👉Her husband is dead & she's in the ICU after ingesting chloroquine:
"We saw Trump on TV -- every channel -- & all of his buddies and that this was safe," she said.
"Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
She implored
@VaughnHillyard
: "Educate the people"
Arizona man dies after ingesting chloroquine in an attempt to prevent coronavirus.
There are no drugs approved to try to prevent or treat the new coronavirus. Self-medicating to prevent the coronavirus can be dangerous and possibly deadly.
NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Committee her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned and ending the “barbaric legacy” of the law, two Democratic committee aides confirm to NBC News
Harris just pointed out a significant timeline:
👉Trump nominated Barrett to the 7th circuit court, making her a judge, 5 months after she published an article criticizing Chief Justice Roberts' upholding of Obamacare.
At drive-through COVID-19 testing centers in South Korea, the test takes 10 minutes at most.
Results are texted to you, usually the next day. And it's free — paid for by the government.
Dr. Oz: "I think a lot of doctors now are feeling that the worry and the panic about coronavirus is gonna be worse than the actual coronavirus for them."
👉NEWS:
U.S. docs, nurses & hospitals send letter to Trump:
"Immediately use the DPA to increase the domestic production of medical supplies and equipment that hospitals, health systems, physicians, nurses and all front line providers so desperately need. ...
Last night for the last time we held our precious father as he left us, peacefully, listening to his favorite music and surrounded by the love of the family he created.
John Przybyla was the light in my heart, the most loving, gentle, humble, witty father any girl could ask for
“The President actually said to Nancy Pelosi, ‘Hey, can we do something about this whistleblower complaint, can we work something out.’ And she said ‘Yes, you can tell your people to obey the law.’ So she quickly swatted that down." -
@HeidiNBC
NEWS:
House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney has "new internal postal service documents showing" the delays "we have all heard about are actually far worse than previously" known. "And they are across the board," she said.
*Docus will be avail shortly to all House members.
Schiff making one final appeal on the Senate floor:
"He is not who you are," says
@RepAdamSchiff
.
“Even a single vote can change the course of history. … Is there one among you who will say ‘enough?”
#ImpeachmentHearings
We are watching an 80-year-old man get bludgeoned with a hammer (inc. his blood pooling on the floor) because our "politics" are so toxic that a judge (siding with news organizations) determined it was necessary to stop disinformation -- a lot of it spread on this platform.
Dr. Matt McCarthy: NY Presbyterian Hospital on Coronavirus:
"We are not testing at full capacity and that is a national scandal."
"We're being told that things are ok ... That's just not the way we're talking about it in medical circles."
#coronavirus
#CoronaOutbreak
JUST IN: White House Issues Memo to U.S. Media Leaders
"It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies."
Impeachment is grave, rare, and historic. The Constitution requires “treason, bribery, or other high
Neither the CDC nor the coronavirus task force chaired by Pence would say who made the decision to forgo the WHO test that so many other countries accepted and used.
👉It will eventually come out.
“British security officials have confirmed to Sky News that the reports about the plot are true.”
Russia offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to attack British troops - as senior Tory MP seeks answers
To recap the
#RNCConvention
:
1. Trump did not inherit a stagnant economy.
Growth = slower than Obama's last 3 years, even before corona
2. Biden is not proposing tax hikes on anyone earning less than $400K
3. Trump has not appointed an unprecedented # of women
👉The morning of his July 25 call asking Ukraine for a "favor" to investigate Joe Biden's son, Trump was reading a Fox poll showing 2 things:
1. Biden w a "commanding lead" for Dem. nomination
2. Biden beating Trump by 10 pts. in a general
.
@SpeakerPelosi
in 2017 after the shooting of
@SteveScalise
:
"it's in the family. It's an injury in the family. For the staff and for our colleague and for his leadership."
"We cannot let that be a victory for the assailant or anyone who would think that way. So tomorrow
Dems are forcing these doomed votes -- to subpoena Mulvaney, etc -- for a reason.
The reason:
If they fail to get witnesses later, they will have put the most vulnerable GOP senators (Collins, etc) on the record opposing testimony from material witnesses.
#ImpeachmentTrial
What's our duty -- as the media -- at this pivotal moment in our history and what does it mean to be fair and impartial?
To tell people the truth, not both sides version of it.
