Новости за 21.07.2020

A protester was arrested at a pro-police rally in Washington state on Friday after he jokingly taunted police with a donut hanging from a stick by a string, the Everett Herald reports. “Around 8:20 p.m. on Friday, the man approached a group that included sheriff’s deputies and marshals assigned to patrol the courthouse campus, one […]

President Donald Trump’s move to send federal agents into American cities violate a number of laws, according to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. But it’s Trump’s former Homeland Security official who is now coming out against the move. NBC News reported Tuesday afternoon that a former DHS official attacked the invasion of Portland, Oregon, Chicago, […]

Appearing on CNN this Tuesday, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh argued in favor of the drug hydroxychloroquine as means to fight against coronavirus, accusing network host Brianna Keilar of “cherry-picking” details from studies that he claims proved the drug is safe. According to Murtaugh, the “entirety of the media” dismissed the drug simply because President […]

According to campaign finance reports, it appears President Donald Trump’s campaign spent a small fortune for his failed Tulsa, Oklahoma rally in June. The New York Times calculated the totals, which came out to $2.2 million, to garner about 6,200 people to attend his rally and the “overflow” rally which was ultimately canceled. That adds […]

The right-wing is up in arms after lying about a reporter’s comments during the Tuesday press briefing. In a discussion about voting by mail, Kayleigh McEnany was asked additional questions about the Chinese vaccine to coronavirus by Al Jazeera English journalist Kimberly Halkett, which was ignored. “OK, you don’t want to engage,” Halkett said. Right-wing […]

The Wall Street Journal is coming under fire after Vice President Mike Pence was allowed to post an editorial in the paper saying that there isn’t a second wave of the coronavirus. The paper reported that Wall Street Journal reporters and staffers at the Dow Jones signed a letter demanding the opinion section still have […]

When supporters of President Donald Trump see him trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in poll after poll, one of the things they say to console themselves is: yes, but Trump voters still have very high enthusiasm — much more than all the Democratic voters who aren’t crazy about having Biden as a nominee. But Fox […]

Facebook placed an informational disclaimer Tuesday on a post from President Donald Trump claiming mail-in voting would lead to a “corrupt” election. The move, without removing the post, appears to follow through on the social network giant’s pledge to step up efforts to fight misinformation, including from world leaders, shifting slightly from its hands-off policy […]

President Donald Trump will resume regular televised coronavirus briefings Tuesday in a possibly fraught bid to restore his standing with US voters who accuse him of badly fumbling the pandemic response. Early in the crisis that has now left more than 140,000 people dead in the United States and triggered mass unemployment, Trump appeared almost […]

Video shows a black shopper in a Pennsylvania Walmart being hogtied and tased by police reportedly after he bought a bicycle for his son, TooFab.com reports. The man, identified as Stanley, can be seen in the footage being tackled to the ground by cops inside the store, despite pointing out to them that he had […]

The conservatives at the Never-Trumper Lincoln Project took a big jab at the president on Tuesday with a new ad that makes fun of the president’s interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace — turning it into a comedy complete with a laugh track. In the minute and a half commercial, Wallace’s questions are matched […]

Former FBI director James Comey recoiled from images of federal agents operating in unmarked uniforms against protesters in Portland — and warned the crackdown won’t stop there. Comey conceded that he’s not sure the federal forces are operating unlawfully, but he said in a new Washington Post column that the operation was a dreadful error […]

A Trump campaign event in Maine was canceled Tuesday after the owner said he was lied to by the campaign about the scope of the event. Brad and Nancy Nadeau, the owners of Stars and Stripes Brewing, told the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday that they were alerted to the facts from a campaign news […]

According to a report from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, a sudden spike in COVID-19 infections in the state has local authorities placing the blame on seven different churches as hot spots. The report notes that earlier this summer the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources pinned infection outbreaks in Ohio, Marshall, Hampshire, Marion […]

Sean L. Anderson led police “from four agencies” in a chase on Highway 12 near Kamiah, Idaho over the weekend before it ended in a shootout. The Lewiston Tribune reported Tuesday that Anderson was rushed to the hospital after being injured in the shootout. But this isn’t the first time he’s faced off against the […]

A fight broke out in a California burger joint between the son of the restaurant’s owners and a man who allegedly hurled racial slurs after he was told to wait for his food outside, ABC10 reports. The incident was caught on surveillance video, and it shows the man throw a drink at Stephen Tran who is […]

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is taking his feud with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) into the public spotlight. Hours after Gaetz and other hardline conservative Republicans reportedly clashed with Cheney over her insufficient loyalty to President Donald Trump, the Florida congressman took to Twitter to demand Cheney’s resignation as the House Republican Conference Chair. “Liz Cheney […]

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany revealed to reporters on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is now being tested for coronavirus “multiple times a day.” She made her remarks defending the president for not wearing a mask Monday evening at a fundraiser just hours after he did an about face, tweeting a photo of himself […]

A woman who refused to wear a mask in a Panera in Chico, California this week complained that masks can’t possibly be effective in slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus because pants are not able to contain gas that is passed due to flatulence. In the video, the woman can be seen waiting in […]

“Lincoln Project” co-founder, and former Republican, Rick Wilson, penned a Miami Herald column attacking President Donald Trump for bringing the United States to the brink of a “breaking point” by “mismanagement” of every crisis he has faced. “Does Trump’s America feel great to you?” he asked, harkening back to Trump’s infamous slogan “Make America Great […]

President Donald Trump has been bragging about passing a simple cognitive test — and that should be cause for alarm, according to a columnist who recently took the same exam. The president had been boasting about his results before Fox News anchor Chris Wallace challenged his claims, and Guardian columnist Max Benwell found Trump’s claims […]

A meeting between House Republicans on Tuesday reportedly got “heated” after several hardline conservatives went after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her occasional criticisms of President Donald Trump. Sources tell Politico reporter Melanie Zanona that Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Chip Roy (R-TX), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) […]

President Donald Trump invaded Portland, Oregon over the weekend, despite protests in the city “dying down,” according to the governor and mayor. It was a move that the mayor said made things “worse.” Now Trump is sending troops into Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois. Trump’s use of secret federal agents against protestors in […]

According to a report from the Daily Beast’s Lachlan Markay, conservative gadfly Matt Schlapp’s lobbying firm has suddenly become a vendor for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign just as a Twitter campaign about his comments on Black Lives Matter protesters cost him corporate clients. Schlapp who also runs CPAC — and whose wife Mercedes works for […]

A Mississippi county meeting on Confederate monuments spiraled into chaos after a woman defended slavery and slave owners. Lee County supervisors hosted a public meeting Monday on the removal of a Confederate monument outside the courthouse, but the event fell apart after local resident Patty Young was given approval to defend the statue erected in […]