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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 11:14am On Sep 11, 2020
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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by obixcel(m): 11:21am On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:



See lies and propaganda.

1. Obama didnt start any war

2. Trump has not done 8 years of presidency yet. Unless you can guarantee that he wont send troops in his next 4 years (if he even gets relected)

3. Trump does not have relations with Russia. Instead, Trump is Putin's bitch
He compounded Syria and Lybia, and with a thousand bomb dropping like something never seen before since Iraq, creating room for ISIS. Obama campaigned that he would withdraw troops from Iraq, he got elected and did a complete reverse.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 11:27am On Sep 11, 2020
POTUS first tweet on 9/11


Trump is not well.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by LordReed(m): 11:33am On Sep 11, 2020
DissTroy:

The freckled-face Budaatum went to edit the article himself. Wikipedia doesn't automatically edit articles - editors edit them, and minor changes aren't a priority.

Last week even, Elon Musk asked Twitter users to edit his Wikipedia page for fun just to thrash him. There were hundreds of edits but there was a dedicated editor to revert the edits after a while. The only major hurdles for most newbies is creating a fresh Wikipedia page as Wiki codes have a learning curve. Why do you think there's so much falsehood on Wikipedia for years? Understand the system, beat it to achieve your aim. You are arguing with someone who creates pages? You must be Salford1 aka Limo-On-Wheel's mental twin - dûmbînós.

So what was the purpose of the bet?



Yeah, of course, memes. Retreating into the caves of the cyberspace now? No longer guns blazing? Quite fitting that the depiction in has just two teeth and a cub. A perfect illustration of your mental development - infantile and stunned. Your caregivers would throw a party the day you ever count from 1 to 30 without missing a number. Oh, what a wonderful that would be in that care home for the mentally disâbléd. Make their wish come true. Do it on this thread.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 11:40am On Sep 11, 2020
President Donald Trump said he gave 18 on-the-record interviews to author Bob Woodward 'out of curiosity'


'I did it out of curiosity. I wonder whether or not somebody like that can write good,' he said Thursday at the White House



Sigh.....

Granted 18 out of curiosity?

Its either old age is drastically taking a toll on Trumps mental health, or he has started injecting a new substance his brain is not adapted too.

Seems dude has forgotten that he is the POTUS

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by ZooOga: 11:41am On Sep 11, 2020
Hometown of Mr. MAGA

RETAIL
Retail rents plummet across New York City, as America’s glitzy shopping districts turn into ghost towns

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/02/retail-rents-plummet-across-new-york-city-a-warning-for-other-areas.html

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by obixcel(m): 11:46am On Sep 11, 2020
The new NETFLIX movie called "Cuties" has rightfully received a huge world wide backlash for exploiting kids, sexualizing them and promoting child pornography. From the trailer itself you may find out how disgusting it looks. Netflix, in defence, called it an 'art' that exposes child sexualization due to influence from social media. In my opinion you don't expose evil by committing same evil. It's sickening that parents would allow their kids to be used for dis kind of things just to get some money?! - so disgusting. And to think that many (specially from Hollywood) are okay with it and defending d movie is just mind blowing.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 11:56am On Sep 11, 2020

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 12:00pm On Sep 11, 2020
AmazonTopaz:

Including murder shocked shocked
Jr is no different from his daddy talks anyhow without thinking.
Such an idiot he must have been high on coke while saying that grin

Norm!

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 12:02pm On Sep 11, 2020
Detailed collections of Trump`s stupidity are selling fast

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by DissTroy(m): 12:02pm On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:



See lies and propaganda.

1. Obama didnt start any war
Obama fueled and sent US troops to Libya and was part of the NATO mission to the Middle East. Obama lied and instead sent more troops to the ME, including Syria. Cûrséd be his name. In 4 years of Trump presidency, Trump hasn't started any war. He's instead made peace with North Korea and brought the Middle East closer through the Israel-UAE deal.

