On Tuesday, as he prepared to talk to protesters in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” in Seattle, MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard got himself into deep trouble when he attempted to portray the zone as a peaceful, idyllic atmosphere, characterizing it as “almost like a street festival-type atmosphere.” The comment precipitated one protester to get in Hillyard’s face, yelling, “Shame on you for saying that,” while back in the studio, the MSNBC anchor, eager to show MSNBC had not “mischaracterized” the zone, pleaded for a chance to placate the angry protesters.
Hillyard started by saying to MSNBC anchor Joshua Johnson in the studio, “This is a part of the conversation, Joshua, and we heard here in these streets, is the extent to which it has been peaceful since Monday, after more than a week of clashes between the demonstrators and the police, now you’ve seen essentially almost like a street festival-type atmosphere, a street festival-type atmosphere with a very —&#8221;
&#8220;No!&#8221; An angry male protester interrupted. &#8220;It is not a street festival!”
Hillyard managed to finish, &#8220;— with a very intentional purpose.&#8221;
The angry man snapped, &#8220;It is not a street festival!&#8221; Then, pointing his finger directly at the cameraman, the protester repeated, &#8220;It is not a street festival!&#8221; Jabbing his finger into the reporter’s chest, he snapped, &#8220;DO NOT SAY THAT! SHAME ON YOU FOR SAYING THAT!&#8221; Pointing back into the camera, he shouted, &#8220;Learn right now. It is not a street festival!&#8221;
A female friend of the angry man interjected, &#8220;Do you know what our voices sound like from the tear gas police attacked us with?&#8221;
&#8220;You have to understand, some traumatizing things happened here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All of us are suffering from PTSD in our own country. From our own country. It is NOT a street festival!&#8221;
&#8220;It is not!&#8221; the angry man repeatedly exclaimed.
Back in the studio, Johnson said, &#8220;Vaughn, it’s okay. Let her finish. Let her finish. Let her finish.&#8221;
&#8220;One thing to listen to: It is not a street festival!” said the angry man, waving his finger in the air.
Johnson then asked Hillyard, &#8220;Would you ask him if I can put a question to him since we mischaracterized —&#8221;
Pleading plaintively with the angry man, Vaughn said, &#8220;Can we put a question to you here?&#8221;
&#8220;Please,&#8221; said the protester.
Johnson then issued an apologetic statement to the angry protester: &#8220;I hear him in terms of saying it’s not a street — would you just let him know, cause we have to move on — but would you just let him know that we hear him 100% when he says &#8216;This is not a festival&#8217; because we saw what happened in Seattle. We do have to keep going — and I want to — just let him know we are going to talk about this future of defunding the police, but just let him know that we hear him loud and clear: this is not a festival; this is a social movement. But Vaughan, thank you for giving him room to speak his mind. That’s NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard in Seattle; that conversation’s going to continue there and we will talk more about the future of what these zones are going to look like as the hour goes on.&#8221;
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An FBI lawyer who was dismissed from the special counsel investigation into Russian collusion has been hired as a legal and national security analyst for MSNBC.
Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump texts with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok got her removed from Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election, was announced as MSNBC’s latest hire Friday evening.
“JUST ANNOUNCED: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC">@MSNBC</a> welcomes Former FBI Lawyer <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa">@NatSecLisa</a> as an NBC News &amp; MSNBC National Security &amp; Legal Analyst,” the channel’s public relations account tweeted.
As Mueller investigated the Trump campaign (he ultimately discovered no evidence of collusion, despite years of media headlines claiming the opposite), text messages between Strzok and Page became public in a June 2018 Inspector General’s report. The two employees were having an affair (Page is married) and sent each other texts expressing anti-Trump sentiments in early August 2016 – ahead of the election. At one point, Page asked Strzok if Trump would become president. Strzok responded: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The pair also discussed an “insurance policy” for if Trump were to win the election.
Following the release of the text messages, Page resigned from the FBI. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s investigation.
In December 2019, Page sued the Department of Justice and the FBI after Trump mocked her texts with Strzok at a campaign rally. Page claimed Trump made “fake orgasm” noises when he mocked her (he used a breathy voice, but did not make a “fake orgasm” noise), and portrayed herself as a victim, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-anti-trump-fbi-lawyer-sues-justice-department-fbi-after-trumps-fake-orgasm">reported</a>.
In her lawsuit, Page claimed the DOJ and FBI violated the Privacy Act by disclosing her text messages.
“The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests,” the complaint read. “Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record ‘about’ an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.”
As The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/06/ex-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-makes-debut-as-msnbc-legal-analyst/">reported</a>, “MSNBC commentators have defended both Page and Strzok over the years by dismissing their text messages as merely personal criticisms, separate from their FBI work.”
Page is also not the only disgraced intelligence community official to get rewarded with a television contract. Former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a national security and intelligence analyst gig at NBC News and MSNBC. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was found to have lied to the bureau, received a contract with CNN as an analyst. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also received a CNN contract.
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MSNBC Hires Disgraced Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page As An Analyst

On Thursday, as sections of Minneapolis burned to the ground from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">violent riots</a> over the death of George Floyd, MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi, standing in front of burning buildings, assured viewers that the &#8220;protests&#8221; were mostly peaceful. Velshi did, however, note that some fires had &#8220;started.&#8221;
&#8220;I wanna be clear on how I characterize this,&#8221; said Velshi, reporting live from Minneapolis. &#8220;This is mostly a protest, it is not, it is not, generally speaking, unruly.&#8221;
&#8220;But fires have been started and this crowd is relishing that,&#8221; he told MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
&#8220;There is a deep sense of grievance and complaint here, and that is the thing,&#8221; added Velshi. &#8220;That when you discount people who are doing things to public property that they shouldn&#8217;t be doing, it does have to be understood that this city has got, for the last several years, an issue with police, and it&#8217;s got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality.&#8221;
Earlier in the segment, Velshi said the protests were calmer during the day. &#8220;It picked up later in the evening,&#8221; he said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-anchor-says-minneapolis-carnage-is-mostly-a-protest-as-building-burns-behind-him">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The crowds gathered here and the standoff with the police looked very different last night.&#8221;
Though he stressed the &#8220;mostly&#8221; peaceful nature of the response, Velshi did admit on camera that he could see &#8220;four fires,&#8221; as Fox notes, among them one engulfing a liquor store. Another of the fires was burning at the Minnesota Police Department&#8217;s 3rd Precinct headquarters, which was demolished late Thursday after the embattled Democratic mayor ordered officers to evacuate.
According to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">Saint Paul Police Department</a>, over 170 businesses had been damaged or looted by Thursday night, and &#8220;dozens of fires&#8221; had been started.
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As Thursday turns to Friday, our officers continue to work shoulder-to-shoulder with local, state, federal and fire partners to protect St. Paul. 
More than 170 businesses damaged or looted. Dozens of fires. Thankfully, no reports of serious injuries. Calm on the horizon.
&mdash; Saint Paul Police Department (@sppdmn) <a href="https://twitter.com/sppdmn/status/1266227673694638081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/evacuate-the-3rd-precinct-rioters-destroy-minneapolis-police-building-170-businesses">The Daily Wire</a>, the situation in MN became so volatile, the City of Minneapolis tweeted: “We’re hearing unconfirmed reports that gas lines to the Third Precinct have been cut and other explosive materials are in the building. If you are near the building, for your safety, PLEASE RETREAT in the event the building explodes.”
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We&#39;re hearing unconfirmed reports that gas lines to the Third Precinct have been cut and other explosive materials are in the building. 
If you are near the building, for your safety, PLEASE RETREAT in the event the building explodes.
&mdash; City of Minneapolis (@CityMinneapolis) <a href="https://twitter.com/CityMinneapolis/status/1266224316645027841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Floyd, who is black, died after an officer, who is white, knelt on his neck during his arrest, as shown in a video clip that has since gone viral.
“An eight-minute clip filmed by a person on the street shows Floyd telling police he can’t breathe and begging the cop on top of him to stop before he falls unconscious,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-riot-police-in-minneapolis-fire-rubber-bullets-tear-gas-at-protesters-demanding-charges-against-cops-involved-in-death-of-black-man">The Daily Wire</a> reported Tuesday. “Officer Derek Chauvin was identified as the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck outside Cup Foods on Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street.”
Since the arrest, all four officers involved have been fired, and the FBI and state law enforcement officials are actively investigating the 46-year-old’s death.
WATCH:
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MSNBC reporter says “I want to be clear on how I characterize this. This is mostly a protest. It is not generally speaking unruly.&quot;
As a building burns in the background&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/KGrtpPsF3E">pic.twitter.com/KGrtpPsF3E</a>
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Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

