Had this been a Republican, the Left would be demanding a whole new round of impeachment trials.
In a leaked call from late 2016 between then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the former VP and current Democratic presidential nominee undermined the incoming Trump administration and set up a backchannel between himself and the Ukraine president.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/17/leaked-2016-call-reveals-joe-biden-risked-national-security-to-sabotage-trump/">explained</a> how the call is damaging to Biden and America’s national security, calling Biden’s efforts to undermine the Trump administration a form of “sabotage”:
<blockquote>During the course of the call, Biden badmouthed the incoming administration, saying, “The truth of the matter is that the incoming administration doesn’t know a great deal about [Ukraine]” and that they were unprepared for the transition. This in itself is inappropriate, but it was meant to set the stage for Biden’s next statement and future plans.
Biden then told Poroshenko, “I don’t plan on going away. As a private citizen, I plan on staying deeply engaged in the endeavor that you have begun and we have begun.” In a matter of moments, Biden undermined the incoming administration, branded them as not knowing anything about Ukraine, and attempted to set up a foreign policy backchannel for himself after he left office as a private citizen, which could violate the Logan Act.
The Logan Act bars private citizens from engaging in U.S. foreign policy, although its constitutionality remains questionable and no person has ever been convicted of violating it since it was signed into law in 1799. Ironically, this is the same act that, at Joe Biden’s suggestion, the FBI accused National Security Advisor Michael Flynn of violating as a result of a discussion Flynn had with the Russian ambassador to the United States around nearly the same time as Biden’s call with Poroshenko.</blockquote>
Further, Biden told Poroshenko that he had “been somewhat limited on what I am able to tell [the Trump transition team] about Ukraine,” blaming the limitation on a supposedly late start to the transition process. As The Federalist reported, however, “we now know he said this at the same time the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies were conducting a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, known as ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ of which Ukraine was a part.”
“So Biden, the sitting vice president of the United States, told a foreign leader whose country was part of a highly classified FBI counterintelligence investigation that there were things he couldn’t share about his country with the incoming administration and that they weren’t cleared. We now know from subsequent investigations that the Trump administration did not in fact collude with Russia, but at the time, Biden didn’t and he was privy to the fact that the FBI had opened the investigation,” The Federalist reported. “Additionally, it is mind-boggling that the vice president felt comfortable telling a foreign leader that there were things he was unable to tell the incoming administration at the same time the Department of Justice and the FBI failed to notify President-elect Trump of potential counterintelligence risks (that ended up not being true) posed by members of his campaign team who might join his administration in official capacities.”
Democrats spent months trying to impeach Trump over his own phone call with a Ukrainian president, even though a transcript showed no quid pro quo and the new Ukraine president himself said he felt no pressure from the U.S.
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On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a victory, ruling 2-1 that a preliminary injunction barring implementation of decisions to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations of Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador would be vacated.
Ed Whelan noted at <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/ninth-circuit-okays-termination-of-temporary-protected-status-designations/">National Review</a>, “It might seem surprising that there would be any controversy over DHS’s authority to terminate a temporary designation years later. But after ordering DHS to provide the administrative record for its termination decisions, federal district judge Edward Chen granted plaintiffs (TPS beneficiaries from these countries and their children) injunctive relief based on their claims under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Equal Protection Clause.”
Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan explained, “The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is a congressionally created humanitarian program administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that provides temporary relief to nationals of designated foreign countries that have been stricken by a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions in the foreign state.” In 2017 and 2018, Secretaries of DHS under the Trump Administration terminated the TPS designations of four countries: Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. Plaintiffs, who are TPS beneficiaries from these countries and their children, challenged the TPS termination decisions as unlawful …
The court <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/09/14/18-16981.pdf">wrote</a>: “The district court entered a preliminary injunction barring the implementation of the termination decisions. On appeal, the Government argues that the district court abused its discretion in issuing the injunction because Plaintiffs have not shown a likelihood of success on either of their claims. We agree.”
The court noted, “Sudan was originally designated for TPS in 1997 because of an ongoing civil war that prevented the safe return of Sudan nationals … From that time until 2017, the country was periodically extended or redesignated for TPS fifteen times by prior administrations, based on factors such as forced relocation, human rights abuses, famine, and denial of access to humanitarian agencies.”
The court added that Acting Secretary Duke terminated the TPS designation of Sudan, concluding that the conflict in Sudan was now “limited to Darfur and the Two Areas (South Kordofan and Blue Nile states)&#8221; and that “&#8217;food security&#8217; had improved &#8216;across much of Sudan&#8217; because of above-average harvests.&#8221;
Nicaragua was initially designated for TPS in 1999 because of Hurricane Mitch. In December 2017, the Acting Secretary “determined that conditions for Nicaragua’s 1999 designation for TPS on the basis of environmental disaster is no longer met.”
El Salvador was designated for TPS in 2001 because of the effects of three earthquakes that caused the displacement of 17% of the population; in January 2018, Secretary Nielsen terminated El Salvador’s TPS designation, writing that the “conditions supporting El Salvador’s 2001 designation for TPS on the basis of environmental disaster due to the damage caused by the 2001 earthquakes are no longer met.”
Haiti was originally designated for TPS in 2010 after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake; in January 2018, Acting Secretary Duke “determined . . . that the conditions for Haiti’s designation for TPS—on the basis of ‘extraordinary and temporary conditions’ relating to the 2010 earthquake that prevented Haitian nationals from returning safely—are no longer met,” noting that Haiti had closed 98% of the displaced-person sites.
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Carl and Marsha Mueller, whose daughter was killed by ISIS during the Obama administration, delivered a powerful message at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night comparing the response the family received from the two administrations.
&#8220;Our daughter Kayla was taken as a hostage and murdered by ISIS. From a young age, Kayla was amazing,&#8221; Marsha Mueller said. &#8220;She taught herself languages, how to write music, how to play guitar. She worked with troubled youth, military veterans, and Native Americans. Everywhere Kayla went, people smiled. Kayla had a gift to be able to see the world through someone else’s eyes. She became a humanitarian aid worker, and when she was helping children at an orphanage in India, Kayla wrote, ‘I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.’&#8221;
&#8220;She went to Turkey to help Syrian refugees in 2012. In August 2013, she was asked by another aid worker to cross the border into Syria to help at a hospital,” Marsha Mueller continued. “On August 4, 2013, ISIS terrorists stopped her vehicle and took her captive.&#8221;
&#8220;Kayla was mostly held in a 12 x 12 cell in solitary confinement. It was cold and dirty. ISIS terrorists shined bright lights in her face,&#8221; Carl Mueller said. &#8220;They shaved her head, they beat her, and tortured her. The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, raped her repeatedly. For 18 months, she endured, and we endured in agonizing back-and-forth between us, the Obama administration, and ISIS.&#8221;
&#8220;We put all our faith in the government, but the government let us down. President Obama refused to meet with us until ISIS had already beheaded other Americans,&#8221; Carl Mueller continued. &#8220;To this day, we never heard from Joe Biden. Instead, the Obama administration hid behind policy so much that we felt hopeless when they kept us from negotiating to save Kayla’s life. The administration showed more concern for the terrorists in Guantanamo than the American hostages in Syria.&#8221;
“The military prepared a rescue mission, but the White House delayed it,” Carl Mueller continued. “By the time it went forward, Kayla had been moved to another location. After 18 months of brutal torture, we learned from ISIS that Kayla had been killed. The Obama administration kept telling us they were doing everything they could, but their version of everything wasn’t enough.”
