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“It’s a real aberrancy,” he later added. “This is my seventh administration, Rachel, and I’ve been advising administrations and presidents on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, people with different ideologies, and even with differences in ideology, there never was this real affront on science. So it really was an aberrancy that I haven’t seen in almost 40 years that I’ve been doing this. So it’s just one of those things that is chilling when you see it happen." … [Read more...] about Fauci describes ‘chilling’ pressure on scientists in Trump era

Former White House aide and The Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Newman alleged that Melania Trump was "counting every minute" until her husband was no longer president so she could divorce him, as she dished the dirt on the couple in her memoirs, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, published in 2018. … [Read more...] about Melania Could Reportedly Get $50 Mln, Custody of Son Barron if She Splits with Trump

Birx joined the Trump White House task force after a stellar career in public service, particularly in the fight against Aids. Like Fauci and other experts, she became a familiar face in a task force all too evidently at the mercy of a mercurial president given to lies, conspiracy theories and the politicisation of every aspect of the public health response. … [Read more...] about Deborah Birx ‘always’ considered quitting Trump coronavirus taskforce

In an interview to air on Sunday's "Face the Nation," Birx told moderator Margaret Brennan that even close colleagues who she had worked with during decades of research into the AIDS virus questioned her political allegiance amid a flurry of criticism against the Trump White House's response to the virus.  … [Read more...] about Dr. Deborah Birx, who ran Trump’s COVID task force, says she “always” considered quitting

“The president threw us under the bus. And when I say ‘us,’ I don’t mean only us political appointees or only us Republicans. He threw America under the bus. He caused a lot of damage to the fabric of this country. Did he go and storm the Capitol himself? No. But he, I believe, had an opportunity to tamp things down and he chose not to.” Waning Tenure Amid the turmoil in the wake of the Capitol riot and the following days, when talk of impeachment gained momentum, the Vanity Fair reporter continued to shadow Miller and his team as they went about their last days in office, through 12 January to 19 January, with all three men wearing lapel microphones during the conversations. … [Read more...] about Trump ‘Threw America Under the Bus’, Pentagon Officials Reportedly Claimed In Wake of Capitol Riot

The three pardons of close political associates were the headliners among a batch of more than two dozen pardons and three sentence commutations announced Wednesday. The president also pardoned Margaret Hunter, the wife of ex-Rep. Duncan HunterDuncan HunterPresidential pardons need to go Trump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon Pardon talk intensifies as Trump approaches final 24 hours in office MORE (R-Calif.), whom the president pardoned a day earlier.  … [Read more...] about Trump pardons Manafort, Stone and Charles Kushner in latest round

On Thursday, Fauci declared that working under President Biden has been "liberating" compared to his experience working with former President TrumpDonald TrumpMcCarthy says he told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene he disagreed with her impeachment articles against Biden Biden, Trudeau agree to meet next month Trump planned to oust acting AG to overturn Georgia election results: report MORE. … [Read more...] about Fauci tells Maddow he was ‘blocked’ from going on show under Trump admin

“Coming to play golf is not what I would consider to be an essential purpose. We are not allowing people to come into Scotland without an essential purpose right now. And that would apply to him just as it applies to anybody else,” Ms. Sturgeon said. … [Read more...] about Joe Biden International: Scottish Brewery Calls for Rebranding of Glasgow Airport in Poke at Trump

Another man, Robert Bauer of Kentucky, told FBI agents that “he marched to the U.S. Capitol because President Trump said to do so,” authorities wrote. His cousin, Edward Hemenway, from Virginia, told the FBI that he and Bauer headed toward the Capitol after Trump said “something about taking Pennsylvania Avenue." … [Read more...] about Supporters’ words may haunt Trump at impeachment trial

As the world reached a “heart-wrenching milestone” of two million COVID-19-related deaths less than a week ago, Guterres lamented that the deadly impact of the pandemic has worsened due to the absence of a global coordinated effort and said that “vaccinationalism” by governments is “self-defeating” that will delay a global recovery. … [Read more...] about Biden halts US withdrawal from WHO, to join global vaccine effort