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Trump Plotting Retaliation Against China Over COVID

The Washington Post reports: Senior U.S. officials are beginning to explore proposals for punishing or demanding financial compensation from China for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to four senior administration officials with knowledge of internal planning. The move could splinter already strained relations between the two superpowers at a perilous moment for the global economy. Senior officials across …

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Billionaire Donors Are Advising Trump On Reopening

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump has sought and received advice on tackling the coronavirus crisis in private conversations with several of his allies in the business world, according to people familiar with the matter. There are at least four executives Trump and his team have been in regular contact with, according to the people, who declined to be named due …

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Trump Rages Against Media In Midnight Tweetstorm

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. At least that appeared to be the case judging by a late-night Twitter screed in which he went after a number of cable news personalities who he feels have done him wrong. All this amid a deadly pandemic that has led to the …

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Trump Claims COVID Will Vanish Without Any Vaccine: “It’s Gonna Go, It’s Gonna Leave, It’s Gonna Be Gone”

Raw Story reports: During a press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump was asked why he thinks that the coronavirus will disappear without a vaccine. His answer left many confused. “It’s gonna go. It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone,” he said. “Why do you think without a vaccine, the virus would be gone?” asked the reporter. “It’ll be eradicated,” he …

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Trump Screamed At Campaign Manager Over Bad Polls

CNN reports: As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus. Within moments, the President was shouting — not at the aides in the room, but into the phone …

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Fox To Host “Returning To Work” Town Hall With Trump

The Hill report: Fox News announced Wednesday it will host a virtual town hall with President Trump on Sunday night focusing on COVID-19 and the reopening of the U.S. economy. The program, “America Together: Returning to Work,” will be co-moderated by “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” anchor Martha MacCallum. It will be broadcast live from the Lincoln …

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Walsh To Justin Amash: You’ll Only Be Helping Trump

Former Rep. Joe Walsh writes for the Washington Post: I get how disgusted Amash is with both major political parties. I get that you don’t go, overnight, from being a conservative Republican to becoming a progressive Democrat. I get that he’s probably the only lower-case-L libertarian with enough name recognition to make the Libertarian Party even remotely relevant right now. …

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Economy Shrank 4.8% In Q1, Biggest Drop Since 2008

MarketWatch reports: The collapse in the U.S. economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic triggered the biggest drop in gross domestic product in the first quarter since 2008 in a prelude to an even more massive decline in the spring. GDP, the official scorecard for economic growth, shrank at a 4.8% annualized pace. GDP, the official scorecard for the economy, shrank …

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Trump Celebrates That US Has Only 1M COVID Cases

Reuters reports: The United States has reported more than a million coronavirus infections only because of its testing, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, hailing the effort as being “much better than any other country in the world.” The Twitter comments came amid warnings from state public health officials that shortages of trained workers and materials have limited testing capacity. …

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Approval Of Trump’s COVID Response Sinks 10 Points

Just in from Emerson College Polling: A new Emerson College Polling national poll finds President Trump’s approval rating at 41% approval, with 50% disapproval. This indicates a 5 point swing in both directions since March, when his approval was 46% approval, 45% disapproval. Approval of the Presidents’ handling of the coronavirus is at 39% approval, a 10 point drop from …

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Amash Forms Exploratory Presidential Committee

Axios reports: Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) announced on Tuesday night that he has “launched an exploratory committee” to seek the Libertarian Party’s 2020 nomination for a possible third-party presidential run. Amash gained notoriety last year when he came out as the lone House Republican to support the impeachment of President Trump following the publication of the Mueller report. He later …

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Pentagon To Award Purple Hearts To Troops Whose Traumatic Brain Injuries Were Shrugged Off By Trump

CNN reports: Dozens of US military personnel are expected to receive Purple Hearts in recognition of traumatic brain injuries they suffered in a January Iranian missile attack in Iraq, according to three US defense officials. The officials describe the decision as extremely sensitive because of the attention the issue received after President Donald Trump dismissed the injuries as “not very …

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GEORGIA: Two Men Poisoned By Drinking Cleaners

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Two people in Georgia drank liquid cleaning products over the weekend in misguided attempts to ward off COVID-19, according to the Georgia Poison Center. Both men had histories of psychiatric problems and are expected to recover. The poison center’s director, Gaylord Lopez, said he did not know if the men guzzled the chemicals because they heard …

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Trump: No COVID Aid For States With Sanctuary Cities

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump indicated he wouldn’t allow federal aid for states facing budget deficits from the coronavirus outbreak unless they take action against “sanctuary cities” — municipalities that prevent their police from cooperating with immigration authorities. “We would want certain things” as part of a deal with House Democrats to aid states, he said at a White …

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Trump Camp Reacts To Hillary’s Biden Endorsement With Video Ridiculing Her Collapse At 9/11 Memorial

Word of Hillary Clinton’s coming endorsement of Joe Biden leaked out a couple of hours ago, giving the Trump campaign time to prepare a video which ridicules the time in 2016 that she appeared to collapse in the New York heat after attending an hours-long 9/11 memorial service in downtown Manhattan. As you will surely recall, the Trump campaign had …

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Military Air Teams Perform NYC Area Flyovers [VIDEO]

The New Jersey Advance reports: The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds performed a flyover of New York City today. The flight began at noon near the George Washington Bridge. The fighter jets flew in formation over Newark, New Jersey before heading back over Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. After that, the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds crossed …

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Kansas Man Drank Cleaner After Trump’s Comments

The Associated Press reports: A man drank a highly-toxic cleaning product over the weekend after President Trump wondered about the prospect of using disinfectants to treat coronavirus during a White House briefing last week, health officials said. Since Trump mentioned Thursday that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the virus and wondered aloud if they could be …

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Trump To Issue Order Forcing Meat Plants To Stay Open

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing disruptions to the food supply from the coronavirus outbreak, a person familiar with the matter said. Trump plans to use the Defense Production Act to order the companies to stay open during the pandemic, and the government …

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Stern To Trump Fans: Drink Bleach And “Drop Dead”

The Daily Beast reports: Howard Stern returned to his SiriusXM show after a week-long break on Monday. And he had a lot to say about President Trump’s recent suggestion that injecting disinfectant might just be the coronavirus cure Americans have been waiting for. “I would love it if Donald would get on TV and take an injection of Clorox and …

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Pro-Biden Ad: Trump Has Put America First…In Deaths

CBS News reports: A new ad campaign from a pro-Joe Biden super PAC says President Trump’s mantra of “America First” has come to fruition in one arena — COVID-19 illnesses and deaths in the United States. The ad, dubbed “First,” is set to run in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, three battleground states that were key to Mr. Trump’s 2016 electoral …

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