Illinois Businesses Could Now Be Charged w/ Class A Misdemeanor For Reopening

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It’s a lot easier for the state to close one place down, but if we did it all together it’d be a lot better…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Illinois business owners could now face a Class A misdemeanor charge if they reopen before the state lifts its shelter-in-place order, according to a new emergency rule Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed on Friday.

The rule would penalize owners of restaurants, bars, gyms, barbershops and other businesses for reopening with a fine of up to $2,500 or a maximum jail sentence of one year, according to the New York Times.

The emergency rule is necessary because it is an “additional enforcement tool for businesses that refuse to comply with the most critical aspects of the stay-at-home order,” Pritzker’s office claimed.

“Law enforcement has relied heavily on educating business owners about the order and always first discusses the regulations with business owners to urge compliance,” said Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokeswoman for the governor.

“Only businesses that pose a serious risk to public health and refuse to comply with health regulations would be issued a citation,” Abudayyeh said.

Ann Spillane, general counsel for Pritzker’s administration, downplayed the penalty.

The new enforcement mechanism is “very mild, like a traffic ticket,” she claimed.

“Nobody’s getting arrested or handcuffed,” she told the Associated Press. “But they are getting a citation where they would have to go to court.”

Pritzker’s prolonged restrictions are some of the strictest in the nation.

Under his reopening plan, Illinois churches will not be allowed to hold services and businesses will not be allowed to accommodate more than 50 people until a vaccine is developed.

Illinois businesses have already begun to flout the restrictions, arguing that they are unsustainable.

Robert Newman, the owner of a restaurant in Herrin, Illinois, reopened his dining room earlier this month in spite of Pritzker’s order, arguing that his 20-seat restaurant is safer than a crowded store like Walmart, which is still allowed to operate.

“If we can get all the businesses to step out in faith, you know, and open up, it’d be a lot easier,” Newman told KFVS-12, a local CBS News affiliate. “But it’s a lot easier for the state to close one place down, but if we did it all together it’d be a lot better.”

Trump Calls Out 'Fake Whistleblower' Rick Bright after '60 Minutes' Interview

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‘How can a creep like this show up to work tomorrow & report to @SecAzar, his boss, after trashing him on T.V…’

House Dems' Phony COVID 'Whistleblower' Exposed for Sick-Leave Fraud
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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump said a fired government scientist who now fancies himself a whistleblower was nothing more than a “disgruntled employee.”
Rick Bright, who recently lost his position as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, persevered, despite a dangerous hypertension condition, in order to bash the Trump administration in House testimony last week.
During a subsequent CBS appearance, he claimed he was the only official to raise concerns about the coronavirus at a Jan. 23 meeting, Fox News reported.
“We’re going to need vaccines and diagnostics and drugs,” Bright told CBS’s 60 Minutes host Norah O’Donnell, recounting his statement from the meeting. “It’s going to take a while and we need to get started.”
Trump responded by calling Bright another “Fake Whistleblower” and a “creep.”


Bright also said that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had responded too slowly to the coronavirus emergency.
Bright said Azar was “intent on downplaying this catastrophic threat,” but he did not offer a motive for Azar’s actions.
“We don’t yet have a national strategy to respond fully to this pandemic,” he said. “The best scientists that we have in our government who are working really hard to try to figure this out aren’t getting that clear, cohesive leadership, strategic plan message yet. Until they get that, it’s still gonna be chaotic.”


Bright also said that he  because he advised the federal government not to use hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus.
He had initially supported the drug’s usage.
“I believe my last-ditch effort to protect Americans from that drug was the final straw that they used and believed was essential to push me out,” he said.
Official accounts show that Bright lost his position at BARDA because of a record of insubordination. He was reassigned to another position.

Oregon Salon Owner Faces $14K Fine, Loss of Kids over Gov.’s Illegal Business Closure

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‘I’m risking going to jail to do it. That’s how important it is to my family…’

Oregon Salon Owner Slapped w/$14K Fine, Child Protective Services Interrogation After Reopening
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) An Oregon small-business owner who reopened her salon in defiance of Gov. Kate Brown’s shelter-in-place order said she was fined more than $14,000 and threatened by Child Protective Services.

Although a judge on Monday declared county judge has declared the governor’s coronavirus restrictions “null and void” because she didn’t have her emergency orders approved by the Legislature the damage was done already for Lindsey Graham, the owner of Glamour Salon in Salem.

