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Scott Morrison

Fact check: PM claims ‘not a race’ vaccine comments ‘taken out of context’

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Our PM is a YO-YO

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of “playing us for mugs” and telling “a bare-faced lie”, after he claimed previous comments that vaccine rollout was “not a race” were taken out of context. But Mr Morrison’s latest explanation of the controversial comments don’t hold up to scrutiny, with transcripts provided by his office proving he was specifically talking about the speed of the rollout. “He tried to mislead Australians,” claimed Labor’s shadow health minister Mark Butler.

“on target” ” worlds best”

 Fact check: PM claims ‘not a race’ vaccine comments ‘taken out of context’

then ” Not my fault”

PM ‘sorry’ for issues plaguing vaccine program

then  “Up to you”

‘Don’t wait’, PM urges on jabs, turns up AZ pressure

 

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Hitler and Stalin attacked Liberal Culture at every level burnt books art and,erased any opposition. They installed their own hierarchy of academics to fix not evaluate the thought of the day.

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Cuba

If Biden Wants to “Stand With the Cuban People,” He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade | The Smirking Chimp

The Cuban Pandemic suffering over 60 years of the American Virus

The corporate media have been bashing the Cuban government in response to the recent protests in Cuba, while President Joe Biden claims, “We stand with the Cuban people.” But they ignore or minimize the leading cause of economic suffering in Cuba: the U.S.’s illegal and punishing economic blockade that Biden has left in place.

Source: If Biden Wants to “Stand With the Cuban People,” He Can Ease the Cruel Blockade | The Smirking Chimp

Trumpsters

Anti-vaxxer Trump Supporter Dies From COVID | Crooks and Liars

Anti-vaxxer Trump Supporter Dies From COVID

The Cape Cod Times reported that this woman was a well-respected teacher and an active member of her community. She spent the past several weeks of her life in a coma and on a ventilator. She refused to get vaccinated, contracting the virus while visiting family in maskless South Dakota.

Source: Anti-vaxxer Trump Supporter Dies From COVID | Crooks and Liars

American Hypocrisy

U.S. Military Bought Cameras in Violation of China Sanctions

Purchased camera systems were supposedly made in the U.S. but actually originated from Chinese companies blacklisted for security reasons.

Source: U.S. Military Bought Cameras in Violation of China Sanctions

Israel

“No ice cream for you” – Ben & Jerry’s ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank

this move was driven by progressive Northeast Jewish Americans. Cohen and Greenfield are big Bernie Sanders supporters. Significant percentages of younger Jewish Americans, especially on the left, are alienated from the Israeli government policy of colonizing the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

Source: “No ice cream for you” – Ben & Jerry’s ceases distribution to Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestinian West Bank

Informed Comment

The Fake Heroism of Space Billionaires | The Smirking Chimp

Source: The Fake Heroism of Space Billionaires | The Smirking Chimp

Enviroment

One of the First Things Bezos Says After Returning From Space: Humanity Should Pollute It | Common Dreams News

Jeff Bezos speaks to the media following his brief flight to space

Is he right?

“Delusional, toxic nonsense” is how one critic described Bezos’ call for moving all polluting industry into space.

Source: One of the First Things Bezos Says After Returning From Space: Humanity Should Pollute It | Common Dreams News

LNP, LNP Government

Toxic Waste Rebranded: Australia bans Third World dumping, leaves giant toxic loophole – Michael West

energy-from-waste, waste export ban, RDF, loophole

“It’s our waste, it’s our problem”, said Scott Morrison as he announced the nation’s waste export ban culminating in 2024. Not really. It’s a good thing Australia has banned solid waste dumping to the Third World but we have left a gaping, toxic loophole; burning plastics for energy. Luke Stacey investigates.

Source: Toxic Waste Rebranded: Australia bans Third World dumping, leaves giant toxic loophole – Michael West

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Car park program shows Australia must adopt Commonwealth Integrity Commission ASAP: governance experts

The Croydon railway station in Melbourne is one of the car parks promised to be upgraded as part of the government’s program.

