Above Photo: WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange holds up a copy of The Guardian newspaper on July 26, 2010 in London. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) “The Biden administration must drop its charges against Assange immediately.” Under the leadership of then-Director Mike Pompeo, the CIA in 2017 reportedly plotted to kidnap—and discussed plans to assassinate—WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, who is currently imprisoned in London as he fights the Biden administration’s efforts to extradite him to the United States. Citing conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials, Yahoo News reported Sunday that “discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred ‘at the highest levels’ of the Trump administration.” According […]
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Trump’s Support For Israel’s Killing Of Iranian Scientist Could Lead To War By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. December 4, 2020 Trump’s Support For Israel’s Killing Of Iranian Scientist Could Lead To War2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/trump.png200px200px Above photo: President Trump leaves after speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on November 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Erin Schaff/Getty Images. In the weeks remaining before Joe Biden’s inauguration, Donald Trump is taking actions — including aiding and abetting murder — to prevent his successor from pursuing diplomacy with Iran. On November 27, Israel assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist. International law expert Richard Falk called it “an outrageous act of state […]
Trump’s Zealots: White Supremacists And Evangelicals By Gilbert Mercier, Telesur English. November 2, 2020 Trump’s Zealots: White Supremacists And Evangelicals2020-11-022020-11-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/trump.jpg200px200px Above photo: Social Distancing = Communism: this is the ideological angle of Trump’s most belligerent storm-troopers. Gilbert Mercier. Gearing up for a New Civil War? What the gun-toting, Trump 2020 and Confederate-flag waving Trump have been organized and likely paid to do, is to make sure the U.S. goes back to work as soon as possible. Let us not be naive. If President Trump recently called on his adoring followers to “liberate” states like Michigan, Virginia, Maryland*, and Minnesota, which all happen […]
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer accused President Donald Trump on Sunday of “inciting” domestic terrorism by repeatedly attacking her at his rallies, calling the “Lock her up!” chants the president has encouraged even in the wake of a kidnapping plot against her “disturbing.” During a rally in Michigan on Saturday, the president appeared to dismiss what cops and the FBI have called a violent, militia-infused scheme to kidnap and possibly even kill the governor, saying, “I guess they said she was threatened.” With Trump taking aim at her over the state’s coronavirus restrictions, the crowd chanted “lock her up,” prompting the president […]
Americans saw two men last night in the closing days of their respective pursuits of the highest office in the land, and their split-screen town halls clarified and catalyzed an understanding of this race in a way that their one debate so far did not. It was one more sign of a Trump campaign in total collapse; broke, broken, and unmoored. As Donald Trump was eviscerated by a smart and determined Savannah Guthrie, who put up with exactly zero bullshit from a subject who usually submerges interviewers under a tidal wave of bullshit, while Joe Biden connected with both his audience […]
Alfred Gescheidt/Getty Images Alfred Gescheidt/Getty Images When President Trump and Joe Biden faced off for the first — and so far, only — presidential debate late last month, Trump attacked his Democratic rival with a false claim about Hunter Biden. “Hunter got thrown out of the military,” Trump said. “He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged, for cocaine use.” That’s factually wrong. Hunter Biden, age 50, received an administrative discharge, not a dishonorable discharge, from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2014 after he tested positive for cocaine. He’s spoken openly about his struggles with addiction, telling the New Yorker magazine last year […]
DLT is among 20 “critical and emerging” technologies in the Trump Administration’s new strategy for preserving the U.S.’ technological edge. Source link
Trump’s Executive Order 13950 Will Set Healthcare Back Decades The AMA, American Hospital Association, and American Nurses Association called on Trump and his administration to rescind Executive Order 13950 which blocks ‘race and sex stereotyping. This order would reverse decades of progress in fighting racial inequality as it would prohibit federal agencies from the conduction of and funding for trainings that promote racial reconciliation. Yet another ‘what is he thinking?’ act…Carol Full Letter to White House to Rescind Executive Order 13950 Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered […]
The Lincoln Project, created by a group of former Republicans that oppose Trump has already spent seven figure sums on TV and digital commercials targeting voters in key states. The project has raised almost $60 million this year. At least 15 billionaires or their spouses have donated to the super-PAC created to thwart Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2020 presidential election. The biggest contribution was made by Gordon Getty, heir of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. According to data from the Lincoln Project, the philanthropist has so far given $1 million. Other prominent donors to the super-PAC include: heir of […]
Donald Trump may be feuding with Dr. Anthony Fauci. But at least, as Trevor Noah put it Tuesday night, the president did get “a very real endorsement from another top scientist” this week. The Daily Show host was referring to Eric Trump, who appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday and boasted about the “vaccine” that supposedly saved his father’s life. “It goes to speak how good some of these vaccines that are being created are and what my father’s done on the vaccine front no one could have done,” the president’s deeply confused son told host Jonathan Karl. “My […]
The Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Melania Trump’s former best friend for not submitting a draft of her tell-all book to the federal government for pre-publication review. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the planner of President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, penned Melania and Me about the sudden souring of her relationship with the first lady. The look into Melania’s inner circle painted an unflattering portrait of the first lady, as did several clandestine recordings Wolkoff later shared. Filed in Washington, D.C. District Court, the complaint accuses Wolkoff of breach of contract and breach of fiduciary obligations. DOJ lawyers wrote, “Ms. […]
Trump’s Endless Wars By Nicolas J. S. Davies and Medea Benjamin, The Progressive. October 13, 2020 Trump’s Endless Wars2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/shutterstock.jpg200px200px Above photo: Shutterstock. The pretend peacemaker has repeatedly endangered the nation and world. In the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq and tortured prisoners of war and terrorism suspects, in flagrant violation of the U.N. Charter and the Geneva Conventions. As a result, the United States lost standing among many of its traditional allies around the world. President Barack Obama’s global charm offensive brought friends and allies back to America’s side, but his ten-fold increase in drone strikes to assassinate often innocent terrorism suspects, and […]
