There is also a remarkable contrast between what is shaping up as the darkest holiday season in modern history and hope for the future. Hugely encouraging data on several vaccine candidates apparently near approval by government health regulators suggests normal life could begin to resume by the middle of next year. But President Donald Trump, who is sulking after his election defeat, is not emulating health experts and other world leaders by encouraging Americans to redouble preventative measures to save lives in the short term before vaccines become widely available. [emphasis added]
November 30, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 779,243 (+1,826)
President Donald Trump said for the first time on Thanksgiving that he will leave office if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
"Certainly I will, and you know that," he said when asked by a reporter about leaving the White House if Biden is declared the winner on December 14. "I will and, you know that."
November 29, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 283,270 (+1,128), which is 36.4% of current total
November 29, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 777,417 (+107)
All the while, Trump largely abdicated the responsibilities of the job he was fighting so hard to keep, chief among them managing the coronavirus pandemic as the numbers of infections and deaths soared across the country. In an ironic twist, the Trump adviser tapped to coordinate the post-election legal and communications campaign, David Bossie, tested positive for the virus a few days into his assignment and was sidelined.
November 28, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 282,142 (+1,538), which is 36.3% of current total
November 28, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 777,310 (+220)
CNN -- its headline writer, anyway -- gets snookered.
President Donald Trump finally confirmed Thursday that he will vacate the White House in January after weeks of plunging America into a dark period of uncertainty—where the fate of democracy sometimes seemed to be hanging by a thread—but he largely ignored the mounting challenges his successor is facing as he exits.\
"It's going to be a very hard thing to concede," Trump told reporters Thursday evening in the Diplomatic Reception Room where he repeated his baseless claims of "massive fraud" and said that if the Electoral College declares Biden the winner they will have "made a mistake."
November 27, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 280,604 (+1,650), which is 35.9% of current total
November 27, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 777,090 (+516)
Trump is wrapped around the axle of his delusional bid to claw back a presidency that is receding from his grasp with each passing day. He lurches between grievance and pipe dreams, with no thought for the destruction in his path. Biden, operating in the world as it exists, has been scrupulously building a government-in-waiting. And in the two days since a Trump-appointee allowed the formal transition to begin, Biden's team has begun to examine the rusted nuts and bolts of the beleaguered institutions he will inherit.
November 26, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 278,954 (+1,715), which is 35.9% of current total
November 26, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 776,574 (+1,994)
November 25, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 277,249 (+2,432), which is 35.7% of current total
November 25, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 774,580 (+1,617)
The president’s mini-appearance, perhaps his shortest-ever remarks from the lectern of the White House briefing room, came less than a day after his administration took a major step toward the transition to Joe Biden’s presidency.
Big deal. The Dow is now approaching 36,000.
November 24, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 274,817 (+1,917), which is 35.5% of current total
November 24, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 774,580 (+1,474)
Research by the BBC's Anti-disinformation unit reveals that disinformation about voter fraud has been plugged by influential accounts on social media repeatedly, for months.
And it came from the very top. President Trump first started tweeting allegations of fraud as far back as April.
'As far back as April', eh?
November 23, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 272,900 (+1,408), which is 35.3% of current total
November 23, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 773,106 (+3,437)
On Saturday night, the Trump campaign requested a second recount in Georgia, a day after top Republican state officials certified his defeat following a statewide audit. This one will be done by machine and is even less likely to reverse his fate. Hours earlier, a federal judge rejected the Trump campaign's latest effort to disenfranchise millions of voters -- this time in Pennsylvania.
All around the country, Trump lawyers and loyalists are seeing their baseless allegations of systemic voter fraud treated with increasing contempt by disbelieving judges. Even now, with a wave of certification deadlines about to crash down, the President and his opportunistic enablers are injecting doubt -- and anxiety -- wherever they can. The returns, though, seem to be diminishing and Joe Biden's transition team is plowing forward -- with the President-elect set to announce his Cabinet picks this week.
November 22, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 271,492 (+1,121), which is 35.2% of current total
November 22, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 769,669 (+126)
Going through the motions.
Trump participated in the opening ceremonies of the virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia with the rest of the G-20 leaders. The president later went to his golf course, Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, where he’s spent the last several weekends since losing the presidential election.
The White House, in a statement released later Saturday, said Trump discussed with world leaders the need to restore economic growth and jobs as the world battles the coronavirus, and reaffirmed the importance of the G-20 for future prosperity.
November 21, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 270,371 (+1,752), which is 35% of current total
November 21, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 769,643 (+224)
November 20, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 268,619 (+1,442), which is 34.7% of current total
November 20, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 769,419 (+1,959)
Jamie could have saved us all some time by offering a single-word answer: 'Trump'.
November 19, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 264,974 (+2,193), which is 34.5% of current totat
November 19, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 767,460 (+1,213)
November 18, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 262,781 (+2,138), which is 34.3% of current totat
November 18, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 766,206 (+1,237)
For someone who is still the country’s President for another two months, and falsely insists he won the election, Trump is showing little interest in continuing to fulfill the duties of his office. “He’s never liked the subject, and he’s sitting there knowing that he lost the election because of it,” says a former White House official in close touch with Trump’s inner circle. “To the extent that he thinks he lost, he lost because of COVID.”
November 17, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 260,643 (+1,695), which is 34.1% of current totat
November 17, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 764,952 (+1,414)
The increasingly urgent pleas are coming from inside his administration, the President-elect's team and independent public health experts as Covid-19 cases rage out of control countrywide, claiming more than 1,000 US lives a day. More than 246,000 Americans have now died from the disease, and a bitter winter lies ahead even amid encouraging news such as Monday's announcement that a vaccine developed by Moderna is demonstrating a high success rate in early clinical trials, the second such positive vaccine news in about a week.
But instead of listening or mobilizing to tackle what some medical experts warn is becoming a "humanitarian" crisis, Trump spent the weekend during which the US passed 11 million infections amplifying lies and misinformation about his election loss.
November 16, 2020. U.S. total Covid deaths = 258,944 (+1,021), which is 34% of current totat
November 16, 2021. U.S. total Covid deaths = 763,178 (+1,198)
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