Andy Borowitz: Giuliani to Be First Guest of Lou Dobbs Total Landscaping

Lou Dobbs has selected Rudy Giuliani to be the first guest of his new media venture, Lou Dobbs Total Landscaping.

Dobbs said that his new show will offer “more freedom” than his Fox Business show did, because there will be no cameras recording it.

“Since it won’t be on television or the Internet, we can let it rip,” Dobbs said. “It’s just going to be me and my guest sitting on lawn chairs in the parking lot of a landscaping company, shouting at passersby. It’s a dream format for me.”

Dobbs advised Giuliani “not to hold back” during his appearance on L.D.T.L. and “to spew the first baseless accusations that pop into his head.”

“There’s no way he can ever be sued, because no one will ever see or hear him,” Dobbs said. “Take that, cancel culture.” https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/giuliani-to-be-first-guest-of-lou-dobbs-total-landscaping

Trump’s heaping list of legal problems post-impeachment

● Georgia officials announced that the former President faces two new investigations over calls he made to election officials in an attempt to overturn the state's election results. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● Trump faces a criminal investigation in New York where the Manhattan District Attorney's office is looking into whether the Trump Organization violated state laws, such as insurance fraud, tax fraud or other schemes to defraud. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● New York State Attorney General Letitia James' office is conducting a civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization inflated the values of his assets in order to secure favorable loans and insurance coverage. James' investigation could become criminal. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● Federal prosecutors investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol have signaled that no one is above the law, including Trump, and have stressed that nothing is off the table when asked if they were looking at the former President's role in inciting violence. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● DC's Attorney General Karl Racine warned that Trump could face criminal charges in the days after insurrection, saying DC laws prohibit statements that "clearly encourage, cajole and... get people motivated to commit violence," he told MSNBC in January. Racine said in the interview that his office, which enforces local codes for the city, is collaborating with federal prosecutors on the case. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● Civil suits include one by DC AG Racine's office, which alleges the Trump Organization and Presidential Inaugural Committee abused more than $1 million in inauguration funds by "grossly overpaying" to use event space at Trump's Washington, DC, hotel for his inauguration in 2017. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● With the help of AG Bill Barr, defamation lawsuits were largely delayed while Trump was in office. One was filed by E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who accused him of rape, and another by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice" who claims the President sexually assaulted her in 2007. Both women say he defamed them by saying their claims were lies. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● A legal issue that hits closer to home is whether Trump will be able to continue living full time at Mar-a-Lago. Neighbors of the Palm Beach resort have argue that Trump breached an agreement with the town by moving in full time last month. Town zoning laws allow him to live there full time if he is considered a "bona fide employee" of the club. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/trump-legal-problems-post-impeachment/index.html

● A civil lawsuit filed in Washington federal court on Tuesday by the NAACP and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., claiming that Trump, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and two right-wing extremist groups, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, conspired to incite the Capitol riot. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/trump-criminal-investigation-manhattan-da-probes-seven-springs-estate.html

● The Manhattan district attorney’s office has expanded its criminal probe of President Donald Trump’s company to include its Seven Springs Estate property in Westchester County, New York. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/trump-criminal-investigation-manhattan-da-probes-seven-springs-estate.html

● New York prosecutors are investigating financial dealings around some of Donald Trump’s signature Manhattan properties, extending the known range of the criminal probe of the former president and his company, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-prosecutors-investigating-trumps-manhattan-properties-11613241198

● The top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, has opened a criminal investigation of a January phone call in which then-President Donald Trump urged Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” him enough votes to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/10/georgia-da-opens-criminal-probe-of-trump-call-to-secretary-of-state.html

● The office of the Illinois Attorney General had asked that the judge impose the maximum possible fines: $50,000 for two violations plus an additional $10,000 per day for each day the hotel continued to cool the building using water from the river. With violations occurring since 2017, the former president's hotel chain could be ordered to pay as much as $12 million in fines. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-could-fined-12-million-144647001.html

First They Guarded Roger Stone. Then They Joined the Capitol Attack

At least six people who had provided security for Roger Stone entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to a New York Times investigation.

