The country is paying the price for the Trump administration's disastrous #coronavirus response:

But so is the GOP and those directly around the president:
At Least 8 Republican Staffers and 12 White House Officials Have Tested Positive for COVID After Election Day newsweek.com/least-8-republ…
Lewandowski is latest White House election night guest to test positive for coronavirus nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
David Bossie, an adviser on Trump's legal team, tests positive for the coronavirus cnn.com/2020/11/09/pol…
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has put himself in quarantine after meeting with a staff member last week in Indiana who later tested positive for COVID-19. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Six in White House, Including Trump’s Chief of Staff, Have the Coronavirus nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/…
U.S. Representative Don Young — the 87-year-old Republican congressman from Alaska, who once ridiculed coronavirus — now says he has it. reuters.com/article/us-hea…
More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with coronavirus or quarantining in wake of Trump’s campaign travel washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…

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13 Nov
Headlines from the United States:

‘Crisis Levels’ in Mississippi: No ICU Beds Left in Jackson, Only 12% Remain Statewide mississippifreepress.org/6883/crisis-le… #coronavirus #COVID19
With North Dakota hospitals at 100% capacity, Burgum announces COVID-positive nurses can stay at work grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronav…
‘Catastrophic’ lack of hospital beds in Upper Midwest as coronavirus cases surge washingtonpost.com/national/coron…
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12 Nov
What's going on at the Pentagon?

Is there some master plan or is it a bunch of guys putting undeserved titles on their resumes on their way out the door?

At this point, I think everyone is still guessing.
.@IgnatiusPost says it could be about an internal battle over declassifying information about Russia: washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
.@AlexWardVox reports it's probably about loyalty and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. vox.com/21560260/trump…
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23 Oct
Let's talk China and corruption.

"The Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks to companies linked to Ivanka Trump by April of 2019." forbes.com/sites/tommybee…
Jared Kushner’s sister woos China’s ‘golden visa’ investors apnews.com/article/0e3341…
The SEC is investigating the Kushner family's company over its use of a controversial visa program businessinsider.com/sec-launches-p…
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22 Oct
Ivanka is busy trying to win back suburban women voters for her dad, buying "cider and doughnuts" and posing with "children in Halloween costumes." politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
But that's not going to be enough to get voters to forget this: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Read 7 tweets
25 Sep
A thread about things that might just be related:

Exhibit 1: For some seniors, virus is shifting their views of Trump csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2…
Exhibit 2: America's seniors ebb away from Trump as coronavirus response disappoints theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Exhibit 3: Trump’s Closing Message to Seniors: I Don’t Care If You Die nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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