2. Trump has not done 8 years of presidency yet. Unless you can guarantee that he wont send troops in his next 4 years (if he even gets relected)
Dumbo, in just 2 to 3 years of Obama presidency in 2010 to 2011, he had invaded Libya and Syria, overthrown governments there and in Egypt through the Muslim brotherhood. He also armed militias.

3. Trump does not have relations with Russia. Instead, Trump is Putin's bitch
If you had half the intelligence of a cuttlefish, you'd have realized US-Russia relations are improving. U.S and Russia's rhetoric against themselves has reduced. The Russia-meddling probe failed and the whole world knows it so the left have moved on to attacking Trump with the Coronavirus pandemic.

For a fleeting moment, shock us; prove you are smarter than a chunk of discarded bauxite.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 12:15pm On Sep 11, 2020
America Loses Its Capacity for Common Grief - The Atlantic


...Sad and true

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by AbdulSleeky: 12:20pm On Sep 11, 2020
DissTroy:

Obama fueled and sent US troops to Libya and was part of the NATO mission to the Middle East. Obama lied and instead sent more troops to the ME, including Syria. Cûrséd be his name. In 4 years of Trump presidency, Trump hasn't started any war. He's instead made peace with North Korea and brought the Middle East closer through the Israel-UAE deal.


Dumbo, in just 2 to 3 years of Obama presidency in 2010 to 2011, he had invaded Libya and Syria, overthrown governments there and in Egypt through the Muslim brotherhood. He also armed militias.

If you had half the intelligence of a cuttlefish, you'd have realized US-Russia relations are improving. U.S and Russia's rhetoric against themselves has reduced. The Russia-meddling probe failed and the whole world knows it so the left have moved on to attacking Trump with the Coronavirus pandemic.

For a fleeting moment, shock us; prove you are smarter than a chunk of discarded bauxite.



Wait, is Russia a country one should ally with?

Russia that is anti-democratic and poisons its own citizens and critics?

You are mad. This is a result of being part of the Trump Cult- when Trump shits, you praise the shit as the best thing in the world.

How can people be celebrating Trump's peace deal between UAE and Isreal? Two already peaceful countries that were friendly with each other since Obama's time

How can people be celebrating good relationship with Russia? A country that is under a dictatorship that literally poisons its critics and citizens? Even the EU, Russia's neighbour don't like Russia!

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 12:32pm On Sep 11, 2020

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by basilico: 1:03pm On Sep 11, 2020
CoronaVirusRelo:
America Loses Its Capacity for Common Grief - The Atlantic


...Sad and true

As if Trump is in a beauty contest. He laid out what he planned to do before getting elected .
He was elected on his plans going forward.

He has been severely curtailed by leftist judges legislating from the bench.

Voters were not going for a beauty king with smooth teleprompter abilities.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by basilico: 1:07pm On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:




Wait, is Russia a country one should ally with?

Russia that is anti-democratic and poisons its own citizens and critics?

You are mad. This is a result of being part of the Trump Cult- when Trump shits, you praise the shit as the best thing in the world.

How can people be celebrating Trump's peace deal between UAE and Isreal? Two already peaceful countries that were friendly with each other since Obama's time

How can people be celebrating good relationship with Russia? A country that is under a dictatorship that literally poisons its critics and citizens? Even the EU, Russia's neighbour don't like Russia!

See who is brainwashed. Russia is a superior military power run by a president with dictatorial powers.

There is something wrong with having good relations with

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 1:07pm On Sep 11, 2020
“I’m not going to make any news today. I’m not going to talk about anything other than 9/11. We took all our advertising down. It’s a solemn day. That’s how we’re going to keep it, OK? You can determine whether I make news but I’m not going to be holding any press confrences.”


-Joe Biden


Leadership is not a gift, Its a skill.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by pryme(m): 1:11pm On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:



Even by low estimates, your cohort has put that there are 30,000 dollar millionaires in Nigeria alone (those are the ones counted from afar in UK). There are many more.

