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Trump holds rally in Florence, AZ
Donald Trump is under fire for another incendiary racist remark, this time a claim that white people are being discriminated against in the distribution of Covid-19 treatments.
The sometime president shared the false claim at an Arizona rally on Saturday, telling his supporters that “The left is now rationing life-saving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating, just denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies.” He urged the Supreme Court to intervene to stop this supposed discrimination.
The same rally saw Mr Trump railing against enemies from Joe Biden to “the left” to retiring GOP Congressman John Katko, one of the only House Republicans who voted to impeach the 45th president after the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.
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Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce says he finds it jarring how Martin Luther King’s legacy is co-opted by people who “bitterly oppose” everything the late civil rights leader stood for.
Bevan Hurley 17 January 2022 17:42
1642439525 Calling the FBI out on Martin Luther King
Jezebel editor-in-chief Laura Bassett picks up on another tin-eared tribute to Dr King today:
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 17:12
1642437305 What happened at Trump’s Arizona rally?
Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona this weekend saw him repeating many of his usual falsehoods about the supposed theft of the 2022 election, as well as pondering 6 January conspiracy theories that have gained a new foothold on the right.
It was the sort of performance that has some mainstream Republicans worried that the former president could wreck their messaging for this year’s midterm elections by focusing on his own grievances. John Bowden and Eric Garcia have this rundown:
Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona The former president returns for his first campaign-style rally of 2022
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 16:35
1642436154 Son of Martin Luther King Jr: “I will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father’s dream"
Martin Luther King III, the son of the civil rights hero whose life is celebrated today, has issued a call for action rather than just remembrance of his father’s work.
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 16:15
1642434592 MLK Day: Mitch McConnell in hot water for tribute
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier posted a sombre tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., writing: “Nearly 60 years since the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message echoes as powerfully as it did that day. His legacy inspires us to celebrate and keep building upon the remarkable progress our great nation has made toward becoming a more perfect union.”
Given the senator’s position on assorted civil rights issues, and in particular proposals to shore up the Voting Rights Act against right-wing assaults, much of the reaction has seen him accused of hypocrisy – one user writing that “it was guys like you he was protesting against”.
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McConnell bombarded over voting rights stance after posting MLK Day tribute Martin Luther King Jr would be ‘rolling over in his grave’ at McConnell’s ‘hypocrisy’
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 15:49
1642433321 A new Republican rift: Trump vs DeSantis
Reports are spreading that Donald Trump has a new bee in his bonnet: the ascent of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Increasingly popular among Republican voters, Mr DeSantis routinely tops polls of non-Trump GOP 2024 presidential candidates – and now, Mr Trump appears to be angry that he is getting too much attention.
Axios reports that while Mr Trump isn’t especially worried that his sometime protege could beat him in a future primary, he is angry that the governor isn’t giving him the deference he thinks he deserves ahead of the next election. Mr Trump has also taken veiled digs at him for not declaring publicly whether he has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Trump is briefing insiders that DeSantis is too dull to be president The Florida governor has been touted as Donald Trump’s chief rival for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2024 – although neither man has confirmed a bid
Other reports, however, say that Mr Trump is genuinely perturbed that another Republican could rise to the heights of popularity Mr DeSantis enjoys, and that he may indeed have something to fear. The New York Times reports a telling exchange with longtime conservative provocateur Ann Coulter:
“Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it,” Ms. Coulter wrote on Twitter. “He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent.”
In an email, Ms. Coulter, herself a part-time Florida resident, put a finer point on what makes Mr. DeSantis’s rise unsettling for the former president. “Trump is done,” she wrote. “You guys should stop obsessing over him.”
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 15:28
1642431909 Trump’s false claim about racism and Covid-19 treatment
Here is the section of Trump’s Arizona rally in which the former president falsely claimed that healthcare providers in New York are deliberately sending white people to “the back of the line” for Covid-19 treatment.
Andrew Naughtie 17 January 2022 15:05
1642285840 Virginia’s new Republican governor signed 11 executive orders on his first day in office
Virginia’s incoming Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders after he was sworn into office on Saturday, including a repeal of a mask mandate and revoking a Covid-19 vaccine requirement for state workers.
He also banned “critical race theory” in schools and pledge to investigate “wrongdoing” in Loudon County, which has been ground zero for right-wing culture wars over the teaching of racism in public schools.
He also is withdrawing the state from an 11-state agreement to curb emissions.
Alex Woodward 15 January 2022 22:30
1642284640 Hillary Clinton invokes MLK’s criticism of ‘white moderates’ after Manchin and Sinema reject filibuster reform
Hillary Clinton has invoked Martin Luther King Jr’s criticisms of “the white moderate “ in what appeared to be a thinly veiled rebuke of Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema after they rejected President Joe Biden’s urgent demands to change Senate filibuster rules that block passage of federal voting rights legislation.
She added: “This is a subtweet.”
Her tweet comes as voting rights advocates rally over the weekend in advance of the federal holiday recognising the late civil rights leader’s birthday.
Alex Woodward 15 January 2022 22:10
1642283122 Pro-Trump ‘propaganda’ channel One America News Network to lose its biggest TV distributor
America's biggest satellite television provider has said it will cut the pro-Trump news channel One America News Network from its service, dealing a severe blow to one of the former president's most stalwart cheerleaders.
DirecTV, a distributor with about 15 million subscribers that is 70 per cent owned by the US telecoms giant AT&T, announced on Friday that it would not renew its contract with OANN when the current one expires. following “a routine internal review”.
Io Dodds reports:
Pro-Trump ‘propaganda’ outlet One America News Network to lose biggest distributor Satellite provider DirecTV said it would not renew its contract with OANN, potentially slashing the conspiracy-driven news outlet’s revenue by 90 per cent
Alex Woodward 15 January 2022 21:45
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