The Lean to the Left Podcast

Do you have a friend or relative living in a nursing home? Are you worried about their safety…about their risk of contracting the coronavirus? If you’re not, maybe you should be. That’s the topic of today’s podcast from Not Fake News.biz. Take a listen to Are Nursing Homes Coronavirus Death Traps? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--47...

In a terrific entry on Not Fake News.biz, writer Chris Waldron talks about the many names by which Donald Trump has been…and still is…known. Some are factual and positive and others much less so. But in his piece, Waldron examines how Trump has come to earn some of these names and what all of that means to the rest of us who live in the country governed by this former reality TV star. Then, in a s...

Last week, the Trump administration announced a new plan to gradually open up the nation, reacting to pressure on the economy with a phased approach to opening parts of the country where the coronavirus is being brought under control. Trump told the governors it was up to them to decide what to do and when, a step that would let him off the hook if the virus resurfaces and more people die as a res...

With President Trump pressing to open up the nation’s economy and begin lifting stay-at-home orders so people can go back to work and to school, many Americans are protesting against their state governments’ rules that have shut things down. That, of course, is despite warnings from the experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci that it’s too soon to open up the economy, that doing so will risk even more deat...

Susan Hutchinson, a terrific writer on Not Fake News.biz, says President Trump’s decision to withhold U.S. funds from the World Health Organization amounts to Murder on a Global Scale. Here’s how she put it in today’s blog, which I’ll narrate. Take a listen to Coronavirus: Murder on a Global Scale. From Not Fake News.biz. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lea...

President Trump has decided to withhold U.S. financial support to the World Health Organization even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives around the globe. And that’s money appropriated by Congress, so his action is most likely illegal. But why does he want to do that? Because he wants everybody to blame China for the disaster that has struck America and claimed some 26,000 lives s...

A heartfelt thank you to all of those frontline workers who are helping to keep us safe as we cope with the impact of the coronavirus. From healthcare workers to grocery clerks and EMTs, our fellow Americans are risking their own lives, literally, to keep us well, and to keep us safe. This podcast also includes a personal story regarding a coronavirus scare and test. Take a listen... Become a supp...

So President Trump is announcing a new Opening Our Country Council, presumably to plan for his Big Bang grand opening that he wants by May 1, most likely with lots of fanfare. Typical showman Trump. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually had a President instead of a infomercial host living in the White House? Doesn’t matter, apparently, how many people will die…Trump needs the economy booming again in...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. It’s been a bit of a scary week. A few days ago, I came down with a nasty chest cold and persistent cough that keeps me up at night. So finally, yesterday, I went to the doc and she said I most likely have bronchitis. So, she prescribed some meds. But she also...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. President Trump keeps pitching a drug commonly used for malaria and other purposes as a miracle cure for the coronavirus. It’s called hydroxychloroquine, and it’s manufactured by a company in which Trump and his family trusts reportedly own stock, and in which...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. Writer Chris Waldron has raised a couple of important questions in blogs for Not Fake News.biz and I’m going to present them in this podcast. The first is a disturbing trend of African Americans dying from the coronavirus far out of proportion to their share of...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. Three-plus years ago when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, one of my first thoughts was, “Man, I hope we don’t get into a situation where he decides to push the nuclear hot button.”That, of course, would have been a catastrophe of massiv...

Welcome to the NFN Radio News Podcast, brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m your host, Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. The lack of leadership from Donald Trump as the coronavirus was first apparent in January through today has been appalling. Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron takes a look at that, including how the administration’s inaction and lack of foresight may put doctor...

It’s amazing…but it’s not surprising…how President Trump and right-wing governors are using the coronavirus pandemic to shove their pet projects and policies down our throats. In today’s podcast, Coronavirus: Trump’s Ultimate Excuse, we discuss three such examples, which became evident in just the last few days. Take a listen... Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/...

In today’s podcast, we take a look at two guys that Donald Trump apparently listens to, one of whom is probably the one person who can pull us through this coronavirus pandemic with as little pain as possible…and the other, a self promoter who’s gotten rich off of pillows and says Trump was sent by God to save us all. And, for good measure, there’s some science based info from MIT that basically s...

The coronavirus news keeps getting scarier and now, Dr. Anthony Fauci…the one person I believe more than any other on this…says we could see between 100,000 and 200,000 people die. Already, today, we passed the 3,000 who were killed in the 9/11 attack, and the deaths mount every day. So our esteemed president, Donald trump, cited a report that upwards of 2.2 million could die if we  did nothing. S...

Last week, I was appalled to read that South Carolina’s senior Senator, Lindsey Graham, tried to hold up the $2 trillion coronavirus economic relief bill because he thought people – including nurses – might make more money from the expanded unemployment benefits than if they went to work. Hope he doesn’t get sick and need a nurse…just saying. Then, yesterday, his buddy, Donald Trump, practically a...

Trump’s words and inactions about the coronavirus are literally killing people. You could say we are experiencing the Donald Trump Holocaust. As of today, there were 120,763 coronavirus cases in the U.S. and 2,016 deaths. Trump was warned back in December that this was coming. He did nothing. In this episode, Not Fake News.biz writer Susan Hutchinson excoriates Trump for his slow, sluggish, inept...

A Joe Biden SuperPac called Priorities USA has been running a terrific ad that pairs President Trump’s comments about the coronavirus to an image of an ever growing timeline that shows increasing numbers of cases in the U.S.The ad has the Trump campaign so ticked off that their lawyers have sent a letter out to the stations threatening that the FCC could remove their operating licenses if they don...

Yesterday’s podcast was satire. This is not. It’s deadly serious. The question is really simple. What will we do if our hospitals and medical facilities can’t take care of us – not because of a lack of beds or not enough ventilators – but because the doctors and nurses are sick with the coronavirus? That is a scary thought, but it could happen largely because there aren’t enough face masks, gloves...

With the coronavirus news getting worse by the hour, it seems, Donald Trump is saying he wants to get everything back to normal by Easter, just a couple weeks away. He says we can’t let the cure – shutting down the economy – be worse than the illness – hundreds of people dying from the coronavirus. And so, he hopes we can have the churches packed on Easter Sunday and everything raring to go. So th...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the United States with the number of confirmed cases and deaths continuing to accelerate, it’s become clear that basic medical supplies – including lifesaving ventilators – is in desperate short supply. Ventilators are needed in severe coronavirus cases to help people in respiratory distress to breath, and without it, many will not survive. Bu...

In this episode, we explore why … in the 223 years since George Washington left the presidency in 1797, no woman has been elected to lead our nation. We brought together a panel of knowledgeable, politically astute women, to discuss this question in commemoration of International Women’s Day March 8.They are:Susan Hutchinson, a retired medical technologist active in the Democratic Party in South C...

I was struck by two opinion columns today that I believe, combined, put the situation our country faces today with the Coronavirus epidemic into perspective. One discusses how a major political party’s lies to the American people have made it “dangerous” to the nation. The other recalls the promise of America, and the extent to which that is now gone. That, too, is a danger to America. Take a list...

Every day millions of Americans, whose life savings is in the stock market in one form or another, watch those savings disappear as the catastrophic impact of the coronavirus becomes increasingly apparent. Big time Wall Street investors are worried sick, and so are the rest of us – especially those of us whose retirement savings have been invested there. Had we known about the terrible toll this w...