Today's News (2020/4/29): The Sabotage Proceeds Apace edition

I've been wondering for a while if Donkeyballs Donald has been semi-sidelined, and it's looking like other people are picking up on that feeling too - that it's in no small part Jared Kushner really running things.

I didn't have to stack these news articles to make that possibility clear, it's just what presented itself today.

1. Jared Kushner’s ‘princely arrogance’ set back the coronavirus response by weeks: report
2. Inside Donald Trump and Jared Kushner’s Two Months of Magical Thinking
3. Jared Kushner Says Trump is Focused on Response to China, Will Take Whatever Actions Are Necessary to Hold Them Accountable
4. Jared Kushner went on Fox & Friends today and claimed states have "excess capacity" for testing (this is a lie)
5. McConnell made case to his colleagues today about including in any package provisions to shield businesses from lawsuits, saying that liability reform is "the thing that relates the most to regular people”
6. Florida Governor: Florida is "God's waiting room"
7. Trump, again: coronavirus will just "go away" [EDITOR YES HE'S BACK ON THAT TODAY]
8. Trump falsely suggests he was right when he predicted 'close to zero' virus cases in February
9. Florida is now blocking medical examiners from releasing COVID-19 death totals
10. Sen. Richard Burr Is Not Just a Friend to the Health Care Industry. He’s Also a Stockholder.
11. Republican lawmaker launches new legal challenge against Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, wants General Assembly to meet
12. States tell workers they'll lose unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to jobs
13. Rick Wiles Says It’s Possible ‘The Entire Wuhan Pandemic Was Staged’
14. Elon Musk tweets protest against US coronavirus lockdown
15. It’s starting to feel like Republicans want to have a ‘chickenpox party’ for coronavirus in the whole of Washington state
16. David Barton Claims Non-Christians’ Fear of Death Led to Public Policy ‘Panic’ on COVID-19
17. So Trump’s roughly 7 times as inept as the average world leader.
18. It just got easier in Georgia for new drivers to get a license... for now
19. U.S. coronavirus death toll is far higher than reported, CDC data suggests
20. Trump starts talking about "massive rallies" soon.

( The articles )