Trump falsely dismisses virus danger: 'You catch it, you get better' President Donald Trump on Thursday, just days after being hospitalized for COVID-19 and as he continued to receive medical care at the White House, once again downplayed his own sickness and the threat to Americans across the country.
“Remember, when you catch it, you get better, and you’re immune," he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in his first extensive interview since getting out of Walter Reed hospital Monday and with Election Day now just weeks away. The president’s continued effort to minimize the danger comes as more than 211,000 American lives have died from the virus that continues to spread in many parts of the U.S., including inside the White House and within the ranks of his own administration. Anti-Lockdown Protesters Get in Reporters’ (Masked) Faces. News reporters become subjects of ire at anti-lockdown protests. I usually come up short when I reach for words to describe the radicalization of the far right in America.
This short video conveys it like no words can. Kevin Vesey, a reporter for News 12 Long Island, covered a reopening rally in Commack on Thursday. Vesey was harassed by a bevy of pro-Trump protesters who called him "fake news," a "traitor," and so on. After he shared the video on Twitter and it went viral, Vesey followed up by saying, "I'll probably never forget what happened today. I left the Justice Department after it made a disastrous mistake. It just happened again. © Alex Brandon/AP Roger Stone, center, leaves federal court in Washington on Feb. 20.
Jonathan Kravis was a federal prosecutor for 10 years. Three months ago, I resigned from the Justice Department after 10 years as a career prosecutor. I left a job I loved because I believed the department had abandoned its responsibility to do justice in one of my cases, United States v. Far-right extremists getting bolder as threatening behaviour goes unchecked, police warned. Colorado restaurant illegally reopens with no social distancing and hundreds of customers.
The armed bouncer appeared friendly, welcoming a local reporter inside C & C Coffee and Kitchen in Castle Rock, Colo., to take video footage of the remarkable scene unfolding inside.
In the restaurant on Sunday morning, in defiance of Democratic Gov. Doug Ford admits daughters visited his home on the weekend, violating Ontario's COVID-19 rules. Nearly 1,900 warnings issued over lack of social distancing at Vancouver parks, beaches. Park rangers in Vancouver issued nearly 1,900 warnings about physical distancing last weekend, following the release a few days earlier of the province’s plan to reopen the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Groups of up to 20 people were spotted lounging in False Creek’s David Lam Park and Kitsilano Beach on Saturday, despite there being no change to health officials’ directives to keep two metres apart when out in public to slow the spread of the virus. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] As a result, the park board said Monday it will delay plans to reopen parking lots at beaches and parks. 2:34 ‘Few faces in big spaces’: Dr. Bonnie Henry on B.C.’s restart plan and slowly moving into phase two Park board lots were closed on March 23 in a bid to reduce large gatherings of people.
Anti-lockdown protesters carry weapons into North Carolina sandwich shop. A group of armed demonstrators protesting North Carolina's stay-at-home order walked the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, this weekend, weapons slung over their shoulders, and were captured at a restaurant in photographs that went viral.
Travis Long, a photojournalist with The News & Observer, said he shot the photos inside a Subway on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. One photo shows a protester carrying what appears to be an AT4 rocket launcher and two pistols in holsters on his waist. Another shows a protester holding a large weapon over his shoulder as he appears to take a selfie. Two of the demonstrators who appear in the photos are wearing masks. Let our news meet your inbox. The Supreme Court Will Hear Trump Financial Records Cases This Week. Here’s What’s At Stake. The Cloud Forming Over America’s Spies. The appointment in February of Richard Grenell, a political operative and Donald Trump loyalist, as acting director of national intelligence after the renomination of former Congressman John Ratcliffe to permanently fill the position once he is confirmed, has many current and former intelligence professionals deeply concerned.
I am among them, if only because we cannot trust the judgments of a president who so often overrides the wisdom of professional intelligence analysts, prosecutors and medical authorities, even during a calamity. Last week, for example, on the same day that the office of the director of national intelligence (D.N.I. for short) released a public statement affirming the scientific community’s consensus that “the Covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified,” The New York Times reported that the Trump administration was pressing intelligence officials to look for evidence to prove otherwise — perhaps that it originated in a Chinese laboratory.
Instead, Mr.