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During a Tuesday segment on MSNBC, reporter Cal Perry and anchor Katy Tur were apparently stunned by folks in Wisconsin allegedly unconcerned about their safety because most were not wearing masks outside.
As Perry attempted to shame one massless Wisconsin man, however, he quickly pointed out that the MSNBC cameraman was also not wearing a mask, humiliating Perry.
&#8220;Are the people there just not worried about it, Cal? Are they just not worried about their own personal safety?&#8221; Tur asked the correspondent, apparently amazed at Wisconsin citizens&#8217; behavior.
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t met anybody who is,&#8221; Perry responded.
&#8220;I met some folks actually from Lake Geneva who lived in the area, they were staying a few miles outside of town &#8230; and they said they&#8217;re worried about it, they&#8217;re worried about that second spike, they&#8217;re worried about folks coming in from Chicago,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;But they&#8217;ll quickly add, at the same time, this is a place that relies on that business.&#8221;
&#8220;You can see here, just around, nobody is wearing them,&#8221; Perry said, gesturing toward a local man with no mask.
&#8220;Including your cameraman,&#8221; the man shot back.
&#8220;Yeah, there ya go, including the cameraman, yeah,&#8221; a stunned Perry responded, before tossing up his arms and throwing the wrecked segment back to Tur.
All Tur could muster: &#8220;Striking images.&#8221;
The issue of masks, especially outdoors, has folks divided. Initially, visible health experts warned non-medical personnel not to wear masks, stating that they are essentially useless when it comes to protecting yourself from contracting COVID-19.
“Wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your chances of getting a disease. It can also give you a false sense of security,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-surgeon-general-heres-why-cdc-and-who-recommend-healthy-people-do-not-wear-masks">U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams</a> said at the end of March.
&#8220;What the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks,&#8221; Adams continued.
&#8220;Here’s why: on an individual level, there was a study in 2015 looking at medical students, and medical students wearing surgical masks touched their face on average 23 times,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face. So wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your chances of getting a disease. It can also give you a false sense of security; if you’ve seen many of these pictures of people out and about closer than six feet to each other but still wearing a mask.&#8221;
Adams also noted that N-95s masks have to get fitted, and did not recommend them for the general public. &#8220;As a medical professional, I can’t just go out and wear an N-95; I have to make sure it’s properly fitted and I have the right size in order for it to work properly,&#8221; he said.
However, leading voices on the White House Coronavirus Task Force are now in support of masks where folks cannot &#8220;social distance.&#8221;
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INSTANT CLASSIC FROM <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>:
ANCHOR: &quot;Are the people there just not worried about it? Are they not worried about their personal safety?&quot;
REPORTER: &quot;I haven&#39;t met anybody who is&#8230; you can see here, nobody&#39;s wearing them [masks].&quot;
GUY ON STREET: &quot;Including the Cameraman.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h9HbbIqNVh">pic.twitter.com/h9HbbIqNVh</a>
&mdash; Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1265374806662397953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: MSNBC Reporter Tries To Shame Man For Not Wearing Mask, It Backfires

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The left-wing media is just fine with spreading propaganda from a foreign government, so long as it hurts President Donald Trump.
NBC News chief global affairs correspondent Bill Neely appeared on MSNBC Friday to literally spread Chinese propaganda in a segment to attack Trump over his administration’s handling of the coronavirus, a virus that originated in China.
Neely used the interview to parrot an article from China’s state-run media, a transcript of which was <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/05/15/msnbc-parrots-chinese-propaganda-trashing-trump-lunacy">published</a> by Newsbusters. MSNBC host Katy Tur set up Neely by asking if there was anything behind Trump “again” blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic, even though no one except China claims the virus started anywhere else. China claims the virus originated in the U.S., but all evidence points to it originating in Wuhan.
Instead of explaining why Trump is right to blame China for the virus, Neely described what China’s state-run media was saying in response to Trump suggesting the U.S. cut ties with China.
“&#8230;the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China&#8230;.and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients,” Neely said (emphasis added).
Neely then describe an “interesting point” made by Chinese state-run media:
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything&#8230;
Neely also touted without hesitation China’s obviously false coronavirus statistics. Neely didn’t even attempt to suggest the numbers should not be taken at face value, as it is impossible that China’s numbers climbed rapidly and then just about fell to zero, as the communist regime suggests.
“China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says,” Neely said.
Full transcript, from Newsbusters:
KATY TUR: During this afternoon’s news conference at the White House, President Trump again blamed China for the pandemic and his trade adviser Peter Navarro also spoke out.
DONALD TRUMP: This came from China. It should have been stopped in China, before it got out to the world. We have 186, it’s been updated this morning, 186 countries are affected.
PETER NAVARRO: We signed a trade deal with them, and one of the things was stop stealing our intellectual property. Now we have credible information that the Chinese government is trying to steal our vaccine information.
TUR: Joining us now from London is NBC News chief global correspondent Bill Neely. So, Bill, is there anything behind these allegations?
BILL NEELY: Yeah, I mean, it’s interesting, Katie, the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China. And China responding at a state level, really rather diplomatically, not saying very much except asking that America should cut out the cold war rhetoric.
But at a state media level – and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything, that this will just get worse in the months leading up to November. And it’s calling on Chinese people to be prepared for Washington to indeed cut off relations in certain areas, like technology and like the economy.
Now, the interesting thing, as you will know, Katy, is that officials in Washington have been talking in recent days about the position of Chinese companies on the New York Stock Exchange, about removing Chinese companies from the U.S. supply chain, even about limiting Chinese students access to study science in the U.S. So there is, you know, some justification, if you like, for what The Global Times are saying. But they are basically preparing China for a long battle, not just obviously over trade, but over the coronavirus itself, in advance of November’s election.
Just one quick fact also, Katy, that’s interesting. China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says. Katy?
CHUCK TODD: Bill Neely, thanks very much.
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NBC Correspondent Spreads Chinese Propaganda To Attack Trump

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The media over the past few years has reported a false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during his 2016 campaign to steal the election.
That narrative was proven false after a lengthy special counsel investigation found no evidence of such collusion. Media outlets and their Democrat supporters refused to acknowledge that they got the story wrong or that they were biased in their reporting. They are continuing that behavior now that the Department of Justice dropped its charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
FBI agents, in handwritten notes, questioned what the goal was of their January 24, 2017 interview with Flynn, writing: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (fired for lying to the FBI) would later say the interview with Flynn was “very odd” because “it seemed like [Flynn] was telling the truth.”
But even though Flynn appears to have been vindicated and the victim of FBI entrapment, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell had a different take: That Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the DOJ’s charges being dropped.
Seriously.
As Newsbusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2020/05/09/msnbc-claims-putin-why-doj-dropped-flynn-case">reported</a>, Mitchell was interviewing former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and current MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi about the charges against Flynn being dropped. Mitchell said the decision to drop the charges was “stunning” and “unprecedented,” even though the documents showing the FBI interviewed Flynn with the goal of getting him fired were released weeks earlier. Mitchell then connected the dropped charges to President Donald Trump’s phone call with Putin on Thursday, the day the charges were dropped.
&#8220;Frank, first, all of the implications here, and the fact that he then called Vladimir Putin yesterday, and according to the White House announcement of this and description of it, there was no mention of the Russia probe and the election probe. But the president himself discussed that with Vladimir Putin, and the facts that in his view now that the Russian hoax was dispelled, they could get back to business,&#8221; Mitchell said, according to Newsbusters.
Figliuzzi was all too happy to agree that Putin was behind the DOJ’s decision.
&#8220;Yeah, I think they&#8217;re actually linked. The dismissal of charges against Flynn and conversation by the president with Vladimir Putin, stone cold adversary of the United States on the very same day, that&#8217;s not a coincidence,&#8221; Figliuzzi said.
The contributor went on to claim that the investigation into Flynn was important for national security.
“The Flynn interview that is at issue here by the FBI was all about resolving the question of whether Mike Flynn was a counterintelligence threat to the nation as he entered into the national security adviser role. It was about figuring out how to neutralize, resolve and counter that threat. So when the president gets on the phone with Vladimir Putin and the topic comes up in the same conversation, the concerns have not yet been resolved,&#8221; he said.
Documents revealed the FBI had no basis to interview or investigate Flynn. Further, Trump’s phone call with Putin occurred the same day the charges were dropped, yet U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen recommended those charges be dropped a week earlier.

