Of course, he is telling a lie about it. He always does.

[jsgmgmt8]

YA, stupid and simply put donald trump is critically mental incompetent.

He in NO WAY HAS AN IQ THAT IS MUCH ABOVE 91....DOUBT IT? IM A MENSA MEMBER, NO NOT CRAZY IQ JUST OVER 129,AND SIMPLY HIS ABILITY TO READ, COMPREHEND ADVANCED VOCABULARY AND THE BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEFINITION OF WORDS AT IT RELATES TO SUBJECT MATTER, (IE CRITICAL THINKING, DEDUCTIVE REASONING AND LOGIC) IS THE PUREST FORM OF INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT.

THIS BY DEFAULT LEADS TO POOR DECISIONS, A LACK OF WHAT ANY GOOD CEO UNDERSTANDS THAT, "THE BEST LEADERS ARE NOT THE SMARTEST: THEY MAKE SURE EVERYONE CATEGORICALLY, IS SMARTER THEN HIM OR HER IN THEIR EXPERTISE". THIS IS LOST ON NARCISSISTS BY DEFAULT OR DISORDER. BEING SMART DOESNT MEAN A GOD DAMN THING IF YOU CANT ACCEPT EVEN YOUR SLIGHTEST WEAKNESS, AND MAKE UP FOR IT WITH PEOPLE.

THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL REASON BEHIND PEOPLE AT MENSA, OR MIT, OR CAL TECH, YALE, HARVARD LAW, OXFORD...ITS NOT PRESTIGE, ITS A SHARING OF BRILLIANCE FOR THE GREATER GOOD. AMERICA HAS LOST THIS UNDERSTANDING AS A GENERAL WHOLE. AND ITS A SHAME.

FUCKING LIBERAL OR SO FAR FUCK RIGHT YOU HAVE BEEN OVERCOME WITH DUMMING DOWN TO SOCIAL NORMS, AND IN GENERAL PEOPLE ARE STUPID AS FUCK...WORSE THEN YOU THINK.

YOU NEED NOT POST LINKS TO ANYTHING MEDIA REPORTED UNTIL YOU GRASP THE IDEA, FACTS AND THEORETICAL ISSUES AND DO ORIGINAL HOMEWORK ON AN ISSUE

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THOSE WHO FOLLOW THOSE WHO LEAD THE LOUDEST BECAUSE ITS EASY.

 

[bodysong]

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

We're five months into this and every fact check of Trump comments on the state
of the pandemic is still basically the same: no, it's not under control; no, the problems
aren't isolated; experts say Trump's description is the opposite of the truth.

(link to CNN July 2, 2020)

3 hours ago

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...s-bombshell-these-are-numbers/?outputType=amp

President Trump on Thursday morning appeared before reporters in the White House briefing room to rattle off a bunch of numbers — unemployment numbers, stock-market numbers, consumer-confidence numbers. For much of the presentation, he was reading off of prepared materials. But this is a fellow who can’t resist ad-libbing.
And so at one point, he added, "It’s coming back faster, bigger and better than we ever thought possible,” said Trump of a bounce-back in economic indicators. “These are not numbers made up by me. These are numbers.”
Boldface added to highlight a classic case of Trump-style articulation, if you can call it that. The observation that “these are numbers” would appear to be an empty one. Situated alongside the assertion that Trump didn’t make them up, though, it acquires some meaning — as in, these are real numbers. Someone who lies as much as Trump needs a way to signal when he’s not lying

 

[bodysong]

Right Wing Watch ✓
Twitter › RightWingWatch

This bit from right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman explains so much about evangelical support
for Trump where lies *about" Trump are an outrage, but Trump's lies are between him and
God.

4 hours ago

Greedy weasel, Ralph Reed and his paying customers, the Evangelical "Christians"

Reed admitted Trump was a sinner — which, in Christian-speak, applies to everyone
and doesn’t suggest Trump’s problems are far more consequential than everyone else’s —
before talking about why white evangelicals should celebrate what Trump has done for
them.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post...ans-have-been-vindicated-in-supporting-trump/

 

[bodysong]

Supreme Court says Manhattan prosecutor may pursue Trump’s financial records,
denies Congress access for now

July 9, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...274352-c1e2-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html

Trump loses twice in Supreme Court on financial records cases but can keep fighting
in lower courts

July 9, 2020

Trump's claim of absolute executive immunity has been rejected by everyone
on the Supreme Court, except Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...s-cases-but-can-keep-fighting-in-lower-courts

If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say About Bill Barr, Come Sit Next To Fired
SDNY Chief Geoffrey Berman!

