Tag Archives: GOP death cult

QAnon/GOP Rep-Elect Fights US House Face Mask Rule

The Hill reports: Controversial Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday tweeted that masks used to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are “oppressive” and that people should free their faces. Greene criticized calls to wear masks that were a part of the new member orientation, though the new lawmaker also was photographed wearing a mask. After winning her primary, …

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130 Secret Service Agents COVID+ Or In Quarantine

The Washington Post reports: More than 130 Secret Service officers who help protect the White House and the president when he travels have recently been ordered to isolate or quarantine because they tested positive for the coronavirus or had close contact with infected co-workers, according to three people familiar with agency staffing. The spread of the coronavirus — which has …

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Multiple GOP Govs Vow To Defy Biden On Face Masks

Politico reports: President-elect Joe Biden says he’ll personally call red state governors and persuade them to impose mask mandates to slow down the coronavirus pandemic. Their early response: Don’t waste your time. Almost all of the 16 Republican governors who oppose statewide mask mandates are ready to reject Biden’s plea, they told POLITICO even as they impose new restrictions on …

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Twitter Removes Post By Pro-Trump Radio Host For Suggesting Kenosha Killer Might Be “Needed” Tonight

Law & Crime reports: Pro-Trump pundit Jesse Kelly suggested in a tweet that Republicans might “need” alleged Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse on Election Day. On Monday afternoon, Kelly shared a New York Post article about Rittenhouse being held on a $2 million bond, asking, “But what if we need him tomorrow?” Twitter has since removed the tweet. A Twitter spokesperson …

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Cultists Block Traffic On Highways And Bridges Across Country In Last Minute Bid To Woo Undecided Voters

Yahoo News reports: In a show of support of questionable political value, pro-Trump demonstrators clogged freeways Sunday across the country, from New Jersey and New York to Texas, Arizona, and Washington state. “WHOOO! We shut it down baby! We shut it down!” says one pro-Trump videographer as he pans the camera nearly 360 degrees, showing viewers the group of cars …

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Trump Campaign Again Strands Thousands In Cold

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, PA had a chilling ending — literally — with thousands of the president’s supporters left stranded in the dark and cold, waiting for almost two hours for buses to take them back to their cars. And it wasn’t the first time this had happened. A similar scene had unfolded Tuesday night at …

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STUDY: Trump Rallies Led To 30K Cases, 700 Deaths

The Washington Post reports: A new study from Stanford University estimates that 18 of Trump’s recent large-scale campaign rallies ultimately resulted in 30,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and probably led to more than 700 deaths among attendees and others infected by them. The study, released Friday by Stanford economics professor B. Douglas Bernheim and three doctoral students, examined rallies …

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GOP US Rep Sick With COVID After Attending Georgia Trump Rally, Gov. Brian Kemp And Wife In Quarantine

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) on Friday announced he’d tested positive for the coronavirus, three days after stumping for President Donald Trump with Gov. Brian Kemp. In a statement, Ferguson said he had cold-like symptoms on Thursday night and took a COVID-19 test the next morning. “While the vast majority of my recent schedule has been virtual, …

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Junior Declares COVID Deaths Are “Almost Nothing”

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump Jr. declared on Thursday night that coronavirus deaths had dropped to “almost nothing,” questioning the seriousness of the pandemic on a record-breaking day for new cases in which more than 1,000 Americans died of the virus. Speaking to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump Jr. pointed to data from the CDC that he suggested …

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Trump: Reporting On The Pandemic Should Be Illegal

Talking Points Memo reports: President Donald Trump argued on Monday morning that it ought to be against the law for the news media to cover the pandemic ahead of the elections as the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 225,000. Amid his failure to address the pandemic, Trump has publicly griped several times about the media reporting on COVID-19, …

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Jared And Ivanka Threaten To Sue Lincoln Project

Yahoo News reports: First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have threatened to sue The Lincoln Project over two Times Square billboard ads that attack the two senior White House advisers. The anti-Donald Trump Republican group snapped back with a statement that it plans to make its response ― a “civics lesson” on First Amendment rights ― as …

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GOP FL House Speaker Disputes COVID Death Tally

The Tampa Bay Times reports: The Florida House speaker is calling into question the state’s COVID-19 death toll, warning that it was based on compromised data and used a methodology that inflated death rates. Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, sent a memo Tuesday to all House members announcing the findings of an-in house analysis he ordered of the state’s COVID-19 …

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Trump Camp Announces Monday Rally Near Orlando

Reuters reports: President Trump will hold a campaign rally on Monday in Florida, his first time hitting the campaign trail since testing positive for COVID-19. The announcement comes despite the fact that the White House has yet to say whether Trump is still infectious or when he last tested negative. The president will gather in Sanford, Fla., with supporters on …

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Pence Team Refuses Plexiglass Barrier At VP Debate

The Washington Post reports: Vice President Pence is requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage at Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, after an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates that dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of …

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Two Of Kayleigh McEnany’s WH Staffers Test COVID+

The Guardian reports: ABC news is reporting that Chad Gilmartin, the principal assistant press secretary, has tested positive for Covid-19. Bloomberg, confirming the reporting, said Karoline Leavitt, an assistant press secretary, has also tested positive, along with other mid-level staffers. The White House Correspondents’ Association has released a statement on McEnany’s diagnosis. “We wish Kayleigh, the president and everyone else …

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WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tests COVID+

USA Today reports: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19, she announced on Twitter Monday. “After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms,” she said in a statement. McEnany, who holds press briefings with members of the media regularly, said “No reporters, producers, or …

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Trump Advisor Ridicules Biden For Wearing Masks

The Hill reports: ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday pressed President Trump’s senior campaign adviser, Jason Miller, on the president’s limited mask wearing following Trump’s positive coronavirus test late last week. Miller stood by the president during his appearance on “This Week,” pushing back after Stephanopoulos pointed out that Trump “didn’t have to continue to go to event after event …

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White House Making No Attempt At Contact Tracing

The Washington Post reports: The president met with dozens of aides without wearing a mask — even in close quarters and after top aide Hope Hicks had tested positive. He appeared before thousands at a rally in Minnesota. And he held a nationally televised debate with former vice president Joe Biden after holing up with debate preppers. But there was …

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Trump Calls Giuliani: “I Had To Confront” COVID So That The American People Stopped Being Afraid Of It

The New York Post report: President Donald Trump phoned Rudy Giuliani from his hospital bed Saturday afternoon to declare he feels so healthy, “I could get out of here right now.”  The former Big Apple mayor said his friend of 30 years sounded hale and hearty during the conversation. “If you can judge by the way he speaks, he sounded …

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Barr Won’t Quarantine Despite Exposure To Infected

CNN reports: Attorney General William Barr is choosing not to quarantine after recently coming in close contact with members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle who have tested positive for Covid-19, including former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. Conway is among at least seven people who have contracted the virus after attending a Rose Garden event last Saturday where Trump …

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