That you had to go to NBA (basketball) rather than business enterprises to find black millionaires says a lot.


You said Nigeria has produced more black millionaires than The US,
Give us names and Numbers, stop squealing.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by DissTroy(m): 1:16pm On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:




Wait, is Russia a country one should ally with?

Russia that is anti-democratic and poisons its own citizens and critics?

You are mad. This is a result of being part of the Trump Cult- when Trump shits, you praise the shit as the best thing in the world.

How can people be celebrating Trump's peace deal between UAE and Isreal? Two already peaceful countries that were friendly with each other since Obama's time

How can people be celebrating good relationship with Russia? A country that is under a dictatorship that literally poisons its critics and citizens? Even the EU, Russia's neighbour don't like Russia!

Fréckled-faced hálfwït, Russia is a country every country doesn't want as its enemy. Russia is a G-8 country hence it decides the fate of many things due to its veto power and has influence far beyond that. Who prevented Obama from directly invading Syria when he wanted to after the massive disastrous intervention in Libya? Putin. Being total enemies with a G-8 country has great consequences.

Same MSM who celebrated US relations with Iran, a terrorist state, under Obama? Even paying it billions?

EU doesn't like Russia? Same EU led by Germany's leader allowing itself get screwed over by Russia? What did the EU, US or UN do in the Poland and Ukraine crises? Nothing because of Russia's status. They all wished they had better relations with Russia.

Who blocked the US from intervening in the South China Sea crisis dragged by China, Japan and smaller countries? Russia. China had/has Russia on its side so it is advancing its cause. Nobody wants Russia as its enemy. Trump understands this and would court Russia to push US agenda.


But you wouldn't understand this because all you crave is the fleeting gratification from being 'upvoted' by your peers on Nairaland with you all having the combined intelligence of a rusted door nail.
International socio-politico-economical debate isn't your forte so return to posting memes and quoting CNN articles. Go seek help for your chronic deméntia, AbdulSleazy slimeball!

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 1:28pm On Sep 11, 2020
From Trump's rally in Freeland, MI, last night:


CNN's Jim Acosta: "Why are you not wearing your mask?"

Rallygoer: "Because there's no COVID. It's a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America."



https://twitter.com/i/status/1304395448229212160

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Nobody: 1:33pm On Sep 11, 2020
Last night at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Sunshinegold44: 1:49pm On Sep 11, 2020
Mark my words... Donald J. Trump is a winner for USA president

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Zuorom: 1:50pm On Sep 11, 2020
DissTroy:


Fréckled-faced hálfwït, Russia is a country every country doesn't want as its enemy. Russia is a G-8 country hence it decides the fate of many things due to its veto power and has influence far beyond that. Who prevented Obama from directly invading Syria when he wanted to after the massive disastrous intervention in Libya? Putin. Being total enemies with a G-8 country has great consequences.

Same MSM who celebrated US relations with Iran, a terrorist state, under Obama? Even paying it billions?

EU doesn't like Russia? Same EU led by Germany's leader allowing itself get screwed over by Russia? What did the EU, US or UN do in the Poland and Ukraine crises? Nothing because of Russia's status. They all wished they had better relations with Russia.

Who blocked the US from intervening in the South China Sea crisis dragged by China, Japan and smaller countries? Russia. China had/has Russia on its side so it is advancing its cause. Nobody wants Russia as its enemy. Trump understands this and would court Russia to push US agenda.


But you wouldn't understand this because all you crave is the fleeting gratification from being 'upvoted' by your peers on Nairaland with you all having the combined intelligence of a rusted door nail.
International socio-politici-economical debate isn't your forte so return to posting memes and quoting CNN articles. Go seek help for your chronic deméntia, AbdulSleazy slimeball!

You are really destroying and laying waste to the libidiots on the forum. Now I know why your name is Disstroy!!! grin grin

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by salford1: 1:51pm On Sep 11, 2020
DissTroy:


[s]Have you wondered why people just insult you and never bother going deep to debate you? You are the dúmbést on thread. I swear by everything, placed side by side, Michael Jackson's famous pet chîmpanzéé would outrank you in any I.Q test, and that includes spontaneous problem-solving skills.