“What a difference a president makes,” Carl Mueller continued. “Under President Trump, U.S. Army special operators conducted a raid on al-Baghdadi’s compound. After we learned that al-Baghdadi was killed, we learned something else: the operators named themselves Task Force 814, after August 14, Kayla’s birthday. And the mission was named Operation Kayla Mueller. To those soldiers, thank you. Kayla was looking down on you.”
“The Trump team gave us empathy we never received from the Obama administration,” he said. “The Obama administration said it was doing everything it could; the Trump administration is. Let me just say this—Kayla should be here. If Donald Trump had been president when Kayla was captured, she would be here today.”
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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway is leaving the Trump administration after working for the president since her role as campaign manager in 2016.
&#8220;Conway informed Trump of her decision Sunday night in the Oval Office,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kellyanne-conway-white-house/2020/08/23/6c26e18a-e5a7-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Her husband George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer and outspoken critic of the president, is also stepping back from his role on the Lincoln Project, an outside group of Republicans devoted to defeating Trump in November. He will also take a hiatus from Twitter, the venue he has often used to attack the president.&#8221;
Conway, who was the first woman to successfully propel a presidential campaign to victory, said that while she and her husband &#8220;disagree about plenty,&#8221; they &#8220;are united on what matters most: the kids.&#8221;
In a statement, Kellyanne Conway wrote:
<blockquote>The past four years have allowed me blessings beyond compare as a part of history on Election Night 2016 and as Senior Counselor to the President. It&#8217;s been heady. It&#8217;s been humbling.
I am deeply grateful to the President for this honor, and to the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Pence, my colleagues in the White House and the Administration, and the countless people who supported me and my work. As many convention speakers will demonstrate this week, President Trump&#8217;s leadership has had a measurable, positive impact on the peace and prosperity of the nation, and on millions of Americans who feel forgotten no more.
The incredible men, women and children we&#8217;ve met along the way have reaffirmed my later-in-life experience that public service can be meaningful and consequential. For all of its political differences and cultural cleavages, this is a beautiful country filled with amazing people. The promise of America belongs to us all.
I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month. George is also making changes. We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids. Our four children are teens and &#8216;tweens starting a new academic year, in middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months. As millions of parents nationwide know, kids “doing school from home” requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times.
This is completely my choice and my voice. In time, I will announce future plans. For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.</blockquote>
In a tweet, George Conway wrote: &#8220;So I’m withdrawing from @ProjectLincoln to devote more time to family matters. And I’ll be taking a Twitter hiatus. Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project and its mission. Passionately.&#8221;
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Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project and its mission. Passionately.
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The video-sharing app TikTok has confirmed plans to sue the Trump administration over an executive order banning the company from engaging in commerce with American companies beginning next month.
While President Donald Trump has leveraged two executive orders against TikTok in recent weeks, the company has alleged that the August 6 order, which bans transactions with the company beginning in mid-September, violates their due process rights, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/22/tiktok-will-challenge-trump-order-banning-us-transactions-company-confirms.html">CNBC</a>.
“Even though we strongly disagree with the Administration’s concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution,” a spokesperson told CNBC on Saturday. “What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the Administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses.”
“To ensure that the rule of law prevails and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system,” said the spokesperson.
TikTok, which is especially popular with Gen Zers, has 49 million daily users in the United States, and more than a third of them are younger than age 15, according to a review of internal documents and data by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/technology/tiktok-underage-users-ftc.html">The New York Times</a>.
Furthermore, The New York Times reports that the number of users under 15 “was almost as large as the number of over-14 users, around 20 million.&#8221; The demographics of European users are reportedly similar. 
Trump originally threatened to ban the app entirely in the United States amidst growing bipartisan cybersecurity concerns, particularly concerns that the company could give the Chinese communist government access to American user data.
“TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories,” read the president’s executive order.
The order continued: “This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News last month that the only people who should use the app are those who want the communist government of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-considering-ban-on-tiktok-other-chinese-apps-over-security-concerns">China to have access to their data</a>, as The Daily Wire previously reported.
TikTok has denied giving data access to foreign governments.
After the first executive order, Trump later signed another executive order banning transactions with ByteDance beginning 90 days from August 14.
According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-plans-to-challenge-president-trumps-executive-order-11598140583?mod=hp_lead_pos2">The Wall Street Journal</a>, Microsoft, Twitter, and Oracle have expressed interest in buying TikTok’s U.S.-based operations, with Microsoft going even further by aiming for a deal that includes TikTok’s Candian and Australian operations as well.
Acknowledging the negotiations in an early-August blog post, Microsoft said it was seeking a new structure that “would build on the experience TikTok users currently love, while adding world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections.”
It’s not clear how far the negotiations have progressed.
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The Trump administration has reportedly &#8220;confiscated cargo&#8221; on four oil tankers that were en route to Venezuela carrying Iranian oil.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the move comes as the administration looks to up its &#8220;campaign of maximum pressure&#8221; against the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
&#8220;Last month U.S. federal prosecutors filed suit to seize the four tankers of gasoline that Iran was sending to Venezuela, the latest move in the administration’s effort to stifle flows of goods and money helping to keep two of its top foes in power,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seizes-iranian-fuel-cargoes-for-first-time-11597352574">reported</a>. &#8220;One official said the vessels had been taken over without the use of military force but didn’t provide any details. Last year the U.S. tried unsuccessfully to use judicial cooperation agreements to take control of an Iranian oil vessel that had been detained in the British territory of Gibraltar.&#8221;
One of the goals reportedly sought by the administration with this action is to deter shipping companies and other organizations from doing business with Iran and Venezuela.
The four vessels, which are now en route to Houston, were part of a convoy of nine oil tankers, including five belonging to Iran, which were being escorted by an Iranian naval vessel. The four seized oil tankers, all privately owned, broke away from the convoy after their owners were contacted by the U.S. federal government.
&#8220;The U.S. government’s lawsuit alleges that an Iranian businessman affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s elite military unit designated by the U.S. as a terror group, arranged the fuel deliveries through a network of shell companies to avoid detection and evade U.S. sanctions,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal added. &#8220;The action is the latest in a series of moves the U.S. has taken against Iran and its ally Venezuela as part of a broad operation to pressure the governments in Tehran and Caracas to meet U.S. demands.&#8221;
Iran is known for harassing and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/world/middleeast/iran-oil-tanker-persian-gulf.html">seizing</a> foreign oil tankers, including as recently as <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-08-13/iranian-forces-board-tanker-in-the-strait-of-hormuz">yesterday</a>, which comes in response to mounting pressure from the U.S. and other nations.
Pressure has also mounted against the Islamic regime from its own citizens over the poor state of Iran&#8217;s economy, Iran shooting down an airliner earlier this year and lying about it, and Iran allegedly killing protesters.
Iran also faces problems over how it has managed the coronavirus pandemic as the nation has been accused of lying about how bad the outbreak is. Just this week, Iran shut down a newspaper that published an alleged interview with a government doctor who said that Iran&#8217;s numbers were &#8220;engineered&#8221; for political reasons.
“The Jahan-e Sanat newspaper quoted Mohammadreza Mahboubfar, an epidemiologist on Iran’s national coronavirus task force, as saying the country’s virus figures ‘have certainly been engineered since the start of the outbreak,&#8217;” Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-xl/middleeast/top-stories/iran-shuts-down-newspaper-over-virus-cover-up-allegations/ar-BB17MYZR">reported</a>. “‘I believe the numbers announced by the Health Ministry are 1/20th of the reality’ of Iranians infected and dead, he said, according to the newspaper’s website jahanesanat.ir.”