Trump Can't Always Get What He Wants, Not Even From Gorsuch And Kegstand

:sad face icon

Wonkette

“While defeated on his claim that he’s above the law, Trump is now beyond the law
until after November,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex.), a member of the House Ways
and Means Committee, which requested Trump’s tax returns. “He may not be able to
outrun the law, but he’s outrunning the clock.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...274352-c1e2-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html

Jim Jordan Flips Out, Suggests Falsely That Now Pelosi And Maxine Waters
Can Audit Trump's Taxes

The most odious Republican Freedom Caucus Congressman is livid that Trump
lost his “case” in the conservative laden Supreme Court in both rulings.

He told Fox News, “Think about the average American.”

He continued, “Think about the average American who is terrified of being audited
by the IRS. If Congress has the ability to look at Trump’s tax returns and everything else…
you’re talking about Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Maxine Waters auditing the president,
I think that’s a terrifying thing…”

Crooks and Liars

My full views on just how much Trump lost today at the Supreme Court today,
in under 3 mins! So much winning.

(pic)

— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) July 9, 2020

A cowardly Supreme Court punted today on the criminal investigation into
whether Donald Trump, his Trump Organization and others are major league
criminal tax cheats.

The high court held that while Trump cannot shield his tax and business records
from New York State prosecutors, Trump was entitled to pursue procedural challenges.
That could mean months, even years, of delay in the garden variety criminal investigation
by Manhattan prosecutors into whether Trump is a garden variety tax cheat.

The legal effect: All nine justices agreed that the president is not immune from criminal
process and has no rights to assert presidential executive privilege for actions when he
was a private citizen, upholding precedents dating to 1807.

Trump asserted absolute immunity, which all nine justices rejected, as was widely expected.

Should Trump win a second term-
via a combination of the Electoral College, voter suppression and help from Russia
and other foreign governments, the case will then become one can of procedural worms
after another.

-David Cay Johnston / DC Report, Raw Story

https://www.dcreport.org

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/th...rns-and-handed-him-a-cheap-political-victory/

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

July 9,2020

"There were actually two winners, and you wouldn't know that from the headlines:
the president and Chief Justice John Roberts."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/trump-taxes-supreme-court-.html

Trump is crying wolf ?

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Trump if he had a reaction to today’s
Supreme Court rulings during the final minutes of his roundtable.

A White House staffer later yelled at Collins for trying to ask another question
at the end of the roundtable, telling her to leave the room.

PBS has footage

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/a-pu...ulings-in-comments-to-white-house-press-pool/

 

[bodysong]

Court temporarily halts lawsuit targeting Trump's business dealings at D.C. hotel

July 10, 2020

A lawsuit accusing President Trump of illegally profiting from foreign and state government
visitors at his hotel in downtown Washington is on hold after a ruling this week from a federal
appeals court.

The case centers on the president’s hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest Washington.
Foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, have booked rooms and
events there since Trump entered the White House.

(Trump leased Washington's historic Old Post Office)

The court found a genuine dispute over the definition of an “emolument,” writing that
“we can hardly conclude that the President’s preferred definition of this obscure word
is clearly and indisputably the correct one.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...69eaf0-b192-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Trump cannot say it in public, so they say it for him-

That enables Trump can re-tweet it...

Soon afterwards, Trump proclaims to the media, with great vigor, that he never said it.

July 13, 2020

In a burst of early morning online activity, Trump retweeted messages from the
politically conservative former game show personality Chuck Woolery —
who served stints hosting “Wheel of Fortune” and “Love Connection” —
which lamented the “most outrageous lies” being spread about the coronavirus
pandemic.

“Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most,
that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election and keeping the economy
from coming back, which is about the election. I’m sick of it,” Woolery wrote in a
tweet shared by the president.

