"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," Ingraham announced on Wednesday.
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We've seen companies weaponize API access to cut off competitors.
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Then a person will step in and weaponize the thing.
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And then let's do everything we can to weaponize it.
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Democratic campaigns have made a point to weaponize voter registration.
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I fortify my defenses and weaponize my existence even more.
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But unlike Astrud Gilberto, say, she's tended to weaponize it.
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Yeah, it's AI. They're going to weaponize our youth, Kara.
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It's an advertising medium that's now dangerously easy to weaponize.
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They can weaponize that knowledge against the person they're victimizing.
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Mr. Trump privately complained that Democrats would "weaponize" the information.
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Democrats are seeking to weaponize the Constitution for partisan purposes.
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" Using similar language as her Fox cohorts, Ingraham told her viewers that top Democrats and "their media cronies" have "decided to weaponize fear and also weaponize suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November.
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Go deeper: The Pentagon wants to weaponize the brain (The Atlantic)
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The fear is that they will weaponize the international oil market.
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He said China has the ability to "weaponize" technology like 5G.
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Meanwhile, the protagonist finds a way to weaponize his own memories.
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Trump has long threatened to weaponize Bill Clinton against Hillary Clinton.
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They take Surrealism and warp it, change it, and weaponize it.
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Against this, the Democrats' impeachment managers are trying to weaponize shame.
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How the Army planned to weaponize ESP cats is not explained.
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We can't afford to weaponize the issue to score rhetorical points.
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Gabbard, though, is the perfect candidate for political bad actors to weaponize.
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In fact, Russia has already found ways to weaponize Mr. Trump's words.
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It makes sense why Russia would choose to weaponize anger around race.
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Davis said Islamic State's ability to weaponize mustard agent has been rudimentary.
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It's this art that YouTube user John Hatfield has chosen to weaponize.
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The second allots you $20,000 to weaponize pigs against a T. rex.
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Entering the 2018 midterm season, they seem ready to weaponize the issue.
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The Hill: Trump, GOP aim to weaponize Kavanaugh vote ahead of November.
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Truth be told, Alternative for Germany didn't weaponize gender; the left did.
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Waiting until months or even years have passed can weaponize the bedroom.
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It is a position that China has not been shy to weaponize.
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And she recognized it the moment Trump tried to weaponize it against her.
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This is an issue about part of congress trying to weaponize the IRS.
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" He said he hoped DeSantis would heed his call to not "weaponize race.
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Within one hour they dumped them, and then they began to weaponize them.
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People will go back and weaponize anything that you wrote in the past.
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They instantly assume it was Trikru who stole the cargo to weaponize it.
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That's one of the things ... let's talk about how you weaponize social media.
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Both parties have been guilty of trying to weaponize the criminal justice system.
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Amazon can now take that beta test and weaponize it with Whole Foods.
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"With CRISPR, it's possible to weaponize the water supply," Bennecke told Business Insider.
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Trump and his associates tried to weaponize their political positions for financial gain.
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CNN host Brian Stelter said "random websites" were trying to weaponize the hoax.
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But every new case brings a new and imaginative way to weaponize cyberpower.
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But populists, instead of tackling real tensions, are merely seeking to weaponize them.
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These factions then weaponize the options on the table for their preferred ends.
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No one should weaponize the relationship with the children to serve an agenda.
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The individuals cited Trump's use of Twitter to "weaponize information" in their complaint.
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So I think when you don't weaponize it, it's clear what solves homelessness.
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He is actively working to weaponize the presidency to boost his political fortunes.
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They weaponize his political opponents and simultaneously distract from the most pertinent details.
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Instead, McConnell said, tech can make good by helping weaponize their platforms against Russia.
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Marketplace consolidation has many consequences, including granting consumers the chance to weaponize those platforms.
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Criminals have even found ways to weaponize drones with explosives and other harmful materials.
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"Be careful when attempting to weaponize local economic conditions and party representation," Lettieri tweeted.
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Alexa is a powerful tool — and one that's easy for little kids to weaponize.
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Russian trolls chose to target our latent hatreds, to weaponize our own internal angers.
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Donald Trump is openly trying to weaponize racism, to inflame passions and stoke fear.
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I don't know if Wonder Woman means to weaponize the bullet by hitting it.
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It also points to the way you weaponize your skills for protection and competition.
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But what's truly different about their music is the way they weaponize their abstraction.
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He's now trying to weaponize help — and, in his desperation, he's lying about it.
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They've learned how to weaponize vehicles and thwart the basic laws of gravity and physics.
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But if North Korea did produce the VX, experts say it's quite difficult to weaponize.
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There are bad actors, like Russian operatives, who want to weaponize Facebook for political gain.
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Those attacks helped raise awareness about the easy ways one can "weaponize" commonly available tools.
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"We're living in an age where you can weaponize personal information against people," Darling said.
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Democrats would love to weaponize seniors' health care costs right ahead of the 2020 elections.
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The House Freedom Caucus, which tried to weaponize the issue, will be in the minority.
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Imagery can indeed have agency, but this takes actors—bad actors who weaponize the imagery.
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Trinity and Vogel want her body so they can weaponize for reasons that aren't clear.
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But what we're seeing is people weaponize that to shut others' right to that down.
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Sometimes creators will weaponize the ability to make a claim while feuding with another creator.
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There are layers to how Russia might weaponize cryptocurrencies in the era of hybrid warfare.
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"My fear is that you weaponize impeachment for political gains in the future," he added.
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They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.
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You intuit what competitors and opponents are feeling, but you don't necessarily weaponize that information.
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"President Obama wanted that shutdown [in 2013], and he wanted to weaponize it," Mulvaney asserted.
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Either Russian or American actors could choose to leak, disclose or otherwise weaponize this information.
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The human voice can be a powerful thing, and here he was learning to weaponize it.
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He has a very good idea about how to weaponize himself, and handle other human beings.
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Those who weaponize naked pictures tend to be jealous, retaliatory, and without respect for the law.
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But Republicans say that obtaining Trump's returns would "weaponize" the confidential tax documents for political purposes.
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Authoritarian leaders have begun to weaponize their most vulnerable populations in order to coerce stronger countries.
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And the party plans to weaponize the tax overhaul, as well as ObamaCare repeal, against him.
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I wanted to weaponize our history so he wouldn't have to fight the bullies at school.
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They are entitled to that belief, as long as they don't weaponize it to punish strangers.
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We've all seen what can happen when nefarious interests weaponize a social media platform like Twitter.
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President Trump has found a way to weaponize these statutes to advance his "America First" agenda.
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Ronan also reports that Weinstein attempted to weaponize Lauer's misconduct in order to kill the story.
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"That's what the Center for Reproductive Rights and other organizations are trying to weaponize," Cohen explained.
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Trump complained that Schiff would "weaponize" the intelligence about Russia's support for his reelection in November.
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Jordan Harris calling it hateful and saying she used the moment to "weaponize religion," and Rep.
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"Weaponize," on the other hand, conjures thick-rimmed glasses and pomade, official reports and secret plans.
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In addition, Qatar can weaponize North Korean laborers, especially military men, who are working in Doha.
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Some churches "weaponize scripture and religion to do very deep damage on the psyche," he said.
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"Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies," Rep.
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Transit officials, advocates, and researchers are armed with localized stats they can use to weaponize their arguments.
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To say the lineup has not followed through on the promise of April is to weaponize understatement.
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She gives Susie—as she did Patricia, and presumably others previously—the power to weaponize their dancing.
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They can still weaponize what someone else said, or result in the weaponization of something you said.
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I'm sure that the right wing will be looking to weaponize this conversation to seed false claims.
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Trump's everyman-billionaire political identity, taken at face value, is much harder to weaponize than Romney's was.
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What Russia did was weaponize that information and detonate it with calculated timing to alter the election.
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"People are going to weaponize his service in Congress against him," a senior Biden campaign official said.
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" He claims that terrorists wouldn't weaponize pandemic pathogens, since their goal is typically "not damage but theater.
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Now they're scrambling to update their policies to ensure that foreign governments can't weaponize the web again.
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It's what happens when people weaponize their self-doubt and turn it on those closest to them.
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"The president now seems intent on declassifying intelligence to weaponize it," Mr. Schiff said in an interview.
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MORRIS: In American movies, children have often been asked to be hams, to weaponize cuteness and spunk.
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But security experts raised concerns that terrorists could exploit the vulnerability to potentially weaponize the passenger planes.
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But they've also been using their teenage smarts and snark to leverage those stories, to "weaponize" them.
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Each side in today's highly polarized politics can easily weaponize statements by the other for political gain.
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Some churches "weaponize scripture and religion to do very deep damage on the psyche," one pastor says.
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Ukraine's chief military prosecutor now wants to weaponize lie detection technology in the country's war against Russia.
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Clay Higgins, passed 244 to 35 with 133 voting present -- and Republicans may "weaponize" the vote against Democrats.
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Trump wants the ability to weaponize interest rates the same way he's used tariffs to cajole foreign governments.
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In recent years, terrorists such as ISIS have shown the ability to weaponize drones with grenade-type explosives.
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The YouTube terrorist video scandal showed how easy it is for bad actors to weaponize platforms and algorithms.
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Nonkinetic weapons can be very effective in war, and cunning strategists can weaponize almost anything, including refugee waves.
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Mossberg: And it's not just ... I mean, there's a way to weaponize tech that doesn't involve lying. Right.
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And instead, I turned to my own sort of magic, which I then proceeded to consciously weaponize. Words.
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We can either weaponize that vulgarity for righteous purposes or allow it to be used to oppress us.
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Russia has managed to weaponize the American press — and use it as a potent weapon against Hillary Clinton.
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Democrats have widely criticized Trump of trying to weaponize the intelligence community to go after his political opponents.
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"They will certainly weaponize those headlines and those inquiries against Mayor Gillum, irrespective of any outcome," he said.
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The McCabe news would seem a setback to Trump's efforts to weaponize the Justice Department against his enemies.
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In each case it's hard to prove that these were efforts to weaponize government functions against domestic critics.
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It also recalls a move reportedly directed by the country's controversial leader to weaponize online platforms against critics.
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Congressional Republicans condemned the effort as a dangerous political fishing expedition by Democrats that could "weaponize" confidential taxpayer information.
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The decision to withdraw was a "principled stand against those who politicise and weaponize human rights", the government said.
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It's just the latest illustration of how Trump is trying to weaponize the Justice Department against his perceived enemies.
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But to adopt an ANTIFA like resistance that seeks to block the process at all costs or weaponize it?
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"They could weaponize this system the same way they've weaponized their own system against their own citizens," he said.
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Your continuing to weaponize hate make you no better than the bigots who screamed "blood and soil" in Charlottesville.
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And we've likely just scratched the surface in terms of how state actors are able to weaponize information online.
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The Dothraki are sidelined because he thinks Cersei would be able to weaponize everyone's racism against them too easily.
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Critics have raised fears that the Russian government was able to "weaponize" WikiLeaks to carry out information warfare. 3.
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But what if we could weaponize air conditioning units to help pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere instead?
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After regaining power in Congress, Republicans would later weaponize the debt limit and other basic, deadline-driven legislative responsibilities.
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"We cannot allow those who prefer the status quo to weaponize the legal system against state innovation," Verma said.
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They've been — They're going to be able to weaponize the Mueller report, 28503 is going to be quite vitriolic.
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"Trump dangerously politicizes intelligence declassification—giving his henchman AG sweeping powers to weaponize classified info against political foes," Sen.
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Instead, they should seek to codify fair play wherever they can so that conservatives can't weaponize their procedural hypocrisy.
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They are going to weaponize ,,, It's the robot army of our 15-year-old boys is coming for us.
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Ambiguous agendas could be pushed to further weaponize science; knowledge and education would become currency for an elite few.
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Yet even as evidence for such claims piles up, analysts say that Hanoi has been reluctant to weaponize it.
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A regime such as Maduro's administration might actually weaponize hunger to stay in power, rather than simply ignore it.
