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2 Dunno about Suck. This seems to be a Memories Summary Post for 17 May.
3 Memories Summary for 14 May.
5 Crooked Drumpf stiffs Tribal governments of $8 billion of CARES Act Coronavirus stimulus relief
6 Sylvia Tenney’s anti-Navajo campaign at the Navajo Nation
7 AlterNet: Crooked Drumpf’s ‘cultivation of dishonesty’ ‘strongly reminiscent of Nazis’
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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3114669975500513&id=100008726227817)
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Zuck and his Algorithm Bots are blocking me from posting today’s Facebook Memories posts.
Something ‘invalid’ about using Facebook features to do Facebook posts.
Talk about weird!!!
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I don’t know where this came from, but it’s absolutely incredible.
‘From Russia, with Love’.
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Crooked Drumpf wages Coronavirus assault against Native American nations
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Navajo Nation hit by Crooked Drumpf’s Coronavirus still supports him
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Drumpfians and Deplorables support Hitler’s Three Stages to Genocide
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14 May 2018
“You could say the Nazis were the inventors of ‘fake news’ as a political tool”
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‘Death of Democracy’ author says Trump’s ‘cultivation of dishonesty’ strongly reminiscent of Nazis
Chauncey DeVega
Salon
May 14, 2018
Donald Trump’s behavior is drawn from a familiar authoritarian playbook: threats of violence against his political enemies, contempt for the rule of law, incessant lies and corruption, militant nationalism, disdain for a free press, and the portrayal of his supporters as “real citizens” over and against lesser others. Trump has merely adapted those most vulgar of political tactics to fit America’s political culture.
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Dedicated to Crooked Drumpf – ‘Lock him up!’.
Here’s this classic video from 2017:
(https://fb.watch/4RJNH57XIq/)
This video regularly makes the rounds on social media. Keep it going. Share or post to your page.
Thank you to whomever created this classic video.
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(https://www.facebook.com/OfficialEricTurner/videos/1681274751924069/)
Eric Turner
(8 Nov 17)
I don’t know where this came from, but it’s absolutely incredible.
‘From Russia, with Love’.
(https://fb.watch/4RJNH57XIq/)
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‘Let’s go to the videotape!’
Representatives Omar and Tlaib confront Greene.
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BLM. Murdered by police. Every Black person was not armed.
(https://www.facebook.com/mariewbobosmith/videos/4475738592436140/)
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BLM. How many more times?
(https://www.facebook.com/mariewbobosmith/videos/4485520718124594/)
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White reactionaries are complaining.
(https://www.facebook.com/mariewbobosmith/videos/4480467921963207/)
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Is he a law abiding citizen?
Or a mass shooter!
(https://www.facebook.com/mariewbobosmith/videos/4483271345016198/)
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The Left wants the same gun Rights as the Right.
(https://www.facebook.com/mariewbobosmith/videos/4515140665162599/)
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Drumpfian Insurrectionist asserts that he has ‘Fox-itis’ for watching too much Fox News, that he isn’t accountable for his acts on Insurrection Wednesday.
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‘Worst Karens ever’
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Crooked Drumpf crippled American cyber security.
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Crooked Drumpf’s ‘Poorly Educated’, the Suckers, the Losers – they are endless. They are in a bountiful supply of Congressional Republi-con’s.
(https://fb.watch/5qzZtatVo7/)
‘Did you look at the history before using that word?’ — This lawmaker called out his Republican colleague for using racist rhetoric in a new voter restriction bill
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‘Heaven forbid we pass something that’s gonna help the damn workers in the United States of America!’ — Rep. Tim Ryan went off on Republicans for not backing a bill that protects workers’ right to organize
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‘GOP’s a cult for scammers liars thugs and traitors ‘
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Drumpfians say that the Election was ‘stolen’ because they saw it on TV.
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Kirscher explains how Drumpf committed murder by Coronavirus.
(https://theintellectualist.com/2020/11/21/former-federal-prosecutor-trump-is-guilty-of-mass-murder/)
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Weaponizing trump’s Big Lie’
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Drumpf tries to sneak back on Twitter, where he is banned.
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This Black Church could bankrupt Proud Boys.
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Spotting the Amerikan NAZIs at a Drumpf rally.
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Kluxers pave the way for White supremists.
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Randy Rainbow skewers Hawley.
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‘Clang clang clang went Josh Hawley’
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Jenner’s ‘train wreck’, ‘let them eat cake’ interview with Hannity.
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Jenner is a joke who joined the California gubernatorial race with all the energy of a Cadillac Escalade read-ending a Lexus, using Trans children as a political football.
(https://www.facebook.com/100000001294374/posts/4522525254424140/)
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Crooked Drumpf boasted that Amerikan farmers would take a hit for him.
How generous!
But Crooked Drumpf would never take a hit for his Amerikan farmers.
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Crooked Drumpf stiffs Tribal governments of $8 billion of CARES Act Coronavirus stimulus relief
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Read elsewhere today about Arizona state legislator Sylvia Tenney who campaigned at the Navajo Nation against stimulus relief and other federal funds owed to the Tribe.
Go figure. Tribal voters love Crooked Drumpf and Republi-con Party.
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CORONAVIRUS
Tribes Were Supposed To Get $8 Billion In COVID-19 Aid. They’ve Gotten $0.
The delay in disbursing the money “is unnecessary and works against the federal government’s trust responsibility,” House Democrats told Treasury.
