Новости за 31.08.2020

Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden on Monday castigated President Donald Trump as a “weak” and morally deficient leader who has sown chaos and fomented the violence that has recently gripped US cities. “This president long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country. He can’t stop the violence — because for years he has […]

Online videos appear to show teenage gunman Kyle Rittenhouse punching a young woman during a dispute. Multiple videos shared on social media show the 17-year-old Rittenhouse, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide charges, involved in July 1 altercation in downtown Kenosha, where he killed a pair of protesters last week, reported […]

Nearly a year before the novel coronavirus emerged, Dr. Leonardo Trasande published “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer,” a book about connections between environmental pollutants and many of the most common chronic illnesses. The book describes decades of scientific research showing how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, present in our daily lives and now found in nearly all people, interfere with […]

Two evangelical Christians from Georgia who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 now say that he has lost their support — although they so far are not committed to backing Democratic rival Joe Biden. In an editorial published in The Hill, Georgia voters Ryan and Katharine Hurlburt have written a scathing denunciation of the president, […]

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn lost another attempt to have his case dismissed after the case had already been decided by a judge. It was just months ago that the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Bill Barr, attempted to drop the charges against Flynn for lying under oath to the FBI. The decision was […]

An official in Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration has been fired after he posted praise on social media for Kenosha shooter and alleged murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. The Baltimore Sun reports that Arthur “Mac” Love IV, who served as deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives since 2015, was dismissed after posted memes […]

Writing in the Washington Post this Monday, Phillip Bump says that it’s becoming increasingly clear that a considerable portion of President Trump’s reelection strategy is to shrug off the coronavirus pandemic. According to Bump, one indicator of this strategy manifested itself in a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta to a White House official over the […]

When it came to the polls in the 2016 election, they actually proved to be remarkably on-point nationally. Hillary Clinton did win by more than 3 million votes, but the state polls didn’t quite capture how close things were in states like Michigan. So, as the election nears in 2020, can the polls be trusted […]

Members of the U.S. Military historically have been a reliable Republican voting bloc. But not this year. A new poll finds the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is not only underwater in favorability with military service members, but many more are voting for former Vice President Joe Biden than for their Commander-in-Chief. Half […]

An off-duty Massachusetts police officer’s friends trashed a Chinese restaurant after they were asked to wear face masks. The Quincy police officer and three companions appeared to be intoxicated when they arrived just after midnight Wednesday at Ming Dynasty in Marshville, restaurant owner Lei Yan told WHDH-TV. “When they came in, they looked very drunk,” […]

The week of the Republican convention brought a rage-fest of anger, whether it’s wrapped “in pretty colors” or not, explained Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. In his recent column, the commentator summed up the Republican Convention as an attempt to reassure voters that their leadership is calm and steady, but at the center is still […]

In a deep dive into the obstacles faced in the November election by both President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, a former senior White House official who has watched how the president works behind the scenes warned there is little Trump won’t do to remain in office. According to the Associated Press […]

While campaigning for President Donald Trump on Monday, a Pennsylvania sheriff argued that protests against police violence are “ruining America.” Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe made the remarks on behalf of the Trump campaign during a conference call with reporters. “Let’s be clear, the people that are protesting now are not Trump supporters — they […]

Attorney Benjamin Crump on Monday said that his office had received “no calls” from President Donald Trump’s staff shortly after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany continued to insist that the administration was “efforting outreach” to Jacob Blake’s family. During an interview on MSNBC, host Hallie Jackson asked Crump if he had been contacted prior […]

A white  South Carolina police officer has been suspended after he was caught on video using a racial slur. Columbia police Sgt. Chad Walker and several other officers were called to a bar allegedly violating the governor’s order limiting the sale of alcohol as part of coronavirus restrictions, and a Black patron there called Walker […]

A month after Herman Cain died from coronavirus, his Twitter account is pushing coronavirus misinformation. As The Week points out, Cain’s Twitter account tweeted, then deleted, a post that linked to an article that suggests most coronavirus patients die from an underlying condition other than the virus. The tweet included the caption, “It looks like […]

French prosecutors on Monday opened a probe into allegations of racism after a right-wing magazine published images depicting a black woman MP as a slave, prompting a nationwide outcry. The Valeurs Actuelles weekly unleased a storm of controversy with the publication of the images of left-wing MP Daniele Obono with a chain fixed to an […]

On Sunday, one of the more than 90 tweets President Donald Trump posted or reposted was a video of a Black man pushing a white woman on a New York City subway platform into the side of a train. It is a graphic and disturbing clip, and it is not the first time Trump has […]

In Maine, Jane Calderwood has a long history of supporting moderate Republicans: she served as chief of staff to former Sen. Olympia Snowe and later endorsed Sen. Susan Collins, who is fighting a tough battle for reelection and has trailed her Democratic opponent, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, in recent polls. But Calderwood, in an […]

One of the bigger differences in polling between the 2016 and 2020 elections is that fewer voters appear to be supporting third-party candidates in either the Green Party or the Libertarian Party. And as recent polling from NBC News indicates, voters who supported third-party candidates such as Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party […]

On Monday, writing for The Bulwark, former Republican National Committee spokesman and Jeb Bush adviser Tim Miller excoriated the GOP for trying to claim the urban riots happening under President Donald Trump are in fact indicative of “Joe Biden’s America.” Biden, Miller pointed out, has consistently released statements condemning all acts of violence, while Trump […]

According to an excerpt from an upcoming book on the growing influence of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman reveals how the heir to the throne spent millions of dollars wooing Donald Trump to gain preferential treatment after gaining access through the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In the book, Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest […]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday admitted that President Donald Trump had not spoken to the family of Jacob Blake just hours before he was scheduled to be in Kenosha, Wisconsin. During an interview on Fox & Friends, McEnany criticized Democratic nominee Joe Biden for postponing his trip to Kenosha, where the police […]

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has repeatedly accepted donations from a notorious neo-Nazi. The Trump campaign has accepted at least $2,000 from Morris Gulett, the head of an Aryan Nations outpost in Louisiana, in 29 separate donations dating back to December 2017, reported Popular Information. The most recent contribution from Gulett, the leader of the […]

President Trump was having a normal one on Sunday morning, tweeting and retweeting 89 times over the course of three and a half hours. Many of them were tweets of polling numbers from obscure firms showing him in the lead after the Republican convention. But most of the tweets and retweets were incitement to violence among his true […]