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March 15, 2020
Illinois governor: ‘Federal government needs to get its s@#t together’
He complains of impossibly long lines at O’Hare Airport.
By DAVID COHEN
03/15/2020 08:05 AM EDT
Illinois’ governor complained late Saturday that new travel restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic have led to an impossible situation at Chicago’s biggest airport.
Enhanced screening for returning travelers from Europe is creating massive logjams at U.S. airports, with travelers waiting hours in long lines to get their luggage and clear customs.
more...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/illinois-pritzker-federal-government-ohare-airport-129946
Illinois governor: 'Federal government needs to get its s@#t together'
Illinois governor: ‘Federal government needs to get its s@#t together’
He complains of impossibly long lines at O’Hare Airport.
By DAVID COHEN
03/15/2020 08:05 AM EDT
Illinois’ governor complained late Saturday that new travel restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic have led to an impossible situation at Chicago’s biggest airport.
“The crowds & lines O’Hare are unacceptable & need to be addressed immediately,“ Gov. J.B. Pritzker tweeted Saturday.
He added: “The federal government needs to get its s@#t together. NOW.“
He added: “The federal government needs to get its s@#t together. NOW.“
Enhanced screening for returning travelers from Europe is creating massive logjams at U.S. airports, with travelers waiting hours in long lines to get their luggage and clear customs.
“To the frustrated people trying to get home, I have spoken with the mayor and our Senators and we are working together to get the federal government to act to solve this. We will do everything within our power to get relief,” the governor tweeted.
more...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/15/illinois-pritzker-federal-government-ohare-airport-129946
March 15, 2020
Cruise passengers under coronavirus quarantine say they lack food, basic medical attention
Cruise passengers under coronavirus quarantine say they lack food, basic medical attention
Letitia Stein
USA TODAY
Cruise ship passengers under federal coronavirus quarantine say they are lacking food, medical attention and are being housed in unsanitary conditions, contradicting Trump's claims that getting them off the Grand Princess was a "tremendous success."
Michelle Saunders and her 83-year-old grandmother, both from Illinois, have been waiting for medical attention and other basics since they were among the 2,000 evacuated from the ship.
At Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia no one came by to check their temperature for nearly two days, Saunders told USA TODAY on Saturday – a standard protocol they were promised to help monitor for infection.
Food was not delivered to their room for more than 12 hours after their arrival, she said. Their room had no towel and one small bar of soap, and she has been told there is no more, despite the constant public health reminders to wash hands.
No efforts are being made to keep the former cruise ship passengers at a safe social distance from each other to avoid spreading the contagious disease either, she said, beyond telling them to wear masks when they leave their rooms.
more...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/03/14/quarantined-cruise-passengers-lacking-basic-medical-care-even-soap/5051059002/?fbclid=IwAR0ENk_elVA-QxfnUSgnoV94Ju7Yz511TCnYE_sGUTXsgdVgVpeF-Vpgyv8
March 15, 2020
Coronavirus in China kept me under quarantine. I felt safer there than back in the U.S.
Our laissez-faire attitude, prioritization of personal freedom and utter lack of government leadership have left Americans confused and exposed.
By Tony Perman, associate professor of music at Grinnell College
When my family returned to the United States after six weeks of quarantine in Shanghai, our friends and relatives responded with congratulations and relief that we were finally safe. Less than a week since arriving back home, however, we don’t quite share our loved ones’ sentiments. We felt safer in Shanghai as conditions improved than we do in the U.S.
Our anxiety was triggered as soon as we stepped on American soil. In China, airport medical checks happened before we were allowed into areas with other passengers. At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, we waited in line with hundreds of other passengers at border security before finally being identified as having just returned from China. At that point, we were escorted to the side by an apologetic young man in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jacket who checked our temperatures and gave us a packet informing us that, as individuals traveling from China, the CDC requested we isolate ourselves as much as possible for 14 days. Airport staff never even asked where we were going.
I’ve now lived through a coronavirus quarantine in the two countries, and the differences are stark well beyond their airports. In China, the obligation to isolate felt shared and the public changed their habits almost immediately. Sterilization, cleanliness and social distancing were prioritized by everyone at all times. Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese state’s heavy-handed approach seemed to work.
