The daily WH brief hosted by IMPOTUS is now becoming a Real Housewives show in the absence of campaign rallies and chopper talk. More whining about the press verging into intoning his complaints about the media, including Trump flirting with the OAN reporter.
The reality is that new or complementary therapies won’t be viable for months even as Trump did his usual exaggerations of impending drug trials with a hype of deregulation brought on by crisis. Trump demonstrates that his inaction and ignorance cannot be a deregulatory policy.
Trump is using his COVID-19 press conference to launch into an extensive complaint about how unfairly the dishonest media has treated him. He's not capable of remaining normal for any extended period of time.
Wow. A reporter from OANN asks Trump a loaded question about whether reporters criticizing his racism are “siding with foreign state propaganda” and Trump uses it as an opportunity to unload on the media pic.twitter.com/tZR7a6T1N5
Update from the Gment: Paging Dr. Fauci, seriously where is he? These people should not be talking without him. OAN plant: Now Trump is in his comfort zone bashing the press and praising himself. Only he knows the truth, nobody but him knows the truth.
JUST POSTED: Months before President Trump downplayed concerns that coronavirus would spread widely in the US, his own agencies had conducted a chilling exercise anticipating a respiratory virus that begins in China and kills as many as 586,000 in U.S. https://t.co/TPRMyion2M
The NYT obtained the still confidential after action report from this exercise, dubbed Crimson Contagion. It is a VERY disturbing read, and it sounds like a script from the real life global disaster that is now playing out.
The SIMULATED pandemic run by HHS quickly experienced the EXACT shortages that are now taking place, like respirators, ventilators and anti viral medications. It also predicted other major breakdowns that have NOT YET HAPPENED, but could soon
They short take on this is that the Trump administration knew exact what could happen, and likely would. It had a script. Here it is in fullint.nyt.com/data/documenth…
This exercise was hardly the first. There have been a series of reports prepared that identified significant weaknesses in the ability to respond to pandemics and other global health threats. Here is another NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED report from Obama era.int.nyt.com/data/documenth…
Here again is the story that looks at this history. It was not a “Failure of Imagination,” which is what was said after Sept. 11. It was a failure to act on clearly identified threats. Story by @SangerNYT@esullivannyt@michaelcrowleywith@EricLiptonNYT
At the same time Burr warned wealthy GOP donors about the virus, Trump and right-wing media downplayed the pandemic and convinced millions of Americans that it was a hoax, endangering their lives. https://t.co/xtiG5UplqH
Experts Say Neo-Nazi 'Accelerationists' Discuss Taking Advantage of Coronavirus Crisis
While ISIS has instructed its members tosteer clear of Europe and to constantly wash their handsin hopes of avoiding contracting the novel coronavirus, far-right extremists are discussing how this could be their moment to capitalize on what they see as a potential collapse of society.
The conversations, many of which are taking place on encrypted and closed Telegram channels, gives a glimpse into how the militant neo-Nazi movement—the organized sections of which have been facing increased pressure fromfederal law enforcement—is reacting to the global pandemic.
Though a lot of the talk is wrapped in troll culture with users sharing absurd anti-semitic theories for the virus’ origins and memes about the supposed hygienic superiority of Nazis, some online neo-Nazis are openly seeing the potential opportunity the pandemic brings to their movement: the chance for violent insurgency if authorities struggle to maintain control over society during a prolonged lockdown of the public.
