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Trump Wanted Captain Of Stricken Navy Carrier Fired

The Washington Post reports: The sudden firing of Capt. Brett Crozier, the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, has created another unsettling moment for a country traumatized by the worsening pandemic — and for a Navy already rocked by President Trump’s remarkable intervention last year in disciplinary cases involving the elite Navy SEALs. Crozier’s crew cheered him as a …

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Trump: “There Will Be A Lot Of Death” Next Week

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the country was headed for a difficult week. “This will be the toughest week,” Trump said at the daily White House coronavirus press briefing. “There will be a lot of death, unfortunately.” Trump claimed that his allocation of resources to states most in need would lead to a “lot less death …

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At Virus Briefing, Trump Jokes About Fucking Models

The New York Daily News reports: He just can’t help himself. President Trump joked about being “involved in” models during a coronavirus briefing at the White House on Friday. The quip came while the president was fielding questions about the trajectory of the pandemic. “The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what …

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Trump Organization Lays Off, Furloughs 1500 Staffers

The Washington Post reports: The Trump Organization has laid off or furloughed about 1,500 employees at hotels in the United States and Canada as the coronavirus pandemic inflicts further pain on the president’s private business. With most of President Trump’s hotels and clubs closed amid stay-at-home orders around the world, the Trump Organization has responded by slashing costs, much like …

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Trump: The CDC Now Recommends Public Wear Face Masks, It’s Voluntary But “I Don’t Think I’ll Be Doing It”

USA Today reports: The Trump administration is advising people to start wearing face masks in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a reversal on previous guidance that urged people not to wear masks. President Donald Trump said at a White House news conference Friday that the CDC  guidelines are strictly voluntary. “You can do it – you don’t …

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Trump’s Approval Ratings Tumble Over Virus Response

Mediaite reports: In an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday, 47 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s coronavirus response, while 52 percent of Americans disapprove — a steep drop from the same poll taken just two weeks ago when a whopping 55 percent approved of Trump’s response. And in Trump’s favorite survey, the Trump-skewing Rasmussen daily tracking poll, his approval rating …

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Trump Sends Taunting Letter To Schumer Over Supplies

CNN reports: The White House released a letter from President Donald Trump attacking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in starkly personal terms on Thursday — just moments after the President said that “this is not the time for politics.” Trump was speaking at the White House daily coronavirus briefing at the same time his staff released the letter to Schumer, …

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White House Claims Second Negative Test For Trump

The Hill reports: President Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus a second time and is “healthy and without symptoms,” the White House doctor says. White House physician Dr. Sean Conley wrote in a memo that Trump was tested again Thursday morning for COVID-19 using a new point-of-care test that yielded results in 15 minutes. “This morning, the President was …

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Trump Deploys More US Troops To Mexican Border

Fox News reports: The Trump administration is sending more than 500 troops to the southern border, as part of the ongoing effort there to combat the coronavirus threat by preventing more infections coming into the U.S. interior. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made the request that the Defense Department provide 540 personnel to support Customs and Border Protection (CBP) …

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Trump May Face Formal Probe Into Virus Response

NBC News reports: Informal discussions have begun on Capitol Hill about the possibility of creating a panel to scrutinize the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic that would be modeled on the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to four people familiar with the discussions. A wholesale examination of the administration’s response could gain …

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Trump Rejects Special Obamacare Enrollment Period

Politico reports: The Trump administration has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis. President Donald Trump and administration officials recently said they were considering relaunching HealthCare.gov, the federal enrollment site, and insurers said they privately received assurances from …

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Sale Of Trump’s DC Hotel On Hold As Market Reels

The Washington Post reports: The commercial real estate industry has ground nearly to a halt because of coronavirus shutdowns, forcing buyers and sellers of major properties, including President Trump’s company, to put their plans on hold. The Trump Organization, which he still owns, has had to press pause on the proposed sale of its D.C. hotel lease because of the …

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Trump Camp Worried Red State Deaths Will Hurt Him

Politico Wire reports: A former White House official told the Los Angeles Times that President Trump’s reelection campaign advisors “are terrified that the coronavirus outbreak, which so far has hit largely Democratic coastal cities hardest, will soon scythe across the rural areas that remain deeply loyal to Trump.” “The advisors have warned Trump that the political consequences at the ballot …

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Xi Flattered Trump Out Of Saying “Chinese Virus”

The Daily Beast reports: In a private conversation with President Donald Trump during the rapid acceleration of the coronavirus pandemic, China’s leader Xi Jinping went out of his way to deploy one of the most effective diplomatic maneuvers of the current American era: aggressive flattery. In a phone call to discuss the international health crisis last week, Xi stressed to …

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Pelosi: What’s To Be Learned By Talking To Trump?

Talking Points Memo reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on Tuesday morning that she and President Donald Trump haven’t spoken with each other in nearly two months. Pelosi told MSNBC “Morning Joe” that Trump’s State of the Union Address on February 4 was the last time they had talked directly. Since then, the Democratic leader said, the two of …

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Trump Dropped Easter Plan After Seeing Opinion Polls

The New York Times reports: There was another set of numbers that also helped persuade Mr. Trump to shift gears on Sunday and abandon his goal of restoring normal life by Easter. Political advisers described for him polling that showed that voters overwhelmingly preferred to keep containment measures in place over sending people back to work prematurely. Those two realities …

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Trump Threatens Licenses Of Stations Over Critical Ad

Bloomberg News reports: The Trump re-election campaign told TV stations they could lose their operating licenses for airing an ad criticizing the president’s actions in the coronavirus crisis — a challenge that may be more bluster than actual threat. President Donald Trump’s campaign, in a letter on Wednesday, told stations in five battleground states to stop showing the ad from …

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Trump Admits Easier Voting Would Hurt Republicans

The Washington Post reports: President Trump on Monday morning became the latest in a procession of Republicans to say making it easier for more people to vote would hurt his party politically. In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. …

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Trump Calls Pelosi “A Sick Puppy” For Criticizing Him

Fox News reports: Speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, President Trump called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments “a disgrace,” referring to her claims that he had denied the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak and delayed ramping up the federal government’s response, which she called a “deadly” mistake. “It’s a sad thing,” Trump said on Monday. “She’s a sick puppy …

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Fauci “Argued Strongly” Against Trump’s Easter Plan

The Hill reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday that the White House coronavirus task force aggressively lobbied President Trump to extend social-distancing guidelines another month as the U.S. grapples with the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic. “We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or rebound of …

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