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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><h3 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNP Action, Inc.</font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to CNP's website,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"CNP Action, Inc. is th</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">e 501(c)(4) sister organization of the Council for National Policy. Founded in 1987</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;CNP Action, Inc. serves as an advocate for conservative principles such as limited government, free economic enterprise, traditional values and a strong national defense. It promotes issues or specific pieces of legislation through regular Action Sessions and publications."</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Beginning in April 2020, this organization began involved with strategies to&nbsp;<b>reopen U.S. states despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic</b>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-cnpap_22-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpap-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cnpprw_23-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpprw-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="CNP_Action_Organized" pro-trump="Pro-Trump" _doctors_to_legitimate_reopening_efforts="Doctors_To_Legitimate_Reopening_Efforts"><span class="mw-headline" id="CNP_Action_Organized.22Pro-Trump.22_Doctors_To_Legitimate_Reopening_Efforts" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNP Action Organized "Pro-Trump" Doctors To Legitimate Reopening Efforts</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Associated Press</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;reported on a May 2020 conference call between CNP Action and a senior staffer for Trump's reelection campaign, originally obtained by&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Democracy" title="Center for Media and Democracy" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none;">Center for Media and Democracy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In the leaked meeting, these o</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">peratives discussed "recruiting 'extremely pro-Trump' doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible" despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<sup id="cite_ref-cnpap_22-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpap-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;When asked about these efforts by&nbsp;<i style="">AP</i>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh asserted he took no issue with contradicting the government's infectious disease experts. Murtaugh explained, "Our job at the campaign is to reflect President Trump’s point of view... We are his campaign. There is no difference between us and him.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><sup id="cite_ref-cnpap_22-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpap-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="CNP_Action_Helped_Coordinate_COVID-19_Lockdown_Protests" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNP Action Helped Coordinate COVID-19 Lockdown Protests</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In April 2020, CNP Action "hosted weekly conference calls to coordinate coronavirus response tactics", working together with organizations including&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">FreedomWorks</a>, Open the States, ReOpen PA, The Save Our Country Task Force, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tea_Party_Patriots" title="Tea Party Patriots" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Tea Party Patriots</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-cnpprw_23-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpprw-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;The stated goal of Tea Party Patriots was to "share the stories of people who have been affected by the lockdowns, to show that we must be concerned with both sides of this crisis."<sup id="cite_ref-cnpprw_23-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpprw-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNP also shared information through email about attending in-person events, including an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eagle_Forum" title="Eagle Forum" style="background: none rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none;">Eagle Forum</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">-organized car protest at the Alabama Capitol Building and a lockdown protest at the Pennsylvania state capitol</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-cnpprw_23-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy#cite_note-cnpprw-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); outline: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The participants discussed the Trump Campaign's innovative strategy to bypass the fake news narrative about the President and inform voters directly of his record of accomplishments. The Republican Party is more diverse than ever, and the Trump Campaign is reaching new voters every day with President Trump's message of Promises Made, Promises Kept. Just as President Trump is committed to uplifting every American, the Trump Campaign is working with voters of every background to support the President. The panelists encouraged all Americans to join President Trump's Campaign and listed the variety of ways that supporters can get involved.</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Team Trump is completely redefining the traditional political campaign, and we are reaching out to voters across the country to build up enthusiasm for President Trump's re-election," said Erin Perrine, Trump 2020 Director of Press Communications. "The fake news media is intentionally hiding President Trump's accomplishments, so we are reaching voters directly to inform them of all the President has achieved in just four years."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The fake news likes to pretend like the Trump Campaign and its supporters aren’t diverse, but as a young Latina and mom I know that we are inclusive and uplifting of all voices," said <b>Hannah Castillo, Trump 2020 Director of Coalitions. "Through our coalitions, the Trump Campaign is reaching out to key voters that sleepy Joe Biden and Democrats take for granted."</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Trump Victory is training and activating volunteers across the country to support President Trump from the grassroots level," said Swati Singh, Trump Victory Director of Strategic Initiatives. "Even though the fake news and radical left will stop at nothing to demonize supporters of the President, we will win this election because of our vast nationwide organizing in support of President Trump."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>What To Know About The '<b>Women For Trump' Coalition Led By Lara Trump</b></div><div>
