Go Joe, go! Biden slams Trump for promoting false COVID-19 claims from 'crazy woman'

Joe Biden on Wednesday excoriated President Donald Trump for promoting on Twitter the dubious claims of Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston doctor who’s claimed to have effectively treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, who the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called a “crazy woman.”

In a virtual event with the UnidosUS Action Fund, a nonprofit advocating for Latino political power, Biden was asked to respond to Trump having repeatedly pushed for public schools to reopen this fall without putting into place effective measures to keep teachers and students safe.

Biden replied that Trump should “stop tweeting and start doing something about it, damn it” and “stop talking about this crazy woman he talked about last night, who's an absolute disgrace.”

Biden’s dig appeared to be in reference to Immanuel, whom Trump on Tuesday night called “very impressive” and an “important voice.”


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-slams-trump-promoting-false-covid-19-claims-crazy-woman-n1235235

A Shameless Gohmert Tries To Blame Masks For Getting COVID-19

“I can’t help but wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place that if I might have put some germs, some of the virus, onto the mask and breathed it in,” Gohmert told KETK News in a Skype interview several hours after news of his diagnosis broke. Gohmert said he’s worn a mask “in the last week or two” (he did not wear a mask on Tuesday while interacting with Attorney General Bill Barr, who also was not wearing a mask).

The Texas lawmaker also stated that he didn’t have any symptoms of the virus.

“I’m asymptomatic,” Gohmert said in a video he posted on Twitter.

The revelation is particularly striking given that the express purpose of wearing a mask, which Gohmert has largely refused to do, is to prevent those with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic from unwittingly transmitting the virus to others.


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-shameless-gohmert-tries-to-blame-masks-for-getting-covid-19
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1288556280689246209?s=20
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1288598493012135944?s=20

A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces

New York Times: “Each state, each city has its own crisis driven by its own risk factors: vacation crowds in one, bars reopened too soon in another, a revolt against masks in a third… The New York Times interviewed 20 public health experts — not just clinicians and epidemiologists, but also historians and sociologists, because the spread of the virus is now influenced as much by human behavior as it is by the pathogen itself.”

“Overall, the scientists conveyed a pervasive sense of sadness and exhaustion. Where once there was defiance, and then a growing sense of dread, now there seems to be sorrow and frustration, a feeling that so many funerals never had to happen and that nothing is going well. The United States is a wounded giant, while much of Europe, which was hit first, is recovering and reopening — although not to us.”

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/29/a-viral-epidemic-splintering-into-deadly-pieces/

FRANCIS ROONEY -- Republican of Florida -- just voted by proxy. He's the first Republican to do so.

This as House GOP leaders sue Pelosi to try and overturn proxy voting as unconstitutions >>>
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1288560210433515528?s=20

Mood of the day

Trump: "I read a lot. You know, I read a lot. They like to say I don't read. I read a lot."

Quote of the Day
July 29, 2020 at 3:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 132 Comments

“I read a lot. You know, I read a lot. They like to say I don’t read. I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well, probably better than anybody that you’ve interviewed in a long time. I read a lot.”

— President Trump, quoted by Politico.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-russian-bounties-putin-call-385925

Lincoln Projects Question For Trump: "Remind me who the Trump voter is again?"

An email from a Gohmert aide:

Amen to this

I'm proud to live in a country
that shares borders with two other countries
that have high enough standards
to not let us in.

https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1288490402635554819?s=20

Sending this image through the Large Hadron Collider across the event horizon back in time