Dr. Anthony Fauci’s latest verbal exchange with Donald Trump is “troubling,” according to the infectious disease expert.
With his new e-book On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service released Tuesday, Fauci spoke more intensely about the verbal exchange on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Live on Monday night, detailing how Trump, in a phone verbal exchange, called Joe Biden “that moron. “And he promised to “kick his ass” in the final days before the 2020 election.
Maddow an excerpt from the book, quoting Fauci’s account of the call:
Everybody wants me to celebrate you,” the president told me in a call [that day], “but I’m not going to congratulate you. You’ve had an overly illustrious career, but you have to be positive. The country remains in lockdown. We have to give them hope.
I like you, but a lot of other people, not just in the White House but across the country, hate you for what you do. I’m going to win this damn election with a landslide victory, wait and see. I’ve done things my way and I win, no matter what all those fucking others think. And that imbecile Biden, he’s so stupid. I’m going to kick his ass in this election.
Maddow Fauci if the verbal exchange “bothered you a little. “
“You know, it is,” Fauci replied. It was a little incongruous because he ended up saying take care, see you soon, something like that. I wasn’t sure.
“It’s disconcerting. Even if you’re convinced you’re doing the right thing, which I’m trying to say right off the bat, right on par with the American audience, you end up being better if you do; it’s “It’s no big deal to have the president of the United States when you have so much respect for the presidency of the United States, that the president calls you on the phone and yells at you like he did. So it’s very difficult,” Fauci said.
Fauci’s new e-book includes many new points about how Trump dealt with Covid-19 and what he thought of Fauci. Trump would “announce that he loved me and yell at me on the phone,” Fauci wrote. Its debatable dating is obvious from the earliest days. of the pandemic, and Trump likely got angry after hearing incorrectly reported data and attributing it to Fauci.
Fauci’s time as the public face of the government’s pandemic efforts, as well as the remedy Trump gave him, have earned him attacks from conservatives, who have spread conspiracy theories about him and attacked efforts such as lockdowns and mask-wearing. He was the target of several smears at a recent stop on Capitol Hill, with Republicans willing to get their hands on his private emails. More revelations in his book, as well as more public appearances, will likely bring him even more vitriol and attacks, in spite of his career in public service.
President Joe Biden will announce a new executive order Tuesday that will shield thousands of immigrants married to U. S. citizens from deportation, and Stephen Miller, the demon of some of Donald Trump’s toughest immigration policies, simply can’t take care of that.
Under the policy, about 490,000 people who have been in the country for at least 10 years will apply for “in situ parole,” meaning they will need to remain in the U. S. and obtain a permit to paint, two sources said. to The Associated Press.
Miller took to X, Twitter, on Monday to lament Biden’s upcoming police announcement.
“Great news: Biden will announce an unconstitutional executive amnesty for illegal extraterrestrial beings, a border invasion, and following multiple rapes and horrific killings of Americans at the hands of illegal immigrants released through Biden. This is an attack on democracy,” he wrote, likely referring to the murder of Rachel Morin last year.
With his penchant for white nationalism, Miller is no stranger to disgusting and racist generalizations about immigrants. He willingly presents tragedies as topics of political discussion, hoping to provoke reactionary votes for Trump in November.
Biden’s new policy, which has yet to be shown through the White House, has the potential to particularly expand legal pathways for immigration to the United States and save families from being torn apart.
Earlier this month, Biden announced a new immigration policy aimed at reducing the number of people crossing the southern border, which has been widely criticized by Democrats, precisely by other people he wants. The new policy also followed new language that will make it much less complicated and more complicated for those who cross the border illegally to obtain asylum.
While many consider Biden’s tightening of immigration restrictions to Trump’s old policies, this is not enough to satisfy Miller, who is only involved in his former boss’s re-election so that once back he can give the United States precisely what he dreams of: all white. .
Donald Trump announced this weekend the creation of a new conservative coalition: Black Americans for Trump. But he did not mention that at least 3 of his new supporters are on the Trump family payroll.
Dozens of prominent black Americans were on the list released Saturday, from former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones to former NFL security Jack Brewer. But, interestingly, the names of three former members of the RNC and Trump’s crusade have also uncovered their entry into the coalition. .
