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Trump’s Grandiosity Endangers West Point Cadets

The New York Times reports: Last Friday, the day before Mr. Pence was to speak at the Air Force ceremony in Colorado, Mr. Trump, never one to be upstaged, abruptly announced that he would, in fact, be speaking at West Point. That was news to everyone, including officials at West Point, according to three people involved with or briefed on …

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Tapper: Trump’s Sarcasm Claim Is A “Bald-Faced Lie”

Mediaite reports: CNN anchor Jake Tapped called out White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany as well as “the president’s factotums in the right wing media” for claiming the media took POTUS out of context, before noting how Trump “made their empty defenses of him even less rooted in fact when he claimed he had been sarcastic and he was posing …

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Lysol Maker: Please Don’t Try Injecting Our Products

NBC News reports: The maker of Lysol disinfectants has a stern warning: Please don’t ingest its products to try and treat the coronavirus. “As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” British consumer goods …

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Trump Suggests “Injecting Disinfectant” To Treat COVID

The Independent reports: Donald Trump, a businessman by training and trade, floated more trial medical trial balloons on Thursday night – repeatedly suggesting disinfectant be injected into the bodies of humans to cure coronavirus patients while doubling down on his claims that sunlight kills the deadly virus. “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. …

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Order To Attack Iran Came Minutes After Fox Story

Media Matters reports: President Donald Trump, apparently responding to a Fox & Friends report, tweeted Wednesday morning that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to “destroy any and all Iranian gunboats” if they “harass” U.S. ships. Fox & Friends ran a series of reports Wednesday morning about Iran launching its first military satellite into orbit. Those reports also referenced an …

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42,000 Dead Americans And Trump’s First Thought Today Is Whether Anybody Is Talking Shit About Him

The Hill reports: President Trump in an early morning tweet on Tuesday said he watched the opening of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and saw “hatred and contempt.” Trump has frequently mocked the co-hosts of the MSNBC show, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Last week, Scarborough, a former member of the GOP, said that “you can’t be conservative and support Donald Trump.” …

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Trump Calls FBI Investigators “Crooked Human Scum”

CNN reports: President Donald Trump Sunday would not say whether he will pardon several former associates who were convicted after being charged as part of the Mueller probe, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and long-time friend Roger Stone. When asked about pardons at the coronavirus task force briefing, Trump responded: “You will find out.” Trump also harshly criticized FBI …

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Trump: “Inherently Dumb” Pelosi Will Be Overthrown

Newsweek reports: Trump, who often clashes with Pelosi, angrily tweeted about the speaker Sunday afternoon after she appeared on Fox News Sunday to speak with host Chris Wallace. The president, making sure to express his displeasure with Wallace, as well, called Pelosi an “inherently ‘dumb’ person,” and suggested she will soon be “overthrown.” arlier in the day, before Trump’s latest …

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Trump Continues To Lie About China “Paying” Tariffs

NBC News reports: When President Donald Trump’s super PAC released a TV ad campaign this week painting Joe Biden as soft on China, the apparent Democratic nominee’s campaign and outside allies immediately mobilized a full-court press to counter the attack. Trump’s America First Action PAC announced a $10 million TV and digital ad buy Thursday in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, …

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WH Advisor Compares COVID Protesters To Rosa Parks

The Huffington Post reports: The largely white protesters who oppose social distancing measures to protect the public from COVID-19 are like Rosa Parks, who waged a historic battle for racial equality, right-wing economic commentator and White House adviser Stephen Moore repeatedly insisted Friday. “I call these people modern-day Rosa Parks. They are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties,” …

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Trump Calls Democratic Senators “RUDE And NASTY” For Wanting Answers On Coronavirus Testing Availability

Politico reports: Senate Democrats exploded in frustration during a conference call with Vice President Mike Pence and Trump administration officials on Friday afternoon, with one normally laid-back senator asserting it was the most maddening phone call he’s ever taken part in, according to participants and people familiar with the call. The call between President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force and …

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Trump: “Cuomo Should Spend Less Time Complaining”

NBC News reports: It appears President Donald Trump watched New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s news conference Friday – and didn’t like what he heard. Cuomo, as he has for weeks, said the various federal coronavirus relief packages short-changed New York and that a new $500 billion bill was needed that allocated much more money to the state. He also took …

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Deranged Trump: “LIBERATE” States With Dem Govs

The Associated Press reports: In places like Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, small-government groups, supporters of President Donald Trump, anti-vaccine advocates, gun rights backers and supporters of right-wing causes have united behind a deep suspicion of efforts to shut down daily life to slow the spread of the coronavirus. As their frustration with life under lockdown grows, they’ve started to openly …

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Trump Rages At “Weak And Pathetic Puppet” Pelosi

The Guardian reports: Trump mocked Nancy Pelosi as a “weak and pathetic puppet” after the House speaker criticized the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Come back to Washington and do your job!” Trump wrote in a tweet directed at Pelosi, even though the DC area is currently seeing a surge in coronavirus cases and officials are warning against discretionary …

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Trump Wanted To Launch White House Call-In Radio Show, Decided Not To Compete With Rush Limbaugh

The New York Times reports: On a Saturday in early March, Donald J. Trump, clad in a baseball cap, strode into the Situation Room for a meeting with the coronavirus task force. He didn’t stop by the group’s daily meetings often, but he had an idea he was eager to share: He wanted to start a White House talk radio …

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Conway: This Is COVID-19 Not COVID-1 So You’d Think People At WHO Would Be On Top Of It By Now [VIDEO]

Raw Story reports: In defending the president’s controversial move, Kellyanne Conway blamed the group for not being more on the ball when it came to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have every right to know because of what’s happened here in this global pandemic, but there’s another reason, some of the scientists and doctors say that there could be other …

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Stimulus Checks Delayed So Trump’s Name Can Appear

The Washington Post reports: The Treasury Department has ordered President Trump’s name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that could slow their delivery by a few days, senior IRS officials said. The unprecedented decision, finalized late Monday, means that when recipients open the $1,200 paper …

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Trump Taunts Governors: Go For It, I Love A “Mutiny”

The Metro reports: The president implied there could be harsh consequences for governors like Cuomo, writing: ‘Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. …

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Dictator Trump: I Have “Total Authority” As President

Raw Story reports: At President Donald Trump’s latest White House coronavirus task force briefing, reporters pressed him on his claims that he can reopen the economy, pointing out that the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution clearly leaves the matter to state governments. Trump’s response was to utterly deny this was the case — and to insist that he had the …

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Trump Claims He Can Force States To Reopen Economy

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump on Monday declared that he could force states across the country to reopen their economies, even if those states’ governors believe that doing so would be dangerous. As New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman points out, Trump’s declaration completely contradicts his own administration’s messages about states’ rights, as well as Trump’s own message that …

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