8/13/2020

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Biden and Harris make 1st appearance as historic Democratic ticket
"America is crying out for leadership," Harris said at the event in Wilmington.


Aug. 13 - Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris appeared together for the first time as running mates Wednesday afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware, where much of the focus was on Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American woman on the ticket of a major political party.

They walked in together wearing masks, accompanied by the Curtis Mayfield song "Move On Up," before Biden began his remarks saying they were "playing by the rules," taking precautions due to the pandemic.

"She's a proven fighter," Biden said, as Harris watched from a chair set up well behind the lectern where one candidate could sit while the other spoke in a local high school gym. U.S., state and territory flags served as the backdrop.
"She's ready to do this job on Day One," Biden said.

"The choice we make this November is going to decide the future of America for a very, very long time," Biden said. "I have no doubt that I picked the right person to join me as the next vice president of the United States of America, and that's Senator Kamala Harris."

"This morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little Black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities," Biden continued. "But today -- today, just maybe, they're seeing themselves for the first time in a new way -- as the stuff of presidents and vice presidents."     more

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make it official as they make debut as running mates - and she pays emotional tribute to his dead son Beau saying 'we are cut from the same cloth' then tears into Donald Trump for 'running the economy into the ground'

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris appeared together in person for the first time Wednesday after the Tuesday announcement he would be her running mate

Aug. 13 - Joe Biden welcomed Kamala Harris as family to his campaign as they appeared togethr for the first time as running mates Wednesday afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware.

8/12/2020

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President Trump responds to Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate
Aug 11, 2020
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Donald Trump’s Predictable Reaction To Joe Biden Picking Kamala Harris

Aug. 12 - Donald Trump and his campaign wasted no time attacking Joe Biden’s choice for Vice President, Senator Kamala Harris. During a news conference, Trump fell back on a term he often uses when referring to strong women, “nasty.” He said (watch above)...  more  
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8/11/2020

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President Trump rushed from briefing room | WNT
Aug 11, 2020
Donald Trump is escorted out of briefing room as Secret Service shoot man outside White House - then returns for freewheeling press conference to boast 'Do I look rattled?' and accuse Obama of 'treason'


President Donald Trump was briefly escorted from his press conference
A Secret Service agent came in the room, whispered to him and led him out
President said there was  shooting outside White House

Aug. 11 - President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from his press conference on Monday less than five minutes after it began and returned to say law enforcement shot an armed suspect outside the White House.

'There was a shooting outside of the White House and it seems to be very well under control,' President Trump said after he returned to briefing room a few minutes after his exit.


The president, who proceeded to take questions from reporters on a variety of topics for nearly an hour, said he was fine after being pulled from the room.

8/10/2020

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Executive Order against WeChat can backfire by hurting Apple, helping Huawei

Aug. 09 - TikTok isn't the only app from a Chinese company that is the subject of an executive order from President Donald Trump that affects U.S. mobile device users. Trump has banned American companies from doing business with WeChat. For those of you unfamiliar with it, WeChat is a messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that was launched by Tencent in 2011. Seven years later it became the most widely used standalone app with more than 1 billion people relying on the "super app."

Executive Order against WeChat could backfire to hurt Apple, help Huawei

WeChat shares its user data with the Chinese government and censors certain topics of a political nature. And while the order would prevent transactions made by WeChat with U.S. corporations, it may have an unintended effect; the order prevents Apple from distributing WeChat through the App Store. This could result in lower iPhone sales in China where the app is used for many things such as email, browsing, shopping, and making payments.



Companies and consumers use WeChat to get in touch with businesses, friends, and family. WeChat is such an integral part of life in China that if it were to be removed from the App Store, an uproar would ensue. For example, an online forum used by investors in China asked subscribers whether they would give up WeChat or their iPhone if Apple were forced to remove the app from the App Store. By a margin of 20 to 1, the forum's users said that they would drop the iPhone. Noting that China accounts for 20% of global iPhone sales, Anand Srinivasan, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, said removing WeChat from the App Store "would be a serious hindrance" to Apple.     more

https://www.phonearena.com/news/wechat-ban-can-have-unintended-results_id126493

Why China is warning Trump of war

Aug 9 - Having failed to establish a detente that would keep relations calm through the November elections, China is warning that the Trump administration's policy toward Beijing might lead to war.