In contrast, individual liberty is the engine that drives American exceptionalism. There are certainly valid questions about how much of it to sacrifice in the name of the public good, but our laissez-faire attitude, prioritization of personal freedom and utter lack of government leadership have left Americans confused and exposed.
more...
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-china-kept-me-under-quarantine-i-felt-safer-there-ncna1158756?fbclid=IwAR0ZmMf0KrKmb-R6ZxsN6yNmTCm9IJHLNblBT7q5Ljcq_-NRcdl3TAzEyR4
Coronavirus in China kept me under quarantine. I felt safer there than back in the U.S.
Coronavirus in China kept me under quarantine. I felt safer there than back in the U.S.
Our laissez-faire attitude, prioritization of personal freedom and utter lack of government leadership have left Americans confused and exposed.
By Tony Perman, associate professor of music at Grinnell College
When my family returned to the United States after six weeks of quarantine in Shanghai, our friends and relatives responded with congratulations and relief that we were finally safe. Less than a week since arriving back home, however, we don’t quite share our loved ones’ sentiments. We felt safer in Shanghai as conditions improved than we do in the U.S.
Our anxiety was triggered as soon as we stepped on American soil. In China, airport medical checks happened before we were allowed into areas with other passengers. At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, we waited in line with hundreds of other passengers at border security before finally being identified as having just returned from China. At that point, we were escorted to the side by an apologetic young man in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jacket who checked our temperatures and gave us a packet informing us that, as individuals traveling from China, the CDC requested we isolate ourselves as much as possible for 14 days. Airport staff never even asked where we were going.
I’ve now lived through a coronavirus quarantine in the two countries, and the differences are stark well beyond their airports. In China, the obligation to isolate felt shared and the public changed their habits almost immediately. Sterilization, cleanliness and social distancing were prioritized by everyone at all times. Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese state’s heavy-handed approach seemed to work.
In contrast, individual liberty is the engine that drives American exceptionalism. There are certainly valid questions about how much of it to sacrifice in the name of the public good, but our laissez-faire attitude, prioritization of personal freedom and utter lack of government leadership have left Americans confused and exposed.
more...
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-china-kept-me-under-quarantine-i-felt-safer-there-ncna1158756?fbclid=IwAR0ZmMf0KrKmb-R6ZxsN6yNmTCm9IJHLNblBT7q5Ljcq_-NRcdl3TAzEyR4
March 14, 2020
Our Worst Crisis Since 2008… and We Have an Idiot at the Helm
Trump offers nothing but bigotry, ignorance, and pathological narcissism.
By Sasha Abramsky
Yesterday 5:45 am
snip//
There’s only one Signal this week: the global lockdown now underway to combat what is shaping up to be the world’s worst public health calamity in a century. It is now clear that COVID-19 will not be contained, will have incalculable human costs, and will devastate the global economy, reshaping our lives, workplaces, community relations, and international affairs, possibly for years.
And the man at the American helm, the captain who is supposed to help navigate us through these troubled waters, is an ill-informed narcissist, concerned not with the actual number of infections, and how to contain and treat them, but only with perceptions.
snip//
Presidents set the tone during emergencies. Trump’s tone on Wednesday was panicked, ill-informed, bigoted, and blustering. Absent was any sense of international solidarity, any notion of global cooperation in working to solve not just the public health crisis but also the economic implosion, which is ravaging financial markets and will soon ravage labor forces.
The result? An accelerating panic. Far from calming the markets, Trump’s blundering intervention triggered a global meltdown. If the sell-off continues, the global economy could be headed into a deflationary cycle with no easy exit. The tools that should have been available to fight this are absent or inadequate, with central-bank interest rates already at historic lows and with tax cuts for billionaires having frittered away financial resources, already meager because of public health spending cuts and funding lavished on the military.
If there has ever been a time for US global leadership, for the marshaling of resources and creative thinking, it is now. Yet Trump’s only response is mindless nationalism. It is far past time for this man to leave the political stage. He has been a catastrophically bad president, and he is incapable of exercising leadership during this crisis.
That’s the Signal. Everything else is mere Noise.
