Trump Admin Privately Briefed Investors On Virus Risks While Depicting More Optimistic Pic To Public

New York Times reporting on how Trump aides were privately giving investors an early warning of the severity of the coronavirus to help them gain financial advantage, while painting a much rosier picture to the American public. Aired on 10/15/2020.
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Trump Admin Privately Briefed Investors On Virus Risks While Depicting More Optimistic Pic To Public

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  1. President Spready Murphy really shouldn’t come thru America. And Rudy Colludi is still saying it’s not deadly. Sad What homicidal maniacs. BYEDON 2020!!

    1. @John D it’s 10 times deadlier than the flu. Didn’t your leader say you can get it just by breathing! You’re the reason America leads the world in deaths.

    1. @Chester Jeffrey She was, worked in GW’s Administration, I’m thinking she’ll be voting straight Democratic ticket this year though! LOL

  2. Looks like Trump got caught taking care of his so called “Forgotten Americans”.

    Time to Flush the Orange Floater- Please Vote!

    1. @John Halas you know Russia is an authoritarian/communist state too, right?

      You’re crying about how a potential president is owned by China while your current sitting president is owned by Russia. It’s pretty pathetic when trump supporters complain about something about a democratic candidate despite it also applying to trump himself😅

    2. Sorry Dem’s cant scare us, our family got Covid, it is not as big a deal as they make it. Masks Masks Masks, whatever! Get Covid and get over it, and let the Dem’s fear and shiver in closets.

  3. Vote, people! We the people, are the ones who can end this plight, it’s in our hands, so VOTE for BIDEN!!!

    1. Sorry Dem’s cant scare us, our family got Covid, it is not as big a deal as they make it. Masks Masks Masks, whatever! Get Covid and get over it, and let the Dem’s fear and shiver in closets.

    2. @Papa ix very happy for your family…I just lost my best friend from Covid…so please do not act like it is no big deal…over 200000 people have died..again happy your whole family are ok

    3. @Betty Berg It is a big deal but humans are strong and will survive. We cannot dodge this disease even with vaccines because they have side effects too. If Chicken Pox just showed up today, we would die of chicken pox. Now we accept them because we get them young.

    4. @Papa ix you can say that you are alive..this virus should never of got to point it has…taking people that might be alive today…it is a time for a change in the WH..SENATE the energy inside has become toxic…vote vote vote make your vote count

    1. *Three reasons Joe Biden will never be president*
      March 9, 2020 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/three-reasons-joe-biden-will-never-be-president

      *Joe Biden was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3, 1973. He remained in the Senate until Jan. 15, 2009 — a span of 36 years. If history is any guide, that alone is a disqualifier in Biden’s quest for the White House.*

      What does 36 years in the Senate say about a politician? It says he is a senator — not a president.

      So the first reason Biden will not become president is that no one who served 36 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 30 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 25 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 20 years in the Senate has ever become president. No one who served 15 years in the Senate has ever become president.

      It’s not for lack of trying. Bob Dole, who was sworn into the Senate on Jan. 3, 1969, ran for president 27 years later, in 1996. He quit the Senate during the campaign to show his determination to become president. But his long years in the Senate, plus his age — he was 73 at the time and the subject of endless suggestions that he was too old to be president — were a deal-killer for voters.

      Others tried, too. In 2008, John McCain ran for president after 21 years in the Senate. It didn’t work. In 2004, John Kerry ran for president after 19 years in the Senate. That didn’t work, either.

      A long career in the Senate is simply not a foundation for a successful run for the White House. The most recent political figure to realize that was Barack Obama, who was sworn into the Senate in 2005 and two years later was running for the presidency — and to get out of the Senate.

      OK, put aside the Senate, Biden’s supporters would say. What about his eight years as vice president? Certainly that could be the basis for a successful
      presidential run. But the second reason Biden will not become president is that the record of vice presidents on that score is not encouraging.

      Fourteen vice presidents have become president. Of those, eight became president upon the death of the president. Of that group, some were later elected to the White House, but they were running for the office as the sitting president.

      Others, such as George H.W. Bush, became president by running to succeed the president they served. They ran for president as the sitting vice president. When Bush did that, in 1988, it had not been done since 1836. It has not been done since.

      In any event, that is not Biden’s situation. He served eight years as vice president but did not run to succeed Obama. Now, he is running as a private citizen.

