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Trump Holds Mini-Rally With Unmasked FL Crowd

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday held a scaled-down campaign-style rally on an airport tarmac in Florida, drawing a crowd of supporters who packed closely together in a state that has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The president landed in Tampa and was greeted by dozens of supporters who had gathered along barricades. Few were seen wearing masks, …

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Trump Denies Cain Caught COVID At His Rally [VIDEO]

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump said Friday he doesn’t think that Herman Cain, who died this week after being hospitalized with the coronavirus, caught the virus when he attended the president’s Tulsa, Okla., rally last month. “No, I don’t think he did,” Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a trip to Florida when …

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Lincoln Project: Behold The “Impotus Americanus”

Mediaite reports: The anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project has been open about their goal to not just communicate with voters, but to pester Trump and distract him from attacking rival Joe Biden. Their latest ad certainly seems designed to accomplish that latter objective, mocking Trump’s weight, “ruddy orange, not found in nature” skin tone, and age, dubbing him “Impotus Americanus,” …

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Lincoln Project: Trump’s Days In Office Are Numbered

Just in from the Lincoln Project: A new video released today by The Lincoln Project, “We Will Vote,” sends a message loud and clear. Americans will be voting this November and Donald Trump can not stop them. After a tweet suggesting the possibility of delaying the election, Americans are vehemently defending their right, and ability, to vote in November. “We …

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Federalist Society: Impeach Trump For Delay Tweet

Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabrisi writes: I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016. I wrote op-eds and a law review article protesting what I believe was an unconstitutional investigation by Robert Mueller. I also wrote an op-ed opposing President Trump’s impeachment. But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent …

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Trump Campaign Pauses Broadcast Ads For “Review”

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign has virtually disappeared from the airwaves as it undertakes “a review and fine-tuning of the campaign’s strategy” as an official put it after the replacement of campaign manager Brad Parscale. With less than 100 days until Election Day, the Trump campaign spent virtually nothing on television or radio ads on Wednesday and Thursday, …

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Trump “Can’t Assure” Schools Will Be Safe [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: President Trump, who has pressed for schools to open this fall despite the coronavirus pandemic, said Thursday that he couldn’t offer assurances that holding in-person classes would be safe. “Can you assure anybody of anything?” Trump said in response to a question about how he could assure people that schools can safely be reopened. At the same …

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Justice Dept Drops Gag Order Against Michael Cohen

Courthouse News reports: A week after a federal judge ordered Michael Cohen’s release, federal prosecutors asked Thursday to close the case and agreed to abandon the gag order that sparked the First Amendment battle. “There is therefore no need for this court to resolve any further dispute about restrictions on [Cohen’s] contact with the media,” the government’s 2-page letter states. …

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Trump Lavishes Praise On “Patriot” Herman Cain

CBS News reports: Cain attended President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20. The 2012 Republican presidential candidate posted a photo of himself and other rally attendees, none of whom were wearing masks. Although masks were provided to attendees at the rally, wearing them was not mandatory. Trump campaign officials told CBS News that Cain sat with members of …

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Trump Avoided Lewis Ceremony At Joint Base Andrews, Left For Texas Minutes Before Lewis’s Casket Arrived

Trump’s pettiness is truly bottomless: President Donald Trump avoided a final opportunity to pay an in-person tribute to the late civil rights icon at Joint Base Andrews. Trump departed from the air base for Texas around 9:55 a.m. ET after speaking to reporters at the White House. A procession with Lewis and his family arrived to Andrews a few minutes …

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Anti-Trump Ad Quotes Reagan: “Are You Better Off?”

This will surely enrage the Glorious Leader: A Democratic super PAC is launching an anti-President Trump ad that uses former President Reagan’s comments in a 1980 presidential debate when he was challenging then-President Carter. The ad is set to air exclusively on Fox News over the course of the next week starting Thursday as part of a six-figure national ad …

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Trump Assures White Base: I’ll Keep The Poors Away

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday made one of his most overt appeals so far in the campaign to White, suburban voters, saying in a tweet that they will no longer be “bothered” by low income housing in their suburbs. The tweets come as polls show Trump’s reelection effort is faltering in the suburbs, fueled by his administration’s failed …

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Trump Admits He Didn’t Confront Putin On Bounties

Axios reports: President Trump has never confronted Vladimir Putin with intelligence indicating Russia paid the Taliban to kill U.S. troops, he told “Axios on HBO” in an interview on Tuesday. Trump spoke with Putin on Thursday, and subsequently deflected a question about whether he’d raised the alleged bounty scheme, saying on Monday: “We don’t talk about what we discussed, but …

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Trump Laments Approval Ratings: “Nobody Likes Me”

The New York Times reports: President Trump devolved into self-pity during a White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday. Noting that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. Deborah L. Birx have high approval ratings even as his own have sagged, Mr. Trump added, “And yet, they’re highly thought of — but nobody likes me.” “It can only be my personality,” he …

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Lincoln Project Blasts Trump Over Stolen “Memories”

Just in from the Lincoln Project: The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Memories,” a reminder of the loss of life’s most sentimental moments as a result of President Trump’s calamitous response to the COVID-19 crisis. “We’ve lost millions of moments that make life worth living. And while people around the world are going to movies, eating at restaurants, …

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Trump Promotes Woman’s Anti-Mask “Cure” Claim, Woman Says Jesus Will Take Down FB For Banning Her

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump went on a late night Twitter binge on Monday with more than a dozen posts pushing dubious claims about the drug hydroxychloroquine, including twice retweeting a video from a woman falsely claiming that the drug was a “cure” for Covid-19 and that “you don’t need a mask.” Two of Trump’s Monday night tweets focused on …

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Trump Won’t Pay Respects To John Lewis At US Capitol

The Independent reports: Donald Trump, who in recent weeks has stirred racial tensions, says he has no plans to visit the late Congressman John Lewis as the civil rights icon lies in state at the US Capitol. “No I won’t be going,” the president said. “No.” The president delivered the news as he left the White House for a trip …

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Anti-Fascists Linked To Zero US Murders In 25 Years

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has made warnings about the threat of antifa and “far-left fascism” a central part of his re-election campaign. But in reality left wing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by right wing extremists, new research indicates, and antifa activists have not been linked to a single murder in decades. A new database …

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Trump Relaunched COVID Briefings After Being Shown Maps Showing Pandemic Was Now Hitting “His People”

The Washington Post reports: People close to Trump, many speaking anonymously to share candid discussions and impressions, say the president’s inability to wholly address the crisis is due to his almost pathological unwillingness to admit error; a positive feedback loop of overly rosy assessments and data from advisers and Fox News; and a penchant for magical thinking that prevented him …

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TODAY: Trump To Visit NC Pharma Working On Vaccine

The Washington Post reports: President Trump will seek to put a spotlight on efforts to rapidly develop a coronavirus vaccine with a visit Monday to a North Carolina facility working on components of one of the candidates. Trump is scheduled to take a tour and receive a briefing during his afternoon stop at Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies …

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