Governance experts fear Australia is sliding down the “slippery slope” of corruption, calling on the federal government to overhaul its planned integrity commission in the wake of an auditor-general report into a program funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars into Coalition-held seats.

Source: Car park program shows Australia must adopt Commonwealth Integrity Commission ASAP: governance experts

Scott Morrison

PM ‘appeals’ for AstraZeneca age change

Pants on Fire Morrison can’t help himself

However, transcripts from Mr Morrison’s own office show he made the “not a race” comments in March 2021, nearly two months after Pfizer was approved in January and a month after AstraZeneca’s approval in February. Professor Murphy’s own “not a race” comments on March 10 were also specifically about the rollout pace. Australia’s COVID vaccinations began on February 21, 2021. Mr Morrison was among the first Australians to get a jab that day. But on March 31, in South Australia, he said “We’re on track for our first dose for everyone by the end of October … it’s not a race, it’s not a competition. He made similar “not a race” comments in interviews on March 11, and again on March 14, weeks after vaccines were approved.

Source: PM ‘appeals’ for AstraZeneca age change

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison regrets ‘not a race’ remark, promises to make up lost ground

Scott Morrison has acknowledged the vaccine rollout is months behind scheduled.

Promises undelivered give rise to more promises. This PM  simply doesn’t deliver anything other than promises. That’s what salesmen do but leaders don’t!

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed regret for declaring the vaccine rollout was “not a race” when the program has fallen behind schedule, promising he will try to make up the lost ground.

Source: Scott Morrison regrets ‘not a race’ remark, promises to make up lost ground

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Sky News is shrinking so fast it will soon be absorbed by Fox. It’s mindset already has.

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Fox News

Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees | Crooks and Liars

Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees

According to CNN, Fox’s email to employees said, “providing this information to FOX will assist the company with space planning and contact tracing.” Not only that, the process has been given the name “Fox Clear Pass,” and provides the following incentive for complying: “You no longer are required to complete your daily health screening through WorkCare/WorkMatters.” Waitaminute, that’s not a…not…a VACCINE PASSPORT, IS IT???

Source: Hypocrites At Fox News Implement Vaccine Passport For Employees | Crooks and Liars

Fox News

At Fox, the call for vaccine passports was coming from inside the house | Media Matters for America

Tucker Vaccine requirements 6/1/21

If you watch Fox’s coverage of the vaccine rollout over the last six months, there is one thing you know for certain: Fox hosts and personalities do not want businesses to require proof of vaccination, colloquially known as vaccine passports. But now we have learned that Fox itself requires a vaccine passport, called a “Fox Clear Pass.” Ryan Grim reported it on Monday morning, and Oliver Darcy further reported:

Source: At Fox, the call for vaccine passports was coming from inside the house | Media Matters for America

Informed Comment

The Anti-Family Party | The Smirking Chimp

Last Thursday, 39 million American parents began receiving a monthly child allowance ($300 per child under 6, and $250 per child from 6 through 17). It’s the biggest helping hand to American families in more than 85 years. They need it. Even before the pandemic, child poverty had reached post-war records. Even non-poor families were in trouble, burdened with deepening debt and missed payments. Most were living paycheck to paycheck – so if they lost a job, they and their kids could be plunged into poverty. It’s estimated that the new monthly child allowance will cut child poverty by more than half. But every single Republican in both the House and Senate voted against the measure.

Source: The Anti-Family Party | The Smirking Chimp

Climate Change

Here’s What Climate Scientists Are Really Saying About This Catastrophic Summer – Mother Jones

“It’s no longer a kind of vague concern about things happening in the future, it’s the realization that the world is unraveling around us right now. And the loss is piling up every day.”

Source: Here’s What Climate Scientists Are Really Saying About This Catastrophic Summer – Mother Jones

WAR

War Powers: four perspectives from politicians who have served – Michael West

#warpowers, Andrew Wilkie, Bob Katter, Jim Molan, Rex Patrick

Parliament does not need to be consulted before Australian troops are sent to war. What do the politicians who have donned the uniform have to say? Tasha May asks Rex Patrick, Andrew Wilkie, Jim Molan and Bob Katter.