As the only major late-night host to air a new show Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel had one of the more laughable Trump stories in recent memory all to himself. Noting that today is both Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day, the host said, “Our president, though, is a big supporter of Columbus Day. He and Christopher Columbus actually have a lot in common. They both spread disease and both failed spectacularly at what they were hired to do.” Kimmel began by taking on the “contaminator-in-chief’s” first big “maskless” rally in Florida since contracting the coronavirus just a couple of weeks ago. […]
Representatives attended the first hearing for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Amy Coney Barrett at the Senate Judiciary Committee. When journalists confronted Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, controversy broke out when he refused to speak to them while wearing a mask. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows removed his mask around reporters on Monday while refusing to talk while wearing the face-covering before proceeding to walk away without answering any questions. CNN congressional reporter, Kristin Wilson, requested Meadows to keep the mask on while speaking, Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim said. However, a frustrated Meadows pulled the microphone towards […]
British television host Piers Morgan, known for brash commentary and his support for the US President, earlier in the pandemic savaged the POTUS’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, opening his Daily Mail column with the headline “SHUT THE F*** UP, PRESIDENT TRUMP.” British broadcaster Piers Morgan, previously an outspoken champion of Donald Trump, has exclaimed in his typically brusque manner that he “doesn’t get” US President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Good Morning Britain host, who first became acquainted with Trump after winning the first installment of businessman’s The Celebrity Apprentice reality game show in 2008, opened up […]
During President Donald Trump’s treatment at Walter Reed military hospital, he received an experimental polyclonal antibody cocktail created by the US biotechnology company Regeneron. Israeli researchers have rolled out an antibody cocktail touted as potentially superior to that of Regeneron’s, the antibody therapy Trump received, The Times of Israel reported. The reported antibody cocktail was developed by a scientific team at Tel Aviv University, and is entirely based on artificial human antibodies, while Regeneron was reportedly made with antibodies produced by mice. “Our antibodies are something very similar to what President Trump received,” immunologist Natalia Freund told The Times of Israel. “The difference […]
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) helped get Trump impeached, but now there’s a new battle: his SCOTUS pick. She worked within the government’s Internal Affairs department and became one of the impeachment managers in Trump’s case after 27 years as an Orlando police officer. And impeached he was. So on this members-only bonus episode of The New Abnormal, co-host Molly Jong-Fast asks for her thoughts on Trump’s SCOTUS appointment and how exactly Democrats and citizens alike can stop it. Source link
Zachary Leeman is a US-based journalist and author of the novel Nigh. A Taliban spokesman has said they hope Donald Trump wins November’s election, giving his critics plenty of ammo to attack him with. What some of them likely don’t realize they’re doing, though, is arguing for more war. “We hope he will win the election and wind up US military presence in Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in an interview highlighting the unusual support. Mujahid said Trump’s “America first” policy breaks with past administrations’ need to be “cops for the world.” The Taliban was even concerned about Trump’s […]
White House physician Sean Conley has said President Donald Trump is not contagious anymore, giving him the green light to resume public engagements. Trump is set to hit the campaign trail on Monday with a rally in Florida. Conley said that the results of Trump’s Covid-19 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, the president took Saturday morning, meet the “currently recognized standards” for him to no longer be considered a health risk for others. “Now at day 10 from symptom onset, fever-free for well over 24 hours and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no […]
US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wanted to have US troops in Afghanistan home by Christmas, after 19 years of combat in the Middle East. The assertion reportedly caught many military and civil officials by surprise and is seen by some Democrats as a way for Trump to gain additional points prior to the 3 November election. Leaders of the Afghan militant group, the Taliban, said on Saturday that they hoped US President Donald Trump would beat Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the US general election in November. “We hope he will win the election and wind up [the] US […]
Hillary Clinton, who earlier endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ahead of the November elections in the US, intimated that America’s defence spending was veering down the “wrong path”, pointing the finger of blame at President Donald Trump’s alleged mismanagement, augmented by “right-wing ideological resistance”. Hillary Clinton has offered her vision of how America ought to be gearing up to face new emerging threats on the global arena, slamming “exorbitant” Pentagon spending on “legacy weapons systems”. In an essay published in Foreign Affairs magazine on 9 October, the former secretary of state urged Congress to review the defense spending budget, explaining […]
A county elections board in Ohio has confirmed that nearly 50,000 voters received “inaccurate” ballots in the mail, vowing to correct the error while fending off charges from President Donald Trump that the vote has been “rigged.” Election officials in Franklin County – Ohio’s most populous region and home to the state capital of Columbus – said on Friday that tens of thousands of erroneous ballots were sent out to voters, caused by a mishap with a machine that loads the ballots into mailing envelopes. The elections board has promised to remedy the mistake in a matter of days. “The board […]
9 Oct, 2020 23:03 Follow RT on The US Commission on Presidential Debates has announced that the second scheduled face-off between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden has been cancelled for good, with no replacement date. “It’s now apparent there will be no debate on October 15, and the CDP will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22,” the commission said on Friday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Follow RT on Source link
Hitting the closing stretch of the election, and trailing by a substantial margin in the polls, Donald Trump is placing his political hopes on winning over voters with cold hard cash. Over the past month, the president and his team have coalesced around a series of policies that would result in billions of dollars being allocated to critical constituencies right as voting begins: a proposal to dramatically increase government lending in African American communities, an order to send seniors a $200 rebate card for prescription drug purchases, and a newfound desire for an ambitious stimulus package to deal with the fallout […]
