Donald Trump has claimed that ‘nobody will be safe’ in a Joe Biden presidency in a rhetorical escalation as he seeks to reboot his struggling re-election campaign. Speaking at an event in Florida, Trump called his likely Democratic rival a ‘puppet’ of senator Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Trump’s New Hampshire rally delayed by weather, White House claims
White House says Saturday event postponed due to tropical storm despite weather forecasts showing area not expected to be affected
Donald Trump has postponed a planned campaign rally in New Hampshire, the White House said, citing bad weather.
The president was set to appear at a campaign event in Portsmouth on Saturday night, as the number of new coronavirus cases in the US continued to hit record daily highs this week and polls continued to show his popularity faltering.
Continue reading...Trump claims storm, not turnout concerns, ‘forced’ him to cancel New Hampshire rally – live
- Tropical storm is not expected to hit New Hampshire
- Trump: Biden is a ‘puppet’ of ‘the militant left’
- Fauci says he hasn’t briefed Trump in two months as Covid-19 cases rise
- Texas county had ‘model’ response – then the governor intervened
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Trump did an interview with Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart during his trip to Florida today, and the interview will air at 6:30 pm ET.
#EXCLUSIVA: El presidente @realDonaldTrump habla con Noticias Telemundo.
Es su primera entrevista a un medio en español desde que empezó la pandemia del #coronavirus.
Más de la entrevista de @jdbalart con #DonaldTrump a las 6:30 p.m. y en https://t.co/YkVub31ilq pic.twitter.com/PxI37eWFeL
Trump is holding a rountable on supporting the people of Venezuela in Doral, Florida, where many Venezuelan immigrants reside.
But the president’s remarks took a turn for the blatantly political when he attacked his opponent, Joe Biden, as a “puppet” of the “radical left.”
LIVE: “Joe Biden is a puppet of Bernie Sanders, AOC, the militant left, the people that want to rip down statues … they want to rip down statues to Jesus.” @RealDonaldTrump said during a roundtable on Supporting the People of Venezuela in Doral, Florida pic.twitter.com/ynPhLWpyXM
Continue reading...Donald Trump is a hypocrite on China – but China deserves to be condemned | Jonathan Freedland
Beijing is crushing human rights in Hong Kong, and is accused of genocide against the Uighurs. The world cannot stand by
Donald Trump taints everything he touches. If he supports a cause, he damages it. If he takes a stance, the instinct of most self-respecting liberals is to rush to the opposing side. So when Trump rails against China, a favourite bete noire, it can make a progressive pause.
That’s especially true when the US president lurches so easily into casual bigotry – referring to the coronavirus as “kung flu” – and when his hypocrisy is so rank. Thanks to his former national security adviser, John Bolton, we know that, for all his talk, Trump begged Beijing to meddle in this year’s election in his favour, breezily granting US blessing to what Amnesty International calls the “gulag” of camps in Xinjiang, in which China holds a million Uighur Muslims against their will.
Continue reading...WHO’s Covid-19 inquiry is a shrewd move in a sea of disinformation
Its findings should illuminate global responses amid conspiracy theories and Trump’s mudslinging
In the world of epidemiology it’s sometimes said that pandemics are lived forwards and understood backwards.
We encounter them head-on, chaotically, trying to fathom the disease in real time even while trying to mitigate its impact. Lessons generally come later as the evidence accumulates.
Continue reading...New York City mayor helps paint Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower – video
Bill de Blasio on Thursday helped to paint the large, bright yellow mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan. Similar murals have been painted on New York City streets and in other US cities including Washington DC, Raleigh in North Carolina, and Oakland in California. The Black Lives Matter movement gained momentum after the death of George Floyd who was killed by police in Minneapolis in May.
Continue reading...New York City mayor helps paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ outside Trump Tower
Slogan painted on Fifth Avenue a week after president tweeted it would be ‘a symbol of hate’
New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, took part in painting “Black Lives Matter” in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday, a week after Donald Trump tweeted it would be “a symbol of hate”.
De Blasio was flanked by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Rev Al Sharpton as he helped paint the racial justice rallying cry in giant yellow letters on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. Activists watching chanted: “Whose streets? Our streets!”
