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Bobby Lewis
@revrrlewis
25m
Ainsley Earhardt on a cruise ship scheduled to dock in Ft. Lauderdale: "A lot of Floridians are really worried about that, because there's a lot of people infected on the cruise ship."

FL Gov. Ron DeSantis: "And not only that, I mean, I think a lot of these are foreigners."

Gabriel Sherman
@gabrielsherman
16m
Amazing to see Doocy doing 180 on opening country by Easter now that Trump flipped: “Worst thing that can happen is we open up parts of the country and it comes back,” Doocy just said on Fox&Friends.

. . . it would have oversight of the $500 billion fund for businesses. An independent inspector general and an oversight board would oversee the dispersal of funds.

World’s 70 million displaced people face a coronavirus disaster, report says

The world’s 70 million displaced people — refugees, asylum seekers and those driven from homes internally by war and other crises — are among the most vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus, and the least able to combat it.

In a report released Monday, the independent humanitarian organization Refugees International said that while a failure to protect refugee communities will threaten societies at large, “many nations are turning inward as they seek to protect their own citizens.”

The report questioned the effectiveness of border closures in preventing communication of the disease, which is now present in most countries of the world, and noted that such closures threaten the humanitarian supply chain that keeps refugee populations alive.

The group’s warning coincided with similar appeals issued by the World Health Organization and other international humanitarian bodies...

“I think the problem is that within the Kremlin, in a way, they have gotten so used to the idea that in some ways they can define the narrative and the narrative will shape reality,” said Mark Galeotti, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London. “Of course, this is a different way around. This is actually a reality that has to shape the narrative.”

I'm frankly surprised that you give him the time of day.

Trump, when asked about Chinese misinformation about coronavirus, on Fox News:

“They do it and we do it… Every country does that.”

In need of an enemy, Trump turns his sights on hospitals

It takes a special amount of chutzpah for a president to fail to deliver necessary medical supplies, then accuse medical facilities of nefarious misdeeds.

As Donald Trump sees it, someone will be blamed for the United States' response to the coronavirus crisis, and he's desperately scrambling to make sure the responsibility doesn't fall on him. NBC News reported overnight that the president "has been hedging his bets" by pointing to all sorts of possible culprits.

Trump, who seems to feel most comfortable when he has an enemy, has spent weeks lashing out at Democrats, governors, journalists, China, the Obama administration, and even General Motors. Yesterday, however, the Republican went in an unexpected direction: as the Washington Post reported, the president turned his sights on hospitals.

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President Trump has been focused on shifting blame for whatever becomes of the coronavirus outbreak. And on Sunday, he set about blaming hospitals and states for the well-established shortages of equipment to deal with the situation. During the daily White House coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, Trump suggested that hospitals had squandered or done worse with masks and were "hoarding" ventilators, and that states were requesting equipment despite not needing it.

In need of an enemy, Trump turns his sights on hospitals

Your source material here is from the Washington Post and merely selected and repeated by MSNBC "news".

No facts are included,

President Trump has been focused on shifting blame for whatever becomes of the coronavirus outbreak.

And on Sunday, he set about blaming hospitals and states for the well-established shortages of equipment to deal with the situation. During the daily White House coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, Trump suggested that hospitals had squandered or done worse with masks and were "hoarding" ventilators, and that states were requesting equipment despite not needing it.

I don't expect the Trumpenproletariat to wake up to this but his better educated supporters are beginning to turn my stomach with their tribal myopia.

How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 -- even though this is different. Something is going on. And you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going?

“We’re delivering millions and millions of products and all we do is hear, ‘Can we get some more?,’” he continued, specifically pointing out masks delivered to New York. “I think people should check that. I think there’s something going on. I don’t think it’s hoarding, I think it’s something worse than hoarding.”

Fox News contributor: I'm seeing videos on Twitter of empty hospital parking lots
Fox News panel questions how many deaths are really being caused by COVID-19 and whether hospitals are really full