Новости за 24.04.2020

Speaking on Fox News this Friday, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao suggested that the “96 percent drop in passenger volume” on airlines is enough for social distancing on flights to be effective. “There can be social distancing on airplanes these days,” she said, adding that airlines are enforcing the practice “their own way.” “They’re not putting […]

When President Trump seemingly suggested that injecting a “disinfectant” into one’s body could be utilized as a treatment for coronavirus, shock and confusion rippled across the social media sphere. But according to a new report from NBC News, people inside the West Wing of the White House were also reeling from his remarks. When Trump’s […]

On CNN Friday, White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins demolished President Donald Trump’s false claim that he had only been “sarcastic” when suggesting people inject themselves with household cleaners to treat coronavirus. “Of all of the unreliable and even whackadoodle stuff that the president has said in these briefings, this may take the cake, and now […]

MIAMI — With the coronavirus pandemic melting down South Florida’s economy, the Rotary Club this week planned to give away over 1,000 bags of groceries to the most impoverished neighborhood of Opa-locka.One of the city’s longest-serving churches, Mount Tabor Baptist Ministries, also happens to do a weekly food giveaway.But what started out as a cooperative […]

On his Fox Business show this Friday, host Neil Cavuto addressed President Trump’s recent comments where he seemingly suggested injecting disinfectants as a treatment for coronavirus, and Trump’s subsequent claim that his comments were sarcastic. “Wow — that it a little unsettling, folks,” Cavuto said. “I gotta clarify this — the President was not joking […]

“Anyone who does this will not die from #COVID19 because they will have already poisoned themselves to death.” The hashtag #DontDrinkBleach trended on Twitter Friday in reaction to comments by President Donald Trump Thursday evening endorsingthe idea that Americans could somehow imbibe or be injected with disinfectants to eradicate the coronavirus. “It is April 24, […]

President Donald Trump has been facing widespread criticism for suggesting, at a White House press briefing on Thursday, that household disinfectants such as bleach and Lysol might be ingested as a way to ward off the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus — a suggestion so dangerous that in response, the manufacturers of Lysol, Reckitt Benckiser, warned users that […]

“It’s not just Trump’s words but his actions that reveal his utter inability to discharge the duties of his office.” A day after President Donald Trump openly speculated about injecting disinfectants into coronavirus patients and using large amounts of ultraviolet rays to treat the virus, MoveOn.org on Friday publicly called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke […]

Donald Trump is at war with the First Amendment and the free press. The war is on full display nearly every day in his rage-filled press conferences on the COVID-19 pandemic, in which he regularly condemns the “fake news” media and bashes reporters who dare to ask the slightest probative questions about his handling of the ongoing […]

First things first: Don’t buy the right-wing media outlets trying to spin this. Donald Trump absolutely went on live TV and floated injecting household disinfectants into people’s lungs as a potential cure for the novel coronavirus. This article was originally published at Salon Moreover, in what may be the most narcissistic act in all of human […]

The Scottish government on Friday published a new bill which would decriminalize blasphemy, more than 175 years after the last case was prosecuted. The devolved administration in Edinburgh said the continued criminalization of blasphemy, which falls under hate crime laws, “no longer reflects the kind of society in which we live”. Justice minister Humza Yousaf […]

Sergio Moro, Brazil’s justice and security minister, resigned on Friday after clashing with President Jair Bolsonaro over the sacking of the federal police chief. Moro, a former anti-corruption judge, hit out at “political interference” in the federal police, saying that he could not do his job without “autonomy” for the force. The news sparked jitters […]

France on Friday reported 389 more coronavirus deaths, a lower toll than in previous days, and also welcomed new falls in the number of patients in hospital and intensive care. The latest deaths in both hospitals and nursing homes brought France‘s total toll to 22,245, top health official Jerome Salomon told reporters, adding that there […]

The head of a group promoting possibly lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote a letter to President Trump this week, according to The Guardian. Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide, which is a powerful bleach used in processes like textile manufacturing, is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of […]

President Donald Trump appears to have contradicted his own top spokesperson. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was being “sarcastic” when he asked at his recent White House briefing about injecting disinfectants to cure COVID-19. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” Trump told reporters […]

Facing a barrage of fact-checks, criticism, and mockery, President Donald Trump and his defenders are trying to make excuses for his absurd and dangerous suggestion on Thursday that injecting people with disinfectants might help fight COVID-19. To be 100 percent clear: There’s no reason to think this would work, and it is an even potentially fatal idea. […]

A brief appearance on TV by Donald Trump during a Friday signing ceremony turned into a deluge of criticism on Twitter after the president claimed his comments on Thursday about using light and disinfectants to treat victims of the coronavirus was merely him responding sarcastically to a reporter’s question. The brief exchange, which CNN’s Anderson […]

President Donald Trump was challenged Friday on his stunning – and stunningly dangerous – comments suggesting doctors test injecting disinfectant into the human body to try to cure COVID-19, the disease caused by the new novel coronavirus. “Nah, I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you to see what would happen,” Trump claimed, responding […]

Speaking on MSNBC this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed President Trump’s advocacy for unproven coronavirus treatments, specifically drugs like Hydroxychloroquine, adding that not only is Trump pushing for these drugs, he’s also pushing for the agencies in charge of approving medical treatments to approve “what the administration wants rather than what science demands.” “But […]

Decades of Republican leadership has “gutted” South Carolina’s public health system, leaving the state woefully unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Conservative governors like Nikki Haley and Mark Sanford have pursued a relentless quest wit GOP state lawmakers to shrink the government and privatize basic services, but cuts to the health department and infrastructure have left […]

Reporting on Donald Trump’s Friday comments where he claimed his proposal to use disinfectants to help cure victims of the coronavirus was done as a sarcastic response to a reporter’s question, Bret Baier of Fox News called out the president by saying that is not what he saw. “Well, that’s not how it looked in […]

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday found himself in shock after President Donald Trump tried to claim that his musings about treating coronavirus by injecting disinfectants into the human body were “sarcastic.” After playing footage showing Trump telling a reporter that he wasn’t serious about his proposed disinfectant injection remedy, Cooper immediately called B.S. on the […]

In a scorching piece for the New York Times, contributing opinion columnist Timothy Egan said that the Republican Party has no standing to call itself the “party of life” based upon their actions and rhetoric during the coronavirus health crisis. Writing, “The scientific consensus is clear and not that complicated: We need a significant upgrade […]

President Donald Trump’s now-infamous musings about using disinfectant injections to treat COVID-19 have forced the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to issue a public warning against consuming bleach. “ALERT: We have received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use and COVID-19,” the agency wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon. “This is a reminder that under no circumstances […]

President Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has been paying $15,000 a month — the equivalent of the top White House salary — to Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the wife and girlfriend of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., respectively, for campaign work. This article was originally published at Salon The payments, the existence of […]