“This is where we are,” summarized Seth Meyers in A Closer Look. “A president who dispatches the secret police to rally dissidents and refuses to accept the outcome of the democratic elections.” To be fair to Donald Trump, he technically He has not refused to accept the result of the …
Read More »Reversals of Trump’s pandemic betray anxiety over November election hopes
Trump suggested Monday that “many people say” that wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the disease is patriotic, in a tweet that uses ambiguous language that hinted at his discomfort at the reversal. The move reluctantly followed weeks after the President politicized and undermined government advice on facial …
Read More »Trump calls Fauci “a little alarmist” as coronavirus cases rise
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Trump also defended his relationship with Fauci, who has been in the spotlight in recent days after a series of comments by the president and White House measures raised questions about the Fauci’s position with the administration in the midst of the crisis. …
Read More »More than half of US states have state-level mask mandates
With Governor Asa Hutchinson’s Arkansas state mask mandate effective Monday, more than half of the United States now has state mask mandates to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, an analysis of state policies shows. from CNBC. Twenty-eight states have statewide orders that require facial coatings in public. The …
Read More »Contradicting Trump, the North Carolina governor says he never demanded a ’10 people ‘convention limit in the arena
Cooper says he never said that. “That is wrong,” Cooper spokesman Ford Porter told CNN in an email Monday, when asked about Trump’s claim. “The Governor and state health officials worked with the RNC to celebrate their convention safely and requested written plans to keep attendees safe. Instead, beginning on …
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