Trump admits he was briefed on coronavirus before declaring ‘hoax’ and jetting off on golf trips
Trump admitted ahead of the report that he was briefed in January, though
he claimed that the briefing was not alarming.
The president tweeted that he was not briefed until “late into January,” and “they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner.”
“On Jan. 23, I was told that there could be a virus coming in, but it was of no real import,” Trump said.
“In other words, it wasn’t: ‘Oh we gotta do something, we gotta do something.’ It was a brief conversation and it was only on Jan. 23.”
claimed that he was told “there could be a virus coming in,”
the briefing came three days after the U.S. had confirmed its first coronavirus case.
Trump also did not address
why, after receiving multiple briefings,
he continued to play golf at his resorts until March 8.
Trump changed his tune by March 17, claiming that he “felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/tru...on-golf-trips/
The DISHONEST bungling continues
Dr. Anthony Fauci Dismisses Claims Virus Was Made In Or Escaped From Chinese Lab
Fauci told National Geographic
“a number of very qualified evolutionary biologists” had thrown water on the theories touted by President Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci...b60a927781130e
So now we have Trump is bored of this crisis.
Probably made him actually work for the first time in his life.
Trump dismisses new COVID-19 death forecast: 'It's time to go back to work'
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-coronav...164017812.html
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‘Genocide by default’: Yale epidemiologist calls
Trump’s coronavirus response
a potential war crime
Gregg Gonsalves, ... wrote a scathing tweet about the president’s latest efforts to send Americans back to work even though more than 70,000 people have died so far with no end in sight.
“How many people will die this summer, before Election Day?” he asked.
“What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color?
This is getting awfully close to genocide by default.
What else do you call mass death by public policy?”
Trump’s negligence is so gross that he could be prosecuted for war crimes under international law.
“So, what does it mean
to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law?”
what is happening in the US is purposeful, considered negligence, omission, failure to act by our leaders.
Can they be held responsible under international law?”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/gen..._campaign=4464
“Like a Bully at the Lunchroom”:
How the Federal Government Took Control of the PPE Pipeline
FEMA denies seizing shipments of masks and ventilators,
but hospital workers tell a different story, and one medical-equipment supplier says
the agency—“those rat bas s”—along with the FBI, has taken over his entire operation.
As the coronavirus crisis has dragged on, scattered reports have emerged of the federal government seizing PPE shipments.
State leaders in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, Texas, and Florida have accused FEMA and the federal government of diverting their orders for protective gear.
Colorado governor Jared Polis famously said his order of ventilators was “swept up” by the agency.
Per the New York Times, the head of the board for the Kentucky Hospital Association wrote that four shipments of protective equipment intended for hospitals were taken by FEMA.
FEMA asserted it was not seizing any shipments and
that “prioritizing PPE deliveries to COVID hot spots can have the
unintended consequence
of disrupting the regular supply-chain deliveries to other areas of the country that are also preparing for the coronavirus.”
The small business owner’s story, however, goes a step further;
it suggests that the federal government has taken control of every level of a private business.
(FEMA did not respond to a request for comment.)
‘Guys, I just heard I may have failed the [quality control] test,’” the businessman recalled.
“And you know what FEMA said? ‘That’s okay, we want the product anyway.’”
a Seattle-based customs lawyer said that stories of the federal government seizing PPE will likely see ramifications down the line.
“We end up telling clients that it could be the case that FEMA is...acting on thin or no legal authority,”
But “the legal resolution of these seizures will take time.…
I cannot personally discount that there is a gray area—that
six months, a year from now we start finding out about” unlawful seizures.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020..._term=VYF_Hive
W T F
Shocking: Jared Kushner’s Young Consultant Army Was Clueless On Coronavirus
Trump’s son-in-law’s volunteer team—pulled from private equity, venture capital and consulting firms—reportedly hampered efforts to procure medical supplies and prioritized political allies.
Kushner’s crack squad of young private sector volunteers—hailing from venture capital, private equity and consulting firms—has been beset by crippling incompetence and political cronyism,
exacerbating the federal government’s gross mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis
a member of Kushner’s team said in a whistleblower report sent to the House Oversight Committee on April 8
“From my few weeks as a volunteer, I believe we are falling short.”
volunteers on Kushner’s team
often lacked relevant qualifications to help get necessary resources to hospitals fighting the COVID crisis,
with team members who
didn’t have sufficient “health care, procurement, or supply-chain operations” experience assigned to help obtain and direct supplies to medical workers.
the Kushner team fast-tracked protective equipment leads from a list of “V.I.P.s,” including Trump allies in the conservative media like Fox News hosts Brian Kilmeade and Jeanine Pirro.
“The nature and scale of the response seemed grossly inadequate,”
other officials that corroborated the former volunteer’s complaint to the House Oversight Committee.