By Jennifer Bendery
04/29/2020 06:52 PM ET
Updated Apr 30, 2020
Tribal governments were supposed to get $8 billion in direct emergency relief from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that became law on March 27.
More than a month later, they haven’t gotten any of it.
Part of the reason is that the Treasury Department, which is charged with distributing that money, has been flailing in its dealings with tribes.
Another reason stems from a lawsuit over whether Alaska Native Corporations are entitled to the money. A federal court on Monday agreed to stop funds from going to those corporations for now, which means Treasury has no reason to not funnel money immediately to the 574 federally recognized tribal governments struggling with the public health and economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), one of two historic Native American women in Congress, is urging the Treasury Department to hurry up and get emergency COVID-19 relief to tribes.
In a Wednesday letter, House Democrats pressed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to distribute the money now because lives are at stake.
“As you are aware, the detrimental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have had a disproportionate health care and economic impact on federally recognized tribes due a chronic lack of essential resources,” reads the letter signed by Democratic lawmakers including Deb Haaland of New Mexico, co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus; Ruben Gallego of Arizona, chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the U.S.; Raul Grijalva of Arizona, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee; and Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico.
“We respectfully request the Treasury Department immediately begin to disburse the $8 billion of Coronavirus Relief Funds to eligible federally recognized tribal governments … in recognition of the negative impact that every day of delay has on Tribes.”
A request for comment from the Treasury Department was not returned on why it’s taken so long to get this money to tribes and when it expects to distribute it.
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Tribal communities are among the most vulnerable to a rapid and devastating spread of the coronavirus. They face some of the highest rates of health conditions like diabetes, heart disease and asthma, all of which leave them more susceptible to the virus. They are often in remote parts of the country, where it’s tough to quickly disseminate resources and where families live in small homes shared with elderly family members who are particularly at risk. And the Indian Health Service, which provides health care to nearly 3 million Native Americans, is already notoriously and chronically underfunded.
Put those pieces together and add to the situation that tribal governments still haven’t gotten their fair share of federal relief, and it’s not hard to imagine how quickly this could become a disaster.
“It is a perfect storm,” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) told HuffPost in a recent interview.
To date, the Indian Health Service has reported more than 3,100 confirmed COVID-19 cases among federally recognized national tribes. Navajo Nation, for one, has reported more coronavirus cases per capita than all but two states.
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Udall, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, said Wednesday that he plans to request oversight hearings on the way the federal government has distributed resources ― or not ― to tribes. He and other ranking Democrats on Senate committees wrote to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urging him to focus on taking action on the coronavirus when the Senate comes back in session on May 4.
“There is currently no scheduled legislative or committee business related to the COVID-19 public health and economic emergencies,” reads their Wednesday letter. “We respectfully urge you to have the Senate focus on COVID-19 related matters and oversight of all COVID-related legislation enacted by Congress.”
Part of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. Huffington Post.
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Sylvia Tenney’s anti-Navajo campaign at the Navajo Nation
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Let’s see.
The Navajo Nation is suffering. You suffered under the corruption of decades of prior Republi-con presidents and prior decades of Republi-con Congress. It’s the worst under Crooked Drumpf, the worst under his Coronavirus policy.
And you of the Navajo Nation want to re-elect Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons to do more damage!?
Shame on you, Karen Bedonnie!
There’s your Disconnect from Reality.
Don’t you dare call me a rube, a greenhorn about Navajo issues. As for me, Arizona has been my home for most of my life since 1958. I was a school teacher at Ramah and at Pinehill. I won’t claim that that makes me expert on Navajo, or Zuni, or Apache, or any other Nation; my experiences count for my educated commentary.
‘Fake News!’ you say about Coronavirus.
I stand corrected.
Coronavirus is a ‘Democrat Hoax’, said Crooked Drumpf.
If Coronavirus is this ‘Hoax’, then why do you wear masks? Why would there be any need to ‘close the border’?
Are you so afraid of a silly ‘Hoax’?
Drumpf himself bloviated how there was no danger, no sickness, no death due to Coronavirus. How soon you forget.
You Drumpfians and Deplorables want to blame Congress. You go right ahead.
Republi-cons have been in control of Congress since Reagan.
– Republi-cons ruled as the majority party during Reagan, during Clinton, during Baby Bush, during Obama, during Crooked Drumpf.
– Republi-cons continue their hold – whether as majority party or through filibuster as minority party.
Since the rise of Moscow McConnell, Republi-cons act as a monolithic gang blocking everything that comes their way. Every bit of Congressional legislation has had to have met Moscow McConnell’s personal approval.
– ‘I wish we could have obstructed more.’ Sen Mitch McConnell, R-Ky (his speech, 16 Aug 10)
You whine that Crooked Drumpf does not make national health care policy, has nothing to do with public health.
Then explain to us about all those federal Executive Branch agencies that Crooked Drumpf signs into Law and administers.
Lessee:
– Health and Human Services,
– Social Security,
– MediCare,
– MedicAid,
– Veterans Administration,
– Environmental Protection Agency,
– Surgeon General,
– Food and Drug Administration.
Those are merely a handful of some of the big boys of health care policy that Crooked Drumpf creates and approves.
Clearly, Crooked Drumpf has his heavy hand in those federal government agencies.
Do you not know anything about rulemaking?
It matters not what laws Congress passed. Crooked Drumpf will do as he chooses to violate those laws through that process of rulemaking. Crooked Drumpf does so with impunity because Moscow McConnell and his Senate Republi-cons will go along with every criminal act that Crooked Drumpf commits.