In another post Trump retweeted, Woolery claimed there exists “so much evidence,
yes scientific evidence, that schools should open this fall. It’s worldwide and
it’s overwhelming.

BUT NO.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/13/trump-questions-public-health-experts-twitter-359388

 

[bodysong]

"Donald Trump has claimed credit for the UK's decision to ban Huawei from the country's 5G networks"

(A bit cynical)

Trump's buttocks are ample enough to be sufficient for two men's laps, simultaneously.
Putin has his arm tucked inside the back flap of Trump's suit coat. Trump's toilet seat skull
topper of solid gold, seems have the golden seat cover solidly clamped shut. Trump's mind
does not seem to be in residence. Nobody home. China's President Xi Jinping has boldly
removed the lower half of Boris Johnson's body.and is using Boris's torso to glove his
entire forearm. (Is there room for Trump's arm, too ?) Boris is a tiny fellow,
by comparison. Boris seems to have unzipped his skull, and is holding his brain
in his left hand as a hostage, and is aiming a revolver at his brain with his right hand.

Boris is shouting ", Back Off!" (There seems to be some ventriloquism being practiced.)

Guardian Opinion cartoon

Boris Johnson

Steve Bell on Donald Trump claiming credit for UK's Huawei ban — cartoon

Steve Bell 16.7.20

Wed 15 Jul 2020 15.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 15 Jul 2020 15.18 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...mp-claiming-credit-for-uks-huawei-ban-cartoon

 

[bodysong]

Sending the "help"out to lie for him-

Trump's own personal liar, White House Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump’s response
to Rep. John Lewis’s death, noting that he signed a proclamation lowering the flag
to half-staff to recognize his civil rights work.

The U.S. Flag Code, however, already specifies that flags should be flown at half-staff
“on the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nts-is-part-pattern-snubbing-foes-even-death/

 

[bodysong]

Trump is using his own destruction of the Postal Service as a reason
for why voting by mail couldn’t work-

Trump has made the U.S. Postal Service system his, by appointing another
Trump bootlicker to head the service. Everything, but pulling down the actual
Post Office buildings has been done, to hamstring deliveries and interfere in the
security of the mail.

August 3, 2020

Republican officials have tried to draw a distinction between “absentee ballots,”
which Trump claims are secure, and “mail ballots,” which he has repeatedly
attacked. The terms are typically used interchangeably.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, describing a recent meeting with a group
of Republican voters in Fort Payne, said he felt compelled to explain that there
is only one kind of mail-in voting in Alabama, and that it is safe and secure.

“They were confused about two different kinds of mail-in balloting,” he said,
“where one is ‘good’ and one is not.”

Merrill’s concerns were echoed by senior White House and campaign aides,
as well as GOP operatives in numerous key states including Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Iowa, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity to criticize
the (Presiderp).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d1d988-d1d9-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

Trump pledges lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada

- QUINT FORGEY
- MATTHEW CHOI

08/03/2020

Trump tweet

“In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor
made it impossible for Republicans to win the state,”
Trump wrote on Twitter. “Post Office could never handle the
Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation. Using Covid
to steal the state. See you in Court!”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-nevada-mail-voting-lawsuit-390878

 

[bodysong]

House Democrats call postmaster general to testify on USPS changes under Trump

The House Oversight Committee has asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy,
appointed by President Trump in May, to testify on Sept. 17 on changes made
to the U.S. Postal Service under the Trump administration.

Why it matters: USPS mail has seen days of backlogs and delays after DeJoy,
a former fundraiser for Trump and the Republican National Committee, enacted
new cost-cutting procedures that took effect in mid-July, the Washington Post
reports.

https://www.axios.com/usps-postmaster-general-trump-18ddfd55-e47c-4439-ab76-78395e76fb85.html

Postal Service backlog sparks worries that ballot delivery could be delayed in November

- Michelle Ye Hee Lee
National political enterprise and accountability reporter
covering money and influence in politics

- Jacob Bogage
National sports writer and blogger

July 30, 2020

The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing days-long backlogs of mail across the country
after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures described
as cost-cutting efforts, alarming postal workers who warn that the policies could
undermine their ability to deliver ballots on time for the November election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...19f1f4-d1d0-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Trump first has to lie to himself, in order to lie to everyone else-

His re-election team caters to this demand, to assist him in maintaining his ability
to generate falsehoods (Including FUX TV and public relations team and tech bros
that FUX TV loaned out to Trump.)