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It Never Ends: Now MSNBC Suggests Vladimir Putin Was Behind DOJ Dropping Case Against Michael Flynn

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The mainstream media can no longer ignore Tara Reade&#8217;s claim that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 now that evidence has come forward lending some credibility to her claims. On Wednesday night, Chris Hayes of MSNBC admitted that even though people like himself might wish to dismiss such an accusation, he cannot ignore its underlying credibility.
Opening out the segment, Hayes recalled moments during the #MeToo movement when people tried to &#8220;desperately&#8221; disbelieve an allegation against an individual, an impulse, he argues, that must be fought.
&#8220;The difficult lesson of the #MeToo era is not that every accusation is true, and everything should be believed on its face, but that you do have to fight yourself when you feel that impulse,&#8221; said Hayes, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/04/30/chris-hayes-sometimes-during-metoo-you-desperately-want">Newsbusters</a>. &#8220;You have to do that in order to take seriously what is being alleged and what the evidence is, and to evaluate it.&#8221;
In March, Tara Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade&#8217;s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called into CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Later in the segment, Hayes added that the evidence that has arisen in recent days has created a clear situation that warrants media attention.
&#8220;A piece of evidence that has risen in how I evaluate these stories is a somewhat contemporaneous disclosure to a trusted person who then tells a reporter about it,&#8221; said Hayes. &#8220;That is what has happened here. And to me, that has been, in terms of what the evidentiary record is, has raised it a bit in terms of my own view of this.&#8221;
Despite the seriousness of the allegation against Joe Biden, the former vice president continues to pick up high-profile Democratic Party support, including from women. On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to say she was &#8220;satisfied&#8221; with how Biden has addressed the allegation.
“Well, I have great sympathy for any woman who brings forth an allegation; I’m a big strong supporter of the #MeToo movement. I think it&#8217;s made a great contribution to our country and I do support Joe Biden,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-satisfied-with-bidens-sexual-assault-allegation">Pelosi said</a> on CNN. “I’m satisfied with how he has responded, I know him, I was proud to endorse him Monday, very proud to endorse him, so I&#8217;m satisfied with that.”
Actress Alyssa Milano, a prominent #MeToo activist who condemned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh based on uncorroborated accusations of sexual assault, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-is-gray-alyssa-milano-explains-her-joe-biden-support-as-sex-assault-allegation-heats-up">explained in a lengthy op-ed</a> that she takes the allegation against Biden seriously but still supports him for president.
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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Tara Reade’s Credibility Is Rising

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) told MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid on Sunday that viewers at home should &#8220;follow&#8221; their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; on matters related to the coronavirus pandemic because their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; was &#8220;probably much more credible than what you might see coming out of various administrations.&#8221;
Tlaib made the remarks during a segment on &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; while talking about her state&#8217;s restrictions during the lockdown, which have been led by Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
&#8220;Of the things I admire about the governor is I know she’s listening to the health experts, the doctors; those folks are the ones leading these policies,&#8221; Tlaib said. &#8220;To talk about, a little bit about, you know, so called &#8216;loosening up&#8217;, I’m not sure how they made that decision. But I know this much, many of our folks, and I tell you — my 13 district strong residents. If you are afraid to go to work, do not go to work.&#8221;
&#8220;I know this is hard, but you have every right to make sure your life is put first and to fight back. I don’t care if it’s labor organizing this late in the game or if it’s demanding that your life is not treated as if it’s disposable, but I want you not to be afraid to go to work,&#8221; Tlaib continued. &#8220;You should not at all ever feel like — I don’t care if it’s a president, I don’t care who it is that tells you we need you to go back and we need you to start back with the economy and everything. Your life is much more important. So, I always tell my residents when they call, they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Rashida, you know, they’re making us do this, making us do that.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Do you feel safe? If you don’t feel safe, you don’t have to go to work.'&#8221;
&#8220;And you know, folks are going to push back on me about this, but I want you to put yourselves in their places,&#8221; Tlaib continued, later adding, &#8220;I urge a lot of my neighbors and other folks that have called me and reached out to me and said, &#8216;I don’t feel safe,&#8217; I want you to organize with your other coworkers and demand your life is put first, and that your health is put first. I would push back no matter what these decisions and other folks on the task forces being put together, your gut feeling, follow that. It’s probably much more credible than what you might see coming out of various administrations.&#8221;
There was no push back from the MSNBC host against Tlaib instructing viewers to &#8220;follow&#8221; their &#8220;gut feeling&#8221; on the matters related to the coronavirus rather than listen to public health experts.
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Squad member Rashida Tlaib encourages people to ignore coronavirus task force advice saying follow &quot;your gut&quot; 
We all know that if a Republican said something like this, it would be a 3 day story. <a href="https://t.co/U4KQnSHDVH">pic.twitter.com/U4KQnSHDVH</a>
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Tlaib: ‘Your Gut Feeling’ On Coronavirus ‘Probably Much More Credible’ Than Gov Task Forces

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On Sunday, leftist journalists appearing on MSNBC’s &#8220;AM Joy” vilified Americans across the nation who have gathered to call for opening the country from stay-at-home orders and lockdowns.  Comments ranged from “They don’t care about America. What they care about is Donald Trump” to they “don&#8217;t care about these black and brown people who are dying” to “they are the Fox News, Nazi, Confederate death-cult rump of the Republican party.”
Dave Zirin of The Nation ranted:
<blockquote>They&#8217;ve gone from all lives matter to no lives matter.  These folks are &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest about what they are &#8212; they are the Fox News, Nazi, confederate death cult rump of the Republican party and their very existence is a slap in the face not only to the health care workers on the front lines risking their lives every single day, but it&#8217;s also a slap in the face to the people who are actually dying from this virus in disproportionate numbers, black and brown people.
These aren&#8217;t economically disenfranchised folks; these are small business owners; these are retirees; these are people who want their workers to be sent back to work, not themselves.  It&#8217;s a complete and utter farce.  It&#8217;s an Astroturf farce.  And also, I think it needs to be said it&#8217;s unrepresentative of the Republican party as a whole. I just saw a poll that said 70% of Republicans want a national stay-at-home order. So this represents nothing except the narrow Astroturf interests and the hard-racist interests that combine and form the modern-day Republican party.</blockquote>
Boston Globe opinion columnist Renee Graham pontificated:
<blockquote>One thing I think is really interesting is how these protests have started after all the headlines the last week or so about the disproportionate effect the virus is having in communities of color.  And so when I look at these protests, what I see are a bunch of white people essentially saying, &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s affecting those people so why do I have to change my life for them?&#8221;  So that&#8217;s what this is coming down to.  In Boston, the numbers are the same as they are nationally.  One of the public hospitals, Boston Medical Center, 82% of the corvid-19 cases are either black or Latino.
These numbers are real and I think what you&#8217;re seeing out there in the protesters, who by the way are overwhelmingly white, which people aren&#8217;t really talking about, though it&#8217;s quite noticeable, is that they don&#8217;t care. You know, this isn&#8217;t about, you know they&#8217;re out there waving American flags.  They don&#8217;t care about America.  What they care about is Donald Trump and what Donald Trump has created.  They don&#8217;t care about the people risking their lives to keep this country moving; they don&#8217;t care about empty, dangerous rebellion.  All they want is another battle waged for their lost cause.  This isn&#8217;t a protest.  This is a temper tantrum.</blockquote>
Michael Harriot of The Root chimed in: “Again, I disagree with the notion that we shouldn&#8217;t be covering this because I think it is more than just, ‘I don&#8217;t care about these black and brown people who are dying.&#8217; I think what they&#8217;re saying quite clearly when you see the numbers, when you see the statistics, when you see the CDC data, is, &#8216;I want more black and brown people to die.&#8217; If you want the government to open up, then you want more black and brown people to die.  We see it happening in real time; we see it in Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets; we see it in the data; there can be no other outcome if you open up what they call their society or their business or the country&#8230;&#8221;
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&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1251964227415429120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Protestors Rally Against Stay-At-Home Order At Washington State Capitol

WATCH: Leftist Journalists Rip Americans Protesting Lockdowns: ‘Nazi, Confederate Death-Cult … Want More Black And Brown People To Die’