Take what Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of China's preeminent western-focus propaganda outlet, had to say on Friday. Writing in the Global Times, Hu observed that "the US should be reminded to distance itself from China's core interests. Don't play with fire off China's coast, don't really stir up conflict over Taiwan question, and don't overdo it in the South China Sea. If the Trump administration just wants to create China-U.S. tensions to help his re-election campaign, and is not really ready for a military showdown, then be careful for the next few months, and don't go too far."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-china-is-warning-trump-of-war

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8/09/2020

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Trump signs executive actions after stimulus talks break down on Capitol Hill

Aug. 9 -  (CNN)President Donald Trump signed four executive actions Saturday, one of which will provide as much as $400 in enhanced unemployment benefits -- 25% of which states are being asked to cover -- after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach an agreement on a coronavirus stimulus relief bill this week.



The other three actions he signed include a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year, as well as extending an eviction moratorium and deferring student loan payments.

"I'm taking action to provide an additional or extra $400 a week and expanded benefits, $400. That's generous but we want to take care of our people," Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.Trump said $300 (75%) of the enhanced aid will come from the federal government, and $100 (25%) will therefore have to come from the states. Since governors would have to pay that $100 for people to get the full benefit, it is not clear how many of those unemployed would be able to receive the full $400 benefit...     more

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-executive-order-stimulus/index.html

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8/08/2020

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U.S. suffered worst quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy
When the economy was tumbling in the second quarter, Trump pumped up the third quarter. Now the high hopes are slowly deflating.

July 29 - The U.S. economy crashed in historic fashion this year — shrinking at a nearly 33 percent annualized pace in the second quarter — as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged businesses and sent joblessness soaring. The question now for President Donald Trump, trailing in the polls and facing a daunting reelection effort, is just how much conditions can snap back in the months leading up to Election Day.

At least for the moment, the spike in Covid-19 cases, the potential for fresh trouble this fall and a bitter fight over how to pump more federal money into the ailing economy suggest the sharp bounce-back Trump is counting on may not show up in a way he envisions.

And the potential for another leg of the downturn hangs over a president who once counted the economy as by far his strongest selling point to voters.

“This is obviously the ugliest quarter we’ve ever seen in our history,” Edward Moya, senior analyst at currency trading firm OANDA, said of the Commerce Department’s initial estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product, which showed the economy contracting 32.9 percent on an annualized basis, the biggest drop in more than seven decades of records.

“A couple of weeks ago there was a lot more optimism that we would see a strong V-shaped recovery,” Moya said. But right now “there is a lot of bad news about how some areas are handling the virus. And every day we don’t have a new stimulus agreement in place is hurting the economy.”...   more
AUGUST 7, 2020
Larry Kudlow Comments to Reporters at White House
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks with reporters in the White House driveway about the state of the economy, saying that he expects the unemployment numbers to drop back into single digits before November.

8/07/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 7, 2020

 

Trump in Ohio: See supporters, protesters lining Route 20 ahead of president's arrival
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Aug. 7 - President Donald Trump's visit to Clyde, Ohio, marks the first time a president will visit Sandusky County since 1912. 
This is also the first time Trump visits Ohio since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. His last visit was for a rally in Toledo. 
Trump is scheduled to arrive at the Whirlpool Corp. manufacturing plant in Clyde around 2:45 p.m. where he will deliver remarks about revamping the U.S. manufacturing industry in support of buying American-made products. He will then attend a fundraiser in Bratenahl later Thursday evening.    source

8/06/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 6, 2020




Aug. 6 - Twitter says it will require Donald Trump to remove a post containing misinformation about coronavirus. And until he does so, he’s banned from tweeting. From The Washington Post:
Trump under fire for promoting false COVID-19 claims on Twitter
Jul 29, 2020
Pompeo says U.S., Russia have made progress on arms controla

Aug. 5 - WASHINGTON, Reuters – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the United States had made progress with Russia on nuclear arms control recently and hopes China will decide to join the discussions.

“In the last handful of months, we’ve been working diligently to get the three nations that have the largest nuclear capabilities – the United States, Russia and China – to have strategic dialogue about how we move forward together to decrease the risk to the world,” Pompeo told reporters.