Source: War Powers: four perspectives from politicians who have served – Michael West

China

Microsoft hacks: Australia, US allies accuse China of cyber attacks

They call this the world’s best Intel. First, it was the Russians cyber attacking the West with Putin’s blessing. Now it’s the Chinese. It’s never the Americans alone throwing out these accusations but also a ‘coalition of allies’ a lap dog chorus doing what they are told with Putin now less important. No wonder Dutton is saber-rattling like the organ grinder’s monkey.

The United States and a coalition of allies have accused China of a global cyber hacking campaign that employed contract hackers, specifically attributing a large Microsoft attack disclosed earlier this year to actors working on the country’s behalf. Opening a new area of tensions with China, the United States is joined by NATO, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada to level the allegations.

Source: Microsoft hacks: Australia, US allies accuse China of cyber attacks

Uncategorized

How CDN Providers Break the Internet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

On June 8, an internet blackout was precipitated by one customer updating their settings through a “valid configuration change”. With speed, 85% of the network of the tech infrastructure company Fastly began returning errors. A global outage ensued. “The downed sites,” according to Brian Barrett of Wired, “shared no obvious theme or geography; the outages were global, and they hit everything from Reddit to Spotify to The New York Times.”

Source: How CDN Providers Break the Internet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Paul Bongiorno: Vaccine rollout a foretaste of Australia’s climate response

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Scott Morrison is hoping the vaccine scarcity that has led to the lockdown of half the nation’s population will be close to resolution by December, and along with it a reversal of his political fortunes. But as fate would have it, that timetable coincides with our next summer.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Vaccine rollout a foretaste of Australia’s climate response

Social Reality

The Coalition’s pandemic: fantastic for profits, woeful for wages

Over the 12 months to the end of March 2021, wages rose by a dismal 0.72%. That’s according to recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Well, naturally, it has been a disastrous year for everyone, we might say in response, and this is only to be expected. We would be wrong. The year to March was a superb year for Australia’s corporate profits, which the same source said soared 12.1%.

Source: The Coalition’s pandemic: fantastic for profits, woeful for wages

LNP, LNP Government

The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers

The problem with the system is that it premised on competition, not collaboration. This model of employment services, delivered by outsourced providers, seems to have mostly benefited the providers.

Source: The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Compassion – you’re kidding – » The Australian Independent Media Network

However, for the past 13 years, only one party has been in control of the situation no matter the sentiments of the electorate. It s point of political difference as they believe ‘fear’ wins them the power game. Forget the service.

Neither side of politics can honestly claim to be above blame here. Both the Coalition and the Labor Party have played their part in the increasingly inhumane immigration and welfare practices imposed in the name of ‘compassion’. Both side of politics have weaponised human lives. It needs to stop.

Source: Compassion – you’re kidding – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Old Dog Thought- ” It’s not a race” 38/38. Praying “Where the bloody hell are you?” vaccines not tourists. Logistics left to others, to blame!
May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Kevin Rudd @MrKRudd Murdoch's propaganda model on display with Newspoll framing. When it's 53-47 to LNP, praise Morrison's leadership; when Labor gains, blame "brutal tactics". Bottom line: Voters know Morrison has failed them on vaccine & quarantine #MurdochRoyalCommission MurdochRC.com JULY 2021 LIVINGWTTICOVID-9 JULY 2020 THE AUSTRALIAN TRMKNOU Morrison flying PM must regain initiative as high as Coalition brutal ALP tactics take toll drives recovery 47% 53% Labor INATIONALS 53% 47% 3:30 PM Jul 19, 2021 Twitter Web App'

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Truth in Humor

Chinese Spy Ship Turns Back After Accidentally Picking Up Sky News Transmission | The Shovel

If Rowan Dean were Katy Hopkins he wouldn’t be kicked out of the country he’d be kicked on to the Bolt Report to help Andrew Bolt out.