That is all.
For folks who primarily consume right-wing media funded by billionaires, let me help on the Hunter issue and what's not been proven:
1. The committee has not found any direct evidence that President Biden personally benefited from any of his son’s biz dealings.
"Oh my God. Don't take anything. Don't believe anything.
Don’t believe anything that the President says and his people because they don't know what they're talking about. And don't take anything--be so careful and call your doctor. This is a heart ache I'll never get over."
NEW: MI GOP leaders issue statement on Trump meeting:
"We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors,
May be a first of its kind for any presidential news conference:
Jeff Mason repeatedly asks Trump to clarify what he wanted Zelensky to do:
"Are you talking to me?" Practically yells at Mason to ask the Finnish leader a question instead; Rips "fake" and "corrupt" U.S. media.
DeVos' $40 million yacht “The Seaquest" is registered to Cayman Islands despite never visiting the territory.
A nonpartisan group wants to know if the family, worth billions, is avoiding paying millions of dollars in taxes.
NEW: How Leonard Leo and Ginni Thomas gamed Citizens’ United
@politico
's months-long investigation shows Thomas' early involvement with Leo in the weeks before the ruling & raises questions about how much money he may have directed to her.
@politico
The most delightful elderly man - looked to be late 70's/early 80's - just delivered our pizza, handing it over with a slight tremble in his frail arms.
If it's possible for a heart to feel physically heavy, it does.
Pence condemned "rioting and looting" by some protesters in Kenosha w/o mentioning the murders of two individuals by a 17-year-old vigilante open carrying.
NEW: Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) calls for criminal investigation of Trump Raffensberger call:
"more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant. His disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed
.
@NBC
exclusive:
Kavanaugh Yale classmates ignored by the FBI speak out, reveal new text message about Kavanaugh advising alleged eyewitness before New Yorker story:
I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair
"I do so not because of Trump, but because of everyone else in the party who openly embraces Trumpism"
via
@usatoday
Locked eyes w a Dem senator coming out of Senate chamber visibly choking up after
@RepAdamSchiff
closing appeal for just one GOP senator to say “enough.”
#ImpeachmentTrials
For anyone balking at public health warnings about holiday gatherings, please check your sacrifice against that of the hundreds of thousands of Americans having their first holidays w/o their loved ones.
Romelia Navarro is comforted by Michele Younkin, a nurse, while sitting at the bedside of her dying husband. (Photo Credit JAE C. HONG / Associated Press)
Our sweet father is in a coma on a ventilator fighting for his life.
(pneumonia in both lungs & a major cardiac arrest. He tested negative for COVID)
2 days ago, he called to say he had chills & chalk it up to low blood sugar, cracking that’s good cuz he’s not ready to go.
👉Reminder:
Rudy was working for "free" for Trump.
But he WAS BEING PAID $500,000 by Lev Parnas, who failed to disclose a $1 million payment from ....
Dmytro Firtash, described in 2017 U.S. fed. court papers as an associate of RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME.
Since Trump was impeached:
1. OMB email: “Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold.”
2. Bolton volunteers to testify if subpoenaed. (Lawyer has said he has new info.)
3. Parnas agrees to empty his phone/hand over docus/grants interviews.
4. GAO says Trump broke the law.
Pelosi/Schumer issue statement:
“Now that the television networks have decided to air the President’s address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime."
It's a small world, a very small world -- of religious conservatives winning hugely consequential cases before the
@USSupremeCourt
.
Because I believe most Americans probably don't realize how small, I'll try to write about it more in this space.
Bite size for now.
1/
Great news...
Just checked ... and Mexico says they already paid for the wall:
Workers who don’t have SS numbers include a large number of undocumented immigrants. They paid $23.6 billion in income taxes in 2015 for benefits they can’t even use, like Social Security and Medicare.
“Look, the House is supposed to do all of this work on witnesses and documents BEFORE they send the articles over to the Senate, not to call in new witnesses, go through new documents - that work is supposed to be done in the House.”
@KatiePavlich
@foxandfriends
NEW: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's former company, New Breed, was awarded multiple noncompetitive contracts by USPS that may have cost taxpayers as much as $53 million more than if they'd been competitively bid.
via
@nbcnews
This from
@SpeakerBoehner
's 2021 memoir (on the modern) party offers evergreen insight:
"What they're really interested in is chaos. ...They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails and they've finally proved that it's beyond saving. 1/
NEW:
Supreme Court hearings should not be held until the "full extent" of virus exposure is known, Feinstein & Schumer say in statement.