There is nothing that opposition Democratic Party can do to object to Crooked Drumpf. Overriding Crooked Drumpf’s Executive Orders and blatant violations of Congressional Intent requires agreement of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Moscow McConnell controls his Republi-con Senate obstructionism, he and they will never overrule their commander.
– ‘We’ll make Obama’s Waterloo. We want Obama to fail and our country to fail. Our Party comes first. We will break you, N****r.’ Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R (his speech, 1 Jan 10)
– ‘I’m a T-party supporter 100%. We all know guh’mint never grew faster than under Bush and the Republicans in Congress, and Dennis Hastert, and Bill Frist. The voters have short memories. T-party Republicans are strong enough. It’s Darwinian Politics! One-Party-Rule all across the country!’ Lou Dobbs, R (his radio talk show, 27 Sep 10)
Okeechobee.
You accuse me of ’Trolling’.
Curiously such expected and un-Democratic prattle of you to submit that accusation. Apparently you refuse to acknowledge my 1st Amendment Rights. Very Republi-con of you!
I am a resident of Arizona.
I have every Constitutional Right – both federal and State – to challenge every elected and appointed official of this state and all its political jurisdictions.
Too bad that you oppose such discourse, so typical of Republi-cons to oppose my challenge to your authoritarianism.
Pffft!
Your tired old chant that this is a ‘state’s right’ is your broken record, a DVD that skips.
Coronavirus knows no state lines. It is not blocked by a ‘Wall’ no matter how high.
Coronavirus is a global issue. For better and for worse, Crooked Drumpf is our current national representative. It is his obligation under the federal Constitution to ‘execute the laws’ of the United States – i.e., ALL states.
Confederacy advocates of today suffer nostalgia about antebellum South. But ‘state’s rights’ was not amongst the reasons that those traitors to the US Constitution provided for their Treason. Confederate States of Amerika was established as a haven for White people to hold Black People in permanent bonds of Slavery, subjecting whole populations to bigotry, prejudice, hate crimes – Genocide. The Confederacy collapsed under its own weight of corruption.
‘Blame’ Democrats – that’s Republi-con-ism:
– ‘We Republicans are good for two things: reducing our taxes and blaming Democrats.’ David Brooks, R-New York Times (PBS ‘Newshour’, June 2006).
– ‘Why should Republicans take the blame? What we have now is the tyranny of the majority.’ Jeff Munger, R (KUAT TV ‘Arizona Illustrated’ candidate ‘debate’, 6 Jul 09)
– ‘Fear precedes anger. I see real opportunities for us.’ Sen. John Cornyn, R (T-party Anti-Health Reform Campaign Rally speech, 6 Aug 09)
– ‘Attacking President Obama, I mean that clearly is the kind of lynching here.’ Chris Wallace, R (Fox ‘News Sunday’, 6 Sep 09)
– ‘We cut and cut and cut. We’ll cut more. We’ll cut to the bone. Bad things will take place. I wanna make this a permanent problem.’ Gov. Janice Brewer, R-Ariz (KUAT ‘Arizona Illustrated’, 19 Oct 09)
– ‘Freedom is boring. Tyranny is interesting. China is free. News reporters are evil.’ Dennis Prager, R (his radio talk show, Dec 09)
– ‘Republicans can’t govern; Republicans can’t get along with each other. They foster ideology extremism. Their cuts are destroying our future.’ Linda Valdez, R (Arizona Republic, 18 Dec 09)
– ‘We pin Bush’s eight years of inaction and failure on Obama.’ Lou Dobbs, R (his radio talk show, 7 Jul 10)
– ‘It’s all about polarisation, intentionally trying to divide the electorate so you can mobilise your base. That’s your strategy.’ Gordon Robertson, R (CBN ‘700 Club’ TV show, 31 Jul 10)
Republi-cons gifted Out-Sourcing to Corporate Bosses. Republi-cons exact big profits with Out-Sourcing. Crooked Drumpf, Ivanka, the Crooked Drumpf family are steeped in Out-Sourcing to China. Crooked Drumpf’s manufactures his campaign supplies at China – MAGA baseball caps, MAGA banners, MAGA coffee mugs, MAGA coins. Ivanka manufactures voting machines at China, voting mmachines for use here during American elections. Why!
– ‘Republicans are to blame for the deficit. I’m in favour of out-sourcing and privatising and charging the costs to the guh’mint.’ Rep Ken Buck, R-Colo (CBS ‘Face the Nation’, 26 Sep 10)
– ‘Out-sourcing is good. We want more of it.’ Chamber of Commerce campaign statement (14 Oct 10)
Your grey matter is addled. How easy you forget your own argument. You decry California as an exam of Democratic Party failure. Yet you fail to acknowledge that California collapsed during decades of Republi-con-ism that began with Reagan during the 1960s, a respite under Brown, then more decades of Republi-con-ism with a succession of Republi-con government through Ah-Nold. You blamed Democratic Governor Davis for the decades of Republi-con damage and Bush’s Enron corruption. Recovery from six decades of Republi-con destruction does not occur in one quick stroke.
So, obviously, Reagan, two Bushes, Crooked Drumpf, and decades of Republi-con control of Congress had nothing to do with today’s failures?
For decades, you cheered and praised your Republi-con presidents and Republi-con Con-gress. Now you disavow every one of them. What touched you?
What has Crooked Drumpf done during the past three years?
Step by step, here’s this timeline of Crooked Drumpf’s failures of Coronavirus.
(https://www.facebook.com/130324040784721/videos/2799254526968614/)
Yeh.
