Wednesday, Sept 16, 2020: Day T-Minus-48
| First, a few thoughts on the late-breaking news on Wednesday. Attorney General Barr said that ‘as the nation’s top law enforcement official, he had the right to intervene in investigations and to overrule career lawyers, castigating his own department and attacking what he described as politically motivated inquiries’ (NY Times). There is more… * He is pushing his prosecutors to bring sedition charges against Black Lives Matter protesters. * He raised the issue of charging Seattle Mayor in connection with losing control over an 8-block section of Seattle. * He said that Coronavirus lockdowns are the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ other than slavery in US history. * He referred to DOJ prosecutors as preschool kids * He essentially said that FBI agents are his own personal agents. * Also, don’t forget that he never called out the accused killer of CA cops’ and his connection to the rightwing malitia, Boogaloo Movement (Forbes).
The attorney general has gone off the deep end. This is nuts.https://t.co/wagzxupjDw — Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 16, 2020 Barr is the second most dangerous and powerful man in America. If Trump is Palpatine, Barr is Darth Vader. A positive development. At a Senate hearing, the CDC director Dr. Redfield emphatically said this about the effectiveness of masks.
NEW: CDC Director Redfield to US Senate cmte.: “These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have … I might even go so far as to say that this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/7LJZ3U9xi1 — NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2020 He also was brutally honest about the COVID vaccine.
JUST IN: CDC Director Robert Redfield says at a Senate hearing he sees a #Covid19 vaccine being "generally available to the American public" in the "late second quarter, third quarter 2021" pic.twitter.com/8w2904TGhN — Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) September 16, 2020 Biden-Harris Campaign update: Biden had a COVID briefing today and took questions. He responded to Trump comments that former VP hasn’t kept promise on masks, whispers: “I’m not the president. He’s the president.”
Here's that moment from Joe Biden's press conference: pic.twitter.com/iW5nsysJqu — The Recount (@therecount) September 16, 2020
"Scientific breakthroughs don't care about calendars," Joe Biden. "They certainly don't adhere to election cycles—and their timing, their approval, and their distribution should never, ever be distorted by political considerations." https://t.co/UEkBsYfp69 pic.twitter.com/JcxYmDyor3 — ABC News (@ABC) September 16, 2020 | Trump-Pence: Tramp put up quite a sh*t-show today (on top of what he has done yesterday at the ABC News Townhall). I am exhausted. I will just summarize the train wreck in just tweets (in no particular order).
Trump threatens military force against rioters on election night: "We will put it down very, very quickly if there is. And I think the American public wants to see that." pic.twitter.com/7zDZxMUrSK — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020
"When I called up Robert [Redfield] today, I said to him, 'what's with the masks?' He said, 'I think I answered that question incorrectly.'" — Trump on the CDC director's congressional testimony pic.twitter.com/S1FpJRmsVO — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020
Donald Trump really thinks he knows more about public health than the director of the CDC. This is the second time he's tried to correct different parts of Director Redfield's testimony during this press briefing. Tragicomical. pic.twitter.com/vXm0JZCvBK — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020
REPORTER: “How can the American people trust you on the pandemic when you’re contradicting the head of the CDC?” TRUMP: “Because of the great job we’ve done.” pic.twitter.com/EakzUnYkNN — The Recount (@therecount) September 16, 2020 https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1306345139753934849?s=20 |