"There is bipartisan agreement that a virtual confirmation hearing for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench is not an acceptable
.
@DevinNunes
and
@EliseStefanik
know full well the rules established for these hearings were established to allow sustained 45-min rounds of questions to avoid circus-like, 5-minute lightening round firing squad at the witness.
What they just did was for the
@FoxNews
camera.
NEW: from Quinnipiac:
--Two thirds of Americans want John Bolton to testify in Trump's Senate impeachment trial, (39 % of Republicans, 71% of independents, and 91% of Democrats).
*Bolton has made clear, through his lawyer, he has new information about the Trump/Ukraine probe*
🔥FACT CHECK:
On the "failed policies" of Obama:
*First 35 months Trump, eco added about 191,000 jobs per month. Last 35 months of Obama, approx 227,000 jobs each month.
That’s 36,000 fewer jobs each month under Trump*
#SOTU
C-Span caller last night said Joe Biden engineered a presidential run to ... avoid prosecution.
Many reporters (self included) don't appreciate the breadth of serious disinformation created by decades of talk radio culture in the heartland.
The majority of callers, while .....
As we unpack Trump's hesitation to criticize Saudi Arabia and examine his business ties, remembering this from 2016:
Trump registered EIGHT new companies in Saudi Arabia during US election campaign
Pro-Kremlin Ukrainians said they've passed materials to Sen. Ron Johnson's on the Bidens.
👉Contacted by
@NBCNews
, Johnson's office said they're not taking "oppo" but wouldn't say if they've received "materials" on the Bidens.
via
@NBCNews
Read this. This is IMPORTANT.
No one has done this math before, totaling up the net cost of 20 years of tax cuts for the top 1% -- and it just happens to equal, exactly, the proposed cuts to New Deal and Great Society safety net programs.
NEW: This study shows a direct transfer between 2 decades worth of tax cuts benefiting the top 1% and proposed GOP cuts to safety net programs -- and it's coming weeks before the midterms:
via
@nbcnews
A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker.
👉2 days since Abuse of Power dismissed, Trump:
1. Targets Pelosi, Romney, McCaskill, others in East Room.
2. Praises as "warriors" lawmakers who fanned Russia propaganda.
3. Sensitive fin info on Hunter Biden given to GOP
4. Vindman escorted out of White House
NEWS: Fmr. Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell will endorse Joe Biden for President.
Clip just released:
"The values I learned growing up in the South Bronx and serving in uniform, were the same values that Joe Biden's parents instilled in him in Scranton, Pennsylvania."
Vindman to his father in Nov:
"You made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union."
“Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth."
(Army Lieutenant and Purple Heart recipient)
THREAD:
The impeachment of
@realDonaldTrump
is unique in the 243-year history of the U.S. experiment & Barry Berke explains why:
He abused his power "in the ways the founders feared the most."
1. Abuse of power: the biggest violation? Serving his interests over the nation's.
.
@RepAdamSchiff
anger now palpable:
"Can we be confident that he will not continue to try to cheat?" again in the election, he asks.
"The short, plain, sad incontestable answer is no, you can't. ... not for one minute.
"He will not change and YOU know it," he said to senators.
This is so very wrong.
Trump on
@MeetThePress
: "Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth."
👉👉👉Terminations after 24 weeks are for severe fetal anomalies that are often incompatible with life.
Trump, at National Prayer Breakfast, attacks Pelosi/Romney on .... their faith.
"I don't like people who use their faith for doing what they know is wrong."
“Three SEALs said they saw Chief Gallagher go on to stab the sedated captive for no reason, and then hold an impromptu re-enlistment ceremony over the body, as if it were a trophy.
“I was just thinking, like, this is the most disgraceful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. ...”
CDC abruptly postpones coronavirus press briefing:
👉👉"The CDC today also removed information on its website that detailed how many people in the country had been tested for the virus."
Dr. Matt McCarthy: NY Presbyterian Hospital on Coronavirus:
"We are not testing at full capacity and that is a national scandal."