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Such shutdowns are part of a growing trend: Authoritarian regimes are learning from each other how to weaponize technologies.
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Refuge from a country whose leaders now weaponize identities, and have turned Latinos into the enemy of the people.
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Von Braun explained to the unnamed reporter that his work had been to "weaponize" the military's ballistic-missile technology.
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In February, she called Democrats the "pandemic party," and said they were trying to "weaponize it" to beat Trump.
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House Republicans have sought to weaponize the procedural motion, using politically fraught measures to test the new Democrats' resolve.
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Maybe the Code once managed prison's savage elements, but some men weaponize it and wield it to maintain their influence.
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Five years later, Trump's campaign — with a clear assist from WikiLeaks — found a way to distort and weaponize those emails.
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They connect with already disaffected Muslim men, magnify the extremism of their views, and then weaponize them into actual jihadis.
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"How could we weaponize glaciers?" he asked, and what is the best real estate currently hidden under Greenland ice sheets.
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"I want to make sure that we don't racialize, and frankly, weaponize race as part of this process," he added.
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State-sponsored hacks meant to weaponize information are relatively inexpensive and difficult to defend against, making them a tempting tool.
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"They are trying to weaponize the 'Never Trump' movement against Republicans by saying they'll work with Democrats," Mr. Bannon added.
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Her instincts tell her that the creature Lorca wants her to weaponize is not actually violent by nature, just misunderstood.
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Intel professionals aren't supposed to weaponize their high level classified access for partisan gain of any side on any issue.
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Despite the innocuous name, this is yet another attempt to weaponize government against free speech, free association and political dissent.
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McCain is routinely trying to weaponize her white tears, her father's legacy, her plea for civility — and it never works.
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She's also steamy enough to weaponize seduction if it will help her, and absolutely blunt when she speaks her mind.
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Why it matters: This is new in American politics, pushed by rising awareness of — and efforts to weaponize — the top 1%.
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MCCARTHY: I think they weaponize the intelligence and the law enforcement apparatus of the government throughout the-- (CROSSTALK) HANNITY: Against Trump.
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As we roll into 2017, fashion will increasingly be used to not only weaponize, but to stand against oppression and hate.
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Mueller's testimony is probably the Dems' best and last chance to politically weaponize the Russia scandal, CNN's Stephen Collinson said. 2000.
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Now they're scrambling to update their policies to ensure that Russia, or any other foreign government, can't weaponize the web again.
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This is the first season in which we see rape in Westeros and how the writers weaponize its threat against viewers.
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Our cyber agencies decided to weaponize security flaws that could be used against actors that rely on digital transactions and communications.
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Hundreds of Facebook employees in a letter circulated this week also accused their employer of allowing politicians to "weaponize" the platform.
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The bill's critics argue that even with these safeguards, it would still be easy for one party to weaponize the FEC.
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Hamas has chosen to weaponize fire in its persistent but futile effort to destroy Israel, driving hopes for peace further away.
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Sanders supporters, and others on the left, need to rethink the way they weaponize outrage and try to get people fired.
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The 22020-74 oil embargo was the first demonstration that the House of Saud was willing to weaponize the oil markets.
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Russia sought to weaponize social media to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election.
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Cohen has totally turned against Trump and appears willing to weaponize the information, and secret recordings, he has at his disposal.
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Tony, head of Stark Industries, was taken by surprise when he realized his tech was being used to weaponize the world.
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Unfortunately, the facts quickly got in the way of the attempt he made on Friday to weaponize the coronavirus against Democrats.
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Now the travel ban, despite being blocked by the courts, has given the group ammunition to weaponize grievance here in America.
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A classified briefing to House members is said to have angered the president, who complained that Democrats would "weaponize" the disclosure.
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Republicans have sought to weaponize the ambitious climate proposal against Democrats, and the measure has failed to advance through either chamber.
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Senate Democrats blocked two abortion-related bills on Tuesday as Republicans look to weaponize the issue ahead of the 22020 elections.
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Though the author has strong opinions on a range of social issues, he declines to weaponize his daughter in their service.
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A systematic effort to weaponize health care as a political tool has threatened to jeopardize the lives or wellbeing of millions.
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He has already signaled he'll weaponize the results, targeting those who ordered the investigation and Democrats he says waged political warfare.
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She is someone who doesn't look kindly on his bullying, his incivility and his willingness to weaponize race for political gains.
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Companies like CenturyLink, the AGs said, cannot be allowed to "weaponize" private class actions to squelch enforcement litigation by state sovereigns.
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Then, too, many question whether Mr. Assange is truly committed to transparency or, rather, to finding information that he can weaponize.
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Meanwhile, the President, basking in his victory, plans to weaponize the report against his political enemies, his aides and advisers say.
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Chinese officials said Monday that the creation of a U.S. Space Force would overly weaponize outer space and endanger peaceful missions.
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It is the other 10 percent — presumably the most serious flaws, which the government intends to weaponize — that has security experts concerned.
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According to this view, free speech is not a right all Americans enjoy but one that the powerful "weaponize" against the powerless.
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Similarly, the 2017 blackout in Ukraine showed how cyber attacks could weaponize technology and pose catastrophic threats to the digitized state infrastructure.
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Trade-war hysteria has fueled warnings that China could weaponize its massive holdings of U.S. Treasuries by dumping them on the market.
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" They said China could let the yuan "depreciate further to ease the tariff pains, and somehow weaponize the currency to anger Trump.
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If they follow this route, that will allow attackers to use the tools to conduct surgical strikes and weaponize every asset available.
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Spencer repeatedly yelled, "N***er!!" as a way to attract attention during an attack ... and also dropped his pants to weaponize homophobia.
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He has repeatedly shown a willingness to weaponize the racial animus that he knows drives some not-insignificant number of his supporters.
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And if they can&apost weaponize the story against President Trump, they don&apost really seem interested at all in covering it.
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He is trying to weaponize his office to keep these people quiet, to keep the American people from hearing the truth, Sean.
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Additionally, terror groups like ISIS have been able to weaponize commercially available drones, increasingly using them in combat in Iraq and Syria.
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But YouTube could also step up and take a leadership position by setting robust policies against individuals who seek to weaponize hate.
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"The fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponize the web at scale," he wrote.
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Alternatively, Huawei might turn over the data it has collected to the Chinese government, or the Chinese could somehow weaponize Huawei's technology.
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" Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, noted that "the ability to weaponize anthrax is out there.
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For a long time, there have been estimates that it would take the Iranians roughly a year to weaponize highly-enriched uranium.
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If Putin does possess such negative information about Trump, he could weaponize this tool of information warfare against America in multiple ways.
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Traditional media outlets, of course, are frequently also cynical manipulators of sensationalistic content, but social media is better able to weaponize it.
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The president feared that Democrats would weaponize the information and registered his displeasure with the outgoing director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
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The president complained that Representative Adam Schiff, who led the impeachment proceedings and was at the information session, would "weaponize" the findings.
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Taking care to cover those bits that act as a sexual signal felt like a necessary step to de-weaponize my body.
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He had vowed to "weaponize the conservative movement'' and to "rectify the generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias.
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Trump -- who has autocratic tendencies -- has learned how to weaponize the values of liberal democracy, like free speech, to undermine liberal democracy.
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Republicans have already indicated that they plan to weaponize Medicare for all, arguing that it'll spook more moderate voters in competitive seats.
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It underscores just how well Russia understands online media — and how it's attempting to weaponize this understanding to weaken Western democracies from within.
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Many of the primary tools that intelligence officers and law enforcement use to disrupt plots are largely nullified when terrorists weaponize everyday vehicles.
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That foreign governments try to weaponize these internal divides should be a cause of concern that unifies Americans, but the opposite is occurring.
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"That cartels would weaponize [drones], just like ISIS has done, is not surprising," Peter W. Singer, author of Wired for War, told me.
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In other words, more and more, these groups are coming up with ways to "weaponize" them, often by attaching explosives to their undersides.
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He will weaponize these reactions, holding them up as proof of just how much know-it-all elites loathe his "deplorable" white base.
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Instead they weaponize their wealth, with the aim of creating even more capital and remaking society according to their own, unrepresentative political beliefs.
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You see, the real intention of the operation was to weaponize the bureaucracy to go after industries distasteful to the politically correct palate.
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Leguizamo spoke with CNN about finding his voice in the Trump era and why he wants to "weaponize history" with through his show.
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You can pay a few bucks late at night to adopt an abandoned dog — or pay a few more to weaponize a witness.
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Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers described the attempts as a partisan move and a means to "[weaponize] our nation's tax code by targeting political foes."
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But this time, Democrats are prepared — and are already laying the groundwork to accuse Republicans of a cynical attempt to weaponize anti-Semitism.
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Putin is engaged in this kind of political war with the West—he's effectively trying to weaponize Russian organized crime against the west.
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What they're saying: The Jewish Democratic Council of America asserted that Trump was trying to "weaponize and politicize anti-Semitism" for political gain.
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But it likely won't calm the nerves of Democrats -- especially in Florida -- who are worried about how the GOP will weaponize Sanders' words.
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He made virality central to his art, and was the first pop star to truly weaponize its power in a non-gratuitous manner.
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Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Schiff would "weaponize" the intelligence about Russia's support for him, according to a person familiar with the briefing.
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The first issue is democracy, which is under attack from dictatorships that weaponize personal information in efforts to support allies or destroy opponents.
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Rather, the IRS scandal was about abuse of power by elected officials, who consciously sought to weaponize the IRS against their political adversaries.
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President Trump has shown that he is willing to weaponize abortion to turn out his base, including through misleading or outright false narratives.
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And resettlement system officials acknowledge the need for smart reforms, although they fear that those opposed to immigration will weaponize any implied criticism.
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President Trump's pitch to create a Space Force is championed by supporters as a way to deter nations that plan to weaponize space.
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Still, the Times story should give Democrats a way to bring the issue of tax enforcement in from the cold—and weaponize it.
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It's on the internet—and Twitter especially—that digitally savvy far right and its trolling icons figured out how to weaponize the First Amendment.
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Technology will destroy us 0.5 Seasoned viewers will be rightfully wary of Ashley Too, but Black Mirror doesn't weaponize her or Ashley's downloaded consciousness.
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A new rule being drafted by the Trump administration would weaponize the Affordable Care Act and other social programs against immigrants, potentially affecting millions.
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I will NOT be intimidated by LIBERAL hyper partisan government HACKS who weaponize government authorirty to go after people whose views they don't like.
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Throughout his life -- and especially in his latest turn as a politician -- Trump has shown a willingness to weaponize race for his own gain.
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One of the easiest ways for criminals and other bad actors to weaponize your phone is by getting you to download a malicious app.
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Spacey appears to have discovered how to weaponize the closet, shielding his own behavior from scrutiny under the guise of merely protecting his privacy.
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If true, this would indicate that one of the world's most dangerous and isolated nations has made significant improvements in its ambitions to weaponize.
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Click here to view original GIFLast week, slingshot mad scientist Joerg Sprave showed the world how to weaponize a Nerf blaster using scalpel blades.
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"The Russians, in my opinion … could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they have been guided … by Americans," Clinton said.
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If a violent gust of wind can rip port-a-potties from the ground, it can certainly be strong enough to weaponize an umbrella.
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This would put Iran dangerously close to the ability to weaponize its nuclear materials — months rather than at least a year under the agreement.
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Collins released a statement the day after the election attacking Nadler's plan to "weaponize" the committee, a sign of how he views the role.
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Furthermore, Cuba arguably attempted to weaponize criminality against the United States when, in 1980, it seeded 8,000 criminals into the Mariel boatlift's refugee population.
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She needn't; the women are already the most powerful characters, and though that power is mostly moral, they eventually find ways to weaponize it.
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They fear that the inchoate populism that Mr. Trump personifies, and which Mr. Bannon is attempting to weaponize against incumbents, is on the march.
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I will NOT be intimidated by LIBERAL hyper partisan government HACKS who weaponize government authority to go after people whose views they don't like.
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Ever since ObamaCare passed in 2628, Republicans have sought to weaponize it against Democrats, and Brad Woodhouse has been ready to turn the tables.