Trump's imaginary kingdom , in his very own Trump Alternate Universe is constructed
out of a fabric of lies. You work for Trump, you lie for Trump. Avoid saying anything,
and do not answer, if at all possible.

Dr. Birx is currently suffering from being unable to avoid telling the truth.

opinion from Washington Post's Philip Bump

August 4, 2020

It’s clear that Trump wasn’t prepared for this interview. The question that follows is why.
Was it simply that, after months of doing almost no interviews besides overtly friendly
ones on Fox News, he was unprepared to be challenged on basic points? Or, more
alarmingly, was it that he didn’t actually understand the scope of the pandemic
that his team insists is the central focus of his time?

On Tuesday morning, Politico published an article looking closely at how the White House
operates under its new chief of staff, former North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows
One White House staffer who spoke with Politico’s reporters said that Meadows and his
team were protecting Trump from bad political news.

“I don’t know if they’re giving him the whole picture,” the official said, calling the group “Kool-Aid drinkers.”

The Swan interview certainly suggests that someone is keeping Trump from understanding
what’s actually happening with the pandemic. The odds are that the person who is doing so
is Trump.

After all, it is what it is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...doesnt-appear-understand-how-bad-pandemic-is/

Most Americans know why Trump did not attend any event that honored Rep. John Lewis.

Trump Assesses John Lewis's Legacy: 'He Didn't Come to My Inauguration

I don’t know. I don’t know John Lewis,” Trump said
(Trump is a scumbag horror, and JL was a man of courage. Trump lied about JL,
just as Trump lies about anyone at all.)

Trump’s swipes at Lewis follow a pattern for the president of stoking public grudges
with respected figures even after his antagonists’ deaths. Before Lewis, Trump has
lobbed posthumous insults at politicians including Sen. John McCain and Rep.
John Dingell.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/04/trump-john-lewis-axios-swan/

Who is it, that changes the position of the flag, when Trump is not looking ?

 

[bodysong]

Mikel Jollett ✓
Twitter › Mikel_Jollett

Here’s why covid has exposed Trump: He throw lies and propaganda at EVERYTHING,
immigration, climate change, war, you name it. He TRIED to throw lies at covid.
(Remember when he called it the flu?) But death is a cold, hard fact and for once,
he can’t lie his way out of it.

6 hours ago

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Trump made at least 19 false claims in his HBO interview with Jonathan Swan.
(This is a preliminary count, will likely rise.)

My fact check here: (link to CNN)

12 minutes ago

Trump the Liar

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/poli...os-hbo-interview-trump-coronavirus/index.html

 

[bodysong]

(Some of the most incredulous expressions, seen...)

"The recent rise in cases has not been accompanied by a significant increase in deaths"
is a wild quote. The daily average has roughly doubled; we're talking 500+ additional
deaths per day. The president is calling this insignificant.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

Trump says that a lot of the bad US numbers were because NY and NJ had a bad time,
"when you take them out," "our numbers are among the lowest."

So aside from all the American deaths, there have been fewer American deaths.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 4, 2020

Maybe, Trump should replace his MAGA hat, with one that has the shrug emoji-

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[bodysong]

Presiderp Benedict Donald refuses to answer any reporter from the paying media gaggle.
The good ship Truptantic is surrounded by a family of icebergs.

"Don't worry! Those are just clouds."

"But, Mr. Presiderp! There are icebergs hidden in the fog."

"They will melt soon."

Greta Thunberg- Look! New icebergs! (North America ice shelf, gone. August 2020)

Permafrost that has existed here since the last ice age, is thawing.

The Milne Ice Shelf in Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has collapsed.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...gist-says.html

"There aren't very many ice shelves around the Arctic anymore," Copland said.
"It seems we've lost pretty much all of them from northern Greenland
and the Russian Arctic. There may be a few in a few protected fjords."

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/202...armer-summers/

 

[bodysong]

I am reminded of the instance- when Syrio Forel fought Ser Meryn Trant with a wooden sword.

