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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has criticized Donald Trump as “unfit” for the presidency after a report that the president allegedly mocked American veterans as “losers” and “fools.”
Biden told reporters Friday that Trump’s comments, if true, are “deplorable.” The Trump administration has dismissed the report as false.
“I have never been so disappointed, in my entire career, with a leader that I have worked with, president otherwise,” Biden said.
“If the article is true, and it appears to be, based on other things he has said, it is absolutely damning. That is a misfortune.”
During a press conference at the White House Friday night, Trump said former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “could have been” a source for the damning report, published in The Atlantic earlier this week.
When asked if the source could be Mr. Kelly, who served in the Marine Corps for more than 40 years, the President said: “It could have been a guy like John Kelly. You watch some of their press conferences [at the White House], what happened to him, they ate him alive.
“He couldn’t handle the pressure of this job,” he added.
The United States is ready to help in the border dispute between China and India, says Trump
The president has said the United States is happy to help resolve the dispute between India and China over the border across the western Himalayas.
Donald Trump said the situation was “very unpleasant”, adding that India and China “were going to do it with a lot more force than many people understand.”
In June, a clash between both sides of the border resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. Since then, both sides have deployed additional forces along the border.
The defense ministers of India and China held talks in Moscow on Friday, the highest-level face-to-face political contact since tensions flared along the disputed border in May.
Trump told reporters: “We are ready to help with regard to China and India. If we can do something, we’d love to get involved and help. “
However, China previously said there was no need for a third party to mediate the dispute and India was also cold on the idea.
Kate ng5 September 2020 12:40
Boris Johnson ‘fascinated’ by Donald Trump, says former diplomat
A former British ambassador to the United States has said that Boris Johnson is fascinated by US President Donald Trump and was likely inspired by his American counterpart.
Lord Darroch wrote in a new book serialized in The times that the UK prime minister is intrigued by Trump’s unequal relationship “to facts and truth.”
Lord Darroch wrote that Johnson had been “fascinated” by Trump on his visits to Washington as foreign secretary, before he became prime minister, and focused particularly on the president’s use of language.
This includes “the limited vocabulary, the simplicity of the messages, the disdain for political correctness, the sometimes inflammatory images and, at best, the intermittent relationship with facts and truth.”
In an interview that accompanied the excerpts, the former ambassador also said that Trump considered Johnson “a kindred spirit.”
Lord Darroch resigned after a cable leak saying Trump was “inept” as president.
Kate ng5 September 2020 12:20
Trump says unemployment rate is ‘better than expected’
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August, down from 10 percent for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Unemployment remains significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels of 3.5% in February, while only half of the 22 million jobs lost during the crisis have been recovered.
Donald Trump said the latest unemployment rate is “much better than expected,” and said on Twitter that the numbers were “Big job numbers.”
Alex Woodward has the report:
Kate ng5 September 2020 12:00
Trump repeats suggestions his supporters should try to vote twice
President Donald Trump again suggested to his supporters that they should try to vote in person even if they had already voted by mail as a way to verify that their vote is counted, although voting twice in the same election is a federal crime, CNN reported. .
During a virtual rally in North Carolina on Friday night, which was posted on Facebook, Trump went into detail about how he wanted his supporters to vote.
He said if they vote by mail, they should also go to their polling place to “see if their vote by mail has been tabulated or counted, and he noted that they will not be able to vote if it has been counted.
“If it has not been counted, vote, which is the right of all citizens, go and vote,” he said.
“You squeeze the lever and you vote. So if it hasn’t been counted, if it doesn’t show up, go ahead and vote and then if your mail-in ballot arrives after you vote, which it shouldn’t, but possibly could, that ballot will not be used or counted on the meaning that your vote has already been cast and tabulated, so you are guaranteed to count your vote.
“So send it in. And then go ahead and vote and let’s see what happens.”
Kate ng5 September 2020 11:45
Donald Trump Jr Renews TikTok Attack, Says It Could ‘Weapon Children’s Data’
Donald Trump Jr has just joined TikTok competitor Triller and is using the new platform to criticize popular TikTok while promoting Triller as an “American company.”
