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turbinetree's JournalAP-NORC poll: Seeking virus data, people struggle with trust
By AAMER MADHANI and HANNAH FINGERHUT
today
WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Manley tested positive for COVID-19, his sister urged him to get on the malaria drug that she’d heard Fox News hosts plugging and that President Donald Trump was heralding as a potential “game changer” for fighting the coronavirus.
But Manley, 58, a civilian U.S. Army public affairs officer, was skeptical of using a drug not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating the virus and decided it was a gamble not worth taking.
“It caused a huge rift in the family because the science wasn’t behind it,” said Manley, who lives in Stuttgart, Germany, and whose wife, Heidi Mathis, also tested positive for the virus after a visit to New York. Both have since recovered, and the FDA has advised people not to take the drug outside a hospital or clinical trial.
The Manley family squabble highlights an essential question that many Americans are grappling with as they seek out the information they need to stay safe during the country’s worst public health crisis in a century: Whom do you trust?
Or, as Manley frames it: “What is being jammed down our throats in our news? Who is talking about these things? Where do you go to actually get something you can believe?”
https://apnews.com/1ca088a559803242579630f88b99b681
And in the what else is new new department .........
Trump tweets raise speculation about potential Flynn pardon
By ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN
8 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted his support for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, raising speculation that a pardon may be coming after Flynn’s lawyers released internal FBI documents they claim show the FBI was trying to entrap him.
Trump has long said he is considering pardoning Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in early 2017 about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. The president spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning retweeting supportive statements and a video Flynn tweeted of an American flag flapping in the wind.
“What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again!” Trump wrote Thursday morning as his counselor Kellyanne Conway was on Fox News Channel responding to the case.
https://apnews.com/c68feb4685263ce4e15169f383d7e975
I guess he doesn't know that if he pardons the dickhead and accepts he is basically admitting his guilt............
SEALs tried to locate US citizen taken by Afghan militants
By JAMES LAPORTA and ERIC TUCKER
an hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days following the capture of an American contractor in Afghanistan earlier this year, Navy commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network while the U.S. intelligence community tried to track the cellphones of the man and his captors, The Associated Press has learned.
While the circumstances surrounding the abduction remain unclear, the previously unreported operation described by multiple American officials over the past month shed new light on early efforts to locate Mark R. Frerichs, a contractor from Illinois whose disappearance has been shrouded in mystery and whose case has been the subject of minimal public discussion by the U.S. government.
The new details emerge as violence and political infighting in Kabul threaten to scuttle a Taliban peace deal with the U.S. Last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced frustrations after a failed attempt to mediate a power struggle between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. The Trump administration said it would cut $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan.
Washington has urged Kabul to release Taliban prisoners, which is part of the peace agreement, arguing the detainees were at risk of spreading the coronavirus.
LaPorta reported from Delray Beach, Florida. Associated Press writers Matthew Lee in Washington, Kathy Gannon in Islamabad and Allen G. Breed in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
https://apnews.com/1ccf33cbb298b705c0192465f94caebf
Why Gilead's coronavirus drug is not a "silver bullet"
Bob Herman
If you feel like you're suffering whiplash from the new, conflicting study data on Gilead Sciences' experimental coronavirus drug, remdesivir, you're not alone.
The big picture: Remdesivir could provide some help and lay the groundwork for more research, but this drug on its own does not appear to be any kind of "cure" for the novel coronavirus.
What's happening: Remdesivir helped coronavirus patients get out of the hospital modestly quicker, based on early reads of an important and rigorously designed trial run by the National Institutes of Health,
That could be encouraging for those who get sick.
https://www.axios.com/gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus-silver-bullet-2980e066-36d0-4d7b-9c18-5e599859637f.html
Trump Refuses To Believe Polls Showing Him Losing To Biden: 'Made Up Nonsense'
By Cristina Cabrera
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April 30, 2020 7:49 a.m.
President Donald Trump won’t accept the fact that Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is beating him in the polls.
“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump said during an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.”
Additionally, Trump claimed that the upcoming election would not be a referendum on his response to the COVID-19 outbreak, which has come under heavy criticism as his administration struggles to help states combat medical supply shortages and other crises.
“I think it’s a referendum on a lot of things,” he told Reuters. “I think it’s going to be a referendum on all the things we’ve done and certainly this will be a part of it, but we’ve done a great job.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-refuse-believe-polls-losing-to-biden
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"And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.”............ tag your it for being incompetent.........we won't.............
Sharpest Drop On Record: Consumer Spending Plummets 7.5% In March
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
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April 30, 2020 9:34 a.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer spending plunged 7.5% in March, reflecting the growing impact of the coronavirus pandemic as Americans complied with stay-at-home orders.
The Commerce Department said that the spending decline was the sharpest monthly drop on records that go back to 1959, exceeding the previous record, a decline of 2.1% in January 1987.
