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House GOP Report Reveals Extent Of China COVID-19 Coverup; Slams WHO Director Tedros Over “Gross Mishandling”

House GOP Report Reveals Extent Of China COVID-19 Coverup; Slams WHO Director Tedros Over "Gross Mishandling"

Tyler Durden

Mon, 09/21/2020 – 17:55

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released their final report on how the CCP handled the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China – uncovering "even more disturbing evidence about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) coverup and WHO Director General Tedros’s gross mishandling of the virus that allowed it to turn into a deadly pandemic."

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) who led the investigation wrote in the report, released on Monday:

It is crystal clear that had the CCP been transparent, and had the head of the WHO cared more about global health than appeasing the CCP, lives could have been spared and widespread economic devastation could have been mitigated. Revealing the truth is just the first step; we must hold both the CCP and WHO Director General Tedros accountable for the suffering they have allowed the world to endure.

According to Breitbart News‘ Kristina Wong, the report follows an interim report issued in June – and "contains more details and new information about how the CCP punished a nurse from speaking out about the virus early on, forced American companies in China to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for its citizens only, instructed Chinese companies around the world to begin buying up critical supplies, and threatened other countries economically if they spoke out against China."

During the early stages of the pandemic, the CCP began hoarding PPE, including masks, gowns and gloves – buying them on the international market and shipping them to China, while Chinese officials also nationalized the supply chains and manufacturing capacity of US companies operating in China, forcing companies such as General Motors and 3M to produce medical supplies for domestic use while denying export licenses.

McCaul’s committee obtained a discipline notice for nurse Li Min of the eastern city of Taizhou, who discussed the virus with classmates and family via WeChat.

The discipline notice was issued as World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was to arrive in Beijing to discuss COVID-19 with Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. On January 29, 2020, Tedros praised the CCP’s response to the virus, calling it “very impressive, and beyond words” and that the CCP was “actually setting a new standard for outbreak response.” –Breitbart News

Meanwhile, China threatened to cut off critical supplies, and used their leverage as a manufacturer to threaten countries calling for an international investigation into the CCP’s actions regarding the outbreak.

Notably, the report mentions an April threat China issued to Australia if they didn’t halt all investigations related to the CCP’s handling of the virus. According to the report, the Chinese Ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, threatened a boycott of Australian goods while speaking with Financial Review.

"It is up to the people to decide. Maybe the ordinary people will say ‘Why should we drink Australian wine? Eat Australian beef?" he said, adding "The proposition is a kind of teaming up with those forces in Washington and to launch a kind of political campaign against China."

 

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Facebook, Google Partner with Liberal Org for 2020 Election Strategy

It looks like the harbingers Dr. Robert Epstein had warned the country about regarding liberal Big Tech’s influence in elections is coming true.
Big Tech giant Facebook informed the Media Research Center that it would be partnering with the nonpartisan digital encyclopedia Ballotpedia and the radical left-wing organization Democracy Works to help formulate the online platform’s 2020 election strategy. What makes this partnership so damning is that Democracy Works in particular has been heavily funded with millions collectively by at least six liberal organizations between 2012 and 2019.
Also concerning is that Big Tech giant Google is also working with “Democracy Works to make sure it’s surfacing only true information — and not, Google engineering VP Cathy Edwards said, things like false claims of victory,” according to Protocol. [Emphasis added.]
Democracy Works proclaims itself to be “nonpartisan,” but its donors, biased staff and its heavily partisan board of directors shows that it is anything but nonpartisan.
Democracy Works listed four of the six liberal organization “funders” that have dumped funds into its coffers over the years. The list included the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the historically anti-Israel Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Omitted from Democracy Works’s list of funders was Omidyar’s Omidyar Network Fund and the liberal Tides Foundation.
 
 
In total, these six liberal organizations alone have given at least $10,628,999 collectively to Democracy Works between 2012-2019.
 