Our Worst Crisis Since 2008... and We Have an Idiot at the Helm
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-trump-economy-travel/Our Worst Crisis Since 2008… and We Have an Idiot at the Helm
Trump offers nothing but bigotry, ignorance, and pathological narcissism.
By Sasha Abramsky
Yesterday 5:45 am
snip//
There’s only one Signal this week: the global lockdown now underway to combat what is shaping up to be the world’s worst public health calamity in a century. It is now clear that COVID-19 will not be contained, will have incalculable human costs, and will devastate the global economy, reshaping our lives, workplaces, community relations, and international affairs, possibly for years.
And the man at the American helm, the captain who is supposed to help navigate us through these troubled waters, is an ill-informed narcissist, concerned not with the actual number of infections, and how to contain and treat them, but only with perceptions.
snip//
Presidents set the tone during emergencies. Trump’s tone on Wednesday was panicked, ill-informed, bigoted, and blustering. Absent was any sense of international solidarity, any notion of global cooperation in working to solve not just the public health crisis but also the economic implosion, which is ravaging financial markets and will soon ravage labor forces.
The result? An accelerating panic. Far from calming the markets, Trump’s blundering intervention triggered a global meltdown. If the sell-off continues, the global economy could be headed into a deflationary cycle with no easy exit. The tools that should have been available to fight this are absent or inadequate, with central-bank interest rates already at historic lows and with tax cuts for billionaires having frittered away financial resources, already meager because of public health spending cuts and funding lavished on the military.
If there has ever been a time for US global leadership, for the marshaling of resources and creative thinking, it is now. Yet Trump’s only response is mindless nationalism. It is far past time for this man to leave the political stage. He has been a catastrophically bad president, and he is incapable of exercising leadership during this crisis.
That’s the Signal. Everything else is mere Noise.
March 14, 2020
Coronavirus sparks an epidemic of people helping people in Seattle
March 13, 2020 at 6:00 am Updated March 13, 2020 at 7:59 am
snip//
In the days since the Seattle area became the epicenter of the outbreak, the outpouring of support has been moving and inspiring. On an individual level, people have offered free babysitting, cooking and food delivery for harried parents and medically vulnerable older adults.
After racist coronavirus fears drove down business in Seattle’s Chinatown International District, Bill Tashima, a board member for the local Japanese American Citizens League, created a Facebook group on Sunday to share ways to support small restaurants. Within days, the group had nearly 5,000 members, sharing ideas for restaurant takeout to boost business in the struggling district and creating a virtual “tip jar” that one member was using to collect donations for restaurant workers.
The artistic community, which already experiences economic insecurity in good times due to unpredictable contract-based work, saw all public events canceled like dominoes in the past week. Seattle-area author Ijeoma Oluo quickly set up a GoFundMe on Monday to raise and distribute funds for artists. Within days, the fund raised $80,000 and distributed $10,000 and was in the process of distributing another $30,000 to artists directly impacted by loss of income due to the coronavirus. Another group of people started a live-performance streaming site on Facebook called “The Quarantine Sessions,” where artists can perform and the audience can tip the band before their performance starts.
To support those who are most vulnerable in an emergency, a grassroots effort formed in Seattle called “Covid19MutualAid,” centered on people with disabilities, people of color, undocumented people, older adults and others. In addition to recruiting volunteers for direct support such as food and grocery deliveries, the group is also advocating for systemic changes that would make communities less vulnerable in the first place.
When Seattle Public Schools announced Wednesday they would be closing abruptly the next day, people across the city jumped into action, knowing that for the 32% of Seattle school district families that are low income, school lunches are a critical part of how children stay fed. Volunteers and staff distributed school lunches for pickup at Highland Park Elementary in West Seattle on Thursday and in Rainier Beach, Washington Building Leaders of Change or WA-BLOC and food justice organization FEEST planned a free hot lunch called “Feed the Beach” for families on Friday with additional lunches twice a week after that.
These are just a few of the many grassroots efforts that are just getting started in our region. Larger entities like the Seattle Foundation are also taking action, with rapid response resources like the COVID-19 Response Fund quadrupling to $9 million in a few days.
The coming months will challenge us in ways we have never before imagined. But if we continue, as writer Sonya Renee Taylor said, to “put radical love into practice,” we might emerge stronger than we began.
