It was February 2020And Donald Trump couldn’t sleep.
On a trip to India, he wandered in his luxurious New Delhi suite before dawn and called Larry Kudlow, the White House’s economic adviser on the other side of the world. He wanted to know what the industry giants were saying about the growing threat of a new virus called Covid-19.
In public, Trump said everything was fine and there was nothing to worry about. But personally, I knew that the virus he often called “plague” was about to cause a pandemic that the world had never seen 100 years ago. And his lie of opposition couldn’t stop the stock market, so Trump’s story points out from the collapse of a booming economy.
In this excerpt from his next book, Big lie: election turmoil, political opportunism, current state of American politics since 2020Politico’s Jonathan Remia brings us back when Trump’s lies clash in a deadly pandemic, his defeat to Joe Biden, and the biggest lies he’s ever told. ..
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“The power minion is watching over you, but only if you refuse to keep him kicked out by the White House straps. The man sank so low that he can hardly hate him. We have only disgust, pity, and contempt. “
Can you guess who said about President Franklin Pierce in 1855? Scroll down to find the answer. ** **
Brother vs. Wade .. Dave Portnoy, the active macho founder of Barstool Sports, deerSome of his fans weren’t happy.
Many secular and almost non-political “stool brothers” have been devoted to the Republican Party for years. Although they made a conservative evangelical and strange companion, Derek Robertson wrote that for them the Republican Party was superior to the “awakened” stalker party. These beer voters with boys must choose, as the Supreme Court has given social conservatives the victory of crustal movements: mostly unpopular and apparently religion simply to own freedom. Is It Worth To Approve a Social Conservative Project?
55 percent … Ron DeSantis supporters say they don’t wear masks in crowded indoor spaces, higher than Trump supporters (46%), Republicans (39%) and ideological conservatives (42%). is.
President Biden stopped This week, a heat wave struck the United States and Europe, disappointing progressives and environmentalists demanding bold action, proclaiming a national climate change emergency. But what does it mean to declare a national emergency? You can update. (From Alex Guillen of POLITICO.)
– Has more than 100 powers given to the president in the event of a national emergency. However, most of them are not related to the fight against climate change unless they understand how to reduce carbon pollution by having Pete Butigeg command a ship owned by a US citizen.
-Biden can order the suspension of all offshore oil production. But if you think gas prices are already high, wait until one-sixth of US taps get clogged almost overnight.
– It could also curb oil exports of millions of barrels per day. It’s also a good time as European allies aren’t currently running out of fuel.
-What Biden can achieve using emergency power supplies without sending a shock wave to the economy is: We will abolish the 30-day comment period on the new energy conservation standards. A month closer to a more efficient pool pump motor may not be able to resolve the climate crisis … but it doesn’t hurt.
Diplomat gets dirty … Washington is generally a fairly safe place for foreign diplomats with the instinct to steal from his own government. Go home and tell people that America is expensive.
However, diplomatic immunity does not prevent former Sri Lankan ambassadors who have scammed their government from being prosecuted not only at home but also here in the United States, “Michael Schaffer wrote in a column in the capital starting this week. ..
A week of climate policyHistorian Ted Widmer has put up another history for sale. It is this extraordinary map of the ocean floor that has changed oceanography forever.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, scientists Bruce C. Hazen and Marie Serp collaborated on marine research. Heathen did most of the fieldwork and took a deep sounding on a boat. Sap worked in the field at Columbia University and processed the returned data.
Over time, Sirp noticed that the seafloor had prominent topographical features, including seamounts that formed ridges on the Mid-Atlantic coast (strongly confirming the then-widely accepted continental drift theory). did). Heathen didn’t believe her at first and called her theory “girl talk.” But he got it, and in 1957 Tharp and Hazen published their first map, which surprised scientists and the general public. The 1957 edition sells for $ 2,500 and still tells the story of our time. So that science is especially important when the reality of the world seems to be changing faster than in Washington.
Nixon Millennials … Nixon Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer: What kind of person does this title remind you of? He’s probably not 29 years old with curly hair, but it’s exactly Jim Byron. He has become a guardian of the president’s legacy from a high school intern, and now he is tackling a new challenge: Nixon and Trump as the January 6 hearing coincides with Watergate’s 50th anniversary. How to handle the comparison between. Well, “anything that raises interest in President Nixon is fine,” he told POLITICO’s Ian Ward.
April 20, 1977Rosalynn Carter oversaw the first meeting of the Presidential Commission on Mental Health, a 20-member organization founded by her husband by presidential directive, and appointed her as “Honorary Chairman.”
It was the first presidential committee dedicated to the study of mental health systems, demonstrating a shift in policy from the psychiatric focus of those incorporated into the committee to “mental illness.” The Joint Mental Health and Illness Conference in 1955, towards the idea that social services can even preventively affect the “mental health” of the population.
** Who objected? Answer: It was former North Carolina parliamentarian Kenneth Rayner who split from the Whigs of Pierce and became the leader of the Know Nothing Party.