The Lean to the Left Podcast

What a jokester Donald Trump is! He’s a real stand up comic, isn’t he! Every time this man opens his trap and says something stupid and gets ridiculed and criticized, either he or his ass-kissing staff claim it was just a joke. Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron calls him out on this in today’s podcast. Take a listen to “No Laughing Matter” from Not Fake News.biz. Become a supporter of this podcas...

For now, the "dreamers" are safe thanks to the June 18 U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administrations effort to scuttle the Obama administration program designed to protect from deportation the children of illegal immigrants who were brought to America when they were kids. In its ruling, which affects nearly 650,000 young immigrants across the nation, the court said Trump’s order endi...

Welcome to today's podcast from NFN Radio News brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. It becomes more evident every day that President Trump’s strategy for reelection is to once again divide Americans, to play on the latent fears and prejudices that he apparently believes will return him to the White House. It seems that not a day goes b...

With the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the subsequent outrage that has resulted, President Trump is now promoting himself as the Law and Order president even as he claims to have done more than any president in history for black Americans. As Stacy Fitzgerald says in today’s podcast, Trump is betting on black fear. It is a cynical, deliberate effort to stoke the emotions of hi...

It was a rough week for the crazy man who lives in the White House and pretends to be a dictator instead of the president. Not sure he even knows the difference. But he had a tough time with the Supreme Court and a U.S. District Court where he lost on all counts. Bad stuff is coming out of the Bolton book, and who knows where that will lead, and even the FDA shot down his favorite coronavirus drug...

In a surprise decision that was welcomed by nearly 650,000 young immigrants across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18 rejected the Trump administration’s effort to toss out the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to America as children…today, known as “dreamers.”The 5-4 decision, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., was a blow to Trump who, since September 20...

Donald Trump, impeached for seeking election help from Ukraine, also asked China for help, says former White House Security Advisor John Bolton in his new book…you know, the one Trump is trying to keep from being distributed. According to Bolton, Trump told Chinese President Xi that if China would purchase more U.S. agricultural products it would boost his chances for re-election. So it wasn’t jus...

Yesterday the New York Times reported that Vice President Mike Pence told governors in a phone call that really, the coronavirus is under control, and that increased numbers of cases is just because more testing is being done. And then, he said the economy is booming back and everything is fine. He fed them the party line because Trump is desperate to at least make people think that it’s all good,...

If there’s one thing Donald Trump both loves, and loves to hate, it’s numbers. Poll numbers, economic numbers, stock market numbers and, of course, crowd size numbers. When it comes to numbers, Trump is quick to embrace the positive while assigning blame to the negative. Trump is absolutely obsessed with numbers. Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron takes a look at that in today’s podcast, Playing t...

No longer, when you visit Washington, DC and take a look at the White House, do you see an open expanse of lawn leading up to this historic building, named The People’s House by President Obama. Today, it is surrounded by an ugly fence erected to keep protesters of the George Floyd police murder as far away as possible. It turns the White House into a fortified bunker, which, no doubt, suits Donal...

Since his election, President Trump has had an obsession of trying to wipe out as many initiatives of President Barack Obama as he can. It’s an effort that just seems never to stop. His latest…and once again, harmful, step to do this came last week when his administration announced that it would overturn an Obama-era rule that provides nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in health care...

President Trump met the other day with his pal, Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, to discuss strategies for holding on to the Senate in the November 3 general election. Seems they’re worried that with Trump plummeting in the polls these days that Republicans could well be in danger of losing Senate control. After all, Democrats only need a net gain of three seats to take over if Trump loses a...

President Trump appears to be driving at least some of his supposed supporters in the United States Senate crazy as he makes comments and sends out tweets that are irresponsible and obviously racist. That’s what happened when Trump tweeted the other day that the 75 year-old man who was knocked to the pavement with a bleeding head wound by Buffalo police must have been a “set up.” In other words, a...

Police departments across the nation are being subjected to intense scrutiny in the wake of the George Floyd police murder in Minneapolis, and, indeed, it was reported today that Minneapolis plans to totally restructure its law enforcement efforts. And the news continues to bring us reports of instances where police officers themselves have crossed the proverbial “thin blue line” as they deal with...

After slavery was abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched across 20 states between 1877 and 1950, according to “Lynching in America” from the Equal Justice Initiative. These lynchings were public acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in entire black co...

When I saw Donald Trump brag about the fact that the unemployment rate had declined to 13.3 percent and say that George Floyd would, thus, be having a good day even though he is dead and his little six-year-old girl is fatherless, I was appalled. No, I was disgusted. That is despicable, I thought. How can this man say such a thing? How can he twist the tragedy of Floyd’s death and the racism and p...

Donald Trump’s Bible-toting photo-op and his use of force against peaceful demonstrators is causing some Republicans to question their support. Oh, it must be difficult to find the courage to speak out against a president who is openly willing to use the U.S. military against his own people. Who is willing to tear gas and shoot with rubber bullets those who are crying out for fairness and equality...

Besides all of its devastating and deadly consequences, Covid 19 can also affect brain function – make you feel like you’re in a fog, confused, even worse. We’re exploring that in this video with Dr. Henry Mahncke, a neuroscientist and CEO of Posit Science. In the interview, Dr. Mahncke says it is possible that people of color may be especially vulnerable to suffering from brain disorders as a res...

Donald Trump’s cruelty and cynical hate for anyone who gets in his way has been increasingly evident as the tragic events in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have unfolded. His name calling, his belligerence, his hate mongering have only fanned the flames of pent-up emotion as protestors have cried out for justice for the black man who was literally smothered by a whit...

Last week when America recorded its 100,000th death from covid 19, it was big news, and was yet another reminder of the inept response to this pandemic by Donald Trump and his administration. And then, Minneapolis happened. A black man was brutally murdered by a white police officer, and now violence has spread to countless communities across the nation. In today’s podcast, Not Fake News columnist...

America has gone through what really must be described as a horrible, tragic week. The coronavirus continues to claim victims, with the death toll exceeding 100,000 with no signs of slowing down. A black man in Minneapolis, George Floyd, was brutally murdered by a police officer, despite his pleas as the cop continued to press his knee against the unarmed suspect’s neck. And, predictably, riots er...

America is reeling…deaths rising from the coronavirus…and now rising protests and riots in the aftermath of the police killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, who died after an arresting officer kneeled on his neck as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”In today’s podcast, Not Fake News writer Stacy Fitzgerald talks about the aftermath of that killing and answers the question of wh...

Donald Trump has misused Twitter for his entire presidency, spreading lies, misinformation, exaggerations, attacks on his adversaries, name calling, and on and on. Finally, the people at Twitter grew some cahunas and called him out – first, attaching a fact-check memo to his tweets claiming mail-in voting causes fraud, and then, flagging a tweet about the Minneapolis rioting for “glorifying violen...

The question of testing for covid-19, the availability of test kits, Trump’s promises that everyone can be tested, and promises that those tests will be free to everyone…is at the heart of the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. And when Congress passed two laws that said patients would not have to pay for coronavirus tests, that question, at least, seemed to be put at rest. But apparen...

Ever since he became president, Donald Trump has made it a priority to withdraw America from the rest of the world, apparently a foundation of his so-called “America First” philosophy. But that action is dangerous and irresponsible and has far-reaching implications. Pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, for example, sets back the worldwide effort to combat climate change, which, of course, Trum...