Videos show the group guarding Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of former President Donald J. Trump, on the day of the attack or the day before. All six of them are associated with the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia that is known to provide security for right-wing personalities and protesters at public events.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/14/us/roger-stone-capitol-riot.html

Democrats and Biden prepare to unveil bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants

The Biden administration, in concert with Hill Democrats, is preparing to unveil legislation this week that seeks to provide a pathway to citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

Biden's bill will also likely join a series of other immigration measures that are narrowly focused on undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children, are in the US under a form of humanitarian relief, and are working in agriculture -- setting up a dizzying number of attempts to provide legalization to the undocumented population. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/16/politics/biden-immigration-legislation-pathway-to-citizenship/index.html

National Republicans dive into Newsom recall push

National Republicans for the first time are jumping into the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the party’s most aggressive move yet to oust the first-term Democrat.

The Republican National Committee is investing $250,000 into the recall campaign, launching a digital and texting program encouraging Californians to sign onto a petition that would qualify the recall for a vote later this year. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/11/california-newsom-recall-republicans-468747

Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market

Former Texas Gov./Trump’s energy secretary suggested that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.

“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business,” Perry is quoted as saying. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Perry-says-Texans-wiling-to-suffer-blackouts-to-15956705.php

Beto O'Rourke: 'We are nearing a failed state in Texas' due to Republican leaders

Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke blamed Republican leaders in Texas for what he says was a failure to prepare for widespread power outages resulting from a massive winter storm that swept across the state this week. 

"The energy capital of North America cannot provide enough energy to warm and power people's homes," O'Rourke said. "We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to do with God or natural disasters. It has everything to do with those in positions of public trust who have failed us. "https://thehill.com/homenews/539147-beto-orourke-we-are-nearing-a-failed-state-in-texas-due-to-republican-leaders

Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party

Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.

The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say.

More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law - ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.

The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-right candidates in others, be they Republicans, independents or Democrats, the people say. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-party-exclusive/exclusive-dozens-of-former-republican-officials-in-talks-to-form-anti-trump-third-party-idUSKBN2AB07P

 

Survey: More than a quarter of white evangelicals believe core QAnon conspiracy theory

A new survey reports more than a quarter of white evangelical Protestants believe a QAnon conspiracy theory that purports former President Donald Trump is secretly battling a cabal of pedophile Democrats, and roughly half express support for the debunked claim that antifa was responsible for the recent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Experts say the data point to a widening ideological divide not only between white evangelicals and other religious groups in the country, but also between white evangelical Republicans and other members of their own party. https://religionnews.com/2021/02/11/survey-more-than-a-quarter-of-white-evangelicals-believe-core-qanon-conspiracy-theory/

Ex-secretary of State spent $10K in taxpayer funds on China-made swag for dinners

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent more than $10,000 of taxpayer money on China-made pens for attendees at private dinner parties he hosted, including CEOs, conservative media figures and Republican donors, according to State Department records.

The pens Pompeo handed out to his Madison Dinner guests cost an average of more than $26 apiece, according to the records, first reported Thursday by the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/11/mike-pompeo-spent-taxpayer-funds-on-pens-made-in-china-for-elite-dinners.html

Tucker Carlson Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist

Fox News host Tucker Carlson went full conspiracy theory and told his viewers that the Capitol riot was a plot from “liberal America” to change the “old order” of the country, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Carlson: “The feds likely had paid informers in the ranks of the protesters.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-goes-full-conspiracy-theorist-ties-insurrection-to-george-floyds-death9

Ex-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell served $1.3B Dominion Voting lawsuit

After evading attempts for weeks by a civil process server that included being “pursued over state lines,” former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell was served with a $1.3 billion lawsuit at her home in North Carolina. https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2021/02/10/ex-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-served-1-3-b-lawsuit-biltmore-forest/6710949002/

House Republicans' 2022 strategy to beat Democrats: Target "socialist agenda" and "job killing policies"

House Republicans have laid out their path to winning back the chamber they came close to flipping in 2020. They plan to rely on a similar playbook: slamming the Democrats as socialists who will implement "job killing policies," while at the same time downplaying any divisions within the GOP.

