Trump Mocks Joe Biden: If Elected, ‘He’ll Listen To The Scientists’ The president apparently thinks that’s a bad thing. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-will-listen-to-scientists_n_5f8d04dac5b67da85d1f86c2
Bizarre footage shows Trump supporters fighting over MAGA hats as the Titanic theme music plays https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-supporters-maga-hats-titanic-twitter-arizona-rally-9723036
What happened at the 60 Minutes interview that pissed him off so much? Trump Self-Destructs On Twitter After Angrily Stomping Out Of 60 Minutes Interview In another pathetic moment for a president who can’t seem to find rock bottom, Donald Trump angrily stomped out of an interview with ’60 Minutes’ on Tuesday and then all but declared war on CBS News and Lesley Stahl, his interviewer. As The New York Times reports, “President Trump abruptly cut off an interview with the ’60 Minutes’ star Lesley Stahl at the White House on Tuesday and then taunted her on Twitter, posting a short behind-the-scenes video of her at the taping and noting that she had not been wearing a mask.” Not only did Trump taunt Stahl on Twitter by showing a six-second video clip of her not wearing a mask in the immediate aftermath of the interview, but he also threatened to show the full interview online before it airs this coming Sunday on CBS. Not long after Trump’s interview and subsequent meltdown, he was visibly unhappy as he sulked out of the White House.
Even his own lawyers are donating heavily to Biden.... Lawyers spurn Trump campaign in individual donations, including from Jones Day https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2752H1 Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. Contributions to the Trump campaign by Jones Day lawyers totaled just $50, records show. A Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows a wide gulf between individual lawyer donations to the candidates, with nearly $29 million going directly to Biden’s campaign and just under $1.75 million to Trump’s between Jan. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020. Lawyers at several other law firms representing Trump or his campaign also heavily favored Biden. The figures reflect individual giving, not law firm contributions, and they rely on donors’ self-identification by occupation and employer. Reuters analyzed data on more than 120,000 contributions reported by the candidates’ principal campaign committees to the FEC on Sept. 20, which includes donations made up to Aug. 31. The data doesn’t include donations to political action committees, law firm PAC donations to federal candidates, or giving from lawyers’ spouses or dependents. Lawyers have long donated more to Democratic presidential candidates than to Republicans, data shows. The profession leans left overall, according to a 2015 report by professors at Stanford University, the University of Chicago and Harvard University, partly because much of Big Law is based in liberal-leaning cities like New York and Los Angeles. The firms whose lawyers have donated most to Biden’s campaign in the current election cycle, using rounded figures drawn from FEC data, are plaintiff-side giant Morgan & Morgan; the campaign’s outside counsel firm Covington & Burling; and Sidley Austin. The firms whose lawyers have donated most to Trump’s re-election campaign are Fish & Richardson, Kirkland & Ellis and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Attorneys at each of those firms donated significantly more to Biden’s campaign - about 10 times more at Gibson Dunn and about 20 times more at Kirkland, the FEC data show. Representatives for the firms either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment. While Covington is both representing the Biden campaign and a top source of individual Biden campaign donations, the same doesn’t hold true for the Trump campaign and Jones Day, whose lawyers gave to Biden over Trump by a wide margin. Jones Day has earned over $4.5 million since 2019 as outside counsel to the Trump campaign, FEC records show. Dave Petrou, a spokesman for Jones Day, did not respond to request for comment. Two Jones Day attorneys who asked to not be named said they donated to Biden because they preferred his policies and felt no pressure from colleagues to donate to Trump. “It shouldn’t be news that rich, liberal lawyers in Biden’s pocket are desperately trying to make up for his lackluster candidacy or that every big law firm has lawyers on both sides of the political aisle,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Zager said in an emailed statement. Biden campaign spokesman Michael Gwin did not respond to a request for comment. Lawyers at three other firms that have represented President Trump or his campaign - Porter Wright Morris & Arthur; Kasowitz, Benson & Torres; and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius - have also donated overwhelmingly to Biden. Porter Wright received over $250,000 from the Trump campaign in August, while representing