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It is occurring primarily because the Communist Party has chosen to politicize and even weaponize race as a tool of foreign policy and subversion.
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Monroe's sex-symbol status didn't come until she underwent a major physical overhaul and was cast in roles meant to weaponize her new look.
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Russia is actively pursuing multiple paths to weaponize energy to hurt our economy the same way Moscow weaponized social media to assault our democracy.
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Any recycling plan that adds to the stockpile looks like "a route to weaponize down the road," said Alicia Dressman, a nuclear policy specialist.
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"The Russians, in my opinion ... could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they have been guided ... by Americans," Clinton charged.
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IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers.
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It's also a way to continue to weaponize the tax bill and make the case that its benefits went largely to the top income bracket.
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Democrats are reluctant to try to weaponize the debt ceiling but aren't going to want to give in to Republican demands on spending levels, either.
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But overwrought though he may be, Franklin James Fisher is more approachable than Stefan Burnett, and not just because he declines to weaponize his dick.
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To counter such threats, the U.S. military is scrambling to weaponize space on a scale not seen since Ronald Reagan's ill-conceived missile defense system.
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James Parker, an expert in sound and law at the University of Melbourne in Australia, told CNN that infrasound is probably the hardest to weaponize.
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Finally, the U.N.'s findings are dangerous because they incentivize further bad acts by Hamas and others who would seek to similarly weaponize the law.
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Could Putin have gained access to Trump's undisclosed tax returns or other negative material he could weaponize against Trump or Republicans as well as Democrats?
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Democrats are preparing to weaponize Trump's suggested budget cuts, which in addition to education target social services and environmental protection, in the 2018 midterm elections.
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The researchers found, though, that the BMCs on Supermicro X9, X10, and X11 platforms contain flaws that can be exploited to weaponize this legitimate function.
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In the United States, Mr. Bannon said, he is working on a project to create a think tank to "weaponize" populist economic and social ideas.
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Those same vulnerabilities could have been used against Mac users, and thanks to Apple's new patches, hackers won't be able to weaponize those bugs anymore.
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"It's obvious that on a long-term perspective, President Trump is willing to effectively weaponize tariffs," said Wen Lu, a rates strategist at TD Securities.
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He expressed frustration that "it's happening again," the person said, referring to his perception that political rivals were able to weaponize intelligence related to Russia.
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Republicans have been quick to weaponize Mr. Nadler's patience against him in the past, taking advantage of his reticence to simply gavel them into silence.
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So if Saudi Arabia wanted to inflict pain on the United States, it could -- in theory -- weaponize those bonds by selling them off en masse.
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It was there that the military learned how to weaponize lethal pathogens like anthrax and botulinum toxin, and how to produce them on an industrial scale.
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Pentagon Plans to Send Armed Drones into NigerThe Pentagon is preparing to weaponize Reaper drones currently conducting surveillance in the African country, according to anonymous officials.
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Even though the patent did not address any particularly innovative concept, DDT could weaponize it to target companies within and outside of the real estate space.
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There's no question that Russia sought to weaponize social media platforms to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election.
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This season of "The Bachelorette" is aware of the post-"Everlasting" world; in retaliation, it's used its contestants — like the wall-punching Chad — to weaponize meta.
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Assange told me that in mid-September, a week or two before he began publishing the e-mails, he devised a way to weaponize the information.
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" Mr. Fitzpatrick described it as "sad that a model would stoop to character assasination and weaponize the MeToo movement just to get ahead in this industry.
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And even if Clinton pulls out a win, Russia has still learned how to weaponize the American press, a tactic it is likely to use again.
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Human-rights campaigners accuse it of heavy-handed policing with its anti-riot pellet guns, chilli grenades, which weaponize choking and burning chilli powder, and raids.
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But, being Bobby Axelrod, he figures out a way to weaponize his own status as persona non grata and convert his reputational loss into financial gain.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," he added.
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" Mr. Sanders added that he had told Ms. Warren "that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could.
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We must do more to learn how foreign actors collect and weaponize our data against us, and what impact social media has on our democratic processes.
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Senior law enforcement officials have also privately expressed concern that the Republicans are digging into F.B.I. files for information they can weaponize against the Russia inquiry.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," Sanders said.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," Sanders said.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," Sanders continued.
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Particularly in the age of Trump, conservative pastors weaponize God to support a president who is trying to cut Medicaid and school lunches for the poor.
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I could see that Steve had built an incubator for rage and was ready to weaponize it by unleashing these disenchanted Americans on the political establishment.
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This follow public remarks by the UK prime minister Theresa May yesterday, who directly accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of seeking to "weaponize information" and plant fake stories.
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Outside, she prowls the streets on rollerblades with her gang of mean girls, drinking and doing drugs and and learning how to weaponize her sexuality to survive.
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"The Trump administration is not afraid to weaponize trade," he said, adding that using trade to settle political disagreements may seem reasonable to the current U.S. administration.
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In order to take advantage of the flaw, you need to weaponize it by creating an exploit — something to infect, disrupt, or take control of a computer.
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Even though Islamic State has not perfected the ability to weaponize chemicals, U.S. and Iraqi forces still have to be prepared for a chemical attack, Davis said.
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So when confronted with a new reality, Donald believes he's being rallied against; that women can weaponize their bodies as a way of disgusting him to death.
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To suggest that you can stand aside just means you are ceding your platform to somebody else to weaponize it and interpret it the way they want.
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That's right—an underwater creature that fits in the palm of your hand can, with a flick of its claw, weaponize a blast of insanely hot bubbles.
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"There's no question that Russia sought to weaponize social media platforms to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election," Rep.
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"There's no question that Russia sought to weaponize social media platforms to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2628 election," Rep.
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And there's always Google, which has invested heavily in visual search, but has yet to necessarily weaponize it in the same way Pinterest has for potential advertisers.
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"It would be hard to weaponize it because you wouldn't be able to confine the effects to a very specific location," Grinspoon told me in an email.
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Meanwhile, as Global Voices documents, governments in the Middle East have figured out how to weaponize user flagging of harmful content as a tool to suppress dissent.
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After all, they themselves engaged in a concerted effort to politically weaponize the 2014 Ebola outbreak against Barack Obama, whose response was in reality smart and effective.
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Congress made it unlawful for certain officials, including the president, to "request, directly or indirectly," any I.R.S. officer or employee to, in effect, weaponize a taxpayer audit.
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People in what feels like a hostile environment often reduce their many affiliations down to just one simple one, which they weaponize and defend to the hilt.
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And attempts by President Donald Trump and his opponents to weaponize new reports of Moscow's interference for political gain only risk deepening the sense of national disorientation.
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" Sanders said that what he "did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could.
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Allowing Neodron and its NPE compatriots to weaponize the threat of exclusion orders to extract money from U.S. companies makes America a less attractive place to invest.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," Sanders said Monday.
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As this summer's protests continue to boil with no sign of resolution, China has begun to weaponize its clout to keep the business community on its side.
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As this summer's protests continue to boil with no sign of resolution, China has begun to weaponize its clout to keep the business community on its side.
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While Mr. Trump was the first candidate to fully weaponize Twitter, now that he is president, the rapid speed of social media has been turned against him.
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To see a woman weaponize her aggressiveness, her pushiness, her eloquence and convictions — all the qualities I once stifled in myself as a child — is unspeakably powerful.
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And so we have the planned July Fourth bash, in which Trump is likely -- as he did throughout the 2016 campaign -- to weaponize the idea of patriotism.
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The tough thing about homelessness is, no matter how you come into this, you quickly learn it's tough to weaponize this and make this a partisan issue.
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"Being the issuer of a global reserve currency confers international monetary power, in particular the capacity to 'weaponize' access to the financial and payments systems," he said.
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It doesn't seem ridiculous to imagine that Swift would be willing to weaponize her streaming catalog again, this time against her rival Perry on her big day.
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As fandoms increasingly weaponize the internet in service of the properties and celebrities they most closely identify with, we'll only be seeing more of this sort of attack.
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Advances in technologies that can be used to help prevent the spread of viruses can also be used by nefarious groups to create new threats and weaponize pathogens.
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" But the move has alarmed Democrats like Schiff, who said last week that it was an effort to "weaponize and politicize the nation's intelligence and law enforcement entities.
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Drake was able to weaponize the emotional nuances of those spaces so they seemed universally familiar, even when he was sloppy, or annoying, or controlling toward his muses.
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"If you continue to weaponize racism and bigotry, this makes you no better than those who were screaming 'blood and soil,' 'Jews will not replace us,'" Green said.
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It is offering an opportunity to bind their collective debt together and weaponize it, a nod to the "you own the bank" framework of debt at this scale.
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A new drug is working to cure ebola, hackers figured out how to weaponize home-speakers, and tech is coming to the aid of migrants on the border.
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This week, the Clinton campaign declined to authenticate any of the stolen emails posted by WikiLeaks, saying they were being used by the Russian government to "weaponize" WikiLeaks.
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That's not even counting the things we've learned about the capabilities of technology to disseminate false information, or about how foreign governments can weaponize social media against us.
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But it's remarkable how much of what Traister predicted — from efforts to weaponize false accusations to fears that #MeToo has already gone too far — has come to pass.
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These profiles weren't crude or poorly managed but, rather, part of a well-oiled influence machine designed to weaponize the social clout wielded by power users on Instagram.
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Their petition delivery follows letters from 19 Amazon shareholders and the Congressional Black Caucus expressing their concerns over how the company was letting the government weaponize their technology.
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Our policy of prevention through deterrence — pushing those crossing out from the heavily patrolled urban areas to the remote areas of the desert — serves to weaponize the landscape.
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There's nothing remotely scandalous about the video, but that hasn't stopped right-wing Twitter users from attempting to weaponize it against Ocasio-Cortez, who is a Democratic Socialist.
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Hwu's focus was to try to weaponize this subset of successful "tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes," or TILs, by packing them with an additional payload of powerful tumor-killing hormones.
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House moderates are worried, their colleagues say, that Democrats could weaponize the package against them in the midterm elections — where many of them are already facing strong headwinds.
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A moderately precocious twelve-year-old could weaponize the Internet of Things—your car or thermostat or baby monitor—and turn it into the Internet of Stranger Things.
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" Parents may weaponize the specter of contagion for petty or short-term goals, Ribet said, but, she added, "most reasonable parents accommodate, because what goes around comes around.
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To Chinese leaders and business executives, that episode remains a vivid cautionary tale of the United States government's ability to weaponize American companies' technological superiority for political ends.
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It's that Senate Republicans, in the culmination of a four-decade crusade of conservative activists, are attempting to weaponize the court itself as an instrument of partisan domination.
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There's little doubt that Trump, who consistently erodes trust in institutions and governing systems, will weaponize such a narrative if it looks like he will lose in November.
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" He said the constitutional framers worried about "giving Congress too much power" to weaponize impeachment on a partisan basis, adding that abuse of power is too "open-ended.
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Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, asked FBI Director Chris Wray whether US adversaries will continue to try to weaponize disinformation through social media platforms.
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Cayt is a sympathetic antagonist, having been cruelly weaponized through applied racist pseudoscience, but she is utterly relentless, and she means to weaponize Lij in the same manner.
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" California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a written statement the California ruling "stops the Trump administration's heartless attempt to weaponize essential health care, housing, and nutrition programs.
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Trump administration officials and Republicans in Congress have condemned Democratic efforts to obtain Trump's tax returns, saying it could "weaponize" the IRS and confidential taxpayer information for political purposes.
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Now that Disney is taking over Fox's 30 percent stake in Hulu, it'll have a controlling share of the company and it can fully weaponize the service against Netflix.
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Unlike a lot of people in those spaces, and despite being a fabulist, Lane understood how to weaponize information, which made him even more useful, and a little scary.
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If there's a rapid pace of depreciation over the next few weeks, that would clearly be a "warning sign" that China is willing to weaponize the currency, Hirson said.
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Investors are concerned that China might opt to weaponize its holdings of more than $1.1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries to retaliate against the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.
