Donald Trump news LIVE – President to visit Kenosha on Tuesday and one dead as protestors clash in Portland – updates
PRESIDENT Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back, which left the 29-year-old black man paralyzed.
White House spokesman Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that Trump will be meeting with law enforcement officers and surveying some of the damage from recent protests that turned destructive.
Meanwhile, one person was shot dead in Portland late on Saturday as protesters from rival groups clashed in the northwest U.S. city, which has seen frequent demonstrations for months that have at times turned violent.
Police said in statements that both the death and protest violence occurred in downtown Portland. However, they did not immediately link the shooting death to the protests.
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DONALD TRUMP SUGGESTS DAUGHTER IVANKA SHOULD BECOME FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT
During a campaign stop in Manchester, New Hampshire on Friday, President Trump suggested his daughter Ivanka should become the first female US president.
Speaking of Kamala Harris, he said: “I want to see the first woman president also, but I don't want to see a woman president get into that position the way she'd do it, and she's not competent,”
“They're all saying, 'We want Ivanka',” Mr Trump continued before adding: “I don't blame them.”
TRUMP APPEARS TO SLIP DURING NEW HAMPSHIRE RALLY
While attending a rally in New Hampshire after the Republican Party nominated him to run for a second term, the president was all smiles.
But as the US President began to walk up to the podium, he narrowly missed falling over.
Following the hair raising moment, Mr Trump joked that the floor was “like an ice rink”.
DONALD TRUMP LAUNCHES TIRADE ON NIECE AFTER SHE BRANDED HIM 'CHEAP' IN NEW BOOK
Donald Trump has launched a twitter attack on his niece saying that she was “rightfully shunned and mocked her entire life”.
Trump took to social media after his niece, Mary L. Trump revealed his own sister, Maryanne, had called him “cheap” in an explosive tell-all book.
Read more here.
TRUMP SURVEYS DAMAGE IN HURRICANE LAURA'S AFTERMATH
At least 15 people have died in Louisiana and Texas as President Donald Trump surveyed the damage left in Hurricane Laura's aftermath.
Trump got a firsthand look on Saturday at the destruction left behind in Louisiana and Texas two days after the Category 4 storm slammed the Gulf Coast.
“I'm here to support the great people of Louisiana. It was a tremendously powerful storm,” he said in Lake Charles.
The president planned to visit Orange, Texas – the hardest-hit area in the state – later in the day.
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TRUMP TO VISIT KENOSHA ON TUESDAY
President Donald Trump will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back, which left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed.
White House spokesman Judd Deere told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that Trump will be meeting with law enforcement officers and surveying some of the damage from recent protests that turned destructive.
ONE DEAD AS PROTESTERS CLASH IN PORTLAND
One person was shot dead in Portland late on Saturday as protesters from rival groups clashed in the northwest U.S. city, which has seen frequent demonstrations for months that have at times turned violent.
Police said in statements that both the death and protest violence occurred in downtown Portland. However, they did not immediately link the shooting death to the protests.
The New York Times and local mediareported that a large group of supporters of President Donald Trump had travelled in a caravan through downtown Portland, with a pro-Trump gathering drawing hundreds of trucks full of supporters into the city.
The Times cited two unidentified witnesses as saying a small group of people got into an argument with other people in a vehicle and someone opened fire.
“(Police) responded and located a victim with a gunshot wound to the chest. Medical responded and determined that the victim was deceased,” a Portland police spokesman said in an emailed statement.
“A Homicide Investigation is underway.”
Sounds of gunfire were heard in the area of Southeast 3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street, according to the spokesman's statement.
The police said they were not currently releasing suspect information.
'FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!'
Thousands of Donald Trump supporters were out in full force around the US this weekend as they rallied for four more years of his administration.
Dozens of Trump backers in Ohio gathered on Saturday at the Covelli Centre in downtown Youngstown, where they waved flags and chanted “four more years” as they marched to the office of Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan.
TRUMP CLOSING GAP, WARNS MICHAEL MOORE
Provocative documentary maker Michael Moore has warned Democrats that “the enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS!”
On Facebook, he posted: “Sorry to have to provide the reality check again, but when CNN polled registered voters in August in just the swing states, Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie.
