WASHINGTON: Accused of breach of duty for containing the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump White House on Sunday presented another case of Covid-19 + ve from the president’s inner circle in his final weeks in office as more Republican officials acknowledged a legal and political battle lost. to annul the results of the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump himself confirmed that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has been running around the country fighting legal cases challenging election results, had tested positive for Covid-19. “@RudyGiuliani, by far the greatest mayor in New York history, and who has been working tirelessly to expose the most corrupt election (by far!) In US history, has tested positive for the China virus . Improve soon Rudy, we will continue !!! ”
Giuliani said in a separate tweet that “he is receiving a lot of attention and feels good” and that “he is recovering quickly and is up to date with everything. While the country’s elites are receiving good care and morbidity levels are much lower than at the peak of the pandemic, blacks and Hispanics are now known to test positive for Covid three times more than whites. .
Giuliani once appeared on the cover of Time as “the mayor of the United States” after 9/11, but has been seen as a caricature in recent months with bizarre appearances replete with false claims of voter fraud that have become a topic. of comedy. The skits include her deranged 100-minute press conference in which her hair dye started dripping down her cheeks and a state legislature hearing involving unreliable witnesses and loud farts.
The abandon with which Giuliani toured the country, for the most part without a mask, arguing the Trump case, has now raised questions about whether he himself was a “super-spreader” for Covid. The Arizona state legislature closed for two weeks due to an “abundance of caution” after meeting with Giuliani during an 11-hour session during which he outlined claims about voter fraud that have been largely discredited, including by officials. republicans. and lately, even by people in the president’s inner circle.
They now include Attorney General Bill Barr, who is said to be about to resign or be fired after he said last week that the Justice Department did not uncover any widespread voter fraud during the election. “There was a claim that it would be a systemic fraud and it would be the claim that the machines were essentially programmed to skew the election results. And DHS and DOJ have investigated that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to corroborate that. . “Barr told the Associated Press, referring to the allegations against Dominion and other voting software used in the 2020 elections.
On the other hand, former Trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway, also acknowledged that Biden won the election and that it was time for the United States to move on. “The president wants to exhaust all his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that, and that is their right,” Conway said in an interview with a news website. “If you look at the vote totals in the Electoral College tally, it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail. I assume voters will certify it and it will be official. We as a nation will move forward, because we always do. ”
The latest setback for Trump came even as the pandemic continued to infect as many as 200,000 people each day in the U.S. The country recorded nearly a million cases in just five days last week, and is on track to surpass the milestone mark. 15 million. The first million cases took almost a month after the pandemic was first reported in early 2020. According to CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Covid 19 has now overtaken cancer and heart disease like leading cause of death in the US, although many deaths are due to comorbidity factors.
The raging pandemic continues to sow confusion and anger across the country, with one section believing that life should continue as normally as possible for economic reasons and another believing that it is important to bend over to flatten the curve.
Even cities, which are mostly Democratic strongholds, are taking divergent approaches. While the Mayor of Los Angeles called Covid “the greatest threat to life” the city has faced in forcing the city to close to the wrath of commercial establishments, New York City has decided to resume face-to-face education for children who follow studies showing that virtual learning is not working well
“Close the bars and keep the schools open,” is the advice of Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
But restaurant and bar owners, already reeling from restrictions, are up in arms despite studies showing changes in behavior (increased public participation) and cold weather are behind the rise in cases of Covid-19. With the arrival of winter, dining out is now difficult and the nation’s $ 900 billion eating out industry, which employs 15 million people, is being crushed.
Trump himself confirmed that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who has been running around the country fighting legal cases challenging election results, had tested positive for Covid-19. “@RudyGiuliani, by far the greatest mayor in New York history, and who has been working tirelessly to expose the most corrupt election (by far!) In US history, has tested positive for the China virus . Improve soon Rudy, we will continue !!! ”
Giuliani said in a separate tweet that “he is receiving a lot of attention and feels good” and that “he is recovering quickly and is up to date with everything. While the country’s elites are receiving good care and morbidity levels are much lower than at the peak of the pandemic, blacks and Hispanics are now known to test positive for Covid three times more than whites. .
Giuliani once appeared on the cover of Time as “the mayor of the United States” after 9/11, but has been seen as a caricature in recent months with bizarre appearances replete with false claims of voter fraud that have become a topic. of comedy. The skits include her deranged 100-minute press conference in which her hair dye started dripping down her cheeks and a state legislature hearing involving unreliable witnesses and loud farts.
The abandon with which Giuliani toured the country, for the most part without a mask, arguing the Trump case, has now raised questions about whether he himself was a “super-spreader” for Covid. The Arizona state legislature closed for two weeks due to an “abundance of caution” after meeting with Giuliani during an 11-hour session during which he outlined claims about voter fraud that have been largely discredited, including by officials. republicans. and lately, even by people in the president’s inner circle.
They now include Attorney General Bill Barr, who is said to be about to resign or be fired after he said last week that the Justice Department did not uncover any widespread voter fraud during the election. “There was a claim that it would be a systemic fraud and it would be the claim that the machines were essentially programmed to skew the election results. And DHS and DOJ have investigated that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to corroborate that. . “Barr told the Associated Press, referring to the allegations against Dominion and other voting software used in the 2020 elections.
On the other hand, former Trump adviser, Kellyanne Conway, also acknowledged that Biden won the election and that it was time for the United States to move on. “The president wants to exhaust all his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that, and that is their right,” Conway said in an interview with a news website. “If you look at the vote totals in the Electoral College tally, it looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail. I assume voters will certify it and it will be official. We as a nation will move forward, because we always do. ”
The latest setback for Trump came even as the pandemic continued to infect as many as 200,000 people each day in the U.S. The country recorded nearly a million cases in just five days last week, and is on track to surpass the milestone mark. 15 million. The first million cases took almost a month after the pandemic was first reported in early 2020. According to CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Covid 19 has now overtaken cancer and heart disease like leading cause of death in the US, although many deaths are due to comorbidity factors.
The raging pandemic continues to sow confusion and anger across the country, with one section believing that life should continue as normally as possible for economic reasons and another believing that it is important to bend over to flatten the curve.
Even cities, which are mostly Democratic strongholds, are taking divergent approaches. While the Mayor of Los Angeles called Covid “the greatest threat to life” the city has faced in forcing the city to close to the wrath of commercial establishments, New York City has decided to resume face-to-face education for children who follow studies showing that virtual learning is not working well
“Close the bars and keep the schools open,” is the advice of Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
But restaurant and bar owners, already reeling from restrictions, are up in arms despite studies showing changes in behavior (increased public participation) and cold weather are behind the rise in cases of Covid-19. With the arrival of winter, dining out is now difficult and the nation’s $ 900 billion eating out industry, which employs 15 million people, is being crushed.
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