Personal incomes also fell sharply last month, declining by 2% with wages and salaries, the largest part of incomes, falling by 3.1% as millions of Americans started getting lay-off notices.
The report said that the country experienced big declines as “consumers canceled, restricted or redirected their spending.”
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/consumer-spending-drop-coronavirus
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Wait until the April numbers come in.......
In the what else is new department from the traitor....................
Trump Threatens CNN Over Coverage Of Michael Flynn, Says Outlet ‘Should Pay A Big Price’
By Cristina Cabrera
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April 30, 2020 8:59 a.m.
President Donald Trump issued a threatening tweet about CNN late Wednesday night, claiming Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, had suffered “persecution” at the news outlet’s hands.
“@CNN doesn’t want to speak about their persecution of General Michael Flynn & why they got the story so wrong,” Trump tweeted. “They, along with others, should pay a big price for what they have purposely done to this man & his family.”
“They won’t even cover the big breaking news about this scam!” he added.
Based on his retweets of right-wing news outlets before the sinister post, Trump seemed to be referring to documents presented by Flynn’s lawyers showing former FBI intelligence director Bill Priestap’s thoughts on how investigators ought to interview the adviser in the 2017 Russian election interference probe.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-threatens-cnn-over-coverage-of-michael-flynn-says-outlet-should-pay-a-big-price
Hey traitor if your enabling traitor buddy had told the "truth" to the FBI, then he wouldn't be in the world of shit he's in now, and besides why do you have to sue, can't he.......................he's is suppose to be some fucking former lieutenant general, this just shows how involved you are in the crime.....................in my opinion.........................LOCK the both of up............problem solved.....................
The Ohio primary just raised a new red flag for the 2020 election
Published 2 hours ago on April 29, 2020
By Steven Rosenfeld, Independent Media Institute
Ohio’s Democratic presidential primary winner was never in doubt, but its voting process was.
The April 28 primary, the second statewide vote-by-mail contest since the pandemic interrupted the 2020 election, highlighted new complexities facing voters if the nation shifts to mostly absentee voting this fall.
In addition to postal delivery delays possibly disqualifying hundreds of thousands of ballots—as was seen in Wisconsin’s April 7 primary—Ohio’s saw legally registered voters who waited until the eleventh hour to vote wrestle with the vote-by-mail process and get prevented from casting a ballot that would be counted.
“I went on Twitter and discovered that I could vote [using] a provisional ballot and demand it from them [county election officials],” said Sarah Schoeppner, a grocery worker who recounted her and her father’s experience during a briefing by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which runs the nation’s largest election protection hotline. “They said that they would give it to us, but that it would probably not be counted because we didn’t get the absentee ballot application in on time.”
“We believe that Sarah’s experience is one encountered by thousands of people across Ohio who are very confused about the deadlines that apply for absentee balloting,” said Kristen Clarke, Lawyers’ Committee president and executive director. “We are also very concerned about officials who may have discouraged people like Sarah from casting a provisional ballot in person today.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/the-ohio-primary-just-raised-a-new-red-flag-for-the-2020-election/
GDP falls by 4.8 percent, bringing longest economic expansion on record to abrupt halt
It's by far the lowest reading in the past decade, and shows to what extent the coronavirus has slammed the brakes on a healthy economy.
April 29, 2020, 8:36 AM EDT
By Lucy Bayly
The coronavirus pandemic has slammed into the economy so hard the nation's GDP has fallen by 4.8 percent, bringing the longest economic expansion on record to an abrupt halt.
Gross domestic product, which measures the output of goods and services, sank by 4.8 percent in the first quarter on an annualized basis, according to an initial estimate from the Department of Commerce released Wednesday morning.
It's the steepest decline since the Great Recession, which ended in 2009. Economic growth was tracking at or above 2 percent until mid-March.
With most of the nation stuck at home, large swaths of the economy have shuttered, throwing 26 million people out of work. Consumer spending, which drives around two-thirds of economic growth, has plummeted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/gdp-falls-4-8-percent-bringing-longest-economic-expansion-record-n1195106
And as for Mnuchin your an idiot...........you can't wish.............
You think this is why the republicans are telling people to go back to work or else..........after all its only about 188 days left before there is an election...........
Trump says internet retailers using the post office must pay more
BUSINESS NEWS APRIL 29, 2020 / 5:46 PM / UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump lambasted internet retailers again on Wednesday for taking advantage of the U.S. postal service and said those firms needed to pay more for package delivery.
“We want to stabilize the post office, and the way you do that is these companies are going to have to pay more,” Trump said. “The companies are going to have to pay a percentage of that ... loss.
Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Sandra Maler
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-postoffice/trump-says-internet-retailers-using-the-post-office-must-pay-more-idUSKBN22B3B4?il=0
So lunatic who does your daughter use, what do you use for your fucking wine, that your son his hyping.......do you have receipts that you use the postal system.........prove me wrong...............
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