7/27/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 27, 2020

Donald Trump greets supporters in Bedminster WITHOUT a mask - but stands six feet away and tosses them 'Keep America Great' hats
President Donald Trump stopped to say hello to about 50 supporters Sunday who had gathered at an intersection several miles from his New Jersey golf club
The president did not wear a mask, but kept his distance from the crowd, tossing 'Keep America Great' hats at his fans.
He could be heard telling the group 'thank you' before hopping back in his SUV and heading back to his Bedminster resort.
Earlier in the weekend he golfed with NFL great Brett Favre, tweeting Sunday, 'A good golfer - hits it LONG!'
Trump was also the 'special guest' at an event put on by America First Action, but press wasn't allowed in.
July 26 - President Donald Trump stopped to say hello to about 50 supporters Sunday who had gathered at an intersection in Bedminster, New Jersey several miles down the road from his private golf club where he's spent the weekend.

  
Trump - who was not wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus - got out of his black SUV and was handed a stack of 'Keep America Great' baseball hats to toss into the crowd.
 
The president stayed about six feet away from the group and could be heard telling them 'thank you.' ...     more
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7/26/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 26, 2020


Portland police declare ‘unlawful assembly’ as protesters continue to clash with federal agents
By Kiran Moodley

July 25 -There’s been another night of unrest in the US state of Oregon as thousands of protesters took to the streets again in support of racial justice.


Officers dressed in camouflage fired tear gas and flash grenades to disperse crowds outside the federal court building overnight after declaring it an ‘unlawful assembly’.     Video

July 25, 2020
Joe Biden Leading Donald Trump In Latest Pennsylvania Polls

July 25 - Three right-leaning polls released in recent days show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading President Trump in battleground state Pennsylvania. 
Biden Calls Trump First Racist President In U.S. After Immigrant Details Racial Profiling Story
Jul 23, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden called President Trump the first racist president in U.S. history. The comments came during a town hall where Suk Kim, a South Korean immigrant detailed a story about being racially profiled and expressed concern over Trump’s rhetoric about the coronavirus.
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7/25/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 25, 2020

US officials seize control of Chinese Consulate in Houston
July 24 - Officials believed to be with the U.S. State Department kicked open a door leading into the Chinese Consulate in Houston.
A van loaded with federal agents pried open the backdoor to the consulate after failing to gain entry through three different doorways a little over an hour after officials with the Chinese government left the complex Friday afternoon.
It was a busy day at the consulate as anti-communist protesters heckled a group of workers who emptied the contents of the consulate building into a moving van before leaving.
China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close | DW News
Jul 24, 2020
China has ordered the United States to close one of its consulates in a tit-for-tat move. The foreign ministry has given US officials 72 hours to leave the consulate in the south western city of Chengdu. It comes after Washington told Beijing to shut its diplomatic mission in Houston, Texas, earlier this week. On Tuesday, the US accused two Chinese nationals of attempting to steal Covid-19 vaccine research. Relations between the powers are at their lowest in 40 years. The Chinese foreign ministry defended its move saying it was a legitimate response to a provocation by the US.
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7/24/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 24, 2020

Trump has dug himself into a deeper hole in Florida, highlighting how far he's slipped among seniors
 A new Quinnipiac University poll has President Donald Trump down 13 points to former Vice President Joe Biden in Florida.

July 24 - President Donald Trump, officially a Florida man, is slipping in his new home state to former Vice President Joe Biden.

A new Quinnipiac University poll spells trouble for the president's reelection prospects, even factoring in Quinnipiac's tendency to over-sample Democrats in the recent past (FiveThirtyEight gives them a +0.2% mean-reverted bias for Democrats and a B+ rating).