What is more ridiculous than pitting nerf swords against flaming steel swords ?

 

[bodysong]

Shirish V. Date earned his salary, today.

https://www.huffpost.com/author/sv-date


https://www.axios.com/trump-lying-reporter-6cf1cc32-4471-4a68-8cbf-2c03bf29d78c.html


S.V. Dáte ✓
Twitter › svdate

For five years I've been wanting to ask him that.

1 hour ago

Don Winslow ✓
Twitter › donwinslow

Everyone please take a moment and follow @svdate and thank him.
He did today what has needed to be done for YEARS.

(pic)

1 hour ago

Ben Jacobs ✓
Twitter › Bencjacob

Trump refuses to answer @svdate's question
if he "regrets all the lying you've done to the American people"

2 hours ago

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

"Look at the way I’ve been treated lately, especially by the media,” Donald Trump whined as he was speaking to a graduating class of 2017 of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, “No politician in history, and I say this with surety, has been treated worse, more unfairly.”

I hardly know where to start with this.

Thomas Jefferson was the victim of many unfair accusations. He was accused of everything from being a pawn in the hands of the French, to being an atheist, and his opponents said that if Jefferson were elected president, French troops would be marching down the streets of Washington DC and Bibles would be confiscated all over America.

Bill Clinton was unfairly accused of murdering Vince Foster. Barack Obama was unfairly accused of paling around with terrorists. Hillary Clinton was unfairly accused of running a child-sex ring out of the basement of a pizza place.

When has Donald Trump even been unfairly accused of ANYTHING?


Also, if you look at politicians throughout the course of history, you see that Teddy Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth and Gabrielle Giffords was shot by Jared Lee Loughner.

When has Donald Trump been shot by ANYBODY?

The American Mainstream Media has actually been very kind to Trump. During the campaign, they knew all about how he scammed thousands of people out of millions of dollars with his fake university. They also knew about the $25,000 bribe he paid to Pam Bondi. And they knew about how he had cheated thousands of contractors out of millions of dollars for contract work they'd done for him.

If Bill Clinton had done anything shady and illegal like scamming people with a fake university, it would have been on the 6:00 news every night for MONTHS! But the American Mainstream Media basically gave Trump and pass on his criminal dealings and barely covered the story at all!

If Bill Clinton (or Hillary Clinton…or pretty much ANY Democrat) had paid a $25,000 bribe to Pam Bondi (or ANY attorney general), it would have been the top story on the 6:00 news night after night for months! They would have milked that story until the election was over! But when Trump was caught paying a bribe to Pam Bondi, the Mainstream American Media engaged in a collective yawn, and largely ignored the story.

If Bill Clinton had cheated thousands of independent contractors out of millions of dollars, there was have been Congressional investigations, a special prosecutor, and wall-to-wall media coverage of the whole thing. But when Trump cheated thousands of independent contractors out of millions of dollars, Congress and the American Mainstream Media acted like it was no big deal.

So, what’s all this about no politician in history has been treated worse of more unfairly than Donald Trump?

 

[LLCox]

Dubya wants to thank Trump for being President. Now Dub is not the stupidest President evah.

 

[bodysong]

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

Trump was greeted with a "four more years" chant in Arizona today.
He began: "You know, considering that we caught President Obama
and Sleepy Joe Biden spying on our campaign [note: nope] -- treason [nope] --
we'll probably be entitled to another four more years after that."

5 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Trump started the week with lies, and he ends the work week with lies.

Here comes a weekend full of lies.

August 21, 2020



I would feel badly for Trump's minions, standing in the hot sun, supporting his pit stop rallies.

The hot runway at the airport, right next to Air Force One, out in the breathless, wet air.
Then, again, it is just the paid Trump chorus that stars in these propaganda production sessions.

The heat-addled fanatics line the road, as Trump takes his motorcade to the next money bag grab.

 

[bodysong]

“All he wants to do is appeal to his base.”
“He has no principles. None. None."
"And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people."
"Not do this.”
“His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God.”
“I’m talking too freely, but you know."
"The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”
"What they’re doing with kids at the border.”
“...he hasn’t read my immigration opinions.”