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The liberal media are urging Joe Biden to form a shadow government to upstage President Donald Trump&#8217;s crisis response effort, which illustrates its consuming partisanship — and its insufficient attention to the health and welfare of the American people.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle floated the idea during an interview with former Barack Obama staffer Jim Messina. Referring to Trump&#8217;s COVID-19 daily press briefing, Ruhle asked, &#8220;Should Joe Biden be counterprogramming that? Should he be creating his own shadow government, shadow Cabinet, shadow SWAT team, and getting up there at a podium every night, saying, &#8216;Here&#8217;s the crisis we&#8217;re in. Here&#8217;s what we need to do to address this&#8217;?&#8221;
I&#8217;ll concede that if Biden were to follow Ruhle&#8217;s ludicrous suggestion, Trump would be the biggest beneficiary. If some are still unaware of Biden&#8217;s diminishing competence, they would certainly learn of it in counter-press briefings. But let&#8217;s not get sidetracked with our own partisan ruminations when we should be working together to mitigate Americans&#8217; medical and economic hardships.
Sadly, the media can&#8217;t get beyond their obsessive hatred for Trump to approach this moment with even minimal clarity. We witness this repeatedly at the briefings. Some reporters seek to elicit facts that will help inform the public, but far too many are there to grandstand, and to embarrass and shame the president.
They sling their gotcha questions, hoping to trick Trump into admitting he didn&#8217;t act quickly enough and isn&#8217;t effectively overseeing the distribution of equipment and other aid to the states. Some have very nearly accused Trump of causing American deaths.
Aside from the spuriousness of their claims, these questions are utterly inappropriate and counterproductive at briefings whose purpose is to update the American people on our battle against the coronavirus and on plans to reopen the economy.
Accusing President Trump of an initially tardy response, even if true (which it isn&#8217;t), distracts our attention from combating this pandemic. It may satisfy their Trump-hating lust, but it serves no constructive purpose. If they want to pursue yet another investigative crusade against Trump in time to damage him before the November election, how about they wait just a few more months while the adults try to alleviate real pain befalling real people?
The idea of a shadow government is not just ill-motivated; it is absurd. Who are these clowns kidding? The president&#8217;s principal medical advisers on this crisis, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, are certainly not Republicans telling Trump whatever he wants to hear. If they&#8217;re paying attention, they also know that Trump is respectfully considering their every word and, in most cases, deferring to their judgment. The media were aghast when Birx shattered their narrative of Trump as an inattentive lummox. &#8220;He&#8217;s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,&#8221; said Birx. &#8220;I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.&#8221; So do I.
The media have tried to drive a wedge between Fauci and Trump, but neither of them would have it. Fauci has insisted that there is little, if any, inconsistency in their positions. There is no tension between Trump and these doctors in the briefings. Fauci has also been quite clear in disabusing Trump&#8217;s media prosecutors of their claim that Trump was delinquent in responding to the crisis — because if Trump was late, Fauci was even later.
So what would these armchair quarterbacks hope to accomplish through their fantasy shadow team, other than keeping Joe Biden in the limelight by presenting some bogus alternative to the administration&#8217;s leadership?
As it turns out, Ruhle wasn&#8217;t the first to pitch the shadow government concept. On March 23, Washington Post opinion writer Paul Waldman proposed it. &#8220;In Britain, the opposition party maintains a &#8216;shadow&#8217; cabinet, a group of spokespeople assigned the same policy areas as the ministries of the government, to offer the opposition&#8217;s view on whatever issue is being discussed at a given moment,&#8221; wrote Waldman. &#8220;While Biden probably wouldn&#8217;t want to assign specific Cabinet positions now he could utilize both his own aides and people in the broader Democratic world to give the public a picture of what government under President Biden would be up to — and provide a contrast with the chaos, corruption, and incompetence that characterizes the Trump administration.&#8221;
The common thread uniting Ruhle, Waldman and the rest of the Trump-hating media cabal is their inability to see anything outside a partisan lens. Even now while thousands of Americans have died and millions are suffering financially, they can&#8217;t see past their unremitting contempt for him, and they can&#8217;t apply their energy toward helping Trump solve these problems instead of scheming of ways to unseat him in November.
Meanwhile, Trump has organized both his coronavirus task force and his Opening Our Country Council on a bipartisan basis, and he is working across party lines with businesses and state governments to address the crisis.
While the media have failed to make their case against Trump for incompetence and partisanship, they have resoundingly demonstrated their own — and the public is not likely to soon forget it.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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LIMBAUGH: Media Prefer Hating Trump To Helping America

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Attorney General William Barr took a shot at far-left MSNBC journalists during a Fox News interview that aired on Thursday night over ignorant remarks that the hosts had made about the war on drugs.
Barr made the remarks after Fox News’ Laura Ingraham played a montage of the MSNBC employees complaining about the Department of Justice&#8217;s recent actions against drug cartels.
&#8220;Well, it might come as a surprise to some of these people that the federal government, the Justice Department specifically, has 115,000 people who are dedicated to protecting the public safety, including preventing narcotics trafficking, and we’re actually able to do more than one thing at a time, and we’re handling different kinds of cases,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;Maybe fraud is not on the top of their mind, but we still police fraud. &#8230; It’s very interesting because drugs kill 70,000 Americans a year, 70,000 a year. And it’s poison, and we have to make sure that during this period, the cartels are not taking advantage of the United States and pumping this poison up into the United States.&#8221;
After weighing in on President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to fire Inspector General Michael Atkinson, Barr commented on U.S. Attorney John Durham&#8217;s ongoing criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation.
&#8220;My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.&#8221;
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AG Bill Barr defends the firing of the IG by President Trump. And he says his office will go after anyone who breaks the laws &#8212; especially for political gain or retribution. <a href="https://t.co/Ja52MJ9l7i">pic.twitter.com/Ja52MJ9l7i</a>
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<blockquote>LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS HOST: Last week, I believe you urged consideration of the federal inmate population given the coronavirus. Where does that stand now, given the concerns about the spread of the virus inside state prisons and obviously federal facilities?
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: You know, we’re taking – we’re not going to open our prisons and let prisoners go free. Our – generally, our mission is to protect the public, and we’re not going to do anything that’s contrary to that. But where we find a prisoner who is vulnerable because of their age and their medical condition that has served a substantial part of their sentence, that has not been convicted for a violent crime or a sexual crime, does not pose a threat to the community, we’re using every tool we have to put them in home confinement, provided we think home confinement will not be more dangerous than staying where they are and also after a quarantine period where we can ensure that they’re not taking the disease into the public.
LAURA: You have been criticized recently for focusing on the drug cartels during the COVID virus. We’ll play a little bit of that criticism.
MONTAGE FROM MSNBC: CHUCK TODD: this issue of drug cartels / it doesn&#8217;t feel like that is the front line concern of every American right now. / SHANNON PETTYPIECE: it might have seemed like an odd thing to be talking about drug cartels / KRISTEN WELKER: it’s not top of mind for the health care workers who are on the front lines of this, chuck, and for so many Americans
BARR: Well, it might come as a surprise to some of these people that the federal government, the Justice Department specifically, has 115,000 people who are dedicated to protecting the public safety, including preventing narcotics trafficking, and we’re actually able to do more than one thing at a time, and we’re handling different kinds of cases. Maybe fraud is not on the top of their mind, but we still police fraud. // it’s very interesting because drugs kill 70,000 Americans a year, 70,000 a year. And it’s poison, and we have to make sure that during this period the cartels are not taking advantage of the United States and pumping this poison up into the United States.
LAURA: And the border’s getting tougher to penetrate now. And so, they’re coming in via boat and navigable waterways to get into the United States.
BARR: Right, and they’re relying more on boats to bring the cocaine up from South America, up for further transportation into the United States. And so the Justice Department can do more than one thing at once, and I’m amused whenever I see Barr has intervened in this case or Barr has done such and such at the time of the COVID crisis. Business for the Department of Justice has to continue.
LAURA: John Brennan has come out smashing the president’s firing of Inspector General Michael Atkinson, let’s listen.
JOHN BRENNAN//MSNBC: by removing atkinson and sending a signal to others, mr. trump continues to show his insecurity in terms of trying to stop anybody who&#8217;s going to expose, again the lawlessness that i think he not only has allowed to continue but also that he abets
BARR: I think the president did the right thing in removing Atkinson. From the vantage point of the Department of Justice, he had interpreted his statute, which is a fairly narrow statute, that gave him jurisdiction over wrongdoing by Intelligence people, and tried to turn it in to a commission to explore anything in the government and immediately reported to Congress without letting the Executive Branch look at it and determine whether there was any problem. He was told this in a letter from the Department of Justice, and he is obliged to follow the interpretation of the Department of Justice, and he ignored it. So I think the president was correct in firing him.
LAURA: And it’s the second inspector general he’s fired since the beginning of this pandemic, and of course that’s used to say, well the president just doesn’t want a watchdog.
BARR: Well, I don’t think that’s true, I think he wants responsible watchdogs.
LAURA: What can you tell us about the state of John Durham’s investigation? People have been waiting for the final report on what happened with this &#8211;
BARR: Well, I think a report maybe – and probably will be a byproduct of his activity, but his primary focus isn’t to prepare a report. He is looking to bring to justice people who are engaged in abuses if he can show that they were criminal violations, and that’s what the focus is on. And as you know, being a lawyer you yourself, building these cases – especially the kinds of sprawling case we have between us that went on for two or three years here, it takes some time – it takes some time to build the case. So he’s diligently pursuing it. My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.
LAURA: The president is very frustrated, I think you obviously know that – about Andrew McCabe, and he believes that people like McCabe and others were able to basically flout laws and so far with impunity.
BARR: I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history. Without any basis they started this investigation of his campaign, and even more concerning, actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president. So I &#8212; to sabotage the presidency, and I think that – or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency.
INGRAHAM: Will FISA abuses really be prevented going forward given what happened here, where FISA judges are not given critical pieces of information, material facts about evidence that inform the government’s OK-ing the surveillance of American citizens?
BARR: You know, I think it’s possible to put in a regime that would make it very hard either to willfully circumvent FISA, or to do so sloppily without due regard for the rights of the American person involved. And also to make it very clear that any misconduct will be discovered and discovered fairly promptly. So I do think we can put in safeguards that will enable us to go forward with this important tool. I think it’s very sad &#8212; and the people who abused FISA have a lot to answer for, because this was an important tool to protect the American people. They abused it, they undercut public confidence in FISA but also the FBI as an institution, and we have to rebuild that.</blockquote>

