Trump Corruption

WH Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Mocks FDA’s Coming Stricter Vaccine Standards: “Why Would We Do That?”

“What we actually have is new guidance that’s coming out. My question is, why would that new guidance come out after we’ve already spent 30 billion dollars in doing that? And my challenge to the FDA is just make sure it’s based on science. Science and real numbers. “And so as we look at that, we’re making very good progress. …

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Dennis Quaid Blasts “Cancel Culture Media” On Reports Of COVID PR Campaign: “I Was Not Paid One Penny”

The Hollywood Reporter reports: Dennis Quaid and gospel singer CeCe Winans have each taken to social media to clarify the non-political intent of participating in interviews related to COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic. According to a report from Politico on Friday, an ad was ordered by President Trump and conceived partly by former Department of Health and Human Services official …

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Trump “Strongly Demands” Joe Biden Take Drug Test

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump demanded Sunday that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate on Tuesday, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night,” Trump …

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Trump Built Massive Legal Team To Challenge Election

Politico reports: A year before President Donald Trump alarmed Americans with talk of disputing elections last week, his team started building a massive legal network to do just that. Dozens of lawyers from three major law firms have been hired. Thousands of volunteer attorneys and poll watchers across the country have been recruited. Republicans are preparing pre-written legal pleadings that …

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Trump: Lincoln “Wasn’t Big On The Hispanic Movement”

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally Friday that Abraham Lincoln “wasn’t big on the Hispanic movement” in an apparent attempt to praise himself. Repeating his claim that he’s done more for minority communities than any other American leader, Trump tooted the results of his campaign events in Florida with leaders of the Hispanic community. …

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Bernie: Dems Have “Plans” If Trump Refuses To Leave

Roll Call reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) looked to assure nervous Democrats that there are “a number of plans” to deal with a scenario in which President Trump loses the November election but refuses to leave office. Sanders, speaking to TV host Bill Maher Friday night, said it was of tantamount importance that liberals elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden …

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Trump Plans To Attack Biden’s Family At First Debate

The Washington Post reports: President Trump is gearing up to launch blistering personal attacks on Joe Biden and his family in the first presidential debate on Tuesday, while Biden is bracing for an onslaught and worried allies are warning the Democratic nominee not to lose his temper and lash out, according to people with knowledge of the strategies in both …

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Actor Dennis Quaid To Appear In $300M PR “Defeat Despair” Campaign, Money Siphoned From The CDC

Politico reports: The health department is moving quickly on a highly unusual advertising campaign to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus, a $300 million-plus effort that was shaped by a political appointee close to President Donald Trump and executed in part by close allies of the official, using taxpayer funds. The ad blitz, described in some budget documents as the “Covid-19 …

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Lincoln Project: Trump’s GOP Enablers And Cultists Cannot Be Shamed But They Must Be Stopped [VIDEO]

Just in from the Lincoln Project: In anticipation of President Trump’s announcement of his Supreme Court nomination this weekend, today The Lincoln Project released an ad featuring the hypocritical Republican Senators who have vowed to push Trump’s nomination through the Senate before the next president can be sworn in. “The choice for Americans in this election could not be more …

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Trump Loses Appeals Court Battle On Wall Funding

Reuters reports: A federal appeals court handed a win to the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, saying the Democratic-led chamber could proceed with a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s diversion of funds to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Reversing a lower court judge, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in a 3-0 …

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Trump Revels In Furor Over Peaceful Transfer Refusals

The Daily Beast reports: To horrified voters, onlookers, and the Democratic opposition, it was another clear instance of the sitting president openly telegraphing his plans to seize power, something some administration officials fear will soon take form within the federal government and among major party organs. But to Trump, it was… funny as hell. According to two people familiar with …

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Trump Rages: Fox News Polls “Over Sample Democrats”

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is none too pleased with a recent Fox News poll that suggests a rather significant shift in likely voters in two critical battleground states in the coming 2020 general election. Released late Thursday evening, the polls show former Vice President Joe Biden holds a seven-point lead in Pennsylvania, and a stunning five-point lead in Ohio, …

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Dem Lawyers Ready To Challenge Trump On PA Electors

Axios reports: Democratic lawyers are preparing to challenge any effort by President Trump to swap electors chosen by voters with electors selected by Republican-controlled legislatures. One state of particular concern: Pennsylvania, where the GOP controls the state house. Why it matters: Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, together with a widely circulated article in The Atlantic …

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Pentagon Fears Trump Will Use Military After Election

The New York Times reports: Senior leaders at the Pentagon, speaking on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged that they were talking among themselves about what to do if Mr. Trump, who will still be president from Election Day to Inauguration Day, invokes the Insurrection Act and tries to send troops into the streets, as he repeatedly threatened to do during …

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Kimberly Guilfoyle Robocalls Lies About Mail Voting

CNN reports: Robocalls sent by Trump surrogates Kimberly Guilfoyle and the President’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump are encouraging Republican voters to use absentee ballots to vote in November, calling them one of the “best ways” to support President Trump in November. Both calls attempt to draw a false distinction between absentee voting and other forms of mail-in voting. Guilfoyle’s call goes …

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Trump To Send Seniors $200 Drug Discount Cards By Borrowing $7B From Program That Does Not Yet Exist

STAT News reports: President Trump on Thursday pledged to send $200 prescription drug coupons to 33 million Medicare beneficiaries “in the coming weeks,” a political ploy to curry favor with seniors who view drug prices as a priority. The administration is getting its authority to ship the coupons from a Medicare demonstration program, a White House spokesman told STAT in …

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Trump Signs Toothless Order On Preexisting Conditions

The Associated Press reports: More than three-and-a-half years into his presidency and 40 days from an election, President Donald Trump on Thursday launched what aides termed a “vision” for health care heavy on unfulfilled aspirations. “It is affirmed, signed and done, so we can put that to rest,” Trump said after signing an executive order covering a range of issues, …

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Trump Again Won’t Say If He’ll Accept Election Result

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump refused to promise Thursday that he’ll accept the results of November’s election despite bipartisan outrage over his declining a day earlier to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Joe Biden wins. Speaking on the South Lawn of the White House before a trip to North Carolina, Trump reiterated his debunked …

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WH: Trump Will Accept The Results Of “A Fair Election”

The Daily Beast reports: Reporters gave White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the chance to “clean up or clarify” President Trump’s shocking refusal to assure a “peaceful transfer of power” if he loses the election this fall. Her answers weren’t exactly reassuring. After belittling Playboy reporter Brian Karem who elicited the answer from Trump, McEnany said, “The president will accept …

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HHS Spox Diagnosed With Metastatic Neck Cancer, Is Now “Resting Under The Watchful Eye Of Jesus Christ”

The Buffalo News reports: Michael R. Caputo, the East Aurora political consultant at the center of controversy over the Trump administration’s Covid-19 messaging, has been diagnosed with cancer. Assemblyman David J. DiPietro, R-East Aurora, acting as Caputo’s spokesman, said Thursday that the HHS spokesman on leave from his assistant secretary post has “squamous cell carcinoma, a metastatic head and neck …

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