 
(Source: Foundation Center)
Just a glance at the Democracy Works blog reveals its leftist political stance. Democracy Works Co-founder and Executive Director Seth Flaxman published a blog June 4 headlined, “Our Democracy Fails If We Don’t Protect Black Lives.” In the article, he decried America as being built on slavery:
For over 400 years, America has systematically and violently oppressed Black life. Historically, Black communities have been forced to fight for rights afforded to white citizens in a country built on Black enslavement,  [emphasis added]. 
He also suggested that racism is embedded into American society: 
If we attempt to improve our democracy without reckoning with the racism embedded in our way of life, we will only perpetuate the harms Black voices have enumerated for centuries, [emphasis added].
Flaxman then attacked America again, as he wrote on the subject of diversity of his organization. “Incorporating the full humanity of our Black teammates means supporting the need to process the trauma of living in a country that dehumanizes Black life on an on-going basis.” [Emphasis added.]
What makes this worse is that Facebook included notice of its collaboration with Democracy Works on its corporate website under a section headlined: “We help prevent the spread of misinformation and provide additional context so people can make informed decisions.” However, strangely, Facebook has since dubiously removed its info about working with Democracy Works from that corporate web page.
Flaxman stated that “Black Americans have been given every reason, and therefore deserve every right, to express their grief and voice their grievances the best way they see fit.” 
Two top officials who are leading the Democracy Works Election Research Team with Facebook are also overtly biased.
Election Research Director Kendall Schreur.
Schreur’s LinkedIn profile shows that she interned at the digital, communications and creative agency BerlinRosen between September 2015-December 2015. A quick glance at the agency’s issue advocacy page reveals a trove of left-wing propaganda. The page’s featured photo showed an abortion rights protest occurring in front of the Supreme Court.
The page stated: “Our clients are fighting to advance equity, fairness, and justice across today’s most urgent issues—gender equity, sexual and reproductive rights, systemic racism, immigration, criminal and civil justice reform. And we’re with them every step of the way.” [Emphasis added.]
 
 
One of its clients, is the radical left-wing, pro-boycott organization Color of Change and the pro-abortion group Physicians for Reproductive Health.
 
 
Schreur has also donated a number of small-dollar donations to former Democratic presidential candidate and ultra-liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA), according to FEC data.
Odd that a Warren donor who interned for a radical leftist organization will be spearheading Democracy Works’s election research in conjunction with Facebook.
Election Research Lead Aubree Carpenter
Federal Election Commission records show that Carpenter, like Schreur, gave a number of small-dollar donations to Warren, including one donation to the Ditch Fund, which is actively working to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Democracy Works Board of Directors
The Democracy Works Board of Directors is just as badly skewed Democrat and liberal. In fact, only one of 12 board members, Mike DuHaime, has a solid record of donating exclusively to Republicans.
Board Member Katie Harbath.
Harbath is the “Public Policy Director for Global Elections at Facebook.” In attempt to make the board appear more bipartisan, Harbath’s about-page says she was the “Chief Digital Strategist at the National Republican Senatorial Committee."
However, according to Harbath’s donation records taken from the FEC for this cycle, she’s only donated to Democratic presidential candidates this cycle. 
The candidates Harbath donated to included Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). She also contributed $249.90 to the left-wing Win the Era PAC, which is affiliated with Buttigieg.
Board Member Keesha Gaskins. 
Gaskins is the “director for the Democratic Practice–United States program” at the liberal Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which funds Democracy Works.  
According to her about-page, “Prior to joining the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, she was senior counsel” with the left-wing, heavily Soros-funded “Brennan Center for Justice, serving as the director of the Redistricting and Representation program.”
FEC records show that Gaskins had contributed one small-dollar donation ($25) to failed Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro. She’s donated to no Republicans this cycle.
Board Member Kate Krontiris.
Krontiris’s about-page shows that she worked as a consultant for both the liberal Knight Foundation and the Omidyar Network, two liberal organizations who have funded Democracy Works. 
According to her profile, she also “served as a consulting user researcher for the U.S. Digital Service within the Executive Office of President Barack Obama.”
 In addition, “Over the past few years, Kate has been exploring a democracy moonshot: how we might get a representative 80% of eligible Americans voting by 2028” with support from the left-wing Democracy Fund. [Emphasis added.]
Board Member Chris Hughes.
 Hughes “was a co-founder of Facebook, a digital architect for President Obama’s campaign, and the publisher of the digital and print” leftist magazine The New Republic. 
His about-page also lists him as a “trustee” of the liberal Knight Foundation. 
Also, the page notes that Huges “works on a range of progressive causes from his home in New York City.” [Emphasis added.]
Board Member Adam Gross.
Gross “was CEO of Heroku,” and has founded two companies (Personify and Cloud Connect) and was an early employee at two others — Salesforce and Dropbox.” OpenSecrets records show that Gross donated exclusively to Democratic candidates over the past few years.
Board Member and Democracy Works co-founder Kathryn Peters.
Peters previously worked at the George Soros-affiliated National Democratic Institute (NDI). 
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is listed as a “partner” by NDI. 
Investment banker Richard C. Blum, the husband of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), is listed as one of three in NDI’s “Million Dollar Roundtable” and is an NDI board member.
Board Member Usha Pasi.
Pasi’s professional career included work at the Cambridge Community Foundation. According to FEC records, Pasi had donated $200 to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), this election cycle.
She’s made no donations to Republicans.
Board Member Namita Khasat. 
Khasat is listed as “CFO, Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration and Corporate Treasurer” of the Soros-funded, liberal Aspen Institute.
Democracy Works Co-founder and Executive Director Seth Flaxman.
 Flaxman, who wrote the leftist screed against America, also sits on the board.
This means that at least nine of Democracy Works’s 12-member Board of Directors can be connected to Democratic candidates, left-wing causes or liberal organizations.
Dr. Epstein’s words bring a chilling perspective on what Facebook and Google may be up to this November:
Google and Facebook have millions of pieces of information about every American voter, and they will be targeting their manipulations at the individual level for every single voter in every swing state. No one in the world except Google and Facebook can do that.
Conservatives are under attack. Partnering with an obviously left-wing organization like Democracy Works is clearly an indicator that Facebook won’t be keeping its election strategy neutral. Contact Facebook headquarters at 1-650-308-7300 or 1-650-543-4800 and demand it cut ties with Democracy Works and stop meddling in the 2020 election. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

