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President Donald Trump on Monday portrayed the gunman charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., as a victim, suggesting that the Illinois teenager was acting in self-defense.
Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested last week and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for shooting during an anti-racist protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Video of Rittenhouse at the protests showed him carrying an assault rifle and running toward officers with his hands raised, but the police did not appear to engage with him. He was taken into custody the following day.
The criminal complaint against Rittenhouse said he shot a man, Joseph Rosenbaum, after Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse and tried to grab his gun. Rittenhouse was later heard calling someone and saying, “I just killed somebody,” according to the criminal complaint. A group of protesters chased after Rittenhouse, yelling that he had shot someone.
But speaking at a White House news conference on Monday, Trump suggested that the protesters were the instigators, out to get Rittenhouse, and that he was acting in self-defense.
“That was an interesting situation,” the president said. “He was trying to get away from them, I guess it looks like, and he fell and then they very violently attacked him, and it was something that we are looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would’ve been killed. It’s under investigation.”
The White House has so far avoided commenting on Rittenhouse, saying that there is not enough information on his case. Trump has focused instead on criticizing anti-racist protesters and Democrats for not condemning looting and rioting, even after Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, vehemently condemned rioting and looting in addresses last week and again on Monday.
Trump’s opting to give the benefit of the doubt to Rittenhouse comes in stark contrast to his unilateral condemnation of protesters against police violence who have demonstrated in cities across the country. During his Monday news briefing, Trump condemned the fatal shooting of a man suspected to be a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Ore., as MAGA demonstraters and anti-racist protesters faced off in tense clashes.
Trump plans to travel to Kenosha on Tuesday as protests continue to grip the city for a second week. State and local officials have urged Trump not to visit, fearing the president’s presence would disrupt an already-tense city.
Trump said on Monday that he did not plan to visit Blake’s family while in Kenosha. He said the family wanted to speak with him only with lawyers present, something that Trump said would have been “inappropriate.” The president said he had spoken with Blake’s pastor, whom he called a “wonderful man.”
Speaking on CNN after Trump’s news briefing, Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr., responded to the president’s remarks by saying: “I’m not going to play politics. This is my son’s life we’re talking about.”
"I just put my 20-year-old son in the hospital because he's suffering from depression, and it's saddening to me that people don't understand the type of pressure this family is under," he said. "And what the rest of the family is dealing with."
He added, “We don’t have a family pastor.”
If an appeals court does not grant Congress access to President Donald Trump's financial records quickly, lawmakers will "almost certainly" miss their chance to review them before the end of Trump's term, House Counsel Doug Letter argued Monday.
In a new filing with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Letter urged the judges to resist calls to send the case back to a lower court and instead resolve the matter — which began with a subpoena in April 2019 — promptly.
"If this Court does not resolve this case now, the Trump Plaintiffs will almost certainly have succeeded in blocking the 116th Congress from obtaining any documents pursuant to its subpoena," Letter wrote.
The filing was the latest development in the House's winding quest to access Trump's financial documents from his accounting firm, Mazars USA. Democrats have said they need them as part of potential legislation to reform financial disclosures and curb corruption. Trump's decision to maintain ties to his businesses — and evidence provided by his former attorney Michael Cohen that Trump routinely inflated his assets to obtain loans — created a unique situation that required potential legislative efforts, the lawmakers argued.
But Trump sued to block Mazars from releasing his documents, setting in motion a series of legal battles that landed in front of the Supreme Court this spring. Last month, the court ruled that the House may subpoena the president's records, but that any such effort must meet rigorous standards. The high court then sent the case back to the appeals court for further review.
Letter argues that the House subpoena already meets the Supreme Court's new test — the documents it is seeking are required as part of the House's broad legislative power, and they're not overly burdensome on Trump, he said.
"If the Oversight Committee uncovers evidence that a policy decision appears to have been influenced by a payment to President Trump or his businesses, the Oversight Committee can consider recommending legislative action to address it," Letter wrote, addressing one of the new criteria set out by the Supreme Court.
He added that the appeals court has already heard ample argument and received lengthy legal briefings on the matter and does not need to send the case back to the district court for additional proceedings.
Letter has argued that Trump's ability to send the House's subpoena into multiyear litigation effectively nullifies the House's subpoena authority.
The power of congressional subpoenas was dealt another blow Monday, when an appeals court panel ruled that House subpoenas generally may not be enforced in court unless Congress passes a new statute authorizing it. Letter did not address that development in his filing, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed to appeal the ruling to the full appeals court bench.
In the filing, the House emphasizes that even if Trump loses reelection, the Oversight Committee intends to pursue its investigation of Trump's finances to ensure that necessary anti-corruption reforms are made. That passage cites a 59-page memo from House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney, who laid out the House's legal position in Mazars. Letter cited Maloney's memo repeatedly in arguing for the court to resolve the matter quickly.
The social media account of Herman Cain shares information about COVID-19 not being deadly, although he passed from the virus.
After Herman Cain died of COVID-19, his Twitter account continues to share media disregarding the fatal consequences of the novel coronavirus.
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In a now-deleted tweet, the account shared an article on Monday with the caption “It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.” The report at hand from The Western Journal explores new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggesting a majority of COVID-19 patients died of an underlying condition.
According to the account’s bio section, the page is now supervised by family and team of the former GOP presidential candidate. Although he died on July 31 of the coronavirus, this is not the only posthumous tweet about the pandemic.
A blog, published on Cain’s official website was tweeted out, suggesting a “second wave” of coronavirus has not peaked.
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The account currently stands at over 500,000 followers. Beyond sharing links to COVID-19 reports, the page regulary tweets political bias from his verified platform.
theGrio reported his daughter Dr. Melanie Cain Gallo expressed her father’s desire to continue spreading his thoughts and beliefs through social media, even after his death, after a tweet critical about Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris garnered attention.
“He would have wanted this platform to continue giving people reasons to feel that hope as we continue to tell you what you need to know about what’s going on in the country,” she wrote.
Shortly before testing positive for COVID-19, the The Godfather’s Pizza CEO attended a rally for President Donald Trump, and was photographed not wearing a mask.
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