Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is seen at War Memorial Plaza during Memorial Day in New Castle, Delaware. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Except as a sneeze guard that mask is not doing much.
It is making it harder for Joe to breathe and therefore walk.
If Biden wins the White house, Air Force 1 will need one of these
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Not too presidential.
Good grief.
So great! Even Ramses II didn't looks like that ...after his death!
Unfit.
Talk about creepy!
It is okay. It will be alright.
Biden is just a place holder. He will keep the seat warm and saved until the Democrats put in another far out, whacked out, looney tune grifter.
Democrats are going all out for the guy as shown by the article linked below.
California Launches Investigation Into Biden Accuser
I would like to point out that Maxine Waters does not live in her district and we are all told to shut up and sit down.
Different rules for different folks.
Maxine is a ruling class Democrat.
A wonderful metaphor! Quite stylish!
Maxine is a ruling class Democrat.
A wonderful metaphor! Quite stylish!
As opposed to a serf Democrat, who are often bamboozled, into voting for ruling class Democrats.
Nearly two decades ago, when Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican member of Congress from Florida, his office suffered a tragedy. One of his staff, a 28-year-old woman, named Lori Klausutis, collapsed from a heart condition while working alone in his Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.
As the medical examiner later reported, she hit her head in the process of fainting, and the blow killed her. When her body was found the following morning by a constituent arriving for an appointment — she never had the chance to lock up — there was no suspicion of foul play.
Unfortunately, in the minds of certain lunatics — especially disreputable, typically (but not always) anonymous online left-wingers itching to slander any available Republican politician — this became a hot new conspiracy theory. Scarborough, they theorized, must have been having an affair with the staffer in question, and he must have murdered her in order to cover it up. According to this tall tale, the controversy surrounding her death even forced Scarborough to leave Congress — so that just proves it, right?
This story is not just false, but verifiably so. It is also illogical and bizarre. For one thing, Scarborough wasn't even in Florida when this incident occurred. He took six votes on the House floor the day Klausutis died — the first at 10:25 a.m. and the last at 7:09 p.m. The following morning, he participated in another vote at 10:10 a.m.
Second, Scarborough had already announced his retirement from Congress long before Klausutis died, so there's nothing to that part of the story, either. And even after his departure from Congress, Scarborough hardly shrunk into the background as if to avoid the spotlight. The first episode of his new evening MSNBC show, Scarborough Country, broadcast three months after he left the House. It gave him a much higher profile than he'd ever had as an obscure congressman from North Florida.
There was also never any indication that Scarborough had any sort of improper relationship with Klausutis.
It is deeply unfortunate that certain loathsome individuals chose to amplify, repeat, or otherwise resurrect this tall tale, either as part of a bad-faith, cheap-shot ad hominem argument against Scarborough (as in the case of Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos) or else out of the same feverish kookery that motivates most conspiracy theorists.
But it is far, far more unfortunate that the latest person to trumpet and repeat this vile slander is the president supposedly leading this nation through a time of crisis.
Whatever his issues with Scarborough, President Trump's crazed Twitter rant on this subject was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead.
To say Trump owes Scarborough an apology is to put it mildly. But in the end, Scarborough won't be the one hurt by this. Against a weak opponent, Trump somehow managed in 2016 to win despite carrying on with sad, deluded conspiracy theories about Sen. Ted Cruz's father being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Against a less reviled opponent, he may not be so lucky in 2020.
And observers might even someday look back at this incident as the instant when things began to unravel.
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The president is defaming the memory of a woman who died nearly 20 years ago—and inflicting pain upon her family today.
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“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind.
This sentence is from a heartbreaking May 21 letter written by Timothy Klausutis to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, asking Dorsey to delete a series of tweets by Donald Trump. Klausutis is the widower of Lori Kaye Klausutis, who died nearly 20 years ago. (Timothy Klausutis, who never remarried, still lives in the house he shared with his wife.) The autopsy conducted at the time of Lori’s death confirmed that it was an accident; she had fainted as the result of a heart condition, hitting her head on a desk. There’s not a thimble of evidence of foul play.
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But here’s where things go from being tragic to being twisted.
When Lori Klausutis died, she worked for then–Republican Representative Joe Scarborough. Today, Scarborough is a fierce critic of the president from his perch at MSNBC, where he co-hosts Morning Joe. That is why the president has been peddling a cruel and baseless conspiracy theory that Scarborough had Klausutis murdered.
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This is a topic most journalists are inherently reluctant to cover, given the danger that it will draw more attention to a vile lie. But with the president and his son Don Jr., who between them have more than 85 million Twitter followers, sending out lunatic tweets and calling for “the opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough,” human decency requires a response.
That Donald Trump would resort to conspiracy theories to attack his perceived enemies is hardly a revelation. After all, Trump employed a racist conspiracy theory against Barack Obama, which helped him gain political prominence in the Republican Party, and later claimed that President Obama had wiretapped his phones. During the 2016 primary, Trump linked Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and retweeted a supporter who claimed that Marco Rubio was ineligible to run because his parents were not natural-born U.S. citizens. Trump suggested that the suicide of Vince Foster, a former aide to President Bill Clinton, and the death of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia were murders; that childhood vaccines cause autism; and that windmills cause cancer. He’s claimed that climate change is “a total and very expensive hoax” by China’s government, that a cybersecurity company framed Russia for election interference, that Ukraine was hiding Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, and that voter fraud cost him the popular vote in 2016. (Business Insider provided a useful summary of more than two dozen of Trump’s conspiracy theories in October.)
A growing chorus of Republicans are pushing back against President Trump’s suggestion that wearing cloth masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus is a sign of personal weakness or political correctness.