Coronavirus sparks an epidemic of people helping people in Seattle
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/coronavirus-sparks-an-epidemic-of-people-helping-people-in-seattle/?fbclid=IwAR0hd9BKDe215ydbwlIWFw6IVrJjDDa3o4_69GYw1kXMGpJpMtT4l3mSFJwCoronavirus sparks an epidemic of people helping people in Seattle
March 13, 2020 at 6:00 am Updated March 13, 2020 at 7:59 am
snip//
In the days since the Seattle area became the epicenter of the outbreak, the outpouring of support has been moving and inspiring. On an individual level, people have offered free babysitting, cooking and food delivery for harried parents and medically vulnerable older adults.
After racist coronavirus fears drove down business in Seattle’s Chinatown International District, Bill Tashima, a board member for the local Japanese American Citizens League, created a Facebook group on Sunday to share ways to support small restaurants. Within days, the group had nearly 5,000 members, sharing ideas for restaurant takeout to boost business in the struggling district and creating a virtual “tip jar” that one member was using to collect donations for restaurant workers.
The artistic community, which already experiences economic insecurity in good times due to unpredictable contract-based work, saw all public events canceled like dominoes in the past week. Seattle-area author Ijeoma Oluo quickly set up a GoFundMe on Monday to raise and distribute funds for artists. Within days, the fund raised $80,000 and distributed $10,000 and was in the process of distributing another $30,000 to artists directly impacted by loss of income due to the coronavirus. Another group of people started a live-performance streaming site on Facebook called “The Quarantine Sessions,” where artists can perform and the audience can tip the band before their performance starts.
To support those who are most vulnerable in an emergency, a grassroots effort formed in Seattle called “Covid19MutualAid,” centered on people with disabilities, people of color, undocumented people, older adults and others. In addition to recruiting volunteers for direct support such as food and grocery deliveries, the group is also advocating for systemic changes that would make communities less vulnerable in the first place.
When Seattle Public Schools announced Wednesday they would be closing abruptly the next day, people across the city jumped into action, knowing that for the 32% of Seattle school district families that are low income, school lunches are a critical part of how children stay fed. Volunteers and staff distributed school lunches for pickup at Highland Park Elementary in West Seattle on Thursday and in Rainier Beach, Washington Building Leaders of Change or WA-BLOC and food justice organization FEEST planned a free hot lunch called “Feed the Beach” for families on Friday with additional lunches twice a week after that.
These are just a few of the many grassroots efforts that are just getting started in our region. Larger entities like the Seattle Foundation are also taking action, with rapid response resources like the COVID-19 Response Fund quadrupling to $9 million in a few days.
The coming months will challenge us in ways we have never before imagined. But if we continue, as writer Sonya Renee Taylor said, to “put radical love into practice,” we might emerge stronger than we began.
March 14, 2020
Daily Cover|404,055 views|Mar 13, 2020,12:19pm EST
Exclusive: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Is Giving K-12 Schools His Videoconferencing Tools For Free
Ethan Pines/The Forbes Collection
Alex Konrad
On Thursday, on the heels of Zoom's biggest day ever for downloads the day before, CEO Eric Yuan was taking the time to remotely sign up schools to free accounts of his videoconferencing software. First was a prestigious school in Silicon Valley, then two schools in the Austin, Texas area.
As the Covid-19 virus sweeps across the planet, leading to quarantined cities and shut-down schools, Zoom has emerged as one of the leading tools to keep businesses up and running and students learning. On Wednesday, the most recent day for which data is available, 343,000 people globally downloaded the Zoom app, 60,000 in the U.S. alone, according to mobile intelligence firm Apptopia — compared to 90,000 people worldwide and 27,000 in the U.S. just two months ago. (Zoom doesn't share such numbers and wouldn't comment on a third party report.) And overnight, having already removed the time limit from video chats using Zoom's free service for affected regions in China and elsewhere, Yuan took another measure to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus: he decided to remove the limit for any K-12 schools affected in Japan, Italy and the United States.