Among them are former Republican National Committee official Gina Barr (currently named executive director of the Trump crusade Black Coalitions), Trump crusade spokeswoman Janiyah Thomas, and Trump’s senior adviser Lynne Patton, who earned more than $233,000 in “salaries” from Trump. crusade, according to Trump. crusade. knowledge of the Federal Electoral Commission.
In a statement, Thomas presented the coalition’s figures as a sign of growing frustration among black Americans at being “left behind” by Democrats.
“While Joe Biden has left African Americans, President Trump has prioritized the Black network,” he said in the statement. “The message from Donald J. Trump’s coalition to the Black network is simple: If you need to go back to the policies that created higher wages, more jobs, stronger borders, and safer neighborhoods, then register Black Americans for Trump and vote for President Trump in November 2017. “
Biden narrowly won the 2020 election, thanks in large part to communities of color in key states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan. But Biden’s campaign — which, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll in May, outpaced Trump by double digits among black Americans — was not hampered by the “last-minute attempt. “
“The Black electorate sent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House in 2020, and they are poised to turn Donald Trump into a double loser in 2024,” Jasmine Harris, director of Black media for Biden-Harris 2024, said in a statement obtained by Spectrum News. .
On June 12, about 60 more people were laid off through the Southern Poverty Law Center. Conservatives and extremists profiled by the SPLC were quick to applaud the news.
In a self-assessment, Sean Davis, founder and CEO of the conservative online page The Federalist, hailed the layoffs at X (formerly Twitter): “Your entire organization is a trash can, and America will be better off when it’s forced to do so. “fire any and all employees,” Davis wrote. Moms for Liberty, an anti-government extremist organization designated through the SPLC, has escalated the SPLC’s complaint against the organization for hoarding donations, with its co-founder Tina Descovich saying, “All WOKE eventually rots. “
Far-right troll Andy Ngo, whose own supporter carried out a fatal shooting emboldened by his rhetoric, greeted the layoffs in a stereotypical and unimaginative way, writing, “I hope you all fall, and that one day in the future, other people will fall too. “You will be able to read about the shameful time in American history that troubled you. In the past, Ngo has been covered through the SPLC’s Hatewatch and described as a far-right provocateur.
The ire of conservatives opposed to the SPLC is to be expected, given the detailed descriptions of the organization that monitors far-right movements. Moms for Liberty, for example, was classified through the SPLC in 2023 as an anti-government extremist organization for its ongoing efforts to roll back federal protections for LGBTQ youth, congratulate Hitler, threaten violence, and ban books.
Instead, layoffs have affected projects that serve communities in need, shutting down the Southeast Freedom Initiative, which provides pro bono legal services to detained immigrants, and the Economic Justice Project, which works to break the cycle of poverty among the country’s poorest communities. other projects, according to HuffPost.
Adding to the grim celebrations of far-right groups over the sudden reduction of the SPLC, the layoffs affected 60 unionized workers, in addition to a union president and five union delegates, according to a union statement. The dismissals came two years after the SPLC reached a collective agreement with the then-fledgling union and destroyed a quarter of the organization’s as part of a “restructuring effort. “
“The SPLC’s resolution has a catastrophic effect on the organization’s work on behalf of immigrants seeking justice and its project to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance human rights through the help of educators,” the SPLC union wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “How will today’s layoffs help us achieve our goals of fighting hate, de-incarcerating Black and Brown people, protecting democracy, and eliminating poverty?The answer is: they will not,” the union added.
* This article has been corrected to explain who has been affected by SPLC terminations.
Judge Aileen Cannon turns out to be fed up with non-parties seeking to interfere in the trial of Donald Trump’s classified documents, even though she was the one who allowed them to do so in the first place.
The Trump-appointed court on Monday issued an electronic order, unexplained rejecting about 20 Republican attorneys general and their brief proposal against special counsel Jack Smith’s gag order against the former president, which they denounced as “presumably unconstitutional. “
Attorneys general representing the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming had signed amicus curiae. In it, they claimed that the gag order was an affront to the rights of First Amendment Americans, who have the right to hear Trump reject legal prosecutors. .
The fierce opposition emerged after Smith advocated for a replacement on the terms of Trump’s bonuses, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s Truth Social posts were “extremely misleading” and “inflammatory. “Smith argued that Trump’s messages gave authorities and potential witnesses in the trial valid validity. danger.
“These statements create an incredibly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents – falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him – and put those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, at risk of being killed. threats, violence and harassment,” Smith said in May.