The United States is a nation of laws and social community, not ‘every man for himself’.
And your $1200 check is ‘in the mail’ – undeliverable by the US Postal Service that Crooked Drumpf is dismantling because it’s Socialism.
When you get your Crooked Drumpf Recovery Socialism check, don’t spend it all at one place. In fact, reject that check because it IS Socialism.
Reject Unemployment Insurance because that, too, is Socialism.
Quit depending upon food box hand-outs and Food Stamps, Socialism again.
Quit seeking medical care through MediCare, more Socialism. Refuse to collect your Social Security check – there ya go, Socialism right there in the name.
Veterans benefits – that really IS Socialism, hey Communism. Everyone lives Communally, eats Communally, trains Communally, clothing is Communal. Medical services are free, that’s certainly gotta be Communism.
Adhere to your own Republi-con philosophy:
– Get a job, go back to work, do something to earn a living rather than sucking from the Socialst teat of the American taxpayer.
So, yeh. You, loyal Republi-cons, Drumpfians, and Deplorables, keep prattling at Sylvia Tenney’s social media. I made my opening point there. I came here to my Facebook page to elaborate my position. You are free to continue blathering your comments here, then scamper back to your hovel. Obviously, you failed to peruse the attached memes. I don’t waste my time doing your homework. I don’t waste my time defending my reasoned position against your irrational and un-educated attack.
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Tribes Were Supposed To Get $8 Billion In COVID-19 Aid. They’ve Gotten $0.
The delay in disbursing the money “is unnecessary and works against the federal government’s trust responsibility,” House Democrats told Treasury.
By Jennifer Bendery
04/29/2020 06:52 PM ET
Updated Apr 30, 2020
Tribal governments were supposed to get $8 billion in direct emergency relief from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that became law on March 27.
More than a month later, they haven’t gotten any of it.
Part of the reason is that the Treasury Department, which is charged with distributing that money, has been flailing in its dealings with tribes.
Another reason stems from a lawsuit over whether Alaska Native Corporations are entitled to the money. A federal court on Monday agreed to stop funds from going to those corporations for now, which means Treasury has no reason to not funnel money immediately to the 574 federally recognized tribal governments struggling with the public health and economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), one of two historic Native American women in Congress, is urging the Treasury Department to hurry up and get emergency COVID-19 relief to tribes.
In a Wednesday letter, House Democrats pressed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to distribute the money now because lives are at stake.
“As you are aware, the detrimental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have had a disproportionate health care and economic impact on federally recognized tribes due a chronic lack of essential resources,” reads the letter signed by Democratic lawmakers including Deb Haaland of New Mexico, co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus; Ruben Gallego of Arizona, chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the U.S.; Raul Grijalva of Arizona, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee; and Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico.
“We respectfully request the Treasury Department immediately begin to disburse the $8 billion of Coronavirus Relief Funds to eligible federally recognized tribal governments … in recognition of the negative impact that every day of delay has on Tribes.”
A request for comment from the Treasury Department was not returned on why it’s taken so long to get this money to tribes and when it expects to distribute it.
Advertisement
Tribal communities are among the most vulnerable to a rapid and devastating spread of the coronavirus. They face some of the highest rates of health conditions like diabetes, heart disease and asthma, all of which leave them more susceptible to the virus. They are often in remote parts of the country, where it’s tough to quickly disseminate resources and where families live in small homes shared with elderly family members who are particularly at risk. And the Indian Health Service, which provides health care to nearly 3 million Native Americans, is already notoriously and chronically underfunded.
Put those pieces together and add to the situation that tribal governments still haven’t gotten their fair share of federal relief, and it’s not hard to imagine how quickly this could become a disaster.
“It is a perfect storm,” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) told HuffPost in a recent interview.
To date, the Indian Health Service has reported more than 3,100 confirmed COVID-19 cases among federally recognized national tribes. Navajo Nation, for one, has reported more coronavirus cases per capita than all but two states.
Advertisement
Udall, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, said Wednesday that he plans to request oversight hearings on the way the federal government has distributed resources ― or not ― to tribes. He and other ranking Democrats on Senate committees wrote to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urging him to focus on taking action on the coronavirus when the Senate comes back in session on May 4.
“There is currently no scheduled legislative or committee business related to the COVID-19 public health and economic emergencies,” reads their Wednesday letter. “We respectfully urge you to have the Senate focus on COVID-19 related matters and oversight of all COVID-related legislation enacted by Congress.”
Part of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. Huffington Post.
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Trump Appears To Think Indian-American WH Reporter Isn’t American, Tells Him To “Say Hello To Your Prime Minister”
This is ridiculous.
by Andrew Simpson 5 seconds ago
It’s hard not to let my mind wander into the intricacies of what must be the Donald Trump thought process. Ironically, some of the hardest people to understand in terms of their way of thinking are often the simplest-seeming people in the world. One might never assume that Trump exists outside of his brain reminding him to breathe some days, but in reality, what goes into his every daily interaction is more of a process than anyone might think.
For example, when a normal person meets another person, they might assume that the person they’re meeting lives nearby, and perhaps shares some interests with them. After all, most people you meet are in the area you live in, and most people who live near to each other perhaps visit the same restaurants, go to the same parks, perhaps even listen to the same music.
That’s not how it goes with Trump, and although the reason for it is because he lives such an insular life, surrounded by people like himself, it still stops me in my tracks whenever I see it in action. In hindsight, I should have been used to it long ago.
