The Tiny Scandals and Trials
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These people...
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I hope that the judge slaps them with contempt of court. Proposing that is insulting.
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Evan Hill @evanchill
Washington’s medical examiner hasn’t released Sicknick’s autopsy or cause of death. Michael R. Sherwin, former acting U.S. attorney, told @60Minutes on Sunday that if evidence connected the chemicals sprayed at Sicknick with his death, “that's a murder case.”
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It was never about the wall. It was always about the grift.
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Half a million people have died in this country. This belongs here.
Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials say coronavirus response was worse than known
'That’s what bothers me every day’: Birx and others admit failures that hampered the White House response
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March 29, 2021 at 8:09 a.m. EDT
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Several top doctors in the Trump administration offered their most pointed and direct criticism of the government response to the coronavirus last year, with one of them arguing that hundreds of thousands of covid-19 deaths could have been prevented.
They also admitted their own missteps as part of a CNN special that aired Sunday night, saying that some Trump administration statements the White House fiercely defended last year were misleading or outright falsehoods.
“When we said there were millions of tests available, there weren’t, right?” said Brett Giroir, who served as the nation’s coronavirus testing czar, referencing the administration’s repeated claims in March 2020 that anyone who sought a coronavirus test could get one. “There were components of the test available, but not the full meal deal.”
“People really believed in the White House that testing was driving cases, rather than testing was a way for us to stop cases,” said Deborah Birx, who served as White House coronavirus coordinator. Birx also said that most of the virus-related deaths in the United States after the first 100,000 in the spring surge could have been prevented with a more robust response. “That’s what bothers me every day,” she said.
CNN’s special with Giroir, Birx and four other senior physicians was pitched as a tell-all with former Trump officials, who are increasingly speaking out about what went wrong after more than 400,000 people in the United States died with the virus during the Trump administration. An additional 130,000-plus have died of covid-19 since President Biden’s inauguration, according to data compiled by The Washington Post
But the finger-pointing and portrayals of some episodes prompted critics to say that former Trump administration officials who managed the pandemic response have turned to a new project: managing their legacies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... -response/
There's a lot more but I remember Birx saying this.
Feuds, fibs and finger-pointing: Trump officials say coronavirus response was worse than known
'That’s what bothers me every day’: Birx and others admit failures that hampered the White House response
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Dan Diamond
March 29, 2021 at 8:09 a.m. EDT
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Several top doctors in the Trump administration offered their most pointed and direct criticism of the government response to the coronavirus last year, with one of them arguing that hundreds of thousands of covid-19 deaths could have been prevented.
They also admitted their own missteps as part of a CNN special that aired Sunday night, saying that some Trump administration statements the White House fiercely defended last year were misleading or outright falsehoods.
“When we said there were millions of tests available, there weren’t, right?” said Brett Giroir, who served as the nation’s coronavirus testing czar, referencing the administration’s repeated claims in March 2020 that anyone who sought a coronavirus test could get one. “There were components of the test available, but not the full meal deal.”
“People really believed in the White House that testing was driving cases, rather than testing was a way for us to stop cases,” said Deborah Birx, who served as White House coronavirus coordinator. Birx also said that most of the virus-related deaths in the United States after the first 100,000 in the spring surge could have been prevented with a more robust response. “That’s what bothers me every day,” she said.
CNN’s special with Giroir, Birx and four other senior physicians was pitched as a tell-all with former Trump officials, who are increasingly speaking out about what went wrong after more than 400,000 people in the United States died with the virus during the Trump administration. An additional 130,000-plus have died of covid-19 since President Biden’s inauguration, according to data compiled by The Washington Post
But the finger-pointing and portrayals of some episodes prompted critics to say that former Trump administration officials who managed the pandemic response have turned to a new project: managing their legacies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... -response/
There's a lot more but I remember Birx saying this.