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Watching the Democrats talk in cursive, warning of the End Times, should tell us what we need to know about their ability to credibly weaponize taxes for the midterms.
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Deniers who served on the administration's transition team or who worked with regulatory agencies like the EPA have an institutional knowledge that they can now weaponize against future administrations.
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But when you take an electric sander to the old paint, you weaponize the lead, grinding it to dust so fine it can be inhaled into a newborn's lungs.
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It is distressing that he feels he must leave the job he loves in order to speak out against those who weaponize classified material and undermine this nation's safety.
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Leaning into his hotness with surprising dexterity, Zac Efron plays the notoriously charming serial killer Ted Bundy like someone who has always understood how to weaponize a pretty face.
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In early 2016, Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew cautioned that the dollar's dominance as a global currency rested, in part, on the U.S. government's reluctance to fully weaponize it.
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What he doesn't realize is that Shiv, stung by the series of betrayals in London last episode, is already working stealthily to weaponize whatever sentimentality remains in her father.
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Some of his most lyrical writing describes Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban is manufacturing a collective sense of victimhood to help weaponize the unrealized optimism of the 1990s.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," he said in a statement.
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"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," Ingraham said during her Wednesday night program.
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"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," she said during her Wednesday night program.
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Nevertheless, Americans everywhere should be concerned that a senator would weaponize the CRA, a bulwark against overly intrusive government, to expand federal power and re-regulate an entire industry.
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"It is our adversaries, not us, who have chosen to weaponize this type of capability," Griffin said, adding that the U.S. would not be eclipsed by Russia and China.
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For example, Australian officials are aware of their role as a supplier of strategic resources, and they know how Beijing can weaponize everything from tourists to rare-earth minerals.
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President Donald Trump asserted that reports he wanted to weaponize his vaunted border wall with Mexico with features such as spikes, an electric current and a moat are moot.
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Our thought bubble, per Axios' Miriam Kramer: Some space experts are concerned that the U.S. has fallen behind as other nations — like China — have made moves to weaponize space.
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While some conservatives are ineptly trying to weaponize this harmless content, this apparent attempt at "exposing" Cortez is so asinine it feels like trolling, and Twitter has taken note.
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Investors are also concerned that China might opt to weaponize its holdings of more than $2130 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries to retaliate against the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.
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Like in Raiders, it's not just about getting the Holy Grail for a museum; it's about keeping it from the Nazis—or any culture that would weaponize or destroy it.
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Iran long has said its program is peaceful, though the West and the United Nations point to work Iran did years earlier that could be used to weaponize its program.
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Although not termed as a military robot, it would likely be a simple exercise to weaponize space robots like the Robonaut 2 to compete with the likes of Russia's Fyodor.
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Black and POC wins are an affront to similar status quos of alleged hate crime hoaxes, hate mongering, and the inbred morons that weaponize them to ignore issues of race.
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The Russian spies were looking for classified information on Clinton donors, which they hoped to weaponize against the candidate as part of the widespread influence campaign to elect president Trump.
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There's also the danger that Democrats open themselves up to dirty tricks by figures like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon, who, as Crooked Media's Brian Beutler noted, will weaponize accusations.
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Finally, he could weaponize his control over the security-clearance process and yank them from Mueller's team, as he already did to former CIA Director John Brennan earlier this month.
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Planned Parenthood CEO Leana Wen said that Missouri is trying to "weaponize" abortion regulations after the state has refused to renew the license for the organization, its only abortion provider.
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has proposed to somehow "weaponize" coastal sea life to detect enemy submersibles, but experts are skeptical that such a system would ever work.
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But anyone with even a basic understanding of modern computer science should quickly realize how dangerous and plainly wrong these trolls are when they weaponize metadata from public Github repositories.
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They sort of weaponize it against our membership and try to get them to make other sacrifices in order to keep health care, which we just don't think is right.
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Per the Times, he was incensed that Congress had received the briefing at all, and worried that Democrats might "weaponize" the news for political purposes ahead of the 2020 election.
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Sanders said he told Warren the president was "a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," but never said that a woman could not win.
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"The Democrats continue to weaponize politics when they should be working on behalf of their constituents, which is nothing new," Whtie House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
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If China chooses to weaponize Huawei's radio transmitters and receivers placed on towers in sensitive areas, there's a long list of possible scenarios and types of information they could glean.
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Driven by the hysteria of the Democrat revulsion against Trump and the Republican party, the left has expanded the definition of white supremacy beyond recognition in order to weaponize it.
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"She's done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won't even support healthcare for 1st responders- yet are happy to weaponize her faith," Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter.
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As Andrew Kahn argued at Slate, the past week has seen liberals once again weaponize anti-gay attitudes in an attempt to mock Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Season 1 revealed that the US military is investing in Delos, presumably to weaponize their host tech (remember the shot of that terrifying, super-powered white robot from the last trailer?).
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Uber CEO Dara KhosrowshahiPhoto: Michele Tantussi (Getty)Over 12,000 Uber drivers found a way to weaponize the ridesharing platform's restrictive contract in what's possibly the funniest labor strategy of the year.
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Click here to view original GIFJoerg Sprave, the internet's most famous slingshot-loving amateur super villain, has found ways to weaponize everything from foam Nerf darts, to those tiny Ikea pencils.
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Investors are also concerned that China might opt to weaponize its holdings of more than $1.1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries to retaliate against the U.S. tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.
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Not only will suggesting that all Muslims are militants play terribly in the Middle East, it may also help Islamic State "weaponize" already-radicalized Muslims in Europe and the United States.
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And so the implant was created as a tool of control, a way to weaponize humans, and, most importantly, a way to keep them from hesitating when faced with the enemy.
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And, unlike, say the Russia investigation, which remains difficult to weaponize in a political context because of its abstractness and complexity, health care is a tremendously potent issue in a campaign.
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They assemble, with support from Banks's Bosley, to traverse the globe tracking shadowy figures seeking to weaponize a revolutionary clean-energy device (one that might as well bear the insignia "MacGuffin").
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The Iran deal is flawed, but it is functional and has succeeded as a limited effort to keep Iran away from developing enough fissile material to weaponize, should they want to.
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Christie became the first Republican presidential candidate this cycle to weaponize Rubio's grating habit of pivoting to relevant portions of his stump speech rather than answering the questions posed to him.
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The scooters can, of course, be decked out with myriad modifications and a collection of wacky weapons — I mean, why wouldn't you weaponize transportation options for those less able to work.
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A separate internal report drafted by FBI officials in New York last week also warned of potential efforts by extremist groups to weaponize the virus against law enforcement officers and Jews.
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That became possible because promising vaccine candidates had been sitting in storage in Canada and the United States; they had been developed by researchers worried that a terrorist might weaponize Ebola.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," the Vermont senator said in a statement.
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For years Facebook casually allowed third-party app-makers unfettered access to consumer datasets, allowing outfits like Cambridge to weaponize your personal information in the lead up to the 2016 election.
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We've been able to weaponize economic sanctions now where we can go after individuals … but now I think the ultimate sanction that the president is able to use is an airstrike.
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"This egregious citizenship question is a political effort to weaponize the census to redefine American democracy for a narrow set of people," Vanita Gupta, the fund's president, said in a statement.
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The result: a Lord of the Flies free-for-all where young users weaponize dubious screenshots, defamatory callout videos, and whisper campaigns via group chats to deliver vigilante justice at dizzying speeds.
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Adora and Amma learned to weaponize their femininity While Adora and Amma misdirect their anger over the confines of their gender roles at other women, Camille turns her violent rage onto herself.
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But if you want to drown your frustrations, do it in cheap hot dogs and soft serve ice cream instead of walking out the door, determined to weaponize those tiny IKEA pencils.
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Our thought bubble: "Fake news" and "misinformation" are abstract terms, which gives people in power — such as President Trump — room to weaponize the term in order to denounce news they don't like.
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"The first question, at this point, is whether China wants to weaponize its currency to retaliate in a messy trade war," wrote Commerzbank senior economist Zhou Hao in a note on Monday.
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A botnet is a sophisticated network of computers that have been infected with malware, placing them under the control of a hacker who can "weaponize" them to do his or her bidding.
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Efforts to weaponize them means they could also be used to carry and drop hazardous chemicals or explosive devices into crowds at public events to devastating effect, the ARES/PAX report warns.
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Tech platforms need to tackle those actors who would weaponize a personal viewpoint by cutting the strings to the puppet armies that give them disproportionate volume to force their views on others.
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One path: Trump, who has boasted of enjoying the overwhelming support of U.S. law-enforcement agents, sets about attempting to co-opt or weaponize the FBI, and his government begins to collapse.
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The choice to weaponize internet technologies to influence other countries' domestic politics, for instance, has provoked accusations from such important partners as Germany and France but failed to advance Russia's political goals.
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Once breached, an intruder can collect both trivial and sensitive information to weaponize it against our lawmakers and continue to expand the victim list all the way to their families and supporters.
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" She accused Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a watchdog group that has filed repeated complaints about Conway and other White House staffers, of "trying to weaponize the Hatch Act.
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As its economy and thus its reach has grown, the Chinese Communist Party has learned to weaponize economic ties for political gain by pressuring China-linked companies into supporting party political goals.
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While the volume of those arms sales didn&apost spike dramatically under President Ronald Reagan, his determination to weaponize anti-communist "freedom fighters" from Afghanistan to Nicaragua sparked the Iran-Contra scandal.
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With social media becoming one of the primary venues for political discussion in recent years, the incentive to dominate the conversation or weaponize political feelings to create conflict is greater than ever.
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Watch below as Paul switches onto Karl-Anthony Towns behind the three-point line, but then Tucker comes in before the Minnesota Timberwolves can weaponize their All-Star center in the post.
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My sense is these efforts are seeking to use various tactics to achieve the same end, which is to weaponize the census to redefine American democracy for a narrow set of people.
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It is seeking to weaponize information, deploying its state-run media organizations to plant fake stories and Photoshopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the West and undermine our institutions.
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Motherboard has previously reported on the military's plans to use larger aquatic animals to detect enemy ships, but now it appears that they are also looking to weaponize biology on the microscale.
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The President expressed frustration that "it's happening again," the person said, referring to his perception that political rivals, including House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, were able to weaponize intelligence related to Russia.
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Academics have struggled for years to explain the trade and say its impenetrability is part of what made it so successful — as though someone had found a way to weaponize string theory.
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And before this ban could go into effect, the state tried to weaponize the licensing process to shutter its last remaining health center that provides abortion, by refusing to renew its license.
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Instead of taking information at face value, you rely on sharp psychic senses to suss out insecurities, weak spots, and hidden desires, and then weaponize them or use them to seduce others.
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"He has gut-punched us on that a number of times," Klobuchar said on ABC's "This Week," adding that the president has "chosen instead to weaponize" and "politicize" the issue of immigration.
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Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the Western powers both sought to weaponize these deadly diseases and many of their experiments are still kicking around in laboratories across the world.
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"We are not the people who choose to weaponize space, but if we are challenged we will respond," Michael Griffin said Wednesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
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But by self-publishing your own nude photos, you can turn the tables on the sexual and cultural hypocrisy that allows people like him to weaponize nude photos in the first place.
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"Trump's attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper," said Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, who argued the Supreme Court case.
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Now, developing an exploit for a modern-day browser such as Chrome, or a mobile operating system like iOS may require a team of researchers, each with specialized skills to weaponize an exploit.
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What makes these files so effective is that they take advantage of the very things that make a compression effective and weaponize them—wasting CPU cycles, RAM, and disk space in the process.
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"The Russians in my opinion, and based on the intel and counterintel people I've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided," she said.
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Taylor is one of several Trump officials who have testified before Congress, and detailed their experiences watching the president and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani weaponize the State Department for his political gain.
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"We must do more to learn how foreign actors collect and weaponize our data against us, and what impact social media has on our democratic processes," the members said in a joint statement.
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And when humanitarian aid workers try to access maintained roads to recover the dead and prevent the deaths of migrants, land managers selectively weaponize the mandate of "wilderness conservation" to keep us out.