&#8220;Iran currently reports that the country has had 329,000 cases and 18,616 deaths,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-shuts-down-newspaper-after-government-doctor-claims-cover-up-numbers-only-1-20th-of-the-reality">reported</a>. &#8220;If the numbers that Mahboubfar alleges are true, that means that Iran has had over 6.5 million cases and more than 370,000 deaths — which is more than double the number of deaths that the United States has reported.&#8221;
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Former first lady Michelle Obama claimed that she has been suffering from &#8220;low-grade depression&#8221; recently, and pinpointed the Trump administration&#8217;s response to the nation&#8217;s racial problems as a cause.
During an interview on her new podcast with Washington Post columnist Michele Norris, Obama said that, like many Americans, the coronavirus pandemic and the turmoil roiling the nation since George Floyd&#8217;s death have led her to some low points.
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&#8220;There have been periods throughout this quarantine where I just have felt too low,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;You know, I’ve gone through those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels, where you just don’t feel yourself.&#8221;
Claiming she has been experiencing sleep disturbances, Obama continued, &#8220;I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression. Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to say that waking up to the news, waking up to how this administration has or has not responded, waking up to yet another story of a black man or a black person somehow being dehumanized or hurt or killed, or falsely accused of something, it is exhausting,&#8221; she said. “It has led to a weight that I haven’t felt in my life — in, in a while.&#8221;
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We’ve all been dealing with a lot of change in our lives and our communities. And I couldn&#39;t think of anyone better to talk to about this moment then my friend, <a href="https://twitter.com/michele_norris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michele_norris</a>. You can listen now on <a href="https://twitter.com/Spotify?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Spotify</a>: <a href="https://t.co/9GyFmLFAid">https://t.co/9GyFmLFAid</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichelleObamaPodcast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MichelleObamaPodcast</a> <a href="https://t.co/fmdOuJlsRO">pic.twitter.com/fmdOuJlsRO</a>
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According to the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/14-05-2020-substantial-investment-needed-to-avert-mental-health-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Health Organization</a>, &#8220;reports already indicate an increase in symptoms of depression and anxiety in a number of countries&#8221; amid the coronavirus pandemic. Substance abuse has also increased, WHO said, with &#8220;statistics from Canada [reporting] that 20% of 15-49 year-olds have increased their alcohol consumption during the pandemic.&#8221;
With her criticism, Michelle Obama joined her husband, President Barack Obama, who has also recently been speaking out to hit at his successor. During last week&#8217;s funeral for Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in Atlanta, Obama&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-obama-takes-trump-shots-during-hyper-political-eulogy-for-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eulogy</a> for the late congressman took a political turn when he began to criticize President Donald Trump without mentioning him by name.
&#8220;There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations, and targeting minorities, and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the run up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick,&#8221; Obama said.
In a private phone call with Democratic donors last Tuesday, the former president bashed Trump&#8217;s base and said that the thought of voter suppression keeps him up at night. He even seemingly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-seemingly-alludes-to-nazi-germany-when-privately-bashing-trump-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">alluded to Nazi Germany</a> to warn about what he believes could be coming if Trump is not stopped. &#8220;The endpoint of that we saw in Europe 60 years ago, 70 years ago — what happens when those things get unleashed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You don’t nip that in the bud, bad things can happen. Among the most quote unquote civilized societies.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-alveda-king-blasts-obama-for-politicizing-john-lewis-funeral-leftists-will-grab-at-any-opportunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Alveda King Blasts Obama For Politicizing John Lewis Funeral: Leftists Will ‘Grab At Any Opportunity’</a> 

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Michelle Obama Blames Her ‘Low-Grade Depression’ Partly On ‘Hypocrisy’ Of Trump Administration

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the Trump administration is backing another round of stimulus checks to millions of Americans as part of another coronavirus relief package.
Congress has done nothing to directly help Americans since a first wave of stimulus checks went out in April, but Mnuchin said the administration is working “on a bipartisan basis with Republicans and Democrats&#8221; to get to an agreement. He said it’s a “priority” to have legislation passed by July 20.
“We do support another round of economic impact payments,” Mnuchin said in an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mnuchin-white-house-backs-more-stimulus-payments">CNBC</a>. “We’re discussing the criteria with the Senate, and had a productive talk with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
Mnuchin did not provide specific details.
President Trump has expressed support for another round of stimulus checks, which he implied could be larger than the $1,200 per person that millions of Americans received this spring.
Trump late last month said the next stimulus package would be “very generous” and would be announced in “a couple of weeks.”
Trump spoke of a second stimulus during an interview with Joe St. George, Washington correspondent for <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimwang/2020/06/22/president-trump-next-stimulus-bill-will-be-very-generous-and-announced-in-a-couple-of-weeks/#4beb5f632b23">Scripps</a>:
<blockquote>ST. GEORGE: I have a lot of viewers in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, who are still struggling economically, sir. They spent all of that first stimulus check. Are you going to get them a second stimulus check?
TRUMP: Yeah, we are. We are. Look we had this —
ST. GEORGE: When? When are you going to get it?
TRUMP: We had this going better than anybody’s ever seen before. We had the best job numbers, the best economics, the best economy we’ve ever had, and then we had the virus come in from China. Now we’re rebuilding it again. We will be doing another stimulus package. It’ll be very good; it’ll be very generous, and people—
ST. GEORGE: How much? People want to know.
TRUMP: You’ll find out about it. You’ll find out.</blockquote>
The House has already passed a bill that calls for a stimulus check similar to the one available in the Cares Act — a $1,200 check for adults and as many as three child dependents. That means a family of two adults and three children would qualify for a $6,000 stimulus check. But the price tag is a hefty $3 trillion.
The bill is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, where McConnell is looking for a lower price tag, around $1 trillion. Both sides are expected to renew negotiations soon.
Under the Cares Act, individuals were eligible for payments of up to $1,200, but that amount declined for those with an adjusted gross income higher than $75,000 a year. The $1,200 payment dropped by 5% of every dollar above $75,000, or $50 for every $1,000.
The benefit didn’t apply for individuals with incomes over $99,000.
Married couples with combined incomes of up to $150,000 received $2,400, subject to the same phase-out that applied to individuals. The payments were phased out entirely for couples making $198,000 or more. Families also got $500 per dependent child under the age of 16.
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Suicide is a major, yet not often discussed, issue in modern society, and on Tuesday, the Trump administration took a step toward reducing high rates by launching a national campaign called <a href="https://www.wearewithinreach.net/">REACH</a>.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-reduce-high-suicide-rates-campaign">reported</a> that digital ads will be appearing on the Internet Wednesday displaying a message that “suicide is preventable,” and that together, we can reduce the rates.
“As we face the tragedy of suicide in our nation, we must reach beyond what we have done before. We must change the way we think about, talk about, and address emotional pain and suffering. Suicide is preventable – but only if we empower ourselves and others with the knowledge, tools and resources we need to reach those who feel hopeless,” the website for the campaign says. “REACH is about preventing suicide. It is for and about everyone because we all have risk and protective factors that we need to recognize and understand.”
The website, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, provides information about the risk factors of suicide and what can be done to prevent it, with a note at the top that includes the phone number to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
“Suicide is preventable. If you are struggling, or you are concerned about someone you know, please REACH out and call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 if you are a Veteran or service member), or chat online at <a href="https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/">suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/</a>.”
