Aug 4, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
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President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have called for the nation’s public schools to re-open this fall, but a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children of all ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection — and can efficiently transmit the virus to others....
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May 20, 2020 | Democrats, Republicans, Salon.com
Coronavirus economic assistance checks that were sent to citizens across the country Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Congressional Republicans are attempting to stop the passage of another relief package for Americans economically suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as an estimated 36 million Americans have lost their jobs.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,...
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May 8, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
Donald Trump and Kellyanne Conway AP Photo/Salon
Kellyanne Conway, who serves as a White House counselor to the president, denounced the members of a conservative anti-Trump group co-founded by her husband as failures during a Thursday appearance on Fox News.
Conway told Fox News host Harris Faulkner that the group of strategists and consultants who run the Lincoln Project “never achieved what I achieved, which is success as a presidential campaign manager....
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May 8, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Alex Brandon
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany formerly denounced President Donald Trump for being “a Republican in name only” who made “racist” and “hateful” comments about minorities during the early stages of his 2016 presidential campaign.
McEnany spoke out when Trump used his June 2015 campaign announcement address to accuse Mexico of sending “rapists” who bring drugs and crime along with them into the U.S. ...
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Apr 3, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler Paras Griffin/Getty Images
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., sold more than $46,000 of stock in an online travel company shortly before President Donald Trump announced a ban on flights to Europe over the coronavirus pandemic.
Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, an executive at the firm which owns the New York Stock Exchange, purchased shares in Booking Holdings on March 6, according to Bloomberg....
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Apr 3, 2020 | Elections, Republicans, Salon.com
Jess Sessions and Donald Trump AP Photo/Salon
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sent a letter to Jeff Sessions Tuesday accusing him of attempting to “confuse” the president’s supporters into believing that he supports his former attorney general’s Senate campaign in Alabama.
“The Trump campaign has learned that your U.S. Senate campaign is circulating mailers like the one I have enclosed, in which you misleadingly promote your connections to and ‘support’ of President Trump,” Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Trump’s campaign, wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times....
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Apr 2, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Senate Television via AP
An ethics watchdog called for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., to be investigated by “any federal law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over insider trading” after a new report revealed the lawmaker unloaded millions of dollars in stocks from industries hit hard by the economic fallout over the coronavirus pandemic as she publicly downplayed the extent of the outbreak. ...
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Mar 30, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Sen. Richard Burr AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The Department of Justice has begun to investigate controversial stock trades by members of the Senate after receiving non-public briefings about the impending coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.
CNN reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is coordinating its probe the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has reached out to at least one member of Congress: Sen....
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Mar 24, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick on Tucker Carlson Tonight Fox News
The Republican lieutenant governor of Texas suggested to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night that the government should prioritizing saving the economy over the lives of senior citizens amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“No one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’...
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Mar 24, 2020 | Republicans, Salon.com
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 in Washington. AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., was sued by a shareholder in Wyndham Hotels and Resorts on Monday for allegedly engaging in securities fraud during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
The shareholder, Alan Jacobson, filed the federal lawsuit, which accuses Burr of liquidating his assets after receiving confidential information about the impact of the virus through his role as a U.S....
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