Continue reading...Trump’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen back in custody over early-release rule breach
Bureau of Prisons says Cohen, who was released in May over coronavirus concerns, ‘refused conditions of home confinement’
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison on Thursday, after balking at certain conditions of the home confinement he was granted because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Related: Trump’s taxes may be released to grand jury, supreme court rules – live
Continue reading...Fauci says states with surging Covid-19 cases should pause reopening efforts
Public health expert made remark after US set world record for most new Covid-19 cases reported in one day
As the US set a world record for most Covid-19 cases in one day, with 60,000 reported on Wednesday, Dr Anthony Fauci, a senior member of the White House coronavirus taskforce, said states needed to pause reopening efforts.
Related: Some Republican senators to skip national convention due to pandemic
Continue reading...Trump’s taxes may be released to Manhattan grand jury, supreme court rules
Court also rules in a separate decision that the president does not have to turn over his financial records to Congress
The supreme court has ruled that a Manhattan grand jury may have access to some of Donald Trump’s financial documents, dealing a major blow to the president in his fight to keep his tax records secret – although the records were not expected to become public ahead of the November election.
Prosecutors in New York had sought the documents as part of an investigation into whether Trump had improperly handled hush payments, including one to the pornographic film actor star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Continue reading...Trump’s taxes may be released to grand jury, supreme court rules – live
- Justices issue 7-2 decision returns may be given to New York jury
- 1.3m workers filed new unemployment claims last week
- Drivers target Black Lives Matter protesters in spate of attacks
- George Floyd said ‘I can’t breathe’ more than 20 times, transcripts show
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Chief justice John Roberts wrote the 7-2 opinion that the president is not categorically immune from grand jury requests. Both supreme court justices nominated by Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the majority.
“Two hundred years ago, a great jurist of our Court established that no citizen, not even the President, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Roberts wrote in the decision.
The supreme court has issued its decision in one case involving subpoenas for Trump’s financial records.
The justices issued a 7-2 decision that the president’s tax returns and business records may be turned over to a grand jury in New York.
Continue reading...‘It’s like night and day’: Trudeau’s and Trump’s Covid-19 responses fuel wildly different outcomes
The US president stokes division as the virus rages, while the prime minister of Canada – where the outbreak appears to be stabilizing – has fostered a shared sense of duty
Donald Trump marked the Fourth of July with an apocalyptic speech at Mount Rushmore in which he stoked partisan grievance and deployed racist dog whistles, ignoring calls for unity as coronavirus cases surge.
Three days earlier, Justin Trudeau chose a more low-key location to celebrate Canada’s own national holiday. The prime minister and his family were photographed harvesting vegetables at an Ottawa food bank farm.
Continue reading...US reaches 3m confirmed Covid-19 cases as Pence pushes for schools to reopen – live
- Johns Hopkins tracker confirms US has hit 3m mark
- Mike Pence pushes for US children to return to school
- Trump impeachment witness to retire over ‘campaign of bullying’
- Supreme court upholds Trump rules letting more employers deny contraceptive coverage
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Nine in 10 Americans believe that racism and police violence are problems in the country, a Guardian/Opinium Research poll has found, a sign that public opinion is shifting away from the views put forward by Donald Trump.
The US president has been criticised for relentlessly stoking white fear and grievance in recent weeks, putting him at odds with Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests that have swept the nation following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
Related: Nine out of 10 Americans say racism and police brutality are problems, poll finds
Donald Trump, who has villanized and denigrated Mexican migrants and threatened Mexico with tariffs, took a different tone with Obrador today.
During the meeting, when two protectionist presidents were ironically touting a trade deal, celebrating the US-Mexico-Canada trade deal, both leaders had cordial words for each other.
Trump launched his 2016 campaign by calling Mexicans rapists.
He's spread racism against our Latino community ever since.
We need to work in partnership with Mexico.
We need to restore dignity and humanity to our immigration system.
That's what I'll do as President.
Donald Trump’s behavior was shaped by his ‘sociopath’ father, niece writes in bombshell book
- Guardian obtains copy of Too Much and Never Enough
- Author thanks president’s sister for ‘enlightening information’
- Mary Trump: eight of her most shocking claims
Donald Trump’s extraordinary character and outrageous behaviour “threaten the world’s health, economic security and social fabric” and were shaped by his “high-functioning sociopath” father during childhood, according to a bombshell book written by the president’s niece.
