Monday, March 9, 2020

Trump's Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Calls Trump 'Greatest Hoax,' Lists What's Wrong With Him

Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, called  Donald Trump the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America” on Sunday. Then he tweeted a list of what he believes is wrong with the president.
It was a lot.
George Conway, the conservative attorney and husband to White House counsel Kellyanne Conway, issued a warning to Bharara:

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
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Replying to @PreetBharara
He attacks war heroes while he pardons war criminals

He accuses others of nepotism while he privileges his own children

He whines about criticism as he spews nothing but bile
George Conway@gtconway3d
you’re going to be up all night Preet
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9:28 PM - Mar 8, 2020 · Washington, DC


Trump fired Bharara in 2017 after he didn’t return the president’s phone call. 
“There has to be some kind of arm’s-length relationship” between the president and law enforcement, Bharara said in an interview later. He also reported the call, which he believed breached protocol, to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but was fired just 22 hours later.
Since then, Bharara has been an outspoken critic of Trump, but has never vented quite so brashly on Twitter, until now:

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
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Replying to @PreetBharara
He said no one has more respect for women than he does

He said he knows more than the generals

He suggested he has a special talent for infectious diseases
Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
I am angry and worried right now. As are tens of millions of Americans. I don’t know what will happen next but what I do know is this:

Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America
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9:44 PM - Mar 8, 2020

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
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Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America
Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
He is a liar

He is a cheat

He is a bad businessman

He can’t spell

He doesn’t read

He doesn’t listen
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9:14 PM - Mar 8, 2020

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
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Replying to @PreetBharara
He has no principles

He doesn’t give a shit about anyone

He is profoundly disloyal

He projects his every flaw on others
Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
He doesn’t know facts

He doesn’t respect science

He doesn’t get math

He doesn’t acknowledge history

He doesn’t even understand weather
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9:20 PM - Mar 8, 2020

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
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Replying to @PreetBharara
He doesn’t know facts

He doesn’t respect science

He doesn’t get math

He doesn’t acknowledge history

He doesn’t even understand weather
Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
He wanted to buy Greenland

He wanted to nuke hurricanes

He says he’s a genius

But he won’t release his grades or tax returns
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9:23 PM - Mar 8, 2020


✔@PreetBharara
He calls patriots “human scum” while surrounding himself with scumbags like Roger Stone

He claims to be alpha while he endlessly whines like stuck pig

He says he’s for America though he cozies up to despots
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9:33 PM - Mar 8, 2020

Preet Bharara ✔@PreetBharara
He said no one has more respect for women than he does

He said he knows more than the generals

He suggested he has a special talent for infectious diseases
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9:38 PM - Mar 8, 2020

Singer-songwriter Bill Madden praised Bharara’s thread:
Others on Twitter lauded Bharara as well. A few even offered additional reasons Bharara hadn’t mentioned:

9:16 PM - Mar 8, 2020

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How long can coronavirus survive on surfaces? Experts aren’t sure

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As a new coronavirus spreads quickly around the world, U.S. health officials say they are “aggressively” assessing how long it can survive on surfaces to better understand the risk of transmission.
Based on what is known about similar coronaviruses, disease experts say the new outbreak of the virus, named COVID-19, is mainly spread from person to person through coughing or sneezing. Contact with fecal matter from an infected person may also transmit the virus.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it may be possible for a person to become infected by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or eyes.
An analysis of 22 earlier studies of similar coronaviruses, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) published online this month in the Journal of Hospital Infection, concluded that human coronaviruses can remain infectious on inanimate surfaces for up to nine days at room temperature. However, they can quickly be rendered inactive using common disinfectants, and may also dissipate at higher temperatures, the authors wrote. It is not yet clear, however, whether the new coronavirus behaves in a similar way.
“On copper and steel it’s pretty typical, it’s pretty much about two hours,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, referring to how long the new coronavirus may be active on those types of materials. “But I will say on other surfaces – cardboard or plastic – it’s longer, and so we are looking at this.”
The agency said there is likely a very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures.
A CDC spokeswoman, in an emailed statement, said the agency is still looking into how contagious the virus can be when deposited on more common, everyday surfaces.
The Food and Drug Administration this week said it has no evidence that COVID-19 has been transmitted from imported goods, but the situation remains “dynamic” and the agency said it will assess and update guidance as needed.
“The important big take-home message is that this is probably a small proportion of the transmission of respiratory viruses,” said Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Out in the community, these viruses are probably not surviving for a long time on surfaces.”
Brewer explained that such viruses tend to survive the longest in low-temperature, low-humidity environments, “that is why you see lots of respiratory viruses during the winter.”
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