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Southern Baptist Leader Al Mohler: Trump Is A “Huge Embarrassment” But The Alternative Is “Unthinkable”

The Christian Post reports: When asked if Trump being supported by a majority of evangelicals is an embarrassment, Al Mohler admitted, “Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing.” He said that …

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MIAMI: Trump Golf Resort Reopens Amid Surging Cases

The New York Times reports: Poolside at President Trump’s resort near Miami, dozens of guests sunned on lounge chairs and chatted in cabanas. Golfers fanned out across multiple courses, and the hotel lobby hummed with activity for the first time in months. But the reopening of Trump National Doral, the most important source of revenue for the president’s strained family …

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Trump’s COVID Response Approval Craters To New Low

Reuters reports: American approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has dropped to the lowest level on record, the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows, as new COVID-19 cases surged and Trump was widely criticized for suggesting he wanted to slow down testing. The poll shows that 37% of Americans approved of the way Trump has responded to …

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Trump Campaign Desperate To “Smoke Out” Biden

Axios reports: President Trump’s campaign, recognizing that he’ll lose to himself if November’s election is a referendum on him, is trying to flush Joe Biden into open combat by challenging him to more debates, taunting him as “Hidin’ Biden,” and posing a “Question of the day for Joe Biden.” Expect more of this. The Trump campaign is getting very frustrated …

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Trump Demands Congress Stop “Lowlife” Flag Burning

The Hill reports: President Trump late Tuesday called for Congress to take action against “lowlifes” who burn the American flag, seeking to put fresh pressure on lawmakers to pursue potential legislation. Trump has urged repercussions for flag burning on numerous occasions in the past, including shortly after winning election in 2016. At the time, Trump proposed a year in jail …

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No Masks At Arizona Rally Despite Organizers’ Claim

Arizona Central reports: Donald Trump Jr. took the stage shortly after 3 p.m. to pump up the crowd before his father’s speech. He immediately began attacking Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying Biden wouldn’t know the difference between Arizona and Alaska. He continued to poke at Biden’s health, intelligence, family ties and lack of leadership for the majority of his …

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Arizona Reports Record Cases On Day Of Trump Visit

The Hill reports: Arizona health officials reported yet another record number of coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the same day President Trump is traveling to the state to visit the nation’s southern border and speak at a rally. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 3,591 new COVID-19 cases and 42 related deaths. The state previously had its highest number of …

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Twitter Hides Yet Another “Abusive” Trump Threat

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to stamp out any protesters seeking to establish a so-called “autonomous zone” in the nation’s capital, echoing conservative outrage over the prospect of police-free enclaves cropping up in major American cities. The president’s social media post comes after U.S. Park Police officers on Monday thwarted efforts by protesters to tear down the …

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EU Set To Ban American Visitors Over COVID Failures

The New York Times reports: European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times. That prospect, which would lump American visitors in …

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Trump Wants Biden To Take Cognitive Screening Test

The Washington Post reports: Trump had taken a cognitive screening test as part of his 2018 physical, and now, more than two years later, he brought up the 10-minute exam. He waxed on about how he’d dazzled the proctors with his stellar performance, according to two people familiar with his comments. He walked the room of about two dozen White …

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Trump: “I Don’t Kid” About Slowing Down COVID Tests

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump said “I don’t kid” when referring to slowing down Covid-19 testing after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany spent all Monday defending him for making the comment “in jest.” “I don’t kid, let me make it clear,” Trump said to reporters Tuesday. “We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test …

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Lincoln Project Ad Rakes Trump Over Slowed Testing

Just in this morning from the Lincoln Project: During Trump’s poorly-attended rally in Tulsa, Trump admitted what Americans across the country feared: that he commanded public health experts to impede COVID-19 testing for personal, political advantage. As it stands, 122,000 American lives have been lost and the virus is surging in many of the states President Trump coerced into hasty …

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Noted Epidemiologist Triples Down On COVID Testing

The Washington Post reports: President Trump has spent the past few days arguing that coronavirus cases are only rising because more Americans are being tested. That argument might have been true in April, when testing was still ramping up. It’s not true anymore. Testing rapidly expanded and the overall positivity rate fell rapidly throughout May. And for most of June, …

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Arizona Megachurch Hosting Trump Rally Claims To Have Invented Device That Kills 99.9% Of COVID In Air

TMZ reports: The church where President Trump will host his latest rally since the pandemic has made some bold claims about its facility and coronavirus, and it sounds too good to be true. Faith leaders for Arizona’s Dream City Church — which has 7 locations, including a Phoenix and Scottsdale location — hopped online with a promo video hyping up …

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Two More Trump Staffers Test COVID+ After Tulsa Rally

CNBC reports: Two members of a campaign advance team who attended President Donald Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday have tested positive for the coronavirus, the campaign said Monday. The new test results bring the tally of advance team members for the Tulsa event who have tested positive for Covid-19 up to eight. The six earlier positive tests of advance …

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Trump To Ban Employment-Based Visas For Rest Of Year

The Wall Street Journal reports: President Trump is expected to sign an order later Monday temporarily barring new immigrants on a slate of employment-based visas including the H-1B for high-skilled workers from coming to the U.S. amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic, a move his administration argues will safeguard jobs for unemployed Americans. The new restrictions, which officials said are set …

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Trump’s “Steel Ramp” Whining Has Been Set To Music

Music Feeds reports: Donald Trump‘s recent rally in Tulsa has been largely circulated, and largely meme-d, and now How I Met Your Mother star and musician Josh Radnor put the President’s speech to music. God help us all. While Trump’s entire speech at the rally when for almost two hours, he devoted six minutes of the speech to explaining why …

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Rep. Ted Lieu: Vote For Me, I Can Also Drink Water

The Week reports: Rep. Ted Lieu, standing in front of a campaign sign and wearing a bright red tie, is shown using one hand to drink from a glass of water. He looks around, nods, brings the glass back up for round two, then tosses the remaining water. It’s a reenactment of Trump drinking a glass of water during his …

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New Lincoln Project Ad: “Trump’s Got A Size Problem”

Posted last night by the Lincoln Project: Trump’s got a size problem. It’s not growing, in fact, it’s shrinking. And the whole world saw. We’re talking about Donald Trump’s crowds, of course. Despite a “record-setting one million tickets sold,” the Trump campaign couldn’t fill a 19,000 person stadium in the heart of Trump land. What a letdown. Rick Wilson, co-founder …

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Trump Wants To Make Advertiser Boycotts “Illegal”

The Daily Caller reports: President Donald Trump wants to personally “get involved” in making advertiser boycotts illegal, he told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview. Trump spoke with the Caller for more than an hour on a variety of issues but opened the conversation by accusing activist groups calling for advertising boycotts, a means of protesting platforms or groups …

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