Cannon had in the past scheduled an “unusual” hearing for June 21 to allow time for nonpartisan arguments, adding one on whether Smith’s nomination for the case is constitutional.
This firing is one of the few indications that Cannon intends to continue with a trial that has been plagued by unnecessary and time-consuming delays. Trump faces 42 criminal fees in the case, similar to the planned withholding of national security information, concealment of documents through bribery and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Ted Cruz would not be a conservative if he were not a follower of the old revisionism. On Monday, he shared an absurd article in the right-wing tabloid New York Post in which he attempted to align pro-Palestinian protests with the wonderful wizard of the Ku. Klux Klan and the racist gremlin founded by David Duke.
Cruz wrote boastfully about X: “The Democrats, the Klan. . . and now the Klan supports the Democrats. “
Cruz’s comment is a hackneyed piece of conservative propaganda that he has repeated and conveniently ignores primary aspects of American political history. During the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War, Democrats were in fact conservative racists and pro-Confederates. But Cruz probably wouldn’t. I would appreciate it if you would learn about the Southern Strategy, a successful effort through Nixon’s crusade to expel white racists (by adding KKK members) from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the wake of the civil rights movement.
The Southern strategy was necessarily a role reversal that fueled racial divisions and scaremongering in an effort to bolster the power of the Republican Party. That is to say, the Democrats of yesteryear, then called Dixiecrats, would be found today waving America First flags over their heads in MAGA hats while showering. Marjorie Taylor Greene responds with praise and hatches plans to harass a Drag Story Hour event. It’s a tactic Republicans continue to use today.
Cruz’s additional comment omits the fact that the Democratic Party has split in two over the pro-Palestinian motion and calls for a ceasefire, and the Democratic leadership consistently opposes either motion. The entire Biden administration, Democratic leaders like Schumer, Pelosi, and the democratic status quo as a whole has been the subject of competitive protests over its refusal to call for a ceasefire for the past nine months, and Pelosi unfortunately and absurdly denounced the protests against her as the work of Russian and Chinese agents. Duke is not pro-Palestinian. He is anti-Jewish, anti-LGBTQ, anti-black, and anti-Muslim, and is credited with the rise of Donald Trump. His stance is legitimately anti-Semitic and violently racist toward all the same white, Christian, cisgender, and straight men that Cruz also strives to attract.
The Post’s article is pretty much the same as its old attempts to smear movements and other people conservatives don’t like. The targets of heterogeneous diversity, from pro-Palestinian and Black Lives Matter activists to progressive politicians. This intensifies hatred directed at opposite-friendly LGBTQ-friendly spaces and stokes considerations of crime, especially during election years, a move that supports conservative applicants and actually helped New York Democrats lose several House seats in the midterm elections.
The Post’s incendiary rhetoric has been cited by far-right activists who have mobilized in accordance with the appeal of the Post’s outrage, which has recently resulted in a series of modern Klan rallies opposed to harboring asylum seekers — in short, harassing a school that houses immigrant families. overnight to prevent flooding. Outrage at absolutely fabricated claims that veterans are being evicted from hotels to turn them into space immigrants, which even led to a right-wing fool throwing pizzas over the fence of City Hall in reaction to a fake article about pizza ovens.
Cruz’s reaction to the Post’s turn of events is good: Cruz acknowledges that he is prone to fall victim to absurdly inflammatory claims from a notoriously spurious tabloid that works tirelessly to accentuate the campaign of concern and the right-wing sector. On the one hand, neither Duke nor any far-right extremist or white supremacist is pro-Palestinian. Duke is intensely and explicitly anti-Semitic. And even if the Post never reported on it, every time white supremacists think they can locate an area at a pro-Palestine demonstration, they end up being forcibly evicted.
Attempts to associate anti-genocide protests with others who support the mass extermination of an express organization are simply an attempt to delegitimize opposition to mass death. It’s nothing new, but it’s very telling who falls into the trap. Cruz’s comment, with the old context applied, is ultimately an immense appropriation of himself and the Republican Party, which lately and traditionally strives to charm the most racist people who have ever lived.
A megachurch pastor, whom Donald Trump once hailed as a “spiritual advisor,” has admitted to having “inappropriate sexual habits with a woman,” following new allegations that he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl.
Cindy Clemishire shared her account of sexual abuse through Robert Morris, who lately runs Gateway Church in Dallas, Friday on Wartburg Watch, a tracking site.