</div><div>BY ROSE MINUTAGLIO</div><div>JUL 30, 2019</div><div>
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</div><div><b>At a casino resort in the Philadelphia suburb of King of Prussia this month, Lara Trump revealed the launch of "Women for Trump," a coalition dedicated to rallying female voters in support of the president as he seeks reelection in 2020.</b></div><div>
</div><div>"Is your life better now than it was before Donald Trump got elected?" Lara, the president's daughter-in-law, asked the crowd of several hundred. "Do you have a little more money in your bank account? Did you get a break on your tax return this year?"</div><div>
</div><div>The women-led group is the latest iteration of female loyalists banding together to support Trump (remember the Trumpettes?), and it's packed with a strange mix of activists, fringe entertainers, and problematic politicians.</div><div>
</div><div>Play Video</div><div>Here's everything you need to know about the "Women for Trump."</div><div>
</div><div>Donald J. Trump for President Women for Trump</div><div>Lara Trump at the launch of the Women for Trump coalition on July 16.</div><div>THE WASHINGTON POSTGETTY IMAGES]</div><div>
</div><div>What is the coalition?</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to<b> Hannah Castillo, the director of coalitions for Tump's 2020 campaign</b>, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., Women for Trump is a, "national effort to mobilize and empower women who support President Trump to help get the message of 'Promises Made. Promises Kept' into their communities across America.</span>"</div><div>
</div><div><b>“From public safety to economic opportunity, women have directly benefitted from President Trump’s policies,”</b> <b>Castillo says in a press release. She adds, "Unemployment for women is at its lowest level in over 65 years, and nearly 3.1 million new jobs have been added for women since January 2017.</b> The strong support by women across the country will ensure a second term for the President.”</div><div>
</div><div>Donald J. Trump for President Women for Trump</div><div>Female supporters at the Women for Trump coalition kickoff in King of Prussia.</div><div>THE WASHINGTON POSTGETTY IMAGES]</div><div>
</div><div>Lara Tramp is spearheading it.</div><div>
</div><div>In a statement to Newsweek, the president's daughter-in-law and senior advisor for his 2020 campaign said, "Because of President Trump's policies, women have seen large gains in employment numbers, in securing our communities and most importantly in equipping the next generation of female leaders. 'Women for Trump' will not only highlight the President's clear record of success during his first term but will share a vision of empowerment and prosperity for every person in every corner of our country."</div><div>
</div><div><b>Who's in the coalition?</b></div><div><b>A bizarre jumble of Trumpworld influencers, activists, relatives of conservative commentators—and even a former Miss World America pageant contestant.</b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Women for Trump website shows a 36-member board that includes Danielle D’Souza Gill (daughter of conservative filmmaker and political commentator Dinesh <b style="">D’Souza)</b>,</span> <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">vloggers Diamond and Silk, Christian podcaster</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Cissie </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Graham </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lynch (daughter of Christian evangelist Franklin Graham), Clueless star Stacey Dash, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece Alveda King, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and former </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pussycat Dolls member Kaya Jones. Jones is also in the National Diversity Coalition for Trump as the Native American Ambassador, despite no confirmation of any Native ancestry for the singer.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Several other prominent relatives of high-ranking politicians are in the coalition, like Ben Carson's daughter-in-law Merlynn Carson and Debbie Meadows, wife of Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kathy Zhu, the controversial ex-beauty queen and University of Michigan student, was named to the coalition's advisory board in a tweet from Team Trump calling her, "a patriot who has continued to stand for American values despite being stripped of her crown."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zhu relinquished her Miss Michigan title when Miss World America dismissed the Twitter commentary as, "offensive, insensitive and inappropriate."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a since-deleted tweet, the 20-year-old recalled visiting a Muslim Student Association booth celebrating World Hijab Day at the University of Michigan. According to USA Today, the tweet read, "There is a 'try a hijab on' booth at my college campus. So you're telling me that it's now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing? Or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam?"</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>In another controversial tweet, she wrote, "Did you know that the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others."