Carrying the Bible and posing it with was strange. Carrying it and not reading a scripture or offering a prayer made it all the stranger. And made it all the clearer that the Bible was not for reference. It was a prop.
President Trump, who has said Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and Ted Cruz’s father was behind JFK assassination, says laws should make it harder to say things that are false.
Steve Bannon is, among other things, calling the president’s son “treasonous.”
President Trump says his former top adviser has “lost his mind."
Paul Manafort is suing Bob Mueller.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s home in Chappaqua is on fire.
It’s only the third day of 2018.
Police have charged Anthony Brennan III, age 60 of Kensington, Maryland, with three counts of second-degree assault for the incident on the Capital Crescent Trail.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis: "I've never seen refugees as traumatized as coming out of Syria. It’s got to end."
Number of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States:
2016: 15,479
2017: 3,024
2018: 11
Joe Biden seems to not want the town hall to ever end. It concluded nearly 30 minutes ago, and he’s still fielding questions as voters take out notecards and ask the questions they didn’t get to during the televised broadcast. And Biden shows no signs of letting up.
NEW: The lawyer who oversaw the vetting of Joe Biden for Obama tells us: “This kind of complaint — not just Tara Reade, but any kind of complaint about Senator Biden on sexual harassment — never came up...we found no such accusation.”
Virginia has the best Unemployment and Economic numbers in the history of the State. If the Democrats get in, those numbers will go rapidly in the other direction. On Tuesday, Vote Republican!
The current White House is reviewing whether or not to revoke President Trump’s access to the intelligence briefings that are typically granted to former presidents, according to
@PressSec
.
The Biden campaign’s decision to reveal exactly who tested positive and when — and announce the last negative test for Kamala Harris — as well as the fact that it is currently doing contact tracing all appear in sharp contrast to how the White House handled things a few weeks ago
Maddow: In that debate moment, were you trying to tank Mike Bloomberg’s campaign?
Warren: Yes.
Maddow: Do you take credit for its demise?
Warren: Sure.
As President Biden addresses the nation in a prime time address, NBC is showing "Law and Order," CBS is sticking with "Young Sheldon," and ABC is airing "Press Your Luck."
Trump supporters then: George Papadopoulos? He was a volunteer with a limited role. A coffee boy, if you will.
Trump supporters now: An FBI informant met with George Papadopoulos!?!? This is vast overreach, meant to infiltrate the highest levels of the Trump campaign.
President Trump says his accusers are “women who I don’t know and/or have never met.” Here is a photo of him with Jill Harth. And he never denied knowing her, in court depositions or an interview with me.
“Donald Trump inherited a growing economy from the Obama-Biden administration, just like he inherited everything in his life,” Joe Biden says here in Iowa. “And he squandered it, like he did everything else."
"No one expects politics to be, uh, paddycake -- sometimes it's mean as hell," President Biden says. "But the idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, 'If such and such happens there'll be blood on the street'? Where the hell are we?"
An American president is urging a longstanding ally not to admit two American members of Congress into its democratic country. Seems that all members of Congress, regardless of party, would be worried about this precedent.
It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep.Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds. Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!
President Trump refuses to answer Jeff Mason's question, demanding that a question be asked of the president of Finland. "You're being rude" Trump says
Mason asks a question of Finish president
Trump jumps in to answer
"I think the question was for me," Finland's Niinisto says
Just talked to a woman here in Pittsburgh who said her sister died not long ago. “Her last words were, ‘Trump’s an asshole,’” she says. “I swear. Those were her last words."
Joe Biden tomorrow will be giving an address on the coronavirus at 1 p.m. in Wilmington, Del. Expect it, in many ways, to be different from the address just given from the Oval Office.
BREAKING: Joe Biden tested negative for covid again today.
From his campaign: “Vice President Biden underwent PCR testing for COVID-19 today and COVID-19 was not detected.”
President Trump appears to have seen footage of police officers throwing women to the curb, speeding cars into crowds, firing rubber bullets at reporters, and pushing a man with a cane to the ground — and has said: “Yes. We need more of that."
Stacey Abrams adviser on talk of her being Joe Biden’s VP: “What makes it particularly exploitative is that Biden couldn’t be bothered to endorse Stacey in the gubernatorial primary. Now he wants her to save his ass. That’s some serious entitlement.”
Democrats have managed to accede to Republican demands, demoralize their energized base, give a disengaged president a win, and look like they held a meaningless three day government shutdown — all at once.
Joe Biden, toward the end of his vice presidency in 2016, told those in a congressional room: “Guys, I’m going to be the biggest pain in your neck as long as I live, until we figure out about these burn pits.”
Today, as president, he signs a sweeping law addressing burn pits.
It’s a good line. But Beto O’Rourke goes to Juarez often, and was there a few weeks ago. His first date with his wife, Amy? They went to a bar in Juarez.
Don Trump Jr. in El Paso hitting Beto O'Rourke: “I’d be more impressed if he had the guts to go do his rally on the Juarez side, on the other side of the wall!"