In the 1980s, Morris stayed with the Clemishire family when he was an itinerant evangelist. In 1982, Morris invited Clemishire to his room, where he allegedly sexually assaulted her and warned her not to tell anyone. According to Clemishire, the abuse intensified and continued from 1982 to 1987.
Morris sent a message to The Christian Post on Saturday responding to the claims.
“When I was in my early twenties, I was engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young woman in a house where I lived. It was kisses, caresses, not sex, but it was wrong. This habit occurred continuously over the next few years,” Morris said.
“In March 1987, this scenario came to light, and he confessed and repented. I submitted to the elders of Shady Grove Church and the young woman’s father. They asked me to leave the ministry and get direction and a ministry of freedom, which I did. Since then, I have walked in purity and duty in this area.
Morris forgot to mention in his that Clemishire was 12 years old when the abuse began. He also did not mention that he had apologized directly to her.
Gateway Church said Morris had gone through a two-year “restoration process” following a “moral failure,” in a statement to the WFAA.
Morris was able to return to Shady Grove Church in 1987, after being forgiven through the victim’s father, he said. “I asked them for forgiveness and they kindly forgave me,” Morris said.
Clemishire said that although his family had forgiven him, his father had never supported his return to ministry.
Morris returned and in 2003 founded Gateway Church, one of the largest megachurches in the country. Gateway has a weekly attendance of 100,000 parishioners, according to the church’s website.
In 2016, Donald Trump appointed Morris to his non-secular advisory board, a practical support in his ultimately successful efforts to win the vote of white evangelical Christians. In 2020, Trump visited Gateway Church, which has since expanded to several campuses. in the Dallas area, amid Black Lives Matter protests in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.
Clemishire told the Dallas Morning News she wasn’t convinced by Morris’ statement.
“I don’t think there’s any regret when someone treats a 12-year-old woman and tries to dismiss what happened as a fondling,” she said. “I don’t think it’s regret. There is no child on earth to whom they do this. This is simply unacceptable. There are no excuses.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton found himself sidelined as he reviewed Donald Trump’s list of potential vice presidential candidates. He speaks on television to make himself known, which now means protecting Trump’s refusal to elect and downplaying Jan. 6.
During a segment with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Cotton saw a comment he made in 2020, saying that Trump pledged to accept the effects of the election and make a nonviolent force move if he lost. When Tapper pointed out that Trump had not accepted the No valid electoral effects or force moved toward President Biden in a nonviolent manner without encouraging an insurrection, Cotton resorted to the same technically charged and far-fetched lack of response that any member of the Republican Party who wishes to remain in Trump’s intelligent graces demands.
“Of course, we will settle for the effects if they come from fair and lax elections,” said Cotton, whose reaction was riddled with unfounded implications that the elections were neither lax nor fair. Cotton, Trump and the rest of the Republican Party have relied on the same wording to cast doubt on the integrity of mail-in ballots in the run-up to the 2020 election.
“Every candidate, regardless of race, has the right to go to court and seek redress if they believe there has been any fraud or cheating,” he continued. Confronted with his own comments and pressing Tapper on Trump’s continued insistence that the election had been rigged and his encouragement of insurrection after exhausting his legal avenues, Cotton veered, downplaying the Capitol insurrection and staging nonviolent protests outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices like the left-wing equivalents of Jan. 6.
“What happened on January 6, 2021 was that there was a protest in Washington that turned into a riot and, as I said from the beginning, anyone who injured a law enforcement officer or committed acts of violence on January 6 at the Capitol deserves to be prosecuted and face serious consequences, and again, this is another thing for the Democrats, who will not prosecute violent protesters, for example those in the Democratic street militias outside the homes of the Supreme Court justices. “
TAPPER: *plays a September 2020 clip of Tom Cotton saying that Trump will respect the nonviolent force movement and still win* TAPPER: He hasn’t aged very wellCOTTON: Of course, we’ll settle for the results. What happened on June 6 was a protest in Washington that went hand in hand pic. twitter. com/0SDoSgQnu9
Cotton, who in the past had called on the National Guard to crack down on protests against police brutality, remains Sens. Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and J. D. Vance and Gov. Doug Burgum in the race to become Trump’s vice presidential nominee, according to sources. Close to the presidential election, republicanas. candidato. No is surprising, then, that he is circling on television to participate in a revisionist story about the risk his party poses to democracy.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott kicked off his week by presenting a brutal fact-check on just about everything. While Scott passed the test of loyalty to Donald Trump with flying colors, he was only able to do so because he refused to fully answer a single question. he asked her on Sunday’s episode of ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopolus.