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AG Barr Dunks On MSNBC; Gives Update On Durham Criminal Investigation

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This week, the Trump administration lowered the number of projected COVID-19 deaths to approximately 60,000, a far cry from the original death count of 100,000 to 200,000. According to MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the original projections may have been a conspiratorial ploy to make President Trump look like a hero.
On his Twitter account Wednesday, the &#8220;All In&#8221; host laid out a most bizarre theory that makes no sense when examined.
&#8220;The most cynical interpretation of all this, one I can&#8217;t quite bring myself to accept, is they rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less than that so they could anchor everyone to that # and take a victory lap when &#8216;only&#8217; tens of thousands died,” Hayes wrote.
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The most cynical interpretation of all this, one I can&#39;t quite bring myself to accept, is they rolled out the model showing 100k deaths after they knew it would be less than that so they could anchor everyone to that # and take a vicotry lap when &quot;only&quot; tens of thousands died. <a href="https://t.co/hYiUCHhO5g">https://t.co/hYiUCHhO5g</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1248023460149964801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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For that theory to have any sway, it would have to explain why on earth President Trump and his team would put out an inflated number, scare the living daylights out of people, and grind the economy to an utter standstill just so he can take a &#8220;victory lap&#8221; on top of a pile of economic destruction. It would also have to account for the dozens of experts who pushed those numbers long before the Trump administration instituted the social distancing guidelines.
Hayes, who has not deleted the tweet, took a brutal scolding for his suggestion, with many predicting that this may become the new media talking point if President Trump and his team bring this crisis to an end.
&#8220;You lack a soul, a conscience, and any semblance of integrity,&#8221; said Jason Rantz of KTTH.
&#8220;The central model was from IHME,&#8221; said one user. &#8220;A University of Washington research center. Imperial college model originally predicted up to 2.2 million deaths. That’s a lot of people in on the conspiracy.&#8221;
&#8220;If you watched the press briefings you would know that they said repeatedly their goal was to be significantly lower than those numbers. Dr. Fauci only said it a half a dozen times,&#8221; said another user.
Responding to another user, Chris clarified that he does not accept the theory and only notes that Trump&#8217;s behavior has been &#8220;unnerving.&#8221;
&#8220;I said I can&#8217;t bring myself to accept it! But he&#8217;s been very very weird about &#8216;coming in under the model&#8217; in this unnerving, disassociated way,&#8221; Hayes later said.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-coronavirus-model-gets-updated-second-time-in-four-days-downgrading-deaths-hospitalizations-again">reported</a> by The Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo, the White House updated its coronavirus projection models on Wednesday, lowering the death count and hospitalizations by steady margins: from 93,531 deaths to 81,766 deaths to 60,415 deaths.
“Moreover, the projected total hospital bed shortage decreased from 34,654 to 15,852 (a revised number from April 5), and the so-called ‘peak’ of hospital usage was pushed up from April 15 to April 11,” reported Prestigiacomo. “The peak daily death toll was also moved up to April 12, from the revised April 16 date.”
Though Dr. Fauci has made it clear life will be significantly altered over the next year, he did <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-fauci-schools-should-reopen-in-the-fall-death-count-likely-less-than-the-original-projection">express optimism</a> that public life will reopen again.
“You know, it is unpredictable, but you can get a feel for it if we start talking about the things where the curve goes down,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fauci-says-u-s-should-be-able-to-head-back-to-school-in-fall">Fauci said</a> during the Tuesday task force briefing. “How we respond and what kind of a rebound we see or don’t see, I think is going to have a lot of influence probably more immediately on things like summer camps than it does in the fall.”
“I fully expect – though, I’m humble enough to know that I can’t accurately predict – that by the time we get to the fall that we will have this under control, enough that it certainly will not be the way it is now where people are shutting schools,” he continued.

Late Night with Seth Meyers &#8211; Season 5

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Floats Bizarre Conspiracy Theory: White House Inflated Death Projections So Trump Can ‘Take A Victory Lap’

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On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tried to claim the Trump administration was slow to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
While talking to oncologist and Center for American Progress senior fellow Zeke Emanuel, Scarborough lamented the claim by some that “nobody could have seen this coming,” referring to the novel coronavirus that has infected nearly 900,000 people worldwide and killed more than 40,000.
“The fact is, everybody saw this coming,” Scarborough said. “Everybody saw this coming in early January.”
Before this, Scarborough cherry-picked and distorted various statements from President Donald Trump to suggest the president was ignoring experts warning him about the coronavirus:
<blockquote>They saw this coming even several weeks ago. Doctors I know very well, scientists, health care professionals were saying, “Mr. President, 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 people could die from this virus if you don’t start moving.” The president didn’t want to hear it. This is, after all, a president who talked about one person dying and one person from China, but we’ve got it taken care of, it will be zero. And then soon after that in February, he was talking about, oh, we have 14, 15 people who were infected but we’ve done such a good job it’s going to go down to zero. Then, of course, he said the media was overblowing it, that their coverage was a hoax of the pandemic, that it was going to go away. And then he said that it would go away in April, the sun would come out, it would magically go away.</blockquote>
Before getting into the incorrect statements of Scarborough’s monologue, it should be noted that on January 27th, “Morning Joe” <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=281381">featured</a> a medical expert that said Americans “don’t need to be overly concerned yet in the United States about the novel Coronavirus,” but should “keep our eyes open for the seasonal flu.” A clip of this segment was highlighted by Grabien founder Tom Elliott.
A search for “coronavirus” and MSNBC in early January brought up zero results. CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/health/china-wuhan-pneumonia-virus-intl-hnk/index.html">began covering</a> China’s “mysterious pneumonia outbreak” around January 9, though they were hardly raising an alarm back then. The same goes with NBC and ABC.
The Daily Wire first reported on the coronavirus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remember-sars-new-virus-spreading-in-china-kills-sixth-person">on January 21</a>, when China claimed a sixth person had died from the virus (due to China’s lying, it’s now unclear whether this number was accurate at the time). At the time, almost no one thought the virus would become a global pandemic, contrary to Scarborough’s claims.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-a-timeline-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak-and-chinas-coverup">timeline</a> compiled by the U.S. State Department showed few infections (according to probably inaccurate Chinese data) through November and December 2019 and that China was trying to squash news of the outbreak.
As to Scarborough’s other claims, he misrepresented Trump’s statements that were in line with what media outlets were reporting at the time. In hindsight, Trump was wrong, as were many, many other people, but that is how fast-moving news happens. Scarborough failed to mention Trump’s January 31 travel restrictions to and from China and instead claimed Trump called coverage of the coronavirus a hoax. Again, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-claims-trump-called-coronavirus-a-hoax-heres-what-he-actually-said">that is not what Trump said</a>. The president said the Democrats’ claims that his administration wasn’t doing enough to combat the virus was the hoax.

Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough Says Everybody But Trump Saw Coronavirus ‘Coming In Early January.’ That’s Not True.

On Twitter Tuesday, President Trump noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared Tuesday morning on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; and concluded — after some sharp slaps at the Democratic leader and the show — that Pelosi&#8217;s performance actually &#8220;wasn&#8217;t bad.&#8221;
While Trump has repeatedly hammered Pelosi for her eleventh-hour  interference last week in the Senate&#8217;s historic $2.2 trillion economic relief bill, which is designed to help Americans amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, he took a slightly different tone in response to the speaker&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; Tuesday morning (video below).
&#8220;I watched a portion of low rated (very) Morning Psycho (Joe) this Morning in order to see what Nancy Pelosi had to say, [and] what moves she was planning to further hurt our Country,&#8221; Trump tweeted in reference to MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; the hosts of which have been engaged in a long public feud with the president. &#8220;Actually, other than her usual complaining that I’m a terrible person, she wasn’t bad.&#8221;
&#8220;Still praying!&#8221; he added, in apparent reference to Pelosi famously claiming that she prays for him every day.
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I watched a portion of low rated (very) Morning Psycho (Joe) this Morning in order to see what Nancy Pelosi had to say, &amp; what moves she was planning to further hurt our Country. Actually, other than her usual complaining that I’m a terrible person, she wasn’t bad. Still praying!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1244977299486883840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski welcomed Speaker Pelosi onto the show Tuesday by asking her a loaded question about Trump&#8217;s handling of the crisis, which recent polls found is getting high marks from a majority of Americans.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll start by asking you, there have been so many questions about the president&#8217;s leadership through this crisis, his lack of action,&#8221; said Brzezinski. &#8220;If you could speak to him directly, what do you wish that he would be doing now that he is not doing?&#8221;
Instead of immediately taking the opportunity to bash Trump presented by the MSNBC host, Pelosi first offered a word of solidarity with the nation.
&#8220;First, let me just join you in mourning the loss of so many lives and the prospect of more to come,&#8221; said the speaker. &#8220;We all come to this discussion with very heavy hearts about what we need to do to prevent more of a spread of this.&#8221;
Pelosi then provided her answer, which was not as combative as Brzezinski and her co-host Joe Scarborough likely expected: &#8220;And so, to the president, I would join those — whether it’s the governors, the mayors, people across the country — who are saying we need the equipment, the personal protective equipment for the workers, the ventilators and other equipment for the patients,&#8221; said the Democratic leader. &#8220;We need proper testing, testing, testing.&#8221;
“So I would say to the president, immediately, implement the Defense Production Act, insisting that businesses in our country turn to producing the equipment that we need,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;The American people, their representatives, officialdom, all the rest, are united in that recognition of that need. It will save lives.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re asking people to risk their lives to save other lives,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We’re asking people to make judgments about who gets a ventilator or not. That should not be happening. One thing that we could do, that we all agree on — Democrats and Republicans alike — PPE, personal protection equipment, as well as the equipment to save the patients’ lives.&#8221;
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President Trump Delivers State Of The Union Address

Trump Offers Backhanded Compliment To Pelosi For Her Appearance On His Least Favorite Morning Show

Mika Brzezinski

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC Friday evening to debrief about the $2 trillion bipartisan stimulus bill, which was approved by the House earlier in the day and promptly signed by President Trump, but ended up spending a portion of the interview talking about Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), the rogue Republican who signaled he would temporarily stall the House vote by invoking a call for quorum. 
“I tried to be respectful of his enthusiasm for his idea, but I did tell him that it wasn’t going to work, that we will have a voice vote, and it wasn’t going to hold us up to much,” Pelosi told Maddow on Friday evening, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dangerous-nuisance-pelosi-slams-republican-who-requested-roll-call-vote-on-coronavirus-relief-bill">The Washington Examiner</a>. 
“We always knew we would pass this bill and we would pass it today, and we would not let any nuisance stand in the way,” continued Pelosi. “That’s really what he was, a dangerous nuisance.”
Amidst the last-minute stunt, Massie received bipartisan blowback from leading political figures, including President Trump, who called him a third-rate grandstander just looking for publicity. 
Former Secretary of State John Kerry also unloaded on the GOP Congressman in a Twitter post Friday morning, complete with a crude hashtag: “Breaking news: Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an a**hole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity He&#8217;s given new meaning to the term #Masshole.”
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Breaking news: Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an asshole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity. He&#8217;s given new meaning to the term <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Masshole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Masshole</a>. (Finally, something the president and I can agree on!) <a href="https://t.co/N1CNLPsZjc">https://t.co/N1CNLPsZjc</a>
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/status/1243552337429438464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
Although President Trump promptly signed the stimulus package, Pelosi told Maddow on Friday that the president’s comments in the oval office during the signing made him a “dangerous president.”
“Later in the day we saw the president sign the bill, and he was a dangerous president,” said Pelosi, who explained that she took issue with Trump remarking that earlier in the month everything was great, but now the nation is facing a strong challenge. 
“Twenty days ago we had nearly 500 cases, 17 deaths, we had a threat that he chose to ignore, and now we have about 100,000 cases and over 1,500 deaths, and he’s still in that state where he’s not doing enough,” said Pelosi. 
Both Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) have praised the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus epidemic at various points, with Cuomo <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cuomo-praises-trumps-coronavirus-response-his-team-is-on-it/">remarking</a> that the president has been “ready and willing to help” last week. According to The San Jose Mercury News, Newsom <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-gavin-newsom-california-response-trump/">called Trump</a> “terrific” on Friday, and said he appreciated the president’s “nice words.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-blasts-general-motors-for-wasting-time-to-produce-ventilators-uses-defense-production-act">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Friday to compel General Motors to begin producing medical ventilators after negotiations with the company stalled. 
“Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course,” said Trump.

Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry

Pelosi Calls Rogue Republican ‘Dangerous Nuisance,’ Jabs Trump As ‘Dangerous President’

Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, an Obama administration official, stormed off MSNBC on Thursday during a segment on how the federal government should be responding to the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that he did not &#8220;have time to listen to bulls**t people.&#8221;
Former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt argued that the federal government needed to be more involved in responding to the outbreak while Fugate argued that state and local governments needed to take the lead.
&#8220;The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth,&#8221; Fugate said. &#8220;This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems.&#8221;
&#8220;But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance,&#8221; Fugate continued. &#8220;As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.&#8221;
&#8220;So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now,&#8221; Slavitt said, later adding, &#8220;So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people,&#8221; Fugate responded.
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Obama-era FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate storms off MSNBC over debate on how the government should respond to the coronavirus: &quot;I don&#39;t have time to listen to bulls**t people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/C7xu1VOfdr">pic.twitter.com/C7xu1VOfdr</a>
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<blockquote>KATY TUR: Joining me former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Andy Slavitt. Gentlemen, thank you, so we&#8217;re hearing about FEMA taking the lead on this, Craig. What does that mean?
CRAIG FUGATE: Well, they&#8217;re not taking the lead on it. That’s going to be Health and Human Service that will the lead on the disease. What FEMA is going to be doing is supporting health and human services and the governors as we start getting more and more requests for assistance, so FEMA&#8217;s job will be coordinating on behalf of the president, federal resources in support of our lead federal agency this, for Health and Human Services as well as supporting the governors as we see these outbreaks in all of our states.
TUR: Alright, so when they start to try and coordinate the response federally and what we&#8217;re seeing is just a frantic lack of personal protective equipment. We just got this word from the CDC saying, hey, listen, if you&#8217;re out of face masks, use a bandanna or a scarf. I mean Andy, that is &#8212; that is astonishing to think that here in the united States, this first world with all of our advanced, all of our advances, all of our money, all of our resources, that here in this country, doctors and nurses are being told to tie a scarf around their face.
ANDY SLAVITT: Well, we owe them more than that. These folks, the frontline doctors and nurses and first responders, they&#8217;re going to be on the frontline for quite some time. It&#8217;s not going to be measured in days or weeks. It’s going to be measured in months and we’re already sending them into battle without the things that they need to protect us and themselves and that&#8217;s not right and that&#8217;s what happens when there&#8217;s a lack of preparation. But, you know, we can&#8217;t navigate from where we wish we were. We have to navigate from where we are and so we are going to have to do some dramatic things that so far the President has been unwilling to do. Number one, he seems to be backtracking from using the Defense Production Act, which would allow him to start making these masks in large numbers which could be done in a very short time and getting them out to people. He has to face the pressure to do that. It doesn’t make sense. If he wants to be a wartime general, he has got to arm his troops and he says he’s a wartime general. He’s got to do that. The second thing, I called for this yesterday, we need to pass a $5,000 a month payment for every frontline health care worker in the country so they can afford to take care of their family, they can afford child care, they can afford all of the things they need. We need to start thinking of them the same way as veterans and people in the military. They&#8217;re a protected class and we owe them a great deal.
TUR: Why don&#8217;t you think we are mobilizing to the extent that&#8217;s needed on a federal level? Why is the President not using all of those levers, Andy?
SLAVITT: Yeah, I think frankly &#8212; yeah, I think frankly, he doesn&#8217;t have the command and control structure in that he needs. He doesn&#8217;t have the Ron Klain. If I were him, I would call up General Dunford, I would call up General Mattis, and say I want you to come back and I want you to run this effort. You know, it’s not &#8212; it&#8217;s not very comforting to hear that HHS runs it but FEMA is helping them. That&#8217;s going to create more cooks in the kitchen. You need a very streamlined command and control structure here with one person in charge who has been in battle, commanded hundreds of thousands of people, who moved both systems and units and personnel and operations, like tented hospitals, across the country, very, very quickly and we don&#8217;t have that person in place. So I would love for President Trump to be the wartime general. As someone who&#8217;s been a critic of President Trump&#8217;s in the past, I am 100% on his side in solving this problem. But he has got to do the things he claims he wants to do.
TUR: I&#8217;m just still confused about why we are so behind in testing and this was a Reuters report out of South Korea. Craig, I’m going to give this to you. “South Korea’s swift actions stands in stark contrast to what has transpired in the United States….the Koreans have tested well over 290,000 people and classified over 8,000 infections. New cases are falling off: 93 reported Wednesday down from a daily peak of 909 two weeks earlier.” The [U.S.], whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea&#8217;s is not even close to meeting demands. About 60,000 tests have been run by public hand private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.” So, not to be too backward looking here, but if you don&#8217;t have a handle on the tests, you don&#8217;t have a handle on the infection or how to contain the infection, why is this &#8212; why is this so delayed and how can we start expediting it?
FUGATE: I think we were using hope as a strategy. It wasn&#8217;t going to be this bad, we could ease into it. We had a lot of capacity. The alarms were going off early. I think we’re slow to this. Now, we’re playing catch-up and that’s the worst position to be in. And the whole thing about having a single person in charge? I&#8217;m going to call B.S. on it. I strongly disagree that comes as a single point of failure. We actually have 50 people that are the lead and that&#8217;s the state governors and their public health departments. The biggest thing right now the federal government can do is get them money because there&#8217;s not enough federal resources to do what needs to be done. Governors need to be in power to take dramatic action to protect lives, make sure they’re doing everything to maximize their resources, start up production, and get things moving. If we wait for the federal government, we&#8217;re too late.
TUR: Well, let me ask you this. There are governors ramping things up across the country but taking different steps than other governors. This is a virus not respecting state lines. How can you have a coordinate the response if you don&#8217;t have it coordinated from the very top?
FUGATE: The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth. This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems. There will be some variation and it gives us resiliency cause there are different ways to approach this. Hopefully they&#8217;re sharing information. But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance. As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.
TUR: I just got news from Mayor de Blasio here in New York and there&#8217;s been a dramatic increase in the number of cases here in New York City: 3,615 positive cases of COVID and 22 fatalities. Currently, to spread that out, there are 980 cases in Queens, 976 in Manhattan, 1,030 in Brooklyn, and 436 in the Bronx, 165 in Staten Island. I&#8217;m struck, Andy, by how quickly this escalated. Just last week we were considering whether or not some people in this company would go to Florida to cover the primary. That was on, you know, Wednesday. On Thursday that was off the table. Friday all travel seems &#8212; was off the table. And that&#8217;s just mirroring what&#8217;s been happening across the country. At first lockdowns weren&#8217;t even considered and now we&#8217;re seeing lockdowns around the country. What we saw in China seemed so draconian and now people are wondering why we aren&#8217;t doing these fever tests for people walking into buildings? Why aren&#8217;t we going out and aggressively trying to find those who might be spreading symptoms and separating them from the population?
SLAVITT: Right. So, it&#8217;s a hard thing for people to grasp, but the number of cases we have right now and even those tragic figures you just read are going to seem minuscule in a week. The number of cases we have will double every three days. Right now it&#8217;s exceeding that and we have a large number of cases that are untested still. So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now. They are all acting. What they need is coordination because we have believe it or not we have masks, we have a lot of these things. Guess where they are? They&#8217;re sitting in the supply chain, people are profiteering off of them or they&#8217;re going to places where people are hoarding them. Now, that happens in a crisis. It&#8217;s only because &#8212; it’s only by someone looking through the entire system, and seeing where those needs are, that you can say, stop hoarding them in Texas. We need them in New York right now while we build manufacturing capability and put them in Texas. So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.
FUGATE: I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people.
TUR: Ah, Craig, you want to sit down and respond to this? I guess Craig has left. Andy, he doesn&#8217;t agree with you at all.
SLAVITT: I guess not. But look, these are trying times and everyone is trying their best, and I know Craig is &#8212; I don&#8217;t know Craig personally, but I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s working as hard and trying his best. Everybody is. These are unprecedented times. So understandable that he&#8217;s frustrated.
TUR: Can we see if we can get Craig back? I&#8217;d just like him to respond. I never like to leave a conversation like that. Andy I&#8217;m going to say goodbye to you in the meantime. Thank you very much for joining us.</blockquote>

President Barack Obama Makes Statement On Hurricane Matthew

Obama’s Top FEMA Official Storms Off MSNBC: ‘I Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Bulls**t People’

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Obama Administration

On Saturday, a British reporter triggered outrage and had her interview with MSNBC cut off when she remarked that many people consider British Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, “five steps up from trailer trash.”
Victoria Mather, who has been employed by The Telegraph and Vanity Fair, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8090989/British-journalist-says-people-consider-Meghan-Markle-five-clicks-trailer-trash.html">The Daily Mail</a>,  was being interviewed by MSNBC’s Lindsey Reiser regarding Prince Harry and his wife walking away from their royal duties when she commented, “I think what has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen. And the queen is the most respected person, most respected woman, in the world.”
Prior to that comment, Mather opined that Markle opted out of being part of the royal family because she would be “second-best” to her sister-in-law, Princess Kate. She stated, “I don&#8217;t think Meghan Markle wanted to spend the rest of her life looking at Kate Middleton&#8217;s back as she sat in the second row to the future queen. I don&#8217;t think she wanted — she didn&#8217;t want to be second best …  I do hear that she gave Kate a knife for Christmas. Which is quite something, isn&#8217;t it?&#8217;
After the &#8220;trailer trash&#8221; comment, Reiser said, “Victoria Mather, we should mention — NBC News has not confirmed what you had mentioned about a knife gifting, but we thank you for your time. Thanks for joining us this morning.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will step down from royal duties at the end of March.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-win-harry-and-meghan-forced-to-drop-branding-name-trademark-applications-removed-markle-upset">The Daily Wire</a> reported on February 21 that Prince Harry and Markle agreed that they would abide by Queen Elizabeth II’s ban of them cashing in on the &#8220;Sussex Royal&#8221; brand. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/meghan-and-prince-harry-drop-sussex-royal-branding-after-dustup-with-queen">The Washington Examiner</a> reported that the couple issued a statement through a spokesman:
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While The Duke and Duchess are focused on plans to establish a new non-profit organisation, given the specific UK Government rules surrounding use of the word Royal, it has been therefore agreed that their non-profit organisation, when it is announced this Spring, will not be named Sussex Royal Foundation. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use &#8220;Sussex Royal&#8221; in any territory post Spring 2020. Therefore, the trademark applications that were filed as protective measures, acting on advice from and following the same model for the Royal Foundation, have been removed.
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The Examiner continued, &#8220;Meghan said <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8021867/Defiant-Meghan-says-theres-legally-stopping-using-Sussex-Royal-name.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">she was</a> upset about the news and that there was &#8216;nothing legally stopping&#8217; her and Prince Harry from using the branding.&#8221; According to <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-meghan-markle-tells-friends-21548463">The Daily Mail</a>, Markle told friends that using the term &#8220;royal&#8221; &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t even be an issue in the first place and it&#8217;s not like they want to be in the business of selling T-shirts and pencils.&#8221; The Daily Mail also reported, “Harry and Meghan have spent tens of thousands of pounds on a new Sussex Royal website to complement their hugely popular Instagram feed. They have also sought to register Sussex Royal as a global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and teaching materials.”
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Prince Harry Marries Ms. Meghan Markle &#8211; Windsor Castle