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Gaetz pointed to "the most relevant factual information" as what would "help us defeat this virus, not a bunch of Democrats trying to use it to try to weaponize politics against the President."
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A report by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 2002 noted that the military had tried to weaponize infrasound but had not succeeded because it was hard to focus the wavelengths.
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Or is this completely in character for China, who's learning how to weaponize her feminine wiles while playing up her daddy's-little-girl affectations so Dad will let her do whatever she wants?
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Trump also has a history of surrounding himself not with experts and people who tell the truth but with yes-people who deny facts and weaponize intelligence for partisan gain, including Mike Pence.
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He threatened openly to weaponize one part of the federal government, the Republican-led Senate, against another, the new House that takes office next year, if the pain of oversight becomes too acute.
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Bloomberg has attempted to weaponize that view of the class war by accusing Sanders of being "a millionaire with three houses," while Sanders and Warren focus on only the very wealthiest in society.
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"While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies," Schiff said on Twitter.
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By using its total control over the Russian news media to sow confusion in the West, Mr. Putin has managed, in the words of the journalists Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss, to "weaponize" information.
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"The cabinet's approval of a lese-majeste law appears to be a further attempt by the government to weaponize the country's legislation against its perceived opponents," said Kingsley Abbott, ICJ's Senior International Legal Adviser.
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But researchers have discovered a more sinister downside: A well-intentioned debugging tool found in many versions of Microsoft Windows can be used maliciously to gain access to vulnerable antivirus programs, and weaponize them.
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They include returning remains of US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War and the suspension of ballistic missile tests designed to weaponize a nuclear device that could reliably reach the US mainland.
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It allowed them, which is the DOJ and FBI as well as other intelligence agencies to basically weaponize the tools in our IC community, our intelligence community against a campaign against a Presidential campaign.
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"The Russians — in my opinion and based on the intel and the counterintel people I've talked to — could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided, " Clinton said.
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Top U.S. intelligence officials including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified before Congress earlier this year that hostile foreign actors are expected to try to weaponize deepfakes to sow discord and breed doubt.
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It also brought front and center the European Union's dependence on Turkey to limit the movement of migrants toward its territory, as well as Mr. Erdogan's willingness to weaponize migrants for his own purposes.
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"Is this the kind of activity they're using for intelligence gathering or a way to gather information to weaponize later?" muses Chris Painter, the State Department's top cyber diplomat from 2011 to mid-2017.
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And while the Chinese central bank "continues to deny they will weaponize the yuan they have a sturdy tool at their disposal and will not hesitate" to use it to offset tariffs, he added.
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As I have written in my Opinion columns for this newspaper, I have seen firsthand how social media sites amplify villainous voices and weaponize them, too — and it's not clear they can be controlled.
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For months, Trump and his presidential campaign have been seeking to weaponize the impeachment process, depicting it as a coup by a partisan Congress more interested in scoring political points than advancing the nation.
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WASHINGTON — Just as Robert Mueller's report created a roadmap for Democrats, Republicans have their own plans to weaponize it for Trump: by putting the origins of the investigation and the Obama administration on trial.
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"I think it's on people of privilege to weaponize that privilege," said Jae Carico, an organizer with a antifa chapter based in Tennessee, whose bid for U.S. Senate was recently endorsed by the Green Party.
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And if people try to weaponize love, try to turn it into something that unites some, but excludes others, well, then you've got to kick down that wall — ideally in a stylishly filmed action sequence.
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As war looms again in the 1930s, England is working to catch up to the other nations of the world as it attempts to weaponize these abilities at a secret location known as Monkton Hill.
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"With the 2020 elections on the horizon, there's no doubt that bad actors will continue to try to weaponize the scale and reach of social media platforms to erode public confidence and foster chaos," Sen.
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Both groups weaponize metaphors to make their white nationalism seem more palatable, like urging followers to stand up for "European heritage," using Greco-Roman motifs on fliers, or latching onto mainstream conservative issues like immigration.
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Clinton and her top aides have tried to weaponize Trump's lack of disclosure on taxes, repeatedly slamming the Republican nominee and speculating why he is declining to do what decades of presidential nominees have done.
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On its face, a memo like this suggests the new administration will seek not just to limit federal efforts to facilitate voting, but to weaponize the domestic security apparatus in order to control the franchise.
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"Russia sought to weaponize social media to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election," tweeted Adam Schiff, who is the Democrats' ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee.
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A former adviser to President Obama predicts that nation-states and others will try to use cyber intrusions to disrupt future election processes and "weaponize" data as Russia did during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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The only way to prevent the Bolivarian "hurricane" from destroying the Western Hemisphere is to stop the Bolivarian revolution that gave life to this threat network and has figured out how to weaponize mass migration.
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In a recent blog post marking the internet's 29th birthday, Berners-Lee warned that the concentration of power in companies such as Facebook and Twitter has made it possible to weaponize the web at scale.
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GOP lawmakers are quickly moving to weaponize the fight by introducing legislation that would force Democrats to go on the record on a constitutional amendment to keep the number of Supreme Court justices at nine.
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" In a recent interview with Fox Business, Pruitt couched this shift in moral terms: "The agency the last several years has used regulatory power to weaponize against certain sectors of our economy, as opposed to . . .
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Opinion IF someone could weaponize credentials — if a person could have a résumé so impressive that the mere sight of it could turn the tide of a war — that person would be Merrick B. Garland.
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Le Pen, Haider, Fortuyn, and the rest developed a mode of politics designed to weaponize this backlash — to take inchoate anti-immigrant sentiment and turn it into votes through heated nationalist and anti-Islam rhetoric.
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Yet speculation about Biden being less sharp than he used to be—and worries that Donald Trump will weaponize those accusations should Biden become his party's nominee—is running rampant among those watching 21984 closely.
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By looking at how a given cultural moment talks about and legislates each seduction narrative, Knox is attempting to map out the shifting ways in which we think about and weaponize sex, agency, and consent.
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" Proskauer rejected the claims as "groundless" and accused her of seeking "to squeeze a massive payout from our firm in exchange for her rapid departure and an agreement not to weaponize her blatantly inaccurate charges.
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But the Polish government has tried to weaponize history for its own ends as well, passing a broadly written law that would have made it a crime to accuse Poland of collaboration in the Holocaust.
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Taken together, documents, recordings, and other information provide an unprecedented, detailed inside look at how black hat affiliate markers weaponize targeted advertising, fake news articles, and overseas labor to exploit Facebook on a massive scale.
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" A second CNN source said network president Jeff Zucker believes the press access fight is "an important story" but isn't over-covering it as "he wants to be very careful not to weaponize the network.
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But he left Washington on Wednesday having, however inadvertently, also handed his Republican critics just what they were looking for: fresh material they could weaponize to try to undermine the credibility of that larger account.
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Iranian officials, perhaps sensing an opportunity, appear to be trying to weaponize the veteran adviser's reputation as a hawkish proponent of military intervention and regime change in Iran to emphasize the distance between Trump and Bolton.
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"Such actions would be an abuse of the committee's oversight powers and further examples of the Democrat majority's coordinated attempt to weaponize the tax code and use Congress's legitimate oversight authority for political gain," Brady wrote.
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Washington (CNN)Eric Holder, a former attorney general for the Obama administration, writes in a new op-ed that he's "deeply concerned" the Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to "weaponize" the 2020 US census.
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"Disturbingly easy" to weaponize Despite these efforts, it would be "disturbingly easy" to use the drug in a chemical attack, said Andy Weber, the former assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs.
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What's notable about the whole mess is that the very Republicans in Congress who fancied themselves avatars of business certainty could strip Trump of his power to weaponize chaos in Obamacare, but have so far declined.
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Harris is right in a way, as collecting citizenship data would enable the Justice Department to better enforce and weaponize the Voting Rights Act, particularly in smaller jurisdictions where robust citizenship data have never been available.
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President Trump has rightfully railed against weaponizing the criminal justice system against political opponents when he has been the target, yet now it seems he was willing to weaponize the Justice Department against his political opponents.
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Bureaucrats in government agencies weaponize their agencies against American citizens, suppressing rights and causing damage to their political opposition with little to no accountability, while at the same time providing special privileges to their political allies.
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What we don't know is whether there's a connection between those two things — that is, whether the Trump camp knew about the Russian hack while it was ongoing or worked with the Kremlin to weaponize it.
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Mr. Steele could not have known that the Russians stole information on Hillary Clinton, or that they were considering means to weaponize them in the U.S. election, all of which turned out to be stunningly accurate.
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The heart of the government's case is that AT&T, because of its size and power, can weaponize popular Time Warner content like HBO, CNN and sports programming to harm competitors and ultimately drive up prices.
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But Gomez doesn't simply weaponize her sexuality and confidence like many pop stars of yore; armed with Max Martin's twinkling production, "Hands to Myself" is a winking power play that makes seduction look fun and effortless.
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"Putting everything in one basket under DHS has not just not worked out, and it is what has allowed Trump and company to weaponize immigration in a racist way," Sanders senior adviser Jeff Weaver told CNN.
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By threatening Dr. Warren with a decade in prison, the US government sought to criminalize compassion and weaponize the deadly desert against people who make the perilous journey to the United States in search of safety.
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And, if Asia's largest economy were to weaponize tech guidelines to hit American companies, the cost would be difficult to quantify, but the effects on foreign firms could long outlive current tensions, according to the report.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused Trump of "conspiring to weaponize" classified information while Senate Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Mark Warner told CNN that the move "has the potential to jeopardize" key relationships with foreign partners.
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Incidentally, though, ChowNow's new lobbying campaign also illustrates the extent to which some tech companies believe they now have to weaponize Congress just to get the attention of — and force changes at — major tech giants, including Apple.
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One of the reasons that social media is so powerful for propagandists is that they are able to leverage the vast amounts of data that platforms like Facebook collect, and then weaponize it using psychological targeting techniques.
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Where do vapers go from here, and how do they weaponize this cultural moment—equal parts political insurgency and public-health crisis—without just barking into the sky at a man whom many of them once admired?
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Yet it's also clear mainstream platforms are unwilling to pro-actively and voluntarily adapt their rules to close down malicious users who seek to weaponize social media tools to spread hate and sew division via amplified harassment.
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In any case, at this point it's undeniable that their fire-and-brimstone debt rhetoric was nothing but a pose, an attempt to weaponize the deficit as a way to block and undermine President Barack Obama's agenda.
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"It cheapens the very right struggle against anti-Semitism for Islamophobic bigots to weaponize it in their campaigns," said H.A. Hellyer, a nonresident expert on Islam and the Middle East at the Atlantic Council, a research group.
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But the concerns began to grow when intelligence began trickling in about Russian officials weighing whether they should release stolen emails and other information to shape American opinion — to, in essence, weaponize the materials stolen by hackers.
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You may know me as someone who is bracing for Russia to weaponize Snapchat filters in 2020, but in my spare time I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Even though the report's author argues that the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons has been "overstated," it's hard to ignore the reality that nearly a third of all nuclear countries did weaponize civilian nuclear energy programs.
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Chinese rare earth prices are set to climb further beyond multi-year highs hit following a flurry of state media reports that Beijing could weaponize its supply-dominance of the prized minerals in its trade war with Washington.
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Why it matters: The effort potentially shows a new tactic being used by Russia to weaponize misinformation — using its state-run media arm to create fake posts that look like they come from real newsrooms in vulnerable countries.
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Last month May also publicly accused Russia of using social media to "weaponize information" and spread socially divisive fake news on social media, underscoring how the issue has shot to the top of the political agenda this year.
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"We are not the people who choose to weaponize space, but if we are challenged we will respond," Michael Griffin, the Pentagon's top engineer, said earlier this year at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Like a fake newspaper, and so the Russians — in my opinion and based on the intel and the counterintel people I've talked to — could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
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Mike Schroepfer: Yeah, there's been issues in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and others, and you know I talked earlier, this is the worst thing to see, is when people weaponize this platform and it causes real-world harm.