Graham reopened her business with much fanfare earlier this month, even though she knew she would face consequences for doing so.

“I’m risking going to jail to do it. That’s how important it is to my family,” she said, according to KPTV-TV.

“I’m deciding that it’s more important for me to feed my family and pay the bills that are going to keep our home and our family alive than take the risk to remain being shut down for an undisclosed amount of time,” she said.

Sure enough, Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health division slapped Graham with a $14,000 fine. And last week, Graham said CPS showed up at her home and demanded to speak with her children.

“If you can possibly believe this, on May 7 Child Protective Services showed up at my home. They questioned my husband and I, they questioned my child without me present, they searched our home,” Graham said, KOIN-TV reported. “I’ve never expected such a violent, aggressive, vindictive thing could have ever been done to me or my family.”

Graham’s situation is similar to that of Shelley Luther, a salon owner in Dallas, Texas. Luther reopened her salon in spite of the state’s shelter-in-place order and ended up being sentenced to one week in prison. However, she was released after thousands of Americans launched an effort to support her.

That resulted in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton intervening to secure her release.

But unlike Texas, where top Republican officials proved sympathetic to Luther’s cause and the only lasting effect was publicity, Graham risked even greater danger for running her business in a deep-blue state.

 A spokeswoman for Oregon’s OSHA confirmed that they had fined Graham $14,000 and defended it as necessary, given “both the nature of the violation and [Graham’s] willful decision to violate the law.”

“She is unquestionably operating in violation of the governor’s executive order, designed to protect workers and the public,” the spokeswoman wrote in an email to CNN.

It was unclear whether the recent judge’s decision voiding Brown’s order might also apply retroactively in Graham’s case.

The decision by Baker County Circuit Court Judge Matt Shirtcliff applies to the entire state, according to the Baker City Herald, and goes into effect immediately.

Brown’s legal team said they plan to Shirtcliff’s decision and take it to the Oregon Supreme Court.

Trump Has Every Reason NOT to Support Accused Insider-Trading Sen. Richard Burr

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‘Wanting his kids to testify was a red line…’

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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, is in hot water for potential illegal insider trading, and there’s been a conspicuous absence of support from a key Republican leader—President Donald Trump.

Despite being a key GOP senate seat from a critical battleground state, Trump has many good reasons—personal and professional—to let Burr fend for himself.

Federal agents served a surprise search warrant on Burr last week as part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation into suspicious stock sales that occurred after a private Wuhan virus congressional briefing in January—or just before the coronavirus economic meltdown.

Agents seized Burr’s phone and are believed to be probing communications with his investment broker. Authorities had already gained access to his Apple iCloud account.

When reporters asked Trump about Burr’s predicament, he simply replied, “That’s too bad.”

Burr’s home state of North Carolina is a must-win for Trump in November, and the 2020 Republican National Convention will be held in Charlotte in August. The state’s other Republican U.S. senator, Thom Tillis, is also facing a tough reelection bid.

But spending political capital on behalf of Burr could damage Trump’s standing, especially as Burr appears to have wrongfully profited while many North Carolinians have suffered amid the harsh economic downturn.

According to his financial disclosures, Burr liquidated between $628,000 and $1.72 million worth of stock on Feb. 13, or a few weeks after the Senate was briefed on Jan. 24 about the severity of the virus.

Burr, who stepped down from his influential Senate Intelligence Committee chairmanship on Thursday, worked with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the committee’s vice-chair, and other Democrats to further the debunked Russia collusion hoax over the past three years.

He even issued a subpoena last year to President Trump’s son Don Jr. after special counsel Robert Mueller completed his partisan Russian election interference report — which found no evidence of collusion whatsoever.

“Wanting his kids to testify was a red line,” an anonymous GOP official close to the White House told Politico last week.

Burr then authorized a report that affirmed dubious findings from a January 2017 intelligence community report that was composed by outgoing Obama administration officials.

The next most-senior Republican in line to assume the top leadership role on the committee would be Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, a much more vocal supporter of the White House, although Risch already chairs the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ultimately will determine who replaces Burr as the next chairman.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on Thursday to suggest that Burr had been hindering many of the president’s priorities on the Intel Committee and expressed hope that the next chair would make more progress on some of Trump’s priorities.

