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Botany's JournalHe should be gone by noon today
He should be gone by noon today
Trump knew that Vlad/Russia was paying to kill Americans, he did nothing about it, and when the
Russian plot was discovered he and the White House said that he was never briefed "on it" even though he had been briefed "on it.”
Trump should be gone by noon today because when our intel found out that Russia was once again
interfering with our elections in 2020 by working to help Bernie Sanders Trump fired the intel
people who discovered the Russian malfeasance instead of going after Russia. He is a Russian agent.
Trump should be gone by noon today because in November of 2019 when he and Kushner found out about the
coming C-19 Pandemic they went to make money off of it by selling their HCQ snake oil, and their own
C-19 test kits, and they sent 18 tons of P.P.E. to China in Jan. & Feb. of 2020. (Because they owe China lots
of money) All of these acts killed people and allowed the deadly disease to spread out of control. We are
something like 4% of the world’s population and we now have > 25% of the world’s cases of C-19.
Russia bounty intelligence 'may have been' in Trump brief but wasn't deemed 'actionable'
Source: NBC
Russia bounty intelligence 'may have been' in Trump brief but wasn't deemed 'actionable,' senior Republican says
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told Republican members of Congress on Monday that intelligence about potential Russian bounties may have been included at some point in the President's Daily Brief but not conveyed to President Donald Trump in a formal threat briefing because it wasn't yet "actionable," the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said.
"I believe it may have been" in the written President's Daily Brief, or PDB, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said in an interview.
Referring to the president, McCaul said: "I think the way the process works is that he gets briefed about three times a week on sort of actionable, credible items. And the decision was made that this was not at that point in time a credible, actionable piece of intelligence. And if at any point it did, it would be raised to his attention."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russia-bounty-intelligence-may-have-been-trump-brief-wasn-t-n1232498
Help please what news organizations have confirmed that Trump was told about Russia paying bounties?
NY Times
NBC
Wall Street Journal
Any others????
thanx
NY Times: Actual Coronavirus Infections Vastly Undercounted, C.D.C. Data Shows
The prevalence of infections is more than 10 times higher than the counted number of cases in six regions of the United States.
The number of coronavirus infections in many parts of the United States is more than 10 times higher than the reported rate, according to data released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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“This study underscores that there are probably a lot of people infected without knowing it, likely because they have mild or asymptomatic infection,” said Dr. Fiona Havers, who led the C.D.C. study. “But those people could still spread it to others.”
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The results confirm what some scientists have warned about for months: that without wider testing, scores of infected people go undetected and circulate the virus.
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“Our best estimate right now is for every case reported there were actually 10 other infections,” Dr. Redfield said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/health/coronavirus-antibodies-asymptomatic.html
2 choices:
2 choices:
1) Trump knew about Russia/Putin paying a bounty on killing Americans and that is treason.
2) Trump did not know about Russia/Putin paying a bounty on killing Americans and that shows he and his
White House & Intel staff are incompetent.
It also very important to notice that Trump and the White House have not denied that Russia has been
paying to have Americans killed.
BTW I stole this meme from DUer sop
I really hate that no good son of bitch thread. Good God in butter. When is enough enough?
Trump Knew Putin Put A Bounty On US Troops And Did Nothing
Via: The New York Times:
American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.
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The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said.
Putin placed a bounty on the heads of US troops in Afghanistan that was collected upon by militants, and Donald Trump has done nothing in response.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/26/trump-putin-bounty-us-troops.html
Trump believes anyone who dies from Covid-19 is a 'loser' Let the losers perish.
So I re-read it this week, in the wake of Trump’s self-immolation in Tulsa, because something in the noxious spew he’d spouted there reminded me of a brief segment of O’Toole’s piece, specifically Trump’s remark that he’d asked that Covid-19 testing be slowed down so as to give the appearance of fewer cases. Like most people I thought this statement was so beyond the pale that it had to be a joke, and in fact that was how his staff tried to spin it the day afterwards. But much in line with Masha Gessen’s admonition to “Believe the Autocrat—He means what he says,” it now appears that Trump was deadly serious on this point, as he has in fact confirmed multiple times since.
“I don’t kid,” he stated. And that’s absolutely true. Sociopaths like Trump don’t “kid” because they don’t possess or understand any “sense of humor.” Humor, particularly of the self-effacing variety requires a certain degree of humility—a willingness to relinquish control, however temporarily. Trump, who rarely smiles except in certain, learned circumstances and then only as if on cue, has never exhibited any signs that he comprehends humor, its purpose or uses.
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In How to Get Rich, Trump links his own germaphobia to the idea that some people are born losers. Winners are people who think positively—and positivity repels germs. “To me, germs are just another kind of negativity.” He then goes on to tell the story of an unnamed acquaintance who is driven home from the hospital in an ambulance after being treated for injuries sustained in a crash. The ambulance crashes and he has to be taken back to the hospital: “Maybe he’s just a really unlucky guy. Or maybe he’s a loser. I know that sounds harsh, but let’s face it—some people are losers.” The train of thought here is typically meandering, but the logic is clear enough. Losers are inevitably doomed by their own negativity, of which germs are a physical form. Infection happens to some people because they are natural losers.
