Like WWII: Here’s how private sector has backed U.S. response to virus crisis

Like WWII: Here’s how private sector has backed U.S. response to virus crisis

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 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 […]

Attorney: Corporate media owe Sen. Tom Cotton an apology

Attorney: Corporate media owe Sen. Tom Cotton an apology

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 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 […]

President Trump’s coronavirus response efforts

President Trump’s coronavirus response efforts

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 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 […]

USA Today fact-checks claim Obama administration failed to resupply depleted stockpiles

USA Today fact-checks claim Obama administration failed to resupply depleted stockpiles

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 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 […]

Voice of skepticism: Limbaugh troubled by reliance on ‘experts’, models

Voice of skepticism: Limbaugh troubled by reliance on ‘experts’, models

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 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 […]

AOC: Coronavirus proves America is a ‘brutal, barbarian society’

AOC: Coronavirus proves America is a ‘brutal, barbarian society’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 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 […]

Trump eviscerates Schumer over criticism of administration’s virus response

Trump eviscerates Schumer over criticism of administration’s virus response

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 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 […]

Trump slams fired intel watchdog Michael Atkinson as ‘a disgrace’

Trump slams fired intel watchdog Michael Atkinson as ‘a disgrace’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 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 […]

Pelosi defends prioritizing impeachment over virus threat

Pelosi defends prioritizing impeachment over virus threat

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 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 […]