Second Lady Karen Pence is leading the effort in the administration to reduce suicides.
“Working together, we can implement this road map and end this national tragedy of suicide,” she said, according to Fox.
“All of us have been facing anxieties and isolation,” Pence said. “It’s OK to not be OK. &#8230; The best thing is to talk about it more, not less.”
“No one should be afraid to ask for help,” she added.
The effort is aimed particularly at veterans, who, according to Fox News, commit suicide at “a rate about 1.5 times higher than those who have not served in the military.” The outlet reported that about “20 veterans, guardsmen and reservists die by suicide each day.”
Surgeon General Jerome Adams is helping with the effort and explained that the stigma around mental health issues needs to disappear, saying it is a much bigger threat than cigarettes or even the coronavirus.
“When we feel comfortable seeking help, and unless more people feel comfortable offering help without judgment, we’ll never reach those who need it the most,” Adams said, according to Fox.
In 2018, NBC reported that mental health and suicide is an issue particularly affecting men and boys, who are taught not to share their feelings.
“While teenage girls attempt suicide more often than teenage boys, according to the <a href="https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/">American Foundation for Suicide Prevention</a>, boys are more likely to die by suicide. Suicide rates for teenage boys and girls rose steadily from 2007 to 2015. In 2015, there were 1,537 suicides documented for boys ages 15 to 19 and 524 for girls, according for the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>,” the outlet reported.
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Effective July 6, 2021, the United States will no longer be a member nation of the World Health Organization, the White House announced Tuesday, ending the U.S.&#8217;s involvement in the global group, which President Donald Trump has claimed conspired with China to hide the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States submitted its withdrawal to the United Nations Secretary-General on Tuesday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506214-trump-administration-formally-withdraws-us-from-WHO-">according to The Hill</a>, and the White House informed Congress of its intent to drop participation in the WHO early Tuesday morning.
The World Health Organization, concerned that a break might be coming, was adamant Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over and warned member nations to stay the course, participating wholly in the WHO&#8217;s global efforts at pandemic containment.
The pandemic is &#8220;accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic,&#8221; Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a briefing. &#8220;More than six months in, the case for national unity and global solidarity is undeniable. We cannot afford any divisions.&#8221;
The United States, however, has been reconsidering its membership in the WHO since early February, when suspicions arose among Trump administration officials that WHO administrations may have conspired with Chinese officials to hide the origin of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and may have helped the Chinese government conceal the extent of the pandemic within that country&#8217;s borders.
Later reports also seem to indicate that the WHO deliberately recast the novel coronavirus as largely harmless, tweeting in January that there was no proof the virus could be transmitted from human to human, although it was clear from the Chinese experience that the virus was highly contagious. In February, Dr. Ghebreyesus claimed that &#8220;the spread [of coronavirus] to other countries is minimal and slow,&#8221; and that Chinese efforts to contain the virus had been successful.
In recent days, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-quietly-alters-coronavirus-timeline-to-indicate-it-first-learned-of-coronavirus-from-the-internet-not-the-chinese-government">Fox News reports</a>, the WHO has been furiously recasting its narrative about the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, even going so far as to alter its official timeline on the matter, claiming now that it learned of the coronavirus from the Internet and not from health officials in Wuhan, where the global pandemic began.
The White House announced in April that it was looking to pull funding from the WHO, pending an investigation into the body&#8217;s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The move triggered panic within the WHO&#8217;s ranks, particularly given that the United States supplies a significant percentage &#8212; more than $400 million &#8212; of the group&#8217;s operating budget. At one point, members of the WHO accused Taiwan of orchestrating an uprising among member nations based on racism &#8212; a claim Taiwan quickly and forcefully disputed.
In late May, the U.S. officially announced that it would cut ties with the WHO but did not set a timeline for withdrawal.
Tuesday&#8217;s announcement fulfills the Trump administration&#8217;s threat.
Democrats quickly fired back at the administration. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) tweeted that &#8220;to call Trump’s response to COVID chaotic &amp; incoherent doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This won&#8217;t protect American lives or interests — it leaves Americans sick &amp; America alone.&#8221;
Correction: An earlier version of this article said the withdrawal from WHO would take place next Monday. It will actually take place July 6, 2021.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf announced on Wednesday that it is deploying Rapid Deployment Teams (RDT) across the country to protect federal monuments from &#8220;violent anarchists and rioters&#8221; during the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
In a statment, DHS <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/01/dhs-announces-new-task-force-protect-american-monuments-memorials-and-statues">said</a> that Wolf had created the DHS Protecting American Communities Task Force (PACT), which is &#8220;a special task force to coordinate Departmental law enforcement agency assets in protecting our nation’s historic monuments, memorials, statues, and federal facilities.&#8221;
DHS said that an order signed by President Donald Trump last month, “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Activity,” directed DHS to &#8220;provide personnel to assist with the protection of federal monuments, memorials, statues, or property.&#8221;
&#8220;As a result, DHS created the PACT, which will conduct ongoing assessments of potential civil unrest or destruction and allocate resources to protect people and property,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;This may involve potential surge activity to ensure the continuing protection of critical locations. DHS’s Office of Operations Coordination will also partner closely with the Departments of Justice and Interior to establish information and intelligence sharing.&#8221;
The move comes as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2020-next-wave-statue-removals-afoot-map-n1230506">dozens</a> of statues have been removed or destroyed by left-wing protesters in recent weeks, including “statues of former Presidents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-burn-american-flag-on-fire-on-top-of-george-washington-statue-tear-it-down">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protesters-tear-down-racist-statue-thomas-jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, and attempted to destroy the statue of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-rioters-near-white-house-try-to-tear-down-presidential-statue-set-up-black-house-autonomous-zone">Andrew Jackson</a> before being stopped by law enforcement,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-protecting-monuments-barr-creates-task-force-to-tackle-extremists-includes-antifa">reported</a>. “Statues of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-tear-down-statue-of-francis-scott-key-he-wrote-the-star-spangled-banner">the man who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner,”</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-in-california-tear-down-religious-statue-of-father-junipero-serra">a notable person from the Catholic church</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/memorial-dedicated-to-holocaust-survivors-toppled-at-cemetery-in-california">a Holocaust memorial</a> have also been destroyed in recent days.”
“DHS is answering the President’s call to use our law enforcement personnel across the country to protect our historic landmarks,” Wolf said in a statement. “We won’t stand idly by while violent anarchists and rioters seek not only to vandalize and destroy the symbols of our nation, but to disrupt law and order and sow chaos in our communities.”
“As we approach the July 4th holiday, I have directed the deployment and pre-positioning of Rapid Deployment Teams (RDT) across the country to respond to potential threats to facilities and property,” Wolf continued. “While the Department respects every American’s right to protest peacefully, violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated.”
In a tweet, Wolf said that the anarchists and rioters &#8220;clearly hate this country&#8221; and that &#8220;we are here to stop them.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> is pre-deploying rapid deployment teams to respond to any threats to our monuments in critical areas. We will not let anarchists and rioters who clearly hate this country continue to terrorize our cities and destroy federal monuments. We are here to stop them. <a href="https://t.co/MK5wICYOf9">pic.twitter.com/MK5wICYOf9</a>
&mdash; Acting Secretary Chad Wolf (@DHS_Wolf) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1278333529676550146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> will ensure that we have law enforcement personnel ready to protect our federal properties, facilities, buildings, statues, and monuments across the country. <a href="https://t.co/2HhFkBnHRW">pic.twitter.com/2HhFkBnHRW</a>
&mdash; Acting Secretary Chad Wolf (@DHS_Wolf) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1278332887071428608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The destruction of statues and monuments across the country was partly sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis back in May. After Floyd&#8217;s death, rioters burned down buildings, looted stores, and attacked law enforcement officials across the country. The violent riots eventually turned their focus to Confederate statues but quickly progressed to destroying statues of former U.S. presidents and non-political figures.
