Новости за 19.05.2020

President Donald Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday. During an interview with CNN, Pelosi said that she was concerned about Trump’s health given he’s taking the drug hydroxychloroquine. His age and weight don’t exactly lend themselves to taking a drug that has been proven to […]

During a press conference at the White House this Tuesday, President Trump lashed out at a reporter who questioned him about what his administration’s plans are to get 36 million Americans back to work. “Oh, I think we’ve announced a plan, we’re opening up our country” Trump said before referring to the reporter as “a […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) complained Tuesday that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn isn’t being treated fairly because federal Judge Emmmet Sullivan refused to drop the case after the Department of Justice decided to let Flynn go for lying to the FBI, Politico reported. “As if this debacle needed even more shocking behavior, I understand […]

In a meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump strongly defended his decision to take hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against coronavirus, despite any scientific evidence — and claimed the people who died while taking it were going to die anyway. Many “great studies” back up the use of hydroxychloroquine, said Trump. He contrasted this with the […]

President Donald Trump is absolutely certain U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is not a Russian agent. The President, who referred to Rep. Gabbard as “Kelsey Gabbard,” cited his knowledge of her not being a Russian agent and Green Party head Dr. Jill Stein not being a Russian agent as proof the FBI is made up […]

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s officials declassified the full text of the email former ambassador and national security official Susan Rice sent herself on the day of Trump’s inauguration, according to Politico. But several reporters and commentators said that key elements of the text contradict Trump’s conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama sought to corruptly […]

The U.S. Treasury has announced that it will send out prepaid debit cards for virus relief funds. Showcasing the card at the Tuesday cabinet meaning, Secretary Steve Mnuchin revealed that the treasury card will feature President Donald Trump’s name on it. Trump isn’t paying the funds and they aren’t coming from his bank account, rather […]

Renovation works at Auschwitz have turned up spoons, forks, cobbler’s tools and other objects hidden beneath a chimney flue — some that might have been used to plan escapes, a national fund said Tuesday. The objects, which also include knives, hooks, scissors, pieces of leather and parts of shoes, were found last month in block […]

The pastor of Palermo Bible Family Church in Butte County, California, says he’s not sorry for hosting an in-person church service that exposed 180 people to coronavirus due to an infected parishioner, according to The Sacramento Bee. “May I just say to all of our church, you don’t need to defend us. When Jesus went […]

With the rising scandal over Donald Trump’s mass firing of inspectors general who are threatening to uncover widespread corruption in his administration, the president is clearly desperate for some delicious culture-war bait that will distract cable news pundits and lure his supporters and his critics into pointless arguments. So he coughed up one such juicy nugget on Monday […]

A group of 29 House Democrats said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic shows the nation needs “more testing, not more bombs” as they demanded the leadership of the House Armed Services Committee cut Pentagon spending in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Democrats’ demand comes in a letter spearheaded by Congressional Progressive Caucus […]

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said that his doctor does not recommended that he take hydroxychloroquine even though the president is taking it. “But I would never begrudge any American taking the advice of their physician,” the vice president told Fox News. “So my physician has not recommended that, but I wouldn’t hesitate to […]

During an exchange with reporters this Tuesday, President Trump turned his sights once again to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while lamenting the way he thinks he’s been treated by the “dirty cops” at the FBI. Trump then veered to the “hoax” and “witch hunt” of the recent impeachment proceedings against him. “Despite an illegal witch […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers asked a Jerusalem court on Tuesday for their client to be exempted from attending the start of his impending corruption trial. The request from Netanyahu’s legal team, seen by AFP, comes after the justice ministry objected to the veteran premier missing his first hearing on May 24. Netanyahu’s presence […]

According to a new court filing by Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyers, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. should order Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss the case Flynn has already pleaded guilty to. The Department of Justice decided that it would dismiss the case against Flynn saying that the lies Flynn told weren’t relevant […]

Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, President Donald Trump defended his decision to promote the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine amid the coronavirus pandemic. The president said Monday that he was taking the medication, which he claimed could help people prevent becoming infected with the novel coronavirus. “The FDA warned that hydroxychloroquine could cause serious […]

A video is making the rounds on line showing police officers in Midland, Texas, drawing their guns on a man after they say he failed to stop at a stop sign. They later arrested him for evading arrest. Police can be heard telling 21-year-old Tye Anders to follow their directions while family friends of Anders […]

According to a report from Business Insider, long haul truckers who went for Trump in the 2016 election are quickly turning on him as they have seen their take-home pay collapse while the president has failed to come through on helping them out. Last week the truckers held a protest outside of a White House […]

“We’re in a situation where 35 million Americans have filed for unemployment. You’re in charge of nearly half a trillion dollars… and you are leaving the American people behind.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday accused Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin of looking out for his friends on Wall Street instead of U.S. workers after the former […]

President Donald Trump will be required to wear a mask when he visits Ford’s ventilator factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Thursday. Ford spokesperson Rachel McCleery told Crain’s that Trump will have to follow the same rules as everyone else. “Our policy is that everyone wears PPE to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” McCleery said. “We […]

The Washington Post’s Phil Bump couldn’t help but notice that President Donald Trump’s marriage to Fox News only extends so far as the network’s agreement to push whatever he says as gospel. That conflict came into play Monday, when the president continued to advocate using hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19. It not only doesn’t prevent COVID-19, […]

Israeli researchers on Tuesday unveiled mysterious underground rooms with an unknown function, carved out of the bedrock near where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago. The discovery was made when Israeli students from a pre-military college were excavating a large, lavish Byzantine-era structure from some 1,400 years ago, below […]

One longtime Democratic operative decided to spend an entire week consuming nothing but pro-Trump media — and he came away feeling as though he had traveled to a “parallel universe.” Philippe Reines, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and adviser to Hillary Clinton, writes in The Daily Beast about his experiment spending an entire […]

President Donald Trump held a small official White House ceremony Tuesday to announce he’s handing America’s farmers and ranchers even more cash – this time in the form of a $19 billion bailout he says is because of the pandemic, not mentioning his disastrous trade war with China. Trump politicized the event, declaring, “We’re going […]

“Jane Roe,” the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, admitted in a deathbed confession that she faked her conversion later in life to oppose legal abortion. Norma McCorvey, who died in 2017, became known as Jane Roe after suing for the right to get a legal and safe abortion in Texas, […]