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said on Friday that he sees no issue with the Commission on Presidential Debates making the second debate virtual amid President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, saying the president’s own behavior brings up “serious questions. Early on Thursday morning, the CPD announced that due to concerns over the president’s ongoing battle with COVID-19, they would have the candidates debate from remote locations rather than in-person. A furious Trump, meanwhile, immediately pulled out of the virtual debate, saying he was “not going to waste my time” with it. During an appearance on America’s Newsroom, Wallace first addressed the […]
Former CIA Director John Brennan’s memo on Hillary Clinton’s alleged plan to frame her presidential contender Donald Trump came like a bolt from the blue at least partially confirming what has been long suspected about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, say US independent journalist Max Parry and Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel. Following the US president’s announcement about authorising a massive declassification of materials related to the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe revealed that he had recently provided almost 1,000 documents to DOJ investigator John Durham who is looking into the conduct of law enforcement and intelligence […]
Daily Beast: Totally Under Control, the new documentary directed by Alex Gibney (Going Clear), Ophelia Harutyunyan, and Suzanne Hillinger, and written by Gibney, tracks our last eight months of pandemic hell. What the film confirms, through a careful examination of the facts and interviews with public health experts and civil servants, is that Donald Trump and his administration strategically endangered the majority of Americans and U.S. residents by downplaying the threat while actively discouraging protective measures like mask-wearing. “In an era dominated by misinformation, it plays like an essential service to set the record straight.” @IndieWire https://t.co/w2KjrtoaEj — NEON (@neonrated) October 7, 2020 And not […]
President Trump and his allies have responded to recent revelations of his miniscule federal income tax bills by saying they’re overheated fake news. But on the debate stage Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence went a step further—saying the story served to highlight that Trump, unlike Democratic nominee Joe Biden, has been a true American job creator, not a career politician. “The American people have a president who is a businessman, a job creator, who has paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes. He’s created tens of thousands of American jobs,” said Pence. “The president said […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107843/09/1078430996_0:0:1281:720_1200x675_80_0_0_7391880d5433694530d4e90e3c7dad4e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010081080702196-assassination-is-americas-modus-operandi–assad-about-trumps-old-plan-to-kill-him/ DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – The act of assassination is a typical policy tool of the United States, which makes the recent revelation that US President Donald Trump had an earlier intention to eliminate his Syrian counterpart only expectable in the context of Washington’s interests in Syria, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik. In mid-September, Trump acknowledged that he intended to physically eliminate Assad at the beginning of his presidency and that the Pentagon chief at a time, Jim Mattis, persuaded him to not do so. “Assassination is American modus operandi. That is what they do […]
The Trump administration will cut the number of American troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 by early next year, according to National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien. Some 4,000 troops were set to remain in the country by December. “When President Trump took office, there were over 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan. As of today there are under 5,000 and that will go to 2,500 by early next year,” O’Brien said on Wednesday, speaking at an event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Also on rt.com Trump says US to reduce troops to 4,000 in Afghanistan and 2,000 in Iraq as peace talks […]
President Donald Trump claimed he’s “learned” more from the “real school” of contracting the coronavirus than he ever could have from “‘let’s read the book’ school.” But despite one spokesperson attacking Joe Biden for not having the “firsthand experience” of an infection, another adviser is now insisting that the campaign is “not changing course.” Confronted by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith with a CNN poll that found 63 percent of Americans believe Trump acted “irresponsibly” when it came to handling the COVID risk to the people around him, campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp seemed unconcerned with political fallout of the president’s obvious […]
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“You know, ladies and gentlemen, when Donald Trump first contracted the coronavirus, I thought that maybe, just maybe, he would emerge from this experience with a shred of humility,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of his Late Show monologue Tuesday night. “Because honestly, nothing would disarm his critics more than if he stood up and told the world, ‘I was wrong. I have learned my lesson. And I truly sympathize with the hundreds of thousands who have been gravely ill or lost their lives due to this pandemic.’” “But I forgot about one thing,” the host continued. “He never does […]
Moments after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said next week’s debate should be canceled if President Donald Trump still has coronavirus, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume dismissed that idea out of hand, saying the debate needs to occur even if Trump shows up infected. With the president still recovering from his COVID-19 diagnosis that resulted in a three-day hospital stay in Walter Reed, Biden told reporters on Tuesday night that while he’s “looking forward” to debating Trump on Oct. 15, they “have to follow very strict guidelines” for it to happen. “I think if he still has COVID, then […]
President Trump waves from a motorcade outside Walter Reed Medical Center, accompanied by Secret Service agents on Sunday. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images President Trump waves from a motorcade outside Walter Reed Medical Center, accompanied by Secret Service agents on Sunday. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images Secret Service agents generally don’t talk publicly about their work, for obvious reasons. But privately, they’ve been grumbling. “I think there is a lot of frustration,” says J.J. Hensley, a novelist who used to work for the Secret Service. He’s still in touch with colleagues, and […]
First published October 5, 2020 San Diego Union-Tribune By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Montana Governor Steve Bullock BILLINGS, Mont. — The governor of Montana on Monday asked a judge to block three sweeping land use plans that would open most U.S.-owned lands in the state to energy development, saying the documents were made invalid after the Trump administration’s public lands boss was removed for being in the post unlawfully. A judge last month ousted Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director William Perry Pendley after he served as acting director of the agency for more than a year without receiving a confirmation […]
