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This is not "NiceNews"; it's "TruNews".
This report covers all the ironies and contradictions of a political system and country that is in a state of collapse and very vulnerable to actions by its enemies.
It is true that Trump is increasingly erratic and unstable for whatever reason. At the same time the ongoing attempted coup by the Democrats and the Deep State is very real. We also have a president who has been thoroughly emasculated by the constant attacks against him and whose only outlet is to tweet furiously. He does not have the power to use the very damaging information that has come out in recent weeks and make arrests; nobody will carry out his wishes.
I commend this report for its balance and attempt to unpack very fast-moving and confusing events.
NUCLEAR NANCY! SPEAKER PELOSI HINTS PLOT TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP
Today on TruNews we discuss the attempt by House Democrats to declare the President mentally incapacitated in order to remove him from office through Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
We detail the case being made by the communists, including President Trump’s statements about a Biden-Obama coup and coronavirus being a blessing from God, while regular Americans prepare for Civil War.
Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, Edward Szall. Airdate 10/08/2020
Watch the broadcast HERE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Maryland Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin announced on Thursday they would be introducing legislation to establish a commission charged with evaluating the president's mental and physical capacity to hold office.
Pelosi and Raskin said they would hold a press conference on Friday announcing introduction of the Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office Act.
A press notice announcing the conference noted the commission and process are "called for in the 25th amendment to the US Constitution to enable Congress to help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership in the highest office in the Executive Branch of government."
The 25th amendment was ratified in 1967 in the wake of the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy to establish an orderly path of succession in the event the president perishes or becomes unable to perform the duties of office, such as when suffering from an illness.
Section 4 of the amendment describes the process in which other politicians may together determine the president is unfit to perform the duties of office and go about removing them from office, which is set in motion by the "Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide."
The question of US President Donald Trump's fitness to hold office has once again come under scrutiny in the aftermath of his contraction of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus last week, which caused him to spend several days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and to receive a slew of drugs and even supplemental oxygen for a brief period of time. Trump did not pass executive authority to Vice President Mike Pence during that time, but the symptoms of the illness and potential side-effects of the drugs he was taking caused many to question his ability to do his job.
Earlier on Thursday, Pelosi noted that on Friday "We're going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.” Trump replied to the news in furious Tweet.
"Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation," Trump said. "They don’t call her Crazy for nothing!"
Last year, former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe revealed on CBS' "60 Minutes" that in May 2017, after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, he and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein briefly explored using the 25th amendment to remove Trump from office. After Trump appointed Robert Mueller to head the FBI's Russiagate investigation eight days later, their concern was somewhat assuaged.
Trump’s antibody treatment
was tested using cells
originally derived from an
abortion
The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells. But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.
by Antonio Regalado
7 October, 2020
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.
The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.
The Trump administration has taken an increasingly firm line against medical research using fetal tissue from abortions. For example, when it moved in 2019 to curtail the ability of the National Institutes of Health to fund such research, supporters hailed a “major pro-life victory” and thanked Trump personally for taking decisive action against what they called the “outrageous and disgusting” practice of “experimentation using baby body parts.”
But when the president faced a deadly encounter with covid-19, his administration raised no objections over the fact that the new drugs also relied on fetal cells, and anti-abortion campaigners were silent too. Most likely, their hypocrisy was unwitting. Many types of medical and vaccine research employ supplies of cells originally acquired from abortion tissue. It would have taken an expert to realize that was the case with Trump’s treatment.
Last Friday, as Trump developed worrisome symptoms of covid-19, the president received an emergency cocktail of anti-coronavirus antibodies made by Regeneron. These molecules are manufactured in cells from a hamster’s ovary, so-called “CHO” cells, according to the company—not in human cells.
But cells originally derived from a fetus were used in another way. According to Regeneron, laboratory tests used to assess the potency of its antibodies employed a standardized supply of cells called HEK 293T, whose origin was kidney tissue from an abortion in the Netherlands in the 1970s.
Since then, the 293T cells have been “immortalized,” meaning they keep dividing in the lab, somewhat like a cancer, and have undergone other genetic changes and additions.
According to Regeneron, it and many other labs employ 293T cells to manufacture virus “pseudoparticles,” which are virus-like structures that contain the “spike” protein of the deadly coronavirus. It needs those to test how well different antibodies will neutralize the virus.
The two antibodies Regeneron eventually put forward as an experimental treatment, which may have saved Trump’s life, would have been selected using exactly such tests. Because the 293T cells were acquired so long ago, and have lived so long in the laboratory, they are no longer thought of as involving abortion politics.
The rejections centered on research seeking fresh supplies of abortion tissue, rather than ongoing research involving older, well-established cell lines in use for many years, like the type Regeneron employed. However, one reason some scientists want to study abortion tissue is so they can create new and valuable cell lines.
Update: An earlier version of this story was headlined "Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells from an abortion." The words "originally derived" were added to clarify that the cells are not from a recent abortion
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