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PRESIDENT Donald Trump was quizzed on his Mother's Day Tweets accusing Barack Obama of ‘the biggest political crime in American history'.

Trump claimed that 'everybody knows' what crime Barack Obama committed, but has not yet clarified what he is accusing his predecessor of.

Donald Trump is a creature of habit—he starts off most Saturdays and Sundays with a hearty tweet storm. Today may be Mother's Day, but that hasn't shaken the president from his routine. As CNN's Manu Raju pointed out via Twitter, in a single hour Sunday morning, Trump fired off 52 tweets, retweets and quote tweets. He managed one "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" an hour in, but aside from that hasn't had anything to say about the moms in his life. Instead, it's been Michael Flynn and the Russia investigation, with a side of dodging blame for the catastrophically mishandled coronavirus pandemic.

A sampling: The president retweeted a comment from an account called "Tha_Raptor," which has 128 followers and whose bio reads, "I like whataburger spicy ketchup." According to Tha Raptor, "Unless people are indited [sic] and put in prison the corruption will continue. People will continue to run with fake news and conspiracies until they are shown individuals being handcuffed and prosecuted. Its [sic] also time to fire people from the FBI, CIA, DOJ, DNI." A very normal sentiment from a very credible social media account for the President of the United States to amplify to the world.

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When are the Fake Journalists, who received unwarranted Pulitzer Prizes for Russia, Russia, Russia, and the Impeachment Scam, going to turn in their tarnished awards so they can be given to the real journalists who got it right. I’ll give you the names, there are plenty of them!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2020

He shared some outright racism from a profile photo-free account that countered a tweet about the president's early dismissal of Covid-19 warnings with, "Nancy Pelosi was telling people to go to China town and get infected." And the president also retweeted a right-wing account that impersonates John Huber, U.S. Attorney for Utah, no fewer than 20 times.

Trump did pretty much the exact same thing for Mother's Day 2019, and was tweeting about the "Russian hoax" back then, too. The particulars have evolved a bit—these days, he's crowing about the Bill Barr's Justice Department dropping charges against his former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and about a newly un-redacted memo concerning the scope of the long ago-concluded Mueller investigation. Last year, it was "Spygate" and "collusion delusion." Can't wait to find out what Russia-themed tweet storm Trump cooks up for Mother's Day 2021.

Fauci will issue a stark warning on the risks of reopening too soon.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a central figure in the government’s response to the coronavirus, intends to warn the Senate on Tuesday that Americans would experience “needless suffering and death” if the country opens up too quickly.

Dr. Fauci, who has emerged as perhaps the nation’s most respected voice during the coronavirus crisis, is one of four top government doctors scheduled to testify remotely at a high-profile hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

It will be his first appearance before Congress since President Trump declared a national emergency in March, and a chance for him to address lawmakers and the public without President Trump by his side. He has been largely out of public view since last week, when Mr. Trump abandoned his daily briefings with his coronavirus task force.

In an email to the New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg late Monday night, Dr. Fauci laid out what he intended to tell senators.

“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” he wrote. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”

Dr. Fauci was referring to a three-phase White House plan, Opening Up America Again, that lays out guidelines for state officials considering reopening their economies. Among its recommendations: States should have a “downward trajectory of positive tests” or a “downward trajectory of documented cases” of coronavirus over two weeks, while conducting robust contact tracing and “sentinel surveillance” testing of asymptomatic people in vulnerable populations, such as nursing homes.

But many states are reopening without meeting those guidelines, seeking to ease the economic pain as millions of working people and small-business owners are facing ruin while sheltering at home.

“We’re not reopening based on science,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re reopening based on politics, ideology and public pressure. And I think it’s going to end badly.”

The much-feared second wave of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say. Instead, it may become a series of wavelets occurring unpredictably across the country.

Dr. Fauci himself is now in “modified quarantine,” he has said, after what he described as a “low risk” exposure to someone infected with the virus.

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Obama will be found guilty by next week at the latest and it's never happened, and never will

true …because Barack Osama is a criminal in bed with the deep state. Just like why Killary isn't in jail for her multiple murders.

I am just curious to know how Trump chose to celebrate Mothers Day.

Following a segment on the network’s “Morning Joe” talk show that featured discussion of upcoming Senate testimony by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, as well as critical comments from Scarborough regarding the White House’s coronavirus response, Trump lashed out in a tweet posted just before 7 a.m.

“When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so,” Trump wrote. “Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!”

Trump was apparently referring to the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, who worked as a staffer in Scarborough’s Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office when he served as a Republican House lawmaker from Florida’s 1st congressional district.

Klausutis’ autopsy revealed she had an undiagnosed heart condition, and a coroner concluded she died after passing out and hitting her head in a fall, according to the Associated Press. She was not struck by another person, the coroner said, and Scarborough was in Washington at the time of her death.

he's targeting a Republican

Republicans have got to be asking themselves "when is he going to throw me under the bus."

And he's going to keep getting worse.

Majorities of the American people appear to agree with Trump’s most prominent coronavirus task force member. Indeed, two new polls strongly suggest Trump has lost the argument over how to respond to the virus right now on just about every level.

A new Post-Ipsos poll finds that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, while only 43 percent approve. By contrast, 71 percent approve of their governor’s handling of the disease.

Tellingly, this also applies to specific swing-state governors in Trump’s crosshairs. He has raged that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must “LIBERATE” Michigan, and has fumed that people in Pennsylvania “want their freedom now.”

But in Michigan, approval of the governor’s handling of the virus is 72 percent, while Trump’s is 39 percent. In Pennsylvania, those numbers are 72 percent and 45 percent, respectively.
Another finding from the poll confirms even more clearly how badly Trump has lost the argument: It finds that an astonishing 57 percent of Americans say Trump is not doing enough to ensure that people can return to work safely. By contrast, only 42 percent say he’s doing enough.

By contrast, 69 percent say their governors are doing enough to ensure that people can return to work safely. And 56 percent say their state governors are handling the pace of lifting restrictions “about right,” while only 16 percent say they’re not lifting them quickly enough...

Trump had reportedly conferred with Senate leaders of his party and trid to convince them of an "Obamagate". He got overwhelming nonsupport, in pursuing such a ploy

President Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to encourage sweeping investigations of his predecessor Barack Obama met a unanimous response from Senate Republicans: No thanks.

Trump’s Senate allies on Monday stopped short of echoing Trump’s claim that Obama acted illegally when the Justice Department began probing incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in late 2016. And they indicated that the Senate would pass on investigating the former president as they conduct their own investigations that could soon ensnare other senior Obama administration officials.