“Grossly inadequate” is a pretty accurate description of Kushner’s entire career in government, which has been marked
by embarrassing overconfidence,
few tangible accomplishments, and
the general sense that he’s more or less getting in the way
the administration has put political connections ahead of public health and
pushed unproven drugs as potential cures for the virus
Trump declares premature victory over the virus and
pushes for states and businesses to reopen.
As the volunteer on Kushner’s team wrote in the April complaint,
“These problems affect the entire chain of command,
hamper our ability to respond and
could result in many Americans losing their lives.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020..._term=VYF_Hive
Fears rise that Trump will incite a global vaccine brawl
The president’s “America First” philosophy courts disaster for entire regions of the world, diplomats warn.
The Trump administration’s apparent lack of interest in cooperation
The concerns are only deepening as President Donald
Trump and his aides squabble with China and the WHO over the origins of the virus.
The fear is that Trump will be content with allowing the race to develop and distribute the vaccine to devolve into a global contest —
and that poorer countries will be left behind in the rush to procure doses.
In essence: that the
president’s “America First” view of world affairs as an atavistic scramble for power will lead to unnecessary suffering and death.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/03/coronavirus-vaccine-trump-world-brawl-230142
Trump administration buries detailed CDC advice on reopening
The Trump administration shelved a do ent
created by the nation’s top disease investigators
with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during
the still-raging coronavirus outbreak.
The 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team,
led “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework,” was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners, educators and state and local officials as they begin to reopen.
It was supposed to be published last Friday, but
agency scientists were told the guidance “would never see the light of day,”
https://apnews.com/7a00d5fba3249e573...nRtWoCnMJiQZ_w
I worked for Jared Kushner. Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.
President Trump’s son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone else’s problems.
Jared Kushner’s coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because
it’slargely staffed with inexperienced volunteers.
Of course it is. It’s being run by one.
After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in),
he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes.
He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives
trying on policy roles usually reserved for the country’s top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up
There have been no consequences.
In any normal administration, an adviser with Kushner’s string of failures would be fired,
but Kushner, like his father-in-law, keeps crediting himself with imaginary successes.
He has also continued to bash the actual experts, disputing their assessments and implying that they, not he, are the amateurs, and
he is here to clean up their mess.
Kusher thought this self-aggrandizing nonsense was an appropriate eulogy, but that, too, is in keeping with how he operates.
he seemed cons utionally incapable of considering the humanity of other people as a starting point.
Relationships were primarily transactional, and
this failure of empathy permeated everything he did.
He could not register the grief of the people in the room that day for the same reason that
he apparently can’t register the grief millions of Americans are experiencing now as their lives are upended by covid-19 and people they love become sick and die.
enables him to lie on camera about the state of what’s happening —
to view the coronavirus response as an opportunity to trade favors
and not a necessary and vital obligation of the federal government — and
why he will cast himself as a begrudging custodian of problems other people created
even as those problems metastasize all around him as a direct consequence of his mismanagement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...virus-failure/
Kemp following Trash's lead
Georgia's 'reopening' results in 60,000+ out-of-state visitors a day coming to spread the virus
More than 62,000 additional out-of-state visitors are arriving daily. That’s a 13% increase in state-to-state travel.
almost all of that traffic came from adjacent Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida,
four states where business restrictions kept restaurants, theaters and other nonessential service businesses closed when Georgia's reopened.
Georgia, then, created a near-perfect scenario for spreading the virus inside and outside the state.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...read-the-virus
AP Exclusive: Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report
The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House
after the AP reported Thursday that the guidance do ent had been buried,
the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast-tracked for approval.
top public health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spending weeks working on guidance to help the country deal with a public health emergency, only to see their work quashed by political appointees with little explanation.
McEnany said LIED!
https://apnews.com/9c4d5284ba4769d3b98aa05232201f88?fbclid=IwAR2JcE-ygMmnFfZRA-oyHVvKipN6b2zTlKU6HJJ4IpbrXtmIQkQmN6cFIdQ
A group of nurses held a protest and created a heartbreaking memorial in front of the White House
The current administration has ignored the needs of and provided no support to front-line workers during this crisis.
laid 88 pairs of shoes in front of the White House Thursday to honor the 88 nurses who have died on the front lines of the country’s COVID-19 crisis.
Registered nurses also held signs to call attention to the thousands of healthcare workers who have become infected by COVID-19 due to a lack of PPE.
According to the nurses of National Nurses United, about 18 million doctors, nurses, and home nursing aides are fighting COVID-19 across the nation.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/7/1943383/-A-group-of-nurses-held-a-protest-and-created-a-heartbreaking-memorial-in-front-of-the-White-House?detail=emaildkre
Trump threatened Senate Republicans trying to save themselves.
