https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/senate-republicans-snuck-90-billion-tax-cut-for-millionaires-into-coronavirus-relief-legislation/

Is there any group of people in this country more disgusting than the Republican Party? While people are dying, healthcare workers don’t have PPEs. SBA has run out of money and tens of millions of people face unemployment they manage to slip this bullshit into the vital stimulus package before anyone had a chance to analyze the impact. I hope Moscow Mitch survives the pandemic because there is a special place in Hell waiting for him.

Trump’s Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/does-trumps-coronavirus-charge-sheet-against-stack/

In looking for somebody, anybody to blame for his massive pandemic failures, Trump has decided that the World Health Organization, part of the United Nations, is an ideal scapegoat for his racist and Xenophobic base to munch on. Bunch of foreigners and busy doing China’s dirty work of destroying America. A British newspaper provides the facts which – surprise – do not match Trump’s lies very well.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786

The WHO declared a global pandemic on January 30th but somehow it is their fault that the country suffering the most is the one ruled by Trump. Yeah, sure.

In a rare moment of truth telling Trump got it right on March 13th when he said “I don’t take responsibility at all.” That was about the failure of the United States compared to other countries to roll out effective testing but it is true of everything that does wrong. It is ALWAYS someone else’s fault.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241989596.html

Offered with no snarky comments of any kind.

The other day the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal published a scathing critique Trump’s daily “press briefings.” The essence of it was that he is eroding his own credibility with all the nonsense and that he should step back and let someone like Pence or Fauci run the briefings.

How did Bozo the President respond? Here is his tweet . . .

“The Wall Street Journal always “forgets” to mention that the ratings for the White House Press Briefings are “through the roof” (Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale, according to @nytimes) & is only way for me to escape the Fake News & get my views across. WSJ is Fake News!”

Two salient points. This idiot measures success by TV ratings. OMG, better ratings than the Bachelor Finale. The Republic is saved!

And, secondly, it is clear that “fake news” simply means critical of Trump. It would be hard to find a major publication that has been more friendly to him than the Wall Street Journal, but there is that charge . . . “WSJ is Fake News!”

This amazing fellow has amassed a fortune in the hundreds of millions selling his version of God’s word. In a country where this can happen, having a con man in the White House may have been inevitable. Tragic that it comes at time where thousands of lives will have been sacrificed to the mindless idiocy being sold.

https://scontent.forf1-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/91796225_2915509735199668_2399409936908943360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=6P9y6sb1NZYAX_DiAnz&_nc_ht=scontent.forf1-4.fna&oh=4d8466775c88c3053d120b80dedbc71f&oe=5EB7C8C1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/10/mnuchin-treasury-trump-taxes-inspector-general/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&wpisrc=al_politics__alert-politics–alert-economy&wpmk=1

An Inspector General has ruled in favor of Steve Mnuchin who did not comply with a Congressional request for Trump’s tax returns. The finding is that Mnuchin is OKAY because he acted in accordance with a ruling by Trump’s DOJ that he did not have to comply with the request even though the law explicitly entitles Congress to review the tax filing of ANY citizen. The IG says he is not in position to evaluate the legal soundness of the DOJ guidance, only that Mnuchin followed it. You cannot make this stuff up. Maybe a court will uphold the law?

The more ardently Trump fights to keep his PROMISED tax returns secret the more certain we can be that they totally refute his claims to being worth $10 billion and undoubted provide more evidence of how deeply he is in thrall to foreign interests, especially Russian oligarchs.

Not that one is needed, but this particular broken promise will be yet another damning campaign issue for the Biden campaign. It is an easy question that people will understand – what is he hiding?

https://www.sciencealert.com/more-than-70-of-americans-hospitalised-with-covid-19-had-at-least-1-underlying-health-condition-the-cdc-says

CDC data on people whose underlying health is known. Most exposed seem to be people on dialysis. For those with none of the listed underlying conditions, at least 84% did not require hospitalization.