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Anti-Trump billboards to greet the president in Cleveland before debate

Nothing like facing the president of “fake news” with words that come out of his own mouth.

Artists United for Change, a creative collective overseen by strategists Robin Bell and Scott Goodstein, has created the RememberWhatTheyDid project, which commissions artists to develop works based on Trump’s most gruesome, selfish or absurd public statements.

The results will be displayed today on billboards in predominantly Latino and backyard neighborhoods in Ohio City that will host the first debate tonight as part of an attempt to foster civic activism.

‘A friend convinced Brad Parscale to surrender’ in a police confrontation

Here’s the latest on the sad case of Trump’s demoted former campaign manager at a Florida hospital after threatening to harm himself Sunday.

Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Christopher Wilson wrote in a report that he had just finished his shift Sunday night when a mutual friend called him and told him that a SWAT team was at Parscale’s home and that he was refusing. to go out.

When Wilson arrived at the property, he was able to persuade the owner to leave. Body camera footage released Monday shows officers rushing Parscale and knocking him to the ground before stopping him.

The confrontation began earlier Sunday after Parscale’s wife fled the home and asked a real estate agent for help showing a nearby home, authorities said. They called 911 and officers responded.

The wife told officers that Parscale had been stressed recently and had made comments about shooting himself, according to a police report. Investigators said 10 guns were later removed from the home. The wife also said that Parscale drinks and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

One of the responding officers reported that he witnessed bruises on the wife’s arm and face. She told him the injuries stemmed from an altercation with Parscale earlier that week, according to the police report. The officer called Parscale and asked him to leave the house unarmed, but the report said that Parscale remained in the house for about an hour, until Wilson arrived and convinced him to leave.

Parscale was hospitalized Sunday under the state’s Baker Act. That law allows anyone considered a threat to themselves or others to be detained for 72 hours for a psychiatric evaluation.

Parscale was demoted from the campaign manager position in July, but remained a part of the campaign, helping to run its digital operation.

Standing 6’8 “tall with a distinctive beard, Parscale had become a celebrity to Trump supporters, frequently posing for photos and signing autographs before campaign rallies. But Trump had started to get mad at him. earlier this year when Parscale drew a wave of critical media attention that included the focus on his seemingly stunning lifestyle on the Florida coast that kept him away from the campaign headquarters in Virginia.

Over the summer, he promoted a million ticket requests for the President’s comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which ended up attracting just 6,000 people. An irate Trump stared at a sea of ​​empty seats, and weeks later promoted Bill Stepien to campaign manager.

Parscale was originally hired to run the Trump campaign in 2016 by Jared Kushner, the president’s powerful son-in-law. While the Republican National Committee owns most of the campaign data, voter modeling, and outreach tools, Parscale ran most of the microtagged online advertising that Trump aides believe was key to his victory four years ago.

Under the state’s Red Flag Law, officials can ask a judge to ban Parscale from owning guns for up to one year.

Trump’s 2016 campaign tried to dissuade 3.5 million black Americans from voting, report says

The campaign disproportionately marked African American voters with the tag “Deterrence” in its database of people who wanted to stay home on Election Day, according to Channel 4 News, reporting after receiving a huge amount of leaked data about nearly 200 million voters used by Trump. relection team.

The data was reportedly used by Trump’s digital campaign team four years ago in 16 battlefield states to target voters on Facebook with negative ads about Hillary Clinton, misstating her track record on racial issues.

The Trump campaign spent $ 44 million on Facebook ads in 2016, putting 6 million highly targeted messages on voter feeds.

Donald, Ivanka Trump ‘Surely’ Could Face Prison, Says Watergate Prosecutor

Speaking to CNN last night, Nick Akerman said that jail is a very real possibility for this president and his beloved daughter, citing “a whole range of activities that could qualify as tax fraud.”

Here is Gino Spocchia’s report.

Dr. Fauci Criticizes Fox’s ‘Outlandish’ Claims, Admits ‘Differences’ With New White House Adviser

The director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, a less … ahem … “political” medical interviewee than Jackson, spoke to CNN yesterday and did not refrain from attacking Fox’s false pronouncements on coronavirus or admitting tension with Dr. Scott Atlas, the latest addition to Trump’s troubled White House task force.

Fox removes former Trump doctor to ‘legitimize’ Biden’s drug abuse charge

Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician, was brought on Sean Hannity’s show last night to offer his supposed “expert” opinion on whether the president’s challenger is “squeezing” before public speaking engagements, a Completely unfounded and unworthy claim. by Trump who has seen him demand that Biden give him a urine sample.

“I think it is reasonable to ask if he is taking drugs that help him with his alertness and memory,” Dr. Jackson duly agreed, which would do no harm to his future political ambitions should Trump win re-election.

Fox also seemed to be giving his most loyal viewers advice on how to behave on stage.

Here’s a little bit more of what’s at stake in Cleveland tonight.

Trump Refuses to Answer Questions at White House Press Conference After Explosive Tax Revelations

For his part, the president declined the opportunity to defend himself at the Rose Garden yesterday when he summoned the press corps to discuss the coronavirus (205,000 American deaths and counting, that’s 20 percent of the world’s total of four percent of its population) . .

John T. Bennett was watching.

Michael Cohen Says Tax Scandal Is The Beginning Of The End For Donald Trump

The president’s former attorney told Joy Reid on MSNBC last night that his swaggering ex-employer’s house of cards is about to collapse.

Are staunch Trump supporters, who weren’t offended by “catching them for the f ******” or his dismissal of military men and women as “fools,” will they really probably be shocked and dissuaded from voting for him by a complex financial investigation?

Are they not already decided?

Here’s an overview of what happens next, and what, if anything, could be done.

Trump’s mountain of debt makes him a ‘national security risk’, Democrats say

The consequences of the explosive New York Times the investigation continues apace.

The newspaper found that the president had paid only $ 750 in income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and none in 10 of the previous 15 years and that although he had paid $ 95 million in taxes over 18 years after accumulating cash in The newbie, subsequently obtained a federal refund of $ 72.9 million and state and local refunds of $ 21.2 million to recover almost everything.

The investigation also found that Trump personally has a staggering amount of debt, including more than $ 300 million in loans due in the next four years.

Speaking to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC last night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that his mounting financial obligations leave him vulnerable to blackmail.

“This president seems to have a debt of more than 400 million dollars. To who? Different countries? What is the leverage they have? So, for me, this is a national security issue, ”he said.

“We take an oath to protect and defend. This president is the commander-in-chief. You have exposure to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, to whom? The public has a right to know, ”Pelosi continued.

Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris also expressed alarm …

… and popular Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a former Harvard economist.

“Americans should be concerned about the president’s debt because it is a national security risk to our country,” agreed Donald Sherman, deputy director of the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“This is information that the president has repeatedly and aggressively tried to keep away from the public.”

While one would expect Trump’s political enemies to be enthusiastic about the report, one concern that is less easy for the president and his apologists to ignore is raised by his own former national security adviser HR McMaster, about whom Madeline Roth has more. .

President angrily rejects claim that he wanted Ivanka as a running mate

Yesterday, Bloomberg News reported that a new book by former Trump aide Rick Gates reveals that the president planned to install his beloved daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016 before Mike Pence.

The president angrily refuted the story on Twitter last night, just as he had. The New York TimesDetailed tax investigation 24 hours in advance.

Here’s Louise Hall on the palace intrigue in question.