Since President Biden has taken office, the National Republican Congressional Committee has honed in on the impacts of closing the Keystone XL pipeline and delays in reopening schools. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-strategy-2022/

Democrats eye big ACA changes in COVID relief bill

Democrats’ coronavirus relief proposal includes major changes to the Affordable Care Act, aiming to make health insurance more affordable for the millions of people who have lost their employer-
based coverage during the pandemic.

These changes would check off a lot of moderate Democrats' heath care agenda, at least temporarily. They include some of the biggest changes that President Biden campaigned on.

The House Ways and Means committee legislation would enhance ACA subsidies for two years.

People making up to 150% of federal poverty would be eligible for fully subsidized plans, and no one — regardless of their income — would pay more than 8.5% of their income for health insurance.
People receiving unemployment would also be eligible for full subsidies for a year.

The Energy and Commerce legislation incentivizes states that haven't done so to expand Medicaid. https://www.axios.com/aca-coronavirus-democrats-health-affordability-795d2c6c-e2ea-4988-8db4-fc167778fb07.html

Kinzinger PAC to go on attack against 'Trumpism'

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) plans to target lawmakers including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) with his new political action committee, which aims to aid GOP candidates that don’t embrace Trumpism. 

The Illinois lawmaker — who has been a vocal Trump critic and was one of the 10 GOP House members to vote in favor of impeaching the former president for inciting a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — told The Washington Post he has a “huge list” of members he would like to see challenged for perpetuating conspiracy theories and the unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was stolen.  https://thehill.com/homenews/house/538241-kinzinger-pac-to-go-on-attack-against-trumpism

Biden is winning Republican support for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan. Just not in Washington.

Surveys show that a broad majority of Americans support the assistance, including large numbers of Republicans. Only a minority among Republican voters agree with GOP lawmakers that the aid package is too large, polls have found. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/local-republicans-support-biden-covid-relief-plan/2021/02/14/9791d4ba-6d65-11eb-9ed1-73d434b5147f_story.html

A GOP donor gave $2.5 million for a voter fraud investigation. Now he wants his money back.

True the Vote was one of several conservative “election integrity” groups that sought to press the case in court. Though its lawsuits drew less attention than those brought by the Trump campaign, True the Vote nonetheless sought to raise more than $7 million for its investigation of the 2020 election.

Documents that have surfaced in Eshelman’s litigation, along with interviews, show how True the Vote’s private assurances that it was on the cusp of revealing illegal election schemes repeatedly fizzled as the group’s focus shifted from one allegation to the next. The nonprofit sought to coordinate its efforts with a coalition of Trump’s allies, including Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the documents show. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/true-vote-lawsuit-fraud-eshelman/2021/02/15/a7017adc-6724-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html

Pizzagate’s Violent Legacy

The gunman who terrorized a D.C. pizzeria is out of prison. The QAnon conspiracy theories he helped unleash are out of control. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/02/16/pizzagate-qanon-capitol-attack/

Giuliani no longer representing Trump 'in any legal matters

Trump signaled frustration with Giuliani last month after he became the first president in US history to be impeached twice. He told his staff to stop paying Giuliani’s legal fees. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump/index.html

On social media, vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith

In an insular world on the social media app TikTok, young Christians act out biblically inspired scenes in which they are forced to take a vaccine for the coronavirus, only to end up splattered in fake blood and on the brink of death.

The melodramatic videos are an attempt to represent how the introduction of coronavirus vaccines could herald the biblical End Time. Along with hundreds of thousands of other vaccine-questioning posts by social media users all over the world, they’re demonstrating the ways in which health misinformation is targeting Christians, some reaching sizable audiences. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/16/covid-vaccine-misinformation-evangelical-mark-beast/

Biden’s Approval at 62%

A Morning Consult poll shows the Biden approval rating of 62% with registered voters. Just 23% of registered voters think the Republican Party is going in the right direction, while 63% say the party is on the wrong track.