British Reporter: Many People Consider Meghan Markle ‘Five Steps Up From Trailer Trash’

Meghan Markle

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced on Sunday evening that he and his staff had sustained contact with a person who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and that his office would be closed all week.
&#8220;I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus,&#8221; Gosar tweeted. &#8220;My office will be closed for the week.&#8221;
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1. I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus. My office will be closed for the week.
&mdash; Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1236821135964004352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are all asymptomatic and feel great. But we are being proactive and cautious,&#8221; Gosar continued. &#8220;Keep the person in the hospital in your prayers. We are in touch with the CDC and the White House. They are doing a great job staying on top of this.&#8221;
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3. Keep the person in the hospital in your prayers. We are in touch with the CDC and the White House. They are doing a great job staying on top of this.
&mdash; Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1236821138853859328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Far-left MSNBC host Chris Hayes rushed to attack Gosar for calling the coronavirus the &#8220;Wuhan Virus,&#8221; despite the fact that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as the &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
&#8220;Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus,&#8221; Hayes tweeted.
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Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus. <a href="https://t.co/cMrsA59xTH">https://t.co/cMrsA59xTH</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1236829231633620999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayes&#8217; eagerness to pounce on the opportunity to attack a Republican member of Congress for using the term &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; comes despite the fact that even left-wing media has referred to the coronavirus as the &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
CNN <a href="http://archive.is/aeucs">tweeted</a> in late January, &#8220;Of all the aspects of the rapidly spreading Wuhan virus, this is perhaps the most alarming: A single patient has infected 14 health care workers. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s called a &#8220;super spreader&#8221; – and identifying them is a key element of fighting the virus.&#8221;
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Of all the aspects of the rapidly spreading Wuhan virus, this is perhaps the most alarming: A single patient has infected 14 health care workers. That&#39;s what&#39;s called a &quot;super spreader&quot; &#8212; and identifying them is a key element of fighting the virus. <a href="https://t.co/PfxvY35AAc">https://t.co/PfxvY35AAc</a>
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In February, CNN wrote a piece <a href="http://archive.is/XeKem#selection-1165.0-1165.95">titled</a>: &#8220;Chen Qiushi spoke out about the Wuhan virus. Now his family and friends fear he&#8217;s been silenced.&#8221;
Online, Hayes and other far-left activists in the media received criticism over their remarks and for trying to portray the remarks as racist.
Angela Morabito noted: &#8220;Ebola was named for a river in the Congo. Zika, for a forest in Uganda. Lyme disease for Lyme, Connecticut. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and West Nile Virus also fit the bill.&#8221;
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and West Nile Virus also fit the bill.
&mdash; Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito/status/1236837565648560128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political strategist Drew Holden tweeted: &#8220;Y’all gonna come up with another name for MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) too, while you’re at it? This faux drama is just astoundingly stupid.&#8221;
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Y’all gonna come up with another name for MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) too, while you’re at it?
This faux drama is just astoundingly stupid. <a href="https://t.co/m6vnvXCbkM">https://t.co/m6vnvXCbkM</a>
&mdash; Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1236847721337835521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New York Post reporter Jon Levine tweeted: &#8220;Virus originated in Wuhan. Calm down. Not everything needs to be a social justice crisis.&#8221;
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Virus originated in Wuhan. Calm down. Not everything needs to be a social justice crisis <a href="https://t.co/5gPpBkRFfj">https://t.co/5gPpBkRFfj</a>
&mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1236841056790097920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong responded to a tweet from an MSNBC reporter who declared that the term was &#8220;racist&#8221; by writing, &#8220;I call it the Wuhan Virus. I&#8217;m Chinese. I must be suffering from a serious case of internalized racism.&#8221;
Cheong concluded: &#8220;Someone should show David his own tweet about the Ebola Virus, which was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.&#8221;
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Someone should show David his own tweet about the Ebola Virus, which was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <a href="https://t.co/DTpCPBSaoW">pic.twitter.com/DTpCPBSaoW</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1236841074225639424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cheong added: &#8220;The &#8216;racist&#8217; narrative against calling the Wuhan Virus by its colloquial name is one put forth by the Chinese government to absolve them of any responsibility for letting the outbreak spread. And the media is propagating it.&#8221;
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The &quot;racist&quot; narrative against calling the Wuhan Virus by its colloquial name is one put forth by the Chinese government to absolve them of any responsibility for letting the outbreak spread. And the media is propagating it.
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1236848663453822976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC&#8217;s Brian Williams and New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay made an embarrassing math error late on Thursday night regarding the amount of money that Mike Bloomberg spent on his failed Democratic presidential campaign.
&#8220;Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money that he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars,&#8221; Gay said.
Williams&#8217; show aired the tweet on national television.
&#8220;I’ve got it. Let’s put it on the screen,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.&#8221;
Williams then read the tweet: &#8220;Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s an incredible way of putting it,&#8221; Williams said.
&#8220;It’s an incredible way of putting it,&#8221; Gay said. “It’s true. It’s disturbing.&#8221;
There&#8217;s only one problem: $500 million divided by 327,000,000 people is $1.53 per person, not over $1 million per person.
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MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: &quot;Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million&quot;
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
It&#39;s $1.53 per person <a href="https://t.co/dIiwCESgh8">pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1235802419734269952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this week, MSNBC host Chris Matthews resigned following a week of bad publicity, including claims of sexual harassment and his comparison of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler taking over France.
On Monday, Matthews left the network. GQ, the magazine that published an article by columnist Laura Bassett that claimed Matthews sexually harassed her by giving her compliments before her appearances, took a victory lap. The outlet posted an update to Bassett’s article stating that “On March 3rd, three days after this story was published, Chris Matthews retired from MSNBC on air.”
But Kyle Smith, writing at <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/the-real-reason-chris-matthews-was-fired-from-msnbc/amp/">The New York Post</a>, suggests Matthews wasn’t fired over the claims in the GQ article, but because he did his job by posing tough questions to Democrats running for the party presidential nomination. Smith wrote that Matthews’ job was to “represent the non-crazy, ‘No Kool-Aid for me, thanks’ Left on television, while being entertaining and pointed and wacky.” Yet the GQ article, Smith wrote, “artfully weaved” two different types of complaints against Matthews – that he complimented women and he was tough on two female presidential candidates – to claim he was a sexist:
<blockquote>One complaint was that Matthews <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/02/28/chris-matthews-accused-of-inappropriately-flirting-with-female-guest/?_ga=2.225706393.2029211440.1583173800-2047514065.1564425125">would compliment women’s looks</a>. He said of Sarah Palin that there was “something electric” and “very attractive” about her. He told Erin Burnett, “You’re a knockout.” All true. He made a couple of mild compliments to Bassett: “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” True, men shouldn’t talk this way around the office, and few guys under 50 have failed to get the message that this kind of thing makes (some) women uncomfortable. But Matthews is 70. Old guys flirt with young women as a way of telling themselves they’re still in the game. Young women used to be more forgiving, to recognize the pathos underlying the impulse and shrug it off. Now they exaggerate their emotional reaction, pretend that they’re “shaken” or “couldn’t breathe.” Bassett writes that a couple of flirty comments from Matthews “undermined my ability to do my job well.” That’s hard to believe.</blockquote>
In the age of #MeToo and “believe all women,” allegations like the ones Bassett made against Matthews have become routine. Women are now equating a man complimenting them, even in a weird way, with sexual harassment and acting as if they are the victim of some horrible event. It detracts from real victims of sexual harassment and assault.
Smith asked why “women pretend to be undone by a stray compliment?” and suggested Bassett’s real motive was that she didn’t like the way Matthews questioned Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.
“Bassett is utterly blatant about her real motive: She wanted Matthews fired for the way he interviewed Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. She thinks Matthews damaged her political favorites, thinking (probably correctly) that when a prominent Democrat criticizes such candidates, he signals other moderate Democrats and centrists that it’s okay to vote for someone else,” Smith wrote.
Smith argued that Bassett was selective in her criticism, as Matthews has been antagonistic toward many male politicians as well. The Sanders-Hitler comparison was just one such example. Matthews, however, made his living off of “hysterical analogies” to drive viewership to his program, “Hardball.”

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