expected
crowd would have made such practices possible. Health experts warn that
spikes in infections in states like Florida and Arizona -- both of
which recorded new highs in daily infection rates over the weekend --
are being driven by the public's waning willingness to avoid large
gatherings and a reticence to wear masks.
The
President's poor example represents a typical effort to divide
Americans and highlight divisions over specific issues for his own
political gain. But in the long run, apart from putting thousands of
lives at risk, it is counterproductive, since a more stringent effort to
avoid rises in infections as states open up would likely promote the
fast economic recovery on which Trump is banking a reelection campaign
that has slipped into trouble in recent weeks.
הגר"ח קנייבסקי: מי שעוטה מסכה מקיים את דברי המשנה ברורה
https://www.kikar.co.il/364651.html
מגיד המישרים הגר"ש לוינשטיין, הסביר בשיעורו השבוע, את דברי מרן הגר"ח קנייבסקי, מדוע יש חובה הלכתית לעטות מסכה ביציאה מהבית, על פי הפסק של החפץ חיים. צפו
מגיד המישרים הגר"ש לוינשטיין, הסביר בשיעורו השבוע, את דברי מרן הגר"ח קנייבסקי, מדוע יש חובה הלכתית לעטות מסכה ביציאה מהבית, על פי הפסק של החפץ חיים. צפו
Sick staff and empty seats: How Trump's triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/trump-campaign-trail-coronavirus/index.html
By the time he strode out to the strains
of Lee Greenwood on Saturday evening into a partially-full Bank of
Oklahoma Center, the event had devolved from a triumphant return to the
campaign trail after a 110-day pandemic-forced absence
into something else altogether. The launch of a new assault on former
Vice President Joe Biden fizzled, replaced by recycled grievances and
race-baiting. The sparse crowd was a reminder that many Americans, even
Trump's supporters, remain cautious of a pandemic that continues to rage
in places like Oklahoma, where cases are spiking, even if Trump is
ready to move on.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Bolton: Dermer said Trump’s Syria withdrawal - ‘worst day’ of Trump admin
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/bolton-dermer-said-trumps-syria-withdrawal-worst-day-of-trump-admin-632262
Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer
told John Bolton that the sudden decision by US President Donald Trump
in December 2018 to withdraw from Syria was the “worst day he had
experienced thus far in the Trump administration.” Threatened and
enticed by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into leaving Syria,
the Trump administration ignored concerns by allies in the Middle East
and Europe, according to the former National Security Advisor’s account.
The Trump decision to withdraw from Syria caught almost everyone by
surprise in December 2018. The war on ISIS was going well and US
partners in eastern Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of
Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters, were stabilizing the areas
liberated from ISIS. Turkey’s threats to invade would overturn
everything the US had accomplished. There were other concerns. The US
maintained a base at Al-Tanf in Syria near the Jordanian border. This
base helped keep the Syrian conflict from harming Jordan. Bolton wanted
to confront Iran and saw the US presence in Syria as part of the “big
picture” of stopping Iran. He writes that if the US abandoned the Kurds
in eastern Syria then former US partners would have to “ally with Assad
against Turkey” or be ethnically cleansed as Turkey had already done to
Kurds in Afrin after a January 2018 invasion. Bolton understood that
eastern Syria was a huge piece of leverage against the Assad regime,
where Turkey’s main interest in Syria wasn’t confronting Iran or ISIS,
but fighting Kurds.
Barr Can’t Fire Berman, Trump Can, Says Obscure DOJ Memo
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/barr-can-t-fire-berman-trump-can-says-justice-department-memo
“Nerds like me will fixate on the technical legal questions here -- can the president fire a judicially appointee U.S. Attorney; and, if so, can he also replace him,” Vladeck said in a tweet on Saturday. “But don’t lose sight of the bigger story here -- this stinks to high heaven. Finding out *why* this happened is the key.”
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/barr-can-t-fire-berman-trump-can-says-justice-department-memo
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Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/barr-can-t-fire-berman-trump-can-says-justice-department-memo
Copyright © BloombergQuint
“Nerds like me will fixate on the technical legal questions here -- can the president fire a judicially appointee U.S. Attorney; and, if so, can he also replace him,” Vladeck said in a tweet on Saturday. “But don’t lose sight of the bigger story here -- this stinks to high heaven. Finding out *why* this happened is the key.”
Trump: Tulsa rally fails to draw expected crowds amid virus fears
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53121488
Mr Trump had boasted earlier this week that almost a million people
had requested tickets for the event at Tulsa's Bank of Oklahoma Center.
But the 19,000-seat arena was far from full and plans for him to address an outside "overflow" area were abandoned.
Trump holds comeback rally, but fails to fill arena after infections among staff
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-comeback-rally-features-empty-seats-staff-infections/
Slamming ‘unhinged left-wing mob’ for ‘trying to vandalize our history,’ US president goes on the offensive as he blames media for low turnout at event that defied health warnings
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