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How Trump bungled the pandemic response

Matthew Rozsa

Research shows what was already anecdotally obvious: Trump's abysmal mishandling of the pandemic got us here

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Getty/Tom Brenner)

Joe: Mitch only critiques black leaders?

Roger Sollenberger

"Does Mitch McConnell only critique black presidents? Doesn't critique white presidents?" the MSNBC host asks

A volunteer carrying a broom passes by a store being boarded up in Downtown Long Beach, California on June 1, 2020, after a night of protests and looting. (APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)

Food inequality worsens amid protests

Ashlie D. Stevens

"What we’re advocating for is a place that is not going to close the doors when the community needs them most"

Mural of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Charge elevated to second-degree murder

Roger Sollenberger

The family says the new charges are a "source of peace" but continue to call for an upgrade to first-degree murder

Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Ivanka masterminded Bible photo: report

Igor Derysh

Ivanka was spotted transporting the Bible her dad hoisted like a WWE championship belt in a $1,540 MaxMara handbag

Dr. Anthony Fauci (Getty Images/Salon)

Fauci: We're getting close to a vaccine

Matthew Rozsa

One vaccine candidate is entering "phase 3 study," Fauci explains

Donald Trump holding up a bible | Protestors gathering across the street from the White House during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's crackdown is backfiring

Amanda Marcotte

Trump believed calling for a massive show of force against protesters would be political gold. It's not working

Tucker Carlson Tonight (FOX News)

Carlson: Class war disguised as race war

Roger Sollenberger

The Fox News host has falsely claimed that white supremacy is a "hoax," as well as "an attack on white people"

Attorney General William Barr (Getty Images)

Barr gave the order to gas protesters

Roger Sollenberger

The attorney general reportedly gave the directive after a bottle was lobbed his way in Lafayette Park

The FBI headquarters building (Getty Images)

FBI finds no evidence of Antifa violence

Igor Derysh

But the FBI did find evidence that far-right groups urged violence against police and protesters, the report shows

Attorney General William Barr (Getty Images)

DOJ allows DEA to surveil protests: memo

Igor Derysh

Three DOJ officials said they were "troubled" that the move may be an abuse of power to "smear the protests"

Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Presidents and disorder: He's the worst

Heather Digby Parton

Almost every postwar president has faced domestic crisis. None of them have deliberately inflamed it — until now

US President Donald Trump holds up a bible in front of boarded up St John's Episcopal church after walking across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has left the building

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

Just when he has a chance to, you know, actually act like a president, he disappears

A torn and burnt upside down American flag hangs, as protesters march through the streets (SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images)

Can we imagine how bad it will get?

Chauncey DeVega

"Matrix 4" writer on the clash between Trump's right-wing revolution and the Democrats' "wishful thinking"

A protester screams in front of a row of police officers during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd at a park near the White House on June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Militarization, protesters & "the enemy"

Tom Nolan - The Conversation

Militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens

Police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd while in police custody on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

"Bad apples" or a blue code of silence?

Gregory Antollino

I've been a police misconduct lawyer for 25 years. There are bad cops — but "good cops" almost always protect them

Police officers clash with protestors near the White House on June 1, 2020 as demonstrations against George Floyd's death continue. - Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality. (Getty Images)

Trump's photo-op: Not a hit with media

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

No one in the media tried to normalize the clearing of Lafayette Park for Trump's BS photo-op. It's about time

President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question as he speaks about the coronavirus, as White House adviser Jared Kushner listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the credibility gap became a chasm

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com

And a new generation gap grew wider

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 19:  Activists march for missing and murdered Indigenous women at the Women's March California 2019 on January 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Demonstrations are slated to take place in cities across the country in the third annual event aimed to highlight social change and celebrate women's rights around the world. (Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images) (Sarah Morris/Getty Images)

Rep. Eliot Engel caught on a hot mic

Julia Conley - Common Dreams

Clamoring for mic at BLM event, Rep. Eliot Engel made the comments during a rare appearance in the Bronx

Ralph Reed

C-SPAN caller slams Ralph Reed

Alex Henderson - Alternet

A "political opportunist of the first order": Right-wing leader called out for defending Trump’s St. John’s visit

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a town hall meeting at the Ericson Public Library on August 13, 2019 in Boone, Iowa. (Getty/Joshua Lott)

"Master of racism" voted out of Congress

Joseph Neese

"For Rep. Steve King, master of racism in Congress, to lose his GOP primary tonight, seems somehow fitting?"

German POW gravestone in a Texas V.A. cemetery | US Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images/The Military Religious Freedom Foundation/Salon)

VA caves, will oust swastika headstones

Roger Sollenberger

After weeks of pressure from advocacy groups and politicians, the VA agreed to take down the offensive headstones

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Senators who pushed Jade Helm back Trump

Igor Derysh

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul once fueled the Jade Helm conspiracy theory. Now, they praise Trump's show of military force

Donald Trump Jr. (Getty Images/Twitter/Salon)

White nationalist group posed as Antifa

Igor Derysh

The president's eldest son had shared the fake account's tweets and accused leftists of domestic terrorism

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