You dungbeetle! I stated categorically to AbdulSleeky that a Stormy Daniels article isn't considered high priority and anyone can edit it before that dérañged múppét Budaatum who's the official clown of the Religion Section thought he could match up to me in his folly. Such hubris!

You aren't smart enough to realize there are levels to Wikipedia page editting and unlocking several levels and accesses are determined by the age of your accounts, number of edits you've made over time and editor badges you are given? You expect me to use my work account of many years and several edits which would show post history and with a digital footprint all over Wikipedia because of a Nairaland Tiff? I had to create a new account for it last night which, of course, has low-level access.

Your neighbours should have traded you for a roll for tissue paper at the height of the lockdown. The missed the chance to dispose off a rêtârd.

You just got back from rehab and this is how you pay back the community which funded your rehabilitation? Offer yourself for vaccine trials, you rodent.

Heck! You come third in a debate against a spoon and a GM cucumber[/s]!
Local champion.
So after this epistle, you still haven't been able to edit the CNN's Wikipedia. You have a brain filled with mucus and you IQ is next to zero after all. Mr Professional wikipedia editor grin
I don't need anyone to debate with me on this thread. How can you debate with a trumptard when all they peddle lies all the time just like their orange idol.

I can bet 10,000 dollars that you are just another broke a55 posting from a village on a 200 naira data bundle grin

Frustrated baboon

Problem solving skills? Is that a joke. grin
I am a British trained engineer dumbass. And I work for a company that pays my wages in lots of dollars that people like you can only dream off grin grin grin

Confimed

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by ribbit: 1:58pm On Sep 11, 2020
CoronaVirusRelo:
Detailed collections of Trump`s stupidity are selling fast
I think woodward book is most revealing. And he has evidence for everything he published unlike other books that can easily be dismissed.


I can't believe the orange con mutherfucker actually admitted in the interview that he knows there is systemic racism. Then it's election time, he threw all that away just to pacify his white supremacist base.

Very shameful stuff.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by salford1: 2:04pm On Sep 11, 2020
Zuorom:

None of them confirmed it. They both reported on news by two journalists who claim to be getting their information from anonymous sources. Do you even know the meaning of the word confirmed? Can you name a single person who has come out to say he or she was there when it happened? Many people have come out to say they were there and it didn't happen including Trump's enemy John Bolton. It will take a special kind of stupidity for anyone to believe that the people who are willing to come forward and testify are the ones lying while some faceless or non-existent anonymous source is to be believed. Everybody has already caught up with this tactics by fake news journalists, whenever they want to manufacture their lies, they use anonymous sources because they can't provide a genuine source for their fake news.
Confimed

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by DissTroy(m): 2:04pm On Sep 11, 2020
salford1:

Local champion.
So after this epistle, you still havey been able to edit the CNN's Wikipedia. You have a brain filled with mucus and you IQ is next to zero after all. Mr Professional wikipedia editor. I can bet 10,000 dollars that you are just another broke a55 posting from a village on a 200 naira data bundle grin
Frustrated baboon
Nobody bothers debating with you, not even Leftists - they all just look away or insult you depending on which political leaning they have. It seems to be a laid down rule so like a law-abiding human, I'd stick to the rules of engagement.

Here we go again - "Mr. Limo-On-Wheels" wanting to be a fictional 10,000 dollars. Your brother and cousinh Maleek are in jail for burglary and you can't even pay the bail? Didn't you get arrested for jaywalking in a heroine-induced haze?
Screw it! You freaking got stabbed several times fighting over foodstamps with other crackheads! Foodstamps?! What haven't you done? Haven't you been in and out of prison several times and the last being for peeping into a Minor's bathroom for minutes? Swear that you didn't get a black eye when her gang-banging mum smacked you in the face with a pan. Swear!

