Новости за 10.05.2020

President Donald Trump proclaimed last year that Article II in the Constitution gives him absolute power. “I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he claimed. Writing for the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus noted that Trump’s team has decided they won’t defend federal laws in court if they don’t like the laws, […]

According to a report in Washington Post, news that two White House staffers tested positive for the coronavirus has “rattled” staffers in the administration and prompted Donald Trump’s campaign advisors to adjust their schedule for major events designed to get him re-elected in November. On Friday it was announced that one of the president’s personal […]

President Donald Trump reportedly cancelled a CDC proposal to move forward with mitigation efforts in late February, weeks before Americans were told they would have to shelter ini their homes due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a column for Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson names four men who he says are most to blame for a […]

Medicare for All advocates on Sunday pointed to the latest study on the looming health insurance crisis already becoming apparent amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to job losses for more than 33 million people in the past two months. Because health insurance is tied to employment for about half the country—160 million people—as […]

One thing that unites the MAGA-hat cosplay fascists of the anti-lockdown “movement” and the Karens and Chads of the hashtag-resistance is the shared conviction that the United States of America is special and that nothing that happens here has much relationship to anything that happens anywhere else. OK, we might hear some comparisons to Germany […]

According to a report in the Washington Post, Republican campaign analysts are watching any chance of the party holding its majority in the Senate slipping away as they shoulder part of the blame for Donald Trump’s coronavirus pandemic that has also crippled the economy. The Post reports, “In recent weeks, GOP senators have been forced […]

During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, radio personality and commentator Charlamagne tha God briefly stunned host Alex Witt by first saying he wished shooting victim Ahmaud Arbery had been armed to defend himself before being gunned down by two white Georgia men — then advised African-Americans to legally purchase a weapon so […]

Dartmouth Professor Brendan Nyhan suggested that Fox News hosts broadcasting from their home studios are hypocrites if they are also urging viewers to go back to work. “I wonder what you make of Fox News stars who are out there encouraging people resume their normal lives, get back to work while broadcasting from their homes, […]

According to a report from Politico, public health officials are horrified that Donald Trump is shoving Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx to the sidelines while the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill Americans at an alarming pace. And all because he wants to move on to his economic message in an effort to stop […]

In a biting editorial commentary by “AM Joy” host Joy Reid, a columnist of the conservative National Review Online was dragged over the coals for a series of dismissive columns about former First Lady Michell Obama where he reduced her to nothing more than a woman who happened to be married to a famous man. […]

The Trump administration is not only ignoring CDC and medical experts’ guidelines it is actively working to make Americans less safe. On Friday Vice President Mike Pence flew aboard Air Force Two to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet with food industry CEOs. His flight was delayed after his press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for coronavirus. Several […]

Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company up on its offer to supply millions of N95 respirators to the government early on in the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Post reported that federal scientist Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint […]

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett revealed on Sunday that he fears going to work in the White House because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Testing is a key component of it, but even testing doesn’t remove all risks,” Hassett told CBS host Margaret Brennan. “The interesting or sad thing about my dear colleague who […]

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Am Joy” on Sunday morning, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks called out Attorney General Bill Barr for intervening in the court case of former Donald Trump adviser Michael Flynn, saying it appears to her to be a cover-up because Flynn might have had more to offer on Russian involvement in the administration […]

Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt argued on Sunday that churches in Michigan should reopen to celebrate Mother’s Days even though the state is still under stay-at-home orders due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Earhardt spoke to her co-hosts from her New York home where she is locked down with her family. “We’re talking about churches […]

According to a report from Politico recently installed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is tiptoeing through a minefield as he works to serve not only at the pleasure of Donald Trump but also Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner who also happens to be the president’s son-in-law. Meadows, as the report notes, already […]

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday insisted that his “rosy” projections about the economy have nothing to do with the November election. “I think it’s important that we face what the real numbers are,” Fox News host Chris Wallace told Mnuchin. “The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the real number, which includes people who are […]

Donald Trump was off and running on Twitter on Sunday morning after a night of the president harping on the Russia investigation, and kicked off the day by re-tweeting an announcement that his Los Angeles golf course is re-opening from his official White House Twitter account. As commenters were quick to point out, the coronavirus […]

Trump’s China policy has been Janus: one face for China, the other for the rest of the world. Last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump proclaimed that he and China’s Xi Jinping “love each other.” Also in January, Trump praised China for its “efforts and transparency” on coronavirus, and in February, commenting […]

China on Sunday reported the first case of coronavirus in over a month in Wuhan, the city where the outbreak first started in December last year. China’s National Health Commission also reported the first double-digit increase in countrywide cases in nearly 10 days, saying 14 new infections had been confirmed. Two of the cases were […]

We are in the midst of public health crisis unlike any other we have faced in our lifetime, and President Trump has been all over the lot in how to approach the problem. On March 13, he said: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”  On April 13, a month later, he declared: “I have the ultimate authority” […]

The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the most over-analyzed events in American history, so much so that it is hard to believe there is anything new to learn about the most nerve-wracking confrontation of the Cold War. Yet Americans both then and now were unaware of how close history came to be altered by […]

Reporting on CNN’s “New Day” early Sunday morning, White House correspondent Kristin Holmes said administration staffers are working scared now that higher-ups in Donald Trump’s administration have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. Speaking with hosts Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul, Homes stated that the news that CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Anthony Fauci […]

Ten weeks into the worst crisis in 90 years, the government’s effort to save the economy has been both a spectacular success and a catastrophic failure. The clearest illustration of that came on Friday, when the government reported that 20.5 million people lost their jobs in April. It marked a period of unfathomable pain across […]

NEW YORK — As baseball sits idle, we still don’t know if there will be any MLB season at all, or what it will look like if there is one. The most prevalent scenario is an 82-game schedule with a July 4-5-6 start-up and teams playing in their own ballparks, at first with no fans. […]