it in lawsuits over mail-balloting procedures in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Its attorneys have donated $5,750 to Biden’s campaign and $0 to Trump’s, according to FEC data. Robert Trafford, a Columbus, Ohio-based Porter Wright litigation partner who donated $1,000 to the Biden campaign last year, said his firm’s work for Trump’s campaign doesn’t “change the political giving of individual partners.” “How I may feel about it really isn’t important,” he said. “I do think it’s important that the firm be able to take on representations even when they’re controversial.” Representatives for Morgan Lewis, which has represented Trump on tax matters, and Kasowitz, Benson & Torres, home of Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz, did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump’s boast he’ll win N.Y. in election leaves residents in stitches https://www.nydailynews.com/news/po...0201020-5epqhaq3x5ejjatvzwvwj5zmkm-story.html Businessman. Commander-in-chief. Comedian. President Trump’s claims that he could win New York in next month’s election drew scornful laughs from residents of his native city on Tuesday. “He’s not going to win here,” Darrell Spearman, 20, told the Daily News while relaxing in McCarren Park in Brooklyn. “He’s messed up too much by the way he’s handled things this year.” A man having lunch in Bryant Park in Manhattan burst out laughing at Trump’s Tuesday comments that New York is up for grabs. “People have opinions,” said Owen Siegel, 53, who lives on the Upper West Side. “And his is wrong.” Earlier in the day, the president went on a rant about the upcoming debate against Democratic candidate Joe Biden. He also repeated assertions that he can win New York — even though Hillary Clinton trounced him here in 2016 and polls show Biden crushing Trump by up to 36 percentage points. “Upstate and on Long Island — I’m going to win in a landslide,” Trump boasted on Fox News. “It’s horrible, what they’ve done in New York. It’s rotten to the core.” A pollreleased Oct. 2by Siena College found Biden winning by 60 points in New York City, 20 points upstate and 14 points in downstate 'burbs. The race is closer nationwide, with Biden ahead of Trump by a roughly 51-43 margin, according to an average of recent polls by Real Clear Politics. Trump’s latest comments continued a recurring theme for the president, who told a fact-challenged New York City tabloid in August that his campaign had been “putting New York in play.” Told of Trump’s assertions, a man cleaning an entrance to Bryant Park had a one-word response: “Nope!" ”Man, if he wins, we’re all going down," Andrew Germain, 33, continued while laughing. “We can’t handle four more years of hell with him in office.” He scoffed at Trump’s New York creds, saying, “He’s no real New Yorker.” “He doesn’t act like a New Yorker. New Yorkers are all about working until you make it for everybody,” Germain added. “Trump just cares about people with money.” The president, who grew up in the upscale Queens neighborhood of Jamaica Estates, declared himself a Florida resident last year. He whined of being “treated very badly” by local leaders, though he made a point to say he “cherished” the city and its people. But polls show the feeling isn’t mutual, with the recent Siena survey finding 61% of New Yorkers rated his job performance as “poor.” A woman who gave her name as P. Williams provided a taste of New Yorkers' loathing of the president, saying she wouldn’t vote for him because he’s “from the pit of hell.” “He needs to leave New York out of his mouth,” said Williams, 47, who added that she’s worked as a nurse during the coronavirus outbreak. Trump has come under heavy criticism for his erratic handling of the pandemic, which had claimed 23,944 lives in the city as of Monday, according to the Health Department. “Yeah, he’s from here, but that doesn’t mean anything,” Williams said. "I have so many choice words I’d like to use right now, but I won’t do that. I hate even looking at that man.” Trump’s latest remarks prompted loud laughter from 24-year-old Jonah Flint, then reflective silence as he seemed to try to find the right words. “I don’t think anyone here has time for his s--t anymore,” he said. “The instinct is to say something vile to him. But it doesn’t matter what we say. The only thing he wants is money.” City Comptroller Scott Stringer echoed everyday New Yorkers' sentiments. “Trump spinning winning New York gives new meaning to the term ‘Hail Mary pass,’” said Stringer, who’s running for mayor. “Lights out.” Still, die-hard Republicans say Trump has a point. “Millions of New Yorkers from across the state — including in many areas of deep blue New York City — will vote resoundingly for the president and send a strong message that they support our police and want to restore public safety," state GOP chairman Nick Langworthy said in a statement. “President Trump was a help to our candidates down ballot in 2016 and we fully expect that to be the case in 2020,” he added.