“What has he read?” Mary Trump asked her Aunt Maryanne Trump Barry, a federal judge.

“No. He doesn’t read,” Barry responded.

Maryanne Barry said to her niece Mary, “It’s the phoniness of it all."
"It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”

(Aunt Maryanne Barry studied the law all of her university and adult life, knows legal rights.)

Barry told how she tried to help her brother get into college. “He was a brat,”
Barry said, explaining that “I did his homework for him” and “I drove him around
New York City to try to get him into college.”

Then Maryanne Barry dropped what Mary considered a bombshell:
“He (Donald J, Trump the Presiderp) went to Fordham for one year [actually two years]
and then he got into University of Pennsylvania because he had somebody take the exams.”

The (presiderp) has said he got into what was then called the Wharton School of Finance
at Penn — which he called one of “the hardest schools to get in to” — because he is
a “super genius.” (Trump sleazed on Fred Trump Jr, his studious, honest, older brother.
Used his brother to get into Penn.) Dad's money, his sister's work, cheating, and emotional
blackmail of his brother, not brains, got him into Penn.

Barry revealed how a deep animosity developed between her and her brother, the presiderp.

Mary Trump said she has not talked to her aunt since the book was published.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...witter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social

 

[bodysong]

I talked to a second campaign source in the last hour or so who confirmed the president
and Bannon did speak, this source described, as weeks ago. But the conversation only
lasted a few minutes. So, the president and his former chief strategist have been in contact
with one another, Anderson. And, so I do think that contradicts what the president said
yesterday, when he said, “I haven’t been dealing with Steve Bannon for a long time.”

Crooks and Liars

 

[bodysong]

Trump scoring political points by making unfounded accusations. Not unusual.
What is ugly, is that Trump setting up a science-based office to take the blame for
failure. Trump pulled oversight, authority, and discretion, out of FDA hands,
and into the hands of Health and Human Services- the same HHS that helped
Trump's schemes to tear families apart at the border. Summer camps for upper-class
children, and daycare cottages for babies were advertised on major network TV, while
traumatised undocumented immigrant children were kept in chain link fence enclosures.
FDA is science based, not politically dependent on Trump. HHS does Trump's bidding.

Trump is taking credit- But he takes no blame. There is likely to be consequences for
Trump's decision to force regulation out of the picture. A continuation of unreliable tests
on the market, and defective treatments that are dangerous for Covid-19 patients.

'I don't take responsibility at all': Trump deflects blame for coronavirus testing fumble

3/13/2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/trump-coronavirus-testing-128971

Trump bullied his way into getting what he wanted- To be enabled to make empty boasts
in his speeches for RNC 2000 and beat his tiny fist against his fat chest, while spreading
campaign propaganda and recording it inside the fucking-White- House!

Trump barred the FDA from regulating some laboratory tests, including for coronavirus

The change in policy came as a surprise to many at the FDA and was a point of intense
disagreement between HHS Secretary Alex Azar and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...-table-main_viruslabs811pm:homepage/story-ans

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has authority to approve tests ?

Trump bullied the FDA into authorizing blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment.

There was outcry from medical professionals that the treatment is still at the experimental stage.

FDA issues emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma as Covid-19 treatment

Health and Human Services Chief Alex Azar Defends FDA's Authorization
Of Convalescent Plasma Treatment To Treat COVID-19

 

[bodysong]

The CDC is making complaining noises about the lack of control over
what information is posted on their own website.

“We are seeking clarification from CDC"

New federal virus testing advice sparks criticism, confusion

August 26, 2020

https://www.startribune.com/officials-change-covid-testing-advice-bewildering-experts/572228682/

Dr. Fauci removed himself from being in a position to confront Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force

('A polyp," he said, He's elderly, and it's possible.)

Trump officials pressured CDC to change virus testing guidelines

Changes to COVID-19 testing guidances finalized by the (Trump's) Coronavirus Task Force
(Quite a few dropped out of the team, and dropped the pretence- who remained ?)

Public health experts have questioned the scientific basis for the testing change.

Trump's Coronavirus Task Force ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Protection
to stop promoting coronavirus testing for most people who have been exposed to the virus
but aren't showing symptoms.

