Новости за 31.08.2020

Writing in the Washington Post this Monday, columnist Jennifer Rubin highlighted Joe Biden’s “searing rebuke” to President Trump, calling it an “explicit, extensive and emphatic condemnation of all violence” — something Trump has not done. REPORTER: Does the president condemn the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of shooting protesters? McENANY: The president is not […]

“Rather than being straight with the American people and creating a national plan to fix the problem, the president and his enablers kept these alarming reports private while publicly downplaying the threat to millions of Americans.” As President Donald Trump and administration officials have been publicly downplaying the Covid-19 crisis and even predicting its imminent disappearance over the past […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned the weekend toppling of a statue of Canada’s first prime minister in Montreal by anti-racism activists, saying a focus on improving society today, and not historical wrongs, will best advance the fight for equality. John A. Macdonald was prime minister of Canada for 19 years between 1867 and […]

Columnist Mehdi Hasan found a 2004 video of President Donald Trump long before he came down the Trump Tower escalator to announce his campaign against Hillary Clinton. “It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans,” Trump says in the video. "It just seems that the economy does better under […]

On an afternoon in mid-June, Analleli Solis was walking home from her brother’s house just down the street when she noticed someone she didn’t know retreating from the front door of her modest brick home. Solis approached the woman, who handed her an envelope. Inside was a lawsuit from Oportun Inc., a personal loan company […]

When Maureen Roland’s family moved from California into their new neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, they got a cold reception from neighbors when they found out that Maureen’s husband is Black and they have biracial children, according to a report from The Kansas City Star. Maureen said she’s experience racism before, but not to this degree. “I […]

First lady Melania Trump and first daughter Ivanka never seemed to get along that well, at least to observers watching the two when they appear in public. One such moment came the final night of the Republican convention when the first lady helped her husband down the stairs to the White House stage being used […]

President Donald Trump and the GOP spent most of last week celebrating the Trump economy as being solid and on the rebound after the February recession and the coronavirus pandemic. Director of the United States National Economic Council Larry Kudlow said Trump rescued the United States as it was entering a recession. If one only […]

There are a seemingly infinite number of stories about how Donald Trump is the worst kind of person in every possible way, so readers can be forgiven if they missed or forgot this one: In 1991, Trump, ever the soulless troll, took his then-mistress, Marla Maples, to Aspen, Colorado, to spring her on his then-wife, Ivana […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the premier U.S. public health agency since its founding on July 1, 1946. The CDC is responsible for assuring the health of all Americans and promoting evidence-based public health practice. It also is responsible for researching the causes of death and illness as well as working […]

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivered an important speech Monday denouncing violence in America while attacking President Donald Trump for fueling it yet blaming it on the former Vice President. “Trump and Pence are running on this and I find it fascinating, quote, ‘You won’t be saving Joe Biden’s America.’ And what’s their proof? The […]

New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt is releasing his new book Donald Trump v. the United States this week and already stories are breaking about the shocking revelations it contains. Reported Sunday, Schmidt described a debate over Jared Kushner’s security clearance and President Donald Trump offering Gen. John Kelly the position as director of the […]

Adult film performer Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and a dozen more women, Los Angeles prosecutors said Monday. The controversial star of the pornographic industry, who appeared in over 1,700 hardcore movies, had already been charged in June with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth. His arrest […]

A knife-wielding man caught on video yelling the N-word at Black Lives Matter marchers in Buffalo, New York, has been charged with a hate crime, according to a report from WKBW. The 47-year-old man, who was not named in the report, was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment. The incident reportedly began […]

A spokesperson for Donald Trump was caught using a fake video to show former Vice President Joe Biden “sleeping” during an interview. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was caught sharing a fake videos that doctored comments from a disabled healthcare activist with ALS who has to use a machine to speak his thoughts for him. Now […]

New documents posted by the attorney for Breonna Taylor’s family allegedly show that prosecutors offered her ex-boyfriend a plea deal in which he would have to implicate her as part of his drug-dealing operation. Louisville-based attorney Sam Aguiar, who is representing Taylor’s family in a civil lawsuit against the three police officers who fatally shot […]

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says the Trump administration’s attempts to ban U.S. citizenship from same-sex couples’ children born overseas via surrogacy has “nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the parents.” The Trump State Dept. has only worked to block citizenship of these children when same-sex couples are the parents. “A federal […]

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany may have lied to the press again during a Monday briefing when she was asked about President Donald Trump’s supporters firing paintballs at Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon over the weekend. "The president's never seen that video," McEnany says of a video he himself tweeted out. — […]

“Calling Covid-19 a ‘good thing’ for our schools just goes to show you how divorced this administration is from reality.” On the heels of two federal judges halting a controversial rule that allows private schools to get more Covid-19 relief funding than Congress intended, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Friday that she believes […]

“It’s not edgy, contrarian,” one public health expert said of the “herd immunity” approach. “It’s dangerous and terrifying.” A top White House coronavirus adviser brought on earlier this month despite his lack of expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology is reportedly pushing the Trump administration to adopt a so-called “herd immunity” strategy to the pandemic […]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday said that President Donald Trump will not condemn the alleged shootings of three protesters in Wisconsin by Kyle Rittenhouse. At a White House briefing, McEnany was asked if the president had any reaction to the killing of two protesters and the shooting of another. Rittenhouse, who was […]

An appeals court ruled the House of Representatives cannot enforce a subpoena against former White House counsel Donald McGahn. The District of Columbia Circuit Court ruled 2-1 the House cannot enforce the subpoena because there was no law on the books allowing for that, but suggested that Congress could pass such legislation. The dissenting judge, […]

Attorney General Bill Barr said that he firmly supported the rule of forbearance in an election, meaning he supported the rule of not announcing any new findings from the Justice Department to interfere in an election. That was before Barr became Donald Trump’s new “fixer” after the president’s falling out with his former attorney Michael […]

According to a report from POLITICO, the House Oversight Committee is gearing up to issue a subpoena for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, after the Committee determined he ignored their request for documents regarding mail delays and “contacts” with White House officials and Trump’s campaign. “The panel is seeking details on changes to USPS overtime policy, sorting […]

In her column for the Washington Post, conservative Jennifer Rubin said Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should let anyone who worked or is still working for Donald Trump –and who has committed a crime including ignoring subpoenas issued by Congress — know that they will be subject to prosecution should he win in November. Using […]