A Chinese ship that approached the Queensland coast in the hopes of undermining Australian democracy has packed it in after accidentally catching an episode of Outsiders. “We were planning to weaken the fabric of Australian democracy, but then we heard Rowan Dean do a segment on Dr Suess books and we thought, what’s the point? We might just leave you guys to it,” the commander said as he steered the boat around and headed back to Beijing.

Source: Chinese Spy Ship Turns Back After Accidentally Picking Up Sky News Transmission | The Shovel

America's Shame

What Will It Take For Republicans To Get Vaccinated? | Washington Monthly

Unless we want to engage in a bloody and bitter divorce, we have to solve this problem together. And there’s no reason for the responsibly vaccinated to continue to have to put themselves and their kids at risk to mollycoddle conservative snowflakes who place their identitarian culture war and Fox News obsession over the value of life. We, too, deserve to be able to go back to living normal lives at concerts and restaurants unmasked without fear of infection by a conservative who never bothered to make any sacrifices. Whatever we have to do to get there, we should do.

Source: What Will It Take For Republicans To Get Vaccinated? | Washington Monthly

COVID-19

Republican Self-genocide — and Darwin | The Smirking Chimp

Even more crucial to the Republican campaign of killing their own people rather unsoftly are the right’s media personalities. A preppy Fox News host says “maybe [the vaccine] doesn’t work and they’re simply not telling you that.” A Newsmax host agrees with the Wisconsin senator, saying “I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature.”

Source: Republican Self-genocide — and Darwin | The Smirking Chimp

Racism

Europe’s Romani Population Can’t Breathe

Last month, a Czech police officer kneeled on the neck of Romani man Stanislav Tomáš until he stopped breathing. Fifty years since the first World Romani Congress, Europe’s Romani people urgently need a new movement against discrimination and deprivation.

Source: Europe’s Romani Population Can’t Breathe

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

Foreign multinational Max Solutions the biggest winner in pandemic jobs crisis – Michael West

Jobactive Max Solutions

A takeovers binge is in swing in the jobless sector as the biggest private provider of employment services, the foreign multinational Max Solutions, mops up smaller players and posts strong revenues from government. Stephanie Tran investigates the Jobactive scheme and the failure of privatisation.

Source: Foreign multinational Max Solutions the biggest winner in pandemic jobs crisis – Michael West

Scott Morrison

With Sydney and Melbourne in COVID lockdown, Berejiklian, Andrews and Morrison have something in common – ABC News

Graph showing approval of state governments going up, while federal went down

Which level of Gov is doing the best?

The Australia Institute has been regularly polling the question “which level of government do you think is doing a better job of handling the COVID-19 crisis?”. Respondents were asked to choose between their state or territory, the federal government, both equally, or say they didn’t know.

Source: With Sydney and Melbourne in COVID lockdown, Berejiklian, Andrews and Morrison have something in common – ABC News

LNP, LNP Government

Labor takes 53-47 lead as Scott Morrison’s approval rating plummets

Not only had Mr Morrison’s net approval slid to its lowest level since the 2019-20 bushfire crisis, popular support for the Coalition (down two points) and Labor (up two points) was deadlocked at 39 per cent. The four-point turnaround equates to Labor taking a 53-47 lead in a two-party-preferred vote and a significant defeat for the Morrison government if a federal election was held.

Source: Labor takes 53-47 lead as Scott Morrison’s approval rating plummets

IPA

The IPA a hand behind Morrison’s LNP puppet
Video: Who is the IPA?
LNP, LNP Government

A new Employment Minister, but the deceptions continue

Vying for the top job with Petter Dutton for being Australia’s worst Minister of everything

Stuart Robert has been the Minister for Employment for less than four months but already has the art of fudging figures and faking facts finely honed, writes Alan Austin.