You thief! Law-abiding citizens are having civil debates and a hoodrat jailbird like you times himself worthy enough to sit at that table.

I like you honesty though. Your moniker is Salford1 : You have been at least honest enough to attach your IQ score to your Nairaland moniker. The only reason I'm gifting you this benefit of a reply.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by garetz: 2:05pm On Sep 11, 2020
AbdulSleeky:



See lies and propaganda.

1. Obama didnt start any war

2. Trump has not done 8 years of presidency yet. Unless you can guarantee that he wont send troops in his next 4 years (if he even gets relected)

3. Trump does not have relations with Russia. Instead, Trump is Putin's bitch
Who got American troops involved in Libya and Syria?

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by feedthenation(m): 2:06pm On Sep 11, 2020
Trump Summer of failed promises:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-made-covid-promises-fall-stand/story?id=72938973&cid=clicksource_4380645_1_heads_hero_live_twopack_hed

Widespread rapid testing. Football stadiums filled with fans. A rebounding jobs market.

Those are just some of the promises and predictions President Donald Trump and his administration have made since the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic about what the federal government would deliver by September and before -- a month that at one point seemed distant enough that it would leave ample time to develop plans to combat the virus.

Plagued by what critics call a slow response to the virus out of the gate, the self-imposed deadline has been used time and again by senior administration officials, health experts on the White House coronavirus task force and the president himself as part of an effort to prophesize progress in the ongoing response to the coronavirus and the elusive return to normalcy.

Now September is here, and an ABC News review found that nearly all of those promises and predictions -- on testing, nursing homes, and death rates, among others -- have either fallen short or are drastically behind.

Warm summer weather did not cause the virus to vanish. Testing still lags in nearly every metric. And with federal support funds depleted, the nation's employers are emerging from the summer without any sense of an imminent resurgence.

Statement: Virus gone by end of summer
Reality: Pandemic rages into fall

Statement: Trump said death toll prediction overblown
Reality: Death toll higher by summer

Statement: Course correction for the job market
Reality: An improvement, but joblessness still higher than pre-pandemic

Statement: White House says country on track to 'do' 100 million tests by September
Reality: Just over 85 million administered as of Sept. 1

Statement: Capability to test 50 million people a month
Reality: Not even half

Statement: 50% of tests conducted would yield results in 10 minutes
Reality: Turnaround time has picked up, but no evidence of widespread deployment of rapid tests

Statement: More than a million tests per day, access to 20 million rapid tests and 23 million point of care tests
Reality: Testing level half of the promised capacity

Statement: Sports must go on
Reality: A number of different approaches

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by salford1: 2:07pm On Sep 11, 2020
DissTroy:

Nobody bothers debating with you, not even Leftists - they all just look away or insult you depending on which political leaning they have. It seems to be a laid down rule so like a law-abiding human, I'd stick to the rules of engagement.

Here we go again - "Mr. Limo-On-Wheels" wanting to be a fictional 10,000 dollars. Your brother and cousinh Maleek are in jail for burglary and you can't even pay the bail? Didn't you get arrested for jaywalking in a heroine-induced haze?
Screw it! You freaking got stabbed several times fighting over foodstamps with other crackheads! Foodstamps?! What haven't you done? Haven't you been in and out of prison several times and the last being for peeping into a Minor's bathroom for minutes? Swear that you didn't get a black eye when her gang-banging mum smacked you in the face with a pan. Swear!

You thief! Law-abiding citizens are having civil debates and a hoodrat jailbird like you times himself worthy enough to sit at that table.

