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8,896 people are talking about this 2,077 people are talking about this 1,789 people are talking about this 1,906 people are talking about this 1,738 people are talking about this 1,667 people are talking about this 1,751 people are talking about this 2,545 people are talking about this Exactly. Many Democrats have been focused on how to attack Trump over the virus, how to politicize it, not how to actually help with the situation. That’s been pretty vile. Let’s look at facts Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak Fears of a pandemic come after the Trump administration spent the past several years gutting the very government programs that are tasked with combatting such a crisis. In 2018, for instance, the CDC cut 80% of its efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just 10. Here are some other actions the Trump administration undertook to dismantle government-spending programs related to fighting the spread of global diseases, according to Foreign Policy: Shutting down the entire global-health-security unit of the National Security Council. Eliminating the US government's $30 million Complex Crises Fund. Reducing national health spending by $15 billion. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2

Oh that’s right Trump says.................. “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear” And another doozie......................”The flu is worse” Yep that’s our leader

Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely? The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases—and test them faster—have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve

Wonder why he was begging his supporters in SC to vote for Bernie.........hummmm!

Yep Schumer is dead wrong on this one. His mouth wrote a check that he will have to pay for. JMO

I stand corrected. It’s both Republicans and Democrats that held up the bill! Imagine that! Republicans are raising concerns that Democrats’ proposals would chill research and development and interfere with the development of a vaccine, according to sources who spoke without being identified so they could talk freely. Republicans say they share the goal of making sure a vaccine is affordable, but do not want to suppress its development. But senior Democratic aides said they are not advocating price controls. “Democrats want the supplemental to include significant funding for the federal government to purchase large quantities of coronavirus diagnostics, treatments and vaccine [when it becomes available], which will then be made available to the public without cost,” one aide said. https://www.rollcall.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-funding-talks-held-up-over-drug-pricing-language/

It was held up because the White House asked for 2.5 billion the house passed a 8 billion bill. Bet it was held up by Republicans! Why do I say this? Because the say it’s going to be held up in the Senate.......by Republicans. Don’t let the far Right media lie to you! Trump supporters always talk about hate clouding judgement. Back at ya on this one. JMO.