</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Several big-name politicians are also in the group.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Described by The New York Times as "unfailingly loyal to Trump," Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel was at the launch of the coalition in Pennsylvania on July 16.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Listed on the coalition's advisory board is former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who declined to probe Trump University shortly after her reelection PAC received a $25,000 check from Trump. According to Slate, several other female politicians sit on the board, including:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer </span>is best known for signing a draconian immigration bill into law in 2010, and former New Hampshire state legislator Lynne Blankenbeker made national news when she joked in an email about using military weapons against “the unions.” Board member Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh, a longtime sheriff in Pennsylvania, has presided over multiple controversies including liking a Facebook post suggesting white supremacists are less threatening than Black Lives Matters supporters, and auctioning off an AR-15 as a fundraiser.</div><div>
</div><div>Clothing, Text, T-shirt, Jersey, Product, Sportswear, Font, Sleeve, Brand, Logo,&nbsp;</div><div>WOMEN FOR TRUMP</div><div>The coalition even has merchandise for sale.</div><div>Because, of course it does. There are pink hats, signs, shirts, and bumper stickers for sale that say, "Women for Trump."</div><div>
</div><div>ROSE MINUTAGLIO STAFF WRITER</div><div>Rose is a Staff Writer at ELLE.com covering culture, news, and women's issues.</div><div>
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Probably ordering takeout.”</span></font></div><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 1.875rem 1.875rem 0px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story summary-middle" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; border: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-top: 0.625rem;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">How did you get your start in politics?&nbsp;</span>“I didn’t realize it then, but looking back -- when I ran for freshman class president in high school. That’s when I learned the value of good campaign swag. My homemade ‘Vote for Hannah’ shirts went fast.”</font></p><aside class="story-enhancement" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.875rem;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">What’s an interesting book/article you’re reading during coronavirus social distancing? And why?&nbsp;</span>“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Destiny-Witcher-Andrzej-Sapkowski/dp/0316389706" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation;">‘Sword of Destiny, Tales of the Witcher.’</a>&nbsp;I’ve already beaten The Witcher 3 twice. I need more.”</font></p></aside></div></div></div></div><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story hide-under-small" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 18.75rem; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><aside class="story-enhancement" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div></div></section><section class="page-contentrow page-contentrow--story main-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; z-index: 2; margin: 1.875rem auto 0px; max-width: 84.375rem; border: 0px; padding: 0px 1.875rem;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="container container--story story-layout--fixed-fluid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; border: 0px; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 18.75rem; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally hide-under-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 18.75rem; border: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 960px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin-top: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; margin-left: 1.875rem;"><div class="containerrow containerrow--story story-layout--fluid-fixed" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="containercolumn containercolumn--story center-horizontally" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; width: 630px; border: 0px; min-width: 0px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%;"><div class="story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 39.375rem; margin: 0px auto;"><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">What’s a trend going on in the U.S. or abroad that doesn’t get enough attention?&nbsp;</span>“Kanye doing Christian music and Sunday services. He’s revolutionizing music (again) and no one is giving him credit. They never do.”</font></p><p class=" story-textparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">How’s the Trump presidency going?&nbsp;</span>“Crushing it.”</font></span></p><p class=" story-text__paragraph" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">What’s a fun fact that people in Washington might not know about you?&nbsp;</span>“I have a 10-inch bald eagle tattoo across my rib cage.”</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></section><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On July 27, a dozen physicians posed in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., dressed in white lab coats with “America’s Frontline Doctors” stitched over the pocket. The group’s chief spokesperson was Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency physician from Los Angeles. They were introduced by Jenny Beth Martin, the&nbsp;<b>founding CEO of Tea Party Patriots,</b>&nbsp;as participants in the “White Coat Summit.”</span>&nbsp;The doctors made spirited arguments for the use of hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for Covid-19 and against wearing masks and imposing lockdowns—all running counter to the recommendations of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn1" name="ftnref1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[1]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Although the event was billed as a “press conference,” few journalists attended. A video posted by a bystander showed only a handful of attendees, most of them dressed in tourists’ shorts and T-shirts. But the event was livestreamed by Breitbart News and quickly went (so to speak) viral.