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DHS Launching Rapid Deployment Teams Across U.S. To Protect Monuments From ‘Violent Anarchists And Rioters’ During July 4 Weekend

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf announced on Wednesday that it is deploying Rapid Deployment Teams (RDT) across the country

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a new digital ad blitz on Wednesday to highlight one of the signature victories of President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term in office, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade agreement, which goes into effect today.
The USMCA was signed into law earlier this year as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
&#8220;As part of its ongoing digital blitz between now and Election Day, the RNC and Trump campaign committees are launching a digital ad buy and using other digital tools, such as texting, to promote the implementation of the USMCA,&#8221; a source at the RNC told The Daily Wire. &#8220;These ads will reach voters in 17 target states and generate hundreds of millions of impressions to spread the word about the benefits of the USMCA, the boost it will give to the economy, and President Trump’s &#8216;Promises Made, Promises Kept&#8217; agenda. This latest blitz is part of a seven figure economy-focused nationwide buy.&#8221;
The ad is set to air in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The RNC source said that the party is going to be hitting those key states in the run up to the election by contrasting Trump&#8217;s record on fighting for trade deals that advocate for the American worker with the &#8220;failed trade policies that Joe Biden supported.&#8221;
&#8220;As more of his ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’ agenda, President Trump has righted the wrongs of decades of failed trade deals, helping to ignite the Great American Comeback and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs for American farmers, workers and manufacturers,&#8221; RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. &#8220;The contrast between the America-First trade policies championed by President Trump and those supported by Joe Biden in his 40-plus years as a career politician in Washington could not be greater. The USMCA is a win for American workers, and a win for this country.&#8221;
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) releases a new digital ad highlighting the Trump administration&#39;s success in securing the USMCA trade deal
The USMCA goes into effect today. <a href="https://t.co/W2jGBbEeGz">pic.twitter.com/W2jGBbEeGz</a>
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The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives gave Trump a major win last December when they passed the USMCA after passing articles of impeachment against the president. The move came after Democrats had dragged their feet in getting the USMCA passed.
The new trade deal, which was a signature promise that Trump made when he was running for office in 2016, delivered &#8220;stronger protections for workers and the digital economy, expanded markets for American farmers and new rules to encourage auto manufacturing in North America,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/business/economy/usmca-trump.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The deal will restore certainty about the direction of the North American economy for the multitude of companies that depend on the rules to carry out their businesses.&#8221;
“Today we are finally ending the NAFTA nightmare and signing into law the brand-new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” Trump said during the signing ceremony in January. “For the first time in American history, we have replaced a disastrous trade deal that rewarded outsourcing with a truly fair and reciprocal trade deal that will keep jobs, wealth and growth right here in America.”
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The Trump administration took drastic action this week to combat a possible second wave of coronavirus infections across the United States, buying up nearly the entire global supply of a new coronavirus treatment.
The Trump administration secured more than 500,000 treatment courses of remdesivir, an antiviral drug manufactured by Gilead Sciences. The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/30/united-states-buys-nearly-100-per-cent-world-remdesivir-supplies/">reported</a> that the massive buy represented the company&#8217;s entire production for the month of July and 90% of the company&#8217;s production output for August and September.
“President Trump has struck an amazing deal to ensure Americans have access to the first authorized therapeutic for COVID-19,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. The Trump Administration is doing everything in our power to learn more about life-saving therapeutics for COVID-19 and secure access to these options for the American people.”
As <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead-sciences/gilead-prices-covid-19-drug-remdesivir-at-2340-per-patient-in-developed-nations-idUSKBN2401C8">reported</a> by Reuters, remdesivir &#8220;is expected to be in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of COVID-19.&#8221;
&#8220;After the intravenously administered medicine helped shorten hospital recovery times in a clinical trial, it won emergency use authorization in the United States and full approval in Japan,&#8221; Reuters explains. &#8220;The drug is believed to be most effective in treating patients earlier in the course of disease than dexamethasone, which reduced deaths in patients requiring supportive oxygen and those on a ventilator.&#8221;
Gilead Sciences is also in the process of developing an inhaled version of the drug for potential outpatient use.
The company had reportedly agreed to price the drug at $2,340 per patient — lower than the suggested $2,520 to $2,800 price tag — but will charge U.S. patients with private insurance $3,120 per treatment course.
Daniel O’Day, Gilead’s chairman and chief executive, <a href="https://stories.gilead.com/articles/an-open-letter-from-daniel-oday-june-29">explained</a> the costs for the treatment in an open letter, writing:
<blockquote>In normal circumstances, we would price a medicine according to the value it provides. The first results from the NIAID study in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 showed that remdesivir shortened time to recovery by an average of four days. Taking the example of the United States, earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient. Even just considering these immediate savings to the healthcare system alone, we can see the potential value that remdesivir provides. This is before we factor in the direct benefit to those patients who may have a shorter stay in the hospital.
We have decided to price remdesivir well below this value. To ensure broad and equitable access at a time of urgent global need, we have set a price for governments of developed countries of $390 per vial. Based on current treatment patterns, the vast majority of patients are expected to receive a 5-day treatment course using 6 vials of remdesivir, which equates to $2,340 per patient.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/29/gilead-sciences-remdesivir-cost-coronavirus/">highlighted</a> by The Washington Post, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) used the massive buy as an opportunity to attack the Trump administration for not demanding a lower price.
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The Trump administration is expected to expel thousands of Chinese graduate students that are in the United States and who have ties to Chinese military schools. The expected order comes as U.S. intelligence officials continue to warn of spying by Chinese nationals at U.S. universities and in science and technology fields.
&#8220;American officials are discussing ways to punish China for its passage of a new national security law intended to enable crackdowns in Hong Kong, but the plans to cancel student visas were under consideration before the crisis over the law, which was announced last week by Chinese officials,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/china-hong-kong-trump-student-visas.html">reported</a> Thursday. &#8220;Administrators and teachers have been briefed in recent years by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department on potential national security threats posed by Chinese students, especially ones working in the sciences.&#8221;
The Times added that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the plans with President Donald Trump earlier this week during a meeting at the White House.
The move comes as the Department of Justice has announced numerous arrests in recent weeks of people working in the U.S. who were allegedly being paid by China&#8217;s Thousand Talents Plan, which allegedly pays high-level scientific and technology talent to steal trade secrets from other countries and bring them to China to further China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.
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Security and defense experts praised the move by the Trump administration to expel Chinese students who had links to Chinese military schools.