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The UK's Prime Minister waded into the disinformation debate herself last month by publicly accusing the Russian government of seeking to "weaponize information" by planting fake stories and photoshopped images to try to sow discord in the West.
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This phenomenon is often true with terrorist groups; al Qaeda, for example, abandoned its use of explosives at buildings or popular sites and chose to weaponize airplanes because it would set their tactics apart from other terrorist groups.
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Here's where recent revelations really bite: They suggest that it's only a matter of time before a foreign power hostile to democracy acquires large chunks of that data, and starts looking for ways to weaponize it against us.
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If we carry anything away today, it must be that we increase our vigilance against foreign election interference while we ensure our government officials don't weaponize their power against the constitutional rights guaranteed to every United States citizen.
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Privacy is personal and unfortunately, with the laws lagging, the personal is now trivially cheap and easy to weaponize for political dark arts that treat democracy as a game of PR, debasing the entire system in the process.
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Mr. Mnuchin has accused Democrats of trying to "weaponize" the Internal Revenue Service, and he has warned that providing them with Mr. Trump's returns could come back to haunt Democrats if Republicans try to unlock their tax filings.
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But increasingly, top officials at the Justice Department have privately expressed concern that the lawmakers are simply mining government secrets for information they can weaponize against those investigating the president, including the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
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Thomas said she had observed a rise in watchdog groups, think tanks and other outside forces attempting to weaponize academia in ideological warfare, and that faculty members she'd spoken to were now terrified of being candid in classrooms.
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A normal friend's face would have fallen at the sight, but as we've established time and again, these spies aren't normal people — and Saul, in particular, has proved himself more than willing to weaponize Carrie's illness when needed.
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I want to make sure that we don't racialize and, frankly, weaponize race as a part of the process, which is why I have called on my opponent to really work to rise above some of these things.
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"(Magnet-related rare earths) are the ideal materials to weaponize ... because they are so critical to high-demand, highly-competitive, price-sensitive industries," said Ryan Castilloux, managing director of Adamas Intelligence, a consultancy that tracks rare earths markets.
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Rocket-propelled grenades like PG-7s and PG-9s have long been used by militaries around the world, but ISIS engineers take these weapons apart and reuse the diamond-shaped warheads to weaponize their own line of customized rockets.
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If the Democratic Party, and the political establishment at large, is so quick to dismiss Sanders due to illness, it will inadvertently weaponize disease in a way that President Trump and others will be only too happy to leverage.
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Heise does not find a way to avoid that irony (as if it could ever truly be avoided), but he does weaponize it for his own purpose, demonstrating how the forces of history shape how we maintain personal relationships.
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There are plenty of other attempts by other companies to weaponize this technology into something commercial, with startups like Clarifai raising a lot of capital and building metadata-driven visual search that it make available for retailers and businesses.
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" Nick Goodwin, a spokesman for the Interior Department, said: "It is unsurprising that those who have repeatedly attempted to weaponize the Endangered Species Act -- instead of use it as a means to recover imperiled species -- would choose to sue.
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None of that "why" behind Trump's doubling down deals with the fact that we've never had a modern president like this one who is so willing to weaponize patriotism and lingering racial tensions and stereotypes to score political points.
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In addition, from the moment he took office, Trump has shown a tyrannical willingness to invent his own version of the truth and to weaponize the federal government to serve his ego and pursue personal vendettas, large and small.
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Back to your point about the Obama involvement, you know, why is it so hard to believe about Obama, who was willing to weaponize and politicize the IRS and EPA, that he would do so with the DOJ and FBI?
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What he's saying: "I think the real problem is how did we weaponize the intelligence community and the FBI to create an investigation that has been conducted over a two-year period without a whole lot of fruit," Meadows said.
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In its latest move to weaponize the yuan, China is taking a big risk as the devaluation would lead to an exodus of capital, but it's also a sore spot for Trump as he has repeatedly protested the strong dollar.
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As North Korea continues to progress in its quest to weaponize intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads — presenting an increasingly unacceptable security risk to American policymakers — calls for China to reign in North Korea are becoming louder and more frequent.
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But Facebook's willingness to partner with those who weaponize information — peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories when it's beneficial, then turning around and accusing its opponents of doing the same — reveals the fundamental moral rot at the core of such an ethos.
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"From the beginning, the RNC had concerns about any outside entity building a data operation to compete with ours because we knew they could potentially weaponize that data against Republicans if their business interests conflicted with electing Republicans," McDaniel wrote.
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In the case of the latter, that inquiry has centered on the ease with which Russian agents were able to weaponize the social network, disseminating possibly election-altering propaganda over a period of months without spurring any action from Facebook.
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"Today's announcement from Facebook demonstrates what we've long feared: that malicious foreign actors bearing the hallmarks of previously-identified Russian influence campaigns continue to abuse and weaponize social media platforms to influence the U.S. electorate," Schiff said in a statement.
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Both Rhodes and Kahl denied in The New Yorker article the existence of any coordinated effort to attack the Trump presidency, with Kahl describing the reported memo in a Twitter thread as an effort to weaponize the NSC against political opponents.
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"For my part, I vow that our campaign will not seek out stolen hacked information from foreign adversaries or knowingly weaponize such materials, and I urge my colleagues in the 2020 field to join in signing this pledge," Gillibrand said.
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"From the beginning, the RNC had concerns about any outside entity building a data operation to compete with ours because we knew they could potentially weaponize that data against Republicans if their business interests conflicted with electing Republicans," reads the memo.
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In the movie, his primary goal is to capture and weaponize an Obscurus, which the Fantastic Beasts movie shows us is a lethally destructive parasitic force that forms when magical children are forced to repress their magic while growing up.
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While Trump will weaponize even non-gaffes -- as he has shown many times in the past -- the rush to Biden does seem to have overlooked the fact that he is a candidate with a long history of saying the wrong things.
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"Trump knew how to weaponize that capitalistic greed against them, whereas Bernie's approach has been just to build those other channels," said Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host who has emerged as a leading voice of the pro-Sanders left.
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But such a case needs to be actively made, rather than offered up as a no-brainer; there's little a populist demagogue can weaponize more easily than a policy, however sensible, presented by knowing elites as a high-minded fait accompli.
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Representative Max Rose, Democrat of New York and the first Jewish lawmaker to represent his district, which has a large Yemeni population, has strongly urged his colleagues to turn back any attempts to weaponize anti-Semitism to derail the legislation.
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" The Trump age has made a habit of the mega-event, for better or worse: foreign summits, rampaging news conferences, the Senate testimony last year of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who managed to weaponize the word "lordy.
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As such, the president devolves into using racist and xenophobic rhetoric to weaponize a virulent disease that has proved more resilient than the administration has been as it wastes precious time blaming everyone and everything else for its own incompetence.
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"Last time, he had the right-wing conspiracy media to boost his chants of 'lock her up,' but this time he's going to actually weaponize the federal government against our nominee," said Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesperson on the Clinton campaign.
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In relaying to Ms. Warren the challenges he thought her campaign would face, he said not only that President Trump would weaponize sexism, but also that such attacks would preclude a woman from being elected, according to the private accounts.
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Back in 2014 right-wing politicians and media did indeed try to politically weaponize a disease outbreak, the Ebola virus, with Trump himself responsible for more than 100 tweets denouncing the Obama administration's response (which was actually competent and effective).
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"Now, with the 2020 elections on the horizon, there's no doubt that bad actors will continue to try to weaponize the scale and reach of social media platforms to erode public confidence and foster chaos," he said in a statement.
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"What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could," Sanders said when the story was first reported by CNN, and before Warren confirmed it herself.
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The notion that a state could weaponize social media for political ends is easy to understand in the familiar terms of online harassment, which turns seemingly inert platforms like Twitter or Facebook into tools for invading privacy and inflicting fear.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese rare earth prices are set to climb further beyond multi-year highs hit following a flurry of state media reports that Beijing could weaponize its supply-dominance of the prized minerals in its trade war with Washington.
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Within five years, any terrorist will be able to shop online for the latest commercial drone, weaponize it, launch it from the west coast of Africa, and fly it more than 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to attack the U.S. mainland.
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Ultimately, Ryan put himself forward as a test of a simple, but important, proposition: Is fiscal responsibility something Republicans believe in or something they simply weaponize against Democrats to win back power so they can pass tax cuts and defense spending?
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It features an animated figure with blue skin and spherical white eyes, based in part on Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen's blue-skinned, godlike superman protagonist, whose frustration with the U.S. military's attempts to weaponize his superpowers leads him to leave Earth for Mars.
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A current version of the legislation would make it illegal to weaponize consumer drones and would require drone pilots operating the devices outside of their line of sight to remotely identify themselves so law enforcement can connect the device to a person.
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Jayapal said Democrats' best shot at victory in November is to continue campaigning on similar issues, but Republicans are tying Democrats in competitive races to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a way to weaponize Medicare for All ahead of the election.
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Amma learns to weaponize both versions of herself But this is what patriarchal society looks like: turning women against each other, valuing them based on adherence to gender norms, and making them do the work of policing one another for "correctly" performing femininity.
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Earlier this month, the UK prime minister cranked up the political pressure by publicly accused the Russian government of seeking to "weaponize information" by planting fake stories and photoshopped images to try to meddle in elections and sow discord in the West.
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"President Trump's threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities," state Senate Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said in a statement on Monday.
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"@BarackObama you owe the Parkland students an apology…Had every child been given the same armed security yours were protected by there never would've been a Parkland massacre for you to weaponize in your #TIME100 hit piece attacking #NRA" @stinchfield1776 #NationalSchoolWalkout pic.twitter.
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Moreover, if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces move to fill the vacuum in northeast Syria, the regime "could "weaponize" these individuals in the same way it utilized al-Qaeda fighters against the United States during the war in Iraq," the report reads.
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Republicans intend to weaponize an obscure parliamentary measure, known as a motion to recommit (MTR), as an evolving strategy to give moderate Democrats a choice between crossing the aisle or risking GOP attack ads in their swing districts heading into the 2020 elections.
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"Our successful bid to keep our seat in the council is proof that many in the international community remain convinced the Philippines respects and protects human rights and have seen through the efforts of some to politicize and weaponize the issue," he said.
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"Rather than looking for opportunities to weaponize everything from kites to mirrors in order to attack Israel, Hamas should focus its ingenuity on improving the Gazan economy," Mr. Kushner, Mr. Greenblatt and Mr. Friedman wrote in their Post article, published last week.
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Though an inspector general inquiry found serious mistakes with the wiretapping of Mr. Page, it did not find evidence to support the narrative pushed by Mr. Trump and his allies that the high-level F.B.I. officials conspired to weaponize FISA against him.
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"Deepfakes weaponize information in a way that takes maximum advantage of the dynamics of a social media ecosystem that prizes traffic above nearly all else," John Villasenor, nonresident senior fellow, governance studies, at the Brookings' Center for Technology Innovation, wrote in June.
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" The conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, on the other hand, insisted in a USA Today op-ed that "the only inventing going on is coming from liberals determined to weaponize a term to make a policy — and party — they don't like seem racist.
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ANDREA ECONOMOSHARTSDALE, N.Y. To the Editor: I am definitely not a Trump supporter, but was it appropriate of Senator Dick Durbin to, one may say, weaponize Mr. Trump's deplorable words and jeopardize by doing that an important but vulnerable agreement about the Dreamers?
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It's not exactly breaking news that Trump is comfortable with hypocrisy, believes the function of the federal government should be to protect him, and only has concerns about conflicts of interest in cases where he can weaponize them against his perceived foes.
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Patrick Cotter, a longtime former federal prosecutor who worked with members of the special counsel Robert Mueller&aposs team, told Insider Barr&aposs comments are "even more remarkable" given his direct role in helping Trump weaponize the Justice Department against his perceived enemies.
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Russia almost certainly was looking for information related to the former Vice President's son, so that the Kremlin could weaponize it against Mr. Biden, just like it did against Hillary Clinton in 2016 when Russia hacked and released emails from her presidential campaign.
