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.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
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.
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