A Gallup poll shows that at this point in his presidency Trump's approval rating was below 40%

Dominion Says It Will Sue MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Fraud Claims

MAGA diehard and pillow magnate Mike Lindell is the next target of a Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit over his wild claims about nonexistent election-fraud conspiracy, with the lead attorney representing Dominion telling The Daily Beast he expects to file the suit “imminently.”

The suit would make Lindell the third pro-Trump figure sued by Dominion after the company filed $1.3 billion suits against attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-says-it-will-sue-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-over-election-fraud-claims

POLITICO Playbook: Republicans can’t quit Trump

While the rest of the country wants less DONALD TRUMP, Republicans just can’t quit him. Our flash POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the days following the Senate trial shows that despite the impeachment managers’ gripping presentation and video laying out Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 rampage, the GOP remains the undisputed party of Trump.

Republican voters got over any misgivings they had about Trump’s role on Jan. 6 very quickly. Fifty-nine percent of Republican voters said they want Trump to play a major role in their party going forward. That’s up 18 percentage points from a Morning Consult poll conducted on Jan. 7, and an increase of 9 points from a follow-up poll on Jan. 25, before the impeachment trial began.

Another piece of evidence: While Trump’s overall favorability rating is an abysmal 34% in our latest poll, 81% of Republican respondents gave him positive marks. Trump was at 77% approval among Republicans on Jan. 7 and 74% on Jan. 25. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/02/16/republicans-cant-quit-trump-491756

The push to punish Pat Toomey points to a future tied to Trump for Pennsylvania Republicans

The Republican push to censure Sen. Pat Toomey symbolizes a broader question facing the GOP nationally and in Pennsylvania: Where does it go after Donald Trump?

The rush to punish Toomey, one of just seven Republicans who voted Saturday to convict Trump in his impeachment trial, reflects the hold that the former president and his devoted voters retain within the party. Toomey’s defenders, meanwhile, have so far come largely from a more traditional GOP power base: Republicans in the moderate suburbs or the business community, elements that historically drove the party’s candidates, including Toomey, to statewide victories. https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pat-toomey-trump-impeachment-vote-pennsylvania-republican-party-20210216.html

57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection

In the mob on Jan. 6, according to HuffPost’s analysis, were, at least, 16 Republican members of state houses or assemblies, four state senators, a state attorney general, six county commissioners, seven city council members, two mayors, three school board members, two state GOP chairs, two prosecutors and a slew of other officials and party functionaries. The group also included an extremist sheriff from Oklahoma who discussed harming members of Congress, a town council member from Massachusetts who is closely affiliated with the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys and a county commissioner from Florida who once discussed beheading liberals. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/57-gop-officials-at-capitol-insurrection_n_6026e5e2c5b6f88289fb90a6

Is the GOP's extremist wing now too big to fail?

In a survey released last week by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, not only did a majority of GOP voters endorse the statement "the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.", but nearly one-third of them also embraced the convoluted QAnon conspiracy theory Greene has espoused alleging that Trump is defending the nation against a global ring of influential child sex traffickers.

Voters sympathetic to these conspiracy theories and the use or threat of violence as a political tool, says Daniel Cox, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who supervised the poll, have become "a really important faction that the Republican Party is going to have to address. There is a part of the GOP that is really buying into this stuff.” https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/14/politics/republican-extremism-trump-impeachment/index.html

DOJ announces charges against North Korean hacker spies accused of stealing more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency

The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against three North Korean hacker spies accused of conspiring to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency from banks and businesses around the world.

The indictment builds upon 2018 charges brought against one of the alleged hackers in connection with the North Korean regime’s 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, marking the first time the United States charged a Pyongyang operative.

The move shows the degree to which North Korea relies on financial cyber theft to obtain hard currency in a country whose main exports are under United Nations and U.S. sanctions, and that is further isolated by a self-imposed coronavirus blockade.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/north-korea-hackers-banks-theft/2021/02/17/3dccf0dc-7129-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html

The DAILY GRILL

One of the first people arrested was the leader of antifa.” — Michael van der Veen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump.

VERSUS

Facts First: The F.B.I. has said there is no evidence that supporters of the Antifa movement had participated in the Capitol siege.