“In Minnesota, it’s 47-47.
“In Michigan, where Biden had a big lead, Trump has closed the gap to 4 points.
“Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again?
“Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win?
“ Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC to pull this off?”
Moore, a vocal critic of Trump, won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” and was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for “Sicko,” an indictment of the U.S. healthcare industry.
He is also the author of best-selling books including “Stupid White Men” and “Here Comes Trouble.”
The filmmaker added on Facebook: “ The Biden campaign just announced he’ll be visiting a number of states – but not Michigan. Sound familiar?
“I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance.
“The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS!
“For Joe, not so much. Don’t leave it to the Democrats to get rid of Trump.
“YOU have to get rid of Trump. WE have to wake up every day for the next 67 days and make sure each of us are going to get a hundred people out to vote. ACT NOW!”
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS STRUCK DOWN BY CORONAVIRUS
Dozens of Secret Service agents who protect President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have either contracted the coronavirus or have gone into self-isolation after being in contact with people infected with Covid-19, says The Washington Post.
“The agency takes all appropriate precautions to protect our workforce, our protectees, and the public from exposure to Covid-19,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Hill.
“To protect the privacy of our employees’ health information and for operational security, the Secret Service is not releasing how many of its employees have tested positive for Covid-19, nor how many of its employees were, or currently are, quarantined,” the spokesperson added.
‘GREAT JOB AFTER LAURA’
President Donald Trump has thanked first responders in Orange, Texas.
Addressing them outside an emergency operations centre, he told them “you're doing a great job” in the massive clear-up operation after Hurricane Laura.
He held talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, moments after arriving on Saturday to view damage caused by Laura.
Orange was the worst-hit area in the state.
Several hundred supporters greeted his arrival with Trump 2020 flags, banners and signs.
Trump toured by air over damaged areas.
He said that he will likely visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, the city that has seen unrest since a white police officer shot a black man in the back.
“Probably so,” Trump told reporters in Texas, when asked if he would visit the city where the officer shot Jacob Blake, who is paralysed from the waist down and remains in hospital.
A 17-year-old is being held by authorities in Kenosha on suspicion of shooting three people who were protesting the shooting of Blake. Two of those people died.
TRUMP’S SIGNATURES TO FETCH $10K ON EBAY?
While visiting hurricane-stricken Lake Charles in Louisiana, US President Donald Trump suddenly started signing pieces of paper to boost the coffers of local officials.
Sitting down, he asked for someone to hand him a pen.
Trump advised one man: “Sell this tonight on eBay, you'll get $10,000.”
He then told a local sheriff: “Sell it tonight on eBay, $10,000.
“Thank you fellas.”
SURVEYING HURRICANE LAURA DAMAGE
President Donald Trump has posed for photos with members of the Louisiana National Guard, who helped with recovery efforts after Hurricane Laura pummelled the southern states of Louisiana and Texas.
Guardsmen worked with search and rescue teams assisting citizens to safety after Laura made deadly landfall.
Engineer work teams cleared debris from roadways in Lake Charles during the aftermath.
Louisiana had 17 teams across the state helping local and state agencies.
After meeting with the members, Trump flew on to Orange, Texas, to meet with officials there.
ELECTION SECURITY BRIEFINGS END
The Trump administration has ended all election security briefings to Congress.
The move comes just weeks before Americans cast their ballots for president, raising concern among lawmakers about the public's right to know about foreign interference in the election.
The nation's top intelligence official, National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe, told the Senate and House intelligence committees that the committees would only be receiving written updates about election security to help ensure the information is “not misunderstood nor politicised.”
An official with Ratcliffe's office said there are concerns about unauthorised disclosures of sensitive information following recent briefings on Capitol Hill.
Democrats expressed outrage at the decision by Ratcliffe, who directs the office overseeing the nation's intelligence agencies.
“This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and a betrayal of the public's right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat who chairs the House's intelligence committee, said in a joint statement.
“This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian.
“And the American people have both the right and the need to know that another nation, Russia, is trying to help decide who their president should be,” they said.
Officials said this month that they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate President Donald Trump's Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.
