A tornado ripped through downtown Jonesboro, Arkansas on Saturday, ravaging a mall and reportedly causing injuries. Early reports did not confirm any fatalities, but videos showed severe damage to the area, with only piles of debris apparently left of some buildings. Source
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Paul J. Richards/AFP Hillary Clinton blasted President Donald Trump on Friday, posting a link to Twitter of a New York Times article that labeled the U.S. the new “epicenter of the pandemic,” adding caption, “He did promise ‘America First.’” He did promise “America First.” https://t.co/bzks3hqCUE — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 27, 2020 “In the United States, at least 81,321 people are known to have been infected with the coronavirus, including […]
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro fired back at the US, which is offering a $15 million bounty for information leading to his arrest, dismissing the narco-terrorism charge as a smear to deflect attention from its coronavirus woes. Maduro came out swinging after the US Justice Department, in an almost unprecedented move, indicted the president of the Latin American nation on “narco-terrorism” charges, claiming that Maduro and over […]
New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson tore into President Donald Trump and Washington in general for not doing more to help the five boroughs as the coronavirus brings the city’s health care system to its breaking point. Johnson gave an interview to MSNBC on Thursday, which focused on how the health crisis has strained resources so badly that hospital workers are now being forced to […]
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen ripped doctors and dentists who are “hoarding” unproven coronavirus treatments like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine by improperly self-prescribing the medications. On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Jim Sciutto asked Cohen about reports of doctors and dentists hoarding the experimental treatment that President Donald Trump has repeatedly hyped as a potential “game-changer” against COVID-19. “Elizabeth, what are you learning here, […]
CNN’s Jake Tapper ripped President Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon his show The Lead With Jake Tapper over the commander-in-chief downplaying the coronavirus a month ago by re-running his remarks and stating it “was clearly a false sense of security he was providing the nation.” Tapper began, “And as we pass 800 deaths and more than 61,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in this country, it is worth remembering what […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response today after a number of comments POTUS made during his Fox News town hall Tuesday. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Biden about the president setting Easter as a target date for potentially relaxing CDC guidelines and getting the country back to work, despite pushback raising the ongoing serious public health concerns. “He should stop talking,” Biden […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden shot back at President Donald Trump and his supporters for suggesting that the country should abandon safety precautions while the coronavirus continues to run rampant. Appearing on The View Tuesday, Biden was asked about how Trump hinted that at the end of the month, he’ll call for a national rollback on the safety guidelines which have been enacted to stop the […]
ABC political analyst and former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd was raked over the coals for a pair of tweets about the coronavirus pandemic just a week after he was forced to delete another tweet that sparked an intense backlash. Last week, Dowd resisted social distancing precautions by tweeting “Let us not let fear change who we are,” and faced a blistering social media firestorm that saw him […]
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) ripped into Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Sunday afternoon over a proposed stimulus package, aimed to offer economic relief during the coronavirus outbreak, calling it out as a one-sided proposal that “does nothing to help struggling workers.” Duckworth, on CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield, also brought a photo of Mnuchin holding up signed sheets of money from back in November 2019 when he and his wife visited the Bureau of Engraving and […]
Democratic strategist and former Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky slammed her former network for their part in circulating misinformation and disregard for the severity of the coronavirus. Roginsky joined CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday for a conversation on how several of Fox News’ most prominent figures downplayed the virus to protect President Donald Trump before covering it as a serious matter. Roginsky called this “worse than […]
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) re-affirmed her opposition on Sunday to a reported plan that would let Justice Department suspend peoples’ constitutional rights in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Over the weekend, Ocasio-Cortez joined a crowd of bipartisan outrage over a Politico report saying the DOJ is secretly asking Congress to grant them emergency powers as the crisis continues to unfold. One of the most alarming […]
On Friday night, Trevor Noah broadcast the third episode of The Daily Show—now known as The Daily Social Distancing Show—under self-quarantine from his living room couch. “It’s now Day 8 of being locked in the house, aka ‘social distancing,’” offered Noah. “On today’s episode, we’re gonna catch up on the latest news.” One of the biggest stories of alleged corruption that’s emerged during the novel coronavirus […]
CNN anchor John King was moved to profanity by President Donald Trump’s sustained attack on NBC News’ Peter Alexander at a coronavirus briefing, which King referred to as “bullshit” live on the air. Following Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, King discussed Trump’s outburst — sparked by Alexander asking if the president is offering false hope to Americans — with CNN White House reporter Kaitlan […]
With Joy Behar self-isolating at home and Whoopi Goldberg appearing via satellite, The View table is getting a lot less crowded and co-host Sunny Hostin is stepping forward as the harshest critic of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday morning, the show shared a clip of Trump boasting about his decision to ban travel from China before declaring “I look at it, […]
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier joined the network on Wednesday to talk about the misinformation surrounding the coronavirus, which was somewhat ironic since the network allowed bad information to be pushed on their air for weeks. In a segment for Fox & Friends, Saphier was asked what was “the one bit of information” being circulated in public that she would like to correct first […]
Fox News’ The Five co-host Greg Gutfield riffed Tuesday that parents of college-aged students should lie to their kids about the coronavirus and state it’s like a sexually transmitted disease, giving the example of herpes, in a segment regarding 20-year-olds taking to the beaches amidst the Covid-19 outbreak. Co-hosts Dana Perino and Juan Williams also joined in on the lighthearted moment – poking fun at Gutfield […]
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came out swinging against President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response at Sunday night’s CNN Democratic debate. The Democratic presidential candidate panned Trump’s comments on the pandemic as “blabbering with un-factual information” and undermining scientists seeking a cure for the virus. “If you were president right now, what’s the most important thing you would do tonight to try to save American lives?” debate moderator […]
ABC News Chief White House correspondent Jon Karl ripped into President Donald Trump and his administration for the misinformation they have put forward while the coronavirus remains “a matter of life and death” to Americans. Karl filled in for George Stephanopoulos on Sunday by hosting This Week, and he led the show by remarking on the societal impact covid 19 has had around the world. As […]
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria ripped President Donald Trump for continuing to demand North Korean levels of adulation from his administration instead of doing more to stop the coronavirus. In his Sunday monologue, Zakaria panned the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus, saying they could’ve tackled the pandemic a lot better if they followed the steps that other countries took to reduce their case numbers and halt viral […]
Like the rest of late night, Bill Maher went without a live studio audience Friday night, and he opened the discussion with his panel ripping into President Donald Trump’s over his public response to the spread of the coronavirus. Maher started off by asking that given the serious state of the economy right now, “How can we avoid a depression and how can the Democrats possibly […]
Tonight Tucker Carlson confronted Seema Verma, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, for dodging on whether the U.S. will have enough ventilators to respond to growing needs as the coronavirus spreads. After that segment aired, Carlson spoke with Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert who was absolutely stunned by Verma’s attempt at assuaging concerns: “Let me just make a comment that I’ve […]
Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, seldom a critic of President Donald Trump, ripped the commander in chief’s Wednesday night Oval Office address. Appearing on The Story with Martha MacCallum Thursday night, the Fox News contributor expressed his strong disapproval of Trump’s remarks. “I regret to say that I thought the president’s speech to the nation last night was not reassuring,” Fleischer said. “The […]
MSNBC political analyst and former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt told President Donald Trump to “stop lying” and “start telling the truth” about the coronavirus Thursday on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House. After being asked by Nicolle Wallace whether he has any “quick advice for this White House,” Schmidt said, “Stop lying. Start telling the truth.” “The American people deserve to be told the serious, full, total truth about […]