Students or teachers who fill out an online form using their school email addresses and are then verified by Zoom will have any accounts associated with that school’s domain also gain unlimited temporary meeting minutes, according to a site set up for the process overnight. The free Basic accounts are also available by request in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Poland, Romania and South Korea, a spokesperson for Zoom said. "Given that many K-12 schools are starting closing, we decided to offer Zoom access to all K-12 schools in the country starting tomorrow," Yuan wrote in an email overnight.
more...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/03/13/zoom-video-coronavirus-eric-yuan-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2w59hfcW82_857OE38HA2Pc6WVniA8n41ozvxHOjPYKRH9-qRYKXRxzJY#18f86d894e71
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Is Giving K-12 Schools His Videoconferencing Tools For Free
Daily Cover|404,055 views|Mar 13, 2020,12:19pm EST
Exclusive: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Is Giving K-12 Schools His Videoconferencing Tools For Free
Ethan Pines/The Forbes Collection
Alex Konrad
On Thursday, on the heels of Zoom's biggest day ever for downloads the day before, CEO Eric Yuan was taking the time to remotely sign up schools to free accounts of his videoconferencing software. First was a prestigious school in Silicon Valley, then two schools in the Austin, Texas area.
“They told me they’d connect with my team, and I said, ‘no, I’ll do that for you,’” said Yuan, reached by Zoom at the San Jose, California-area home that is now his office for the foreseeable future. “I did it manually myself.”
As the Covid-19 virus sweeps across the planet, leading to quarantined cities and shut-down schools, Zoom has emerged as one of the leading tools to keep businesses up and running and students learning. On Wednesday, the most recent day for which data is available, 343,000 people globally downloaded the Zoom app, 60,000 in the U.S. alone, according to mobile intelligence firm Apptopia — compared to 90,000 people worldwide and 27,000 in the U.S. just two months ago. (Zoom doesn't share such numbers and wouldn't comment on a third party report.) And overnight, having already removed the time limit from video chats using Zoom's free service for affected regions in China and elsewhere, Yuan took another measure to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus: he decided to remove the limit for any K-12 schools affected in Japan, Italy and the United States.
Students or teachers who fill out an online form using their school email addresses and are then verified by Zoom will have any accounts associated with that school’s domain also gain unlimited temporary meeting minutes, according to a site set up for the process overnight. The free Basic accounts are also available by request in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Poland, Romania and South Korea, a spokesperson for Zoom said. "Given that many K-12 schools are starting closing, we decided to offer Zoom access to all K-12 schools in the country starting tomorrow," Yuan wrote in an email overnight.
more...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2020/03/13/zoom-video-coronavirus-eric-yuan-schools/?fbclid=IwAR2w59hfcW82_857OE38HA2Pc6WVniA8n41ozvxHOjPYKRH9-qRYKXRxzJY#18f86d894e71
March 14, 2020
Coronavirus: Spanish cases up by 1,500 in a day
Are we next?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51888936?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom3=BBC+News&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom4=39FE856C-65ED-11EA-B699-58D8FCA12A29&fbclid=IwAR1KMAMryGM5anBNGJiKIYeuEmXpCHx31CwpX1diMMsUPJEolKXieSbox2c
Coronavirus: Spanish cases up by 1,500 in a day
22 minutes ago
Coronavirus cases in Spain have risen by 1,500 to more than 5,700, public health officials say.
Spain is the worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which has more than 15,000 cases.
The news comes as the Spanish government meets to declare a national state of emergency, for only the second time in its recent history.
On Friday the World Health Organization (WHO) said Europe was now the "epicentre" of the pandemic.
Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to use aggressive measures, community mobilisation and social distancing to save lives.
Several European countries have reported steep rises in infections and deaths in recent days.
March 14, 2020
Bloomberg
Trump Food-Stamp Cuts Blocked by Judge Who Cites Pandemic
Robert Burnson
8 hrs ago
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge in Washington put off much of the Trump administration’s effort to make it harder for poor Americans to get food assistance, in a blistering ruling that not only criticized the White House but chided other courts for having too often “rolled over” to the president’s demands.
In an 84-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a nationwide injunction that blocks two of the three changes the White House had made to the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
The changes tighten the rules that states, who administer the program programs, must follow when extending food-stamp benefits beyond three months. They would cut off benefits to about 700,000 people, at a time when the coronavirus is spreading across the country, Howell wrote. She allowed to let stand a provision that would limit states’ ability to carry over unused discretionary exemptions for the three-month limit.
