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Trump accepts state of the union invite
Trumphas accepted the House speaker’s invitation and will deliver his annual state of the union address on Feb. 4, one day after the Iowa caucuses.
“President Donald J. Trump has accepted the Speaker’s invitation to deliver the State of the Union Address on February 4, (**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************, “White House spokesperson” **************** (Hogan Gidley) **************** said in a statement.
The timing means Trump will likely deliver the annual speech shortly after he is acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial.
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Joe Bidenseems to be taking the high road afterSarah Sanders, Trump
‘s former press secretary , sent a now-deleted tweet mocking the former vice president for his history of stuttering.Igor Bobic(@ igorbobic)
“I understand she apologized and I fully accept her apology,” Biden says in LA when asked about Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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During last night’s debate, Biden reflected upon children he has met on the campaign trail who have asked him for help because they also struggle with stuttering.
To emphasize the point, Biden did an impression of his own past stutter. Shortly afterwards, Sanders sent a tweet reading, “I I I I I I I I I I I I I hhhave absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about.”
Biden quickly replied on Twitter, “I’ve worked my whole life to overcome a stutter. And it’s my great honor to mentor kids who have experienced the same. It’s called empathy. Look it up. ”
Sanders later deleted the tweet and apologized, claiming she did not know about Biden’s history of stuttering. “I actually didn’t know that about you and that is commendable,” Sanders said. “I apologize and should have made my point respectfully.”
Less than two months after dropping out of the presidential race,Beto O’RourkeHas launched a political action group meant to boost Democratic candidates in his home state of Texas.
In an email to supporters, O’Rourke said the group, which is called Powered by People, will bring “together volunteers from around the state to work on the most important races in Texas.”
“Powered by People will organize grassroots volunteers to do the tough, necessary work that wins elections: registering Texans to vote (especially those that have just moved to Texas and those who are just turning 18), knocking on their doors, making phone calls, and connecting the dots so that we all understand that in order to make progress on the issues we care most about – like gun violence, healthcare and climate – we will have to register, volunteer and vote, ”O’Rourke said. (****************************************
It’s worth noting what a historic week it has been forNancy Pelosi.In less than 52 hours, the House speaker oversaw the impeachment of a president, shepherded through a renegotiated North American trade deal and invited
Trumpto deliver his state of the union address.Natalie Andrews(@ nataliewsj)
Meanwhile,Trumpis still stewing over the evangelical magazine Christianity Today calling for his removal from office, claiming he has been the best president for “religion itself.”
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Despite the magazine’s censure, Trump’s approval rating among white evangelicals, whose support he will need to win reelection, remains very high.
Nancy Pelosis letter invitingTrumpto deliver his state of the union seemed to take on an Added meaning considering the House’s vote this week to impeach the president for abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
“In their great wisdom, our Founders crafted a Constitution based on a system of separation of powers: three co-equal branches acting as checks on each other,” the House speaker wrote.
“In the spirit of respecting our Constitution, I invite you to deliver your State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Chamber of the US House of Representatives. ”
Pelosi invites Trump to deliver state of the union in February
Nancy Pelosihas invited Trump
to deliver his annual state of the union address on Feb. 4, one day after the Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa.Drew Hammill(@ Drew_Hammill)
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The timing of the state of the union also likely means Trump will deliver his remarks shortly after being acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial.
Pete Buttigiegs campaign has just announced an endorsement from actorKevin Costner, who will introduce the presidential candidate at a town hall in Indianola, Iowa, this Sunday.
Costner starred in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” which centers on an Iowa corn farmer building a baseball diamond in his fields after hearing a voice saying, “If you build it, he will come.”
DNC raises qualification thresholds for January debate
This is Joanie Greve in Washington, taking over the blog from Oliver Laughland, and there is some more debate news today following last night’s face-off.
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The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has told the Associated Press that she has shown the president “the power of the gavel” by impeaching the president “for ever”.