Senate Renews Patriot Act; Lets FBI Monitor Americans' Web Search History

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‘We got some good reforms here…’

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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) The Senate on May 13 narrowly voted to let the FBI monitor the web browsing history of US citizens without a warrant as part of the Patriot Act’s renewal, Vice reported.
Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, R-Kt., proposed the amendment to grant this additional power to FBI, Salon reported.
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., introduced a bipartisan amendment that would have prevented the FBI from gaining the power to spy on the internet search histroy of Americans.
“Under the McConnell amendment, Barr gets to look through the web browsing history of any American — including journalists, politicians, and political rivals — without a warrant, just by saying it is relevant to an investigation,” Wyden said to the Daily Beast.
Needing 60 votets, the Wyden-Daines amendment failed 59-37.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., did not show up to vote for the amendment, despite his oppositon to the federal government’s domestic spying powers.
Sens. Rand Paul, R-Kt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah., led the opposition to the Patriot Act from within the Republican Party.
Paul introduced an amendment that would have made it illegal for federal government’s law enforcement agencies to spy on Americans without a warrant.
The amendment failed; 85 Senators voted against it, USA Today reported.
After debate on amendments, the Senate voted 80-16 to reauthorize the Patriot Act, Politico reported.
Lee, who had previously advised President Donald Trump that he may need to veto the bill, praised it.
“We got some good reforms here,” he said. “They are consistent with many of the aims that House members who negotiated the last House bill had in mind.”
He said he hoped the House would amend the bill to include the Wyden-Daines amendment.

WHITAKER: Activist Judge Who Accepted Flynn Case Was Peter Strzok’s Neighbor

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‘Without the rule of law, without respect for the Constitution, without honest administration in the Justice Department, we don’t have a republic…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) In a forthcoming book, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker piles on to the condemnations of Obama-era officials who politicized some of the nation’s most trusted law-enforcement institutions, according to the Washington Times.

“Without the rule of law, without respect for the Constitution, without honest administration in the Justice Department, we don’t have a republic,” Whitaker writes in Above the Law, due for release on May 19.

The high-profile case against Michael Flynn is among the examples he cites of the incestuous blurring of lines within the Justice Department, the intelligence community, the judiciary and other democratic pillars around which the Left sought to wrap its deep-state tentacles.

Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, was accused of lying to the FBI about his contact with a Russian diplomat prior to Trump’s inauguration.

But Whitaker reveals that the judge who initially took the case, Rudolph Contreras, just so happened to be a friend and neighbor of Peter Strzok, the corrupt FBI agent who had overseen the FBI probe.

Some have noted already that the law firm that initially represented Flynn, Covington & Burling, also happened to employ former Attorney General Eric Holder, the “wing man” of former President Barack Obama who bears much of the responsibility for setting the partisan tone.

“As longtime professional staff of the Justice Department privately acknowledged to me, the arrogance characteristic of the Obama administration, personified by his first attorney general, Eric Holder, created an above-the-law culture inside the Justice Department,” wrote Whitaker.

Contreras eventually recused himself from the case. However, Emmet Sullivan, the judge currently overseeing the case, has proven equally unethical.

Sullivan took the unprecedented move of rejecting the Justice Department’s motion to drop the case following revelations that Strzok and other top officials deliberately set a perjury trap for Flynn.

Now, the Bill-Clinton-appointed federal district judge is asking that a friend of his, former judge John Gleeson, submit an amicus curiae brief second-guessing the decision of Attorney General William Barr.

That takes the case into uncharted legal territory (unless President Donald Trump were to exercise his power to pardon Flynn), but is certain to draw the case out at the very least—which may play to Trump’s political benefit.

Even so, Holder audaciously claimed that it was Barr who sought to “delegitimize” the judicial process, ignoring the countless examples of his own judicial interference and relentless pursuit of a political agenda.

While Democrats sought to deflect from their misconduct in the 2016 election by using the canard of Russian interference as a scapegoat, Whitaker said the greatest anti-American threat came from within.

“There’s no doubt that Russia tried to influence the 2016 presidential election,” he wrote. “But the political meddling within our own government, within the Justice Department, and within the intelligence community poses a far greater threat to Americans than any Russian internet troll farm.”

San Diego Official: Only Six of 194 ‘Virus Deaths’ Caused by COVID Alone

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‘I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds?’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s argument that California needs to extend its shelter-in-place order.

“We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths—six out of 3.3 million people,” he said in an interview this week, according to the San Diego Tribune.