"We're being told that things are ok ... That's just not the way we're talking about it in medical circles."
#coronavirus
#CoronaOutbreak
For the record ...
the vote to convict
@realDonaldTrump
for Abuse of Power was bipartisan.
It wasn’t just Mitt Romney bucking his GOP party. It was Manchin and Jones, Dems who rep deep red states, taking huge political risks in voting to convict.
#impeachment
INBOX:
👉The Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) has located 39 million N95 masks & is connecting states, counties, health systems and individual hospitals to the supplier so they can purchase them in quantity.
👉Imp. what's happening right now.
NBC News confirms: There are NO GOP FACT WITNESSES being blocked.
(The motions are meant to create impression the entire "process" has been unfair and witnesses have been blocked.)
FACT:
Republicans got ALL of their FACT witnesses
.
@BeschlossDC
says he hopes Americans know
@realDonaldTrump
rally performance last night is “not normal” in history of U.S. presidents.
“That is something you see in authoritarian countries.”
In the past 2 days, I've been contacted by complete strangers who say they were sexually assaulted over 20 years ago -- not because they want me to tell their stories or get media exposure -- but because they just want to tell someone, put it on the record.
This is a moment.
2 DAYS -- FIRSTHAND FACTS:
JULY 25
--Trump asks Zelensky to investigate “Crowdstrike” & “Biden’s son”
--90 minutes later: White House tells Pentagon to suspend all military aid.
JULY 26:
--Trump asks Sondland on cell: “So he’s going to do the investigation?
Trump took office 4 years ago promising to prioritize the forgotten man/woman.
He leaves pardoning his white collar criminal friends and war criminals.
Taylor REALLY wants U.S. people to know
Ukraine has suffered under Russia & U.S. assistance is vital.
“More die each week” in Donbass region.
Russia also shut down an airliner killing all 298 people on board.
NOTE: Aid wasn’t released until a whistleblower blew the whistle.
Mitt Romney, a Man Alone
"Romney is the rare Senate Republican — actually the lone Senate Republican — who is vocally pushing for witnesses to be called in President Trump’s impeachment trial."
Fake news, it's so fun to say, isn't it?
But it doesn't make you any smarter. Here: They're called Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, created by the IRS in 1996 for people who aren’t allowed to work in the US. All govt sanctioned.
@NBCPolitics
Zeldin had 3:30 minutes of uninterrupted time in which he cited no additional cases of corruption.
It wasn't until AFTER getting non answers they were challenged.
And all of us challenged them.
They cited non specific parliamentary laws, not corruption cases.
👀
🔥 Here’s the moment when .
@SpeakerPelosi
is asked if she “hates” Trump.
As a Catholic ... she “resents” that. “Don’t mess with me when it comes to a word like that.”
Swivels out of the room.
Woman in ICU: "Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
NBC: "What would be your message to the American public?"
Woman: "Oh my God. Don't take anything. Don't believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the President says & his people...call your doctor."
What a lack of preparedness looks like.
Italian Medical Chief Roberto Stella Dies of Coronavirus at 67
👇🏻He kept treating patients even after masks ran out.
via
@people
To reiterate what I said on
@Morning_Joe
, the Trump narrative about the Biden's is verifiably false.
Not only was the entire Western alliance for Shokin's ouster, Hunter Biden didn't serve on the board of Burisma until 2 YEARS after the period at issue.
To hear Trump tell it, there's a website w coronavirus testing info, millions of test kits avail, an approved treatment, a vaccine coming soon, plenty of masks, & a ship that'll be off the coast of NY next week to help patients.
That's not the reality.
NEW to
@NBCNews
👉House Democrats find Trump overspent for ventilators by as much as $500 million
1. They paid 4-5 times as much as the Obama admin did for functionally identical machines
2. Didn't enforce prior contract or try to build on it.
BREAKING: MI Attorney Gen. calls for special pros. citing potentially criminal scheme by Trump-backed opponent to seize & tamper with voting machines, acc. to documents obtained by
@politico
.
Probe by
@nessel
& MI State Police unexpectedly led to
🔥FLAG:
Philbin (Trump attorney) basically confirmed Trump first became concerned about "Burisma" amid Biden's expected presidential run in early 2019.
**There's no evidence Trump raised it before then and Philbin did NOT dispute this**