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Trump sours on online learning that his administration evangelized

In events and media appearances over the past several weeks, the White House and administration officials have repeatedly insisted that the nation’s schools and colleges must physically reopen classes — and that online instruction, fully or partially, isn’t an appropriate alternative. They’ve threatened to use federal funding as a lever to prod schools into physically

Fox News Cuts Off Trump’s White House Rally And Pummels Him With A Fact Check

Donald Trump held yet another taxpayer-funded campaign rally at the White House on Thursday, this time using pickup trucks and cranes to represent Obama-era regulations that have been eliminated since he took office in 2017. Trump characterized the previous administration’s policies as a disaster for the economy, which was such a blatant lie that even

As Election Nears, Trump’s White House Grows Bolder in Flouting Ethical Norms

But the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, dismissed such criticism.“I don’t see anything inappropriate with the comments the president has made,” Mr. Meadows said, adding that “those were policy differences that the president highlighted” regarding Mr. Biden.As president, Mr. Trump is not bound by the Hatch Act, which was passed to ensure that

By three to one, Americans reject Trump’s push to reopen schools despite COVID-19 risk

With coronavirus infections spreading fast and COVID-19 deaths climbing yet again, most Americans say the country is not ready to send children back to school this fall — and they emphatically reject every aspect of President Trump’s new effort to force public schools to fully reopen, according to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll.  The survey, which

Trump Attacks Biden’s Clean Energy Initaitve on the Same Day He Announces More Environmental Rollbacks

President Donald Trump attacked Democrat Joe Biden, his electoral opponent, after Biden announced a $700 billion economic plan that touts environmental protection measures as a means for restoring economic growth. “Our past vice president opposes — think of this — all of our permitting reforms,” Trump said to an audience in Atlanta during a speech

Trump Suggests Biden and Sanders Working Together on Policy Will Mean The “Guaranteed Destruction of America”

Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump attempted to tie his electoral opponent, former vice president Joe Biden, to the “radical left.” suggesting that Biden’s work with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I), a noted democratic socialist, on their joint unity task force will mean “The guaranteed destruction of America.” “Has anybody seen or reviewed the written

Trump news – live: White House rescinds policy banning international students from online courses amid mounting criticism and lawsuits

ReutersDonald Trump’s administration rescinded controversial new measures that would have effectively banned any international students from living in the United States during the fall months amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the news being announced after a court hearing that lasted just minutes.The president has continued to insist US schools must reopen this autumn despite the

House Democrats restarting effort to obtain Trump’s tax returns

House Democrats have asked the Supreme Court to put its ruling last week on President Trump’s financial records into effect — so they can restart their effort to access the documents in lower courts. Douglas Letter, the top lawyer for the House of Representatives, urged the court in a filing Monday to immediately put its

Trump Humilates Himself By Claiming His Executive Orders Are Laws

Trump was back on his statues kick again and claimed that his executive orders are laws to protect monuments. (They’re not). Trump said, “I will say that we put on a very powerful rule and law. You get ten years if you knock down a monument. If it’s a federal monument, you go to jail

Thankfully, an Incompetent Trump Can’t Even Pack The SCOTUS

This term’s Supreme Court rulings prove that America’s democracy is destined to survive the incompetent dictator-wannabe currently occupying the White House. Without question, the rule of law and democracy won. The unanimous finding among Supreme Court Justices across the ideological spectrum used various methods of legal analysis to find that the president is not above

As Trump Demanded Schools Reopen, His Experts Warned of ‘Highest Risk’

Groups representing education leaders praised the document, saying after months of mixed messages from the federal government, the inclusion of specific plans could serve as a blue print for schools and families to help navigate the uncertainty that the fall will bring.“What it tells us is left to its own devices, the C.D.C. can do

‘Fed Up’ Republicans Are Jumping Off The MAGA Train As Trump Leads The Party Toward Defeat

Donald Trump often cites fake polls showing his support among Republican voters near 100 percent, but GOP lawmakers increasingly see the writing on the wall as Election Day draws closer. According to USA TODAY, Republican are backing away from Trump as his poll numbers collapse and they fear for their own political survival. The report

President Trump’s Pardons: Stone, Blagojevich and More

President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime friend and former campaign adviser who had openly expressed loyalty to him throughout a congressional investigation into ties between Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.“The simple fact is that if the special counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation,

President Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence

President Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime adviser Roger Stone, calling him a victim of the “Russian hoax” and saying he would have been put at serious medical risk in prison. Trump on Friday signed an executive grant of clemency just days before Stone was due to report to prison Tuesday to serve

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test, but White House Won’t Release Details

President Trump on Thursday volunteered to Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that he “very recently” took a test at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center measuring his mental acuity and “aced” it, but the White House would not say when he took it or why.Mr. Trump boasted that his success on the test surprised

