| Seriously? Attorney General Bill Barr is being absolutely hammered with backlash and outrage over comments made during a Constitution Day celebration hosted by Hillsdale College, during which he compared stay-at-home orders to abate the spread of Covid-19 to slavery.
Yes, that happened.
White House CoS Mark Meadows weighed in to concede that Covid lockdowns aren't quite so bad as slavery or internment camps.
New Allegation Amy Dorris, a former model, is accusing President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the 1997 US Open tennis tournament in New York City, which she attended with her boyfriend at the time, magazine publisher Jason Binn. Trump denies the allegations.
New Polling Americans’ support for the Black Lives Matter movement crashed over the course of summer unrest, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Speaking of Unrest FBI Director Christopher Wray rejected the notion that Antifa is the “biggest threat” to the United States when he testified before the House Homeland Security Committee — instead describing it as “more of an ideology or a movement than an organization.”
Vaccines and Masks CDC director Robert Redfield said during his congressional testimony that masks are more important than a vaccine in fighting Covid right now. He said that a vaccine will come out “in very limited supply” in November-December and will be “generally available to the American public” by “late second quarter, third quarter 2021.”
Trump contradicted him, saying he must have been "mistaken" or "confused" and that it will be much faster and sooner.
Redfield then put out a statement clarifying a few things.
And with regard to the mask commentary, former RNC chair Michael Steele lit into the Trump base over the whole thing.
"The CDC director is telling us the truth and Donald Trump is literally lying to us and yet, 40% of the country looks at it and goes: ‘Yeah, I’m with stupid.'”
Fox Beats Trump
The ABC News town hall featuring President Trump scored a strong 3.8 million overall viewers on Tuesday night, but its time-slot competition on Fox News, Hannity, still easily outpaced the presidential forum.
In fact, though the town hall made a lot of news, it was Fox's whole prime time that once again dominated, and the numbers are pretty telling.
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Stelter 'Sad' About Chris Cuomo, Jeff Zucker Convos Going Public CNN’s Brian Stelter dismissed criticism of staffers at his network for behind-the-scene conduct that has included candid private calls with Michael Cohen , saying in an interview on The View that it was “not for me to comment.”
He also called it "sad" that these conversations involving Chris Cuomo and Jeff Zucker, which reveal top media personalities interacting with politicians and public figures, are being leaked and "weaponized."
"I think the Trump age has ruined a lot of friendships. I think that’s really sad," author of a book about media bias Brian Stelter bravely complained about the leaked, pertinent, telling conversations, the contents of which are in the public's interested to know and hear. 6.5.0 | 