Seth Meyers wasn’t the first late-night host to cover the massive coronavirus outbreak at the White House. But he may have had the most to say about it. The Late Night host dedicated his “A Closer Look” segment Monday night to everything that happened since President Donald Trump announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 early Friday morning. And he began with the president’s assurance that he’s learned from his experience. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said in a video message from the hospital, adding, “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘Let’s read the book’ […]
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Barrett Nomination By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. October 5, 2020 Chris Hedges: Trump’s Barrett Nomination2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/ch-e1601929744968.jpg200px200px Above image: By Mr. Fish. Another Step Toward Christian Fascism. All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality. The Christian Right is content to have the focus on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett revolve around her opposition to abortion and membership in People of Praise, a far-right Catholic cult that practices “speaking in tongues.” What it does not want examined is her abject subservience to corporate power, her hostility to workers, civil liberties, unions and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010051080671574-trumps-condition-continued-to-improve-overnight-white-house-chief-of-staff-says/ The day before, United States National Security Adviser Robert C. O’Brien said that US President Donald Trump was “in great shape and firmly in command of the country” while he is being treated for coronavirus. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Monday stated that US President Donald Trump’s condition continued to improve overnight, adding that the White House expects the president to be able to leave the hospital and return to his residence later in the day. “Spoke to the president this morning. He continued to improve overnight and is ready to […]
President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Edelman/Getty Images President Trump exits Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday in Bethesda, Md. He is staying at the hospital while receiving treatment for the coronavirus. Alex Edelman/Getty Images No sooner had it become known that President Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus than controversy arose over the amount and detail and truthfulness of the information about his […]
“It has been a genuinely extraordinary week for the White House,” said John Oliver at the top of Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight. There’s been so much chaos this past week that the HBO host said they didn’t have time to even address the $750 Trump paid in income tax for two years (as revealed by The New York Times), Melania Trump “essentially saying ‘fuck Christmas’” (recordings dropped by former Melania aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff), and Trump refusing to condemn the Proud Boys during the first presidential debate, telling the far-right anti-masturbation hate group to “stand back, and stand by.” All […]
After months of downplaying the danger of COVID-19, President Trump and the first lady tested positive, and on Friday the president was taken to the Walter Reed Medical Center “for the next few days” as “a precautionary measure.” On Saturday, a series of confusing and conflicting updates, on and off the record, about the president’s condition landed on top of the confusion spread by the president about the virus. He’s not the first national leader to be stricken with the virus and, when he recovers, the question may be which example he follows: that of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro or British […]
Vice President Pence, seen during a press conference at the White House on Sept. 28, will begin a campaign tour through key swing states following the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Vice President Pence, seen during a press conference at the White House on Sept. 28, will begin a campaign tour through key swing states following the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Trump’s hospitalization for COVID-19 casts unprecedented uncertainty on the presidential campaign’s final stretch. There are 30 days until Election Day and millions of votes have […]
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows holds the door for White House physician Dr. Sean Conley (center) and other members of the president’s medical team ahead of a briefing for reporters on Sunday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House chief of staff Mark Meadows holds the door for White House physician Dr. Sean Conley (center) and other members of the president’s medical team ahead of a briefing for reporters on Sunday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s medical team held a briefing with reporters at Walter Reed National Military […]
President Donald Trump’s head physician admitted to reporters on Sunday morning that he’d kept the knowledge that the president had been administered supplemental oxygen from the public in order to reflect an “upbeat attitude” of Trump’s health as doctors continue to treat his infection with the novel coronavirus. “I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president over the course of his illness, has had,” said Dr. Sean Conley during the press briefing, the second Trump’s medical team has given since he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. “I didn’t want to […]
White House physician Sean Conley briefs the press on Saturday on the condition of President Trump, who was hospitalized the evening before because of the coronavirus. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Sean Conley briefs the press on Saturday on the condition of President Trump, who was hospitalized the evening before because of the coronavirus. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Physicians at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are expected to brief the press Sunday on President Trump’s health status as he battles COVID-19. Trump was admitted at Walter Reed […]
Saturday Night Live was presumably ready to kick off its 46th season with a big Trump vs. Biden debate sketch cold open. Then came the October surprise. Yes, SNL made its triumphant return to Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center this weekend amidst the still-raging coronavirus pandemic after airing a series of entirely virtual shows this past spring. And even though the debate feels like a “hundred years ago,” SNL stuck with the plan so they could highlight their new mega-guest star in the form of Jim Carrey as former Vice President Joe Biden. “Good evening, I’m your moderator Chris Wallace and […]
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive for COVID-19. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive for COVID-19. Alex Brandon/AP Updated at 4:55 p.m. ET President Trump tweeted early Friday morning that he tested positive for the coronavirus. But questions remain about what exactly happened before and after — when the president was first diagnosed, started experiencing […]
