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President Trump was temporarily evacuated from the White House meeting room at a press conference. The Obamas, the Clintons, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a former Republican governor will speak at the Democratic convention.
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President Trump tweeted Monday that his crusade had narrowed the list of places for his acceptance speech at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania, a first report through Times’ Annie Karni last week, or at the White House.
Both possible options may be riddled with legal and political pitfalls for Trump, who last month abandoned his plan to settle for the Republican nomination at a party conference in Jacksonville, Florida, due to an outbreak of infections in the state.
On Sunday, president’s staff leader, Mark Meadows, expressed his disapproval that the White House is the site of such an overtly political event, a concept that has also been widely defended by ethics experts.
“These decisions are still evolving, but I can tell you what I’m defending, it’s miles and miles from here,” Meadows said in an interview with Greta Van Susteren broadcast Sunday morning.
Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who accused President Barack Obama of abusing his executive power, gave the impression of backtracking on a subsequent interview with CNN on Sunday, saying the East Wing Rite of the White House would be a fitting place.
Republican National Committee President Ronna McDaniel said Monday that Trump has “perfect right” to deliver his acceptance speech in the South Garden of the White House.
“If Joe Biden can live in his basement,” McDaniel said, repeating a normal Republican comment about Trump’s alleged opponent, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. “the president has every right to speak in front of his house, which is the White House.” Ms. McDaniel commented on “Fox and Friends,” a program Mr. Trump sees.
The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, in which thousands of Union and Confederacy infantrymen were killed during several days of fighting in July 1863. The battlefield is one of the most popular civil war sites in the United States, and is operated through the National Park Service.
By opting for Gettysburg or the White House for a crusade speech, Trump would face scrutiny of his use of government assets for political purposes, a possible violation of the Hatch Act. The law prohibits federal workers from engaging in political activities while they work. While the president and vice president are exempt from the restrictions of the law, other federal workers, adding the White House, are not.
An acceptance speech on government property would be the first time Trump’s management has been accused of violating the Hatch Act. Last year, the U.S. Office of Special Defenders released a report recommending that Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump’s most sensible aides, be dismissed for breaking the law.
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President Trump was expelled from the White House meeting room amid prayer during a televised news convention Monday after what would have been a shooting not far from the executive mansion.
A Secret Service agent approached the president as he talked about the coronavirus and the economy and told him he had to resign. Trump and his aides left the room without an immediate explanation.
The president returned a few minutes later to announce that there had been a shooting off the field.
“There was a shooting,” Trump said. “The police, ” shot someone, gave the impression of being the suspect and the suspect is now heading to the hospital. He said he did not know the condition of the user who had been shot. No one else was injured. He said.
Trump said he had not been affected by the incident. “Do I look moved? He said.” It’s bad luck that this is global, but the global has been a damaging place. It’s nothing unique. »
The President then held his press conference to discuss the economic situation.
Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an emerging star in the democratic wing of the Democratic Party, will give a brief speech at the Democratic National Convention next week, according to three others with direct wisdom in planning.
The inclusion of Ocasio-Cortez, who supported Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, is emblematic of the party’s broader effort to unite the left wing of the party behind Joseph R. Biden Jr., a candidate with whom many progressives lined up too much. with lobbyists and Wall Street.
It is known when Mrs Ocasio-Cortez will speak. Sanders, who is expected to deliver a speech in the primaries on the first night of the necessarily virtual convention, will play a much more important role, party officials said.
Ocasio-Cortez, who supported Biden after Sanders withdrew from the war, complained this year that the Democratic Party had a “too big tent” to tie moderates to the Democratic Socialists as if it were.
In January, when asked through a journalist how he would react if Biden won the Democratic nomination, Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic queen in her first term, complained.