 

“The entire Democratic Party and national news media spent the last four years repeating without any evidence that the 2016 election had been hacked.” — Mr. van der Veen

VERSUS

Facts First:  United States intelligence agencies concluded years ago that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 election. The Republican-led Senate agreed last year that Russia had disrupted that election to help Mr. Trump.

 

“The House waited to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate for almost two weeks, only after Democrats had secured control over the Senate. — David I. Schoen, another lawyer for Mr. Trump.

VERSUS

Facts First: Democrats had considered delivering the article of impeachment earlier, but Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, then the majority leader, precluded the possibility. In a letter on Jan. 8, he informed Republican lawmakers that the Senate was in recess and “may conduct no business until Jan. 19.”

 

“President Trump wanted the signature verification to be done in public. How can a request for signature verifications to be done in public be a basis for a charge for inciting a riot?” — Mr. Castor

VERSUS

Facts First: Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in Georgia, explained that the secretary of state’s office also brought in signature experts to check over 15,000 ballots. They discovered issues with two, and after further examination, concluded that they were legitimate.

 

Van der Veen claimed that the insurrection at the Capitol was "preplanned and premeditated by fringe left and right groups.”

VERSUS

Facts First: This is false: there is no evidence that left-wing groups were involved in planning or participating in the insurrection. Members of right-wing groups, conversely, have been charged with both planning and participating. Though Trump's legal team has repeatedly attempted to muddy the waters, the evidence shows it was Trump supporters who were overwhelmingly responsible for the attack.

 

Van der Veen: "Mr. Trump did not spend the weeks prior to January 6 inciting violence. He spent those weeks pursuing his election challenge through the court system and other legal procedures, exactly as the Constitution and the Congress prescribed."

VERSUS

Facts First: This is a highly incomplete account of Trump's behavior after the election. Rather than simply file lawsuits and await court decisions, Trump mounted a relentless public campaign to convince his supporters of the lie that they had been cheated out of victory. He also urged supporters to come to Washington for a January 6 protest he promised would be “wild."

Van der Veen echoed false attacks Trump himself had made in the past, claiming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris "repeatedly refused to condemn" acts of violence during riots last year.

VERSUS

Facts First: This is false. Both Biden and Harris condemned riots and violence last year on multiple occasions. They expressed support for peaceful protest.

 

"In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever. We owe it to all those we've lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now. Tired of ads? Want to support our progressive journalism? Click to learn more. — President Joe Biden's statement proposing tougher gun laws.

VERSUS

".@JoeBiden had 30,000 armed guards at his inauguration, he clearly believes in good guys with guns. The best way to prevent school shootings is to repeal all gun free school zones and protect our kids like he protects himself.” — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s response

 

An August 2020 GOP Sen. Ted Cruz tweet took aim at the Office of the Governor of California, which urged residents to conserve energy by turning off lights, limiting the usage of electrical appliances and adjusting thermostats. At the time, California was gripped by a major heat wave and implementing its first rolling power blackouts since 2001.

VERSUS

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz 2020 tweet criticizing California’s energy policies went viral on Monday as the senator’s own state, Texas, reeled from a massive snowstorm that knocked out power to more than 4 million homes and businesses.

 

“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.” — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) blaming solar and wind power for the blackouts in his state.

VERSUS

“Although renewable energy sources did partially fail, they only contributed to 13 percent of the power outages, while providing about a quarter of the state’s energy in winter. Thermal sources, including coal, gas and nuclear, lost almost twice as many gigawatts of power because of the cold… Critics have also noted that wind turbines can operate in climates as cold as Greenland if they’re properly prepared for the weather.” -- Washington Post

From MEDIA MATTERS (They watch Fox News so you don't have to)

Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using multiple Facebook pages he operates to spread lies about the safety of vaccines against COVID-19 as part of a campaign to discourage people from receiving the lifesaving shots. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine campaign is sure to have deadly consequences: Increased COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy will slow down -- and at worst, foreclose the possibility -- of the development of herd immunity against the disease in the U.S. through vaccination rather than through natural infection, which could cause millions of unnecessary deaths.  https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/banned-instagram-vaccine-misinformation-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-dangerous-lies-continue