Or free thinking independents!😘😘😘

Trump University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University Allegations of impropriety and lawsuits External video Is Trump University a fraud?, 5:28, CNN, September 29, 2015 Trump faces lawsuits from former Trump University students, 5:47, CBS This Morning, September 24, 2015 Prosecutor: Trump lawsuit no stunt, 3:55, CNN, August 26, 2013 Trump, Rubio spar over lawsuit against Trump University, 4:53, Fox News Channel, March 3, 2016 Three lawsuits were filed asserting that Trump University engaged in a variety of illegal business practices, ranging from false claims to racketeering. Two were federal class actions: one against Trump University and its managers, including Donald Trump, and one against Donald Trump personally. A third case was filed in New York State court.[23] New York v. Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC In 2005, the New York State Department of Education sent Trump, Sexton, and Trump University a letter saying that they were violating state law by using the word "university" when in fact Trump University was not actually chartered as one and did not have the required license to offer live instruction or training.[8] Although Sexton promised the organization would stop instructing students in New York State, the New York Attorney General alleged that such instruction continued.[8] A March 2010 letter sent to Trump by the Deputy Commissioner for Higher Education, Joseph Frey, stated: "Use of the word 'university' by your corporation is misleading and violates New York Education Law and the Rules of the Board of Regents."[8][24] In June 2010, "Trump University" changed its name to "The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative".[19] On August 24, 2013, the State of New York filed a $40 million civil suit against Trump University alleging illegal business practices and false claims made by the company.[25][26] According to a press release from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman titled A.G. Schneiderman Sues Donald Trump, Trump University & Michael Sexton For Defrauding Consumers Out Of $40 Million With Sham 'University', the case was to be handled by Assistant Attorneys General Tristan C. Snell and Melvin L. Goldberg, under the supervision of the Bureau of Consumer Frauds and Protection’s Deputy Bureau Chief Laura J. Levine, Bureau Chief Jane M. Azia, and Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice Karla G. Sanchez.[27]Schneiderman described Trump University as a bait-and-switch scheme.[28] He accused Trump of misleading more than 5,000 people to pay up to $35,000 to learn his real estate investment techniques.[29] Trump denied the allegations, claiming the school had a 98% approval rating, and said Schneiderman was "a political hack looking to get publicity".[30] Trump filed a complaint alleging that the state Attorney General's investigation was accompanied by a campaign donation shakedown; the complaint was investigated by a New York ethics board and dismissed in August 2015.[31] Because of strict confidentiality laws, it is unknown whether the complaint was dismissed because Trump's claims were untrue, or because Schneiderman's alleged actions did not contravene any ethical rules.[32] In October 2014, a New York judge found Trump personally liable for operating the company without the required business license.[29] Lawsuits in federal court Low v. Trump University, LLC Tarla Makaeff, who paid nearly $60,000 to Trump University in 2008, brought a class action against Trump University on April 30, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for Southern California.[33][34] The suit, Makaeff v. Trump University, LLC, sought refunds for Makaeff and other former clients of Trump University, as well as punitive damages for breach of contract, fraud, negligent misrepresentation and bad faith. It did not originally name Donald Trump as a defendant,[35] but did so in a later amended complaint.[36] In February 2014, U.S. district court judge Gonzalo P. Curiel denied recognition to the nationwide class the plaintiffs had requested and recognized the suit as class-action on the part of Trump University clients in three states—California, Florida, and New York—based on specific alleged violations of the consumer protection laws of those states. He also narrowed the case to five of the plaintiffs' original fourteen charges.[37] On May 26, 2010, Trump University filed a counterclaim alleging Makaeff had made defamatory statements about Trump University, "including many completely spurious accusations of actual crimes", which caused Trump University losses of more than $1 million. On June 30, 2010, Makaeff countered that Trump University's defamation claim was an attempt to intimidate her, known as a SLAPPsuit (a strategic lawsuit against public participation), and that because Trump University is a "public figure" the defamation claim required proof that she "acted with actual malice" when speaking and writing about Trump University. By invoking California's anti-SLAPP statute, Makaeff triggered procedures that hastened consideration of the defamation claim without further discovery.[38] On August 23, 2010, U.S. district judge Irma E. Gonzalez ruled that Trump University was not a public figure, did not need to show malice on Makaeff's part, and could proceed with its defamation claim. Makaeff appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a three-judge panel ruled unanimously on April 17, 2013, that Trump University is a "limited-purpose public figure" and that Trump University must demonstrate malice on Makaeff's part to establish defamation; it returned the case to the district court to consider the defamation claim against that standard.[39][a] After additional briefing, U.S. district judge Gonzalo P. Curiel ruled in Makaeff's favor on June 16, 2014, and dismissed the defamation claim.[41] Makaeff then, at the court's invitation, presented evidence of her legal costs and fees in connection with the defamation litigation. She asked for $1.3 million, and on April 20, 2015, Curiel ordered Trump University to reimburse Makaeff $798,000 in legal fees and costs.[42] In November 2015, the district court ruled on Trump's motion for summary judgment. In a 44-page opinion, the court denied Trump's motion for summary judgment on most of the claims, finding that there was a genuine issue of fact on plaintiffs' claims of deceptive practices and misrepresentation in advertisements in violation of California, Florida, and New York consumer protection and business law and therefore letting these claims proceed to trial. The court did grant summary judgment in Trump's favor on plaintiffs' request for an injunction, because Trump University stopped enrolling students in July 2010 and no longer sold the same seminars or other programs.[43] On March 21, 2016, over objections from the attorneys for Trump University, Curiel allowed Makaeff to withdraw as the lead plaintiff,naming Sonny Low[c] in her stead, resulting in the case title Low v. Trump University, LLC.[45] Cohen v. Trump On October 18, 2013, California businessman Art Cohen filed a civil suit, Art Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, in the U.S. District Court for Southern California, as a class action on behalf of consumers throughout the United States who purchased services known as "Live Events" from Trump University after January 1, 2007. It alleged violations of the RICO statute, essentially a scheme to defraud. It accused Trump of misrepresenting Trump University "to make tens of millions of dollars" while actually delivering "neither Donald Trump nor a university".[46] The suit named Donald Trump as the sole defendant and sought restitution as well as damages, including punitive and treble damages.[47] In an order dated October 24, 2014, U.S. district judge Gonzalo P. Curiel certified the class proposed by the plaintiff and ruled that Cohen had presented enough evidence to allow the case to proceed.[48][46] Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization, said Trump University would appeal Curiel's ruling, which he said showed a "manifest disregard for the law". In October 2015, Garten also said Trump would ask Curiel to recuse himself because of his "animosity toward Mr. Trump and his views".[49] However, Trump's lawyers never filed any motion to recuse, and according to legal experts such a motion would lack legal merit and possibly be considered frivolous.[50][51] In May 2016, Curiel set the trial on the suit to begin November 28, 2016, after the U.S. presidential election, with jury selectionseveral weeks earlier.