“We’ve made progress with the Russians; we’ve had two good gatherings. I hope we’ll have one before too long, and we’re hopeful that the Chinese will choose to participate,” he added.

(Reporting By Matt Spetalnick, David Brunnstrom and Humeyra Pamuk)    source

8/05/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 5, 2020

President Trump holds a news conference at the White House
Aug. 5, 2020
It Would Be A Costly, Unlikely Blunder If Israel Were Responsible For The Beirut Explosion

Aug. 4 - As the smoke clears over Beirut, and rescuers struggle to aid survivors of a massive explosion that killed at least 78 people and wounded more than 4,000, an ominous question hangs in the air:

Was Israel responsible?

Israel denies any involvement. Lebanon’s government and Hezbollah militants – never shy about blaming their arch-enemy Israel for any misfortune – say the disaster was an accident caused by volatile explosive material in a warehouse. If Israel were in fact responsible, the result could be a war with Hezbollah and Hezbollah’s patron Iran that could even embroil the United States and other nations in a vast Middle East conflagration.

Complicating matters is that U.S. President Donald Trump quickly asserted that the explosion was the result of an attack.


Beirut blast horror: Chemical explosion tears through Lebanese capital 'like a nuclear bomb' levelling buildings, killing dozens and wounding THOUSANDS - with boom heard as far away as Cyprus

Aug. 5 - A massive explosion in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed at least 73 people, left thousands more injured and wreaked devastation on the city.   
The country's health minister said more than 3,700 have been wounded following the blast at the city's industrial port, where hazardous chemicals are stored in warehouses.
Dramatic footage from around 6pm local time yesterday shows smoke billowing from the harbour area shortly before an enormous fireball explodes into the sky and blankets the city in a thick mushroom cloud. ..     more

8/04/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 4, 2020

August 3, 2020
President Trump "Hiring American" Executive Order Signing
President Trump met with U.S. tech workers and signed an executive order on hiring Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump announced the removal of Tennessee Valley Authority’s chair James Thompson and board member Richard Howoth and called for the removal of their CEO Bill Johnson. This was in response to the company laying off employees and hiring H-1B visa holders. During the round table discussion, it was announced the company is willing to reverse course and rehire previously laid off employees. The president also said he would not ban the Ticktock app if Microsoft or another company bought it before September 15th.
Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with U.S. Tech Workers and Signing of an Executive Order on Hiring American
Aug. 3, 2020
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  And today I’m signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple rule: Hire American.  We’ve been doing it at a level that hasn’t been done maybe ever.

I’ll also be taking firm, disciplinary action against the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has sadly and cruelly betrayed American workers.  And we have some of those great American workers with us at the table.  This is the Cabinet Room, and it’s an honor to have you in the Cabinet Room and at the Oval Office.

8/03/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 3, 2020

White House steps back from Donald Trump's call for delayed election

Aug. 3 - The White House has no plans to try to delay the US presidential election this year, its chief of staff says, even as he defends a tweet from US President Donald Trump raising the possibility
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“We're going to hold an election on November 3, and the president is going to win,” Mark Meadows told CBS News.

Trump's tweet on Thursday (local time), which set off alarm bells throughout Washington, was merely meant to raise questions about whether a major expansion of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic could produce fraud or lead to untenable delays in counting votes, Meadows insisted.

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Polls show Biden leading, but these swing voters favor Trump
Aug 1, 2020

8/02/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 2, 2020



NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with former White House economic advisor Tomas Philipson. He was the acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers until he resigned in June.

Negotiators report progress in coronavirus relief talks

Aug 1 - WASHINGTON — Lawmakers reported progress on a huge coronavirus relief bill Saturday, as political pressure mounts to restore an expired $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit and send funding to help schools reopen.
“This was the longest meeting we've had and it was more productive than the other meetings,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was part of the rare weekend session. “We're not close yet, but it was a productive discussion — now each side knows where they’re at."

8/01/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 1, 2020

Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias says states and Congress need to act now to ensure all votes count during the general election. These changes are overdue. (Joy Sharon Yi, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)
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Republicans to Trump: You can't delay 2020 election
Top Republicans have rejected President Donald Trump's suggestion that November's presidential election should be delayed over alleged fraud concerns.

PBS NewsHour live episode, July 31, 2020
Aug. 3, 2020