Новости за 08.12.2020

On CNN Monday, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman broke down the reason why outgoing President Donald Trump is “terrified” of losing his office. “Clearly, President Trump is going to attempt to stay in the headline as much as possible, and whatever network he ends up and doing whatever he’s going to do on,” said […]

One of President Donald Trump’s top supporters pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election received a brutal fact check on Monday. Matt Schlapp, the chair of the American Conservative Union, has been alleging election fraud in Nevada. On Monday, he reportedly sent out a fundraising appeal based on claiming his organization had “uncovered massive […]

The Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate will not be held until January, but Republicans are already playing the blame game over who will be held responsible if Democrats prevail. Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) and interim Sen. Kelly Loeffler are running in the January 5th elections. Trump traveled to Georgia […]

On Monday, The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump personally asked the Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for help overturning the presidential election results in the state. “President Trump called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice during the past week to make the extraordinary request for help reversing his […]

As COVID-19 continues to surge all over the United States, many medical facilities are being overwhelmed with patients — and South Dakota resident Rose Mary Kor, who was diagnosed with COVID pneumonia, saw first-hand how bad the problem is when was told she would have to go to Wyoming for treatment. Kor described her ordeal […]

Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault on Social Security by rushing ahead with a rule that, if implemented, could deny critical benefits to hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities. The Social Security Administration (SSA) late last week submitted to the […]

An overwhelming majority of California’s residents went into lockdown Monday, putting 33 million people under stay-at-home orders as the United States battles record Covid deaths and Britain readied to vaccinate the elderly and frontline staff. The lockdown in America’s most populous state forced most offices to close and banned gatherings among different households, while bars […]

On Monday, POLITICO reported that President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former commander of CENTCOM, to serve as Secretary of Defense. “The decision comes two weeks after Biden announced the other senior members of his national security team,” reported Lara Seligman, Tyler Pager, Connor O’Brien, and Natasha Bertrand. “Although Michèle […]

On Monday, POLITICO reported that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ sister, Maya Harris, has been a key voice floating her husband Tony West to serve as attorney general. West, a former associate attorney general in the Obama administration, currently serves as chief legal officer of Uber. “Allies have floated West’s name as a possible contender to […]

“Gestapo” trended nationwide on Twitter on Monday after Florida state police raided the home of a COVID-19 whistleblower. Former Department of Health data scientist Rebekah Jones posted video of the raid on Twitter, with harsh words for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). 1/There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came […]

On Monday, Rebekah Jones, a former Florida Health Department official who was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged coverups of COVID-19 statistics, and has been running a website tracking what she claims are the real statistics on cases, revealed on Twitter that police raided her home, pointed guns at her children, and seized electronics. […]

On Fox New Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) volunteered to give oral arguments for a case seeking to overturn the result of the election in Pennsylvania if the Supreme Court agrees to hear the matter. “As I said last week, the bitter division and acrimony we see across the Nation needs resolution,” said Cruz in […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will head to Brussels in the coming days in a bid to save the dying hopes of a post-Brexit trade pact, after the latest round of negotiations broke up Monday without agreement. Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier and his UK counterpart David Frost have talked for eight months but remain […]

Conservative Charlie Sykes has been speaking out against the Republican Party since President Donald Trump took over the GOP. It has now become clear to him that the party is headed toward a cesspool of delusion. Speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Monday, the host explained “circular firing squads do serve a purpose, I guess […]

Arguments made in support of President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election continue to be dogged by major flaws in reasoning. “Since President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, there’s been a lot of analysis aimed at somehow proving that his election was the result of fraud or illegal voting. None […]

The United States on Monday placed Nigeria for the first time on a religious freedom blacklist, paving the way for potential sanctions if it does not improve its record. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the US ally as a “Country of Particular Concern” for religious freedom, alongside nations that include China, Iran, Pakistan and […]

According to a new report from the New York Times, Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered to sell the U.S. government extra doses of its COVID vaccine this summer. Now, according to the Times’ report, additional doses won’t be available until next June. “As the administration scrambles to try to purchase more doses of […]

CNN host Jake Tapper spoke on Monday to White House correspondent Abby Phillip about President Donald Trump’s crusade to steal the 2020 election. Phillip explained that she thinks the election denial and efforts from Trump have more to do with what he intends to do when he leaves the White House. “It’s about trying to […]

How quickly can Americans hope to get the coronavirus vaccine? Here is a look at the next steps in the approval and distribution process: – Short term: first authorizations – The vaccine advisory committee of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will meet Thursday after poring over data from clinical trials carried out by […]

One of America’s foremost constitutional law experts wondered if Donald Trump’s financial entanglements could result in the country having fewer COVID-19 vaccines. “Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter,” The New York Times reported […]

A physician who works at Walter Reed Medical Center and criticized President Donald Trump for his joy ride with Secret Service agents  to wave to his fans while battling COVID-19 has been “removed” from the military hospital’s schedule. Dr. James Phillips, who also serves as Chief of Disaster Medicine at George Washington University, will not be attending to […]

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace acknowledged that the media should probably stop covering President Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to steal the 2020 election. Speaking to her Monday political pannel, the former George W. Bush communications chief confessed, “is not going to go away if we don’t stop covering Trump’s stupid human tricks.” “I think there’s a […]

Writing in the New York Daily News this Monday, attorneys Robert C. Gottlieb and Dennis Aftergut contend that you don’t have to have a law degree to see that the “clock may be ticking on some Trump lawyers’ licenses” namely Rudy Giuliani and Joseph DiGenova. “Those questions are unavoidable in the case of DiGenova,” they write. […]

President Donald Trump plans to travel to New York on Saturday to attend a football game during the COVID-19 pandemic. “President Donald Trump plans to attend the annual Army-Navy football game on Saturday along with a limited crowd due to restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic,” Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing “people familiar with the matter.” […]

President Donald Trump is holding a vaccine summit at the White House this week, but the two major drug manufacturers behind a vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna, declined to attend. According to STAT News, the absence “will be conspicuous” since one would assume that a summit on the COVID-19 vaccine would likely have information from the […]