Yet another person has tested positive for coronavirus after attending the White House Rose Garden super-spreader event for Amy Coney Barrett's nomination.
"This afternoon, doctors confirmed that U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia’s wife, Trish, tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus," the U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement.
Eugene Scalia is the son of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
"Mrs. Scalia is experiencing mild symptoms but doing well. This evening, Secretary Scalia received a test and the results were negative; he has experienced no symptoms. The Secretary and Mrs. Scalia will follow the advice of health professionals for Trish’s recovery and the health of those around them," the statement read.
"Both were at the Rose Garden event and sat behind Melania Trump," CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported.
YouGov did their annual ranking of U.S. presidents revealing that former President Donald Trump still isn't the popular president he wants to be.
According to the new rankings, Abraham Lincoln is still the No. 1 guy, much to the chagrin of the Confederacy.
The typical founding fathers are all in the top ten, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. It also isn't surprising that the founder of Social Security and Medicare also ranks at number seven. Barack Obama is eight and Ronald Reagan is nine. Harry Truman is ten with Joe Biden not too far behind, even after being in office for just six months.
The positive for Donald Trump is that he ranks higher than the genocidal Andrew Jackson and Great Depression founder Herbert Hoover.
Trump is also higher than disgraced former President Richard Nixon. William Howard Taft is also below Trump. While Taft may have done important government things, he is generally only remembered by school children as the one who got stuck in the White House bathtub.
See the ranking at YouGov or in the graphic below:
Poor Millard Fillmore https://t.co/adWtWgtet4 https://t.co/5eY4fuIUVU— Catherine Rampell (@Catherine Rampell) 1627412508.0
Among the many insulting things Tucker Carlson said about the police officers who testified before Congress Tuesday, he laughed at Officer Michael Fanone for having PTSD after being beaten unconscious.
During his show, Carlson cast doubt on Fanone's claims of having PTSD after he reported having no such traumas last year after serving during the Black lives Matter protests in Washington, D.C. last summer.
Carlson then implied that Fanone was lying about his suffering now, although the Capitol riots were the only documented time over the last year that Fanone was beaten until he lost consciousness, which is significantly more traumatic than his work policing the BLM protests.
Carlson's dismissal of Fanone's trauma earned him instant scorn -- check out some reactions below.
@ananavarro @TuckerCarlson I F’ing hate you— Ft Worth Curt (@Ft Worth Curt) 1627435884.0
Officer Michael Fanone risked his life #January6th to save Congressional lawmakers including my mom and Capitol st… https://t.co/EslfUKUupZ— Christine Pelosi (@Christine Pelosi) 1627435885.0
Watch Tucker Carlson literally laugh at DC cop Michael Fanone saying he's "been left with psychological trauma and… https://t.co/BlODDFAYDn— Justin Baragona (@Justin Baragona) 1627432427.0
How in the hell does this cruel person @TuckerCarlson still have a platform to vomit out his LIES and CRUELTY? https://t.co/L34ziA0vVf— Nursegal74 (@Nursegal74) 1627435894.0
Hey @TuckerCarlson we know you didn't watch, but turns out we got the answers to your questions about January 6th https://t.co/owy2Wialqo— The Daily Show (@The Daily Show) 1627419660.0
@AndresRGuevara @RawStory @TuckerCarlson Haha ! tucker would wet his pants. I hear TC is a bed wetter 👇 https://t.co/BRyFLRSrG1— ECB (@ECB) 1627435914.0
@TuckerCarlson I wonder how scared you would be if you were one of those Policmen who testified today! I bet you w… https://t.co/jXAV3JfQQ5— DOhio (@DOhio) 1627435915.0
@TuckerCarlson , you need help. Please stop the dangerous rhetoric. Your actions and words have consequences - DO BETTER!!!— Lance Goede (@Lance Goede) 1627435917.0
@koutarobo did you know that @TuckerCarlson is a white supremacist— gum sack (@gum sack) 1627435896.0
Fox News host Tucker Carlson began his show with more conspiracies around the coronavirus, but after ten minutes of rambling, he began talking about Tuesday's major news: The first hearing of the Capitol riot House Select Committee.
Even though Carlson in the past has promoted himself as very pro-police, he nonetheless viciously trashed the Capitol Police officers who testified at the start of the hearing.
First was Officer Harry Dunn, who began the proceedings asking for a moment of silence for his fellow officer Brian Sicknick. Dunn said that Sicknick died as a result of what he experienced that day, something Carlson disputes.
Sicknick, who served in the New Jersey Air National Guard before joining the Capitol police in 2008, experienced a stroke in conjunction with the Capitol attack.
Sicknick wasn't out of shape and his family hasn't indicated he had high blood pressure or there was ever a fear of a stroke.
But according to Carlson, Sicknick's stroke probably had nothing to do with what he experienced that day, even though his brother, Ken Sicknick, said that he collapsed in the Capitol before being revived with CPR.
Shortly after that, officials say, Sicknick developed a blood clot that would lead to the stroke that would kill him.
Carlson then attacked Officer Brian Fanone, implying that he was lying about his PTSD. Fanone testified that he had trauma from the Capitol incident. According to Carlson, Fanone should have experienced trauma during the Black Lives Matter protests the year previously.
The Fox News host went on to claim that the attack at the Capitol wasn't all that bad compared to Black Lives Matter, but he didn't show a video of the attackers breaking through the doors, beating police officers, squeezing cops in doors, or spraying chemicals.
Instead, he showed a clip of them milling about on the lower floor of the building in a clear attempt to downplay the seriousness of the attack.
Finally, Carlson claimed that he wants to see a hearing about the Black Lives Matter riots, which he said resulted in no arrests. It's another factually inaccurate claim. Two protesters were arrested for setting Wendy's on fire in Atlanta during the protests over Rayshard Brooks, for example, and a report from last year said that over 10,000 Black Lives Matter protesters were arrested that summer.
See his video below:
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