Tag Archives: National Security Council

American service members are assassinated in Afghanistan as part of Russian bounty program. Trump responds by inviting Putin to the White House, and fighting for his reinstatement into the G-7.

By Mark | June 28, 2020

Earlier today, the President of the United States tweeted out a video in which one of his supporters, driving a golf cart decked out with “Trump 2020” and “America First” signs, yells out “white power” when confronted by protesters. Donald Trump has since removed the video in question, but not before referring to his supporters […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Afghanistan, assassination, bounty, Donald Trump, election hacking, election interference, G7, G8, GRU, Iran, Lincoln Project, Marcy Wheeler, Nancy Pelos, Qassim Soleimani, Russia, Russiagate, Taliban, traitor, treason, Vladimir Putin | 30 Comments

What Donald Trump knew about COVID-19, when he knew it, and how his administration made the pandemic much worse

By Mark | April 12, 2020

Not too long ago, I shared a timeline here of Donald Trump’s various lie-filled statements concerning the coronavirus outbreak, starting with, “We have it totally under control,” which he said on January 22, 2020. In that post, as you may recall, I not only included quotes from Donald Trump, but, where possible, I added other […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alex Azar, Anthony Fauci, Carter Mecher, China, Chris Murphy, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Veterans Affairs, Donald Trump, intelligence, Italy, mark Esper, pandemic, pandemic response team, personal protective equipment, Peter Navarro, PPE, Predict, public health, Red Dawn, responsibility, shelter in place, Sherrod Brown, situation report, timeline, treason, USAID, vaccines, Wuhan, zoonotic | 111 Comments

“I don’t take responsibility at all.” -President Donald Trump

By Mark | March 14, 2020

When asked yesterday about his administration’s inept handling of the coronavirus pandemic, especially as relates to the manufacture and distribution of test kits, Donald Trump responded, “I don’t take responsibility at all,” insinuating that he’d been hamstrung by rules put in place to the Obama administration – a claim, by the way, that has been […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Donald Trump, H1N1, manslaughter, nasty, pandemic, public health, responsibility, Sherrod Brown, South Korea, treason | 20 Comments

Coronavirus is now officially a pandemic. Here are ten things you should know.

By Mark | March 11, 2020

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the global coronavirus outbreak had reached pandemic proportions, and Donald Trump, as you can read above, tweeted out that his administration was finally going to attempt a coordinated response. There are a number of things worth noting, but here are the first ten to come to mind. […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Science, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, CDC, Claire McCaskill, coronavirus, COVID-19, deep state, Donald Trump, fake news, foreign affairs, FOX News, Gary Peters, Homeland Security, House Oversight and Reform Committee, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NSC, pandemic, Paul Gosar, political investigations, public health, Ron Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sean Hannity, social distancing, Super Tuesday, Ukraine, W.H.O., World Health Organization | 48 Comments

For almost a year now, Donald Trump has neglected to acknowledge, let alone act on, the still very real Russian threat, and the circumstances in the U.S. that enable it

By Mark | December 14, 2017

Since January 6 of this year, when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers, and FBI Director James Comey paid a visit to President-elect Trump at New York City’s Trump Tower, there has been a concerted effort on the part of the United States intelligence community, […]