David Reaboi, who has extensive experience in national security consulting, responded by writing: &#8220;Right, proper, &amp; long overdue. Universities have long prized the income they get from rich, regime-connected Chinese students, even as it&#8217;s a national security threat. They will squeal, but a sane country has no obligation to educate China&#8217;s next generation of fascist oligarchs.&#8221;
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Right, proper, &amp; long overdue. Universities have long prized the income they get from rich, regime-connected Chinese students, even as it&#39;s a national security threat. They will squeal, but a sane country has no obligation to educate China&#39;s next generation of fascist oligarchs. <a href="https://t.co/30GImP1pfV">https://t.co/30GImP1pfV</a>
&mdash; David Reaboi (@davereaboi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1266025910932824065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Defense expert and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute Rebeccah Heinrichs responded to the report by writing on Twitter, &#8220;Wrong to view this as &#8216;punishing&#8217; the CCP. Expelling a few thousand Chinese students (a tiny fraction of those here) who are affiliated w/ the PLA is a matter of American self-preservation. The universities complaining loudest about this deserve scrutiny.&#8221;
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Wrong to view this as “punishing” the CCP. Expelling a few thousand Chinese students (a tiny fraction of those here) who are affiliated w/ the PLA is a matter of American self-preservation. The universities complaining loudest about this deserve scrutiny. <a href="https://t.co/eUraGvtCAx">https://t.co/eUraGvtCAx</a>
&mdash; Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLHeinrichs/status/1266032698176438272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times said that universities were worried about racism and a &#8220;new red scare,&#8221; but did not mention in its report that China has given <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-02-13/colleges-and-universities-fail-to-report-billions-from-china-qatar-saudi-arabia-and-others">billions</a> of dollars to U.S. universities and colleges, including top institutions like <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/harvard-leads-u-s-colleges-that-received-1-billion-from-china">Harvard</a>.
&#8220;A lot of our ideas, technology, research, innovation is incubated on those university campuses,&#8221; Bill Evanina, the top counterintelligence official in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/american-universities-are-soft-target-china-s-spies-say-u-n1104291">told</a> NBC News. &#8220;That&#8217;s where the science and technology originates — and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s the most prime place to steal.&#8221;
&#8220;No country poses a greater, more severe or long-term threat to our national security and economic prosperity than China,&#8221; Boston&#8217;s top FBI agent, Joseph Bonavolonta told NBC News. &#8220;China&#8217;s communist government&#8217;s goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world superpower, and they are breaking the law to get there.&#8221;
U.S. officials are also pushing to expel suspected Chinese spies at media organizations after China expelled U.S. journalists from its country earlier this year.
&#8220;Some American intelligence officials have pushed for years to expel employees of Chinese media organizations who they say mainly file intelligence reports,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-china-spies.html">reported</a>. &#8220;American officials view the state-run outlets in China as a potent threat in the growing strategic rivalry between the two superpowers, both because the outlets disseminate propaganda around the world and because of their ability to provide cover for intelligence operatives.&#8221;
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Trump To Expel Thousands Of Chinese Grad Students In U.S. Who Have Ties To Chinese Military Schools

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In response to China&#8217;s aggressive move to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong that would further the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s control of what is supposed to be an independent legal system, the Trump administration is now publicly threatening to impose economic sanctions on both Hong Kong and China.
In an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; on Sunday, White House national security adviser Robert O&#8217;Brien said the administration is likely to revoke Hong Kong&#8217;s special status in response to China&#8217;s increased interference in the administrative region and impose sanctions, what he suggested would be a &#8220;real blow&#8221; to the communist regime.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-moves-to-criminalize-dissent-sedition-in-hong-kong-hong-kong-fights-back">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Chinese authorities announced on Friday a new law cracking down on what the regime deems acts of &#8220;sedition&#8221; or &#8220;subversion.&#8221; The law would empower Hong Kong law enforcement to arrest residents connected to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy, anti-China movement at the behest of the Chinese government, effectively bypassing Hong Kong&#8217;s independent legislature and chief executive.
The end of the &#8220;one country, two systems&#8221; framework — established when Hong Kong was released by the United Kingdom in 1997 — would also end Hong Kong&#8217;s role as a &#8220;financial center&#8221; in the region, O&#8217;Brien suggested on Sunday. If China is effectively taking over the administrative region, the U.S. is likely to revoke Hong Kong&#8217;s special status and impose sanctions, O&#8217;Brien warned.
Citing what he predicts will be a &#8220;brain drain&#8221; in the region as members of Hong Kong&#8217;s financial community move out of the area, O&#8217;Brien said he doesn&#8217;t see how Hong Kong&#8217;s current status as an economic center will hold. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to see how Hong Kong could remain the Asian financial center that it&#8217;s become if China takes over,&#8221; said O&#8217;Brien, as reported by <a href="https://www.axios.com/china-hong-kong-sanctions-obrien-b2dacc96-e949-4844-854f-62d03b2f0ee6.html">Axios</a>.
&#8220;One reason that [members of the financial community] came to Hong Kong is because there was the rule of law there, there was a free enterprise system, there was a capitalist system, there was democracy and local legislative elections,&#8221; the national security adviser explained. &#8220;If all those things go away, I&#8217;m not sure how the financial community can stay there.&#8221;
Asked if sanctions will significantly impact China, O&#8217;Brien noted that the communist regime country is &#8220;dependent on capital from the rest of the world&#8221; and &#8220;liquidity in financial markets.&#8221;
&#8220;If they lose access of that through Hong Kong, that&#8217;s a real blow to Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; he said.
China&#8217;s moves to further violate Hong Kong&#8217;s independence comes amid increased pushback from pro-Democracy protesters in the region.
&#8220;As Hong Kong suffered through lockdowns, there were indications that China would use the pandemic as cover for more intensive missions to undermine the island democracy and impose Chinese authority,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-moves-to-criminalize-dissent-sedition-in-hong-kong-hong-kong-fights-back">The Daily Wire</a> reported Sunday. Overnight Saturday and into Sunday, protests broke out, thousands of protesters taking to the streets of Hong Kong. In response, authorities promptly and aggressively cracked down, police firing tear gas into the crowds, citing protesters&#8217; failure to receive official authorization amid the city&#8217;s &#8220;social distancing&#8221; restrictions.
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Trump Vs. China Escalates: WH Threatens Sanctions Amid Protest Crackdown, Hong Kong ‘Take-Over’

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Former South Carolina Governor and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley offered an opinion and prediction in response to the Trump administration taking action to hurt China&#8217;s Huawei Technologies as part of the U.S. response to the communist country&#8217;s role in the economically devastating coronavirus pandemic as well as threats posed by the expansion of China&#8217;s technology company.
On Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department issued a new rule requiring that foreign semiconductor manufacturers obtain licenses from the U.S. to sell products containing U.S. software and technology to Huawei. The new rule vastly strengthens the authority and ability of the U.S. to hinder the expansion of the Chinese-based communications technology company.
In response to a Wall Street Journal report on the Trump administration crackdown on China&#8217;s Huawei, Haley, who has been hammering China for weeks over its role in the COVID-19 crisis, tweeted, &#8220;China will lose their bucket over this move. It is hands down the right move for us in terms of national security.&#8221;
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China will lose their bucket over this move. It is hands down the right move for us in terms of national security. 🇺🇸<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheyDeserveToLoseTheirBucket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheyDeserveToLoseTheirBucket</a><a href="https://t.co/ELcFznmSjr">https://t.co/ELcFznmSjr</a>
&mdash; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1261357858442149889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Haley&#8217;s comment on national security is a reference to the administration&#8217;s repeated warnings about the threat posed by China&#8217;s attempt to dominate the 5G market.
As The Daily Wire reported, U.S. Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-highlights-greatest-threat-to-u-s-should-vastly-outweigh-all-other-priorities">warned</a> in a speech earlier this year that Huawei poses one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security.
