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Fauci says he received ‘credible death threats’
Anthony Fauci, addressing the House subcommittee, detailed the threats and harassment that he and his family received during his time as the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases.
Fauci said he had experienced “everything from harassments from emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters”, as well as “credible death threats” that meant “someone who clearly was on their way to kill me”, adding that he still gets death threats today. He said:
It is very troublesome to me, it is much more troublesome because they’ve involved my wife and three daughters.
Dr. Anthony Fauci gets emotional discussing death threats and his family have received since the beginning of the COVID pandemic:
“It is very troublesome to me, it is much more troublesome because they involve my wife and my three daughters.” pic.twitter.com/jXTb8xO8Op
— The Recount (@therecount) June 3, 2024
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Stormy Daniels says Trump should be sentenced to jail
Stormy Daniels said she believes Donald Trump should be jailed and required to do community service after he was convicted last week on 34 felony charges in a hush-money case aimed at influencing the 2016 election.
Daniels, in her first interview since the conviction, told the Daily Mirror:
I think he should be sentenced to jail and some community service — working for the less fortunate or being the volunteer punching bag at a women’s shelter.
She said she didn’t know what the sentencing could be, but compared Trump to a child that needed a punishment “that not just matches the crime”.
Daniels also urged Melania Trump to leave her husband “not because of what he did with me or other women but because he is a convicted felon”. She added:
It’s been proven he is abusive; he was found liable for sexual assault and tax fraud and is now a criminal.
Democratic congressman Robert Garcia followed up his comments in the House hearing with a social media post criticizing Marjorie Taylor Greene for refusing to refer to Anthony Fauci as Dr Fauci.
Greene is “totally insane” and a “national embarrassment”, Garcia posted to X.
Totally insane that Marjorie Taylor Greene would not refer to Dr. Fauci as a doctor. He’s one of the most brilliant medical minds in the country. She’s a national embarrassment. https://t.co/ADdjb57fKy
— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) June 3, 2024
Robert Garcia, the Democratic congressman from California, said the House subcommittee hearing “might be the most insane hearing I’ve actually attended”.
Garcia, addressing Anthony Fauci, said:
I’ve only been in Congress a year and a half, but I’m so sorry that you were subjected to those level of attacks and insanity.
He said both of his parents had died of Covid-19, and thanked Fauci for putting in policies that saved lives during the pandemic, calling him an “American hero” who has saved more lives than “all 435 members of this body on both sides of the aisle.”
“These attacks are ridiculous” — Rep. Robert Garcia responds to Marge Greene’s theatrics by saying “this might be the most insane hearing I’ve attended” pic.twitter.com/xuRt0GOwlp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 3, 2024
Fauci says he received ‘credible death threats’
Anthony Fauci, addressing the House subcommittee, detailed the threats and harassment that he and his family received during his time as the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases.
Fauci said he had experienced “everything from harassments from emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters”, as well as “credible death threats” that meant “someone who clearly was on their way to kill me”, adding that he still gets death threats today. He said:
It is very troublesome to me, it is much more troublesome because they’ve involved my wife and three daughters.
Dr. Anthony Fauci gets emotional discussing death threats and his family have received since the beginning of the COVID pandemic:
“It is very troublesome to me, it is much more troublesome because they involve my wife and my three daughters.” pic.twitter.com/jXTb8xO8Op
— The Recount (@therecount) June 3, 2024
Joe Biden has congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum for her historic win after she was elected Mexico’s first female president.
Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won a landslide victory on Sunday and will inherit the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.
Victory for Sheinbaum is a major step for Mexico, a country known for its macho culture and home to the world’s second biggest Roman Catholic population, which for years pushed more traditional values and roles for women. She will also be the first person from a Jewish background to lead the country.
Sheinbaum is also the first woman to win a general election in the US, Mexico or Canada. In a statement, Biden said:
I look forward to working closely with President-elect Sheinbaum in the spirit of partnership and friendship that reflects the enduring bonds between our two countries. I expressed our commitment to advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples.
At the House committee on the Covid-19 pandemic, the far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to address Anthony Fauci as “Dr”, instead pointedly referring to him as “Mr Fauci”.
