Thursday, October 1, 2020
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Trump's Proud Boys comment at debate sparks pushback, outrage; Tim Scott asks him to clarify
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reaction-trump-proud-boys-comment-presidential-debate
President Trump's reaction to a question about far-right white supremacist groups during Tuesday's first 2020 presidential debate quickly drew reactions ranging from pushback to anger from politicians and pundits, as South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, a fellow Republican, said the president needed to correct his statement.
Proud Boys: who are the far-right group that backs Donald Trump?
During the debate, Trump was asked repeatedly by the moderator, Chris Wallace, to condemn violence by white supremacists and rightwing groups, such as armed militias.
When Trump asked specifically who he should be addressing, Biden prompted him by saying the Proud Boys.
Trump then addressed the Proud Boys, saying: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.”
Members of the group immediately celebrated the president’s comment in posts on social media and rightwing discussion-board platforms such as Telegram and Parler. One Proud Boys group added the phrase “Stand Back, Stand By” to their logo. Another post was a message to Trump: “Standing down and standing by sir.”
The First 2020 Presidential Debate Was Nasty, Brutish and Long
https://time.com/5894588/presidential-debate-analysis-chaos/
It did not take long for the first presidential debate of the 2020 general election to spiral totally out of control. President Donald Trump simply would not stop talking—badgering, heckling, taunting and sniping at both his opponent and the moderator. Finally, Joe Biden could only blurt, “Man, would you shut up?”
Trump, of course, did nothing of the sort.
It was, in a way, a perfect metaphor for the Trump presidency: two professionals sighed and remonstrated and strained to enforce the rules, while Trump gleefully ignored them and refused to back down, putting on a show of dominance and creating a fact-free haze that made substance hard to discern. It wasn’t pretty, but had you landed fresh from Mars knowing nothing about American politics—lucky you!—you would have gotten an accurate sense of both candidates’ dispositions, if not their policy positions.
“That is simply not true,” Biden kept
insisting, as Trump called him an idiot, smeared his family and
concocted wild conspiracy theories about everything from the Obama
administration to the upcoming election. “It’s been totally
discredited.” Yet neither the Democratic nominee nor Wallace managed to
wrest back control of the proceedings, and Biden struggled to land sharp
attacks on Trump’s weaknesses.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-september-30-2020/
Israel’s virus czar Ronni Gamzu tells cabinet ministers that Haredi Israelis are 2.5 times more likely to test positive for the coronavirus, indicating an incredibly high rate of infection in their communities.
Some 28.6 percent of virus tests administered in Haredi communities returned a positive answer in recent days, he tells the coronavirus cabinet, compared to 13.4% in Arab communities and 11.9% in the rest of the country.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Project Veritas alleges election fraud, evidence scant
https://www.fox9.com/news/project-veritas-alleges-election-fraud-evidence-scant
James O’Keefe, of the conservative propaganda operation Project Veritas, was back in the public spotlight and once again making an incendiary allegation: There was major election fraud in Minneapolis.
One problem: The hard evidence of cash in exchange for votes was
lacking, and some of the other conduct of collecting ballots might be
perfectly legal.