Source: A new Employment Minister, but the deceptions continue

Informed Comment

Barnaby Has Already Achieved Net Zero! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So Labor, it’s up to you. Barnaby has told us that they don’t have a plan and this is a problem for Scott Morrison – who we’re told wants to achieve net zero emissions at the same time as vaccinating the population. Both are to happen, “as soon as possible” which is a pretty ambitious plan for most of us, but it seems pretty pedestrian for a man like him who believes in miracles. Couldn’t we have at least one of them happening before it’s possible instead of waiting for the possible? Otherwise, where’s the miracle? sigh< Maybe I should just congratulate Barnaby for achieving net zero in politics and conclude that maybe the planet knows what its doing and when the cockroaches take over, it might be an improvement.

Source: Barnaby Has Already Achieved Net Zero! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Uncategorized

Morrison and Coalition sink in Newspoll with rollout shambles

Any wonder Costello sacked Hewson. The only thing keeping Morrison, Dutton, and Frydenberg afloat is private MSM

Support for Scott Morrison and the government have slumped in Newspoll, in a major backlash against the botched vaccine rollout. Labor has surged to a two-party lead of 53-47 per cent, compared with 51-49 per cent in the previous poll in late June.

Source: Morrison and Coalition sink in Newspoll with rollout shambles

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Morrison flops in the polls he’s considering claiming Smith St the coolest St on the planet as his.

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Cuba

The US Blockade on Cuba Must End

For sixty years, the United States has aimed to strangle Cuba’s economy and inflict misery on the Cuban people. Blockades are methods of war — and it’s time for the war on Cuba to end.

Source: The US Blockade on Cuba Must End

Julian Assange

The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of Julian Assange Case

Illustration of Julian Assange

Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.

Source: The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of Julian Assange Case

Enviroment

There Is a Monster in Our Oceans, and It Isn’t Sharks, It’s Us | The Smirking Chimp

White Cheek Shark Slaughtered for the Illegal Shark Fin Trade

There is a monster in our oceans, and it isn’t sharks, it’s us.

Source: There Is a Monster in Our Oceans, and It Isn’t Sharks, It’s Us | The Smirking Chimp

Climate Change

With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control

Our burning of gasoline, coal and natural gas on a massive global scale, putting tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, is turning the earth into . . . well, a greenhouse. Greenhouses are closed up, keeping in heat and moisture. In a greenhouse, the moisture might form rivulets down the internal windows. On earth, the skies open to dump lakes worth of water down on people.

Source: With Massive Flooding in Germany, Scientists worry Climate is increasingly out of Control

Israel

A third of young US Jews see Israel as genocidal, poll finds | The Electronic Intifada

Marchers with banner that reads The Jewish future demands Palestinian freedom

Efforts by Israel and its lobby to equate criticism of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people with anti-Jewish bigotry are in overdrive. Yet a new poll indicates that this campaign has failed even with the vast majority of Jewish American voters. The survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by supporters of the Democratic Party, contains several eye-catching findings. A quarter of Jewish American voters agree that Israel is an apartheid state – a number that shoots up to 38 percent among those under age 40. Twenty-two percent of Jewish voters overall agree that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, a figure that rises to an astonishing 33 percent among the younger group. Moreover, Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the US, according to 34 percent of Jewish voters surveyed. That figure exceeds two in five among those aged under 40.

Source: A third of young US Jews see Israel as genocidal, poll finds | The Electronic Intifada

Healthcare

We got the bill for having a baby – $37,000. Welcome to life in America | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

‘America’s healthcare system isn’t just a nightmare to navigate – it’s inefficient and inequitable.’

Greg Hunt’s aspiration for the Australian health system is to move closer to the American model. The TV series Dr Death shows what Private Health outcomes really can lead to in America. Hospitals and medical schools burying incompetency and malpractice under the carpet in order to secure and not to lose profits moving forward diminishing any interest in patient care being the primary goal. The TV series highlights the American system in relief.