Howell’s ruling holds off on the new Snap rules while they are reviewed by the court.
more...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-food-stamp-cuts-blocked-by-judge-who-cites-pandemic/ar-BB11arVl?ocid=sf2
Trump Food-Stamp Cuts Blocked by Judge Who Cites Pandemic
Bloomberg
Trump Food-Stamp Cuts Blocked by Judge Who Cites Pandemic
Robert Burnson
8 hrs ago
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge in Washington put off much of the Trump administration’s effort to make it harder for poor Americans to get food assistance, in a blistering ruling that not only criticized the White House but chided other courts for having too often “rolled over” to the president’s demands.
In an 84-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued a nationwide injunction that blocks two of the three changes the White House had made to the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
The changes tighten the rules that states, who administer the program programs, must follow when extending food-stamp benefits beyond three months. They would cut off benefits to about 700,000 people, at a time when the coronavirus is spreading across the country, Howell wrote. She allowed to let stand a provision that would limit states’ ability to carry over unused discretionary exemptions for the three-month limit.
“As a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing that government officials at both the federal and state levels have flexibility to address the nutritional needs of residents and ensure their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential,” Howell said,
Howell’s ruling holds off on the new Snap rules while they are reviewed by the court.
more...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-food-stamp-cuts-blocked-by-judge-who-cites-pandemic/ar-BB11arVl?ocid=sf2
March 14, 2020
3/13/20 9:17am
Lincoln Project's Latest Ad Takes On The Trump Kid Grifters
It's about time the grifting from Trump's adult children was made a major issue.
By Frances Langum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=A_cyQE36DTU&feature=emb_logo
The Lincoln Project, if you recall, is the work of Bloody Bill Kristol, George Conway, Rick Wilson and other never Trumpers.
Sometimes it takes someone "in the family" to tell the truth about y'all.
Their latest ad pulls no punches on Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr., and Eric as they grift their way through four years of the Trump Administration. "Ivanka" narrated the ad.
Lincoln Project's Latest Ad Takes On The Trump Kid Grifters
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/lincoln-projects-latest-ad-takes-trump-kid3/13/20 9:17am
Lincoln Project's Latest Ad Takes On The Trump Kid Grifters
It's about time the grifting from Trump's adult children was made a major issue.
By Frances Langum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=A_cyQE36DTU&feature=emb_logo
The Lincoln Project, if you recall, is the work of Bloody Bill Kristol, George Conway, Rick Wilson and other never Trumpers.
Sometimes it takes someone "in the family" to tell the truth about y'all.
Their latest ad pulls no punches on Ivanka, Jared, Don Jr., and Eric as they grift their way through four years of the Trump Administration. "Ivanka" narrated the ad.
Daddy being president is the best thing ever!
Millions from his hotels and clubs from our new lobbyist pals and those sweet party insiders.
Jared's business even got a billion-dollar bailout from the Persian Gulf!
Yeah, daddy's job helps my brothers close deals, and his campaign pays Eric's wife and Don Jr's girlfriend or whatever.
KA-CHING!
Plus it's so fun getting paid by the RNC.
Daddy you're so good to us.
Millions from his hotels and clubs from our new lobbyist pals and those sweet party insiders.
Jared's business even got a billion-dollar bailout from the Persian Gulf!
Yeah, daddy's job helps my brothers close deals, and his campaign pays Eric's wife and Don Jr's girlfriend or whatever.
KA-CHING!
Plus it's so fun getting paid by the RNC.
Daddy you're so good to us.
March 14, 2020
Andrew Gillum found in Miami Beach hotel room with suspected drugs, police say
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article241165641.html
Andrew Gillum...
So disappointed. There goes all that potential.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/13/gillums-overdosing-companion-was-a-gay-escort/
Gillum’s Overdosing Companion Was a Gay Escort
March 13, 2020 at 9:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 378 Comments
The Daily Mail has more on Andrew Gillum’s strange encounter last night: The married father-of-three, who narrowly missed out on becoming Florida’s first black governor, was with a “hunky gay escort found naked and overdosing on crystal meth in a hotel room.”
Andrew Gillum found in Miami Beach hotel room with suspected drugs, police say
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article241165641.html
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