&#8220;From a national security standpoint, if the Industrial Internet becomes dependent on Chinese technology, China would have the ability to shut countries off from technology and equipment upon which their consumers and industry depend,&#8221; said the attorney general. &#8220;The power the United States has today to use economic sanctions would pale by comparison to the unprecedented economic leverage we would be surrendering into the hands of China.&#8221;
&#8220;Within the next five years, 5G global territory and application dominance will be determined,&#8221; said Barr. &#8220;The question is whether, within this window, the United States and our allies can mount sufficient competition to Huawei to retain and capture enough market share to sustain the kind of long-term and robust competitive position necessary to avoid surrendering dominance to the Chinese.&#8221;
The Trump administration&#8217;s new rule requiring licenses for foreign manufacturers to ship products to Huawei has already resulted in negative fallout for the Chinese company. As reported by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-tsmc-idUSKBN22U0EW">Reuters</a> Monday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest manufacturer of advanced microchips, has announced that it has stopped new orders from Huawei in response to the administration&#8217;s new rule.
China&#8217;s communist government has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-cuts-chinas-huawei-off-from-worlds-top-chip-maker-china-threatens-biggest-counterattack">responded</a> by vowing to take &#8220;all necessary measures&#8221; to respond to the restrictions and has condemned the new rule as an abuse of power. &#8220;The U.S. uses state power, under the so-called excuse of national security, and abuses export control measures to continuously oppress and contain specific enterprises of other countries,&#8221; said the regime.
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The Trump administration has cut off China&#8217;s Huawei from being able to receive products from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), which is the world&#8217;s largest manufacturer of advanced microchips.
TSMC &#8220;has stopped new orders from Huawei Technologies in response to Washington’s move aimed at further limiting chip supplies to the Chinese company,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-tsmc-idUSKBN22U0EW">reported</a>. &#8220;A new rule, unveiled by the U.S. Commerce Department on Friday, expands U.S. authority to require licenses for sales to Huawei of semiconductors made abroad with U.S. technology, vastly expanding its reach to halt exports to the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker.&#8221;
The news hit Beijing hard with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responding that it will take &#8220;all necessary measures&#8221; to respond to the devastating news technology restrictions.
The CCP claimed that the moves by the U.S. federal government threaten the &#8220;global industrial and supply chain&#8221; and that it is an abuse of power.
“The U.S. uses state power, under the so-called excuse of national security, and abuses export control measures to continuously oppress and contain specific enterprises of other countries,” the communist regime said in a statement.
The CCP published propaganda in their state-run Global Times in a piece titled, &#8220;China readies biggest counterattack against US,&#8221; which said that China would &#8220;take forceful countermeasures.&#8221; China threatened to target specific Americans as well as &#8220;putting US companies on an &#8216;unreliable entity list,&#8217; launching investigations and imposing restrictions on US companies such as Apple, and halting purchase of Boeing airplanes.&#8221;
The threats from China come after TSMC announced last week that it would build a new factory in Arizona as part of a $12 billion deal that it reached with the U.S. that will “create over 1,600 high-tech professional jobs directly, and thousands of indirect jobs in the semiconductor ecosystem,” the company <a href="https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&amp;newsid=THGOANPGTH">said</a> in a statement.
“TSMC welcomes continued strong partnership with the U.S. administration and the State of Arizona on this project,” the company added. “The strong investment climate in the United States, and its talented workforce make this and future investments in the U.S. attractive to TSMC. U.S. adoption of forward-looking investment policies to enable a globally competitive environment for a leading edge semiconductor technology operation in the U.S. will be crucial to the success of this project.”
The move by the Trump administration against Huawei comes after China repeatedly lied about the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan and has proven not to be atrustworthy nation that operates in good faith.
Devastating Huawei&#8217;s abilities is a key component of U.S. national security because China is trying to use Huawei to dominate the global 5G market. In a speech earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-highlights-greatest-threat-to-u-s-should-vastly-outweigh-all-other-priorities">said</a> that Huawei represents one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security because of what China would be able to do if they dominate the 5G market.
“Within the next five years, 5G global territory and application dominance will be determined,” Barr said. “The question is whether, within this window, the United States and our allies can mount sufficient competition to Huawei to retain and capture enough market share to sustain the kind of long-term and robust competitive position necessary to avoid surrendering dominance to the Chinese.”
“From a national security standpoint, if the Industrial Internet becomes dependent on Chinese technology, China would have the ability to shut countries off from technology and equipment upon which their consumers and industry depend,” said the attorney general. “The power the United States has today to use economic sanctions would pale by comparison to the unprecedented economic leverage we would be surrendering into the hands of China.”
“The time is very short. We and our allies have to act quickly. While much has to be done, it is imperative to make two decisions right away,” Barr added.  “Throughout history, free societies have faced regimented adversaries.  At critical junctures, they have achieved the unity and purpose necessary to prevail, not because they have been compelled to do so, but because they freely chose to do so.  We must make that choice today.”
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The Trump administration hit hard against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) late this week with the announcement that a Taiwan chip manufacturer will be building a plant in the United States and that the move will severely restrict the company&#8217;s ability to sell to China&#8217;s Huawei.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) announced that it will build a new factory in Arizona as part of a $12 billion deal with the U.S. that will &#8220;create over 1,600 high-tech professional jobs directly, and thousands of indirect jobs in the semiconductor ecosystem,&#8221; the company <a href="https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&amp;newsid=THGOANPGTH">said</a> in a statement.
&#8220;TSMC welcomes continued strong partnership with the U.S. administration and the State of Arizona on this project,&#8221; the company added. &#8220;The strong investment climate in the United States, and its talented workforce make this and future investments in the U.S. attractive to TSMC. U.S. adoption of forward-looking investment policies to enable a globally competitive environment for a leading edge semiconductor technology operation in the U.S. will be crucial to the success of this project.&#8221;
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-semiconductors-tsmc/taiwan-semiconductor-to-announce-plans-for-us-factory-source-idUSKBN22Q38T">reported</a>:
<blockquote>A U.S. Commerce Department official said TSMC’s decision to locate the plant in the United States generated &#8220;good will&#8221; at the department, the drafter of a law that would, if implemented, severely restrict TSMC chip sales to Huawei.
Credit Suisse analysts said proposed restrictions could threaten TSMC’s 14% of sales from Huawei, escalate U.S.-China tensions and delay the rollout of the next-generation 5G mobile network.</blockquote>
The plant is &#8220;the biggest foreign investment by TSMC,&#8221; Reuters notes, and &#8220;will produce the most sophisticated 5 nanometer chips, which can be used in high-end defense and communications devices.&#8221;
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to the news on Twitter, writing: &#8220;The U.S. welcomes TSMC’s intention to invest $12B in the most advanced 5-nanometer semiconductor fabrication foundry in the world. This deal bolsters U.S. national security at a time when China is trying to dominate cutting-edge tech and control critical industries.&#8221;
Pompeo said that the chip will be used for a wide range of functions, including in 5G base stations and F-35 fighter jets, Reuters notes.
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The U.S. welcomes TSMC’s intention to invest $12B in the most advanced 5-nanometer semiconductor fabrication foundry in the world. This deal bolsters U.S. national security at a time when China is trying to dominate cutting-edge tech and control critical industries.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/us-secretary-commerce-wilbur-ross-praises-plans-taiwan-semiconductor">praised</a> the deal, saying, “TSMC’s plan to build a $12 billion semiconductor facility in Arizona is yet another indication that President Trump’s policy agenda has led to a renaissance in American manufacturing and made the United States the most attractive place in the world to invest.”