Related: Fox News apologises for cropping Trump out of Epstein and Maxwell photo
Continue reading...Fauci: US is ‘still knee-deep in first wave’ of pandemic as it passes 130,000 deaths
Top public health expert urges further action as new cases surge to record highs of around 50,000 a day across country
The United States is “still knee-deep in the first wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the country’s top public health experts has warned, as the country surpassed 130,000 Covid-19 deaths and new polling indicates Donald Trump’s approval rating over his handling of the crisis has remained low.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Monday that America’s grasp of the pandemic was “really not good” and urged further action as new cases of the virus continue to surge to record highs of about 50,000 a day across the country. More than 131,200 have died in the US as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins figures.
Continue reading...US is ‘still knee deep in first wave’ of coronavirus, warns Fauci – live
- Fauci: US still has ‘record breaking’ numbers
- Trump book says president was ‘abused’ by bullying father
- New York imposes $150m penalty on Deutsche Bank over Epstein link
- Poll: Americans trust governors more than Trump
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The tell-all book due out shortly from Mary Trump, the niece of the president, tells of a family divided by trauma.
The Trump family failed to block the book after court efforts failed to stop publisher Simon & Schuster printing and distributing it, even though a restraining order was ongoing against Mary Trump herself, the daughter of Donald Trump’s late oldest brother.
In response to the news that New York state has sanctioned Deutsche Bank, the bank put out a statement by a spokesperson.
We acknowledge our error in onboarding Epstein in 2013 and the weakness in our processes, and have learnt from our mistakes and shortcomings. Immediately following Epstein’s arrest, we contacted law enforcement and offered our full assistance with their investigation.
The Department of Financial Services factual findings on Danske Estonia and FBME, like our own internal investigation, identified various deficiencies in our oversight and monitoring of the banks that used our clearing services. There was no intentional effort by anyone within the bank to facilitate unlawful activity...while the settlement reflects our upmost [sic] cooperation and transparent engagement with our regulator, it also shows how important it is to continue investing in our controls and enhancing our anti-financial crime capabilities.
Just got the following statement from @DeutscheBank spokesman Dan Hunter ––> pic.twitter.com/NpmzXuujcb
Continue reading...Fox News apologises for cropping Trump out of Epstein and Maxwell photo
Network says it mistakenly eliminated Donald Trump from photo with Maxwell and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000
Fox News has apologised for cropping Donald Trump out of a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Related: 'Where are you Roger Ailes?' Trump appears to ask dead Fox News chairman for help
Continue reading...White House claims US is ‘a leader’ in coronavirus fight despite rise in many states – live
- Kayleigh McEnany: ‘The world is looking at us as a leader’
- Trump criticizes sports teams for changing their names
- Trump launches baseless attack on Bubba Wallace over noose ‘hoax’
- Supreme court rules states can punish ‘faithless electors’
- Judge suspends Dakota Access pipeline
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Trump is still tweeting away, now insisting schools must reopen in the fall, despite concerns about the spread of coronavirus once in-person classes resume.
“SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!” the president tweeted moments ago.
SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!
Nascar driver Bubba Wallace has responded to Trump’s tweet suggesting he should apologize after a noose was found in his garage.
Wallace, the only top black driver in Nascar, addressed his response “to the next generation and little ones following my foot steps.”
To the next generation and little ones following my foot steps..#LoveWins pic.twitter.com/tVaV3pkdLe
Continue reading...White House repeatedly refuses to take stance on Confederate flag – video
At a press briefing on Monday, reporters repeatedly pressed Kayleigh McEnany on the meaning of Donald Trump's tweet about Nascar driver Bubba Wallace and the decision to ban Confederate flags at races. The White House press secretary repeatedly dodged questions on the White House's stance on flying the Confederate flag and claimed Trump 'has not given an opinion one way or another'
Continue reading...Mary Trump’s book to be published early amid ‘extraordinary interest’
Tell-all book by Donald Trump’s niece will argue president suffered ‘child abuse’ in the early years of his life
A tell-all book by Donald Trump’s niece will be published two weeks ahead of schedule and will argue that the president suffered “child abuse” in the early years of his life.
Related: Bolton: Trump claim he wasn’t told of Russia bounty report is 'not how system works’
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