Greene said:
That man does not deserve to have a license. As a matter of fact, it should be revoked and he belongs in prison.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Greene disrespects Fauci: “Mr Fauci — because you’re not ‘doctor’ — you’re Mr. Fauci in my few minutes. No, I don’t need your answer … he belongs in prison” pic.twitter.com/vyBBc2N5zd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 3, 2024
Biden to sign executive order restricting asylum processing along US border
Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday allowing him to effectively shut down the US border with Mexico to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded, according to multiple reports.
The move would allow US immigration immigration officials to quickly deport migrants who enter the country illegally, without processing their asylum claims, when border crossings surpass a certain threshold, sources told CBS News.
Biden administration officials have briefed members of Congress in recent days and told them to expect the president to sign the order alongside mayors from South Texas, the New York Times reported.
The move would severely restrict migrants from seeking asylum at the US southern border if they crossed the border unlawfully once daily encounters between ports of entry reached 2,500, CNN reported, meaning that the measure is likely to almost immediately take effect.
The order would represent the single most restrictive border policy instituted by Biden or any modern Democrat, the Times said. It would rely on a presidential authority known as “212(f)”, used during the Trump administration to enact several immigration restrictions, including the so-called “travel ban”.
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Donald Trump has called on the supreme court to step in and annul his guilty verdict in a hush-money trial that left him with the unwanted double distinction of being the first former US president to be a convicted felon.
The 2024 presumptive Republican nominee made his plea in a typically florid post on his Truth Social site, highlighting that a sentencing hearing scheduled for 11 July falls just four days before the GOP’s national convention in Milwaukee, when his nomination is expected to become official.
“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote.
A Radical Left Soros backed D.A., who ran on a platform of ‘I will get Trump,’ reporting to an ‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED, will make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation?
Jamie Raskin, the Democratic congressman for Maryland, appeared to reference Donald Trump’s recent conviction as he spoke at the House subcommittee hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Raskin, addressing Anthony Fauci, said he apologized for the fact that “some of our colleagues in the United States House of Representatives seem to want to drag your name through the mud. They’re treating you, Dr Fauci, like a convicted felon.” He added:
You probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat convicted felons with love and admiration.
Bob Menendez, the embattled Democratic senator charged with bribery, will enter the race to seek re-election in New Jersey as an independent, according to a report.
Menendez will file nomination petitions in Trenton today, the New Jersey Globe reported, adding that the incumbent Democrat will not deliver the petitions himself as he attending the 12th day of his federal corruption trial.
Menendez faces bribery charges over his alleged work promoting the interests of the Egyptian government. He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he accepted bribes – including gold bars, a luxury car and almost half a million dollars in cash – as he promoted Egypt’s interests in his influential role as chair of the Senate foreign relations committee.
Menendez’s presence on the ballot could complicate Democrats’ efforts to hold on to the Senate seat, although Joe Biden won New Jersey by 16 points in 2020. But Menendez’s hopes for a victory in November appear bleak.
A poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University last month showed Menendez receiving just 6% or 7% of the vote in hypothetical general election match-ups. But Menendez’s candidacy will allow him to fundraise for donations that can be used to help cover his lawyers’ bills, as campaign finance filings show the senator has already spent at least $2m on legal services.
Fauci says he has a ‘completely open mind’ to Covid-19 origin theories
Anthony Fauci, in his opening statement before the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, thanked the panel for the opportunity to testify.
The former government scientist addressed “certain issues that have been seriously distorted concerning me”.
On the subject of the lab leak theory, Fauci said the accusation that he “influenced these scientists to change their minds with millions of dollars in grant money is absolutely false and simply preposterous”.
He then addressed accusations that he allegedly tried to “cover up” the possibility that the virus originated from a lab. “The truth is exactly the opposite,” he said.
Fauci has long said publicly that he was open to both theories but that there’s more evidence supporting the virus’s natural origins, AP reported. Fauci said:
I have repeatedly stated that I have a completely open mind to either possibility and that if definitive evidence becomes available to validate or refute either theory, I will ready accept it.
Anthony Fauci has now been sworn in to the House subcommittee hearing.
According to his opening statement published ahead of the hearing, the former government scientist will discuss how “misinformation and disinformation” led to “considerable and understandable” public confusion during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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