I like you honesty though. Your moniker is Salford1 : You have been at least honest enough to attach your IQ score to your Nairaland moniker. The only reason I've gifting you this benefit of a reply.
Epistle again but no sense found in your post. grin

You keep mentioning IQ. It seems like an obsession.
My low IQ scores pays me lots of $$$$$.
I challenge you to post your bank account balance Mr professional Wikipedia editor and let's see what your own IQ pays you. Do not forget to add your hand written Monika to the balance as proof grin

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by Zuorom: 2:12pm On Sep 11, 2020
salford1:

Confimed
Neither Fox news not CNN confirmed that news. Since you don't understand simple english, let me help you. For them to confirm it means them coming to say that they themselves have verified the news as true. This is not what happened, CNN was reporting that a journalist from the Atlantic reported something citing anonymous sources, while fox was reporting that one of their journalists said that the Atlantic story was confirmed to her by other anonymous sources. Fox News even took pains during their broadcast to say they haven't verified what the anonymous sources were saying so they can disassociate themselves from any legal trouble that might come up from this.

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Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by salford1: 2:14pm On Sep 11, 2020
TORONTO -- A leading American historian best known for successfully predicting every U.S. election for more than three decades says newly published revelations that U.S. President Donald Trump knew COVID-19 was deadly in the early days of the pandemic but publicly downplayed the virus will go down in history as "damning."

“This is the greatest dereliction of duty in the history of the U.S. presidency,” Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University for nearly 50 years, told CTV News Channel on Thursday.

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward, whose reporting on Watergate ended Richard Nixon’s presidency, revealed that his upcoming book “Rage” includes an interview with Trump in which the president is quoted saying the coronavirus was highly contagious, airborne and "deadly stuff,” despite publicly dismissing it at the time as no worse than the flu.

Trump made the comments in a February interview with Woodward, weeks before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. As the death toll climbed, Trump publicly suggested the virus was "going to disappear” and occasionally mused that car crashes were deadlier, but the U.S. hadn’t banned driving.

"I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward in a subsequent interview in March. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic.”

The U.S. leads the world in overall cases, at more than 6.3 million, and total deaths, with more than 191,000 people dead.

Woodward spoke with Trump 18 times for the book. On at least one occasion, Woodward said Trump was the one who picked up the phone and called him to “unburden himself” about the virus.

Why Trump felt comfortable speaking so candidly with Woodward, one of the most influential journalists in American politics, has everything to do with his “pathological ego” Lichtman said.

“Donald Trump thinks he’s smarter than everyone, he thinks he’s more cunning than everyone,”

As for Trump’s defence that he didn’t share how deadly the virus was because he didn’t want people to panic, Lichtman said it simply doesn’t pass the sniff test.

“What is Trump’s whole campaign based on? Causing panic. ‘Elect Joe Biden and your streets are going to burn. The criminals will be attacking your houses. The suburbs will be abolished.’ This is a guy who’s worried about causing panic? Come on. How could you possibly believe that?”


Questions have been raised about why Woodward chose not to reveal details of the interviews until September, less than two months before the Nov. 3 election. Woodward has defended the decision, saying he needed time to make sure that Trump’s comments were accurate.

It wasn’t until May that Woodward said he believed Trump’s comments were based on accurate information.

“If I had done the story at that time about what he knew in February, that's not telling us anything we didn't know," Woodward told the Associated Press on Thursday.

Trump joined the online pile-on of Woodward, questioning why he sat on the information for months.

“If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!” Trump tweeted.

Lichtman said he also has lingering questions about the timing of the book. He compared the situation to when Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton declined to discuss Trump's actions towards Ukraine during impeachment hearings, but in June published new details in his memoir "The Room Where It Happened.”

“I understand he felt he needed to totally verify and put it into context, but this reminds me a bit of John Bolton who had vitally important information and held it until he published his book. I do think there are some ethical conundrums to be confronted there,” he said.

Others have raised similar concerns, such as Esquire's Charles P. Pierce.

"Nearly 200,000 Americans have died because neither Donald Trump nor Bob Woodward wanted to risk anything substantial to keep the country informed,” Pierce said.

Lichtman is best known for his book “The Keys to the White House,” which lays out a series of 13 true or false questions that have helped him predict the winner of every U.S. election since Ronald Reagan’s win in 1984. He successfully predicted that Trump would win in 2016, but this year he anticipates Biden will take the White House.

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