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FPI / April 7, 2020 One of the first U.S. politicians to issue a warning about the seriousness of the coronavirus, as well as China’s negligence in its response to the outbreak, was routinely smeared as a conspiracy theorist by the major media. In February, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said that China was not […]

FPI / April 7, 2020 As they did during the war effort in the 1940s, America’s large and small businesses “are now stepping up to aid both in combating the invisible enemy and in helping Americans who are hurting physically and financially at this time,” a columnist noted. “This is in part the genius of […]

FPI / April 7, 2020 “President Trump and his administration are working every day to protect the health and wellbeing of Americans and respond to the coronavirus,” Paul Teller, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Vice President, said on April 6. The White House released the following list of […]

FPI / April 7, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said he will declare a state of emergency in seven prefectures but added that the declaration does not amount to a lockdown. Japan’s approach, like Sweden’s, is less radical than that imposed on the USA. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 Claims that the Obama administration used and did not replenish the nation’s emergency stockpile of medical supplies, including N95 masks, are true, according to a USA Today fact check. “There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer 3M has become one of the most reviled companies in America in recent days in lieu of reports that the Minnesota-based corporation has been selling protective face masks that it produces to foreign nations over U.S. health buyers in pursuit of greater profit. “For the […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday accusing the president of “tardiness and inadequacy” in his coronavirus response. Trump fired back, telling Schumer: “If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 Had the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provided accurate information at an early juncture of the coronavirus outbreak “the infection would not have left China,” a UK-based think tank said. Since the CCP’s negligence caused the virus to spread, nations worldwide have required their citizens to stay at home and all […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 “Because the coronavirus is out there, got everybody paranoid, governments are eager, almost, to chalk up as many deaths to coronavirus as they can because then it furthers the policies they have put in place by virtue of their models,” radio host Rush Limbaugh said. During his March 30 broadcast, […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 For the “vast majority of working-class Americans,” the coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States as a “brutal, barbarian society,” socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said. The New York Democrat also claimed that communities of color are being “disproportionately” affected by the virus and called for “reparations” in the next coronavirus […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 President Donald Trump on April 4 fought back against critics of his firing of intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, saying he had an “absolute right” to do so and that Atkinson was a “disgrace.” “I thought he did a terrible job — absolutely terrible,” Trump said. The president said […]

FPI / April 6, 2020 A Chinese doctor who was one of the first to publicly warn about the coronavirus has gone missing, sparking fears that she has been detained by Chinese authorities, reports say. The doctor, Ai Fen, had pointed out cases of the virus to colleagues at Wuhan Central Hospital, Radio Free Asia […]

FPI / April 4, 2020 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an April 2 interview said she was aware of the coronavirus threat but defended prioritizing the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt that the first reports of the outbreak in China and the threat to the […]

FPI / April 4, 2020 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has exempted religious services from his stay-at-home order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. DeSantis, a Republican, deemed churches as “essential,” telling reporters during a Thursday press conference that the government does not have the authority to close a church and adding that they […]

FPI / April 4, 2020 Between January and March, when testing for coronavirus on a large-scale could have made a huge difference in the fight against the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the testing system failed in getting test kits to the public, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a close adviser […]