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BREAKING: AG Barr To Officially Designate 3 U.S. Cities As ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions,’ Report Says

Attorney General William Barr has reportedly designated three U.S. cities—all controlled by Democrats—as “anarchist jurisdictions” that are being targeted to be defunded by the federal government for failing to stop violent rioters and for defunding law enforcement departments. The New York Post reported that Barr signed off on designating New York City, Portland, and Seattle […]

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In Stunning Reversal, CDC Says It Published New Guidance On Risks Of ‘Airborne’ COVID-19 “In Error”

In Stunning Reversal, CDC Says It Published New Guidance On Risks Of ‘Airborne’ COVID-19 "In Error"

Tyler Durden

Mon, 09/21/2020 – 13:10

After publishing guidance warning about the serious risks of "airborne" infection associated with SARS-CoV-2, the CDC just seriously harmed its own credibility by acknowledging Monday that it had posted the new guidance "in error", following a pressure campaign from the WHO.

Scientists have been gathering evidence that the novel coronavirus plaguing the world spreads via aerosol particles practically since it first emerged, and back in July, a group of 200 scientists sent a letter to the WHO urging the international public health agency to change its guidance on the spread of the disease. The problem scientists argued is that the WHO hasn’t updated its views to incorporate new research showing that aerosol spread is a much greater threat than touching contaminated surfaces, or via large droplets spread by close contact between individuals.

Yet, the WHO has refused these overtures, and this week it successfully convinced the CDC to do the same.

After the WHO announced earlier that it had reached out to the CDC over the guidance change, the agency informed American media outlets that a "draft version" of the guidance had been "posted in error".

"A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website," the CDC said. "CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted."

Even so, the American media has grown increasingly convinced that aerosols significantly contribute to overall spread of the virus, with ABC News suggesting yesterday that expensive UV-light powered surface cleaners were merely examples of "hygiene theater". For months, the CDC has insisted that these large droplets are the primary mode of transmission, which is why – it argued – people must wear masks in public, because masks are effective at blocking large particles.