Our insurance covers most of it, but the extortionate prices in America’s healthcare system – and the absurd bureaucracy – boggles the mind

Source: We got the bill for having a baby – $37,000. Welcome to life in America | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Australian Media

Scott Morrison’s mate, political advisor and Nine Chairman Peter Costello sacks John Hewson at the SMH – The Age. Is an election close? – Kangaroo Court of Australia

One of Scott Morrison’s closest political advisors is Nine Entertainment Chairman and former federal Treasurer Peter Costello and one of Scott Morrison’s biggest critics is former federal Liberal Party leader John Hewson who was sacked this week as a columnist by the Nine Entertainment owned papers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. John Hewson’s criticism of Scott Morrison is a lot more damaging to Morrison’s reputation and credibility with voters than most critics because Hewson is a former Liberal Party leader. And with Hewson having a national platform such as The SMH and The Age papers and their websites would have made Hewson one of the top targets for Morrison’s hit squad who work behind the scenes daily trying to manipulate the media.

Source: Scott Morrison’s mate, political advisor and Nine Chairman Peter Costello sacks John Hewson at the SMH – The Age. Is an election close? – Kangaroo Court of Australia

Scott Morrison

The Delta variant has shown Fortress Australia to be a house of cards due to the Coalition’s vaccine stroll-out | Sarah Martin | The Guardian

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison during a Covid briefing at Kirribilli House in Sydney

In the past week, when the country was looking desperately for some leadership, Scott Morrison shrank to the occasion

Source: The Delta variant has shown Fortress Australia to be a house of cards due to the Coalition’s vaccine stroll-out | Sarah Martin | The Guardian

Scott Morrison

Australia’s PM Says He Didn’t Sh*t His Pants At McDonald’s In 1997 | Crooks and Liars

Australia's PM Says He Didn't Sh*t His Pants At McDonald's In 1997 With his approval ratings are tumbling and COVID cases soaring, Australia’s Prime Minister would rather talk about just about anything else, which is why he recently brought up the so-called ‘soiled pants at Maccas’ rumour during a radio interview, an internet meme that came to light in 2019. Maccas is Australian slang for McDonald’s. Just 9% of Australians are fully vaccinated, compared to over 48% in the United States. They’re currently in their third lockdown.

Source: Australia’s PM Says He Didn’t Sh*t His Pants At McDonald’s In 1997 | Crooks and Liars

Uncategorized

Old Dog Thought- The tide of change is with Palestine
Marchers with banner that reads The Jewish future demands Palestinian freedom

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Informed Comment

Do Assholes Know They’re Assholes? | The Smirking Chimp

I’m surely not the only person who has wondered how some of the high-profile assholes we all see all the time can behave the way they do in public? Who would choose to be such shameless assholes, telling lies, standing in the way of common decency, allying themselves with racists, spreading conspiracy theories in exchange for their pursuit of fame, fortune, and time on Fox? What normal human being would choose to be a Ted Cruz, a Tucker Carlson, or a Moscow Mitch McConnell if they actually knew, deep in their dark hearts, what assholes they were, or how unspeakably badly they were behaving? Surely, even these guys had moms. Or teachers.

Source: Do Assholes Know They’re Assholes? | The Smirking Chimp

Republicans

Former Trump official: GOP now a bigger national security threat than “ISIS, al Qaeda and Russia” | Salon.com

Miles Taylor (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On Thursday, a Trump administration official called the Republican Party the nation’s “No. 1 national security threat,” suggesting that the party surpasses that of ISIS, al Qaeda and Russia. “I’ve spent my whole career not as a political operative. I’ve never worked on a campaign in my life other than campaigning against Trump. I’m a national security guy,” said former DHS official Miles Taylor in a Thursday interview on MSNBC. “I’ve worked in national security against ISIS, al Qaeda and Russia.” He added: “And the No. 1 national security threat I’ve ever seen in my life to this country’s democracy is the party that I’m in: the Republican Party. It is the No. 1 national security threat to the United States of America.”

Source: Former Trump official: GOP now a bigger national security threat than “ISIS, al Qaeda and Russia” | Salon.com

Trump

Trump’s Claims Of Voter Fraud Undercut By Few Arizona Cases | HuffPost

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas on July 11, 2

Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in last year’s presidential election, undercutting former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state’s most populous county.

Source: Trump’s Claims Of Voter Fraud Undercut By Few Arizona Cases | HuffPost