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babylonsister's JournalTrump aides reportedly think he'll 'face a harsh judgment from voters' after COVID-19 diagnosis
Really?? 
https://theweek.com/speedreads/941307/trump-aides-reportedly-think-hell-face-harsh-judgment-from-voters-after-covid19-diagnosis
Trump aides reportedly think he'll 'face a harsh judgment from voters' after COVID-19 diagnosis
9:06 a.m.
After Trump announced that he and first lady Melania Trump had both tested positive for COVID-19, The New York Times reported that "strategists in both parties and even senior aides to Mr. Trump said the president would face a harsh judgment from voters for throwing the country into greater uncertainty after one of the most trying years in American history."
The Times goes on to report that advisers to Trump acknowledge that his positive diagnosis will "remind voters of how dismissive" he has been about the coronavirus. "Mr. Trump's recklessness, one adviser admitted, amounted to a political 'disaster,'" the Times writes. Trump has continued to hold large rallies amid the pandemic and rarely worn a mask, and he told journalist Bob Woodward that he wanted to downplay the risks of COVID-19.
Democratic pollster Geoff Garin told the Times that Trump "is now in the position of becoming exhibit No. 1 for the failure of his leadership on coronavirus, and he runs the risk that his supporters will feel misled by his dismissiveness of the virus and the need for precautions," while Republican consultant Rob Stutzman told the Times that "it's hard to imagine this doesn't end his hopes of re-election."
Ultimately, the Times writes that Trump's "personal indifference toward the virus could threaten his own health, the stability of the country and his already dimming hopes for re-election." Brendan Morrow
"The utter carelessness of it all is staggering."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/trump-knew-exposed-maskless-campaign-trail-hope-hicks-showing-symptoms.htmlThe White House Knew Trump Had Likely Been Exposed to the Virus. He Traveled and Held Events Anyway.
By Elliot Hannon
Oct 02, 20205:58 AM
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The New York Times reports Trump advisers knew it was likely that Hicks had contracted the coronavirus Wednesday when she publicly began exhibiting symptoms during a presidential campaign trip to Duluth, Minnesota. After the rally, Hicks reportedly quarantined for the return flight to Washington on Air Force One, and on Thursday, a test officially confirmed what senior White House officials already knew. The White House, however, hoped it could keep Hicks’ diagnosis from becoming public, Trump aides told the Times. It’s hard to overstate how closely Hicks works with the president and how intertwined their days reportedly are. Instead of taking precautions to protect those around him, however, Trump basically did nothing different. Instead of laying low, he traveled; instead of isolating, he met with people at campaign events; instead of protecting those around him, he knowingly risked spreading the virus further.
From the Washington Post:
The president did not wear a mask Thursday, including at the events at his golf course and on the plane, officials said. He was tested after he returned to the White House, but he also appeared on Sean Hannity’s TV show from the residence by telephone.
It wasn’t just Trump who carried on, potentially harming those around him—it was the rest of his staff, too. And they knew about Hicks; they knew what was coming. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was also on the plane to Minnesota with Hicks, held a briefing with reporters without wearing a mask as if nothing was wrong. The utter carelessness of it all is staggering. And it obviously starts at the top with a president that derides mask-wearing as a sign of weakness.
Eric Boehlert: Trump has Covid-19: How Fox News infected America
Trump has Covid-19: How Fox News infected America
Merchants of death
Eric Boehlert
News that Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for the coronavirus means our national health emergency has taken an extraordinary turn. “If he becomes sick, it could raise questions about whether he should remain on the ballot at all,” the New York Times reported early Friday morning.
After months of purposefully downplaying the pandemic, mocking the idea of wearing masks, and waging war on scientists fighting the public health crisis, Trump instantly becomes the world’s most famous Covid-19 patient.
And Fox News made him sick.
For months, Fox has pumped poisonous, anti-science rhetoric into the airwaves, ensuring a sizeable portion of the population, including Trump, will refuse to do its part to help America heal. Fox has worked hard to divide the country and make it impossible to have a common sense conversation in times of crisis.
For nearly two decades, Fox News has been depicted by mainstream media as strictly a partisan vehicle. Refusing to address the long lasting damage that right-wing propaganda does to our democracy, Fox News has been presented as mostly a problem for Democrats. But now it's moved into the sphere of public health and the consequences are predictably disastrous as the cable channels fuels a torrent of lies about the virus.
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Trump and Fox News act as mindless sounding boards for one another, each bouncing off lies and misinformation that sound pleasing to the irresponsible ear. Thanks to Trump’s dangerous behavior, along with his age and poor physical condition, he was always a strong candidate to become infected with the virus. But even more so, considering he likely watches Fox News more than one hundred hours each month and has been polluted by the network’s blatant public health disinformation about how the pandemic is a hoax and a "Deep State" plot by Democrats to take down Trump.
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https://pressrun.media/p/trump-has-covid-19-and-fox-news-made
1,600 Former Prosecutors Call Out Bill Barr
https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/01/1600-former-prosecutors-call-out-barr/1,600 Former Prosecutors Call Out Bill Barr
October 1, 2020 at 5:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
An open letter from more than 1,600 former prosecutors said that Attorney General William Barr is using the power of the Justice Department to help President Trump win reelection,
https://medium.com/@dojalumni/doj-alumni-open-letter-on-protecting-free-and-fair-elections-78bea0575e1a
DOJ Alumni Open Letter on Protecting Free and Fair Elections
CDC extends ban on cruising through October after White House reportedly overrules longer extension
Health and Science
CDC extends ban on cruising through October after White House reportedly overrules longer extension
Published Wed, Sep 30 202010:53 PM EDTUpdated Wed, Sep 30 202010:55 PM EDT
Will Feuer
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield pushed to extend the order until February 2021, according to Axios, which cited two people familiar with the matter.
