In America, A US TV host has furiously hit back at Donald Trump for falsely suggesting her husband and co-presenter may have got away with murder. Trump once again used Twitter to verbally abuse someone openly appearing to link MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough to the death of an aide two decades ago, a conspiracy theory debunked by police. Mika Brzezinski said on air as she defended her husband, "Donald, you're a sick person, you're really a cruel, sick, disgusting person". She also demanded Twitter take down the president's incendiary tweets. Ms Brzezinski also said "He's once again tweeting conspiracy theories about Joe, falsely accusing him of murder", on her MSNBC show Morning Joe on Wednesday, before addressing the president directly. She then went on to question how the president could subject the family of a congressional aide - who authorities said died of natural causes in Mr Scarborough's office in 2001 - to such "BS". So it seems Trump is trying to really deflect the headlines narrative away from how incompetent a leader he is by falsely accusing anyone his pee brained intellect can think up. Ms Brzezinski has called for twitter to take down Trump's account after he tweeted this inflammatory comment on Wednesday which read "When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn't it obvious? What's happening now? A total nut job!" which I myself am sure has to be breaching Twitter rules, if not shouldn't we all take to Twitter and spread malicious rumours about anyone we want.
Well, in dear old Blighty, it looks like our medical professional are listening to the mad man in the United States by trialling two anti-malarial drugs to see if they could prevent Covid-19. Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or a placebo are going to be given to more than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. It is reported that all the participants are staff who are in contact with Covid-19 patients. The first UK participants in the global trial are being enrolled on Thursday at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. The UK guinea pigs will be given either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. These are the first of a planned 25 UK sites, with results expected by the end of the year and is open to anyone delivering direct care to coronavirus patients in the UK, as long as they have not been diagnosed with Covid-19. What worries me is the fact that the drugs being used have been widely warned off as dangerous to the health, so why are they going to be trialled instead of working on a virus vaccine. Shouldn't the goal, be to find a cure not a stop gap the spread, wasn't the reason for lockdown to prevent the spread of the disease.
In other news it looks like PM Johnson will not face a criminal investigation into his dealings with US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri when he was Mayor of London, it is understood as the Independent Office for Police Conduct is due to publish its findings at midday after a 10 month review. It was alleged Ms Arcuri received favourable treatment during Mr Johnson's time as Mayor due to their friendship which Johnson has always denied any wrongdoing. As we see once again the rich and powerful can get away with murder or circumvent any type of investigation.
In every walk of life the poor or disadvantaged are always the people to suffer in the economy or the law which is something that has to be rectified and made equal before the world will ever move forward. Also politicians and their aides have to be made accountable for any wrong doing unlike the latest news out of America where Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is to be released from prison on Thursday to home confinement due to Covid-19 concerns. Cohen, who is serving a three-year sentence for lying to Congress and campaign finance fraud. This comes closely on the back of another former Trump aide, ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was released from prison to serve the remainder of his custodial term at home due to Covid-19 fears. Manafort, who was convicted of conspiracy and fraud charges, had served a little over a year of his seven-and-a-half year sentence which is clear breach of any form of ethics and brings in to question what type of influence is being forced on people by politicians to break laws.
Rant you tomorrow!