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There was a rapid backlash. Much of the media attention focused on<b>&nbsp;Dr. Stella Immanuel,</b>&nbsp;one of Gold’s cohort. Following the press conference, the Daily Beast posted a video of Immanuel, who is also a Pentecostal preacher, delivering a sermon claiming that various female ailments were caused by sexual visitations from “demons.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Immanuel has since disappeared from the America’s Frontline Doctors online roster, but the group has continued to get traction. On August 10, Pat Robertson’s show on the Christian Broadcasting Network carried an interview with Simone Gold and an endorsement of her hydroxychloroquine cure.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On August 21, Alex Jones’s NewsWars carried an interview with another member of America’s Frontline Doctors, Mark McDonald. McDonald—a child psychiatrist—<a href="https://www.newswars.com/frontline-doctor-silenced-by-youtube-and-facebook-speaks-out-about-hydroxychloroquine/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">maintained</a>, “If all Americans had access to hydroxychloroquine, the pandemic would essentially end in about 30 days.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Science has shown otherwise. Despite early hopes last spring, there is mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a problematic—and even dangerous—treatment for Covid-19. One expert with firsthand knowledge is Nick Sawyer, an academic emergency physician in Sacramento, Calif. In July he&nbsp;<a href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/californiaacep.org/resource/resmgr/docs/lifeline/2020/lifeline_magazine_summer2020.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">wrote</a>&nbsp;an article for&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Lifeline,</em>&nbsp;the publication of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, describing his harrowing two weeks of service in the Covid wards of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Sawyer was part of a team of California doctors dispatched by Governor Gavin Newsome to offer emergency assistance at the epicenter of the epidemic, at the height of the New York City outbreak.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sawyer is now dealing with the spike in cases in California, this time with the benefit of four months of additional Covid research. “The science on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19 is settled—multiple high-quality studies have shown that it shows no benefit,” he notes. Far more concerning, Sawyer says, is its potential harm: “Hydroxychloroquine can cause unstable cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death.” Over recent months, the Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, and other organizations have issued&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/joint-statement-of-the-american-medical-association-american-pharmacists-association-and-american-society-of-health-system-pharmacists-on-new-fda-action-to-remove-emergency-use-authorization-of-medications-to-treat-covid-19-301082292.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">warnings</a>&nbsp;that the drug should be withdrawn as a Covid-19 treatment. “It’s irresponsible for America’s Frontline Doctors to continue to push this medication on the unwitting American population,” Sawyer states.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Why, then, would Gold’s band of physicians continue its campaign to pitch the treatment to the public? Simone Gold has repeatedly described her group as a “grassroots organization” acting in the service of its patients.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn2" name="ftnref2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[2]</a>&nbsp;In fact, it has been a highly orchestrated effort, months in the making, assembled by conservative Washington insiders in direct consultation with the White House, with the goal of reopening the economy in time to benefit Trump’s reelection prospects—regardless of the toll in human lives.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first public mention of the initiative may have been a&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em>&nbsp;story on April 13, as the virus raged across New York City and Covid-19 deaths passed the 20,000 mark.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn3" name="ftnref3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[3]</a>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>&nbsp;reported the creation of a new conservative coalition “pushing for the White House and GOP lawmakers to push back against health professionals who have urged more caution.”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">&nbsp;The leadership was listed as Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, and Lisa Nelson of the American Legislative Exchange Council. A fourth individual, Jenny Beth Martin, i</span>s the founding director of the Tea Party Patriots. She would play a key role in organizing the events to come, including the doctors’ Washington “summit” in July.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Brandon, Nelson, and Martin are all prominent members of a secretive organization called the Council for National Policy,&nbsp;</b>a shadowy coalition that coordinates initiatives among conservative megadonors, political operatives, and media owners, many of them Christian fundamentalists (see “<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/nelson-shadow-network/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">Holding Democracy Hostage</a>”).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Post</em>&nbsp;story quoted an interview with&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Richard Viguerie, a co-founder of the CNP,</span>&nbsp;on the mission of the initiative: “The sooner we get the economy going and back up, the better it’s going to be for conservatives and Republicans in this election year.