“In any other country, Joe Biden and I would be in the same party, but in America we are,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Hillary Clinton will deliver a prime-time address next Wednesday for the Democratic National Convention, a component of the initial speaker list for the most commonly truncated four-night event, 3 Democratic officials familiar with the program said Monday.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the alleged presidential candidate, said he would not go to Milwaukee, where the conference is officially held but has been reduced to a few hundred attendees. It will communicate on Delaware on Thursday, the last night of the conference, in a form and manner that has not yet been announced.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will sign up for Clinton, the 2016 nominee, on Wednesday night’s show if she doesn’t decide as Biden’s running mate, authorities said. Former President Bill Clinton will also speak, one of the officials said.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Governor John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican who harshly criticizes President Trump, will deliver speeches Monday night, he said.
Former President Barack Obama’s schedule has not been announced (or disclosed), however, it can be included in a Wednesday night crowded program, or introduce Mr. Biden on Thursday, to provide a nationally televised interpretation of the speech of I-I-know that he gave at Biden’s round tables and fundraising events online.
It’s not transparent when Michelle Obama, who uttered the widespread idea as the most productive speech at the 2012 convention, will speak. But planners said in person that they believe their coping can attract the wider audience outside Biden’s doors.
Ms. Obama has spent much of her time in recent days talking about her speech at her family’s mansion at Martha’s Vineyard, and told her friends that she considers her her her main contribution to the 2020 race, according to two other people who know her. Planning.
The big names will be complemented by “electorates of all kinds” testimony: delegates, parents, teachers, small business owners, workers, activists and elected leaders,” from “1,000 participatory videos,” officials of the convention’s organizing committee announced. Monday.
The “Big Three” broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – plan to broadcast one hour of the conference live at night starting at 10 p.m. 11 p.m. It is, according to network officials. Cable channels like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC will cover all night debates.
An organization of more than a hundred prominent black men, including radio host Charlamagne Tha God, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump, political commentator Van Jones, music maker Sean Combs and the N.B.A. Star Chris Paul – made a pointy final argument Monday urging the so-called Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., to a black woman as a running mate.
“Not deciding on a black woman in 2020 means YOU will lose the election,” the organization wrote in a letter to Mr. Biden who signed through more than a hundred black male leaders.
The letter offered a grim view of Biden’s own candidacy.
“We don’t need to be among the lesser of two evils, we don’t need to vote for the Satan we know against the Satan we don’t need because we’re tired of voting for the demon period,” the letter says. “Vice President Biden: don’t take that risk. Black women describe the long term of politics, so it’s time for you to let one outline the long term of your campaign.”
Biden apologized after a May interview with Charlamagne, host of “The Breakfast Club,” a morning exhibition broadcast nationally popular with millennial blacks, where he said the black electorate that was torn between voting for him and President Trump “is black.”
Mr. Crump, one of the country’s most prominent civil rights lawyers, has represented the families of the victims in some of the most notorious killings of African-Americans in recent years. They included the families of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin.
Traditionally, there are 3 crucial moments for presidential challengers: the variety of a vice presidential candidate, the conference, and the debates.
Of course, this is a classic campaign.
But with the pandemic turning balloon and banner extravagance conventions into online events, and President Trump’s demands for more debates and express moderators, Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s announcement this week of his running mate may be as close to what the crusade returns. Normal.
Biden’s advisers say he has spoken to several of the top applicants in recent days, and showed that he met as a user on August 2 with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. We do not know how many face-to-face interviews Mr Biden has conducted with potential roommates. A small number of women are still seriously considered.
The deployment of Biden’s vice presidency will not look much further than the revelations. With him and his crusade strictly adhering to social estrangement directives, the former vice-president is expected to appear publicly with his running mate until the end of the week, but not in front of the same old crowd of acclaimed supporters.
For a candidate who leads but does not enjoy a wave of enthusiasm, it means an occasion that looks a lot like his appearances since he claimed the nomination: conscientiously staged, produced for television and online consumption, and decaffeinated.
Democrats, of course, will accept it, who prefer a guided and leading Biden in those sober times to the alternative. But the vice president’s revelation is just a test for next week. That’s when the party will have to recreate a total conference for 4 nights during prime time with no live audience, not to mention balloons or banners.
President Trump entered the heated debate about the cancellation of the school football season on Monday after reports revealed that the Big Ten Conference, one of the nation’s largest leagues, was debating the cancellation of its games this fall.