Less than a month after Trump was inaugurated, he was holding a press conference and suggested to White House reporter April Ryan, a black woman, that she set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus — as though all black people know each other, or Ms. Ryan automatically has access to black politicians due to the color of her skin.
I remember thinking at the time, “I’m kinda chubby, I wonder if he thinks I know all fat people.” Then, of course, I went down an imagination rabbit hole that culminated in him telling me to “split a cow sometime” with a fat guy he knows.
He’s done it countless times since then, and surprise surprise, he did it at his most recent press conference as well.
After he had concluded his remarks on America’s progress in developing a vaccine for COVID-19, he took questions from reporters, including one from Indian-American reporter Lalit Jha, who’s been in this country long enough to have written for a North Dakota newspaper fifteen years ago and have developed a news series literally called “Living In America” when he worked for a news agency in New York.
Jha specifically referenced Indian-Americans, not Indians, as he asked the president what his message was for some 4 million of them living here in America.
Not only did Trump immediately start talking about India, but he acted as though Jha was not an American, at one point telling him to “say hello to your Prime Minister.”
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Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself
The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.
MARCH 24, 2020
Adam Serwer
Staff writer at The Atlantic
Donald Trump had a message for the Chinese government at the beginning of the year: Great job!
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency,” Trump tweeted on January 24. “It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Over the next month, the president repeatedly praised the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus, which appears to have first emerged from a wildlife market in the transportation hub of Wuhan, China, late last year. Trump lauded Chinese President Xi Jinping as “strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus,” and emphasized that the U.S. government was “working closely” with China to contain the disease.
For months, Trump himself referred to the illness as “the coronavirus.” In early March, though, several conservative media figures began using Wuhan virus or Chinese virus instead. On March 16, Trump himself began to refer to it as the “Chinese Virus,” prompting commentators to charge that he was racializing the epidemic. In contrast, some early media reports had referred to the illness as “the Wuhan virus,” but most outlets switched to referring to “the coronavirus” not long after it emerged, following the advice of public-health experts concerned about the very possibility of stigma from associating deadly diseases with a particular ethnic group or location. Some conservative outlets subsequently began attacking critics of the president’s change in language as propagandists for the Chinese Communist Party.
Even before Trump’s adoption of Chinese virus, Asian Americans had been facing a wave of discrimination, harassment, and violence in response to the epidemic. The president’s rhetoric did not start this backlash, but the decision to embrace the term Chinese virus reinforced the association between a worldwide pandemic and people of a particular national origin. Legitimizing that link with all the authority of the office of the president of the United States is not just morally abhorrent, but dangerous.
The president’s now-constant use of Chinese virus is the latest example of a conservative phenomenon you might call the racism rope-a-dope (with apologies to the late boxer Muhammad Ali, who coined the latter half of the term to describe his strategy of luring an opponent into wearing himself out). Trump and his acolytes are never more comfortable than when they are defending expressions of bigotry as plain common sense, and accusing their liberal critics of being oversensitive snowflakes who care more about protecting “those people” than they do about you. They seek to reduce any political dispute to this simple equation whenever possible. “I want them to talk about racism every day,” the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told The American Prospect in 2017. “If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”
In this instance, though, the gambit served two additional purposes: distracting the public from Trump’s catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, and disguising the fact that Trump’s failures stemmed from his selfishness and fondness for authoritarian leaders, which in turn made him an easy mark for the Chinese government’s disinformation.
Conservatives are fond of telling liberals who accuse the Republican Party of prejudice, “This is how you got Trump,” a retort that is less a rebuttal than an affirmation. Trump understands that overt expressions of prejudice draw condemnation from liberals, which in turn rallies his own base around him. Calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus” not only informs Trump’s base that foreigners are the culprits, it also offers his supporters the emotional satisfaction of venting fury at liberals for unfairly accusing conservatives of racism. The point is to turn a pandemic that threatens both mass death and the collapse of the American economy into a culture-war argument in which the electorate can be polarized along partisan lines.
Conservatives insist that the Chinese government bears a great deal of responsibility for the outbreak, and that the president is merely holding the CCP accountable. Liberals, they argue, by criticizing the president’s rhetoric as racist, are falling into a trap set by Chinese propagandists, who are hoping to characterize any criticism of Beijing’s role in the outbreak as racism.
This criticism contains an element of truth. As The Wall Street Journal reported in early March, the Chinese government lied about the threat posed by COVID-19 and the coronavirus’s transmissibility to humans, and dragged its feet in informing the public, even silencing a whistleblower, Li Wenliang, who tried to warn the country about the threat of the disease before succumbing to it himself. “By not moving aggressively to warn the public and medical professionals, public-health experts say, the Chinese government lost one of its best chances to keep the disease from becoming an epidemic,” The New York Times reported in early February.
Since that report, Chinese officials have engaged in a propaganda offensive, expelling American journalists, minimizing their early missteps, and putting forth a conspiracy theory that the virus was engineered by the U.S. military. Compared with all this, the president’s defenders argue, Trump referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” seems trivial.
Lost in that comparison, however, is the fact that the most effective target of CCP disinformation has been Trump himself. The president’s public praise of the Chinese government’s response was not simply a public stance. According to The Washington Post, at the same time that Trump was stating that Beijing had the disease under control, U.S. intelligence agencies were already warning him that “Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.”
Administration officials directly warned Trump of the danger posed by the virus, but “Trump’s insistence on the contrary seemed to rest in his relationship with China’s President Xi Jingping, whom Trump believed was providing him with reliable information about how the virus was spreading in China,” The Washington Post reported, “despite reports from intelligence agencies that Chinese officials were not being candid about the true scale of the crisis.”