They have also said China prefers to see Trump lose and regards the president as unpredictable, but officials have not detailed specific steps Beijing had already taken to interfere in the election.
NEVER USE MILITARY AS A ‘PROP’
Joe Biden said on Saturday that as president, he would never use the military as a prop or private militia.
He also accused President Donald Trump of employing American forces to “settle personal vendettas” and violate citizens' rights.
The Democratic presidential nominee, in a virtual address to the National Guard Association of the United States' general conference, said Trump recommended “that you should be deployed to quote, ‘dominate’, your fellow citizens for exercising their right to peacefully protest.”
Biden added: “We’re so much better than this.
His comments came a day after Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that the armed forces will have no role in carrying out the election process or resolving a disputed vote.
It was a sign of rising tensions on both sides as the president has declared without evidence that the expected surge in mail-in ballots during the coronavirus pandemic will make the vote “inaccurate and fraudulent.”
Trump has also suggested he might not accept the election results if he loses.
Biden has said he's “absolutely convinced” the military would escort Trump from the White House if the incumbent lost but refused to leave.
‘HEARTS GO OUT TO HURRICANE VICTIMS’
President Donald Trump took part in a briefing on the response to Hurricane Laura on Saturday in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
He told officials: “Our hearts go out to the families who have lost loved ones.”
The president shook his head upon being informed that the death toll had reached 16.
Trump said that “15 years [ago] this week, Louisiana was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
“Katrina seems to be the standard.
“Fifteen years ago today, and whether you come from Louisiana or 5th Avenue in New York City, you know all about Katrina.
“That was a bad, bad deal.”
His first stop was a warehouse being used as a staging area for the Cajun Navy, a group of Louisiana volunteers who help with search and rescue after hurricanes and floods.
“Good job,” Trump told them.
He then toured a neighbourhood with Gov. John Bel Edwards and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, making his way down a street blocked by felled trees and where houses were battered by the storm, one with its entire roof torn off.
OFFICIALS THANKED IN LOUISIANA
President Donald Trump told officials in Louisiana “you took a big punch” after landing to survey the widespread damage wreaked by Hurricane Laura.
Moments after touching down in Air Force One, he told people at Lake Charles: “So when people get used to air conditioning, and this is very hot, and all of a sudden they don’t have it, it’s a very traumatic situation.”
He was told that there’s no power and a very limited amount of water.
Trump praised them for doing a “good job”.
He added: “One thing I know about this state, they rebuild it fast.
“And we’ll supply what we have to supply… we’ll take care of you.”
Trump said winds damaged thousands of homes, and caused road blocks.
He thanked pastors for giving a “great prayer” and praised “people of faith for helping people recover”.
The president said he had approved a major disaster declaration to help the state, with water and meals delivered.
He pointed out that he “hadn’t heard one complaint”.
FIRST PICS OF DONALD TRUMP IN LOUISIANA
President Donald Trump has been pictured talking with Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy (left, below) and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards upon arrival at Chennault International Airport.
He also gestured to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival on Saturday, in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Trump is planning to tour damage from Hurricane Laura in Texas and Louisiana.
AIR FORCE ONE LANDS
As Air Force One came in for landing in hard-hit Lake Charles, Donald Trump got a bird's eye view of the extensive damage, the smashed houses, downed power lines and trees, and debris strewn across the city of 80,000 people.
The president had earlier told reporters that he'd considered delaying his speech accepting his party's nomination for a second term until Monday because the storm was coming.
“I was going to Texas. I was going to Louisiana, maybe Arkansas,” he said.
“But now, it turned out, we got a little bit lucky. It was very big, it was very powerful, but it passed quickly.”
The storm packed 150mph (240kph) winds and a storm surge as high as 15ft (4.5 metres).
Trump will also visit Orange, Texas, which was the worst-hit area in the state, but sustained far less damage than next-door Louisiana.
Weaker remnants of the hurricane continued to move across the southern US, unleashing heavy rain and isolated tornadoes.
North Carolina and Virginia could get the brunt of the storm on Saturday, according to forecasters.
LAURA CLEANUP BEGINS
The clean up has begun after the devastation of Hurricane Laura.
But officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer.
The toll from the Category 4 hurricane currently stands at 16 deaths, with more than half of those killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of generators.
President Donald Trump plans to tour the damage in Louisiana and neighbouring Texas on Saturday.
'LAW-BREAKING' CONVENTION
Hillary Clinton took a swing at Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention on Friday morning for using the White House to “celebrate a president like a king”.
Taking to social media the former Democrat presidential candidate slammed the president for his “law-breaking convention”.
Trump held his acceptance speech and the final night of the RNC at “the beautiful and majestic White House”, in a spectacle that broke with centuries of tradition and possibly the law.
Clinton wrote: “What we saw last night sums up so much of the Trump administration:
“A law-breaking convention on your dime, on the lawn of your house, to celebrate a president like a king for overseeing the needless deaths of 180,000 Americans — and counting.”
Clinton went on to call for Americans to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in her Instagram post to “save” American democracy.
She added: “We have 67 days to end this corrupt administration, elect Biden-Harris, and save our democracy. What will you do?”
HEADING TO LOUISIANA & TEXAS IN GOLF GEAR
Fresh off the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump is headed to Louisiana and Texas on Saturday to survey the damage after Hurricane Laura.
A pic of the president shows him boarding Air Force One in his golf gear.
News agency the Associated Press reports that it’s a trip which allows him to use the trappings of his office to project empathy and leadership.
The president is making the trip two days after the Category 4 storm slammed the Gulf Coast, leaving at least 14 dead and wreaking havoc with severe winds and flooding.
While the storm surge has receded and the cleanup effort has begun, hundreds of thousands remain without power or water, and they could for weeks or months as the hot summer stretches on.
White House spokesman Judd Deere said Trump was travelling to be with those who have been impacted by Hurricane Laura.
He is expected to survey storm damage and receive briefings on emergency operations and ongoing relief efforts.
‘IT’S ALL LIES’
Taking further aim at so-called “fake books”, President Donald Trump has been busy slamming them as full of ‘lies’ on Twitter:
TRUMP LABELS NIECE 'UNSTABLE'
Donald Trump has labelled his niece “unstable” after she released audio tapes in which his sister could be heard criticising him and his children.
Mary L. Trump is a psychologist and daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother, who died in 1981.
Earlier this year, she released Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, a tell-all book about the president and the Trump family.
She also released tapes this week in which Trump's sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump, said her brother “wouldn't do anything for anybody” and labelled his son Eric a “moron”.
Taking to twitter this afternoon, the president criticised a number of people who have recently written critical books about him.
Turning to his niece, he described her as “unstable” and said she was “rightfully shunned, scorned and mocked her entire life, and never even liked by her own very kind & caring grandfather!”
TRUMP 'WON'T DO ANYTHING FOR ANYBODY', SAYS SISTER
Donald Trump won't do anything for anybody, his sister says in newly-leaked audio files.
Maryanne Trump Barry, 83, is a retired US federal judge and older sister to President Trump.
The audio was recorded and released by Mary L. Trump, a psychologist and niece to both the president and Maryanne.
Earlier this year, she released Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, a tell-all book about the president and the Trump family.
In the latest tape, Maryanne can be heard making sharply critical comments about the president and his children, some of whom have played a prominent role in his administration.
At one point she says: “And then you get Donald, who won’t do anything for anybody unless it’s going to inure to his…
“Anything he did, he says, 'Look what I’ve done. Aren’t I wonderful?'
“And he’s as tight as a duck’s a**. Just like dad was, really.”
'I WANT FEMALE VP – JUST NOT HARRIS', SAYS TRUMP
President Trump has said he would like to see a female vice president but attacked Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for the role.
Harris was this month announced as the running mate of Trump's presidential rival Joe Biden, becoming the third woman to be nominated for vice president.
Speaking at a rally in New Hampshire yesterday, Trump said: “You know, I want to see the first woman president also, but I don't want to see a woman president get into that position the way she'd do it.
“And she's not competent. She's not competent.
“They're all saying, 'We want Ivanka.' I don't blame you.”
Ivanka Trump is the president's daughter and also serves as an advisor in his White House.
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