“Play school football!” Trump tweeted, about an hour after writing that student-athletes were “working too hard for his season to be canceled.”
Trump’s tweets came amid reports that the Big Ten Conference was contemplating ending its fall football season due to coronavirus issues. That put him in the middle of a debate that already included several high-level Republicans, and was added to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who introduced the concept of Midwest player poaching to his state’s school lists.
The presidents of the 14 Big Ten universities have met in recent days to discuss the season, but a convention official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personal deliberations, said “no vote has yet been voted on.”
Once a convention largely in the Midwest, the Big Ten club’s expansion now runs through critical states for Trump’s re-election hopes: from Rutgers and Penn State in the east to Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. But he wasn’t the only one pushing school football to play.
Congressman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, wrote on Twitter, “America wants school football,” moments after Detroit Free Press announced that a resolution had been made to cancel the season. Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican and former president of a small personal school, wrote an open letter to the leaders of the Big Ten on Monday.
“Here’s the reality: many of you think football is safer than any football, but you also know that you’ll be blamed if there’s football, when you can blame it if you cancel football,” he wrote. “This is a moment of leadership. These young men want a season. Please don’t cancel school football.”
DeSantis, a best friend of Trump’s, worked harder to tell Fox Sports Radio that the meetings that come with the University of Florida and Florida State University not only play the season, but also benefit from any possible cancellations through Big Ten.
“What they deserve to be doing is touching all the athletes of the Big Ten and saying, “Hey, we’re playing,” he said. “At the end of the day, I think I’ll see if there are parts of the country that may not allow opportunities in other regions.”
President Trump is considering new immigration regulations that would allow border officials to temporarily block a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident from returning to the U.S. From abroad if the government has an explanation as to why the user would possibly become inflamed with the coronavirus.
In recent months, Trump has imposed radical regulations banning foreigners from entering the United States, posing the threat of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad. But those regulations have exempted two categories from other people seeking to return: U.S. citizens and foreigners who have already established their legal residency.
Now, 3 months before Election Day, the administration proposes a draft regulation that would extend the government’s strength to prevent access by citizens and legal citizens in individual and limited circumstances. Federal agencies have been asked to send comments on the proposal to the White House until Tuesday, it is unclear when the new rule will be approved or announced.
While Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to announce his vice president selection in the coming days, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has joined the group of top contenders for the final stretch, a change that has thrilled some Democrats in the state that is still gone. others worried how They would go and Michigan without it.
During the pandemic, Whitmer became a common guest on cable and network news systems and a vocal critic of President Trump’s reaction to the crisis. In part, a dozen polls since the virus closed in Michigan in March, she has consistently won the highest approval ratings, ranging from 57% to 63%, for Trump, whose ratings in Michigan have stagnated in her 40s.
Still, many Michigan Democrats do not need Ms. Whitmer to leave the state while she is still dealing with the epidemic, which has affected Michigan in particular, with more than 96,000 cases and 6,500 deaths on Monday. And it devastated the state economy, pushing the unemployment rate to 14.8%, one of the highest in the country, in June, according to the latest data.
And while Michigan is among the first states to be seriously affected by the virus, it has also noticed a recent increase in cases, leading Whitmer last month to reinstate restrictions on public meetings and some companies, and to require all citizens to wear masks. indoors and in crowded outdoor spaces.
These movements provoked a backlash against the governor, adding several impeachment campaigns, but it also led some of his supporters to wonder if the state could lose him at such a critical time.
“Talking to some of my friends who paint in the field of infectious diseases, they think she’s done a job, like me,” said Julie Campbell-Bode, a Democratic activist from Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit. “Selfishly, we want her here. He’s got a lot of time to climb those mountains, and I’m sure he will.”
President Trump, who seeks to block a subpoena for his tax returns, plans to seek a federal ruling ordering Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., to reveal the main points of his investigation into the president’s business practices, according to a letter filed. Monday.
The letter, which Trump’s lawyers wrote to the Manhattan federal judge, in reaction to a record of prosecutors in Vance’s office, argued last week that they had a broad legal basis to allocate 8 years of the president’s tax records and other monetary documents.