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Conservatives feel the government has overreacted, and it’s got to end.</b>”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn4" name="ftnref4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[4]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>The new coalition, called Save Our Country,</b>&nbsp;officially debuted on April 27, as U.S. Covid deaths approached 55,000.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn5" name="ftnref5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[5]</a>&nbsp;<b>Headed by economist Art Laffer,</b>&nbsp;its maiden press release featured quotes from Brandon, Nelson, and Martin</span>. “The long-term consequences of a prolonged societal shutdown outweigh the damage done by the virus itself,” Martin stated. “We must immediately reopen the economy.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn6" name="ftnref6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[6]</a>&nbsp;Earlier that week,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em>&nbsp;reported that the Save Our Country coalition’s members were mobilizing their networks for state-level rallies, filing lawsuits, and commissioning polls, all to counter the lockdowns: “<b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nonprofit</span>&nbsp;groups including FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots</b>&nbsp;have used their social media accounts and text and email lists to spread the word about protests across the country.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn7" name="ftnref7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[7]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the state-level protests turned out to be of limited utility, and the group began to look for new avenues. In April, CNP Action, the lobbying arm of the CNP, began a series of weekly conference calls to discuss Covid strategy. On May 11—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 74,270<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn8" name="ftnref8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[8]</a>—one of the calls was intercepted and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/05/19582/coalition-pro-trump-doctors-forming-defend-president%E2%80%99s-covid-19-blunders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">published</a>&nbsp;by the Center for Media and Democracy and the Associated Press.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Among the participants were&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CNP President William Walton, CNP member Nancy Schulze,<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn9" name="ftnref9" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[9]</a>&nbsp;and Mercedes Schlapp,&nbsp;</span>a senior adviser to the Trump campaign.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Schulze, the wife of former nine-term Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dick Schulze, opened the call with a warning that two-thirds of the American people were wary of reopening the economy. But, she added, “Doctors are seen by the American people—they have a 92 percent trust rate with the American people according to polling.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;There is a coalition of doctors, doctors’ coalition, who are extremely pro-Trump, that have been preparing and coming together for the war ahead in the campaign on health care, and<b>&nbsp;these doctors could be activated for this conversation now for reopening. NOTE RWI NICHE SLEEPER CELLS]</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“The one thing the left does give credence to, in that they tend to be motivated by a secular worldview, the one thing that they do appreciate and listen to is science, and we have doctors that have the facts, that lived this themselves, that are in the trenches, that are saying it’s time to reopen</b>,” Schulze continued. “I’ve been working with them for three years. There’s a coalition of doctors .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. including the most respected doctors in this country, that are ready to speak if somebody will just call on them.</span>”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Walton told her, “We need to not just make the economic argument,<b>&nbsp;we need to make the health argument, and we need doctors to make that argument, not us</b>.&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">THIRD PARTY TOBACCO PR BS</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;And so that would be great if you, if we could tee that up.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schulze said she’d be happy to put him in touch “with any and all of these doctors, and I have submitted 27 of these doctors’ names to the campaign for the doctors’ coalition that they’re in the process of building.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mercedes Schlapp asked Schulze if she had spoken with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Hannah Castillo</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I know they’ve been working on building that coalition. I know they’re going through the vetting process right now. As long as you have the names, that would be helpful.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Those are the type of guys we want to get out on TV and radio to help push out the message.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Schulze replied, “I’ve been working with Hannah for over six weeks now, so they already have been vetted. But they need to be put on the screen.</b>”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn10" name="ftnref10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[10]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dr. Simone Gold, a 54-year-old emergency physician from Los Angeles, was ready for her close-up. On April 22, Gold had tweeted a stand-up of herself wearing a white “Emergency Dept.” coat, in front of Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital emergency room, suggesting that concerns over the virus were inflated. She pointed out that the hospital “parking lots are empty, the emergency department volume is down, the patient census is down, and that’s really in most of the areas I’ve been to</span>.