June 23, 2020 – Trump aides said he was joking when he had told his administration to slow down coronavirus testing. But Trump said he was not being sarcastic. “I don’t kid,” he said.
June 23, 2020 – Trump’s family filed a petition to block the publication of a tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the president’s niece. Trump said Mary Trump was “not allowed” to write the book because of a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2001. The book’s subtitle calls her uncle “the world’s most dangerous man.”
June 22, 2020 – Trump renewed his opposition to mail-in voting, which could prove useful during a pandemic. “RIGGED 2020 ELECTION,” he tweeted. “MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!” There has been no evidence of significant fraud aided by mail-in ballots.
June 22, 2017 – At a rally with supporters, Trump asserted that a law should exist requiring all immigrants to support themselves financially for five years before receiving welfare aid—a law which has existed since 1996.
Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act restricting new immigrants to the U.S. from accessing federal benefits for a period of five years.
June 22, 2017 – Two senior intelligence officials told Robert Mueller that Donald Trump had approached them separately and requested they use their position to publicly announce the Trump campaign had not colluded with Russian operatives.
June 21, 2020 – Trump’s Tulsa rally attracted only 6,600 people for a 19,000-capacity venue. Teenage TikTokers registered hundreds of thousands of “people” for the event, who didn’t show. But Trump’s campaign manager said the low attendance was the fault of “the fake news media,” which urged people not to go “because of Covid and protesters, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire.”
June 21, 2019 – Journalist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s. Trump denied ever having met her, but Carroll provided a photo of herself with Trumpfrom 1987. Carroll was the twenty-fifth woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1970s.
June 21, 2017 – Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tapped the CEO of a private student loan company to lead the Federal Student Aid program. This program handles $1.3 trillion in federal student loans for American citizens.
June 20, 2020 – In his latest dismissal of a government official, Trump fired federal prosecutor Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Berman’s office prosecuted Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who was sentenced to prison for financial crimes. He was also investigating Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s attorney.
June 20, 2020 – Trump said he ordered his administration to “slow down” coronavirus testing so that fewer cases of COVID-19 would be reported. “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases,” he said in Tulsa. “So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’” In his speech, Trump also referred to the coronavirus as the “kung flu.”
June 20, 2017 – Donald Trump’s budget cuts to address homelessness and low-income housing did not cut funding for one New York City housing development—the subsidized Starrett City housing complex. It happened that Trump held a stake in Starrett City, and made about $5 million dollars off the property in three months during 2016. (June 20, 2017) Trump Business Dealings Policy.
June 20, 2017 – The Trump administration planned to cut more than 1,200 jobs from the EPA, shrinking the workforce by 15 percent while slashing the EPA budget by 31 percent.
June 19, 2020 – Twitter added a warning label to a doctored video Trump tweeted, saying it went against the company’s policies. The heartwarming video, shared by many in 2019, showed a black and white child running to each other, then hugging. The manipulated version posted by Trump included a fake CNN headline that read, “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby. … Racist baby probably a Trump voter.”
June 19, 2020 – Trump threatened those who planned to demonstrate at his rally in Tulsa. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” he tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”
June 19, 2019 – The Environmental Protection Agency issued the final Affordable Clean Energy Rule, which rolled back power-plant regulations established under President Obama.
June 19, 2019 – Former White House communications director Hope Hicks’ name showed up throughout Robert Mueller’s report. But when it came time for her to become the first confidante of Trump to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, she declined to answer any questions about her time in his administration.
June 19, 2017 – During a security clearance renewal process, Mike Flynn failed to disclose a Middle East trip during which he represented Russian business interests. Rep. Elijah Cummings said of Flynn’s omission, “General Flynn’s actions are part of a broader pattern of concealing his foreign contact, payments, travel and work on behalf of foreign interests.”
June 19, 2017 – Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced he did not believe carbon dioxide causes climate change. This view contradicts numerous studies conducted by agencies like NASA, the EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Biden doesn't WANT to be president. He didn't WANT to run in 2020. He doesn't WANT to spend his golden years fighting fascist Republicans and judges. But he is. And that's WHY he's The Guy.
TRY TO REMEMBER: If Biden takes a hard-line stance against Israel, he hands the Presidency to Trump.
June 18, 2020 – Trump campaign posts and advertisements that featured an inverted red triangle were removed by Facebook, which cited the company’s policies on hate-group symbols. The triangle was used by Nazis to single out political opponents. The Trump campaign dismissed the issue, saying, “This is an emoji.”
June 18, 2020 – In a tweet, Trump called two Supreme Court rulings — one protecting young immigrants from deportation, the other defending gay and transgender workers — “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.” In another tweet, he added, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”
June 18, 2020 – Too much testing for the coronavirus “made the US look bad,” Trump said in an interview with the WSJ. “I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” he said.