Michael Biesecker

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Biesecker

• Politics

  

  Who was behind the invasion of the Capitol?

  January 13, 2021 By Michael Biesecker And Michael Kunzelman

  Well-off businessmen, long time GOP donors, elected officials, and lots of people with money formed the backbone of the invasion of the Capitol.

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• News

  

  Conservatives recruit ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to deliver only good news about reopening

  May 22, 2020 By Michael Biesecker And Jason Dearen

  The 'Save Our Country Coalition' is an alliance that includes the FreedomWorks Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council, Tea Party Patriots, and others.

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• Politics

  

  Wasted time: Investigation finds federal agencies didn’t order medical supplies until mid-March

  April 6, 2020 By Michael Biesecker

  Federal purchasing records show the Trump administration delayed making big orders for additional supplies until the virus had already taken root and was spreading.

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• News

  

  Timeline: Early testing failures and Trump inaction crippled U.S. coronavirus response

  March 25, 2020 By Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe And Matthew Perrone

  “They took this as business as usual...the messaging from the White House was ‘this is not a big deal, this is no worse than the flu.’" By then, it was too late.

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• U.S.

  

  Health inequality: The rich and famous get coronavirus tests first

  March 19, 2020 By Michael Biesecker And Michelle R. Smith

  In response, Trump says, "Perhaps that's...the story of life."

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• Environment

  

  Swollen NC rivers swamp dumps, raising water pollution fears

  September 17, 2018 By Michael Biesecker

  As rain from Florence continued to lash the Carolinas, the region’s swollen rivers were beginning to swamp coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms Sunday, raising pollution concerns.

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• Environment

  

  Coal executive’s “action plan” finds success under Trump

  January 11, 2018 By Michael Biesecker

  In the early days of the Trump administration, Robert “Bob” Murray, the head of one of America’s largest coal companies, sent a four-page “action plan” to the White House calling for rollbacks of Obama-era environmental and...

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• News

  

  Humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, Trump’s tweets focus on Puerto Rico’s debt

  September 26, 2017 By Michael Biesecker And Andrew Taylor

  Five days after the Category 4 storm slammed into Puerto Rico, many of the more than 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory were still without adequate food, water and fuel. Flights off the island were...

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