GOP allies are asking where the cash-strapped Trump campaign’s money went: President Donald Trump’s campaign is facing a cash crunch with less than two weeks to go until election day, as recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission show Joe Biden’s campaign has nearly $100 million more cash on hand than the president’s campaign. The New York Times reports that Trump’s campaign is entering the final stretch of the campaign at a financial disadvantage despite having raised $1.5 billion in tandem with the Republican Party over the last two years. “The financial pinch has engulfed his advisers and party officials in something of an internal blame game after years of bragging about their fund-raising prowess, according current and former campaign and administration officials,” the Times reports. “Republican allies, meanwhile, are wondering where all the money went.”
He lost by millions last time - against the worst opponent Shillary. Sleepy Joe is no Shillary - by far.
"Superspreader Don" Trump’s campaign made stops nationwide. Coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ide-then-coronavirus-cases-surged/3679534001/ As President Donald Trump jetted across the country holding campaign rallies during the past two months, he didn’t just defy state orders and federal health guidelines. He left a trail of coronavirus outbreaks in his wake. The president has participated in nearly three dozen rallies since mid-August, all but two at airport hangars. A USA TODAY analysis shows COVID-19 cases grew at a faster rate than before after at least five of those rallies in the following counties: Blue Earth, Minnesota; Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Marathon, Wisconsin; Dauphin, Pennsylvania; and Beltrami, Minnesota. Together, those counties saw 1,500 more new cases in the two weeks following Trump’s rallies than the two weeks before – 9,647 cases, up from 8,069 to 9,647 cases. Public health officials additionally have linked 16 cases, including two hospitalizations, with the rally in Beltrami County, Minnesota, and one case with the rally in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Outside of the counties identified by USA TODAY with a greater case increase after rallies, officials identified four cases linked to Trump rallies. How coronavirus cases changed in counties where Trump had rallies USA TODAY looked at whether cases increased faster in the 14 days after Trump’s rally in that county versus the 14 days before Trump’s rally. If 14 days hasn't passed since rally, data as of October 19 (Active chart in article) Counties where cases increased faster after the rally Rate of case increase for the 14 days... (Active chart in article) Although there’s no way to determine definitively if cases originated at Trump’s rallies, public health experts say the gatherings fly in the face of all recommendations to curb the spread of the coronavirus. USA TODAY reviewed coronavirus case counts in the counties where Trump attended rallies starting from mid-August through mid-October. The news organization examined the rate of increase in virus cases for the two weeks before and after campaign events. For rallies occurring within the past two weeks, not enough time has passed to draw conclusions. The earliest post-rally spikes occurred even as the nation’s overall case counts were in decline from a peak in mid-July. When U.S. cases started climbing in mid-September, Trump did not alter his campaign schedule but continued holding an average of four rallies a week. He stopped first in Minnesota, where Blue Earth County’s coronavirus growth rate was 15% before Trump’s rally, but grew to 25% afterward. Three days later, he was in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, where the coronavirus growth rate jumped from less than 3% before his visit to more than 7% afterward. Even in states where cases were already rising, the spikes in at least four counties that hosted Trump rallies far surpassed their state’s overall growth rates. In two counties, it was more than double: Marathon County’s case count surged by 67% after Trump’s visit compared to Wisconsin’s overall growth rate of 29% during the same time. In Beltrami County, Minnesota, it swelled by 35% compared to the state’s 14%. Case increase rate in counties higher than increase rate in surrounding states USA TODAY looked at whether cases increased faster in the 14 days after Trump’s rally in that county versus that county's state. If 14 days hasn't passed since rally, data as of October 19 (Active chart in article) The newspaper’s analysis did not include surrounding counties, nor could it account for cases where the people attending the rally had traveled from outside the area, including other states. Indeed, most rallies draw crowds from large geographic areas, with some people driving or flying hundreds of miles to attend. Health experts say it’s impossible to pinpoint the rallies as the direct source of infection or community spread without an intensive outbreak investigation. The contact tracing done by most health departments following new cases can show only that someone who later developed COVID-19 was at the event – but not that the event caused it. They also said that a variety of factors, including the reopening of public schools, could contribute to the rising case counts. For example, Marathon County is also near the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus, where the school reported 175 coronavirus cases five days after the rally. However, major school districts in the counties hosting Trump events were taking precautions, such as reduced capacity and hybrid online learning, USA TODAY found. (Much more at above url)