Have America’s cable news anchors learned nothing? In an attempt to fill air-time leading up to a misleading press conference from the doctors treating Donald Trump at Walter Reed hospital, MSNBC anchor Alex Witt gave the president credit for his new “tone” post-COVID-19 diagnosis. “Interestingly as we listen to the president via Twitter last night, is it my imagination, or was there a somewhat gentler tone to this president?” Witt asked, in comments first flagged by The Daily Show senior digital producer Matt Negrin. “Not caustic when he said ‘Thank you to all, love,’ all-caps. There was something rather heartfelt.” She […]
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images White House physician Dr. Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of President Donald Trump Saturday at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Eds note: President Trump’s doctors gave a briefing Saturday morning outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. In a statement later, Dr. Sean Conley said he misspoke during his news conference. He […]
President Trump’s doctor said he is “doing very well” and making progress after receiving two experimental treatments for coronavirus—but he refused to provide some details about his illness. Dr. Sean Conley said Trump, 74, did not need supplemental oxygen Thursday, Friday or Saturday but he danced around the question of whether he had been on oxygen before that. Conley also said Trump’s fever is gone, though he would not say how high his temperature had been. “This morning, the president is doing very well,” Conley said outside Walter Reed National Medical Center in the first briefing since Trump was diagnosed with […]
US president Donald Trump is being monitored at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis. Earlier the White House maintained that the president was in “good spirits” and was suffering from only mild symptoms, such as fever and fatigue. CNN’s recent report over Trump’s allegedly “serious” condition following his COVID-19 diagnosis has been picked up by a number of global outlets, including the Telegraph, Evening Standard, Mirror, Times of Israel, WION News and others. The American channel reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed “Trump campaign adviser”, that the US president’s condition was worrying as he reportedly was very […]
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US President Donald Trump is receiving treatment at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center after testing positive for coronavirus. Some officials from his inner circle have also now contracted the disease, including former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway. White House Secret Service agents, particularly those working close to US President Donald Trump, have been complaining in private about coronavirus-related health risks they have been exposed to in ]recent months, the Washington Post revealed citing anonymous claims reportedly made in discussion groups and on message boards. According to the report, security staffers assigned to work for the President in the field – […]
BitMEX is in hot water with the CFTC and DOJ. Thursday, a dual agency operation levied charges against the derivatives exchange and several employees for facilitating unregistered trading and violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Elsewhere, another European financial head has intimated the need for a “digital euro,” Atari’s cryptocurrency has a sale date and Venezuela built a national stock exchange on Ethereum. Top shelf BitMEX’s big messThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and federal prosecutors are charging crypto trading platform BitMEX with facilitating unregistered trading and other crimes. Further, several executives and employees have been charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act, with […]
The experimental drug President Trump received at the White House hours after being diagnosed with COVID-19 was provided under a “compassionate use” program usually reserved for patients who exhaust other treatment options, the manufacturer said Friday. News of the president consuming the so-called “polyclonal antibody cocktail,” made by New York-based pharma Regeneron, broke around the same time the administration announced Trump was being taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland for treatment. The therapy in question, which some developers refer to as “monoclonal,” combines two lab-grown proteins that attach to the spike proteins on the surface of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107795/98/1077959866_0:132:1920:1212_1200x675_80_0_0_a6c38c10de74cbb9cc9f30e46a651f14.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202010021080647317-obamas-ex-staffer-tweets–deletes-i-hope-he-dies-as-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis-revealed/ While Rahim’s tweet did not apparently feature the name of the person whose demise she expressed hope for, a number of social media users noted the timing of that message. A staffer to ex-President of the United States Barack Obama has posted and then deleted a tweet that featured what looks like the opposite of a get well wish. According to Newsweek, Rahim, who formerly worked in the Office of Digital Strategy for Obama and served as the national spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, wrote: “It’s been against my moral identity […]
The shocking announcement that the President of the United States Donald J. Trump has contracted the coronavirus was promptly followed by well-wishes from the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sent President Trump a telegram, wishing a speedy recovery to the U.S. president and the first lady. According to a Kremlin readout of the telegram, Putin wrote: “I am sure that your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with the dangerous virus.” Overshadowed by the news of Trump’s positive test for COVID-19 was the fact that U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien met with his Russian […]
It took about two full minutes from President Trump’s tweet confirming that he and Melania Trump had both tested positive for COVID-19 for the Twittersphere to go quite literally crazy with conspiracies. A number of Twitter users have pushed the theory that the president is “faking” the diagnosis to get out of any more disastrous debates or to distract the world from his $750 tax scandal. More sage posters, like author and self-described conspiracy theory debunker Mike Rothschild offered this, “The galaxy brain take is that Trump is faking COVID to get out of the debates or distract from the tax […]
VT reviews the facts, the video above a useful documentary formerly used by the DHS and supplied to states to use in training counter-terrorist police. The new DHS believes otherwise. Internal DHS talking points reveal law enforcement was ordered to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the white supremacist who killed 2 people in Kenosha. Downplaying Terrorism: “He took his rifle to help defend small business owners.” https://t.co/J1tLTJKNcH — Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) October 1, 2020 “Donald Trump gave a lock and load order to heavily armed, paramilitary, white supremacist, militia organizations. The white supremacist organizations are reveling in the support […]
Last Sunday, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale was detained by police after his wife called 911 saying that he came home brandishing loaded guns and threatening to harm himself. Brad Parscale, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and former campaign manager, has announced a decision to give up the job. “I am stepping away from my company and any role in the campaign for the immediate future to focus on my family and get help dealing with the overwhelming stress”, Parscale said in a statement on Wednesday. This followed police detaining Parscale last Sunday after […]