The office suggested it was investigating the president and his company for possible bank and insurance fraud, a significantly broader inquiry than prosecutors had acknowledged in the past.
In his letter, Trump’s lawyers asked for a hearing to discuss whether Vance’s workplace would be forced to reveal the justifications for the subpoena. The president’s lawyers, who called the subpoena “too broad” and the politically motivated investigation, said prosecutors must demonstrate that each and every detail requested in the subpoena is applicable to their investigation and are within their jurisdiction.
Attorney General William P. Barr, embracing dual roles of partisan warrior and the nation’s top law enforcement official, on Sunday described demonstrators against police brutality as “fascistic” standard-bearers of a Democratic Party veering dangerously to the left.
Mr. Barr, who was present when federal officers tear-gassed peaceful demonstrators near the White House in June, vowed to use the Justice Department to combat what he called “urban guerrilla warfare” waged by protesters in Portland, Ore., and other cities, during an interview with the right-wing radio personality Mark Levin.
“It’s a revolutionary organization that is interested in a secure form of socialism, communism. They’re necessarily Bolsheviks. They are fascists,” Barr said, when asked through Levin about black Lives Matter protesters and protesters, whom Mr. Levin described him as “antifa.”
Mr. Barr has been a fierce defender of President Trump throughout his tenure. But his comments to Mr. Levin were among his most pointed verbal attacks to date, blurring the distinction between mainstream Democratic leaders — who have expressed support for peaceful protest — and the violent minority of demonstrators in Oregon and elsewhere.
Mr. Trump has seized on scenes of national unrest to build a law-and-order message for his re-election campaign, and on Monday he again called for the National Guard to be sent to Portland. But the Trump administration’s decision to dispatch militarized federal agents to the city last month drew criticism from state and city officials, who said the agents exceeded their authority and harmed peaceful protesters.
Biden said last month that the deployment of federal agents on an already volatile scenario showed that Trump “was determined to sow chaos and division.” To make things worse rather than better. »
Barr described the protests On Sunday, which erupted after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as a long-term strategy to defeat Trump.
“They were looking to accuse him from day one,” he said. “It’s the thirst for power. And they didn’t expect Trump to win. And that shocks them.
Alex Morse, the Democratic mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, who will overthrow house media and arbitration committee chairman Richard E. Neal, remains in the race despite allegations that he abused his coaching position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for having sex. with students.
Morse, 31, admitted on a Sunday that he had engaged in “consensual relationships with other men, adding academics enrolled in local universities whom I met through dating apps,” but denied doing anything misplaced or unethical.
“While I am convinced that an exhaustive investigation into these topics will absolutely erase my call from any unethical conduct, I also recognize that some academics have been uncomfortable with the interactions they have had with me,” he wrote. “I’m sorry. This is unacceptable behavior for institutional power.”
Morse, whose candidacy has been subsidized through progressive teams such as Justice Democrats, faces Neal at number one on September 1.
His comes after the school’s student newspaper, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, reported that the university was investigating allegations made in a letter from the Massachusetts Democratic College that Morse had abused his position of force for romantic or sexual purposes. “
Morse was hired as a professor of political science in 2014 and last taught as an adjunct professor at an urban policy course last fall. Lately he hasn’t been hired at the school, college officials said.
The accusations pose a major challenge for a guy widely regarded as an emerging star in local democratic politics. Morse was elected mayor of Holyoke, a city of 40,000 near Springfield, nine years ago at the age of 22, which fit the first braishly gay mayor and the youngest in the city.
Reporting through Peter Baker, Alexander Burns, Jessica Bennett, Shane Goldmacher, Michael M. Grynbaum, Nicole Hong, Thomas Kaplan, Kate Kelly, Jonathan Martin, David McCabe, William K.Rashbaum, Ben Smith, Glenn Thrush, Marc Tracy, Neil Vigdor, Kenneth P. Vogel and Benjamin Weiser.
Vice President Mike Pence and other Republicans at the R.N.C. on Wednesday portrayed Democrats as tolerant of violence and riots. And they continued to try to soften President Trump’s image.
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