The right’s rhetorical shift then, is not just another racism rope-a-dope, an attempt to bait the left into a culture-war argument and divert attention from the president’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It is also an attempt to cover up the fact that the Chinese government’s propaganda campaign was effective in that it helped persuade the president of the United States not to take adequate precautionary measures to stem a tide of pestilence that U.S. government officials saw coming.
Now faced with the profound consequences of that decision, the right has settled on a strategy that does little to hold Beijing accountable for its mishandling of the coronavirus, but instead plays into Beijing’s attempt to cast any criticism of the Chinese government’s response as racism. Not only is the Chinese virus gambit morally objectionable but it is also inimical to the strategic interests the Trump administration was supposedly pursuing. The term makes no distinction between China’s authoritarian government and people who happen to be of Chinese origin, and undermines the unified front the Trump administration would want if it were actually concerned with countering Chinese-government propaganda.
Instead, the Trump administration has chosen a political tactic that strengthens the president’s political prospects by polarizing the electorate, and covers up his own role as Xi’s patsy, while making its own pushback against CCP propaganda less effective. The Trump administration might have chosen any number of methods to hold the Chinese government accountable for its mishandling of the outbreak that would not legitimize anti-Asian racism; it settled on a verbal taunt ineffective at countering disinformation but well suited to pursuing the president’s political interests.
This approach reflects the most glaring flaws of Trumpist governance, which have become only more acute during the coronavirus crisis: It exacerbates rather than solves the underlying problem, placing the president’s political objectives above all other concerns, even the ones both the president and his supporters claim to value.
A week after first deploying the term Chinese virus, even the president seemed to have regrets about the tactic. “It seems like there could be a little bit of nasty language toward Asian Americans in our country, and I don’t like that at all,” Trump told reporters at a press conference yesterday afternoon. “These are incredible people, they love our country, and I’m not gonna let it happen.”
The president did not say who might be using the “nasty language” or what that “nasty language” was, nor did he offer any theories as to why anyone might be using it.
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Adam Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers politics.
Copyright (c) 2020 by The Atlantic Monthly Group.
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Hitler’s three stages of NAZI control:
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– you have no rights to live among us
– you have no rights to live.
Crooked Drumpf has this American nation poised to enter the final stage.
And you, proud Drumpfians and Deplorables, can boast that you are here and that this is your accomplishment.
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‘Death of Democracy’ author says Trump’s ‘cultivation of dishonesty’ strongly reminiscent of Nazis
Chauncey DeVega and Salon
May 14, 2018
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Mark Twain may have been correct: History does not repeat itself but it often does rhymes.
Donald Trump’s behavior is drawn from a familiar authoritarian playbook: threats of violence against his political enemies, contempt for the rule of law, incessant lies and corruption, militant nationalism, disdain for a free press, and the portrayal of his supporters as “real citizens” over and against lesser others. Trump has merely adapted those most vulgar of political tactics to fit America’s political culture.
But there are more sinister echoes from one of the darkest moments in modern history in Donald Trump’s version of American fascism. Some people hide behind sophomoric rules of internet culture, where to compare anything in American life to the horrors of Hitler and the Nazi era is automatically dismissed. That is functional surrender. Real resistance requires facing America’s present circumstances with open eyes.
How is Donald Trump’s political style and agenda similar (or not) to that of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler? What parallels and comparisons exist between the economic and social crisis in German society and democracy during the 1920s and 1930s and the United States in the age of Trump? How did mainstream right-wing German politicians — like Republicans today — enable Hitler’s rise to power? How are anxiety and guilt among the dominant group regarding their treatment of minority groups used by right-wing authoritarians? What lessons do that earlier era of “fake news” and “the big lie” hold for America now?
In an effort to answer those questions, I recently spoke with Benjamin Carter Hett. He is a professor of history at Hunter College and the City University of New York and author of the new book “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic.”
This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
How do you explain Donald Trump’s rise to power and eventual election to the presidency?
I am a historian of Germany, particularly the time of Hitler. When I look at what happened in the 1920s and the 1930s, what strikes me about the downfall of democracy in Germany and the rise of the Nazis was how they attracted a lot of support and particularly angry protests against the effects of economic globalization. When people initially voted for the Nazi Party their votes were motivated by discontent with what they felt the global political situation was doing to them.
But that would not have gotten Hitler into power if it had not been for a number of very powerful people in high positions in government and in business. They looked around and said, basically, “This guy Hitler is kind of crude and he’s kind of rough — but we can use him.” It was elite accommodation that allowed Hitler to get through the doors of power. You could draw a kind of rough and ready analogy from that to how mainstream Republicans have found themselves either wanting Trump or feeling compelled to adopt Trump and his base as a means of keeping themselves in power.
There is another aspect that is also a striking parallel. The Nazis were very much involved with cultivating deliberate lies for political purposes. In a way I think you could say the Nazis were the inventors of “fake news” as a political tool.
Donald Trump has been unapologetic and transparent about his authoritarian values. Yet so many Republicans and other conservatives have supported him, despite all the ways Trump is a dangerous and disruptive presence in American politics and society. How will history remember them?
A certain segment of elite conservatives put Hitler in power and soon started to grasp the scale of the disaster that he represented and how to get out of it.
