Politics/Trmp and his Administration

Trmp & his Inner Ilk

May

• 01 MAY 2020 Pence threatened to punish the reporter who proved his office ignored the rule that he needed a mask to visit the Mayo Clinic

April

• 30 APR 2020 Trump contradicts US intel community by claiming he's seen evidence coronavirus originated in Chinese lab
• 29 APR 2020 Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking
• 28 APR 2020 We Elected Another President Who Doesn't Read and Now We're Facing the Consequences
• 27 APR 2020 The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus
• 25 APR 2020 Trump Speech to Bring 1,000 West Point Cadets Back to Campus
• 24 APR 2020 Trump owed tens of millions to Bank of China
  • The president's financial dealings with the state-owned bank complicate his attacks on Biden.
• 24 APR 2020 This thread summarizes the major-media investigative reporting on the TRUMP-CHINA SCANDAL, a bribery scandal involving Trump's hunt for dirt on Joe Biden in China, his debts to the Chinese government, and his decision to ignore life-saving COVID-19 intel.
• 23 APR 2020 Task force members sent Birx to convince Trump to denounce Kemp's Georgia reopening decision, source says
• 23 APR 2020 Trump suggests 'injection' of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and 'clean' the lungs
  • 24 APR 2020 Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
• 22 APR 2020 Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation
• 21 APR 2020 Trump’s bizarre effort to tag Obama’s swine flu response as ‘a disaster’
• 21 APR 2020 Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief
• 20 APR 2020 Trump says he will sign executive order temporarily suspending immigration into US
  • 20 APR 2020 Trump says he will sign executive order temporarily suspending immigration into US
  • 24 APR 2020 Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump’s ‘temporary’ immigration order, according to private call with supporters
• 20 APR 2020 White House's case against World Health Organization crumbles
• 20 APR 2020 Report: Americans At World Health Organization Told Trump Administration About Coronavirus ‘Late Last Year’
• 19 APR 2020 Trump escalates culture war as virus response hurts his campaign
• 19 APR 2020 The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE
• 17 APR 2020 Russia will 'certainly accept' Trump's 'kind' offer of ventilators, Kremlin says
• 17 APR 2020 In Trump's 'LIBERATE' tweets, extremists see a call to arms -Trump's tweets pushed many online extremist communities to speculate whether the president was advocating for armed conflict, an event they’ve termed “the boogaloo."
• 17 APR 2020 Fact check: Trump did host rallies, play golf as as COVID-19 outbreak ramped up
• 17 APR 2020 Trump appears to stoke protests against stay-at-home orders
• 16 APR 2020 US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report - White House was reportedly not interested in the intel, but it was passed onto NATO, IDF; when it reached Israel’s Health Ministry, ‘nothing was done’
• 15 APR 2020 Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to get his nominees but likely would be impeded by Senate rules
• 15 APR 2020 Stimulus checks to bear Trump’s name in unprecedented move
• 15 APR 2020 Coronavirus: Trump's WHO de-funding 'as dangerous as it sounds' - The American Medical Association said it was a "dangerous step in the wrong direction"
• 14 APR 2020 Trump says he is halting funding for the World Health Organization
• 14 APR 2020 'Mind-boggling': How pandemic planning never accounted for a President like Trump
• 14 APR 2020 CBS News's Paula Reid Exposed Trump's Scam By Just Asking the Same Question Repeatedly
• 13 APR 2020 34 times Trump downplayed the coronavirus
• 13 APR 2020 Trump claims ‘total’ authority, over govs, to reopen economy
• 13 APR 2020 The single most damning sentence in the New York Times coronavirus exposé -
  • "Unfolding as it did in the wake of his impeachment by the House and in the midst of his Senate trial, Mr. Trump's response was colored by his suspicion of and disdain for what he viewed as the 'Deep State' — the very people in his government whose expertise and long experience might have guided him more quickly toward steps that would slow the virus, and likely save lives."
• 13 APR 2020 Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response-The president retweeted a post calling for the government’s top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.
• 12 APR 2020 HOW DONALD TRUMP SPENT JANUARY AND FEBRUARY IGNORING CORONAVIRUS WARNINGS
• 12 APR 2020 Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump’s pandemic response -By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about thecoronavirus, it may already have been too late.
• 11 APR 2020 WHITE HOUSE Behind closed doors, Trump's coronavirus task force boosts industry and sows confusion"Jared and his friends decided they were going to do their thing," one official said, referring to the president's son-in-law. "It cost weeks."
• 11 APR 2020 Report: Trump Ignored Pleas To Put Social Distancing Practices In Place, Warnings Of A Pandemic
• 11 APR 2020 Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating covid-19 - PDF File
  • During one task force meeting in the Situation Room last month, Trump turned to Fauci and challenged him. It was the day the administration was adding Ireland and the United Kingdom to its travel restrictions, and Trump wanted to understand why talk of “herd immunity” — allowing the coronavirus to sweep a nation largely unchecked, with the belief that those who survived would then be immune — was such a bad idea.
  • “Why don’t we let this wash over the country?” Trump asked, according to two people familiar with his comments, a question other administration officials say he has raised repeatedly in the Oval Office.
    