“This plan is the result of years of close collaboration among TSMC, the Governor of Arizona and his staff, and the Administration, particularly our Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ian Steff,” Ross added. “This announcement is the product of strong cooperation between federal, state, and local governments, leveraging the unprecedented investment climate for manufacturers created by President Trump. Our global team of Commerce professionals stand ready to work with additional semiconductor companies looking to expand their operations and investments in the United States.”
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Dr. Rick Bright, who claims that he was improperly removed by the Trump administration as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), will testify as a whistleblower on Thursday morning in front of a House subcommittee led by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who has a company in her district that has received hundreds of millions of dollars in awards from BARDA under Bright&#8217;s leadership.
Eshoo&#8217;s decision to hold a hearing only a few weeks after Bright made his allegations against the Trump administration has come under fire from lawmakers who state that she is breaking norms and procedures by rushing the hearing. Bright made the allegations against the Trump administration in late April after he hired <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/24/meet-christine-blasey-fords-lawyer-debra-katz-nerves-of-steel-and-proud-to-be-among-the-top-10-plantiffs-attorneys-to-fear-most/">Democrat lawyer</a> Debra Katz, the same lawyer that represented Kavanaugh accuser <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/02/21-reasons-not-to-believe-christine-blasey-fords-claims-about-justice-kavanaugh/">Christine Blasey Ford</a>.
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/13/eshoo-bright-testify-257488">highlighted</a> some of the actions that Eshoo took when setting up the hearing that upset lawmakers:
<blockquote>For instance, committee lawmakers traditionally discuss the structure, format and potential witnesses about two weeks ahead of a hearing. But Eshoo didn’t brief Republicans on the hearing’s structure until Monday, about 72 hours beforehand, said two committee aides, giving them little time to prepare or seek witnesses to balance Bright.
Republicans also said that Eshoo didn’t inform them about whom she had invited to testify, noting that the California Democrat sent out invitations to potential witnesses like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on her own personal office’s letterhead, rather than the traditional practice of sending invitations through the committee.
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Bright claims that the Trump administration pressured officials to push hydroxychloroquine, that he was ignored after warning about shortages of some medical equipment, and that the administration did not respond as strongly to the China-originating pandemic as it could have.
However, a separate <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/13/rick-bright-vaccine-chief-coronavirus-254127">report</a> from Politico painted a different picture:
<blockquote>But some colleagues say Bright’s complaint leaves out the full context for the pivotal malaria drug episode, which two current and two former officials say paints a murkier picture of Bright’s claims. Some of his allegations about department decisions on Covid-19 don’t match officials’ statements or the public record. And Bright’s central claim that he was ousted for battling Trump appointees over science is less than certain given that some of his own staff spent months raising concerns about his leadership, including a complaint filed by a person in Bright’s office last summer.</blockquote>
Politico noted that while some of Bright&#8217;s former colleagues said that he inspired some, he also reportedly &#8220;alienated&#8221; others that he worked with. One apparent ally of Bright&#8217;s, who spoke anonymously to Politico, said that an administration official tried to force him out because they viewed him as an outsider. However, Politico noted that Bright had praised that very official only a month before he was relieved of his position.
Politico added:
<blockquote>[Eshoo] represents a Northern California district home to a company that received more than $110 million in awards from BARDA while Bright led the office. Other companies with offices in Eshoo’s district benefited from more than $100 million in awards from BARDA in the decadeprior to Bright&#8217;s leadership.
Eshoo, who helped craft the 2006 legislation to create BARDA and has since worked to bolster its authorities, also has been a longtime booster of Bright, including for his work to fund the development of vaccines, drugs and diagnostics through public sector-private industry partnerships.</blockquote>
Politico reporter Dan Diamond reported in April that the Trump administration had been looking to oust Bright from his position since last year, before the pandemic was on anyone&#8217;s radar, due to his &#8220;incompetence and insubordination.&#8221;
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The Trump administration has been working to oust Bright since last year, as officials battled with him over his management and leadership.
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&mdash; Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1253097522811359239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), made a strong impression on the Senate Intelligence Committee during his hearing this week after he repeatedly stressed that communist China was the &#8220;greatest threat&#8221; facing the United States.
“I’ve had the conversation with a lot of people about what I view as the greatest threat and the greatest threat actor and I view China as the greatest threat actor right now,” Ratcliffe said. “I mean look at where we are with respect to COVID-19 and the role that China plays, the race to 5G, cybersecurity issues, all roads lead to China there.”
Ratcliffe said that if confirmed that he would take a serious look at whether the U.S. was dedicating enough resources to countering increased aggression from the China.
“When you look at the initiatives that they have, the Belt And Road, the Made In China 2025, the Military Civil Fusion Initiative, where they literally want by law Chinese companies to collect intelligence,” Ratcliffe continued. “These are all spokes of the same initiative and that’s for China to supplant as the world’s super power and to be able to set standards around the world and we very clearly don’t want an authoritarian regime like Chinese Communist Party (CCP) setting standards in the world market place.”
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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) nominee Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) on the biggest threat the United States: “I view China as the greatest threat actor right now.” <a href="https://t.co/jkDic2ZH3o">pic.twitter.com/jkDic2ZH3o</a>
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Ratcliffe later answered questions from Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) about the threat that China poses to the U.S., specifically in regard to what China is doing in the tech sector.
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DNI nominee John Ratcliffe explains how China is the &quot;greatest threat actor&quot; the U.S. faces and discusses “Made In China 2025” and other Chinese Communist Party initiatives that are a threat to free market standards with Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/BenSasse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BenSasse</a>. <a href="https://t.co/xiKnabGYP4">pic.twitter.com/xiKnabGYP4</a>
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Ratcliffe also answered questions from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who is one of America’s top China hawks, on matters related to the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China.
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Director of National Intelligence nominee Rep. John Ratcliffe answers questions during his confirmation hearing from <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTomCotton</a> about the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. <a href="https://t.co/ufRkzS3lck">pic.twitter.com/ufRkzS3lck</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1258361441557655558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ratcliffe’s confirmation hearing and his likely confirmation to the DNI position comes as U.S.-China relations have reached an all-time low after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lied about the coronavirus outbreak and reportedly <a href="https://apnews.com/bf685dcf52125be54e030834ab7062a8?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">deceived</a> the world about what was going on in Wuhan so they could hoard medical supplies from around the world that were needed to fight the pandemic.
Chinese intelligence, realizing that anti-China sentiment is the highest its been in decades, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facing-coronavirus-fallout-chinese-leaders-told-to-be-ready-for-war-with-u-s-report-says">advised</a> its top officials to be ready for an armed conflict to break out with the U.S.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-attacks-u-s-praises-china-china-did-a-lot-of-things-right-at-the-beginning">reported</a> that China has “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html">falsely claimed</a> that the came from the United States Army; tried to cover it up by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early-coronavirus-missteps-11583508932">silencing</a> doctors and journalists who were trying to warn the world; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/world-health-organization-blame-pandemic-coronavirus/609820/">told</a> the world that there was not evidence the could be transmitted person to person when they <a href="https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9">knew</a> for a fact that it could; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says">intentionally lied</a> about how bad the outbreak was to buy themselves time to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intel-report-suggests-china-intentionally-concealed-the-severity-of-pandemic-to-hoard-supplies">hoard medical supplies</a> and tried to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000">cover up</a> deaths; and is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-still-misleads-the-world-on-the-coronavirus-11586818132">allegedly</a> continuing to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-still-not-letting-u-s-in-to-study-coronavirus-mike-pompeo-says">withhold</a> critical information about the outbreak.”
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