NEW: Top surrogates and allies of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are discussing ways for their two camps to unite and push a common liberal agenda, with the expectation Warren is likely to leave the presidential race soon. From
@AnnieLinskey
@WaPoSean
Number of times that Joe Biden said the word “Trump” in his convention speech: 0
Number of times that Donald Trump said the word “Biden” in his convention speech text: 41
“That was a hot mess inside.a dumpster fire inside a train wreck,” Jake Tapper says on CNN minutes after the debate concludes. “The American people lost tonight. Because that was horrific.”
“That was a shitshow,” Dana Bash adds.
“How come you were against Obama’s deficits but you’re not against Republican deficits?” Rand Paul asks on the Senate floor. “Isn’t that the very definition of intellectual dishonesty?"
Joe Biden remarks that he called about a dozen Senate Republicans to encourage them to vote on Merrick Garland. Then he says with Trump gone, Republicans will again find political courage.
Left unsaid: Republicans stalled on Garland before Trump was nominated, or elected.
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells
@GStephanopoulos
he wouldn't necessarily alert the FBI if approached by foreign figures with information on his 2020 opponent: "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it."
President Trump to FBI director Jim Comey (Jan 2017): “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty."
President Trump to acting FBI director Andy McCabe (May 2017): Who did you vote for?
President Trump to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (Dec 2017): Are you “on my team?"
A quick redesign of the Oval Office for President Biden:
- Busts of MLK and RFK flank a fireplace in the office.
- Large portrait of FDR
- Paintings of Jefferson and Hamilton
- Clinton’s draps and blue rug
@AnnieLinskey
with the details:
As President Trump speaks from the Oval Office, photos of his mother (who immigrated from Scotland) and father (whose family immigrated from Germany) are in the background.
“Build that wall!” the crowd chants. Trump corrects them. “Finish that wall.” He claims much of it has already been built.
The US-Mexico border is 1,954 miles. There’s 654 miles in existing barrier. And as of January, 0 miles of barriers had been added since he took office.
As the CPAC crowd chants “Lock her up!” over and over, former top Trump campaign aide Rick Gates is pleading guilty and signaling that he is cooperating in the Mueller investigation.
Joe Biden told a fundraiser tonight that he is bracing for “an increasingly negative campaign that the Bernie Brothers will run.”
“We can’t let...this primary become a negative bloodbath,” he adds. “We can’t tear this party apart and reelect Trump.”
Man presenting Hillary Clinton with “international unity award” outlines why: “She was elected president of the United States, and it was stolen from her,” he says, as crowd stands for ovation. “It was stolen from her by the FBI...it was stolen from her by the Russians.”
Among the graduates of Harvard Law School: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tex), Tom Cotton (R-Ark), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Gov Ron DeSantis (R-Fla), Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Chief Justice John Roberts
"Let me be clear,” Joe Biden says in Wilmington, Del. "If President Trump and his administration had done their jobs early on in this crisis, American schools would be open. And they’d be open safely."
Donald Trump donated twice to Kamala Harris when she was running for reelection as California attorney general, according to state records. Ivanka Trump donated as well.
Joe Biden says he is “desperately” looking to be in regular contact with the American public, perhaps with regular press conferences in Wilmington, Del., or using technology. "They tell me there’s ways we can do teleconferencing via us all being in different locations,” he says.
Biden tonight: “I'm now getting briefed again by the intelligence community because I'm the putative nominee. We saw it in '16. We saw it in '18. And we're seeing it now. Russia, China, Iran and other foreign actors are working to interfere in our democracy.” Via
@katieglueck
Joe Biden to
@WISN12News
on Ron Johnson’s investigations related to Hunter Biden: “This is a great diversion. What’s he doing to help the state of Wisconsin? What’s he doing to deal with the fact that small businesses are shuttering? What’s he doing to deal with the crisis?"
"I did not seek this fight brought to this capital one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it either,” President Biden says. "I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation, and allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy."
Quite an image of a spot where so much history has taken place. Usually it’s marked by people and crowds, now instead a void filled by the memory of those lost.
At the start of Biden’s meeting in Kenosha, Wisc., a man extends his hand to shake hands. “Can’t do that,” Biden says, before feeling the man’s biceps and exclaiming, “Nice guns!"
Ralph Northam is asked if he can still moonwalk. He looks around as if he’s about to try it. His wife looks over and says, “Inappropriate circumstances.” Northam agrees, and moves on to another question.
Joe Biden on Donald Trump and the upcoming debate: "He’s not that smart. He doesn’t know that many facts. He doesn’t know much about foreign policy. He doesn’t know much about domestic policy."
The woman who told Trump that he was handsome and had a great smile is apparently voting for…Joe Biden.
“I wish he would smile more and talk less,” she said of Trump. “I think the man has a nice smile. However, I’m not a fan."
James O’Keefe set up a sting operation on the Washington Post. And the Washington Post stung him right back. If you need a sign that journalists work hard to verify, this is it:
In case it wasn’t clear what the Mississippi election has become about: Mike Espy is holding his election night event at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.