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s administration was preparing to carry out an “immigration enforcement blitz” in October that would target US “sanctuary” cities and jurisdictions. One expert tells Sputnik that this is nothing more than an attempt at increasing 45’s chances of reelection. Patrick D. Anderson, a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University, contributor to Black Agenda Report and editor-in-chief of the WikiLeaks Bibliography, joined Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Wednesday and emphasized that the present state of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could have been prevented while former US […]
Trump encourages supporters to independently monitor polling places — a federal crime https://t.co/3LN6eml5hF via @CBSNews — Gordon Duff (@gpduf) September 30, 2020 At the first presidential debate Tuesday evening, President Trump encouraged his supporters to monitor Election Day polling places for instances of fraud. “I am encouraging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that’s what has to happen — I am urging them to do it,” Mr. Trump said during the chaotic inaugural debate held in Cleveland, Ohio. The president continued, “There was a big problem, in Philadelphia they went in to watch, they’re called […]
Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at an early voting location in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. Growing tensions in the country have some election officials worried about potential violence at polling places. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at an early voting location in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. Growing tensions in the country have some election officials worried about potential violence at polling places. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Concern is growing over potential confrontations at polling places due […]
Blood on the Wall, the new film from Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger, and co-directed by Nick Quested, is Junger’s most political yet. The film, out Sept. 30 on National Geographic, follows three groups in 2017 and 2018: a caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico and hoping to make it to the U.S. where they can claim asylum in the wake of extreme violence due to drug trafficking; the drug traffickers themselves, usually Central Americans and Mexicans from poor or working-class families that have been left behind by neoliberal economic policy; and the townspeople and community police units formed to […]
President Donald Trump isn’t a threat to American democracy on a metaphorical level. He’s a threat to the country’s entire political structure, literally, according to two academics who have studied American democracy throughout history and wrote a whole book on the topic. Dr. Robert C. Lieberman, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, joined Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal to share which of the “four pillars” that help sustain democracy Trump has completely bulldozed over (hint: all of them.) According to Dr. […]
LONDON—Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House. The revelation comes from an enormous data leak obtained by the British news network Channel 4. It shows that, four years ago, the Trump campaign prepared files on almost 200 million American voters and separated some out into eight different categories. One such category, assigned to 3.5 million Black voters, was titled: “Deterrence.” The leaked database was reportedly used by Trump’s digital campaign team, which […]
VT: Veterans Today uses its own sources for information on COVID and has always been correct, just check. We don’t ‘click bait’ or play games. This is the truth. There is NO false positive issue with COVID. Deaths are 209,454 that we know of but we have very good reason to suspect they are much much higher, not lower at all. We can prove that the White House is altering counts. We HAVE PROOF which we will give to the FBI this week. The current death rate, based on testing results less closed cases, cures v. deaths, is 4.39 percent: The […]
JERUSALEM—In the lead-up to the signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington last week, President Donald Trump said that he would be open to sales of the advanced F-35 warplane to the “very wealthy countries” of the Gulf. The F-35, which costs around $80 million a plane, is one of the most expensive U.S. arms programs in history. The Trump administration, which has viewed many of its foreign policy accomplishments as a form of transaction, is supportive of pushing more U.S. arms sales in the wake of the U.S.-Bahrain-UAE deal. It is part of a much larger arms binge now taking […]
The first debates featuring Trump and Biden will be held on Tuesday at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. They will be split into 15-minute segments, intended for a wide range of topics. Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield has answered Donald Trump’s demand for a drug test for himself and the Democratic presidential nominee before the upcoming debates on Tuesday. “Vice President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words. If the president thinks his best case is made in urine he can have at it”, she wrote. “We’d expect nothing less from Donald […]
In this photo illustration a mobile phone screen displays TikTok logo in front of a keyboard. Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency hide caption toggle caption Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency In this photo illustration a mobile phone screen displays TikTok logo in front of a keyboard. Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency Updated 11:16 p.m. ET Sunday A federal judge on Sunday blocked President Trump’s TikTok ban, granting a temporary reprieve to the wildly popular video-sharing app. During a telephone court hearing on Sunday, lawyers for TikTok argued that Trump’s clampdown infringed on free speech and due process rights. John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the […]
A US District judge has made an 11th hour intervention to block a federal government order prohibiting downloads of TikTok from app stores by American users. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
A position in the US Supreme Court fell vacant on the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 18 September. US President Donald Trump has now nominated US Court of Appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett as his pick for the vacancy. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as US Supreme Court Associate Justice has already been decried by American liberals who object to her Catholic upbringing and strong anti-abortion stance. But the nominee, who has already been dubbed by some “Glorious ACB” – as the opposite of late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who is remembered by many as “Notorious […]
President Donald Trump’s hope for a “straightforward and prompt” confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was immediately dashed, as Democrats reacted with a host of arguments for blocking the appointment. Senator Dianne Feinstein said Barrett would push the court further to the right, jeopardizing “many rights and protections that the American people have fought for and deeply cherish,” including abortion. In any case, Feinstein said, the Senate shouldn’t consider any nominee to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg until the Nov. 3 election has been held and the “next president has been inaugurated,” apparently ruling out the possibility […]
