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riversedge's Journalstory on all that Trump is hurling at Biden--including a wave of F'book ads painting him as.........
Lots in our story on all that Trump is hurling at Biden—including a wave of F’book ads painting him as senile—and the president’s son is now suggesting the former VP is a pedophile >>
https://nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html
A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis
By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Trump has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans.
May 15, 2020
Even by President Trump’s standards, it was a rampage: He attacked a government whistle-blower who was telling Congress that the coronavirus pandemic had been mismanaged. He criticized the governor of Pennsylvania, who has resisted reopening businesses. He railed against former President Barack Obama, linking him to a conspiracy theory and demanding he answer questions before the Senate about the federal investigation of Michael T. Flynn.
And Mr. Trump lashed out at Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic challenger. In an interview with a sympathetic columnist, Mr. Trump smeared him as a doddering candidate who “doesn’t know he’s alive.” The caustic attack coincided with a barrage of digital ads from Mr. Trump’s campaign mocking Mr. Biden for verbal miscues and implying that he is in mental decline.
That was all on Thursday.
Far from a one-day onslaught, it was a climactic moment in a weeklong lurch by Mr. Trump back to the darkest tactics that defined his rise to political power. Even those who have grown used to Mr. Trump’s conduct in office may have found themselves newly alarmed by the grim spectacle of a sitting president deliberately stoking the country’s divisions and pursuing personal vendettas in the midst of a crisis that has Americans fearing for their lives and livelihoods.
Since well before he became president, Mr. Trump’s appetite for conflict has defined him as a public figure. But in recent days he has practiced that approach with new intensity, signaling both the depths of his election-year distress and his determination to blast open a path to a second term, even at the cost of further riling a country in deep anguish...........................
"What 74 former Biden staffers think about Tara Reade's allegations," by PBS NewsHour's Daniel Bush
POLITICO Playbook PM: Camp David guest list
By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN, ELI OKUN and GARRETT ROSS
05/15/2020 01:03 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2020/05/15/new-camp-david-guest-list-489239
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TALKER -- “What 74 former Biden staffers think about Tara Reade’s allegations,” by PBS NewsHour’s Daniel Bush and Lisa Desjardins: “None of the people interviewed said that they had experienced sexual harassment, assault or misconduct by Biden. All said they never heard any rumors or allegations of Biden engaging in sexual misconduct, until the recent assault allegation made by Tara Reade. Former staffers said they believed Reade should be heard, and acknowledged that their experiences do not disprove her accusation. …
“The interviews revealed previously unreported details about the Biden office when Reade worked there, such as an account that she lost her job because of her poor performance, not as retaliation for lodging complaints about sexual harassment, as Reade has said.
“Other recollections from former staffers corroborated things she has described publicly, such as Biden’s use of the Senate gym and a supervisor admonishing her for dressing inappropriately. Overall, the people who spoke to the NewsHour described largely positive and gratifying experiences working for Biden, painting a portrait of someone who was ahead of his time in empowering women in the workplace.” PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations
@EliseStefanik was the policy director for the RNC platform committee where she wrote the plans to..
Stefanik is with Trump at camp david this weekend!!
Trump is taking a coterie of close GOP allies with him to Camp David this weekend. - Democratic Underground https://democraticunderground.com/100213444315 via @demunderground
Tedra Cobb for Congress
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#ICYMI: In 2012 @EliseStefanik
was the policy director for the RNC platform committee where she wrote the plans to:
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Privatize Social Security
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Turn Medicare into a voucher program
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Ban same sex marriage
#NY21 deserves better.
https://twitter.com/TedraCobb/status/1261703956109148162?s=20
IDIOT
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1261341329100922881?s=20
Trump is taking a coterie of close GOP allies with him to Camp David this weekend.
I call it a hate party.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2020/05/15/new-camp-david-guest-list-489239
President Donald Trump is taking a coterie of close GOP allies with him to Camp David this weekend. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
NEW … PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is going to Camp David this weekend. Here’s who is going with him: House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY, White House chief of staff MARK MEADOWS and GOP Reps. DAN CRENSHAW (Texas), MATT GAETZ (Fla.), DEVIN NUNES (Calif.), JIM JORDAN (Ohio), ELISE STEFANIK (N.Y.) and LEE ZELDIN (N.Y.).
New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Usually Survive
I have to admit--I thought it was a death sentence for most--but look how they were counting below.
The Coronavirus Crisis
New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Usually Survive
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/15/856768020/new-evidence-suggests-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators-usually-survive
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A nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan holds a cellphone last month so a COVID-19 patient can see and listen to his family.
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COVID-19 has given ventilators an undeservedly bad reputation, says Dr. Colin Cooke, an associate professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Michigan.
"It's always disheartening to know that some people are out there saying if you end up on a ventilator it's a death sentence, which is not what we are experiencing — and I don't think it's what the data are showing," Cooke says.
Early reports from China, the United Kingdom and Seattle found mortality rates as high as 90% among patients on ventilators. And more recently, a study of some New York hospitals seemed to show a mortality rate of 88%.
But Cooke and others say the New York figure was misleading because the analysis included only patients who had either died or been discharged. "So folks who were actually in the midst of fighting their illness were not being included in the statistic of patients who were still alive," he says.
Those patients made up more than half of all the people in the study. ...........................
'He lied on national television': Trump says truckers protesting industry problems are actually honk
Source: cnn.com
'He lied on national television': Trump says truckers protesting industry problems are actually honking to support him
By Daniel Dale and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Updated 6:10 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2020
Washington (CNN)When blaring truck horns intruded on President Donald Trump's Friday speech in the White House Rose Garden about the search for a coronavirus vaccine, Trump claimed that this was the sound of a pro-Trump protest.
"And you hear that outside, that beautiful sound -- those are truckers that are with us all the way. They are protesting in favor of President Trump, as opposed to against," Trump said. "There's hundreds of trucks out there, and that's the sign of love. Not the sign of your typical protest. So I want to thank our great truckers. They like me and I like them."
At another Rose Garden speech later in the day, Trump said, "Those are friendly truckers. They're on our side. It's almost a celebration, in a way."
Trump had made a similar claim about the protesters in an interview he taped Wednesday with Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo. .....................
Facts First: All three of Trump's claims were false. The truckers who have lined streets near the White House since May 1 are indeed protesters, not people holding any kind of celebration -- and they are protesting a variety of issues affecting their jobs, not protesting in favor of Trump. In fact, one of their complaints is about what they say is lax federal enforcement of a regulation requiring more transparency from freight brokers...............
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/politics/fact-check-trump-trucker-protest/index.html
Hasn't anyone informed Trump that they have been out there a few weeks now protesting HIM! --or is just in denial??
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At vaccine announcement, Trump stops to acknowledge loud honking by truckers. (Who are protesting their pay rates.)
“That’s the sign of love,” Trump claims. “And they’ll be helping us with this, by the way, speaking of truckers.”
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1261341329100922881?s=20
Here's what #Trump said about leadership....in 2013.........
I would love for a reporter to say it to him at one of his trumpralles!
https://twitter.com/laffmotron/status/1261406671080841228?s=20
Devin Nunes admitting on Fox that GOP must engage in ballot harvesting-which is "illegal in 49 state
yup, I listened. Nunes said it.
https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/1261317185114271749?s=20
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Yep. You heard him.
This is Devin Nunes admitting on Fox that the GOP must engage in ballot harvesting, which is “illegal in 49 states.”
Believe them when they tell you who they are. Cheaters. #DemCastCA
@DevinNunes
’ opponent is @PhilArballo2020
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