Swpq 2020 Daily Trail Markers: Trump says in campaign call that Fauci is a disaster
Atlanta mdash; Help is on the way for a couple from Georgia who said they re being held hostage in a Mexican hospital. Stephen Johnson went into diabetic shock while on a Carnival cruise. Doctors in the port city of Progreso treated him, but won t let him leave. I still feel like a captive now because I can t leave, Johnson told CBS News from the hospital.He and his fianceacute;e, Tori Austin, were on the cruise w stanley cup hen he collapsed suddenly and was in danger of dying. At the hospital in Mexico, a team of doctors, dialysis and a ventilator helped him recover. But when he tried to leave three days ago, he said the hospital became a prison. It was three or four of them and they just kept pushing me stanley cup and I had to hold on to the rail. I was going to start swinging and throwing and punching because I was scared, Johnson said.The hospital wanted its money stanley cup first, amounting to $14,000, paid in full. Johnson had no health insurance and the hospital refused his offer to pay over time. Hospital staff physically blocked them from leaving several times, once with a trash can lid. Donors stepped in, including movie mogul Tyler Perry. He heard about Johnson s story and agreed to settle the bill. I owe him my life and I hope to get to meet him when I get back to Atlanta because he deserved the biggest hug, Johnson said.But he will have to wait because the hospital said he s not well enough to travel.The State Department s aware of Johnson s c Qqyi Trump and his physician deny he had mini-strokes
The office responsible for finding and vetti adidas campus ng Trump administration political appointees is plagued with personnel concerns of its own, according to a new Washington Post investigation.The Presidential Personnel Office PPO may not be a household name, but it s responsible for sifting through the histories of thousands of top appointees. And its leaders, according to the Post, include a college dropout with a history of arrests for drunken driving and bad checks, and a lance corporal in the Marine Corps reserves with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an officer and underage drinking.The office also employs fewer staffers than the PPO did under the Bush and Obama administrations. Trump appointees mdash; as the White House often complains mdash; are taking longer on average to be confirmed by the Senate, compared to previous administrations. But the Trump administration also lags behind other recent administrations in the number of appointments made after 14 months. Many in the Trump admini af1 stration s PPO took their jobs after with little or no professional experience outside of working for the campaign, the Post found. The PPO, which largely employs 20-something workers, has hosted multiple happy hours with beer, wine and snacks for executive branch employees, and i adidas og n January of this year hosted an icing drinking game for the deputy director s 30th birthday, the Post claims. Icing is a drinking game in which the guest of
