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Trump ridicules Biden’s use of a face mask as US COVID infections near 2 million
May 29, 2020 14:21The US president has flouted the idea of him needing to wear facial coverings since the CDC started making recommendations for Americans to do so. In early April, asked why he didn’t want to wear a mask, Trump suggested he was more concerned with how he’d appear to world leaders if he was wearing a mask in the Oval Office.
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Trump says he will not “close the country” If second wave of virus hits
May 28, 2020 09:45US president, Donald Trump has recognized the likelihood of a second wave of COVID-19 but has rejected the idea of another round of stay-at-home rules to contain the spread of the virus if it happens. The coronavirus has sickened more than 1.5 million Americans and caused more than 90,000 domestic deaths. The death toll is expected to reach 100,000 by the beginning of June, according to the CDC.
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Trump’s threat to Iran has a hollow ring
May 06, 2020 11:50A tweet by US President Donald Trump on April 22 said, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” Trump seems to be talking the language of war while indulging in politics by other means. Like his ban on immigration, he is resorting to distractions to turn attention away from his incompetence in tackling the COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
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Trump endangers lives by feuding with governors and withholding health insurance
Apr 08, 2020 21:08Throughout his time in office, Trump has grabbed headlines by trash-talking his political opponents and rivals, be they Republicans such as John McCain, or Democrats like Elijah Cummings. He’s doing the same thing now, while the public health catastrophe grows and the death toll mounts.
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The Kushner family could be getting very rich thanks to the coronavirus
Mar 27, 2020 17:47Jared Kushner, once a co-owner of the Oscar Health company, married Ivanka Trump in 2009 and has since become a close confidant of his father-in-law, US President Donald Trump, and is a regular feature in the White House. He holds top secret security clearances and is often cited as one of the architects of Trump’s West Asia Plan, the so-called “deal of the century.”
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Trump budget would cut temporary assistance for American needy families by $21 billion
Feb 28, 2020 17:09US president, Donald Trump in his new budget proposes to cut Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by $21 billion over ten years, which would leave many families with less assistance when they fall on hard times. The cuts include a 10 percent reduction in the annual block grant funding for states and an end to the $608 million TANF Contingency Fund, which gives states additional funds at times of economic distress.
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Trump issues memo that could kill American union rights for 750,000 federal workers
Feb 26, 2020 10:54US President Donald Trump has recently issued a memo that stabs at the heart of labor unions in a move that could abolish union rights for up to 750,000 federal workers.
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Trump’s medicaid block grant plan may impact millions of low-income people
Feb 05, 2020 17:52Tens of millions of people in the US currently enrolled in Medicaid would not be included in a potential state block-grant project, including children, people who qualify for the program based on disability, people needing long-term care and individuals who are 65 and over, according to the guidance announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday.
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Trump will likely use senate trial to push his conspiracy theories
Dec 15, 2019 20:38Trump is no student of sociology, but he has a very finely honed sense of how to spoil the public and he’s a natural at disinformation and propaganda. He’s been doing it his whole life. He knows the value in using a Senate trial to push his conspiracy theories into the mainstream and seems to instinctively understand that the more exposure they get, the more “real” they become.
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More than half of Americans want Trump impeached and removed
Nov 21, 2019 14:03"More than half of Americans, or 51%, think Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to the poll. An even broader 70% think it was wrong for Trump to push for Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. These numbers could spell danger for Trump, as the impeachment inquiry is still in a somewhat early phase."