The Thursday poll shows Biden leading Trump by 13 points in the Sunshine State, up 4 points from April.
—Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 23, 2020

Trump getting only 38% of the vote in Florida come Nov. 3 would be a shock and remains an unlikely prospect given the GOP's power in the state populated by wealthier retirees and a strong base of Republican voters in the Cuban-American diaspora.
Even so, the underlying trend is bad for Trump.
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7/23/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 23, 2020

Russia Says 'We Will Do What We Want' If U.S. Moves Troops Closer to Border

July 22 - Russia has warned it would retaliate if the U.S. military conducts movements along Russia's borders with member states of the NATO Western defense coalition as speculation mounts about whether President Donald Trump's partial withdrawal from Germany could lead to a heightened military presence in neighboring Poland.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the state-run Tass Russian News Agency that "of course, we closely analyze all this, including from the standpoint of military planning," after he was asked what Moscow's possible response to nearby NATO activities would be. "If any reinforcement would be deemed necessary, then, of course, all necessary measures will be taken," he said.

Trump confirms $2.8bn vaccine deal for 'China plague'

July 23 - In a media briefing where Donald Trump called the coronavirus "the China plague" and likened himself to Abraham Lincoln, the president confirmed pharma giant Pfizer will deliver the US 100 million vaccine doses.

The $2.8 billion deal could see the US buy another 500 million doses, if safe and effective, in an agreement Mr Trump called "Operation Warp Speed".

"We think we have a winner there," Mr Trump said, calling Pfizer's December delivery a "crucial step" to stop the virus spreading further across the US...     more
https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-donald-trump-done-more-for-black-americans-abraham-lincoln-and-vaccine-to-fight-china-plague/ed29a5ac-75a7-4145-a978-7c7cb6cef068
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7/22/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 22, 2020


US coronavirus crisis to get worse before it gets better: Donald Trump
At his first formal White House virus briefing since the end of April, US President Donald Trump warned that the coronavirus crisis in the United States is likely to "get worse before it gets better."
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President Donald Trump conceded Tuesday that the worst of COVID-19 is yet to come as he held his first White House coronavirus briefing since April. 'It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better - something i don't like saying about things,' Trump said of the continuing global health crisis. :But that's the way it is, that's the way - that's what we have.' 'You look at the world, it's all over the world,' he said, deflecting from the severity of the pandemic in the U.S., adding viruses 'tend' to worsen before improving.

Donald Trump admits coronavirus 'will get worse before it will get better' as he tells people to wear a mask and stay out of bars - but says he should NOT be judged on handling of crisis

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7/21/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 21, 2020


...Nonpartisan experts and political strategists told CNN they are afraid that the Supreme Court might once again be called upon to decide the election. Election lawsuits in state and local courts could be appealed up to the Supreme Court, which has a 5-4 conservative majority.

These experts also said congressional Republicans will play an important role in influencing Trump's behavior after the election. Though that dynamic could quickly change if Republicans lose their Senate majority, which stands at 53-47 but is in serious danger of slipping away.

"Once we have confirmed results, should Biden win in a fair election, it'll be incredibly important for Republicans on Capitol Hill to accept those results and participate in the peaceful transition of power," said Amanda Carpenter, a CNN contributor who was a top adviser to Cruz and other conservative Republicans before turning on Trump and raising the alarm about his behavior...   source
'Things could get very ugly': Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November

July 20 - Washington (CNN)Voting experts and political strategists from across the political spectrum are increasingly alarmed about the potential for a disputed presidential election in November, one in which one candidate openly questions the legitimacy of the results or even refuses to concede.


These experts are keenly aware of President Donald Trump's well-documented history of lying about voter fraud and claiming that elections were "rigged" when he doesn't like the outcome. They also see a Democratic base that is still burned from 2016, when its nominee was dragged down in part by Russian meddling operation, won the popular vote, and lost to Trump.
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7/19/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 19, 2020


Kirill Dmitriev, 45, the manager of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, claims he and wife Natalia Popova have been given an experimental coronavirus vaccine
He says they now have double the anitbodies of a regular coronavirus patient
Vaccine is about to enter Phase III trial and could be ready by September, he said
Announcement came just hours after UK accused Russian hackers of targeting its researchers, fuelling speculation they stole sensitive data

July 18 - The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund has claimed that he and his figure skater wife have already been vaccinated against coronavirus using an 'experimental' shot developed in Moscow.