      Only one president has gone from the vice presidency to private life and then to the presidency. Richard Nixon served as vice president in the 1950s, narrowly lost the 1960 presidential election, and then came back to win the presidency in 1968. That is Biden’s hope — that a vice president can leave office and then, after a period outside government, return to win the White House.

      Perhaps. But Nixon, who spent less than three years in the Senate, became vice president a few days after turning 40 and was sworn in as president at 56 — more than two decades younger than Biden, who will be 78 on Inauguration Day, 2021.

      Finally, the third reason Biden will not be president is the “14-Year Rule.” The idea of former George W. Bush speechwriter John McConnell, and popularized by writer Jonathan Rauch, it basically says that politicians have a strict sell-by date. “No one gets elected president who needs longer than 14 years to get from his or her first gubernatorial or Senate victory to either the presidency or the vice presidency,” Rauch wrote. That has been true for a century.

      Biden didn’t even get close. It took him 36 years to get from his first Senate victory to the vice presidency. If he wins the presidency now, it would be 47 years from that first Senate swearing-in until Inauguration Day.

      Of course, it’s possible the 14-Year Rule, the “Too Long In The Senate Rule,” and the “How Vice Presidents Become President Rule” might all be wrong in Biden’s case. If so, he can frame this headline and hang it somewhere in the White House. But don’t bet on it.

  4. LOL he has been looking out for his rich friends since day one. We get a child tax credit….they get BILLIONS in tax breaks and incentives. He took care of himself. NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. #VOTEBIDEN

    1. @John D After doing tax returns for over 600 clients for the past 30 years, yeah, I understand perfectly.

    2. @BidentheAntiTrump:
      Thank you for bringing actual facts to the table, and putting John D (Rockefeller?) in his place. 👏

    3. John D, keep drinking the O
      Kool Aid, facts don’t lie. according to IRS figures, the revenues from the multinational corporations, and wealthiest individuals decreased during the first year of Trump’s tax plan, while revenues from working families increased. The deductions for working families will expire on a schedule, but the others are permanent. What the Republican tax plan did was create a delayed tax increase for working families and a tax windfall for the wealthy. Look it up.

    4. @John DiGiacomo
      Lol thats not what that means the rich are not necessarily corporations and vice versa. Again another low iq person falling for word games. Again you morons falsely compare corporate rates to pay, and afain it disproves your argument that you can tax the rich as tax revenue went to an all time high. Get educated moron.

    5. @BidentheAntiTrump
      You doing tax returns does not mean you understand what is going on, it just means you can follow instructions. Lol

  5. “They knowingly lied to the public”, well duh, it came straight out undiluted from Baby Donnie’s mouth! As fresh as his diapers, and on a daily basis…

  6. There’s too much criminal activity by this Rethuglican Administration and their Liar In Chief and nothing is being done to stop them.

  7. Once again, we see the Republicans breaking laws and being as corrupt as they can. When will American citizens learn? Smdh

  8. Trump was busy helping and taking care of his rich friends while ignoring folks about the truth he was sharingvto his friends.

    1. “You all just got a lot richer” ~ Donald Trump speaking to his billionaire donors and friends at his oceanfront estate following the billionaire tax cuts of 2017

  9. VOTE: Biden/Harris 2020!!!
    SAVE America, Save your Family!!–(Trump, his Admin, GOP don’t care about Americans at all!!)

    1. How is voting for corrupt Joe Biden who gets money from foreign governments in exchange for favors and spent his entire political career sending jobs to China going to save America??

    1. Sorry Dem’s cant scare us, our family got Covid, it is not as big a deal as they make it. Masks Masks Masks, whatever! Get Covid and get over it, and let the Dem’s fear and shiver in closets.

    1. > How and Why is this not Insider Trading?
      Peanuts compared the $3 trillion that Trump begged his FED into giving big banks, corporations and government itself. Instead of hiring Americans and increasing productivity, the loans were used to move operations to China and buy back their stock (outlawed after 1929 Crash) and handout bigger CEO bonuses, while little ‘trickled’ down to workers. http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm

    2. Martha Stewart went to prison for similar crimes, on a *MUCH* smaller scale. I’m praying that SDNY puts Donnie, Ivanka, Junior, and Eric in the slammer for years. They’re all complicit.

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