Larry Brown, the councilman in Allen County, Indiana who said that “unfortunately,” Black Lives Matter protesters “breed” resigned on Monday.
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Trump Refuses To Confirm Whether He Asked Staff To ‘Slow The Testing Down’ For COVID-19
Amid ongoing attempts to save face as the number of positive coronavirus cases continues to rise around the country, President Trump would not say whether or not he had requested that his staff “slow the testing down.”
VIDEO: Just asked President Trump if he actually ordered testing to be slowed down. He said in his Saturday speech he did. He didn't answer the direct question. pic.twitter.com/aDKGu6F2Ok
— Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) June 22, 2020
WH Adviser Will Depart Trump Admin After Temporary Return To Assist COVID-19 Response
White House adviser Kevin Hassett will reportedly depart the Trump administration this summer following his return in March to assist the President in response to the economic turbulence from the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading “WH Adviser Will Depart Trump Admin After Temporary Return To Assist COVID-19 Response”
US Attorney, FBI, DOJ ‘Reviewing’ Situation After Noose Found In NASCAR Driver’s Garage
A U.S. attorney, the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice are “reviewing the situation” after a noose was found in the garage of a Black NASCAR driver.
WSJ: Before His Ouster, Berman Beefed With DOJ Over COVID Letter To De Blasio
Ex-U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had a disagreement with top officials at the Justice Department the day before he was ousted over a letter the department wanted to send New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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How The GOP Gave Up On Governing In Order To Keep Winning Elections
The following is an excerpt from “The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics” by Steve Benen. It is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.
Last week was an unpleasant one for the White House. Donald Trump and his team continued to watch the coronavirus crisis intensify; the administration suffered another round of legal defeats; the president’s re-election campaign faced pushback over a needlessly dangerous vanity exercise in Tulsa; and John Bolton exposed Trump as, among other things, a leader who always prioritizes politics over policy.
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WH Ends Mandatory Temperature Tests For Staffers And Visitors
The White House is no longer requiring its staffers and visitors to take temperature checks before entering the premises amid COVID-19.
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The Fall
All political power is unitary. It is one of the great lessons for thinking about politics. You are always in the process of adding to it or diminishing it. Assert power and sustain it and you gain power. Fail to do so and a politician grows weaker. This is why the concept of expending ‘political capital’ is mostly nonsense.
We have seen this unfolding before us over the last month. President Trump now daily asserts power he cannot sustain. ‘Law and Order’ street fighting confrontations using the US military, Bolton’s book, bungled DOJ purges, a humiliating Tulsa venture. Each gambit newly exposes his deteriorating power and thus hastens the process, emboldening others to oppose or resist him.
McEnany Insists That Trump ‘Was Not Angry At All’ About Low Rally Turnout
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted on Monday that President Trump was “quite energized” in spite of an attendance flop at his supposedly highly anticipated reelection rally Saturday in Tulsa.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday said that President Trump "was quite energized" after his rally in Tulsa, calling it "a huge success" in spite of very low attendance and a sea of empty seats at the BOK Center on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/KfLSZW5Sti
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 22, 2020
“The president was not angry at all,” McEnany said when asked if President Trump was upset when he saw how few people showed up at the rally. “The president was quite energized. I was with him after the rally — it was a huge success.”
While McEnany did not comment directly on the attendance reports from the Tulsa Fire Department, which said that fewer than 6,500 people came out to the rally, she said Trump’s speech got “rave reviews” and he was “in good spirits.”
The rally ultimately did not deliver on earlier claims by the Trump campaign that the president’s supporters were eagerly jumping at the chance to attend the first of his rallies as he begins in-person campaigning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale at one point bragged that upwards of one million tickets had been requested. There was talk that the BOK Center, which only holds about 20,000 seats, would open into an overflow area outdoors so as not to disappoint anyone who couldn’t make it inside. But Saturday’s event reflected quite a different reality as Trump began his speech to a much more modest audience that filled less than half of the arena.
SHS Joins In On Bashing Bolton By Accusing Him Of Being ‘Drunk On Power’
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is hopping on the bandwagon bashing former National Security Adviser John Bolton ahead of the publication of his damning tell-all book recalling his experiences in the Trump administration. Continue reading “SHS Joins In On Bashing Bolton By Accusing Him Of Being ‘Drunk On Power’”