Google-Funded Think Tank Chief Resigns After Wishing Coronavirus Would Kill Trump
By Daily Caller. The head of a Google-funded think tank is resigning after suggesting to his Twitter followers that he would like to see President Donald Trump die from coronavirus, Politico reported Friday.
TechFreedom president Berin Szóka is going on an indefinite sabbatical to write a book on tech policy, the libertarian-leaning group told Politico. Szóka got into some hot water Monday after saying on Twitter that it would be “poetic justice” for Trump to die from the deadly virus.
“Serious question: could there possibly any greater poetic justice in the universe than for Trump to die of the #CPACvirus,” Szóka tweeted in reference to Trump’s presence at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
One person who attended CPAC tested positive for the virus.
Szóka apologized several days after sharing the tweet. “Earlier this week, I sent a thoughtless tweet making an inappropriate comment about the President that I deeply regret,” he tweeted Thursday. “I was wrong to tweet it and deleted it. Again, I apologize.” (Read more from “Google-Funded Think Tank Chief Resigns After Wishing Coronavirus Would Kill Trump” HERE)
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No Need to Test Trump for Coronavirus, White House Doctor Says
By NPR. A day after his communications secretary went into quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday moved swiftly to shoot down local news reports that he too had tested positive. That was good news for President Trump.
“Negative for COVID-19, the Honorable President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro,” the Brazilian president wrote on his official Twitter account. “DON’T BELIEVE IN THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA.”
Bolsonaro’s coronavirus test results were being watched closely in Washington, six days after the Brazilian leader dined at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with Trump, Vice President Pence, Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. . .
But Friday night, Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the president, issued a statement saying Trump is at low risk for COVID-19 because his contact with the one of the infected individuals was “extremely limited (photograph, handshakes),” and “all interactions [with the other person] occurred before any symptom onset.”
Trump himself has no symptoms and need not self-quarantine or even be tested, Conley said, but the doctor will monitor him. (Read more from “No Need to Test Trump for Coronavirus, White House Doctor Says” HERE)
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