The vast majority of COVID-19 “deaths” — 194 of them attributed to the virus — in San Diego County resulted from underlying conditions that made patients more vulnerable to the virus, Desmond said.

It doesn’t make sense to keep the entire county at home when the threat is no longer there and San Diego County has already successfully flattened its curve, he argued.

But he suggested that the far-left governor may have other motives that were not entirely health-related.

“I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds?” Desmond said.

“I mean, it’s incredible,” he continued. “We want to be safe, and we can do it, but unfortunately, it’s more about control than getting the economy going again and keeping people safe.”

Desmond agreed that “any loss of life, for any reason, is worth preventing,” but added that San Diego County does not need to choose between saving lives and reopening the economy. It can do both, he said.

“I believe we can keep people safe and responsibly open our businesses,” he explained.

Newsom has slowly begun to loosen restrictions on businesses in California over the past week, but he recently extended the state’s shelter-in-place order until at least June.

Desmond accused Newsom of “holding our jobs and the economy hostage.”

“Not only did [Newsom] move the goal posts—he tore them down,” Desmond said in a YouTube video.

“We the people have done what is asked of us. We, not the government, flattened the curve … and we, not the governor, want to stay healthy and see our economy thrive,” he said.

Rep. Jordan Asks State Dept. for Documents on ‘Notoriously Corrupt’ Burisma, Hunter Biden

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‘Let’s bring ’em all in…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has requested information from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding Hunter Biden and his financial dealings with Burisma, a Ukrainian oil company.

Burisma is a “notoriously corrupt” state-run oil company with which Biden was intimately involved, Jordan said in a letter to Pompeo.

And given the fact that Hunter Biden received his position on Burisma’s board while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president, it is worth investigating whether these two facts were related, Jordan said.

Jordan asked Pompeo to provide all unredacted documents regarding Burisma from 2014—the year that Hunter Biden joined the board—until President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, when the elder Biden left office.

Hunter Biden remained on the board, drawing a million-dollar-a-year salary for his “consulting” fees, until the public revelations of his involvement—along with his father’s nascent presidential campaign—forced him to resign last year.

The need for this information is now relevant after conservative watchdog Citizens United revealed hundreds of State Department documents it received from Freedom of Information Act requests, Jordan said.

The new disclosures “provide additional details about the Obama–Biden administration’s actions toward Burisma,” he said.

Jordan did not detail what, exactly, he was investigating. Although he was likely to receive little support from House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, his request followed a similar announcement from the Senate.

A group of Republican senators, led by Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chairman, said it may subpoena some of those implicated in the corrupt dealings, including a U.S. consulting firm, Blue Star, that lobbied the Obama State Department on Burisma’s behalf.

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Although the Burisma scandal may not be directly connected with the Russia-gate hoax, the effort comes as part of a broader election-year push to cast sunlight on the Obama administration’s scandalous misconduct—and that of current Democrat presidential contender Joe Biden in particular.

Speculation has arisen as to why the former vice president visited the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv a mere three days before Trump’s inauguration.

Republicans this week also called for Obama officials to testify about their dealings with Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser. Recently declassified documents showed Flynn was set up by former FBI Director James Comey and the rest of Obama’s “dirty cops,” as Trump has said.

The Senate would have launched this investigation sooner had it not been for the coronavirus pandemic, said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

“If we weren’t in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis this would be the worst scandal since Watergate,” Cornyn said this week, according to The Hill.

But now that the country is beginning to reopen, GOP senators have made it clear that they plan to move forward with these investigations, and quickly.

“Let’s bring ’em all in,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.

Kennedy broke rank from Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-SC, who “wants to start with some of the lower ranking people,” encouraging an accelerated pace as the GOP’s narrow 53-person majority hangs in the balance this November.

“That’s fine,” he said of Graham’s proposal, “but let’s don’t spread this out over months, or—God forbid—years. Let’s bring them in, let’s put them under oath.”

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Wash. State Police Officer Suspended for Facebook Posts Questioning Shelter Orders

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‘We don’t have the authority to do those things to people just because a mayor or a governor tells you otherwise…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A Washington state police officer was suspended after posting a series of videos questioning the state’s shelter-in-place order and encouraging other officers not to enforce it.

Port of Seattle Officer Greg Anderson posted a video to his Facebook account on May 5 calling out other officers enforcing Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order.

