Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  3/26/2020
  

  Donald Trump Plays His Blame Game

  by Allan Lichtman

  Now Trump is setting up every American for an entirely new blame game with his misguided notion that we should return to normal by Easter.

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• SOURCE: Letters from an American
  3/21/2020
  

  Letters from an American: March 21, 2020

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Recent stories suggest that those currently in power feel it is their right, and maybe their duty, to run the country in their own interest, ignoring-- or suppressing-- dissent.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  President Trump’s Desire to Reopen Businesses Quickly is Dangerous

  by Christopher McKnight Nichols

  History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/20/2020
  

  Fox News Has Always Lied to Old People. This Time It May Kill Them.

  The pandemic makes obvious what has long been true: Fox News is dangerous.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/2020
  

  President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from COVID-19

  by Peter A. Shulman

  Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/24/2020
  

  Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself

  by Adam Serwer

  The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3/21/2020
  

  This Wouldn't Have Happened if Hillary Clinton Had Won

  How Donald Trump's leadership - or lack thereof - is impacting this crisis.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/23/2020
  

  Trump Has Given Unusual Leeway to Fauci, but Aides Say He’s Losing His Patience

  Mr. Trump knows that Dr. Fauci, who has advised every president since Ronald Reagan, is seen as credible with a large section of the public and with journalists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/23/2020
  

  Before Trump Called for Reevaluating Lockdowns, They Shuttered Six of His Top-Earning Clubs and Resorts

  Trump is considering easing restrictions on movement sooner than federal public health experts recommend, in the name of reducing the virus’s economic damage.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3/23/2020
  

  Presidents in Health Crises: Trump More Hands-On Than Many

  Most American presidents will confront a crisis—or crises—before they leave office, whether it is a natural disaster, war, economic downturn, public health threat or terrorism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Trump is Frantically Rewriting His Epic Failures. Don’t Let Him.

  “He’s likely to be responsible for many deaths,” Max Skidmore, a political science professor and the author of a book on presidential responses to pandemics, told me.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/18/2020
  

  The ‘Chinese Virus’ Is a Test. Don’t Fail It.

  by Graeme Wood

  Controversies like these are a perfect example of what Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign manager, called “flooding the zone with s&%t”—distracting us from what matters with copious flushes of what doesn’t. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/17/2020
  

  Trump Slowly Enlisting More Agencies in ‘Whole of Government’ Response to Virus

  Hospital ships stayed in port, veterans hospitals awaited orders and requests for help went unanswered, as much of the government remained on the sidelines.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  3/16/2020
  

  Trump Thinks Fear is Good—Except When it Comes to Coronavirus

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The only thing we have to fear right now is complacency, not fear. And we need leaders—in both parties—who aren’t afraid to say that.  

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/2020
  

  Historian David Perry: After Trump, We'll Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  German Officials to Discuss Reported U.S. Attempt to Buy Exclusive Rights to Coronavirus Vaccine

  Trump often has private conversations of which his staff is not aware, and therefore the official could not definitively rule out that any such discussion had occurred.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/2020
  

  How the Fireside Chat Provided a Model for Calming the Nation that President Trump Failed to Follow

  by Michael J. Socolow

  Without respecting the Presidential message to the nation as a structured format, Trump's address failed to achieve its mission of clearly informing, and calming, the anxious nation.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  The Debacle Over Trump's Coronavirus Test

  Trump’s potential exposure has been established for more than a week. Yet he shrugged off questions about whether he would take a test.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Does Lincoln or Trump Represent the Conscience of the Republican Party?

  by Richard Striner

  The comparison between Lincoln’s Republican Party and today’s Republican Party is especially troubling.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Trump's Budget Proposal Reveals His Values

  by Lawrence Wittner

  It is often said that government budgets are “an expression of values.”  Those values are clear in the Trump administration’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal for 2021, unveiled early this February.