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What Joe Biden Expects of His Presidency
In his first interview after his inauguration, Biden explained what he got wrong about Trump and what he still hoped to squeeze out of Republicans.
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Joe Biden had been president for less than two weeks when he told me something he’d heard from a friend after the election. Biden was like the dog that caught the car, the friend told him after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming president, he’d finally done it. “I said, ‘No, I think I got the bus,’” Biden told me, reflecting on the combined crises of the pandemic, the economic collapse, and the shaky future of American democracy. “I’m the dog that caught the bus.”
Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus, Trump said in a statement.
Top U.S. public health officials and experts are increasingly lending credibility to the need for a deeper investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, but so far there is no definitive proof the virus leaked from a lab.
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Experts and officials have also noted that even if the virus escaped from a lab, that doesn t mean it was manufactured in one.
Still, Trump and other Republicans in Congress are declaring victory and have been pressing Democrats to open an investigation.
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In dusty little Moffat, Colo., seven people are charged with the strange crime of corpse abuse.
The Love Has Won commune couldn’t let go months after its leader expired committing her decaying remains to a corner bedroom.
Not to be too judgmental toward these poor people. They’re not at all unlike another group in the headlines with difficulties letting go.
The stench of decay has caused a few to flee, but committed members of the Trump Is Lord cult aren’t budging.
Observe Republicans in Congress who oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Why in the world would they oppose it? Because Trump has criticized it.