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn11" name="ftnref11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[11]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On May 7, she brought a more explicit anti-lockdown message to a program on the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Whiskey Politics</em>&nbsp;show on Salem Radio, part of the massive Salem Media conglomerate owned by two leading members of the Council for National Policy</b>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn12" name="ftnref12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[12]</a>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was headlined “DR. SIMONE GOLD GOES PUBLIC! What the Government WON’T Tell Us About COVID-19.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“It’s not at all clear that overall, that social distancing is going to make a huge impact,” Gold said.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn13" name="ftnref13" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[13]</a>&nbsp;“We’re all acting like as though there’s a huge medical crisis. There’s a medical issue, we should handle it responsibly, but what’s going on in our country now is a terrible legal crisis. Our constitutional rights are being trampled on right and left.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn14" name="ftnref14" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[14]</a>&nbsp;Gold later added, “There’s always viruses&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;but I’m not sure that it’s front-page news.”</span><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn15" name="ftnref15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[15]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Guardian</em>&nbsp;reported that over the same period, the Save Our Country coalition spent $50,000 on videos on social media platforms “targeting independents and Republicans with the message that Covid-19 mostly hits the elderly to minimize risks for others.”</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 300ms; transition-delay: 0ms; transition-property: color;">[16] GUK</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 19—as U.S. Covid deaths reached 84,640<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn17" name="ftnref17" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[17]</a>—the CNP’s doctors coalition (billed as “A Doctor A Day”) made its debut with an open letter to Donald Trump signed by “500+ doctors” (a number that was later revised to over 800).&nbsp;<b>“In medical terms, the shutdown was a mass casualty incident,” it stated. “It is impossible to overstate the short, medium, and long-term harm to people’s health with a continued shutdown.” The lead signatory was Dr. Simone Gold.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>On June 16—with U.S. Covid deaths approaching 110,000<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn18" name="ftnref18" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[18]</a>&nbsp;and the U.S. economy in freefall—the Save Our Country coalition published an open letter to President Trump and Leader McConnell, urging “that the multi-trillions of dollars of federal government debt spending in the wake of the Coronavirus come to a stop</b>.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn19" name="ftnref19" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[19]</a>&nbsp;Twelve of the 20 signatories (among them Brandon, Nelson, and Martin) were members of the CNP, including CNP President William Walton and Executive Director Bob McEwen.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The push to reopen the schools became a full-court press. On July 7, Trump assembled a White House meeting on the subject. Jenny Beth Martin spoke as both the CEO of Tea Party Patriots and “as a mom.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“Mr. President, you were right, and I hope you will trust your instincts,</b>” she told Trump. “America is not meant to be shut down.&nbsp;And we have to reopen schools this fall. I’ve been in touch with almost a thousand doctors from around the country.&nbsp;I helped Dr. Simone Gold spearhead a letter to you signed by 800 physicians and surgeons who talked about the side effects of the lockdowns.&nbsp;I’ve done a second letter with over 150 doctors, 240 nurses, 330 educators, 70 national groups, and thousands of parents and concerned Americans who want to see schools reopened.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A video of Martin’s statement appeared, billed as “Mom Gives Unexpected Speech Directly to Trump” without naming her or her affiliation. It was posted on various social media platforms, including Glenn Beck’s YouTube channel, The Blaze (where it clocked over 400,000 views as of August 4)</b>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn20" name="ftnref20" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[20]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Dr. Simone Gold was now preparing to join Jenny Beth Martin on center stage. On July 22, Gold warmed up for her appearance on&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Charlie Kirk Show,</em>&nbsp;with over 157,000 YouTube subscribers</span>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>Kirk, a member of the Council for National Policy,</b>&nbsp;heads a group called Turning Point USA, which recruits right-wing campus activists. (Donald Trump addressed its Youth Action Summit last December, and Donald Trump Jr. is quoted on its website stating, “I’m convinced that the work by Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk will win back the future of America.</span>”)<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn21" name="ftnref21" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[21]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The introduction for Kirk’s show summed up the case Gold and her colleagues would make over the coming weeks:&nbsp;<b>“Charlie is joined in studio by board-certified emergency physician Dr. Simon [sic] Gold, who says nearly everything we’ve been told about the Chinese Coronavirus is a lie.