When asked about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to lift Trump’s own ban on booster stockpiles, Scott temporarily accepted the Court’s ruling, before moving on to President Joe Biden’s complaint of something different.
“During the Biden administration, I noticed a motion to defund the police, leaving communities like the one I grew up in devastated and devastated by a wave of violent crime that we haven’t seen in literally five decades,” Scott said.
“In fact, Senator, as you probably know, the most recent statistics on violent crime and homicide rates fell last year,” ABC co-host Jonathan Karl said, before attempting to retract his speech. Question from the Supreme Court.
Scott, by contrast, refused to budge on his argument that families are “stuck in their homes” every night because of emerging crime.
TIM SCOTT: Under Joe Biden, communities have been devastated and devastated by a wave of violent crime that we haven’t noticed in five decades. JONATHAN KARL: Actually, Senator, as you probably know, the most recent statistics on violent crime and the homicide rate show that they’re out there. . . pic. twitter. com/Tz2KrUXxgP
Last week, the FBI released its quarterly crime report, indicating that violent crime in the U. S. is a crime rate in the U. S. U. S. drug exports have fallen more than 15 percent year-to-date, adding a 26. 4 percent reduction in murders, in line with a reduction over the same period. years.
It gave the impression that the South Carolina Republican liked to give in to Trump’s arguments rather than brazenly settle for the court’s ruling to overturn his executive order. Karl then asked Scott if he would take action in Congress to ban wholesale stockpiles.
“Well, I’m a strong supporter of the Second Amendment,” Scott began. “But what we’re going to do within the party, and President Trump said this on Thursday, we’re going to do. “
“I asked about the ban on wholesale inventories, the Second Amendment,” Karl said, interrupting Scott again, but the senator continued undaunted and gave a brief speech about the violence at the southern border.
Scott continued to solidify his position, as a politician, or even as a user capable of thinking independently, but also as a Trumpian record player, playing the same old tunes over and over again.
In each and every turn, Scott ignored the questions asked to make arguments for Trump.
Karl then asked Scott what he thought of Trump’s proposal for price lists for imported goods, which the former president raised in a caucus with House Republicans last week. Scott himself had in the past criticized Trump’s technique for drawing up price lists, but he was notoriously unable to do so. admitting any defection of their beloved leader; He turned his attention back to anything else.
But what I can tell you is that he talked about his time in the Senate and that is that he really exempted tips from taxes,” he said, before talking about the plan, which would most likely gain advantages for hotel owners like Trump and hurt staff in their efforts to raise the minimum wage.
In an effort to ease the dramas surrounding its new corporate leadership, the Washington Post is once again doing whatever works.
The newspaper has chosen one of its longest-serving editors, Cameron Barr, to lead its policy on the Fleet Street scandals of publisher and CEO Will Lewis, NPR’s David Folkenflik reported Monday. Barr had left the organization in June 2023 after serving as editor for 19 years, but returns to his contract to oversee controversies surrounding Lewis and Rob Winnett, the paper’s new editor-in-chief, recently deputy editor of Telegraph Media Group, who is expected to take over after Election Day.
Lewis is named as a central figure in a hacking cover-up by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK. A phone hacking lawsuit filed across the Atlantic through Prince Harry’s lawyers, Guy Ritchie and Hugh Grant, accused Lewis of “giving the green light” to delete millions of emails related to the phone hacking allegations, even after the government asked the company to keep all of its records.
But Lewis has also been concerned about other unsavory efforts to cover up the trial’s new main points. Earlier this month, Folkenflik reported that the tabloid’s British reporter had presented him with an unpleasant deal in a “stormy” exchange: an exclusive in the Post newspaper. If he promised to squash a story about Lewis’ involvement in the phone-hacking trial.
Lewis’ legal troubles also appear to have fueled the abrupt departure of Post editor Sally Buzbee, who reportedly refused to give in to Lewis’ demands in March and May related to the paper’s policy in their legal battles.
As it stands, Barr would arguably be in an exclusive position to bring the British scandal to the American public: The publisher left the Post to move to England with his wife last year, a return to his home country, according to Barr’s departure announcement. .