Nice! Very nice!
Facebook removes President Trump's post, says it contains 'false claims'
“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” a Facebook spokesperson reportedly explained
Facebook for the first time has removed a post by President Trump for breaking its policies against coronavirus misinformation, marking the first time one of the posts on Trump's page has been removed for that reason. The social media giant removed a video clip from a Fox News interview in which the president discussed children and the virus, suggesting that they are "almost immune." “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said, according to the Washington Post.
"If you look at children, children are almost—and I would almost say definitely—but almost immune from this disease," the president said during the Fox News interview, adding that "they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this." Trump said that "some doctors say they're totally immune. I don't know, I hate to use the word totally because the news will say, 'Oh he made the word totally and he shouldn't have used that word.' But the fact is that they are virtually immune from this problem, and we have to open our schools," he said.
https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/facebook-removes-president-trumps-post-says-it-contains-false-claims
Video here: WPO claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/trump-post-removed-facebook/
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1291061635348680704
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1290980559519395840
Donald Trump’s Campaign Seeks Earlier Date For First Debate, Gives Suggestions For Potential Moderators
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is requesting that the first presidential debate between the president and Joe Biden be held in early September, while it has provided organizers with a list of recommended moderators. The list, below, is heavy in Fox News personalities, yet does not include Chris Wallace. He moderated a debate in the 2016 cycle, but recently interviewed Trump for Fox News Sunday in a widely praised hour-long exchange in which he, at multiple points, fact-checked the president’s assertions.
Trump’s campaign argues that the first debate, now scheduled for Sept. 29, will take place after early voting has begun in 16 states. Two other presidential debates are scheduled for Oct. 15 and Oct. 22. The Trump campaign also continued its call for debate planners to a fourth debate to the schedule in early September, but said that if that does not happen, the Oct. 22 event should be moved to that date. A vice presidential debate also is scheduled for Oct. 7. “Simply put, the Commission’s current approach is an outdated dinosaur and not reflective of voting realities in 2020,” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, wrote to the Commission on Presidential Debates. “For a nation already deprived of a traditional campaign schedule because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, it makes no sense to also deprive so many Americans of the opportunity to see and hear the two competing visions for our country’s future before millions of votes have been cast,” Giuliani wrote. Axios first reported the news on the letter.
Biden’s campaign has already agreed to the debate as scheduled. Since 1988, the debates are organized by the bipartisan Commission On Presidential Debates. They also are in charge of selecting moderators. In the last cycle, Trump also complained that the debate schedule and that the process was biased against him. The commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The list of figures suggested by the Trump campaign also excludes others who moderated in 2016: NBC News’ Lester Holt, ABC News’ Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. The campaign did recommend two other broadcast news anchors, David Muir of ABC News and Norah O’Donnell of CBS News, along with Hoda Kotb, the co-host of Today.
https://deadline.com/2020/08/donald-trump-debate-2020-presidential-campaign-1203005225/
Republicans dodge Kansas nightmare as Marshall defeats Kobach
Reps. Steve Watkins and Lacy Clay lost their primaries as well.
Rep. Roger Marshall won the GOP primary for an open Senate seat in Kansas on Tuesday, turning aside the controversial Kris Kobach — to the relief of Republicans concerned that Kobach could put not just the state but the party's Senate majority at risk this fall. With nearly all the votes tallied, Marshall had 40 percent of the vote, to only 26 percent for Kobach. The result was a more decisive victory for Marshall than expected by many Republicans, who had predicted with deep concern that the race was a tossup going into Tuesday. GOP leaders had been outspoken in their opposition to Kobach since he entered the race last summer, but failed in their efforts to steer the race away from him, leaving it up in the air on primary night. Party officials couldn’t convince Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run, and some eventually consolidated behind Rep. Roger Marshall in the closing weeks of the race. But President Donald Trump did not endorse or oppose anyone, frustrating some Republicans who thought he could have ended the concern by weighing in.
Republicans got another piece of good news in Kansas on Tuesday, when Rep. Steve Watkins was ousted in his primary by state Treasurer Jake LaTurner, who has seized on Watkins’ litany of ethical and legal transgressions, including felony charges of voter fraud in the closing weeks of the primary. Some Republicans feared Watkins' renomination could have jeopardized the party's hold on an otherwise GOP-leaning House seat. Both the House and Senate primaries have been expensive, with a flurry of late spending and a crowded field of candidates leaving the threshold for victory lower and the outcome less certain. It’s also possible that the massive increase in absentee ballots could delay results for several days as all votes are counted; ballots postmarked on Tuesday can still be counted as long as they are received by the end of the week.
In the Senate race, nearly $5 million in spending from a super PAC with Democratic ties upended the contest’s final month. The group's ads bashed Marshall, hurting his image while lifting Kobach up as a pro-Trump conservative. The group, which will not reveal the source of its funding until later this month, was by far the biggest spender in the Republican primary, outspending all GOP outside groups and campaigns. Republicans repeatedly tied the super PAC to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, though it will not have to reveal the source of its funding until later this month. "Chuck Schumer spent over $5 [million] trying to impact GOP primary voters, which is another chapter in this cycle’s edition of 'Schumer's follies,'" said Scott Reed, the chief political strategist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which backed Marshall. Marshall's victory leaves Republicans confident in their ability to retain the seat this fall. A Kobach win would have forced Senate Republicans to face a difficult choice between supporting a candidate whom they have publicly bashed as unelectable, or leaving the state to chance with their already tenuous majority in peril.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/primary-results-kansas-senate-michigan-missouri-washington-arizona-391547
Baker
Not sure if you have noticed this post mistake
>>10196212 Facebook removes President Trump's post, says it contains 'false claims'
Posted to the wrong line as shown below:
>>10195933, >>10196132, >>10196212 (You) Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt News Round Up: Muh Feels and Claims Edition
Repectfully: Maybe so but, Facebook and other Tech companies are in a class separate from Mike Obama and Deutsche Bank
Interesting…You do realize that there are news aggregators that pick up these posts and pass them around the internet which in turn gives these pieces of information moar visibility which is beneficial to getting the truth out there..so Respectfully, I don't see the benefit of lumping completely different stories together that don't represent a dig..in this instance one has nothing to do with the other..this lumping is moar of an opinion that does nothing for the overall message.
>All three are lying.
>Lying to create uncertainty and doubt.
>With Trump as the target.
>Sounds like a link to me.
Not bending on how I feel about this type of categorization, it doesn't work imo..that said these are your notes..just thought this need to be pointed out. I don't believe we are all here with the idea of not letting the truth be seen.
>>10196212 (You) (PB)
>“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” a Facebook spokesperson reportedly explained
PART of the problem being, he never said that.
Exactly..these are the things that need to be side by side..these people are so afraid of losing those income streams they've been living off for years..not to mention being found out about "all of their complete lies"