&nbsp;</b>She and Charlie take a deep dive into the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and why the U.S. government is barring physicians from prescribing the drug—endangering potentially 100,000 lives, at least. Charlie also takes on Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, asking if Dr. Gold challenges the effectiveness of wearing masks. Dr. Gold makes a stunning and factual assertion about the death rates and who exactly is to blame for what she believes is one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated against the American people.”&nbsp;<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn22" name="ftnref22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[22]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Gold’s “stunning assertion” was the often-repeated claim that doctors were falsifying death certificates, speculating without foundation that they were inflating Covid-19 cases by “20 to 30 percent.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn23" name="ftnref23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[23]</a>&nbsp;Gold also asserted, “Masks are really foolish, they don’t do anything.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;There’s zero scientific justification for the mask</span>.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn24" name="ftnref24" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[24]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jenny Beth Martin emphasized a social media campaign from the start. Her Tea Party Patriots website posted the program of the White Coat Summit, offering the participating doctors a two-hour session devoted to expanding their social media reach: “YouTube and other social media vastly exceed television news as the information source for most Americans. Interviews and Q/A with social media personalities with large followers is the best way to talk to Americans. Doctors who want to answer questions from these modern journalists will have the opportunity.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>By the time Jenny Beth Martin hosted Gold’s White Coat Summit on July 27, U.S. Covid-19 deaths had skyrocketed to over 136,000.</b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn25" name="ftnref25" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[25]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;The physicians’ presentation carried a lethal stew of misinformation. Dr. Bob Hamilton, a pediatrician from Santa Monica, assured viewers, “Children are not passing [the virus] on to their parents or their teachers.” (A few days later, the CDC released a report on a massive transmission event in June at a Georgia summer camp, with a median age of 12</span>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn26" name="ftnref26" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[26]</a>)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Dr. Richard Urso—an ophthalmologist—praised hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for the virus,&nbsp;</b>but it was not clear that Urso had ever had any significant experience treating Covid-19 patients. Another speaker was Dr. Daniel Erickson, a Bakersfield physician who co-owns an urgent care facility. In April he had been censured by the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine for his “reckless and untested musings” opposing stay-at-home orders and promoting the conspiracy theory about doctors misattributing deaths to Covid-19</span>.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn27" name="ftnref27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[27]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The social media strategy paid off. Gold and her colleagues’ video, livestreamed on Breitbart News, reportedly reached 185,000 concurrent users.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn28" name="ftnref28" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[28]</a>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em>’ Kevin Roose reported that over its six hours on Facebook, it was the second-most-engaged post on the platform, with 14 million views.</b><a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn29" name="ftnref29" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[29]</a>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(The audiences for network news broadcasts, by comparison, range from 9 to 12 million.) A few hours after the presentation, President Trump tweeted the video to his 84.5 million followers.<b>&nbsp;Donald Trump Jr. told his 5.3 million Twitter followers, “</b>This video is a much [sic] watch!!! So different from the narrative everyone is running with.”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn30" name="ftnref30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[30]</a>&nbsp;Trump redoubled his support at his press conference the following day, stating “I think they’re very respected doctors.</span>”<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn31" name="ftnref31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[31]</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But major social media platforms reacted with relative speed. Facebook took the group’s video down a few hours after it was posted, and Twitter and YouTube followed suit, all three on the grounds that the video violated their Covid-19 misinformation policies.<a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/anatomy-of-deceit/#ftn32" name="ftnref32" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: color 300ms ease 0ms;">[32]</a>&nbsp;Twitter took the unusual step of suspending Trump Jr.’s account for 12 hours.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.7rem; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gold had built the original America’s Frontline Doctors website on a SquareSpace platform, but&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SquareSpace took it down</span>. Gold rebuilt the website (omitting Stella Immanuel of “demon sperm” renown) and started raising money through PayPal and fundly.com. The doctors’ program also remained on the Tea Party Patriots site.</b></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>