  • Fauci initially seemed confused by the term “wash over” but became alarmed once he understood what Trump was asking.
    “Mr. President, many people would die,” Fauci said. The president said he understood but since then has repeatedly made clear he wants to reopen things soon — although significant roadblocks remain.
• 11 APR 2020 Five Takeaways on What Trump Knew as the Virus Spread
• 11 APR 2020 He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus
• 09 APR 2020 How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags? - A Silicon Valley C.E.O., Jared Kushner, and the race to get P.P.E. for America’s hospitals.
  • Eventually, at a White House briefing last week that will surely go down as one of the Administration’s most callous performances, Kushner said publicly what he had in effect told Ries’s Silicon Valley contacts a couple weeks earlier, in a private phone call with business leaders and government officials: the states were responsible, and the U.S. national stockpile was ours, not theirs. The President agreed. Governors should have prepared their states while there was still time. “We’re a backup. We’re not an ordering clerk,” Trump said at the same news conference.
• 09 APR 2020 Trump Administration Still Isn’t Prioritizing Coronavirus Testing
• 08 APR 2020 Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources - As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.
• 07 APR 2020 Trump Attacks W.H.O. Over Criticisms of U.S. Approach to Coronavirus - PDF Link
• 07 APR 2020 - This is Trump's Fault PDF Doc
• 07 APR 2020 Trump removes watchdog at head of committee overseeing coronavirus relief funds - President Donald Trump has removed a top Pentagon official leading the committee tasked with overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, putting his own pick in place.
• 07 APR 2020 Navarro memos warning of mass coronavirus death circulated in January
• 05 APR 2020 U.S. ‘wasted’ months before preparing for virus pandemic
• 03 APR 2020 Trump Rejects Voting-by-Mail Amid Virus, Citing Fraud Concerns
• 03 APR 2020 Trump’s baffling coronavirus vaccine event
• 03 APR 2020 Jared Kushner Keeps Proving Nepotism Is A Bad Way to Handle Pandemics
• 02 APR 2020 Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness
• 01 APR 2020 “The Campaign Panicked”: Inside Trump’s Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle

March

• 31 MAR 2020 How Trump Is Going to Get Away With a Pandemic
• 31 MAR 2020 Pence task force freezes coronavirus aid amid backlash
• 28 MAR 2020 In Exchange for Aid, Trump Wants Praise From Governor
• 28 MAR 2020 Trump takes immediate step to try to curb new inspector general’s autonomy, as battle over stimulus oversight begins
• 26 MAR 2020 After Considering $1 Billion Price Tag for Ventilators, White House Has Second Thoughts
• 26 MAR 2020 White House deviated from pandemic plan: report
• 25 MAR 2020 NYT Opinion: Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here’s What Happens if We Do.
• 25 MAR 2020 Coronavirus: What this crisis reveals about US - and its president
• 24 MAR 2020 Trump says governors 'have to treat us well' if they want assistance during coronavirus pandemic
• 24 MAR 2020 Seattle NPR Station Says It Will No Longer Carry Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings Live Because Of Misinformation
• 20 MAR 2020 U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic
• 19 MAR 2020 Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them
• 18 MAR 2020 Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism
• 17 MAR 2020 Of Course Jared Kushner Told Trump the Coronavirus Was Fake News
• 16 MAR 2020 Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump - PDF Doc
• 13 MAR 2020 I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.

Non-C19 Related

• 16 APR 2020 Roger Stone jurors say they fear for their safety and plead for privacy
• 03 APR 2020 President Trump Fires Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson

Other States

• 3 APR 2020 ‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump