President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and special advisor Jared Kushner reportedly urged his father-in-law in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic not to prioritize testing or ordering potentially life-saving equipment like ventilators because of fears it might drive down stock prices. Kushner’s efforts to convince the president not to take decisive action were first reported in […]
President Donald Trump’s brand of “America First” isolationism was on full display Monday as the U.S. declined to participate in a international pledge drive which raised more than $8 billion during its kick-event to create a global fund to develop and deploy diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “It is a […]
U.S. President Donald Trump raised his projection of how many people will die from COVID-19, while pledging additional economic support as he looks toward further reopening of the country. “We’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people. That’s a horrible thing,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall broadcast Sunday night. […]
“That’s banana republic stuff,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law expert. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to adjourn both chambers of Congress so he can unilaterally ram through judges and political appointees amid the coronavirus pandemic, a move Democratic lawmakers and legal experts said would be dictatorial and unconstitutional. During a press conference in […]
