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Hedge fund and private equity firms are not eligible for the types of US government loans designed to provide relief to small businesses. 
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Last fiscal year, the Trump family took more trips that required Secret Service protection than the Obama family took in seven, according to a budget document released by the Treasury Department. On average, Obama’s family took 133.3 protected trips per year, while the Trump family has taken an average of 1,625 annually. Much of the Trump family’s known travel has been to promote Trump Organization businesses, which President Trump still owns and profits from.
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There were 27.9 million people without health insurance in 2018, and record-high unemployment will increase that figure by millions
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he is halting funding to the World Health Organization while a review is conducted.
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President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis has been the breaking point for some of his fans in rural Virginia.A dozen seafood and agricultural workers in the state’s Northern Neck peninsula — where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by nearly 10 points in 2016 — expressed frustration to the Insider website over the president’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Donald Trump treats Trump supporters like they're expendable. As if they're nothing more than a means to an end.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly increasingly optimistic about beating the coronavirus pandemic — and he wants a “big celebration” in May to mark its defeat, even as Americans from across the country will be mourning tens of thousands of dead friends and relatives.
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In a column for the Washington Post, conservative Max Boot — who has notably not been a supporter of Donald Trump — finally threw in the towel on the commander in chief and said history will remember him as the “worst president,” adding for emphasis, “Ever.” Reflecting on the president’s botching...
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(RNS) — Data from the Pew Research Center indicates that Republicans may have risked their lives because they trusted the president’s views on the pandemic.
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Donald Trump isn't trying to help anyone but himself. He knew about the virus and he didn't warn the rest of us until it was too late, so the answer is yes.
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped into President Donald Trump’s continued bungling of the coronavirus crisis, and begged him to use his executive powers to help contain the pandemic. The “Morning Joe” co-hosts called for him to order more ventilators, personal protective equipment and other necessary items as hundreds die every day from COVID-19 […]
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If you think it's bad now, just wait until Trump cuts Social Security & Medicare. It's only a matter of time.
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German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by US, say reports
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"According to According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper, Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”." - Philip Oltermann in Berlin.
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President Trump’s preoccupation with his own image amid the spread of the coronavirus is “putting lives at risk” and Vice President Pence is only “enabling” him, Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee told Salon in an interview this week.
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This headline is possible only because Donald Trump is as self-absorbed as a sponge.
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During a Fox News town hall Thursday night, President Donald Trump finally admitted what many have long feared — that he plans to push for serious cuts to entitlements, which includes Social Security and Medicare.
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The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president’s erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic takeover.
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Jeremy Konyndyk, the Obama administration official who has become one of the foremost critics of Trump’s coronavirus response, explains why trying to scapegoat the WHO and China for the U.S. outbreak just underlines the president’s own failures.
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At least 43,000 American millionaires who are too rich to get coronavirus stimulus checks are getting a far bigger boost — averaging $1.6 million each, according to a congressional committee.
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While wealthy Americans are not eligible for the $1,200 stimulus checks being disbursed to many Americans, they are on pace to do even better. 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall on average thanks to a provision in the CARES Act.
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Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday suggested that the president of the United States had not told the truth when he said that states have all the medical supplies that they need.
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Rep. Katie Porter has been all business since being elected to office. Today, Rep. Porter released a report showing that in spite of growing concerns and warnings about the potential oncoming pandemic threat of the COVID-19 virus from top officials...
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One day after the launch of a $350 billion loan program designed to rescue millions of small businesses, technical glitches continued to cripple the process.
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” said Mark Twain. Over 100 years later, Twin could never have predicted a president like Donald Trump.During his press conference Sunday, and in previous press conferences, Trump has delighted in coming to the podium to cite numbers...
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Democrats have tried to prevent Trump from receiving taxpayer money at his businesses for three years. This week, they finally scored a small victory.
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In a stunning statement President Donald Trump admitted his motivation in re-opening the country is to help not the American people but his re-election chances.In a mind-blowing tweet the president blasted the “LameStream Media” for what he claimed is “trying to get me to keep our Country closed ...
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President Donald Trump spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday about a myriad of issues and rambling insults about Democrats. But one comment left some alleging the president was being reckless with the facts.
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"The World Health Organization has said that the fatality rate for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is between 3-4 percent. Recent specific estimations put it at 3.4 percent. However, the president said that it’s all fake news." - Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story
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The United States was warned last year that a pandemic could lead to serious problems if President Donald Trump and his administration didn’t take public health readiness more seriously.Stanford lecturer Brett McGurk cited a document from the office the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’...
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Maybe it's time for Donald Trump to claw back all the tax breaks and taxpayer dollars he gave to other rich people and corporations via the GOP tax scam. While he's at it, Trump should make them pay the same tax rates they were paying before he took office. Just a thought.