Trump’s reelection may be sucking wind, but Senate Republicans are sucking even worse

A new PPP survey of North Carolina, for instance, showed Trump running 4 points behind Joe Biden, 46%-50%, but incumbent GOP Sen. Thom Tillis was running an 8-point deficit against Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, 39%-47%. Republican strategist and anti-Trumper Tim Miller tweeted out those results Thursday, adding, “One thing I heard repeatedly from consultants on GOP

Rachel Maddow Says New York Prosecutors Could Fast-Track Trump Tax Return Subpoena

Rachel Maddow said on Thursday night that she isn’t completely convinced that the subpoena over Donald Trump’s tax returns will have to wait until after the election to be resolved, as many legal and political experts have concluded. According to the MSNBC host, it’s possible for investigators to fast-track the process, which opens up the

Ex-Watergate Prosecutor Says SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door To Trump Being Indicted For Tax Fraud

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on Thursday that the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s financial documents could be a ticking time bomb for the president. During an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, Akerman said Trump should be concerned that a tax or bank fraud indictment is on the horizon now that independent investigators

With ‘Buy American’ Economic Speech, Biden Takes On Trump and ‘MAGA’

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will lay out a populist economic vision to revive and reinvest in American manufacturing on Thursday, calling for major new spending and stricter new rules to “Buy American” as part of an effort to more aggressively challenge President Trump on two of his signature issues: the economy and nationalism.In a speech

Trump Claims Obama, Biden Spied on His Campaign

President Donald Trump claimed he’s the victim of “presidential harassment” and alleged that former president Barack Obama and former vice president Joe Biden spied on his campaign. PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020 He later quoted Fox Business personality Maria Bartiromo, writing, without evidence, that Obama and Biden spied on his

Trump Threatens to Cut Funding if Schools Do Not Fully Reopen

An administration official, who discussed internal deliberations on the condition of anonymity, said the new guidance had been in development for weeks but had yet to be cleared by top C.D.C. or task force officials. The guidelines would address how schools could reopen and whether parents should send children, most likely including a checklist for

Trump friends, former staff cash in on COVID-19 crisis

A former deputy assistant secretary for legislation in the Department of Health and Human Services under Trump, Courtney Lawrence, is now a lobbyist for health insurance giant Cigna. The spouse of former White House counsel Don McGahn, Shannon McGahn, worked for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2017-18. Now she’s the top lobbyist for the National

Let Republicans Help Defeat Trump, but Don’t Be Fooled

[ad_1] The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to erase the republican majority in the senate.  This majority, in their view, has enabled Trump and promises similarly damaging

Trump Told America’s Governors They Were On Their Own. So Maryland’s Larry Hogan Is Taking Charge

Larry Hogan has got another of his ideas, and this one cracks him up. “I’m gonna call Pence!” says Hogan, startling his chief of staff, Matthew Clark, who sits across a large, round faux-wood table. Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, is meeting with his coronavirus command team, a skeleton crew of state officials still…

Trump to Order U.S. Meat Plants to Stay Open Amid Supply Fears

President Donald Trump plans to order meat-processing plants to remain open, declaring them critical infrastructure as the nation confronts growing disruptions to the food supply from the coronavirus outbreak, a person familiar with the matter said. Trump plans to use the Defense Production Act to order the companies to stay open during the pandemic, and…

The Trump Administration Is Stalling an Intel Report That Warns the U.S. Isn’t Ready for a Global Pandemic

An annual intelligence report that has been postponed without explanation by President Donald Trump’s administration warns that the U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic, two senior government officials who have reviewed a draft of the report tell TIME. The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was scheduled to deliver the Worldwide Threat…

Trump Has a Gift for Tearing Us Apart

There are a lot of different ways to build walls.By Thomas B. EdsallMr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.Dec. 11, 2019Supporters at a Trump rally in Dallas in October.Credit...Jonathan Ernst/ReutersDonald Trump has done everything within his power to activate racial and ethnic animosity in this country. His main…

Trump Aims at U.S. Diplomat, Shoots Himself in the Foot

On Nov. 15, the public got to see what it looks like when President Donald Trump attacks someone in public and the cameras are rolling. Weeks of hearings, months of allegations, and more than a year of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by Trump’s allies came to a sharp point today as the ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine,…

Trump Is Speaking at a Historically Black College. His Allies Will Outnumber Students.

President Trump, speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina, said he had done more for black voters than any other president.President Trump spoke at a criminal justice forum at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., on Friday.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesCOLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump, speaking to a handpicked audience of supporters at a historically black…

In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of Trump

Politics|In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of TrumpThe former president said that Representative Elijah E. Cummings showed that “you’re not a sucker to have integrity.” Former President Barack Obama at the funeral service for Representative Elijah E. Cummings on Friday.Credit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York TimesOct. 25, 2019WASHINGTON — Former President Barack…