[52] In August 2016, the district court denied Trump's motion for summary judgment, ruling that there was sufficient evidence against Trump for the case to go to a jury.[53][54] On November 10, 2016, Curiel denied a request by Trump to delay the trial until after his inauguration.[55] At the same time, Curiel urged the parties to work toward a settlement, and both sides accepted an offer from U.S. district judge Jeffrey T. Miller to facilitate such talks.[56] Public release of court documents On May 27, 2016, Curiel granted a request by The Washington Post for public release of certain documents that had been filed in the case. He noted that they were "routine" and many were already publicly available.[57][58] The released information included "playbooks" documenting instructions for employees to use a hard-sell approach, as well as depositions in which former employees said that Trump University had defrauded or lied to its students.[9][58][59][60] On August 2, 2016, the court denied a request by The Washington Post and other media organizations for the public release of hours of videotaped testimony from Trump's two depositions in Cohen, taken in November 2015 and January 2016.[53] Transcripts of those depositions had already been released, showing "that Trump repeatedly indicated that he had never met instructors at Trump University, despite advertisements for the program indicating that its staff had been hand-picked by the real estate mogul." Trump's attorneys had opposed the requests to release the videotapes.[53] Curiel ruled that there was a legitimate public interest in the content of the deposition, but that interest was satisfied via public release of the transcripts. The judge also noted that if the videos were publicly released, it was "nigh-inevitable" that the footage would be used in news accounts and political ads, which might prejudice the jury pool pre-trial.[53] Trump's comments about Curiel During primary campaign speeches, Trump repeatedly called the judge a "hater" and described him as "Spanish" or "Mexican"[61](Curiel was born in Indiana to parents who had immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico).[62] Trump also said Curiel should recuse himself, although his attorneys said they did not plan to ask for the judge to be removed from the case.[63][64][65] Curiel's only comment was to write in a procedural ruling that Trump has "placed the integrity of these court proceedings at issue".[58][66] Trump's references to Curiel's ethnicity, as well as his comments that "someone ought to look into" the judge, alarmed legal experts, who expressed concern about the effects of the comments on judicial independence.[67][68] On June 7, 2016, Trump issued a lengthy statement saying his criticism of the judge had been "misconstrued" and that his concerns about Curiel's impartiality were not based upon ethnicity alone, but also upon rulings in the case.[69][70] Settlement On November 18, 2016, it was reported that Trump had agreed to pay $25 million to settle the two class actions and the New York suit. The settlement was reached ten days before the San Diego class action was scheduled to go to trial. $21 million will go to the participants in the class actions, $3 million will go to New Yorkers not covered by the class actions, and a penalty of up to $1 million will be assessed by the state of New York for running an unlicensed university.[71] The plaintiff's attorneys agreed to forgo their fees and work pro bono as to maximize the amount that will go to the approximately 7,000 former Trump University students who are part of the case.[72] The settlement also specifies that Trump, who had previously vowed he would never settle, does not admit to any wrongdoing.[73] The settlement was brokered by U.S. district judge Jeffrey T. Miller, who offered his services to the parties on November 10 at Curiel's request.[74] Curiel approved the settlement on March 31, 2017.[75] New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the settlement and payment by Trump, "is a stunning reversal by Donald Trump and a major victory for the over 6,000 victims of his fraudulent university."[76] Trump himself said he settled "for a small fraction of the potential award" because he was too busy as president-elect to take it to trial. He added: "The ONLY bad thing about winning the Presidency is that I did not have the time to go through a long but winning trial on Trump U. Too bad!"[77] Final payment of the settlement was put on hold, because one member of the class opted out of the settlement to pursue an individual claim.[78] A district court and an appeals court rejected that individual's claim, and Curiel finalized the settlement in April 2018. Former students can now get a refund of up to 90% of the money they spent on courses.[79] Other investigations In 2010, the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott investigated Trump University. No suit was brought, but after exchanging communications with investigators that included requests from the investigators for customer lists and internal documents, Trump University closed its operations in the state. These had included newspaper advertising, free presentations, and three-day seminars.[80] Six years later, during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press found that during Abbott's successful run for state governor in the 2014 Texas gubernatorial election, Trump had donated $35,000 to his campaign.[81] Texas Monthly questioned whether Abbott had treated Trump with especial favor.[82] Ken Paxton, who succeeded Abbott as Texas Attorney General, sent a cease and desist letter to the former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection, John Owens, who said he had been told to drop the case and had forwarded previously undisclosed documents to the Associated Press. Paxton said in a statement that Owens had released "confidential and privileged information".[83] David S. Morales, the Deputy Attorney General in 2010, admitted in 2016 that he had quashed the 5.4 million dollar suit without discussing the issue with Abbott.[84] In 2018, Trump nominated Morales to serve as a judge at the District Court for the Southern District of Texas.[85] The office of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in September 2013 that it was considering joining a New York lawsuit against Trump University.[86][87] Four days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $25,000 to "And Justice for All", a 527 group supporting Bondi's re-election campaign. Following this, Bondi declined to join New York. According to a Bondi spokesman, Bondi had personally solicited the donation from Trump several weeks before her office announced it was considering joining the lawsuit.[87][88][89] In March 2016, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the IRS about the potentially illegal donation.[90][91] In September 2016, it was reported that the donation violated laws against political contributions from nonprofit organizations, and that Donald Trump had reimbursed the foundation from his own money and paid the IRS a $2,500 excise tax as a penalty.[92] Trump denied the donation was connected to the Trump University lawsuit, saying it was for Bondi's performance as Attorney General.[93] The White House announced in November 2019 that Bondi would be joining its staff temporarily for handling communications about the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, prompting objection from ethics watchdogs.[94][95][96][97] Issue in the 2016 presidential election campaign Satirical "personal diploma" from Trump University on Senator Ted Cruz's campaign website during the 2016 Republican primaries[98] See also: Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 § Trump University During the Republican presidential primaries of 2016, opponents of Trump's candidacy used Trump University to criticize him. Mitt Romney said in early March: "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University."[99][100] Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio raised the subject during televised debates in February and March.[101][102] One debate moderator, Megyn Kelly of Fox News, pursued the issue at length.[102][103] Trump responded that Trump University was "a small business" and student evaluations were overwhelmingly positive. He said lawsuits were a routine part of business and that he wins most of them. Of one of the class actions he said: "It's something I could have settled many times. I could settle it right now for very little money, but I don't want to do it out of principle."[101] Hillarious Clinton used the Trump University allegations against Trump in speeches and campaign ads.[104]

