Senator Rand Paul
(R—Ky) delivered false information and misleading claims surrounding
the novel coronavirus in a new interview, wrongly stating Covid-19
survivors were immune to the virus while encouraging them to forego
social distancing measures.
Speaking to Fox News, the senator
encouraged the 11 million Americans who have tested positive for the
coronavirus since the pandemic began earlier this year to “celebrate” by
no longer using the personal protective equipment that doctors have
cited as having saved tens of thousands of lives across the country.
Mr
Paul said the nation’s leaders should urge Americans who have already
contracted Covid-19 to essentially abandon safety measures: “We should
tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again,
because these people are now immune.”
There is no evidence to
indicate coronavirus survivors are immune to the disease caused by the
novel virus. Furthermore, there is no evidence that survivors cannot
pass on the virus to others.
Scientists
are still learning the complexities surrounding the coronavirus that
has killed almost 250,000 Americans so far, including how much time
after contracting the virus patients were typically still able to spread
Covid-19.
Mr Paul was not corrected when he made the misleading
claims, before he then went on to attack the nation’s leading
epidemiologist, Dr Anthony Fauci, who has served on the White House
coronavirus response task force.
He claimed the scientist “doesn’t
want to admit” that coronavirus survivors were immune — though, again,
he provided no evidence to back such assertions.
“Dr. Fauci is like ‘Oh, woe is me’ until the election occurs,” he said. “But now maybe he’ll be changing his attitude.”
Dr
Fauci and the Republican senator have sparred on multiple occaisions,
with the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious
Disease having corrected Mr Paul over his misleading claims about herd
immunity.
After the senator claimed without evidence during a
committee hearing that cases in New York may not have been rising due to
the state allegedly developing herd immunity, the doctor shot back:
“No, you've misconstrued that, senator, and you've done that repeatedly
in the past.”
Trump news – live: President’s convoy swarmed by fans MAGAts as he drives through DC during MAGA rally
Rally-goers congregating in Washington DC in support of Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud have swarmed the US president’s SUV as he drove past the event.
Mr
Trump waved at supporters as he left the White House on Saturday
morning, heading to his golf club in Virginia for the 282nd game of his
presidency.
It came the day after Mr Trump appeared to come closer than ever in admitting defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election.
On Friday, he called the electoral college result in Arizona “a very close loss”, before telling reporters at a coronavirus vaccine briefing - in his first public comments since election day - that “time will tell” if his administration is replaced by a Biden one.
But on Friday, the Fox Business host took his regular, propaganda-like praise
of the outgoing president to a higher level, declaring the win of
President-elect Joe Biden to be an attempt to “take over the country and
deny this president what is rightfully his, a second term.”
Dobbs asked his guest, fellow Trump sycophant and criminal Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.), why all Republicans aren’t similarly on board with Trump’s
baseless allegations of mass voter fraud and refusal to acknowledge his
loss.
“You know, the president doesn’t want a statue erected to
him. What he wants is a free and fair election and honest results,” said
Dobbs.
“What I’d like to know is what in the hell is the
Republican Party doing to defend and to, I mean — why not just say we’re
not going to accept the results of this election? It’s outrageous,” he
added.
Nunes, meanwhile, repeatedly tried to pivot the conversation toward promoting alternatives to Twitter, which he has tried to sue for defamation over a joke account — @DevinCow — that pretends to be his cow.
Check out Dobbs’ full rant here:
Lou Dobbs suggests Republicans should just say "we're not going to accept the results of this election" pic.twitter.com/4gYdLLjseS
After Pouring Gasoline On U.S. Divide, Charles Koch Now Claims He Wants To Heal Nation
After spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
Charles
Koch wants to sound like Rodney King: 'Can't we all just get along?'
Meanwhile, he's trying to buy GOP control of the Senate in GA https://t.co/eRDLylyZXg
After
spending decades bankrolling causes and politicians that fueled
America’s increasingly ugly and hostile national divide, billionaire
mogul Charles Koch told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Friday that he now wants to focus on bridging the gap he helped create.
“Boy, did we screw up. What a mess,” is how the Donald Trump
supporter characterizes his partisan battles in his
soon-to-be-published book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a
Top-Down World,” the Journal noted.
Now Koch claims he wants to
work across party lines to forge solutions to poverty, addiction, gang
violence and homelessness, he told the newspaper.
In an email to the Journal, Koch also congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
on their victory. He said he looked forward to “finding ways to work
with them to break down the barriers holding people back, whether in the
economy, criminal justice, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, or anywhere else.”
He
added: “I hope we all use this post-election period to find a better
way forward. Because of partisanship, we’ve come to expect too much of
politics and too little of ourselves and one another.”
Koch, 85, still runs the conglomerate Koch Industries,
with some 130,000 employees, that was begun by his father as a refinery
business. He has adamantly opposed climate change mitigation measures
that would impact fossil-fuel industries.
Koch is listed by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the U.S., and is worth some $45 billion.
Koch Industries’ PAC and employees contributed $2.8 million to GOP
candidates during the 2020 political cycle, noted the Journal.
The brothers were revealed as the powerful stealth engineers of a radical right movement in the U.S. in the ground-breaking 2016 book “Dark Money,” by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer.
The Kochs funded ultra-conservative think tanks, peppered universities
with hundreds of rightwing academics and used their wealth to boost an
army of conservative politicians into office.
The family money
also bankrolls the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
pens template bills for conservative politicians to introduce in state
legislatures across the nation. ALEC plotted back in February to overturn a Trump loss at the polls before a single vote was cast.
Despite
his stated intention to make peace, he railed to the Journal about the
constant push to rob individuals of freedom with “top-down” control that
stifles innovation. Koch complained about powerful interests lobbying
the government, even though Koch Industries spent some $100 million on
lobbying, the Journal pointed out.
To say critics are skeptical
about Koch’s avowed change of heart would be an understatement. And few
on Twitter were in a forgiving mood.
Charles
Koch and his brother tried to destroy the planet for profit and broke
our country in the process. He can take his mea culpa and shove it. https://t.co/cxJo2NdWMe
Charles
Koch's Super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, spent the past 6+ months
campaigning to get Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court and GOP
Senators reelected.
The group announced TWO DAYS AGO it was throwing its support behind Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia. https://t.co/N7Wn6ABuNp
Charles
Koch wants to sound like Rodney King: 'Can't we all just get along?'
Meanwhile, he's trying to buy GOP control of the Senate in GA https://t.co/eRDLylyZXg
“Sure I might have planted the seeds that nearly destroyed this country, but I just wanna come here to say: oops, my bad”
Don’t
think this will cut it, Charlie. Millions have had their lives made
more insecure and precarious by your dangerous agenda. šš¾šš¾ https://t.co/IpG88vlYeE