They include governors seeking to prevent a rebound in coronavirus cases and federal lawmakers who face tough reelection fights this fall, as national polling shows lopsided support for wearing masks in public.
“Wearing a face covering is not about politics — it’s about helping other people,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said Tuesday in a plea over Twitter, echoing comments by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) last week. “This is one time when we truly are all in this together.”
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who faces a tough reelection fight, has added “#wearyourmask” to his Twitter handle, after photographing himself earlier the month wearing a mask in an airport as part of an appeal for the public to “remain vigilant.” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate who is running for reelection this year, shared a photo of himself in a mask on Monday, asking others to adopt the practice.
“We all have to do our part. Maintain social distancing but if you can’t, do this,” Cornyn wrote on Instagram. “Easy peasy. Go for it.”
The comments come as Trump continues to treat face masks as something to mock, refusing to wear one in public and joining his staff and family in ridiculing his Democratic rival Joe Biden for doing otherwise. White House staff members are required to wear masks in the building, though Trump is exempted from that rule.
The president retweeted a picture of a masked Biden taken Monday during a war memorial visit. The caption: “This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public.”
Trump administration is considering $450-a-week bonus to bribe people to go back to work because many are better off on $600 unemployment payments
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Tuesday that the White House is considering a 'back to work bonus'
He told Fox News that the idea of a $450 weekly bonus, as suggested by Ohio Senator Rob Portman, is being discussed
Unemployed Americans who are returning to work would keep $450 out of the $600 a week they're getting in additional federal unemployment benefits
The bonus would expire at the end of July
It comes as Republicans look to get rid of the federal jobless payments in a future coronavirus relief bill
They are concerned the payments are too high and will discourage Americans from returning to work post pandemic
A recent study found that two-thirds of workers who lost their jobs in the pandemic are eligible for unemployment benefits that exceed their lost wages
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1) Then why did Scarborough quit congress.
2) I'll take the other side and say that the intern died of a heart condition. I will say that and will still say Trump is right. Scarborough has personal history with Trump and was trying to ingratiate himself. Then he went all Russian collusion and he knows it is not true, but keeps it up for ratings & perhaps for vendetta.
ScarboroUGH went there. So Trump went there and now Scarborough is crying uncle.
FUCK that PUNK SCARBOROUGH May his rating go down and him live with it for a long time.
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Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney called on Trump to stop tweeting about a debunked conspiracy theory involving MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
“I do think the president should stop tweeting about Joe Scarborough,” Cheney told reporters on the Capitol Hill. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic, he’s the commander in chief of this nation, and it’s causing great pain to the family of the young woman who died, so I would urge him to stop it.”
Cheney’s comment came hours after Republican senator Mitt Romney said the president’s tweets were causing harm to the widower of Lori Klausutis, who died in 2001 when she was a staffer for Scarborough. Trump has pushed baseless claims that Scarborough was involved in her death.
“His heart is breaking,” Romney wrote. “Enough already.”
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy repeatedly dodged questions about the controversy, and Trump has shown no sign of abandoning the debunked theory.
For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump’s assault on vote-by-mail, insisting, like her boss, that it invites election fraud.
But, also like her boss, McEnany has taken advantage of its convenience time and time again.
In fact, the Tampa native has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010, according to a Tampa Bay Times review of her voting history. Most recently, she voted by mail in the state’s March 2020 presidential primary, just as Trump did after he made Florida his new permanent home.
Last week, McEnany, 32, said vote-by-mail was OK for Trump because "the president is, after all, the president, which means he’s here in Washington. He’s unable to cast his vote down in Florida, his state of residence.”
Meanwhile, McEnany, a graduate of South Tampa’s Academy of the Holy Names and a Davis Islands homeowner, has voted by mail 11 times over the last 10 years.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Related: Florida provides little direction as election season arrives amid the pandemic
The coronavirus has complicated voting in states that held primary elections, causing a shortage of poll workers, closed polling places, long lines to vote and lower turnout. With the pandemic expected to continue through the November election, Democrats and activists have called for universal vote by mail to ensure people can safely cast a ballot.
But on Tuesday, McEnany doubled down against that idea in a series of Twitter posts meant to imply voting by mail is bereft with problems.
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President Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 23.
President Trump speaks with members of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 23. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Anger Management Class) followed the plan to the letter.
The House Oversight Committee held a video Q&A Tuesday with Christi Grimm, the civil servant who earned a verbal lashing from President Trump, and got replaced from her position as top in-house watchdog at the Department of Health and Human Services after she documented critical shortages of protective equipment at the nation’s hospitals.
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As the ranking Republican on the panel, Jordan couldn’t very well defend Trump’s quashing of yet another whistleblower, and he didn’t try. Instead, he did what president and party demand of him: He blamed China.
“I’m hopeful that the majority will stop playing these partisan games,” he protested, and instead “conduct meaningful oversight to hold China accountable for this pandemic.”
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) took the baton. He declared that “a significant cause of the shortages was China’s efforts to cause our PPE shortage.” He asked about allegations “that the Chinese government hid the severity of the pandemic,” and thereby caused “a delay in the administration’s ability to respond.”
Following Comer’s remarks, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the China pivot “is fascinating to me because I count at least 37 different statements by President Trump in January, February, March and April praising the Chinese government and defending the performance of General Xi.”
Therein lies the trouble with Trump’s, and Republicans’, plans to make attacks on China the focus of the election. Probably no U.S. leader has praised China’s government as effusively and as often as Trump. There’s no way to campaign against that same government without acknowledging Trump was played for a fool.
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Romney is a loser. He lost the 2nd presidential debate to a dishonest debate moderator called Candy.
So by quoting Romney what is Fred or the Fred imitator doing. Throwing red meat to the crazy Left base and reminding the non-Left why Romney and the Left are worthless.
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