However, masks – at least, homemade clothe masks with imperfect seals – aren’t as effective at filtering all aerosol particles. Furthermore, research suggests aerosol particles released when a person sneezes can reach up to 26 feet.

Source: WSJ

Experts quoted in the US press reports are already slamming the CDC for injecting more confusion into the conversation surrounding COVID-19 prevention at a particularly risky time. After all, schools are still reopening across the US and many are diving headlong into the unknown, fearful that all of this activity could cause another wave of the pandemic, as Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned yesterday.

The FDA is already under fire for its allegedly "premature" approval of convalescent plasma, which critics claim is the result of untoward political pressure from the president. On Friday, the CDC also abandoned controversial guidance saying not everybody who comes into contact with an infected person needs to be tested, and that tests should only be required for those experiencing symptoms.

All this scrutiny is helping to cement a new nickname for the agency.

It could also give more fodder to people like Bill Gates, who has started attacking the FDA’s credibility as the agency rushes toward emergency approval of a vaccine.

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2020 Emmys Turn Into Anti-Trump, Pro-BLM Woke-Fest

Touted as the first big televised awards event, the 72nd Emmy Awards aired on September 20 on ABC. The host of the virtual event was late night show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel’s jokes and bits in front of no live audience were cringe-inducing. Two notable instances came when his opening monologue took a hit at MAGA rallies and when banter with actor Anthony Anderson included a demand for Kimmel to shout "Black Lives Matter!" so "Mike Pence can hear it."
Schitt’s Creek was the big winner of the evening. The cast and crew were participating remotely from Canada, where the show hails from. Kimmel made a crack after one award saying, “Trump should have built that wall on the northern border.” Kimmel went on to ask if the president had tweeted about the awards show yet. He pretended to remember that it was Sunday so Trump was "probably at church." The winners for Schitt’s Creek were apolitical until their last award and even then it was mild by Hollywood standards.
Daniel Levy: Our show at its core is about the transformational effects of love and acceptance. We need it now more than ever before. If you have not registered to vote, please do so, and then go out and vote. That’s the only way, we need love and acceptance out there. Dad, do the rest of the fun stuff — sorry for making this political.
There was an odd skit with Kimmel and an actor portraying a Russian mail carrier. It was a play on the liberal narrative that President Trump is using the USPS to rig the election combined with a rehash of the old Russian hoax conspiracy.
Kimmel also introduced nominees for Outstanding Competition Program by first saying, “Past losers of this category have gone on to become the president of the United States.”
Political activist and actor Mark Ruffalo can always be counted on to spout off in a political way. Surprisingly, during his acceptance speech, he mostly spoke in general terms about taking care of vulnerable people but he also talked about "privilege" and "division and hatred." He concluded by reminding people to vote, without saying for whom, but it was still pretty obvious. 
 
Ruffalo: …Our story was about a man, it’s about family.  t’s about a man who is fighting for his brother who is living with mental illness. It’s a story that is common throughout so much of the world today. And it asks a big question, how are we going to deal and honor and take care of each other and our most vulnerable people? And we do that with love, and we do that with compassion, and by fighting for them. And that is what we have to do today. We have to come together with love, for each other. And if you have privilege, you have to fight for those who are less fortunate, and more vulnerable. And that is what a great about America, our diversity. One thing I’ve learned from my wife and children, we’re stronger together when we love each other and we respect each other’s diversity. And so we have a big, important moment ahead of us. Are we going to be a country of division and hatred, a country only for certain kind of people, or are we going to be one of love, strength, and fighting for all of us, who have the American dream and the pursuit of life, liberty, love, and happiness, in this great country of ours. That’s what we’re facing right now. So get out and vote, make a plan, and vote for love and compassion and kindness. I love you all. Thank you so much. And God bless you.”
Since it was a virtual event, the dress code was loosey-goosey. Some were dressed casually and others dressed up. Several Black Lives Matter t-shirts showed up and banners, too. A few shirts referenced the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was depicted in HBO’s Watchmen, with creator Damon Lindelof declaring, "The fires that destroyed Black Wall Street still burn today."
Regina King won Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for Watchmen. She wore a t-shirt with Breonna Taylor’s face, with "Say her name" written on it. She reminded people to vote and ended with a mention of recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Rest in Power, RBG.” Bader Ginsburg was also mentioned before the "in memoriam" tributes.
Actress Lena Waithe combined racial grievance with the LGBTQ agenda in a segment titled "The Right to Tell Our Stories," saying, “I still think there’s a lot more territory to be covered in terms of intersectionality with blackness and queerness.”
Young singer and actress Zendaya, who won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, gave a shout out "to my peers out there doing the work in the streets, I see you, I admire you, and I thank you" – a reference to the BLM protests.
Actor Sterling K. Brown ended the evening by presenting the Outstanding Drama Series award in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt. The HBO show Succession won. The thank you from creator Jesse Armstrong was particularly ungracious – it was an “unthank you” speech especially to President Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as well as "nationalists and quasi-nationalists."
 