Whiskcopalian’s are more righteous..............Oh I mean Episcopalians!😇😇😇

Yep just like the fall in the Dow is the Democrats fault because they have such weak people running according to Trump! Yep absolutely nothing to due with the Coronavirus. Kind of like that right!👌👌👌

And the vaccine will not be ready until some time NEXT year!

Sorry you’re wrong! Antibiotics are strong medicines that treat bacterial infections. Antibiotics won't treat viral infections because they can't kill viruses. You'll get better when the viralinfection has run its course. Common illnesses caused by bacteria are urinary tract infections, strep throat, and some pneumonia.

The coronavirus outbreak, however, is proving to be more deadly than the flu. It has killed roughly 2% of the people who have contracted it so far, according to world health officials. That compares with a mortality rate of 0.095% for the flu in the U.S., https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu-has-already-killed-10000-across-us-as-world-frets-over-coronavirus.html

Dude you do know Obama inherited the worst economy since the GREAT DEPRESSION!..........unbelievable!

And B/A every bit is self inflicted! Let the spin and excuses fly!

Trumpkin to me is just a faster way of saying Trump supporters nothing more. So since everyone takes offense to the word Trumpkin I will not hesitate to say I’m sorry and from now on say trump supporters.

So Obama dug us in a hole but Trump if elected to another four years is on pace to add 1.5 trillion MORE to the debt than Obama did. But under Trump he is turning the ship around. The Trumpkins warped reasoning makes me laugh. This reasoning is laughable at best. Oh yeah don’t appreciate the name calling.

Donald Trump: Trump plans to add $5.088 trillion to the debt in his first term.8 That's a 25% increase from the $20.245 trillion debt at the end of Obama's last budget for FY 2017. If he remains in office for a second term, he plans to add $9.1 trillion for both terms. Trump had promised to eliminate the debt during his campaign. https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296

Did he say exposing corruption or pardoning corruption?............hummmm?

Yes it’s a stupid bill that will never pass...........but it does bring to light on a woman’s right to choose. So it is stupid but it is effective. This bill was not brought up to pass but make a point whether you believe in a woman’s right to choose or not.

McCabe and Comey have not been convinced in a court of law. Stone has........BIG DIFFERENCE. You think there guilty....take them to court. I got no problem with that.

At least you said Stone was convicted.......that’s a big start compared to what normally is coming out of the far right agenda.

I’d say crazy like a lemming........but that’s just me!😇

Fry his azz!