*On October 24, 2019, Joe Biden warned President Trump that: "We are not prepared for pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores." "Contrary to what Trump is now saying about China, he previously said that China had 'everything under control.' "
*Unlike Joseph McCarthy, Trump seems to have only one fixed idea and it is about his own greatness." "What Trump shares with McCarthy is the capacity to create confusion and turmoil, as it is emerging as the mainstay of his reelection campaign." (Source: David Remnick, "Catering for Cranks," The New Yorker, May 25, 2020.)
*In regard to the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago, Trump said: "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it," he told the Playboy magazine in 1990. "They were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."
*Defense Secretary Esper described the need to "dominate the battle space" in the nation's streets.
*The lawyer for the Floyd family, Benjamin Crump, says that when police officers kill a black man they are under-charged, and when black men kill they are over-charged.
*Attorney General William Barr has called public vandalism surrounding the protests "domestic terrorism."
*Trump said he was merely "inspecting" the basement bunker in the White House.
*Trump's press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, defended Trump when he said that a man pushed to the round in Buffalo, New York may have been part of a "set up." Trump had said: "I watched, he fell harder than was pushed." "Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"
*Police have killed 885 people in Los Angeles County since 2000.
*Trump reelection committee sent a letter to CNN in early June demanding the network extract a poll that shows Trump losing to Biden.
*Leader of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Miley, has said: "My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics." Miley was referring to his standing near Trump when Trump was holding up a Bible.
*More than 1,250 former Department of Justice employees called on the department's inspector general to open an investigation into reports that Attorney General William Barr ordered the tear-gassing of protesters in Washington, D.C. on June 1. They wrote that they were "disturbed" by Barr's use of a number of federal agencies throughout the country to quell "lawful First Amendment activity."
*The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating 56 allegations of misconduct by police officers.
*The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that would require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets that are named after Confederate military leaders.
*Trump has said that problems with racism will be solved "very easily. It will go quickly and it will go very easily." "But we'll make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots."
*I was in January 2018 that Trump tweeted that the Black unemployment rate had just been reported to be the "LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED." Most of the drop in the rate occurred while Barack Obama was the president.
*When Congress passed a bill that included $8 million in relief for Indian country, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin did not disburse the funds for six weeks.
*"Even today, people of color make up more than half of home health aides and about 40 percent of child care providers." (Source: Bryce Covert, "Care Work," The Nation, June 15/22, 2020.)
*Proposition 13 in California rolled back property taxes to 1975 levels, taking a slow-moving, often hard-to-see wrecking ball to public schools, and city and county budgets.
*In John Bolton's book, he quotes Trump as saying that any conversation with him be rated as "highly classified."
*When GOP lawmakers were asked why they wouldn't subpoena Bolton to testify in the impeachment hearing, they said it wouldn't have made any difference. It shows how impervious they are to material evidence.
*Vice President Mike Pence asked state governors to downplay new community spread of the coronavirus, and attribute spikes to increase in testing.
*John Bolton reveals that Trump didn't want to weigh in on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, dismissing the matter by saying: "We have human rights problems too." Trump also declined to sign off on a statement last year commemorating the 30th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, worried it might hurt trade talks.
*Trump has threatened harsh actions on "lowlife agitators."
*Donald Trump Jr. called Joe Biden "a pedophile" and Covid - 19 "a democratic ploy."
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