Armstrong: …But for being robbed of the opportunity to spend this time with our peers and with the cast and crew, I think I’d like to do a couple of un-thank yous. Un-thank you to the virus for keeping us apart. Un-thank you to President Trump for his crummy and uncoordinated response. Un-thank you to Boris Johnson for the same thing in our country. Un-thank you to the nationalists and quasi-nationalists. And un-thank you to all the media moguls who keep them in power. So, un-thank you.”
The coronavirus has made 2020 a miserable year. This virtual awards show sure didn’t do anything to improve that. For a successful Hollywood figure to end the often awkward and boring show with such gracelessness, just to take a shot at two political leaders, was completely tone-deaf, but also completely expected.

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REPORT: Lawsuit Demands All Epstein Flight Logs Be Made Public, Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends ‘Panicking’

A new lawsuit, filed by the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Denise George, demands that flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s four helicopters and three planes be made public, sparking “panic” among the late socialite’s famous friends, according to reports from the UK’s Mirror and Daily Mail. “The Attorney General for the US Virgin […]

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Biden Gets Softballs, While Trump Gets Balls Busted

Biden Gets Softballs, While Trump Gets Balls Busted

Tyler Durden

Sun, 09/20/2020 – 13:45

With the election just 44 days away, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are both campaigning as hard as they can; with Trump giving hour-long speeches to stadiums packed with energized supporters, and Biden struggling to read from a teleprompter to mostly empty rooms – rarely taking questions and routinely arguing with voters when he does.

When the former Vice President does interact with the press, they throw him absolute softballs. As The Hill‘s Niall Stanage notes, during a recent CNN town hall event, the questions were "overwhelmingly sympathetic."

"The event’s moderator, Anderson Cooper, was also respectful toward Biden, offering little by way of interrogation of the former vice president," Stanage writes.

With Trump, it’s a different story.

The contrast to an ABC News town hall featuring President Trump several days earlier was stark. Trump faced stern questions from audience members and from the moderator, George Stephanopoulos.

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Politico’s Christopher Cadelago contrasted Trump’s “icy grilling” with the Biden event’s resemblance to “an affable reunion of old acquaintances.”  –The Hill

"I think the old formulas of campaign coverage have fallen apart, and reporters don’t have a clear idea" of how to replace them, according to NYT media columnist Ben Smith in a statement to The Hill.

Many on the left, such as Stelter, have justified Trump’s grillings as a response to the president’s ‘20,000 false or misleading statements’ that the Washington Post claims he’s made during his tenure.

Another angle is that the press hurt Hillary Clinton by focusing on her email scandal – helping Trump win in 2016.

"I think many in the mainstream press corps regret the time they spent on Hillary Clinton’s emails and Benghazi in 2016, because they believe that coverage ultimately helped President Trump win the election," said former White House correspondent for Fox5 D.C., Ronica Cleary.

"So, in this race, those same reporters are saying to themselves, ‘We can’t risk it this time.’ There is an undeniable willingness for them to be less tough on Biden. And I believe their thinking is, ‘We tried to be tough on Clinton and look where it got us,‘" she added.