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As O’Toole points out, this goes a long way towards his continual, pathological playing down of the threat, his infamous press conferences in which he surrounded himself with scientists but demanded center stage, all to demonstrate to his voting base that he, one of life's "winners," was firmly in control and that the worst pandemic to strike this country in over a century was nothing to take particularly seriously, unless you happened to be one of the losers who die from it.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/25/1955974/-Trump-believes-anyone-who-dies-from-Covid-19-is-a-loser?detail=emaildkre
June 27, 2020: 67,334 new cases and 3,284 deaths in the past 24 hours.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213660993
Trump believes anyone who dies from Covid-19 is a 'loser' Let the losers perish.
So I re-read it this week, in the wake of Trump’s self-immolation in Tulsa, because something in the noxious spew he’d spouted there reminded me of a brief segment of O’Toole’s piece, specifically Trump’s remark that he’d asked that Covid-19 testing be slowed down so as to give the appearance of fewer cases. Like most people I thought this statement was so beyond the pale that it had to be a joke, and in fact that was how his staff tried to spin it the day afterwards. But much in line with Masha Gessen’s admonition to “Believe the Autocrat—He means what he says,” it now appears that Trump was deadly serious on this point, as he has in fact confirmed multiple times since.
“I don’t kid,” he stated. And that’s absolutely true. Sociopaths like Trump don’t “kid” because they don’t possess or understand any “sense of humor.” Humor, particularly of the self-effacing variety requires a certain degree of humility—a willingness to relinquish control, however temporarily. Trump, who rarely smiles except in certain, learned circumstances and then only as if on cue, has never exhibited any signs that he comprehends humor, its purpose or uses.
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In How to Get Rich, Trump links his own germaphobia to the idea that some people are born losers. Winners are people who think positively—and positivity repels germs. “To me, germs are just another kind of negativity.” He then goes on to tell the story of an unnamed acquaintance who is driven home from the hospital in an ambulance after being treated for injuries sustained in a crash. The ambulance crashes and he has to be taken back to the hospital: “Maybe he’s just a really unlucky guy. Or maybe he’s a loser. I know that sounds harsh, but let’s face it—some people are losers.” The train of thought here is typically meandering, but the logic is clear enough. Losers are inevitably doomed by their own negativity, of which germs are a physical form. Infection happens to some people because they are natural losers.
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As O’Toole points out, this goes a long way towards his continual, pathological playing down of the threat, his infamous press conferences in which he surrounded himself with scientists but demanded center stage, all to demonstrate to his voting base that he, one of life's "winners," was firmly in control and that the worst pandemic to strike this country in over a century was nothing to take particularly seriously, unless you happened to be one of the losers who die from it.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/25/1955974/-Trump-believes-anyone-who-dies-from-Covid-19-is-a-loser?detail=emaildkre
Former Deputy AG Ayer, "William Barr poses the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law."
https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1275850169142083591Ayer was a US Attorney under Reagan, and he preceded Bill Barr as deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush.
Novak Djokovic tests positive for coronavirus
Source: AP
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday he and his wife have COVID-19 after he played in a series of exhibition matches he organized in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Raising questions about the full-fledged return of tennis, including the U.S. Open, planned for August, Djokovic — who stands third in the history of men’s tennis with 17 Grand Slam titles — is the fourth player to test positive for the illness after participating in the matches held in Belgrade and Zadar, Croatia.
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“Unfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality that we are still learning to cope and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were,” Djokovic said in a statement released Tuesday. “I am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope that it will not complicate anyone’s health situation and that everyone will be fine.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/a05bd74bc4c43bc1373890e594083762
Trump's "joke" about not testing: Top Democrats say Trump is sitting on $14B for coronavirus testing
Vietnam has had zero deaths from C-19, New Zealand now has zero cases of C-19, Finland
has flattened the curve, the Czech Republic made wearing masks the law with great results,
but in Trump's America we are closing in on 125,000 dead.
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Top Democrats say Trump is sitting on $14B for coronavirus testing, contact tracing
Sens. Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray are calling on the administration to immediately free up the funds.
June 22, 2020, 7:25 AM EDT / Updated June 22, 2020, 7:30 AM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been sitting on nearly $14 billion in funding that Congress passed for coronavirus testing and contact tracing, according to Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Patty Murray of Washington.
The top Democrats said in a letter Sunday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar that the Trump administration has "still failed" to distribute more than $8 billion out of $25 billion appropriated by Congress to expand testing and contact tracing. The letter indicated that Congress passed these funds as part of a coronavirus relief bill in April.
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President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters at his first campaign rally in months Saturday that he wanted to slow down testing for the coronavirus.
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Trump officials defended the president Sunday, including top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro who said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Trump's remark "was tongue-in-cheek."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/top-democrats-say-trump-sitting-14-billion-coronavirus-testing-contact-n1231688
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