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Anybody talking about Tiny's "great capacity" to analyze data is delusional or flat out lying. This woman, and this entire group of people, acted cowardly, thinking more about keeping a job than helping the USA. Nobody stood up and said "The president is lying and knows nothing about what is going on".
Which, had they said so, would have meant enough financial windfall for them to not have to think "Oh, I am going to lose my job".
Coward sycophants.
Which, had they said so, would have meant enough financial windfall for them to not have to think "Oh, I am going to lose my job".
Coward sycophants.
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I hereby request the elimination of the word "falsehoods" from the media's collective vocabulary. They are lies. Just call them lies. Another plus--"lies" is 6 fewer characters for your character-limited Twitter posts. It's a win/win the whole way around.
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Amazing how white, privileged people's health deteriorates in prison.
Minorities? Nah, they come out stronger. Keep them there.
(Hope I a am making myself clear).
Minorities? Nah, they come out stronger. Keep them there.
(Hope I a am making myself clear).
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Stacy Blatt was in hospice care last September listening to Rush Limbaugh’s dire warnings about how badly Donald J. Trump’s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could: $500.
It was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in Kansas City on less than $1,000 per month. But that single contribution — federal records show it was his first ever — quickly multiplied. Another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week and every week through mid-October, without his knowledge — until Mr. Blatt’s bank account had been depleted and frozen. When his utility and rent payments bounced, he called his brother, Russell, for help.
What the Blatts soon discovered was $3,000 in withdrawals by the Trump campaign in less than 30 days. They called their bank and said they thought they were victims of fraud.
“It felt,” Russell said, “like it was a scam.”
But what the Blatts believed was duplicity was actually an intentional scheme to boost revenues by the Trump campaign and the for-profit company that processed its online donations, WinRed. Facing a cash crunch and getting badly outspent by the Democrats, the campaign had begun last September to set up recurring donations by default for online donors, for every week until the election.
Contributors had to wade through a fine-print disclaimer and manually uncheck a box to opt out.
As the election neared, the Trump team made that disclaimer increasingly opaque, an investigation by The New York Times showed. It introduced a second prechecked box, known internally as a “money bomb,” that doubled a person’s contribution. Eventually its solicitations featured lines of text in bold and capital letters that overwhelmed the opt-out language.
The tactic ensnared scores of unsuspecting Trump loyalists — retirees, military veterans, nurses and even experienced political operatives. Soon, banks and credit card companies were inundated with fraud complaints from the president’s own supporters about donations they had not intended to make, sometimes for thousands of dollars.
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More from the NYT article.The grit never ends.
The sheer magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics. In the final two and a half months of 2020, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their shared accounts issued more than 530,000 refunds worth $64.3 million to online donors. All campaigns make refunds for various reasons, including to people who give more than the legal limit. But the sum the Trump operation refunded dwarfed that of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign and his equivalent Democratic committees, which made 37,000 online refunds totaling $5.6 million in that time.
The recurring donations swelled Mr. Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.
In effect, the money that Mr. Trump eventually had to refund amounted to an interest-free loan from unwitting supporters at the most important juncture of the 2020 race.
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Political strategists, digital operatives and campaign finance experts said they could not recall ever seeing refunds at such a scale. Mr. Trump, the R.N.C. and their shared accounts refunded far more money to online donors in the last election cycle than every federal Democratic candidate and committee in the country combined.
Over all, the Trump operation refunded 10.7 percent of the money it raised on WinRed in 2020; the Biden operation’s refund rate on ActBlue, the parallel Democratic online donation-processing platform, was 2.2 percent, federal records show.
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Oh, and when they weren't stealing people's money they were doing this:
How the Trump Campaign’s Mobile App Is Collecting Huge Amounts of Voter Data
By Sue Halpern
https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign ... voter-data
How the Trump Campaign’s Mobile App Is Collecting Huge Amounts of Voter Data
By Sue Halpern
https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign ... voter-data
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