“He just got impeached. He’ll be impeached for ever. No matter what the Senate does. He’s impeached for ever because he violated our constitution, ”she said during an interview on Thursday that was published today.
“If I did nothing else, he saw the power of the gavel there and it was not me, it was all of our members making their own decision.”
She also urged Senate majority leader, the Republican Mitch McConnell, to bring forward votes on the raft of bills passed byDemocratsin the House since the (midterms.)
“As the election approaches, we would not want these to be election issues, we would like them to be accomplished legislation,” she said. “So they either pass the bills or pay a price for not passing bills.”
Ivanka Trump defends her father’s relationship with Giuliani
Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior advisor, has given a particularly soft interview to CBS News. The full interview won’t air until (December, but the outlet) *********************************************************************************************************************** have released a partial transcript.
There’s not a huge amount of probing in there, but Trump does appear to defend her father’s judgement when it comes to his relationship with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is at the center of the Ukraine scandal for his role in an unorthodox diplomatic back channel tasked with setting up an investigation into Trump’s political rivals in Ukraine,
She said:
I know Rudy Giuliani in a very different context as one of the greatest mayors in the history of this country and- and a real hero in New York. So that is- that is the experience I’ve had with Rudy for a very long period of time. He’s smart and thoughtful and- and- and a real warrior and was a great- a great mayor.
She also said her father is “energized” by the impeachment process.
The president has said that a formal signing of a US trade deal with China is “being arranged” after he spoke directly with president Xi Jinping today.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said yesterday that the nations sides would sign the Phase 1 trade pact, which calls for U.S. farm product exports to China to double over the next two years, at the beginning of January.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has urged the Trump administration to withhold signing the deal until two Canadian detained in China are released by authorities.
Despite the new deal, an analysis by Bloomberg Newssuggests it will not cover the remaining costs of the ongoing trade war between China and the US, as the majority of tariffs will remain in place.
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Here’ssome moreon Washington state representative Matthew Shea, the local politician found to have “participated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States”, according to a report produced for the state legislature.
This from Jason Wilson, who has reported on Shea for the Guardian. It was Wilson’s reporting along with other local outlets, that led to the legislature commissioning the investigation:
The report further contends that in adocumententitled the Biblical Basis for War, Shea “advocated the replacement of US democracy with a theocracy and the killing of all males who do not agree ”. (******************************************
In its conclusion, while commenting that Shea is not an “imminent direct threat… it is more probable than not that Representative Shea is likely to plan, direct and engage in additional future conflicts that could carry with them significant risk of bloodshed and loss of life ”.
It adds: “Representative Shea presents a present and growing threat of risk to others through political violence.”
In response to the report, the Washington Republican state legislative minority leader, JT Wilcox,
The report was commissioned by the house and produced by an outside agency, the Rampart Group, following (reporting
from the Guardian and other (localandnationaloutletson Shea’s activities.
It says Shea “planned the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge; engaged in the conflict by directing Cows (Coalition of Western States) members and militias in support of the takeover; and traveled to Burns, Oregon, and met with refuge armed occupiers contrary to appeals and warnings from law enforcement and Oregon state elected officials. ”
(Donald Trumphas responded to an editorial in the mainstream evangelical news outlet Christianity Today, which called for his removal from office.
The outlet was founded in 2016 by the famous evangelical preacher Billy Graham. Graham died in February and was honored at a US capitol memorial service, where Trump (described himas “an ambassador for Christ who reminded the world of the power of prayer and the gift of God’s grace.”
Graham’s son, Franklin, It remains an ardent supporter of the president.
But Christianity Today still attracts 4.3 million monthly online reader among a demographic, evangelical Christians, that voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Here’s an excerpt from the editorial
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But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.
The reason many are not shocked about this is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration. He has hired and fired a number of people who are now convicted criminals. He himself has admitted to immoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud. His Twitter feed alone — with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders — is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused.
The president was clearly irked by the article, posting two tweets this morning branding the publication a “far left magazine” and arguing he has done “more for the evangelical community” than any other president in history. (****************************************
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