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Background Briefing: April 16, 2020

  Mnuchin Allows Banks and Debt Collectors to Grab the Stimulus Checks Unemployed Americans Need We begin with the rollout of the $1,200-per-person stimulus checks which Trump has insisted on signing although he denies doing so. But due to glitches they are not...

Background Briefing: April 15, 2020

  Trump’s Phony Reality TV Move Against the WHO to Obscure His Record We begin with Trump’s attempt to shift the blame onto the WHO, the World Health Organization, away from his own reckless endangerment of the American people due to his ignoring of...

Background Briefing: April 14, 2020

  Trump Has a Meltdown When the Press Finally Challenge His Lies We begin with President Trump’s meltdown yesterday at his daily briefing which began with a propaganda video the White House concocted to blunt the devastating revelations in Sunday’s...

Background Briefing: April 13, 2020

  Sanders Concedes in a Joint Broadcast With Biden We begin with today’s endorsement of Joe Biden by Bernie Sanders in a joint livestream broadcast in which Sanders said “We need you in the White House. I will do all I can to see that happen...

Background Briefing: April 12, 2020

  With American Workers in Desperate Need, the Ideologue in Charge of the Labor Department Creates a Bottleneck for Benefits We begin with the most important decision of Trump’s presidency which the president, in typical Reality TV style, announced on...