https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/18/facebook-posts/face-masks-including-homemade-ones-are-effective-c/ -PolitiFact; 5/18/2020
Day: May 18, 2020
William Barr just punched a hole in Trump’s baseless ‘Obamagate’ trial balloon
During a news conference at the Justice Department, Barr said that he did not foresee any criminal investigations involving Obama or Biden, despite Trump’s push. And he went on to decry the kind of politics that leads to such thinly substantiated allegations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/18/william-barr-just-punched-hole-trumps-baseless-obamagate-trial-balloon/ -Washington Post; 5/18/2020
Trump’s slow-motion Friday night massacre of inspectors general
News broke late Friday night that Trump had removed the inspector general for the State Department, Steve Linick. It’s the third time in six weeks that such a move has been announced on a Friday night, with each inspector general having done something to pretty obviously alienate Trump. The unprecedented spate of removals has reinforced … Continue reading Trump’s slow-motion Friday night massacre of inspectors general
Downplaying risk of death, Sinclair ran a national segment promoting hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment
The day before Trump claimed he was taking hydroxychloroquine, Sharyl Attkisson touted the drug on Sinclair stations nationwide https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/downplaying-risk-death-sinclair-ran-national-segment-promoting -Media Matters; 5/18/2020
The RNC’s Misleading Message About the Bidens
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/05/the-rncs-misleading-message-about-the-bidens/ -FactCheck.org; 5/18/2020
“Obamagate” is just a rebrand of the right’s bogus “deep state” conspiracy theory
Here's what you need to know about the right-wing media-backed attempt to get Obama arrested https://www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/obamagate-just-rebrand-rights-bogus-deep-state-conspiracy-theory -Media Matters; 5/18/2020
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