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Amid the disagreement between the two senators over what was said in the 2018 meeting, a number of pundits have suggested that Sanders was expressing concern to Warren that President Donald Trump would weaponize misogyny if a woman won the 2020 Democratic nomination.
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And from the moment he took office, Mr. Trump has shown a despot's willingness to invent his own version of the truth and to weaponize the federal government to confirm that version, to serve his ego and to pursue vendettas large and small.
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Fox News host Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityHannity: 'Lunatic' Schiff 'the worst liar in all of politics' Hypocrisy is the currency of the realm for GOP in the age of Trump GOP threatens to weaponize impeachment witnesses amid standoff MORE on Tuesday characterized Rep.
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Radios, satellite television, radars, GPS, Bluetooth, cell phones and, of course, microwave ovens employ them, and they're deemed harmless in most applications, though the newspaper points out that governments, including the United States and Russia, have for decades studied ways to weaponize them.
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"The thing that is keeping us up at night right now is thinking about how a ransomware actor, or any type of hacker, could use this exploit once they are able to weaponize it and then spread like a worm," DeCapua said.
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Part of Identity Evropa's strategy now relies on its ability to weaponize metaphors to make their white nationalism seem more acceptable, like referring to "European heritage" — which white nationalist often use as a euphemism to mean "white" — or seizing on mainstream conservative issues like immigration.
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"After consulting with the Justice Department, the Treasury Department has come to the firm conclusion that we have known since day one: this request from House Democrats to weaponize the tax code for purely political reasons is illegitimate and should be treated as such," Rep.
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Schiff accused the group of trying to weaponize materials about the alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign amid Nunes' letter calling to interview over a dozen former FBI and DOJ officials , including fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and embattled FBI official Peter Strzok.
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Since it's not too hard to come up with a single dance step, a shadow industry of trolls could even do something like copyright a wide range of physical motions, then weaponize them during Super Bowl halftime shows or any other big public dance performance.
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But it does suggest that future battles over online privacy may involve making personal details harder to weaponize, not trying to erase them — whether that means increasing penalties for harassment, improving screening and privacy options, or improving our ability to find people who make threats.
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I think in referencing Jeff Sessions again, that is, as Mollie suggests in reference to the upcoming Horowitz report, the I.G. at DOJ which I think the administration will use to weaponize that angle again in the political sphere, get rid of the Mueller investigation.
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A separate airstrike in the same region killed Junaid ur Rehman, a senior ISIS drone pilot and engineer who was working to enhance ISIS's ability to weaponize drones and conduct aerial surveillance in Iraq and Syria as well as to plot external terror attacks.
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In this way, the survivors' experiences are part of an old story, exemplifying how powerful men can weaponize women and girls' career ambitions to manipulate and abuse them and, later, how that same ambition is used to dismiss and blame them when they speak out.
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"Its decisions seem to be influenced by media pressure and liberal organizations – and perhaps OSC should be mindful of its own mandate to act in a fair, impartial, non-political manner, and not misinterpret or weaponize the Hatch Act," he said in a statement.
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John CornynJohn CornynRepublicans came to the table on climate this year Senators seek to weaponize Clinton trial in Trump impeachment Schumer aims to drive wedge between Republicans on impeachment MORE (R-Texas) noted that the Trump impeachment proceedings seemed to be "eerily" mirroring Clinton's.
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The Treasury secretary, who is one of Mr. Trump's closest aides, has said House Democrats are attempting to weaponize the I.R.S. by trying to obtain the president's returns, and his department has argued that the request for the returns lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.
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The surprise of 2016—post-Brexit, post-Trump—is just how ably the Russians weaponize those lyrics, tweak them to "Whites will rise from their knees!" and megaphone them into so many ready ears in Eastern and Western Europe and, eventually, onto our own shores.
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But starting in 2010, rightwing Jewish groups took the "working definition", which had some examples about Israel (such as holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of Israel, and denying Jews the right to self-determination), and decided to weaponize it with title VI cases.
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Fritz Haber, the man whose fertilizer production process helped feed the world, also helped weaponize chlorine gas, and helped the German military use it in World War I. Maybe Knight shouldn't be focused on training great men and women to fix the world's problems.
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But there's a modicum of truth in this idea: In the age of social media, many groups, especially alt-right subcultures, have learned how to weaponize social media, memes, bots, and other online tools to amplify their message and even the appearance of backlash itself.
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A big part of our propaganda problem lies in the structure of the media, the fact that it's guided by commercial incentives — and no one is really immune from that and it's why bad-faith actors, like Bannon and Trump, have been able to weaponize the press.
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If WikiLeaks releases details on the vulnerabilities, attackers of all stripes will soon have the ability to weaponize the CIA's tools — not just nation states with advanced cyber programs like China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, but anyone with adequate internet access and some technical knowhow.
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The network may masquerade as a BBC-esque news organization that is increasingly global and multilingual, but it is in fact one of the most important tools of international propaganda in Vladimir Putin's arsenal—the centerpiece of the Kremlin's $300 million-per-year campaign to weaponize information.
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"From the beginning, the RNC had concerns about any outside entity building a data operation to compete with ours because we knew they could potentially weaponize that data against Republicans if their business interests conflicted with electing Republicans," McDaniel wrote in the letter obtained by Politico.
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"But the White House stood by Conway and said the agency's decision was "influenced by media pressure and liberal organizations — and perhaps OSC should be mindful of its own mandate to act in a fair, impartial, non-political manner, and not misinterpret or weaponize the Hatch Act.
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"With its announcement today, the (International Atomic Energy Agency) confirmed they could not determine the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program -- except to assess that, contrary to its claims, Iran was working at certain points to weaponize its nuclear program," he said in a statement.
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The guys I met at the bar in Christchurch were not much for distinctions; they worried about being on "their radar" — referring to Muslims in general, not the small subset of the world's 1.8 billion believers in Islam who weaponize the faith for their own interests.
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Campbell has joined a growing handful of very famous, very mainstream celebrities who have ventured into the wilds of YouTube, a platform known more than a smidge dismissively for sugary makeup gurus and Casey Neistat, and decidedly more seriously for extremism and the people who weaponize it.
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"Politicians who seek to weaponize the US-Israel relationship and turn it into a wedge issue are no friends of Israel, and the transparent cynicism of their words are clear to all," said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a statement to CNN.
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So we shouldn't really be too surprised that Mr. Comey, who turns out to be a Republican first and a public servant, well, not so much, decided to politically weaponize his position on the eve of the election; that's what Republicans have been doing across the board.
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But the new New Yorker story reveals for the first time just how far Weinstein was willing to go to get the information that he would later weaponize against those who might expose him — and how many major power players he worked with across all industries.
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When Democratic leaders came into control and made the Yemen resolution a priority (Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is a co-sponsor, as was Nancy Pelosi last year, before she was speaker), Republicans continued their campaign to stall the process by trying to weaponize anti-Semitism against Democrats.
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"After consulting with the Justice Department the Treasury Department has come to the firm conclusion that we have known since day one: this request from House Democrats to weaponize the tax code for purely political reasons is illegitimate and should be treated as such," Brady said in a statement.
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If President Obama was the first presidential candidate to use social media and President Trump was the first to weaponize it, then Ossoff was the first congressional candidate to harness the full force of a national social media campaign for a race that turned out just 241,500 voters.
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Humans love stories about celebrities acting as investigative reporters of their own lives, and Rooney isn't the first person to weaponize her social media accounts: Kim Kardashian has reportedly sent her friends fake photos of her newborn children to find out who is leaking information to the press.
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Like the hands of Joerg Sprave, who's found a way to weaponize everything from Lego bricks, to Nerf darts, and now even fidget spinners with a custom slingshot blaster that launches them with enough power to make you wish you weren't in his crosshairs before he pulls the trigger.
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The Ukraine crisis taught nationalists "how you can weaponize this ideology," and it has helped push "the larger tectonic plates of European politics" to the right, said Rękawek, who edited one of the most in-depth examinations discussing foreign fighters in the conflict, a collection titled Not Only Syria.
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This is what makes it so easy and tempting to weaponize history, to forgo any interest in "how it actually was" — to use the 19th-century historian Leopold von Ranke's definition of the true goal of the study of history — and to bend it toward our own present ends.
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It's still not known which specific diseases he might be trying to weaponize, but the World Health Organization has identified five horrific ones that could be used by any nation or terrorist organization anxious to spread havoc and panic on a global scale: anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox and tularemia.
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Supporters of the progressive agenda tempted to weaponize procedure and twist the Senate's rules to accomplish their objectives, should think about what a re-elected President Donald Trump with a new House majority and a reaffirmed Senate majority might seek to do if the filibuster no longer existed.
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As the abuse crisis flared up again under Francis' watch in the United States, Chile and Australia — where Cardinal George Pell, one of Francis' top cardinal advisers, is now in a prison cell after being found guilty of abuse — conservative critics of the pope sought to weaponize it.
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Opinion: The line that rips through people's lives A Q&A with Francisco Cantu, author of "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border," in which he tries to reckon with his role in the ways US border policy has tried to weaponize the landscape he loves.
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But in an era where senior lawmakers regularly bring up how nice it would be to weaponize the internet, it's yet another reminder how a tit-for-tat digital Cold War could further undermine the web and drag it towards even more government propaganda and surveillance—regardless of who started it.
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Royce said in a statement he wanted to focus his last year leading the foreign affairs panel "on the urgent threats facing our nation," which he listed as the North Korean and Iranian governments, Russian efforts to "weaponize information to fracture western democracies" and terrorist threats in Africa and Central Asia.
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In my determination to find kickass jams, hone my expertise of the underground, and ultimately weaponize said knowledge against the gatekeepers, mainstream death like Suffocation, Carcass and Devourment gave way to Jig-Ai, Amputated and Prostitute Disfigurement, and from there bands like Gut, Cock and Ball Torture, and Cemetery Rapist.
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Russia has denied Williamson's latest charge too — as it also did last year, when the UK prime minister directly accused Vladimir Putin of seeking to weaponize information in order to sew social division and influence elections in the West, via the medium of fake news posted to social media platforms.
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"I am worried that state attorneys and political officers can start to weaponize criminal charges against law enforcement if you don't meet their threshold for what you do or should not do," said Mr. Bell, who said he and others were still disappointed by Mr. Peterson's response to the shooting.
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And I should say that even if he said something much weaker than that, he has admitted to saying that Trump would weaponize sexism and misogyny against Warren, which is an odd thing to bring up unless you're claiming that a woman wouldn't have a realistic shot at the presidency.
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The real problems are first, the president and leaders in Congress should not use their power to pressure the bureaucracy to do their partisan bidding, and second, if you give government the tools to regulate political speech, the government will weaponize them for partisan gain by the party in power.
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Second, the malware known as Mirai, which is used to find hackable bots and weaponize them to take down websites is publicly available for use and modification, meaning the technical barriers to entry for those looking to perform such attacks or sell their services are lower than one might think.
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"Russian trolls weaponize Star Wars criticism as an instrument of information warfare with the purpose of pushing for political change, while it is weaponized by right-wing fans to forward a conservative agenda and for some it is a pushback against what they perceive as a feminist/social justice onslaught," Bay writes.
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"He knows that a number of people are going to try to weaponize his service in Congress against him -- and I know some people in this race would like to believe he never served as vice president to President (Barack) Obama," a senior Biden campaign official who briefed reporters on the plan said.
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But Democrats are concerned that Republicans are trying to recreate their playbook for the run-up to the 2016 election, when Mr. Trump — aided by Republicans and Fox News — worked to weaponize a steady stream of small disclosures from an investigation into Hillary Clinton to cast her as secretive and potentially corrupt.
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Here are three takeaways from Monday night's CNN town halls: The front-runner takes the hits On the night before he takes the debate stage in South Carolina as the unquestioned Democratic primary front-runner, Sanders faced a lot of the same questions his rivals are expected to weaponize against him onstage.
