Trump news – live: President gloats as congresswoman barred from Israel as he pledges to get tougher on crime – The Independent
Donald Trump has pledged to “get much tougher on street crime” after six police officers were shot and wounded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday night while trying to enforce a drugs warrant.
The president has also gloated after outspoken Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were barred from entering Israel, having been critical of the influence of Israeli lobbyists in Washington, declaring: “They hate all Jewish people”.
Mr Trump has meanwhile offered to meet with Chinese premier Xi Jinping over the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, which he says are an obstacle to the resolution of the trade war raging between the two superpowers, continuing to gloat that the US is “winning, big time”.
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House Judiciary Committee chair Jerrold Nadler and presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke and Elizabeth Warren have hit out at Israel over Omar and Tlaib…
…but the Republican Jewish Coalition is in favour.
Trump’s back and on the defensive about his economic record as analysts begin to whisper about a coming global recession and the national debt.
“Cocaine Mitch” is continuing to expand his narcotics empire, I see.
I wonder how those T-shirts are selling?
On The Daily Show last night, Trevor Noah offered a conspiracy theory of his own and now #DontDeportMelania is trending on Twitter.
Greg Evans is here to explain all.
Prior to that, Trump has been on the radio in New Hampshire boasting about the economy and backing the aforementioned Corey Lewandowski’s run for the Senate.
He has also had more to say about Xi and Hong Kong, suggesting his Chinese counterpart meet with protesters.
Speculation on Capitol Hill is that the reason for the president’s reluctance to condemn the actions of the Chinese authorities in Hong Kong – beyond expressing broad good faith in Xi’s ability to handle the demonstrations “humanely” – is that he promised he would not criticise China over the issue when the men spoke on the phone on 18 June.
Right on cue, here’s Trump making political capital out of the Omar and Tlaib news, which he surely had a hand in.
And here’s our breaking story.
Beto O’Rourke is speaking in El Paso right now and is not holding back.
Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have been barred from entering Israel ahead of an expected visit, Israeli media says.
The duo have been outspoken in their criticism of the influence of Israeli lobbyists in DC, an argument that has set the young progressives against their own party’s elders and allowed Trump to lash out and claim the Democrats are an “antisemitic, anti-Jewish” party.
The president has meanwhile bent over backwards to oblige Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu by relocating the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv and recognising the country’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Bibi was no doubt only too happy to return the favour and embarrass Trump’s enemies, although White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says suggestions the US president might have had a word in his ear are “inaccurate”.
Clark Mindock has more.
The excellent Greta Thunberg was asked about whether she’d like to meet Trump to talk climate change.
“Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?” she answered.
Fox Nation broadcaster Todd Starnes is in hot water after likening migrants coming to the United States to Nazis, adding that the country has been invaded by a “rampaging horde of illegal aliens”.
His words follow those of El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius, who wrote about the “Hispanic invasion of Texas” in the white nationalist manifesto he posted on 8chan prior to killing 22 people at a Walmart, echoing racist rhetoric pushed by Trump and prompting many to blame the president for inspiring the atrocity.
In the last hour, Trump has said last night’s Philadelphia shooter “should never have been allowed on the streets” and has once more taken a sudden interest in literature, something that has a funny habit of happening whenever a friend has a book out that feeds his narrative or merits a favour.
Remember this is a guy who winds through Jean Claude van Damme movies to get to the action scenes. He’s not going to be recommending Normal People by Sally Rooney any time soon.
For Indy Voices, Michael Arceneaux argues short-lived White House press secretary Anthony Scaramucci‘s recent warnings about his old employer should not be ignored.
Conservative talk show host and right-wing pundit Joe Walsh has called slammed Trump as an “unfit conman” and a “racial arsonist” in the pages of The New York Times.
Michael Bennett – another Colorado runner like Hickenlooper – has pledged to send a copy of his new book to Senate majority leader “Moscow Mitch” McConnell for every campaign donation he receives.
His self-published book, Dividing America: How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy, examines foreign interference into the 2016 election.
“The propaganda Russia drove into our social media feeds is shocking, but what’s even more frightening is that we didn’t recognize these divisive images as distinct from our own political rhetoric for over a year,” said Bennet in a statement.
“This book makes crystal clear what Russia did and how they did it. The 2020 election is around the corner, yet the Trump administration has done nothing to protect our democracy from these attacks again. We must demand that Mitch McConnell see these disturbing images and act now.”
The hot madness keeps on coming from @realDonaldTrump. He’s just retweeted this.
How did he even find it? It’s from January 2017. He can’t still be that hung up on his poorly-attended inauguration, can he?
The above was followed by this reassurance on the ongoing construction of his US-Mexico border wall.
Trump is busy jabbing away at that retweet button, adding more posts from the White House, Sean Hannity and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who will join him in New Hampshire tonight where he is rumoured to plotting a Senate run.
He appears to refer to himself in the third-person. Yuck.
El Presidente is out of bed and retweeting right-wing big beasts Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly and Diamond and Silk and… a video of a stumbling baby elephant??
A metaphor for the Republican Party, perhaps.
John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor, is expected to drop out of the Democratic 2020 presidential race this morning.
John Hickenlooper looking fraught on the campaign trail in Iowa (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Low polling, a struggle to find donors and the likelihood of missing out on the third party debate all contributed to his decision, according to his campaign team, most of whom are new to the job following a spate of departures in July.
A self-described “pragmatic-progressive,” Hickenlooper struggled to gain much momentum while carrying a centrist campaign message that was too easily shot down for not being radical enough by his fellow challengers.
That petition to rename a stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in Manhattan – on which Trump Tower just so happens to be situated – after 44th president Barack Obama has 255,569 signatures at the time of writing. It needs 275,000.
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