In a seven-minute video posted on Triller, the president’s eldest son claimed that TikTok, which has until Sept. 15 to sell its business in the US, out of concerns that its ties to China pose a threat to national security. , it was dire.
Speaking directly to parents, Trump Jr stated: “When you have an app like TikTok where the Chinese government can turn on your child’s camera, turn on your child’s video, listen to it, turn on their microphone at any random time, not just when they are using the app.
“This goes much further. Have access to all your photos, contacts and emails and the spyware that is there. I mean this is something that could haunt your kids forever. “
TikTok said its app has been downloaded by 100 million users in the US alone and has made efforts to sue the president’s executive order.
Kate ng5 September 2020 11:30
US has yet to see evidence of Navalny poisoning ‘tragic’, says Trump
Donald Trump has said that the United States must consider “very seriously” the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but that his administration has yet to see any evidence.
At a press conference, he also told reporters that they should focus on China, not Russia.
“It is tragic. It’s terrible, it shouldn’t happen. We haven’t had proof yet, but I’ll take a look, ”the president said.
His position on the issue was not as firm as that of the State Department, which on Friday expressed grave concern over the finding that Navalny was poisoned.
Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement that Under Secretary of State Stephen Biegun “urged Russia to cooperate fully with the international community’s investigation into this attack.”
Mr. Biegun met with Russian Ambassador Anatoliy Antonov in Washington on Friday morning and told him that Moscow’s use of this chemical weapon would be in clear violation of its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Navalny has been hospitalized in Germany, who said he was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent. Russia has not opened a criminal investigation and said there is no evidence of a crime yet.
Kate ng5 September 2020 11:15
Why This South Dakota Voter Supports Joe Biden
Our correspondent in New York, Chris riotta, spoke with Natalie LaFrance-Slack from South Dakota to talk about why she supports Joe Biden despite her state’s Republican leadership.
Read about their views in our weekly polarized series, in which Americans from all 50 states share their views on the 2020 election.
Kate ng5 September 2020 11:00
Judge orders Trump administration to stop detaining migrant children in hotels
A federal judge ordered the United States government to stop detaining unaccompanied migrant children in hotels before expelling them without the possibility of seeking refuge in the country.
US District Judge Dolly Gee said the practice, which was implemented under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus pandemic, circumvented “fundamental humanitarian protections.”
It declared that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old agreement that governs the treatment of immigrant children in custody and ordered border agencies to stop placing children in hotels by Sept. 15. and get them out of the hotels as soon as possible. as possible.
Since March, immigration agencies have expelled 148,000 people crossing the US-Mexico border.
The Trump administration says unauthorized border crossings threaten public health and should be forced out of the country quickly, but immigrant advocates argue the government is using the pandemic to circumvent federal anti-trafficking laws and protections for immigrants. asylum.
At least 577 unaccompanied children have been transferred to hotels since March, where they are detained and deported from the United States.
Ms Gee wrote that the Trump administration “cannot seriously argue in good faith that circumventing its contractual obligation to place minors in licensed programs is necessary to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.”
Kate ng5 September 2020 10:45
Trump criticizes anti-racism training as ‘anti-American propaganda’
Donald Trump has called the anti-racism training sessions for government agencies “divisive. anti-American propaganda ”.
The comments were included in a memorandum when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was ordered to crack down on spending related to learning about topics like white privilege.
Russell Vought, director of the OMB, asked federal agencies to identify expenditures related to any training on “critical race theory” or any other material that teaches or suggests that the United States or any race or ethnicity is “inherently racist or malignant. “
The memo concluded: “The President has a proven record of standing up for those whose voices have long been ignored and who have not benefited from all that our country has to offer, and he intends to continue to support all Americans. regardless of your race, religion or creed.
“The divisive, false and degrading propaganda of the critical racial theory movement is contrary to everything we stand for as Americans and should have no place in the federal government.”
Kate ng5 September 2020 10:30
The independent answers your questions about the 2020 U.S. elections
When are the 2020 U.S. elections? Will it carry on amid the coronavirus pandemic?
My colleagues Louise hall and Gina spocchia It addressed all of your questions about the American elections later this year:
Kate ng5 September 2020 10:15
