Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) faces a volley of criticism after telling reporters that he won’t allow senators to vote remotely to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “We’ll not be doing that. There are a number of different ways to avoid getting too many people together,” McConnell told members of the press. “We…
Although President Donald Trump has come under fire for using what critics say amounts to a racist dog whistle in referring to the coronavirus as “the Chinese virus,” he has a defender in Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), who when asked by a reporter whether the use of the term is acceptable, responded, “That’s where it…
Bernie Sanders said that he was too busy dealing with the coronavirus pandemic to officially drop out of the Democratic primary.
Instead of educating or informing the American people, the White House is defending Trump’s racist spin on the coronavirus.
Billionaire Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital, took to Twitter to demand President Donald Trump order a 30-day nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Shutting down the country and closing our borders “is the only answer,” Ackman said in response to a growing public health crisis that has claimed the…
Trump cut off a reporter who asked about his lack of credibility then went on a rant about beating Joe Biden in an imaginary poll.
According to White House sources who spoke to The Washington Post, President Donald Trump only began taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously after watching Fox News personality Tucker Carlson declare the crisis is “very real” on his program. As recently as March 9, the president had downplayed the effects of the virus, writing on Twitter that “Nothing…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost all gains it amassed since President Donald Trump took office, a further indication of the turbulent effect of the coronavirus pandemic on global markets. The Dow plunged 1,428.48 points, or 6.7 percent, an intraday low of 19,808.90. That’s below its close of 19,827.25 on Jan. 20, 2017, the…
There are some who appear to be taking advantage of the spread of coronavirus across the country in order to gain from others’ hardships in a financial way. Some of these individuals are religious figures, including Paula White, the spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump. White, who heads the president’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative, recently…
President Donald Trump has used a racist term several times in as many days — three times on Wednesday alone — in place of the name of the current pandemic disease sweeping across the nation. While the nation struggles to deal with the health and economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis, Trump has made a…
After a rout of losses on Tuesday evening to former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is reportedly questioning his next moves in the Democratic Party’s primary contests to determine a nominee for president. Biden won in all three states up for grabs Tuesday, including Florida, Illinois, and Arizona. His total delegate count…
Trump is taking out his anger over the coronavirus on his son in law, Jared Kushner, who he is blaming for the inept White House response. Via Vanity Fair: Sources say a principal target of his anger is Jared Kushner. “I have never heard so many people inside the White House openly discuss how pissed…
It is undeniable that a series of decisions made by Donald Trump have made this health and economic crisis much worse than it should be.
