Trump tells a damnable and murderous lie
By
Dana Milbank
Columnist
April 17, 2020 at 7:48 p.m. UTC
Aguayo characterizes Ayyadurai as an “MIT PhD” and the inventor of email, Ayyadurai is not a medical doctor and in 2016, a judge ruled that doubting his claim to have invented email, as many journalists have, was not libelous.
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Media tycoon Jimmy Lai among 14 from Hong Kong opposition camp arrested over unlawful protests
Others held include former lawmakers Martin Lee, Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan, ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung and Au Nok-hin
Lai, Lee and Yeung Sum were previously charged for taking part in an unauthorised assembly on August 31 last year
How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, realism or dangerous contrarianism
But there is enough nasty sentiment around to create an opportunity for a third kind of rightwing response to coronavirus.
This response seeks to retool conservatism, reverse liberal internationalism and globalization and use the pandemic as a springboard for global conflict.
Its avatar is Steve Bannon, whose pandemic-focused podcast has been a rightwing standout in a sea of corona content.
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