Now they're praising his butchery
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst says of coronavirus that Trump was "on it from day one." Yes, she said that.
Senate Republicans are such a pathetic lot of craven misfits.
First they voted to ensure a raving lunatic would be at the helm of our country right as a global pandemic was infiltrating America.
Then they tried to cut Donald Trump loose
when they realized he wasn't doing so hot as
national testing lagged,
body bags piled up, and
he paraded his sociopathic incompetence on the airwaves every day.
After the Senate GOP campaign arm circulated a memo dissuading the caucus from defending the indefensible (i.e., Trump),
the orange menace predictably threatened to kneecap every GOP senator who left him for dead.
Now many of the GOP's most vulnerable caucus members are either
publicly lavishing praise on Trump for his wildly incompetent coronavirus response or
tiptoeing around him for fear of retribution.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/8/1943497/-Senate-Republicans-settle-on-praising-Trump-s-coronavirus-butchery-all-the-way-to-reelection?detail=emaildkre
In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and
orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth,
some from as far away as Hong Kong.
Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week.
he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.
“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,”
“Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”
Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.
“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23.
“My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business.
I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad.
I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”
the government did not take Bowen up on his offer.
Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most& utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_m ost
Didn't California do the same thing and bought from China? Didn't the gov of California just say he knew the first covid transmission in the state was because of a nail salon? Lol. Who cares, it is not one persons fault.In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and
orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth,
some from as far away as Hong Kong.
Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week.
he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.
“We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,”
“Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.”
Robert Kadlec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer.
“We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23.
“My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business.
I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad.
I’m a patriot first, businessman second.”
the government did not take Bowen up on his offer.
Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most& utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_m ost
Why play the blame game? If you pledge allegiance to a party and then try to blame others simply because of affiliation then you are dumber than these two clowns. Sadly they have both won because not only are you ignorantly binding yourself to a political party, but you are on the internet complaining about it rather than actually doing something productive, which is what both parties want. They are not doing anything more than marketing to you just like the NBA. Sad.
you FULL of .
I'm not a Dem, have not pledged allegiance to any party
My "productive" is staying in and around the house, and wearing a mask in public. What are you doing "productive"?
This mask producer got screwed in 2010, after ramping up facilities to provide masks for the swine flu pandemic.
Americans companies bought from him.
After the pandemic, the Americans switched back to Asian suppliers, leaving him almost bankrupt with the facilities he mentions.
Why blame game? because Trash and his Exec are fully deserving of blame for 10Ks of EXCESS deaths of Americans?
Not Obama, not Pelosi/Schumer, not the Dems
Trash President, no Hillary
You and your Repugs elected Trash, share the blame for the FATAL, DESTRUCTIVE storm Trash has visited on USA
What a sad and incoherent response. Best of luck in your search for happiness.
F O L D E D!
Caps and emojies. I win againF O L D E D!
he got ted on severely in the spurs forum (popovich corona/trump) threadF O L D E D!
and now looking to troll here
he is 100% trump cult magat
seriously man, I don’t think much of trump at all, but to think Obama, Pelosi, and democrats aren’t a part of it as well just doesn’t make sense. They are all Just as worthless as the other
How are Obama, Pelosi, Dems part of it? actual details, instead BULL claims of false equivalence?
Trash President, not Obama
Trash President, not Pelosi
Repugs craven Trash suckers, not Dems
Negligent manslaughter becoming willful manslaughter
As Trump rushes to reopen, his team is privately issuing dire warnings
Months after Trump ignored more than a dozen red alerts from his intelligence agencies and other agencies that a deadly virus was headed for American shores,
he's now ignoring dire warnings from top administration officials about reopening too soon.
several officials with the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security discussed the potentially catastrophic effects of a rushed reopening on the same day that Trump had allowed federal social distancing guidelines to expire without a peep.
“The numbers of deaths definitely will be high,”
states that were relaxing distancing measures even though their case counts were high or still increasing.
as Trump cheers those steps every chance he gets,
he does seem to have internalized some level of risk for lost lives—
a consequence he's perfectly willing to accept.
It's unconscionable and a complete dereliction of duty for Trump
to keep foisting his precious economic restart on the American people
without leveling with them about its potential consequences.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...hing-to-reopen
"More dead Amerians? 'em, I must be re-elected at all costs"
Mnuchin says unemployment will get worse before it gets better amid coronavirus pandemic
Two of President Trump’s top economic advisers said Sunday that
Americans face an economy that will worsen in the coming months,
with predictions that the unemployment rate will jump to 20 percent from the 14.7 percent reported Thursday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...7LZLC2R3H7DPSM
the "current 14.7" was for mid-April, because they stop counting mid-month
20% by 15 May seems very probable
so Repugs/Trash want govt to stop giving money
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