I think the strongest example of this was a neoconservative intellectual named Edgar Julius Jung. Jung wrote a book in 1927 which was his critique of democracy called “The Rule of the Inferior.” He was a vehement opponent of the democracy of the Weimar Republic. But as soon as Hitler was in power Jung said to a friend, “We are partly responsible for this guy being in power. We have to get rid of him.” The first resistance movement that had a real chance of getting Hitler out of power came from people who were inside the system, highly placed governmental and political operatives.
They started to feel like their duty was to remove Hitler from power but they were mostly killed in the process.
How did Germans who lived through the rise of Nazism make sense of that moment? Who were the supporters? What were Hitler’s detractors, and soon-to-be victims, thinking during those years?
As a general rule you could say that as soon as Hitler came into power he was greeted by more support and enthusiasm across the spectrum than greeted Trump. Trump has a pretty good hold on 35 percent or maybe 40 percent of the electorate and the rest really doesn’t like him. Hitler was almost certainly doing much better than that through most of his time in power.
Hitler was able to enjoy very strong support among Germans and this actually held up to a very great degree even through to the end of the war.
As you detail in your book, there are many parallels between the rise of Hitler in Germany during the 1930s and the rise of Donald Trump in America today. How do we navigate the metaphorical minefield that is summoned into existence by such a comparison?
I’m not pessimistic enough to think that we are heading straight into World War III and genocide. But there are warning signs in that Donald Trump is pulling on some of the same emotional chords as Hitler. For example, resenting what the rest of the world is doing to you. Racism and the hostility that a majority group might feel towards a minority group are also similar.
Trump had strong support from white voters across the socioeconomic spectrum. This is comparable to how Christian Germans felt about Jews in the 1920s or 1930s. This is a kind of resentment of the minority which can be mobilized as political passion. That is never going to lead anywhere good. It obviously led somewhere spectacularly bad in Germany in that era. It’s not going to lead anywhere good for us.
The other thing that really does trouble me about this moment under Trump is the deliberate cultivation of dishonesty. This is something that Hitler famously talked about when he wrote that a politician would be well advised to use a big lie, not a little lie — because that will get seen through. People won’t be able to grasp that you are putting forward such a massive falsehood. Hitler and his chief propagandist [Joseph Goebbels] were masters of this, and this is something that we have seen with Trump.
I fear that American political life is being actively degenerated by Trump and his propagandists.
Donald Trump and the broader conservative movement in America are largely propelled by a commitment to anti-intellectualism. In general, do they represent a backlash against or rejection of the Enlightenment?
There is a parallel where a lot of the people who backed Hitler were very conscious of rebelling against the Enlightenment. Edgar Julius Jung, whom I mentioned earlier, saw this as a reaction against the Enlightenment, which he saw as being French and foreign and thus not German.
I do think we have that going on now. I think perhaps it is what happens when the present reality just seems absolutely unacceptable to a lot of people. That was certainly the case in Germany in the 1920s. Certainly America right now is not experiencing anything like the crisis that Germany experienced after World War I. But I think there are a lot of people who are not doing well economically, which paradoxically is largely a product of Republican policies over the last four years.
Donald Trump positioned himself as a defender of the supposedly “lost” and “forgotten” white American working class. Yet instead of “draining the swamp,” Trump appears to be running a Mafia-like protection racket where he personally benefits from the office and fattens . his and his family’s bank accounts shakedown money. Nevertheless, his voters are devoted to him.
The Republicans and Trump have succeeded in changing the discourse away from what’s really happening with the American economy.
This too is something that has strong parallels to Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. This is something the Nazis succeeded at very well. The Nazis depicted themselves as being of the people and against the system. And of course for the Nazis “the system” was something which is directed by the elites who they don’t like. Obviously, they also present “the system” as being a product of Jews as a people, Jewish capital, Jewish intellectuals and so on.
From time to time the Nazis could actually sound very radical in their anti-business, anti-corporate, anti-elite rhetoric. Of course they drop that as soon as they get into power, because Hitler understands perfectly well that he needs big business — especially the big arms businesses — to create the kind of military forces that he wants. So once Hitler’s in power, the policies of his regime are really quite corporate-friendly and not very worker-friendly.
As a scholar who has studied the rise of the Nazis, when you hear Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants and nonwhites, or that of his supporters, what are you thinking?
There is a kind of projection onto a group of people who really are not powerful, to say nothing of not being threatening. Ye, the projection involves labeling those people as “thugs” or “rapists.” This is not dissimilar from the politics of Germany in the 1920s and the 1930s, with its rhetoric about migrants and refugees as well as the security of the border — which was another huge theme in the Weimar Republic.
What came to mind as you watched young white men riot in Charlottesville while chanting Nazi slogans?
It was deeply revealing that Donald Trump said that there was violence equally on both sides. And of course Trump also said there were “very fine people” on both sides — which included Nazis and other white supremacists. In Germany, the Nazis had their own band of thugs — the “brown shirts” known as the SA — who instigated a good deal of violence. Their job was to go out and beat up Nazi opponents. At one point the president of the Weimar Republic, when confronted with a dossier on the violence that the brown shirts were committing, said, “The violence is on all sides it’s not just the Nazis.” What took place in Charlottesville evoked the pattern of political mobilization which the Nazis made their trademark.
White people — especially white male conservatives — are the dominant social, political and economic group in the United States. Yet, reflecting back on the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, the rise of the “alt-right” and Trump’s victory, it seems clear that white men of a certain stripe are angry and believe they have somehow been victimized and oppressed.
You can’t be alive and awake and halfway attentive to the news in our country without being deeply aware of the profoundly systematic ways that our society discriminates against African-Americans, other nonwhites, women and other marginalized groups.
