ArchiveApril 2020

Kayleigh McEnany left Donald Trump’s reelection campaign to become his latest press secretary earlier this month. Since then, she has made at least five appearances on Fox News, held just one press event, and spent a lot of time attacking people on Twitter. Soon after she started her job as press secretary, McEnany appeared on the April 16 episode of “Fox & Friends.” She...

Donald Trump once again refused to take responsibility for his own actions, saying at a news conference on Monday that if someone died from using disinfectant it would not be his fault. Trump’s comments came after a reporter told him that some states have seen spikes in people calling poison control after using disinfectant. Trump floated the idea on Thursday of using disinfectant — which...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) alleged over the weekend that local municipalities were using “Chinese drones” to “spy on people in their own backyards” in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gaetz claimed the warning was a “wake-up call” regarding the United States’ relationship with China, repeatedly referring to the coronavirus in racist terms. Experts...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled his support this week for a Trump administration proposal to add a provision to the next round of coronavirus relief that would make it impossible for workers to sue their employers if they contract the virus on the job. In a statement announcing the Senate will return to Washington, D.C., on May 4, the Kentucky Republican called the proposal an...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, the current Republican nominee for governor, dismissed the COVID-19 pandemic as less deadly than HIV/AIDS and influenza on Saturday. In a Facebook Live discussion with the NC Federation of Young Republicans, Forest claimed, “We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we have had COVID-19. There’s been about three times more deaths...

A memo written by a Republican campaign consultant and distributed by the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee advises Republican senators not to defend Trump’s slow and inept response to the coronavirus crisis, Politico reported Friday. The 57-page memo, written by strategists at O’Donnell & Associates, urges candidates instead to blame Democrats, China, and the World Health...

From an April 27 press conference: GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO: Bailout. This is not the time to be talking about dollars and cents among members of a community that are trying to be mutually supportive and help each other, because helping each other is the way we actually all advance, right? So this is not the time to be saying, ‘Well, you put in a dollar more than I did,’ or, ‘I put...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on Sunday for limits to what Chinese students should be allowed to study at American schools. The Arkansas Republican, who has pushed false conspiracy narratives about China throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, suggested on Fox News that the nation was training its enemies it by allowing Chinese students to study science and technology on its campuses. From his Fox News...

The New York Times reported that hundreds of businesses trading on the public markets received billions in loans from the government as part of COVID-19 relief, despite the program being targeted to small business. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked about the problem in an interview with Fox News on Monday. From the April 27 edition of Fox News’ “America’s...

The Trump administration is finalizing its rewrite of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would harm LGBTQ people’s access to health care, even in the middle of a pandemic. Section 1557 of the ACA prohibits health care discrimination based on sex and gender identity. According to Politico, a Trump-administration rewrite of the rule has been circulated at the Justice Department...