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Sniffing Glue? Kooky Susan Rice Compares Trump to Mao, Erin Burnett’s Little No-Peep

Elizabeth Matamoros of the Washington Free Beacon reported that CNN’s Erin Burnett Upfront on Thursday somehow took President Trump’s order to create a "1776 Commission" to advocate for better education of our liberty-based history and mangled it into….communist China? Erin Burnett’s kooky guest was embarrassing Obama Benghazi spokesperson (and now Biden surrogate) Susan Rice.
Burnett quoted Trump’s executive order, "to restore patriotic education to our schools," adding "as if that education, of course, has been gone. He went after The New York Times for its 1619 Project, which aims to reframe this nation’s history with a greater focus on slavery."
Wrong. Nikole Hannah-Jones & Co. tried to claim the American Revolution was entirely about slavery, which historians of the period said was deeply wrong. Then Burnett ran a clip of Trump’s speech and threw the usual CNN softball to Team Biden. Is she a host? Or a stewardess? Did she bring Rice a cocktail and a packet of peanuts? 
 
PRESIDENT TRUMP: America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolish slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human history.
BURNETT: What is your response to the President?
RICE: This was one of the most astonishing speeches I’ve heard him give. He talks about patriotic education, I thought I was listening to Mao Zedong running Communist China. We don’t have a system of patriotic education where the Dear Leader tells the people what they must learn. We open students’ minds. We give them facts. We teach them how to analyze. We teach them civics and the foundations of our Constitution. And when you study the Constitution, which appears Donald Trump hasn’t, you understand that it is a living document that has evolved.
If Biden and Susan Rice win, the Constitution might "evolve" right into the dustbin with "Medicare for All," the "Green New Deal," and other leftist schemes.
Rice claimed she reveres the Constitution "but in 1787, you and I, Erin, and all women in this country couldn’t participate in our democracy. We had no vote. And if you were African- American and a male, the Constitution of 1787 said you are worth three-fifths of a human being." Liberals never acknowledge the troubling reality that the Heritage Foundation explains, that counting slaves as a full person would have meant more power in the House of Representatives for the slave states. 
Rice concluded: "So to celebrate that and deny the realities of our history, positive and negative, and to wipe out the history of slavery in this country and call the teaching of it un-American is the most communist, retro crazy thing I’ve heard out of Donald Trump’s mouth in a while."
Nobody’s "wiping" out the history of slavery when you teach it accurately! 
After all this Trump-the-Maoist craziness, Burnett simply concluded "Ambassador Rice, I appreciate your time. Thank you for joining me."

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Back In 2016, Biden Said President Had ‘Constitutional Responsibility’ To Fill Vacant SCOTUS Seat

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden quickly declared that President Obama had a “constitutional duty” to move quickly to fill the vacancy.

“The president has the constitutional duty to nominate; the Senate has the constitutional obligation to provide advice and consent,” Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 2016. “It is written plainly in the Constitution that both presidents and senators swear an oath to uphold and defend.”

“That’s why I was so surprised and saddened to see Republican leaders tell President Obama and me that they would not even consider a Supreme Court nominee this year. No meetings. No hearings. No votes. Nothing. It is an unprecedented act of obstruction. And it risks a stain on the legacy of all those complicit in carrying out this plan,” he wrote.

Later in 2016, Biden delivered a speech at Georgetown University and said: “I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.”

But that’s not what Sleepy Joe is saying now. “Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg,” he wrote Friday on Twitter.

Obama, too, said he had a responsibility to fill Scalia’s seat.

“The Constitution vests in the President the power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. It’s a duty that I take seriously, and one that I will fulfill in the weeks ahead,” Obama wrote in 2016.

Obama said he was looking for a replacement with a “sterling record, deep respect for the judiciary’s role, an understanding of the way the world really works.”

“That’s what I’m considering as I fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint a judge to our highest court. And as Senators prepare to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to consider the person I appoint, I hope they’ll move quickly to debate and then confirm this nominee so that the Court can continue to serve the American people at full strength,” Obama wrote.

But Obama has flip-flopped, just like Biden.

“Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in,” he wrote in a statement on Saturday.

“A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard,” he wrote.

“The questions before the Court now and in the coming years — with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures — are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.”

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