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The only people who benefit from our divisions are the "very fine people" who marched in Charlottesville and those who weaponize antisemitism for political gain, promote white supremacist rhetoric and antisemitic conspiracy theories and use tweets and policy to threaten the lives of Jews, Muslims, people of color, LGBTQ folks and others.
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"We want to essentially de-weaponize shutdowns, but the trick and the thing that we're working through is, how do we do that in a way that still provides some clear and very strong incentives to get the work done and not just use this as an easy default," Kildee told CNN.
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Another consequence: the move will probably eliminate at least some of the risk of harassment clips carry with them, because by restricting who can make clips you also restrict the content therein — it will be harder to weaponize them to embarrass or intimidate streamers if only a streamer's biggest fans can make them.
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One of the most formidable weapons in Weinstein's arsenal — one he seems to have deliberately displayed to a woman he was allegedly already trying to prey upon — appears to be his ability to weaponize the gossip press, by ensuring the publication of stories that agree with his preferred way of seeing the world.
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But while that final season showed flashes of something interesting in the way Wright's character tried to weaponize claims of sexism once in the Oval Office, the writers weren't able to rethink the show in any meaningful way that could free it from the shadow of the gone but far from forgotten male lead.
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The South Bend mayor, who has staked out a middle ground between the progressives and moderates like Delaney and Hickenlooper, scored some points later on as the debate-within-the-debate dragged when he advised the field to pay less attention -- and worry -- to how Republicans might try to weaponize the Democratic debate against them.
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If state election boards were to be targeted in this way, where voter information or voting systems were hacked, and then a coordinated campaign to disseminate or weaponize that information were to follow on social media, it could lead to widespread confusion that could undermine the integrity of an election could ensue, some officials fear.
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There are various possibilities, but the latest Mueller filing supplies one possible answer: In addition to the email leaks, we now know that the Russian hackers also accessed Democratic campaign analytics, a prize that (far more than the emails) would have been hard to fully weaponize if they weren't shared directly with the Trump campaign.
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What I did say that night was that Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE is a sexist, a racist and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could.
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But you can bet that if China is finding enough profit in pursing such actions, you can imagine just how worthwhile it would be for even more nefarious state- and non-state actors like North Korea or ISIS to either weaponize such data or sell it to finance activities that place others in harm's way.
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Russia's far-ranging campaign to promote dissension in the United States reportedly included an effort to weaponize Pokémon Go. CNN reported today that in July 2016, a Tumblr page linked to Russia's now-notorious Internet Research Agency promoted a contest encouraging people sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement to play the game near famous sites of police brutality.
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Bill Woodcock, executive director of the Packet Clearing House: There's a fundamental conflict between anonymity and control of public speech, and the countries that don't value anonymous speech domestically are still free to weaponize it internationally, whereas the countries that do value anonymous speech must make it available to all, [or] else fail to uphold their own principle.
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So the company is essentially seeking to leverage (you could say 'legally weaponize') a smorgasbord of antisocial problems — many of which have scaled to become major societal issues in recent years at least in part as a consequence of the size and scale of Facebook's social empire — as arguments for defending the size and operational sprawl of its business.
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"We in the United States have ... crossed into a new threshold where we have state actors and others trying to use these cybertools in new ways to intrude in our election process, to weaponize information," Lisa Monaco told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
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Social media allows cops direct access to the public and a way to weaponize deep wells of public sympathy for them; local news outlets are quick to notice and pass on the bad things happening to their local departments, and national news outlets, eternally hungry for content to aggregate, slurp the shit up and beg for more.
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"In this final year of my Foreign Affairs Committee chairmanship, I want to focus fully on the urgent threats facing our nation, including: the brutal, corrupt and dangerous regimes in Pyongyang and Tehran, Vladimir Putin's continued efforts to weaponize information to fracture western democracies, and growing terrorist threats in Africa and Central Asia," Royce said in a statement.
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Republicans are threatening to weaponize a fight on Senate impeachment witnesses amid growing concerns that moderates within their caucus could help Democrats call former national security adviser John BoltonJohn BoltonWhat to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial Nadler gets under GOP's skin 'Emotion' from Trump's legal team wins presidential plaudits MORE to testify.
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That she survived, grew up into someone pretty cool, and now makes music that's actually good is a testament to how much Rebecca Black still had to learn, and how much time she had to grow, when the internet found her — and perhaps a sign that social media had yet to learn how to weaponize its cruelty.
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" Green, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, went on to argue that if Trump continues to "weaponize racism and bigotry, this makes you no better than those who were screaming 'blood and soil,'" and "Jews will not replace us," an apparent reference to the violent 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. "It makes you no better than those who burn crosses.
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The Hill recently reported proto president Senator Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.) warned that the Trump administration's reinstatement of a citizenship question would "weaponize" the 85033 census.
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The two have been engaged in a bitter dispute for months, with each accusing the other of trying to rewrite — and weaponize — history: Mr. Putin has sought to portray the Soviet Union as having saved the world from Nazism, and to ignore its own 1939 nonaggression pact with Germany, framing Poland as more a perpetrator than a victim of the Holocaust.
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The two have been engaged in a bitter dispute for months, with each accusing the other of trying to rewrite — and weaponize — history: Mr. Putin has sought to portray the Soviet Union as having saved the world from Nazism and to ignore its own 0003 nonaggression pact with Germany, and has framed Poland as more a perpetrator than a victim of the Holocaust.
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Filemon Vela of Texas, sat with half a dozen Nevada-based immigrant advocates and lawyers, who took the opportunity to press the surrogates and campaign staff about the deportations, and more broadly about their concerns that Biden's plan does not include dismantling many of the current processes and agency practices that they say the Trump administration has been able to weaponize against immigrants.
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We are 18 months away from a presidential election and I'd like to ask both of you, how much confidence do you have in Facebook in particular, but all the social media, and Google, I guess with YouTube, to stop what happened last time, to really get out ahead of foreign parties attempting to weaponize our social media to influence the national election?
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The big picture: The announcement underlines the pressures social media companies are facing to confront misinformation campaigns on their platforms that can weaponize political beliefs to influence politics in the U.S. And it's not just about Russia — in just the last few weeks Twitter, Google, and Facebook alike have unveiled newly discovered misinformation campaigns on their platforms, some of which are linked to Iran.
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Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B Blatt's new suit, however, claims: Rad and Pambakian have attempted to weaponize an important social movement, undermining the plight of true victims of sexual abuse by making false accusations in cynical pursuit of a $2 billion windfall … Blatt is expected to be a key witness for IAC and Match in the Valuation Lawsuit.
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SE Cupp: Hirono is trying to weaponize #MeToo But weaponizing #MeToo to take down a political appointee, throwing due process out the window, deciding before anyone has been able to testify publicly that one person is credible and the other isn't, and setting dangerous standards most victims will never be able to clear isn't a good way to protect our country from the court.
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On September 14, 2015, signals from one of the Universe's most mind-boggling, powerful events…Read more ReadUber&aposs Arbitration Policy Comes Back to Bite It in the AssOver 12,000 Uber drivers found a way to weaponize the ridesharing platform's restrictive contract…Read more ReadFacebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It AnywayBack in 2015, Facebook had a pickle of a problem.
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With little actual acknowledgement of the sociological origins and functions of race or how ethnic identity and geography can erect barriers around what blackness means and how it can or should be legitimately understood and expressed, the film's purportedly productive discourse amounts to little more than an extended opportunity for Dolezal to appropriate and weaponize the language of identity politics against itself in a last ditch effort at redemption.
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But if the partners of neo-Nazis are going to weaponize anti-Semitism for political purposes; if the place for progressive Zionists on the left is at risk of disappearing; if the urgent cry of Palestinians for fundamental human rights is going to be labeled anti-Semitism; if Jews and our allies, especially people-of-color, are going to be divided when we need an informed solidarity more than ever?
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KELLY: You know, my concern is you know, we&aposre the leader of the free world and as soon as we say hey we&aposre going to have this new branch of the military, we&aposre going to weaponize space, it&aposs really easy when you have a country that can put a satellite into low-earth orbit for them to do damage to the space environment, very, very simple.
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" Laurence Tribe told me that he would regard some forms of misbehavior as impeachable, such as "a pattern of abusing the bully pulpit of the Presidency, one of its most potent if informal powers—especially when amplified by social media—to stir division within the electorate to the point of violence, to give permission to white supremacists to weaponize their hatred, and otherwise to undermine the foundations of our republic.
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But whether or not it helps in tight races in places like Ohio, Minnesota and Michigan depends on how well Republican candidates can weaponize the economic messaging and break through the swirl of stories that dominate cable news banners and headlines in Washington, DC. That has proven difficult for some Republicans, especially as Democrats look to link anyone with an "R" next to their name on the ballot to Trump.
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Maddow had her best ratings ever and she even beat out presidential apologist Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityHannity: 'Lunatic' Schiff 'the worst liar in all of politics' Hypocrisy is the currency of the realm for GOP in the age of Trump GOP threatens to weaponize impeachment witnesses amid standoff MORE, the Fox News Channel host who usually occupies the top spot in the ratings of the evening cable talk shows.
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So, what does this mean is, how did you use our nation&aposs counterintelligence capabilities -- these are capabilities that are used to track terrorists and other bad guys around the globe -- how did you weaponize that against a political campaign, the Trump campaign, where, ultimately, it ended up in Carter Page having FISA warrants put against him, which allowed the government to go in and grab all of his e-mails and phone calls?
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Both as a consequence of algorithmic micro-targeting priorities; and, in many cases, by intentional trolling (be that hostile foreign agents, hateful groups or just destructive lolzseekers) — those agents and groups who have got so good at understanding and gamifying tech platforms' algorithms they've been able to "weaponize information" as the UK Prime Minister put it earlier this month — when she publicly accused Russia of using the Internet to try to disrupt Western democracies.
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As with her previous books on Area 21980, Operation Paperclip (the secret project to bring Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. after the war), and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which develops new technology for the Defense Department), this one begins with the fallout of World War II and the extreme measures the military-industrial complex took to unlock and weaponize psychic abilities in the early days of the Cold War.
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Adam's parents are, like the parents of most of his best friends, therapists at a local psychiatric institute called The Foundation, and each person's understanding of themselves is colored by the rhetoric of psychoanalysis as well as its failures: A person can learn how to identify and articulate the underpinnings of their rage and still act on it anyway; at worst a person can weaponize the very language meant to broaden understanding.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee warned in a new op-ed that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is trying to weaponize the Department of Justice (DOJ) as a "political tool" to do his bidding.
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"And to be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing that is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united to do whatever it takes, at the end of the day, to make sure that this president does not get a second term," he concluded.
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And to be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing that is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united in doing whatever it takes at the end of the day to make sure that this president does not get a second term.
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Moreover, there is evidence that international terrorists have looked at other ways to weaponize drones and "have been attracted to the high-lethality potential associated with the use of chemical and biological weapons," according to a report released Thursday by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point "We have to be poised and ready on the U.S. side to innovate whenever a new threat appears, and this is definitely a new threat," said Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial initiatives group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a defense think tank.
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So this is different because they went public, and they were conveying this weaponized information and the content of it, and they were running ... You know, there's all these stories of guys over in Macedonia who are running these fake news sites and I've seen them now and you sit there and it looks like a sort of low-level CNN operation ... Or a fake newspaper ... Like a fake newspaper, and so the Russians — in my opinion and based on the intel and the counterintel people I've talked to — could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided.
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The progressive senator appeared in a sketch that satirized Fox News's coverage of the coronavirus and included parodies of network hosts Laura IngrahamLaura Anne IngrahamWarren makes surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' after dropping out of 2020 race Limbaugh: Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party pose 'far greater threat to this country' than coronavirus Laura Ingraham: Democrats, media 'have decided to weaponize fear' over coronavirus MORE and Jeanine Pirro as well as retired MSNBC host Chris Matthews and President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric TrumpEric Frederick TrumpTrump Jr. challenges Hunter Biden to debate him over who has benefited most off their fathers' time in office Warren makes surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' after dropping out of 2020 race New documents show Trump Organization has charged Secret Service 8,000 since 85033 MORE.
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