Supercut Shows Fox Personalities Saying Trump Will Never Do Something. He Just Did.
Media Matters for America publishes supercut video of Fox News Hosts saying Trump would never attempt to delay the election.
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Month: July 2020
Herman Cain dies after being hospitalized with Covid-19 coronavirus
Herman Cain, the former restaurant executive and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, died Thursday after being hospitalized with Covid-19.
Cain was 74, the most high-profile political figure to die in the pandemic. He served for 10 years as the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a chain of fast-casual restaurants.
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Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Pretending There’s No Pandemic
President Donald Trump’s campaign advertising is focused largely on issues that are of minimal concern to the American electorate, a HuffPost analysis of campaign ad spending data found, airing zero ads about the coronavirus pandemic in the month of July.
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Trump proposes to delay federal elections until it’s ‘safe’
Trump cannot actually change the date of the federal elections. Though Trump may believe that Article II provides godlike powers, picking the date for federal elections is actually the role of Congress. And that date is already set. Congress doesn’t have to vote to have the election on Nov. 3; it would have to vote to change it to any other date.
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US coronavirus: Country tops 1,000 coronavirus deaths 4 days in a row as experts urge shut down
“Right now, we are on a path to lose more than 200,000 American lives by November 1st. Yet, in many states people can drink in bars, get a haircut, eat inside a restaurant, get a tattoo, get a massage, and do myriad other normal, pleasant, but non-essential activities,” the letter read, which was sent to the Trump administration, members of Congress and state governors.
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New Mexico secretary of state worries Trump’s federal troops will disrupt the elections
Beyond that inauspicious start, New Mexico’s Oliver noted that the process the Trump administration used for determining where and when to send federal agents had completely lacked transparency and accountability. The administration has floated a series of rolling explanations for deploying federal agents to certain cities, she said, including to quell unrest, protect federal buildings, and most recently to address ongoing criminal activity.
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No White House coronavirus task force members currently expected at Trump’s briefing
There’s still an internal split over whether Trump should take the stage, with some aides reminding others how hard they fought to convince Trump to end the briefings after the disastrous one in April when he suggested sunlight and ingesting disinfectants could help cure coronavirus.
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Top State Dept. Officials Enabled Misconduct by Pompeo, Whistle-Blower Said
WASHINGTON — A State Department employee who reported witnessing misconduct by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as hearing “numerous firsthand accounts” of such behavior was blocked from further addressing the issue by top department officials who were protecting Mr. Pompeo, according to a newly public copy of the employee’s whistle-blower complaint.
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John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack. – Mother Jones
John Lewis speaks during the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1,
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