On Sunday, White House Task Force member Admiral Brett Giroir admitted that the administrations Covid-19 screening turn-around was still too slow and that more needed to be done as Trump chief of personnel Mark Meadows put his faith in “American ingenuity” to lead the nation out of the pandemic.
While the president was enjoying himself, the years first hurricane from the Atlantic– Hurricane Hanna– made landfall in southern Texas, the US passed 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus for the ffifth straight day and Black Lives Matter demonstrations saw tense standoffs between demonstrators and federal agents in cities from Portland and Seattle in Oregon to Oakland, California.
Donald Trump invested his Saturday golfing at his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, in the company of scandal-hit ex-NFL quarterback Brett Favre before toasting rich prospective donors at a night charity event for his re-election campaign, requiring to Twitter to boast about his exploits on Sunday.
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2020-07-26T16:52:03.726 Z.
Body of civil liberties leader John Lewis carried across Selma bridge on his last journeyMore than 50 years after police attacked demonstrators marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in a turning point for voting rights, the body of John Lewis– a giant of the civil liberties movement and a 30-year member of Congress– has crossed the bridge a final time..
2020-07-26T16:10:00.000 Z.
Millions of Americans to get another $1,200, Trump assistant Larry Kudlow vowsThe presidents top financial consultant made this guarantee to Jake Tapper on CNN earlier as the nation continues to face the daunting monetary truths of more regional lockdowns.
Heres Griffin Connollys report..
2020-07-26T15:50:00.000 Z.
One protester shot after vehicle drives through Black Lives Matter demonstrators in ColoradoMaya Oppenheim has the most current on a disturbing event at last nights protest in Aurora..
2020-07-26T15:30:00.000 Z.
Portland authorities declare riot after demonstrators break through court fenceHeres Alex Woodward with an upgrade on the Oregon city continuing to be the national epicentre for Black Lives Matter clashes..
2020-07-26T15:10:00.000 Z.
Biden vs Trump: The opinion polls with 100 days to goHeres the newest from our video team on how the cards at stacked ahead of Novembers big day..
2020-07-26T14:50:00.000 Z.
Trumps culture war is the wildcard 100 days from election despite plunging poll numbersHeres John T Bennetts reflections on the presidents re-election hopes with a century of days to go.
He argues the terrific unidentified is how Trumps Antifa fear-mongering and defence of Confederate statues will have fun with his base..
2020-07-26T14:30:00.000 Z.
On CBSs Face the Nation, FDA commissioner Scott Gottleib tells Margaret Brennan that federal coronavirus screening efforts have sped up – contradicting Admiral Giroir previously..
Nate Silver: A turn-around in the Covid circumstance could make the election more competitive.
Heres a bit more from the shows, with crystal ball reader extraordinaire Nate Silver informing Stephanopoulos not to count Trump out on the 100-day mark..
2020-07-26T14:10:00.000 Z.
… and dancing round the concern of the president contradicting an election loss with George Stephanopoulos.
White House Task Force member concedes Covid screening failures months into crisis.
Admiral Brett Giroir has actually been speaking to Jake Tapper on CNNs State of the Union today and confessing the turn-around for coronavirus tests is still too long..
Meadows also declines to provide a straight answer on Vladimir Putin, which is little surprise.
” Are you afraid to bring this up to President Trump since it will distress him?” Tapper asked Giroir at one point.
On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, ex-CDC director Dr Tom Friedan has this to use on the difficulty of reopening schools.
” Everyone of the administration understands the value of testing,” he answered. “Nobody in the job force is afraid to raise anything to the vice president or the president. Each time Ive met with the president, hes been listening to all the information, he evaluates that, he understands it. I meet the vice president practically each and every single day. No one is trying to stop testing in this country. Nobody has ever informed me to do that. We desire more, we want better, we desire quicker.”.
Trumps chief of staff Mark Meadows has also been out there on ABCs This Week, safeguarding the administrations reaction to coronavirus ….
2020-07-26T13:50:00.000 Z.
Elon Musk says he tried to encourage Kanye West to mean president in 2024.
The Tesla CEO has actually been speaking with The New York Times about his pal the rappers aborted quote for the White House..
Kate Ng has this on what he needed to state..
2020-07-26T13:30:00.000 Z.
Meidas Touch commemorates Black Lives Matter protesters Wall Against Trump This most current anti-Trump attack advertisement commemorates the brave Wall of Moms (and veterinarians and daddies) seen at authorities reform presentations in Oregon and throughout the nation.
2020-07-26T13:10:00.000 Z.
… and disingenuously assaulting Nancy Pelosi over her opposition to his China travel ban.