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, picked by President Donald Trump for the US Supreme Court, has said a judge’s policy views must play no role in their decisions ahead of what is expected to be a highly-politicized confirmation process. Speaking alongside Trump in the Rose Garden, minutes after he officially tapped her to fill the SCOTUS seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett reaffirmed her commitment to the judicial philosophy of her mentor, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “I clerked for Justice Scalia more than twenty years ago, but the lessons I’ve learnt still resonate. His […]
US President Donald Trump, according to polls, currently trails behind Democratic rival Joe Biden, particularly with black voters, with many accusing the president of being “racist” – something that Trump has repeatedly denied. US President Donald Trump on Friday addressed Black voters, unveiling what he dubbed a “Platinum Plan” for the black community. He followed up his announcement by claiming that in several weeks he will win the US presidential election with a record number of black voters casting their vote for the Republican ticket. Trump, who often praises himself as someone who has done more for black Americans than any […]
Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley, speaking at a conference last year. A federal judge has ruled that he isn’t eligible to continue to serve in that office. Matthew Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matthew Brown/AP Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley, speaking at a conference last year. A federal judge has ruled that he isn’t eligible to continue to serve in that office. Matthew Brown/AP A federal judge in Montana has ousted President Trump’s top public lands official. The ruling blocks William Perry Pendley from continuing to serve as the temporary head of the […]
President’s Trump’s plan to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Saturday to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court is a shocking political spectacle. The formal announcement Saturday will come the day after Ginsburg became the first woman and the first Jew to lie in state at the Capitol, and less than 40 days before the presidential election. In 2016, Republicans refused to consider President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland, 260 days before that year’s election. The nomination is also a remarkable achievement for the religious right. In less than four years, Trump will have selected […]
by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies (1816) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The Balkanization of Syria might have seemed to have met its peak after the US coalition defeat, precipitated by the Russian intervention just thirty days after a VT team was in Damascus getting a hands on appraisal of the conflict. It was not pretty. People were packing their bags and telling neighbors who would get what of their furniture. […]
Who was that masked man going nuclear on Trump proxy and part-time ophthalmologist Sen. Rand Paul? Could that be Anthony Fauci, usually as buttoned down as his shirts, shooting down Paul’s nonsense about COVID-19, the same Dr. Paul who tested positive for the virus and then swanned around the Capitol without telling anyone? Yes, the same Paul who praised Sweden’s herd immunity that didn’t save lives or its economy, and dumped on New York’s draconian measures that ultimately did and Fauci’s “authoritarian mandates” of “the nanny state.” Dr. Fauci was having none of it. “I challenge that,” he said and asked […]
President Donald Trump has now explicitly stated that he may not accept the outcome of a presidential election that he does not win and Seth Meyers doesn’t understand why Democrats aren’t doing more to stop him. “The president last night refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, effectively threatening violence unless ballots are thrown out and he’s allowed to stay in office,” the Late Night host said before playing the clip of Trump telling reporters just that this week. “Our democracy hasn’t been healthy in a long time, but now it’s in a death spiral,” he added. “The president […]
Reporters gave White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the chance to “clean up or clarify” President Trump’s shocking refusal to assure a “peaceful transfer of power” if he loses the election this fall. Her answers weren’t exactly reassuring. After belittling Playboy reporter Brian Karem who elicited the answer from Trump, McEnany said, “The president will accept the results of a free and fair election.” But when she was asked to explain what Trump will consider “free and fair” when he has complained that mail-in ballots should be discarded, she would only say it will be up to the president to decide […]
As relations between the world’s two major economies, the US and China, continue to deteriorate, RT’s Boom Bust talks to Professor Richard Wolff about what’s really going on. “What we’re seeing is mostly posturing by Mr. Trump for domestic electoral votes,” he says, adding that the US president thinks the bashing of China could gain him some kind of support. “This is a way of keeping attention, positioning himself for the American market as a ‘tough guy’ but for the rest of the world as seeking some kind of accommodation.” Wolff adds that “Once the election is over, whoever wins will […]
The rest of the country may have moved on to the Supreme Court fight at hand, but on Wednesday night, Samantha Bee still had something to say about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “This week, we, like everyone, are mourning the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” she began. “Ginsburg fought tirelessly for women’s equality and civil rights throughout her career, including more than 27 years on the Supreme Court. On behalf of the entire staff of Full Frontal, I’d like to say fuuuuuuuuuck.” Bee aimed to honor Ginsburg as more than “just a meme your Aunt Bev cross-stitched on […]
The Department of Justice and lawyers acting on behalf of Melania Trump attempted to block an explosive tell-all book from the First Lady’s former close friend and adviser, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Beast. On July 7th The Daily Beast reported Stephanie Winton Wolkoff, who played a key role in planning the 2017 inauguration and is now assisting a federal probe into it, would release Melania & Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. At the time, a person with knowledge of the matter said that First Lady Trump’s one-time confidante had signed a […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; […]