(bodysong comment- Local evening news featured segment that pleaded with those
that are asymtomatic, after getting exposed, to refrain from getting tested, because
so much testing is needed, right now. Earlier, there was a short explanation about
the number different tests for coronavirus. Trump is currently boasting about testing,
but in reality, only half the testing that is needed, can be supplied.)

Top Trump administration officials involved with the White House coronavirus
task force ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Protection to stop promoting
coronavirus testing for most people who have been exposed to the virus but aren't
showing symptoms

Federal testing czar Brett Giroir denied those allegations Wednesday

The revised testing guidelines, which CDC released late Monday with no public notice,
say it is up to state and local public health officials and health providers to decide
whether people without symptoms or underlying risk factors need a test after high-risk
situations — such as coming into contact with an infected person for more than 15 minutes.

Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said the change could
send the wrong message. "I'm worried it will give people the incorrect assumption
that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern," Fauci said in a statement read
by CNN's Sanjay Gupta on-air Wednesday afternoon. "In fact, it is."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/brett-giroir-coronavirus-testing-cdc-402524

Trump trashed CDC virus guidance, and deliberately hid CDC re-opening guidance for
schools and businesses from the public.

Trump's Yuuuge Sunday Headline- Trump's Newest Coronavirus Miracle Cure

In a tweet Saturday night, Kayleigh McEnany told the world that Trump would announce
“a major therapeutic breakthrough” on the novel coronavirus at a Sunday evening news
conference. As the president took the podium, he echoed McEnany, promising a “very
historic breakthrough … that will save countless lives.”

The truth — not surprisingly — was different: Trump did not announce any breakthrough
vaccine or miracle cure, but merely an emergency-use authorization for convalescent
plasma.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/23/trump-is-back-his-worst/

But it wasn’t difficult to see how overeager Trump was for another coronavirus quick fix
— a political win, even — by hyping the treatment. What was particularly notable was
the degree to which the health officials next to him, including FDA Commissioner Stephen
Hahn, played along.

It is one thing to approve the authorization of convalescent plasma; it’s another to
oversell its proved efficacy. Trump certainly did that, and even while being more
circumspect, it seemed that Hahn, like many people before him, was straining to
say the kind of things Trump wants to hear.

At the end of Sunday’s event, Trump and Hahn were pressed on the differences
between Trump’s claim that the FDA found the treatment to be “very effective”
and Hahn’s more circumspect comments.

Hahn then reverted to his 35-out-of-100 claim.

“So I would say that a 35 — if you’re one of those 35 out of 100 people who these
data suggest or show survive as a result of it, this is pretty significant for that person
and their family,” Hahn said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/24/fda-head-toes-trump-line-plasma-goes-too-far/

Trump's news conference, announcing Coronavirus Miracle Cure, plasma treatment, that he,
himself Presiderp Trump, pressured the FDA to authorize plasma treatment (despite
scientists' objections)

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/23/plasma-treatment-coronavirus-fda-trump-400390

At Trump's big show and tell conference,about the latest Miracle Cure-

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar served as a stage prop, and avoided contradicting Trump.

Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, walks it back

FDA Chief Admits That Presenting Plasma As Trump's Latest Miracle Was A Huge Mistake

Crooks and Liars

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn drew a hailstorm of criticism
from scientists this week for mischaracterizing a study's findings in a way that hyped the
benefits of convalescent plasma. He later apologized, but critics say the damage was done.

At a White House event Sunday with President Trump, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn
used a deeply misleading statistic to claim that a treatment the agency had just authorized
for treating the coronavirus would save 35 lives out of every 100 people who get the
treatment.

It was an amazing thing to say, not just because it was counter to the recommendations
of the experts, but because there seemed to be nothing in the study that actually supported
the numbers that Hahn was claiming. Hahn overruled recommendations and went ahead
with the EUA. (Emergency Use Authorization )

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn did not loudly announce his dishonesty.
He tweeted an apology on Monday evening. Excused himself, with the
"misspoke"dodge. ""What I should have said better is that the data show
a relative riskreduction, not an absolute risk reduction."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ling-plasmas-benefits-as-a-covid-19-treatment

Larry Kudlow Proclaims That Coronavirus Is Over