Axios reported that Vice President Mike Pence overruled Redfield and that the plan is to extend the ban until Oct. 31.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday extended its ban on passenger cruising from U.S. ports through Oct. 31 after the White House reportedly overruled calls for a further suspension.
The CDC originally issued a no-sail order for cruise ships in U.S. waters on March 14 after hundreds of coronavirus infections and several Covid-19 deaths were reported onboard ships with outbreaks across the world. The CDC previously said “that cruise ship travel exacerbates the global spread of Covid-19” in justifying the order.
Between March 1 and Sep. 29, at least 3,689 probable cases of Covid-19 were reported on cruise ships in U.S. waters, the CDC said in a statement late Wednesday, adding that at least 41 Covid-19 deaths have occurred on cruise ships. The agency added that “these numbers are likely incomplete and an underestimate.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/30/cdc-extends-ban-on-cruising-through-october-.html
More than 50 GOP former national security officials endorse Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/519089-more-than-50-gop-former-national-security-officials-endorse-bidenMore than 50 GOP former national security officials endorse Biden
By J. Edward Moreno - 10/01/20 09:04 AM EDT
More than 50 additional former GOP national security officials have officially endorsed Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president.
The group, called Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden, first endorsed Biden in August with 70 members backing the Democrat. On Wednesday an additional 56 people joined the group, bringing their total membership to about 130 individuals.
Those officials join several other GOP groups and political figures who have thrown their support behind Biden. Separately, a bipartisan group of 489 former national security officials also endorsed Biden last week.
The new group of former officials throwing their support for Biden reportedly include: Greg Brower, a former FBI assistant director; Larry Pfeiffer, a former CIA chief of staff; and Alden Munson, former deputy director of national intelligence.
The group, Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden, is reportedly launching ads in several key swing states, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.
Elizabeth Neumann, Trump’s former assistant secretary for threat prevention in the Department of Homeland Security, told Reuters that many officials finalized their endorsement for Biden after President Trump refused to denounce white supremacy at the presidential debate Tuesday night.
Trump to Hold Large Rallies In Wisconsin as Virus Surges
He doesn't have a shred of humanity or conscience. 
https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/01/trump-to-hold-large-rallies-in-wisconsin-as-virus-surges/
Trump to Hold Large Rallies In Wisconsin as Virus Surges
October 1, 2020 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Wisconsin, which is a must-win state in the president’s path to victory, is in the midst of an alarming surge of coronavirus cases just a month before the election — an unprecedented political curveball that could alter Wisconsin voters’ opinions on who they trust to handle the pandemic, as more are personally impacted by the virus.”
Trump Officials Were Told to Be Sympathetic to Alleged Protest Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-were-told-to-be-sympathetic-to-alleged-kenosha-protest-shooter-kyle-rittenhouse-says-report?ref=home
Trump Officials Were Told to Be Sympathetic to Alleged Protest Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, Says Report
ONE OF US
Jamie Ross
Updated Oct. 01, 2020 6:04AM ET /
Published Oct. 01, 2020 5:47AM ET
Trump Is 'Single Largest Driver' of Virus Misinformation
https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/01/single-largest-driver-of-virus-misinformation-is-trump/Trump Is ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Virus Misinformation
October 1, 2020 at 7:15 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
The Rude One: The Debate: Trump Give Us Filth and Fraud While Biden Actually Plans a Future for Us
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
9/30/2020
The Debate: Trump Give Us Filth and Fraud While Biden Actually Plans a Future for Us
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When it comes to last night, no one is going to remember that Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden actually laid out plans for his presidency when he could get in more than a few words without being interrupted. Biden said what he'd do to get the nation through the pandemic and what he'd do to help businesses and schools reopen safely after we've finally gotten on the path to recovery. He said he'd get rid of Trump's tax cut for the wealthy. Biden talked about infrastructure spending and creating more jobs while moving the country to greener energy (and how that would create jobs, which is so obvious that it's maddening that this has to be explained). Biden talked about immediate steps he could take to mitigate the Godzilla of climate change that's going to wreck us. Biden talked about addressing racism and white privilege and police brutality.
Biden was the only one of the two candidates to actually utter the word "future," as if he could see beyond his immediate animal needs, unlike President and business failure Donald Trump.
Trump didn't offer a single idea for his second term. Not one. He said he'll have plans in the indeterminate future, but he didn't tell you one thing that he aspires to do for the country because his only aspiration is to stay in power.
But we won't remember any of this because, as is his way, Trump was a fucking tsunami of lies and accusations and conspiracy theories. And he just wouldn't stop. It was like going to an orgy and there's one guy who has done too much cocaine after downing Viagra and he just runs around with his half-hard microdick, frantically fucking any available hole but never able to cum because even the dog is rejecting his desperate humping. Christ, will someone throw this asshole out so the rest of us can enjoy the evening?
You've heard plenty about Trump refusing to condemn white supremacists. But what's being missed is that moderating wet noodle Chris Wallace actually fed him the line he should have said. Wallace asked Trump, "Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia group and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities?" And Trump couldn't even bring himself to say that about the neo-Nazi Proud Boys, instead saying the now-infamous "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by" before immediately pivoting to attacking left-wing protesters. It was appalling but of a piece with who Trump is and who supports Trump. The Proud Boys themselves were thrilled.
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https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-debate-trump-give-us-filth-and.html
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