Three major federal agencies have forged ahead with plans to host critical race theory training for their employees, teaching them to “co-resist” and check their white privilege, slides posted by researcher Christopher Rufo show. The events, scheduled at the State Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Veterans’ Administration (VA) in open defiance of a White House memo banning them, are going to deal with “racial equity,” “white fragility” and “microaggressions,” Rufo tweeted on Monday, publishing photos of the training slides he somehow obtained. Finally, in Week 2, the State Department asks staff to “directly [challenge] institutionalized/systemic racism, colonization, and white supremacy,” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/14/1080516595_0:137:3071:1865_1200x675_80_0_0_a0ca8ac12c9e66312a1d6945058b6a54.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009201080516626-bill-gates-says-trumps-travel-ban-may-have-worsened-covid-19-situation-in-us/ On 31 January, US President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on China after the COVID-10 outbreak took place in China’s Wuhan province. In February and March, Trump prohibited travel from Europe and other countries with coronavirus hotbeds to the US. The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said in an interview with Fox News that Trump may have worsened the novel coronavirus outbreak by imposing travel bans. “We created this rush, and we didn’t have the ability to test or quarantine those people”, Gates told “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace. “And so that seeded […]
Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump’s financial success. Though the Trump U controversy raised questions about Trump’s fitness for office, he managed to score two legal victories in the case as it proceeded. He won a postponement in the trial until after Election Day, and he managed to seal the video of a six-hour deposition he gave in the case. Trump’s Fraud Deposition, Why Wasn’t He Jailed? (amazing video) – Mother Jones: […]
Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. Windsor Mann, Opinion columnist USA Today: Like most Americans, I didn’t watch President Trump’s town hall on Tuesday night. I was too busy doing anything else. #Trump can’t afford to talk about the country’s biggest problems because he is primarily responsible for them. #Election2020 https://t.co/eaBl9jJLK6 — 𝕄𝕖𝕥𝕣𝕠 ℕ𝕐 𝕁𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪 (@JBucknoff) September 18, 2020 Two days later, I capitulated and watched it on demand. Five minutes later, Joe Biden’s town hall began. The contrast was startling. If we want to end Covid, we must end […]
If Michael Caputo, a top official at Health and Human Services, hadn’t melted down and spewed out on Facebook Live that his job description included suppressing “rotten scientists” in a “resistance unit” at the CDC, he would still be twisting the apolitical data coming out of the single most important source of health information in the world. Caputo also warned that Democrats were getting out of their sweatpants only long enough to plot an armed insurrection to defeat Trump by publicizing a running tab on death and destruction from COVID-19. At night, Caputo saw shadows on the wall. In short, he […]
US President Donald Trump has postured as a peacemaker and ender of “endless wars,” but one peace activist told Sputnik that Trump had greatly increased the risk of a major war around the globe by expanding US wars and undoing vital peace agreements – and his alternative on the November ballot isn’t much better. On Tuesday, Trump hosted the leaders of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain at the White House, where the two Arab nations signed agreements recognizing Israel as a sovereign nation and extending full diplomatic relations to it, making them the third and fourth […]
The apparent gaffe on the part of Trump’s campaign comes as the president struggles to deal with the scandal caused by an anonymous report suggesting that he had called the First World War’s fallen US soldiers “losers”. If four years of dodging unsubstantiated accusations of colluding with Russia were not enough for President Donald Trump, his campaign managed to add oil to the fire by making a military-themed snafu in its digital ad, which was active between 8 and 12 September. The ad, paid for by Trump’s Make America Great Again Committee, called on citizens to support American troops, but oddly enough featured […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump’s restrictive executive order banning the Chinese video-sharing platform, TikTok, in the United States will not prevent the app’s employees from receiving wages or benefits, the US authorities said in a court filing. “The Department of Commerce can state that it does not intend to implement or enforce Executive Order 13942 in a manner which would prohibit the payment of wages and/or salaries to Plaintiff or any other employee or contractor of TikTok … the provision of benefits packages to Plaintiff or any other employee of TikTok”, the document filed on Monday said. In addition, […]
Ivana, mother of Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump, who the US president was married to for 15 years, has admitted that her relationship with her ex-husband changed drastically two years after their 1991 divorce. Donald Trump’s former wife Ivana, who had three of the president’s five children, has revealed that she can call her ex-husband, now a good friend of hers, any time she wants, despite him being the leader of the country. In a Monday TV interview on the British talk show “Loose Women”, Ivana, who married the former businessman in 1977 and divorced him almost 15 years later, […]
The hits keep coming from Rage author Bob Woodward, who premiered a new exclusive audio recording of President Donald Trump admitting behind closed doors how dangerous he knew the coronavirus to be long before he started taking it remotely seriously in public. “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it,” Trump can be heard saying on the tape, which Woodward recorded on April 13th, 2020, and shared with Stephen Colbert for Monday night’s episode of The Late Show. The president goes on to tell what he apparently thought was a hilarious story about being in the Oval Office with […]
by Salman Rafi Sheikh, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: Since Mr. Sheikh wrote this on September 1, Trump’s world has changed. The US is totally isolated from the other members of the JCPOA and the UN Security Council, a rather major US foreign policy failure. Trump’s pitch is that he is showing strength, while the world has voted that he is showing stupidity on his part, the dangerous kind. The man cannot change […]
Trump’s War On Journalism Takes Center Stage By Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof. September 14, 2020 Trump’s War On Journalism Takes Center Stage2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/julian-assange-extradition.jpg200px200px Above photo: From AryNews. Julian Assange’s Extradition Hearing. In the last half-century, journalists James Bamford, Ben Bradlee, Seymour Hersh, and Neil Sheehan were each threatened with prosecution under the Espionage Act. But the U.S. government never followed through with Espionage Act charges against a journalist until 2019, when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested and charged. Trevor Timm, the executive director for the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), told a magistrate court judge, “[President Donald] Trump’s administration is moving […]
For months, the Conway family’s drama had played out in aggressively public fashion. There was George Conway, the attorney and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, launching daily Twitter barbs at President Trump; Kellyanne Conway, the president’s fiercely loyal counselor, defending his increasingly unhinged behavior; and in the middle of it all Claudia Conway, the couple’s teenage daughter, creating TikTok videos about how hellish all the sniping between her parents (and Trump) has been. Then, on Aug. 23, Kellyanne announced she was leaving the Trump White House to focus on her family, while George said he was taking a step back from […]