Kirill Dmitriev, 45-year-old manager of the $10billion Russian Direct Investment Fund, said that he, wife Natalia Popova and their family developed 'double the antibodies' of a typical patient after being injected.


The Kremlin is now preparing to enter Phase III trials of the vaccine and plans to start mass immunisation before the end of the year, he added, potentially making it the first country in the world to do so.
 
But his announcement came just house after the UK, US and Canada accused Russian hackers of targeting researchers at Oxford University, who are already in Phase III trials of their own vaccine.

That has fueled speculation that the hackers - from a group known as Cozy Bear which has links to the Russian state - managed to steal sensitive information and have used it to advance their own research...     more


Russia announces deal with AstraZeneca for U.K.-developed COVID-19 vaccine

July 18 - Russia on Friday unveiled a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University, a move its wealth fund head said showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data.
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7/18/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 18, 2020

China Sends Flanker Fighter Jets To South China Sea Amid Tensions

July 17 - As the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group sails into the South China Sea, evidence has emerged that China has deployed fighter jets to an airstrip on a disputed island there. Satellite imagery from July 15 shows at least four aircraft present. This move comes two days after U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo declared that “Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful.” It is also set against a large U.S.-led naval exercise and rising tensions across the region generally.

The planes are believed to be the Chinese-made J-11B variant of the famous Flanker aircraft. These are broadly equivalent to the F-15 Eagle used by the U.S. Air Force. China builds a range of versions of the Russian family of fighter aircraft, originally known as the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. While the exact variant is hard to discern from the satellite imagery, there is no doubt that these are Flankers.

The Flankers are on the airstrip at Woody Island in the Paracel Islands. Although de-facto occupied by China, it is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam, and is one of many islands in the area that are disputed. China beefed up the facilities in recent years and has deployed fighters and bombers there previously...     more

China Wants Ownership of the South China Sea. Here's Why That Can't Happen.
...Communist China defines itself in opposition to European and Japanese imperialism, a scourge CCP leaders decry for inflicting a “century of humiliation” on Asia’s leading power. Unsurprisingly, then, China’s embassy in Washington DC leapt to deny Pompeo’s accusation.

And indeed, the CCP is not seeking an empire in the South China Sea, strictly speaking. An empire exercises dominion over foreign territories from an imperial center. Beijing wants far more than a maritime empire. It covets ownership. It wants to make the South China Sea what Romans once called the Mediterranean Sea—namely mare liberum, or “our sea.”...     more
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7/17/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 17, 2020


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-mocked-after-failed-rally-showing-trucks-weighed-down-with-regulations-but-the-trucks-werent-actually-weighed-down/

Trump mocked after failed rally showing trucks weighed down with ‘regulations’ — but the trucks weren’t actually weighed down

July 17 - The failure by the White House to properly illustrate their point was another point of humor for those watching on Twitter. It served as a metaphor for a president who can’t even tell the difference between a success or a failure.

Meanwhile, the country was reaching 140,000 dead Americans due to the coronavirus...     more


JULY 16, 2020
President Trump Remarks on Rolling Back Regulations
President Trump delivered remarks from the White House South Lawn on deregulation. He touted his administration’s rollback of regulations, saying it will help spur the economy and bring jobs back to the United States. The president took the opportunity to assert that the plan of his Democratic presidential opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, would threaten “our entire economy, and very way of life.”
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7/16/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | July 16, 2020

China Threatens Sanctions Against U.S. for Hong Kong Interference
China ‘will respond resolutely’ to President Donald Trump’s latest attempts to rein in its crackdown on Hong Kong, according to the Foreign Ministry.
July 15 - CHINA ON WEDNESDAY threatened to sanction U.S. officials, saying new measures President Donald Trump put into place against Beijing in retaliation for its crackdown on Hong Kong amount to "gross interference" in "China's internal affairs."

The threat came shortly after Trump on Tuesday signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which received rare bipartisan approval in Congress, and a new executive order revoking preferential status for the former British colony and global economic hub...

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