Good luck with that champ. You do you.
Hes also been celebrating over his golf game, overlooking all possible existing crises …
Trump audaciously attacks Joe Bidens understanding of geography and beams over golf game, disregarding trio of crises.
If I were this president, I d guide well clear of attacking Biden on these grounds. “S *** hole countries”?
His most current is this, defying the nationwide polls to insist he motivates more “ENTHUSIASM” than Biden.
2020-07-26T12:50:00.000 Z.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus states pathetic Trump is even worse president than Veeps Selina MeyerHeres Isobel Lewis on the comedy legends withering assessment of the president and how inadequately he stacks up versus her character from the inspired Armando Iannucci political satire..
2020-07-26T12:30:00.000 Z.
Trump is running versus the spectre of coronavirus– and his media manipulation abilities may not save him For Indy Voices, Patrick Cockburn argues the real risk to the presidents re-election prospects in November is his own lamentable record, not the obstacle represented by Joe Biden..
2020-07-26T12:10:00.000 Z.
The absence of a traditional convention is a larger loss to Trump than Biden For Indy Premium, Chris Stevenson describes why the president was so hesitant to scrap his formal crowning as the Republican Party candidate in Jacksonville, Florida..
2020-07-26T11:50:00.000 Z.
Heres a little background.
Minnesota couple sport swastika face masks in Walmart.
Oh look, an even worse set than the St Louis Bonnie and Clyde..
2020-07-26T11:30:00.000 Z.
Today marks 100 days to election and 5 months considering that Trump promised zero coronavirus cases.
This Democratic Coalition reminder of how far the US has actually come given that this dismissive statement from the president on the hazard presented by Covid-19 is as sobering as they come..
2020-07-26T11:10:00.000 Z.
Ted Yoho resigns from board of Christian group in wake of AOC fight.
The Florida GOP congressman who accosted New York progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Capitol actions earlier this week and presumably called her a “f *** ing b *** h” has been forced to resign from the bipartisan charity Bread for the World over his behaviour..
Kate Ng gets the story..
2020-07-26T10:50:00.000 Z.
Ted Cruz states Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts has deserted his oath over Nevada church decision.
The outspoken Texas GOP senator – a one-time Trump enemy turned apologist – has lashed out at the countrys leading judge as part of his mad-eyed push for reopening, despite the worrying renewal of the coronavirus..
Justice Roberts cast the choosing vote to side with his liberal associates on Friday to form the 5-4 decision in favour of blocking the Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley in Reno from relieving participation constraints at its Sunday services..
Cruz does highlight the disparity in between Nevada making life much easier for its casinos than its churches however reaches the wrong conclusion: both must certainly stay shut in a state that has 42,000 cases and some 733 deaths..
2020-07-26T10:30:00.000 Z.
Dr Fauci has actually recently exposed that he and his family have actually received death risks after the Trump administration and the American right-wing media ecosystem turned against his unflinching refusal to keep problem as the national crisis deepens.
Right-wing broadcaster pull back from airing conspiracy film Plandemic assaulting Anthony FauciPro-Trump Sinclair Broadcasting Group appear to have actually gotten cold feet about their strategy to show a controversial movie attacking the nations leading infectious diseases expert and accusing him of conspiring to mastermind the coronavirus to ward off The Donalds presidency..
The video has been banned from Facebook and YouTube however was set to be aired as part of America This Week, hosted by Eric Bolling, who was likewise set to talk to medical researcher Judy Mikovits, featured in Plandemic.
” I recognize that this segment does need to be revamped to offer better context, and as such we are delaying the airing of the episode for one week,” Bolling now says in a tweeted declaration..
2020-07-26T10:10:00.000 Z.
New Trumpworld fan art portrays dead presidents wishing The Donald.
If youre not familiar with the MAGA painter Jon McNaughton – basically the bizarro universe Bob Ross – the internet is a minefield of his deranged Trump homage paintings, depicting the orange one as a biker hero and scourge of the swamp..
His latest, entitled “Legacy of Hope”, features the ghosts of dead presidents and civil rights heroes sharing a prayer with Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House..
Im uncertain George Washington, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass are likely substitutes for Diamond and Silk however whatever..
And is that Andrew Breitbart on the far left? If so, it would be a very first for him..
“Nobody in the task force is afraid to bring up anything to the vice president or the president. Every time Ive satisfied with the president, hes been listening to all the data, he examines that, he comprehends it. I fulfill with the vice president nearly every single day. No one is trying to stop screening in this country. If I were this president, I d steer well clear of assaulting Biden on these grounds.
