Year: 2020

Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Tuesday used a blazing analogy to argue why President Donald Trump’s rallies in battleground states are “making it easier” for the coronavirus to spread. Reiner, a medical analyst for CNN who treated former Vice President Dick Cheney, told “Outfront” anchor Erin Burnett that Trump is “doing a lot of the virus’...

Boot reeled off in his column published Tuesday a long list of reasons for why Trump should take the “worst president” title — from his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and trafficking in racism to his inciting of violence, xenophobia and welcoming “of Russian attacks on our elections.” The commentator, who quit the GOP following...

Eric Trump ― the touter of an imaginary coronavirus vaccine ― earned yet another roasting on Twitter Tuesday as users pointed out a major flaw with his latest attack on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Donald Trump’s son was mocked after he shared two photographs ― one showing hundreds of people attending one of the president’s...

President Donald Trump has worked a new line into his stump speech after recovering from the coronavirus and Chris Cuomo turned it into an ominous reference to the “Godfather” films.  For the second straight night, Trump told supporters he’d like to go into the crowd and kiss everyone, claiming he’s now immune to the COVID-19 infection...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday highlighted the irony of Vice President Mike Pence’s round of applause for healthcare workers during a campaign rally. Pence earlier in the day at an event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, had praised the doctors, nurses and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, describing them as “heroes all.”...

“Suburban women, would you please like me? Please. Please,” he said. “I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” Polls show Trump’s numbers plunging in the suburbs, especially among women. That’s prompted him to repeatedly claim he “saved” the suburbs by scrapping rules that made it easier to build low-income housing. Critics call the comments a racist dog...

President Donald Trump tweeted an image Tuesday of his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, edited onto the body of an elderly person sitting in a wheelchair, endorsing him for “Resident” of a retirement home. The image showed a room full of elderly wheelchair users with Biden’s face superimposed on one of them. Biden is 77, Trump is 74....

Polls show President Donald Trump’s support in America’s suburbs has plunged, especially among women.  So on Tuesday night, he launched a desperate appeal to those voters during a campaign event in Pennsylvania. “Suburban women, would you please like me? Please. Please,” he said. “I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?”  Trump bragged that he made it...

A federal investigation meant to target Obama administration officials for “unmasking” the names of individuals in classified intelligence reports ended recently without finding any wrongdoing that the Trump administration could use as political ammunition, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Attorney General William Barr appointed Texas U.S. Attorney John Bash in May to look into the...

In a tense interview on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer of being a Republican “apologist” after he confronted her on stalled talks over a COVID-19 relief package. House Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House have been trying for months to negotiate an economic stimulus package. Pelosi has slammed the Trump...