Leaked reports show the White House has known for more than a month that COVID-19 is surging as Trump has downplayed the crisis huffpost.com/entry/white-ho…
Rep. Clyburn says the White House has been hiding these reports from the public. Why?
Oh, because they're awful!
The # of states in the "red zone" of the coronavirus pandemic (where you def don't want to be) jumped from 18 to 31 between Sept. 13 and Oct. 18.
In its Sept. 20 report, the WH COVID task force warned the number of states in the “red zone” was at 18. Wisconsin was seeing a particularly high increase in positive cases, at 145%.
On Oct. 1, Trump held 2 rallies there.
In its Oct. 18 report, the WH COVID task force warned the # of states in the "red zone" had ticked up to 31. That's 13 more states in less than a month.
A day later, Trump told his campaign, “People are tired of COVID. ... People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots."
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Democratic Judiciary Committee members are outside on the Senate steps protesting Barrett's confirmation process.
"The U.S. Senate has never, never considered a Supreme Court justice this close to a national presidential election day," says Schumer, SHOUTING into a microphone.
Dianne Feinstein, ranking Dem on Judiciary, reminds everyone that Republicans blocked Obama's SCOTUS pick, Merrick Garland, for 10 months in 2016 because, they argued, it was a presidential election year.
"Now, however, Republicans are proceeding regardless."
"This hearing was anything but fair," says Sen. Leahy, who was the ranking Dem on Judiciary when the GOP blocked Merrick Garland's SCOTUS nomination in 2016.
"They broke their word to finish a confirmation process that has become a caricature of illegitimacy."
A moment that stood out in Amy Coney Barrett's hearing is when she wouldn't say if climate change is real.
In her responses to the Judiciary committee's follow-up Qs, released tonight, she said SCOTUS has said climate change is controversial so she can't discuss it. 🤔
Barrett also refused to answer any of these questions in her follow-up responses.
The first 2 have easy, fact-based answers.
She wouldn't even say what a "policy question" is.
Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House S/C on coronavirus crisis, just released 6 weeks of WH Coronavirus Task Force reports obtained by the committee showing the WH was aware of an alarming rise in COVID cases as Trump publicly downplayed it and held crowded events.
The reports show the WH knew after Labor Day that COVID cases were spiking but chose to hide the reports, says the committee.
Meanwhile, Trump was saying COVID “affects virtually nobody” + hosted potential superspreaders in states the WH task force warned had rising cases.
The White House task force reports specifically warned of rising COVID cases in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Carolina -- all places that Trump went ahead and held potential superspreader events in anyway.
We've reached the [insert extreme adjective because I've run out] point in the election cycle when Ted Cruz is a self-described "TOP" Trump supporter who is hawking his book to raise money for Trump.
This tweet is still up btw.
"I don't want his endorsement. Just, Ted, stay home, relax, enjoy yourself."