So, I think there is something else going on which actually reminds me a little bit of how many Germans thought about Jews after World War II. When you are a German who survives World War II and you are also not Jewish there is guilt. The victims — in this case Jews — are resented because of those feelings of guilt. This resentment can become something even worse depending on the individual’s personality and values. To that point, there was anti-Semitism in Germany after World War II. I believe this applies in America at present.
We must also remember that Germans in 1933 don’t know exactly where this is going to go. They also have a national feeling that Germany is a land of high culture, law and order. They are a good people and so the rise of Hitler and the Nazis cannot go anywhere very bad.
I think we Americans have very much the same problem. With American exceptionalism, we believe that our values are good. We are after all the people of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We think we are a democracy. Nothing we do can go anywhere very bad. But the fact is that it can. And we ought to know better because America has committed genocide against native peoples and enslaved black people. There is a kind of dangerous innocence that Americans possess which ignores how bad things can become when the politics of racial division are stoked.
There are some people who would instinctively reject any comparison between the rise of the Nazis in Germany and the rise of Donald Trump in America. How would you rebut their claims?
Well, the parallel doesn’t and won’t hold 100 percent. But there is a deeper structure which is similar. The cultivation of hatred against minorities, against the vulnerable, against immigrants and so on. The deliberate cultivation of flagrant falsehoods. The manipulation of alienation and a sense of aggrievement among a group you then use to oppress others.
How do you deal with folks who have no real expertise about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party but nevertheless feel empowered to confidently offer their opinions on such a serious and complicated topic?
I wish I had a really good answer to that. There is a gentleman I talk to on occasion who will try to use evidence and arguments from online sources, really unreliable fly-by-night websites. I always try and think about how I can try to get this gentleman to a different place. The one time I think I had some success was when he made some ridiculous claims and I then asked, “What’s your source for that?” He paused. That threw him off a little bit.
It’s a reflex for a historian or anyone who studies something rigorously. It’s always a reflex to think: What’s the source? Is the source reliable? Does the source have an agenda? That’s always the point I try to drive home with my students or anyone I am talking to. At the end of the day, all you can do is press people to think about the information they consume, and think about it really critically. You are never going to reach everybody. So much of this is driven by emotions that are not accessible to rational argument.
Here is an example of that phenomenon. The NRA and other gun obsessives love to argue that if the Jews in Germany had had guns, they would have been able to stop Hitler. By implication, America should never have serious gun control.
The idea that there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust if there had not been gun control is so historically illiterate on so many levels it’s hard to know where to start. There were between 5.5 million and 6 million victims of the Holocaust. Of those, only — I hate to say “only” in this context, but relatively speaking — only a couple of hundred thousand were German, meaning only a couple of hundred thousand lived in a country where the Nazi laws were actually relevant. The great majority of Holocaust victims were from Poland or the Soviet Union, so German laws had nothing to do with them. So NRA types would have to take their complaints and theories to Joseph Stalin.
Then you have to consider the circumstances under which people died in the Holocaust. I actually read a comment where someone actually said, “If people had guns when the Nazis came to get them to put them on trains and send them to the camps then they could have fought back.” Well, by no means did everybody who was killed in the Holocaust die that way. Nearly half of Holocaust victims died at the hands of mobile killing squads. These were basically massive forces of police officers who swept through areas like Poland and the Soviet Union just behind the German army as it advanced. They would roll into a village and identify the people they wanted to kill. This would happen very quickly. The mobile killing squads would enter an area and a few hours later tens of thousands of people are dead.
In that kind of situation a person does not have time or knowledge to contemplate what is going to happen. Let’s leave aside the fact that Joe Citizen with a gun is not going to get very far against the German army. Most armies didn’t get very far against the German army in World War II. The Allies did not win until we had an enormous material superiority over the Germans.
Last but not least, let’s consider the fact that a great number of Holocaust victims were elderly people or children, and the perpetrators coming to kill them were healthy young men. A firefight is not going to go well under those circumstances. It’s so dumb on every possible level. Frankly, even by NRA standards that’s a dumb talking point.
Under Trump there has also been a celebration by his voters and other allies of the cruelty by ICE enforcers against undocumented immigrants, their families and communities. What does history tell us about such casual cruelty and its impact on a given culture?
That too has parallels in the past. It’s one of the hardest things for many of us to fathom. How you could look at someone who maybe is a refugee from a place where they are going to get killed by a gang, or the government is going to torture them, and think it’s a good idea to turn them over to ICE. I don’t know how you get there, especially when it’s children. We hear horror stories about children escaping from various places and yet there are people who want to turn them back.
Of course this happened with the Nazis. It happened in the case of the Holocaust. It was remarkable how some Holocaust perpetrators seemed ready to revel in cruelty towards children.
When you hear the rhetoric which is emerging from Donald Trump or from people around him and from some of his supporters, that rhetoric really seeks to dehumanize people. It is a coded transmission that says, “It’s OK now, it’s open season on people. You can do this.” That certainly is what happened in Nazi Germany and I think we have a mild version of it happening here. But then there were good people too. The person who had an unfailing moral compass and would take risks to help a Jewish person hide or help them escape. I know we have those people too. I just hope those people outnumber those who would be cruel, who would dehumanize their neighbors.
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
Attacks World Trade Center
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN
KEY FACTS
The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
CHIEF CRITIC
“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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This is Crooked Drumpf’s Amerika.
(https://www.facebook.com/414507242439358/posts/732780587278687/)
DNC War Room
1 Sep 2020
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