“I’m seeing people arrested or cited for going to church, for traveling on the roadways, for going surfing, opening their businesses,” Anderson said. “I want to remind you that regardless of where you stand on the coronavirus, we don’t have the authority to do those things to people just because a mayor or a governor tells you otherwise.”

Anderson encouraged officers to “step up and say no” if “you’re part of a department or agency that is asking people or asking their officers or their deputies to impose on people’s rights and infringe on their freedoms.”

Anderson’s video drew the attention of his superiors, and he was urged to take the video down. But in another video posted on May 11, Anderson said he would continue to speak his mind, despite the fact that he might lose his job for doing so.

“I got a call saying ‘Listen, the video needs to be taken down right now, and you need to accept a letter of reprimand,’” Anderson said, adding that Port of Seattle Police Chief Rod Covey had threatened to take action if Anderson refused. “He said, ‘Greg, if you openly defy your governor, you can’t be a police officer in the state of Washington.’”

Still, Anderson refused to remove his videos, and as a result, he was accused of insubordination and placed on administrative leave “pending termination,” he said.

Covey defended the decision to suspend Anderson, arguing that Anderson’s videos violated the department’s social media policy because he was wearing his uniform and badge at the time they were recorded.

“Greg has always had the ability to express his opinions on what is going on in the country like all other Americans,” Covey said in a statement, according to King-5.

“However, he is not allowed to do so while on duty, wearing our uniform, wearing our badge, and while driving our patrol car,” Covey said. “Every police officer in the country understands that.”

Liberal PolitiFact Sides w/ McConnell; Debunks Claims He Wants States to Go Bankrupt

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‘My guess is their first choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from future generations … so they don’t have to do that…’

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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) The news media has been torching Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for saying he wants hard-hit Wuhan virus states to go bankrupt.

Except, he never actually said that.

The liberal fact-checking website PolitiFact recently debunked the oft-repeated allegation. It clarified that McConnell was opposed to taxpayer bailouts for financially irresponsible cities and states with unsustainable government pension debts and other longstanding problems that have nothing to do with the coronavirus.

A series of media hit-pieces pegged McConnell’s supposed comments to an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. It saves some cities. And there’s no good reason for it not to be available,” McConnell said in the interview.

“My guess is their first choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from future generations to send it down to them now so they don’t have to do that. That’s not something I’m going to be in favor of,” he added.

Despite the clear distinction, story after story has framed McConnell as a ruthless partisan who would rather see coronavirus-stricken cities and states implode rather than offer a helping hand.

The narrative drumbeat has also given license to elected officials and general election candidates in battleground states to repeat the dishonest claim—all while presenting a $3 trillion stimulus wish-list proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the solution.

Pelosi’s plan centers on sending $1 trillion to financially troubled cities and states, almost all of which are Democratic strongholds.

Some, such as California, have explicitly announced their intention to provide subsidies to illegal immigrants, among other questionable funding priorities.

But leftist spin-doctors aimed to flip the script and accuse McConnell of the very thing for which they stand guilty.

In The Atlantic, NeverTrump writer David Frum penned an article titled, “Why Mitch McConnell Wants States to Go Bankrupt,” in which he claimed McConnell was “prioritizing the Republican Party rather than the American people during this crisis.”

“States need help. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not want to provide it,” Frum wrote.

He also championed New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for blasting McConnell’s non-existent position as “dumb,” “irresponsible” and “petty.”

“That’s how you’re going to bring this national economy back? By states declaring bankruptcy? You want to see that market fall through the cellar? … I mean, if there’s ever a time for humanity and decency, now is the time,” said Cuomo.

Prior to the Wuhan virus, New York was already facing its biggest budget shortfall in a decade.

Similarly, the lead paragraph in a Politico article, titled, “McConnell pushes ‘bankruptcy route’ as local governments struggle,” stated that the GOP leader was insisting that coronavirus-plagued “state and local governments should be able to ‘use the bankruptcy route’ rather than receive aid from the federal government.”

It’s a conflation that North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham exploited for political gain in a recent tweet that linked to the Politico story.

He also used the opportunity to misrepresent his opponent, Republican incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis, who also opposes using coronavirus relief funding to bailout underfunded public employee pensions.

“Today, Thom Tillis agreed. Communities around North Carolina are hurting, and we deserve a Senator who will fight for the resources they need,” Cunningham wrote.

For good measure, Reuters erroneously reported that McConnell “opened the door to allowing U.S. states to file for bankruptcy to deal with economic losses stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.”

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