Just before turning his back on the podium at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, President Donald Trump boasted about how good the economy was for Black and Hispanic workers prior to the pandemic — and suggested no one has done more for Black Americans than he has, with the "possible exception" of Abraham Lincoln.
President Donald Trump's Wednesday afternoon press conference, held in the same White House room where President Barack Obama announced the U.S. had killed Osama bin Laden, was quickly panned as a "last-ditch effort to win the election," "fascism," and an unnecessary use of force over the wishes of U.S. cities.
Trump announced he will be sending hundreds of federal officers to the streets of Chicago to arrest “murderers and violent criminals" who, he claimed, "are breaking a wide range of federal laws, we have that, it’s as wide as it can be.”
In Portland, Trump's highly-armed SWAT teams are causing massive unrest, especially after reports that his secret police "goon squads," as some have called them, are "proactively arresting" Americans who have committed no crimes, as Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf admitted Tuesday.
At least one legal expert wants to know under what authority can Trump take these actions:
Former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics had a more incisive response:
On social media many expressed fear, anger, and outrage.
President Donald Trump claimed that mayors of large cities "want us to go in" their cities with soldiers to arrest people without cause. He then said a few moments later that the mayors should want the troops to come in but "they don't want us in."
He attacked the Democratic mayors of the cities, saying that crime is too high and thus he must send in soldiers for what some is calling the perfect example of a "false flag" attack.
"You have radical left Democrats running cities like Chicago and so many others that we just had a news conference," Trump said. "Unfortunately, that's the way it is. That's the facts. When you look at Chicago and you look at the job, Mayor Lightfoot sent me a letter yesterday. And I think in their own way, they want us to go in. There will be a time they'll want us to go in full blast. Right now we're sending people in to help. We're arresting a lot of people that have been very bad. As you say, I think we've done some amazing things. And I think you will see that if you compare our statistics to other countries. If you look at death rates -- if you look into the future. You will see some very, very impressive numbers for the united states."
Evidence has shown that the protests weren't part of the huge spike in cases.
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Every day, new polls come out that show Republicans in dire straits for the 2020 election. And it's no surprise — the economy is collapsing and the country is ravaged by a devastating pandemic, events that President Donald Trump is in no small part to blame for.
But the stress of impending doom isn't focusing GOP minds or encouraging them to band together. Instead, the pressure seems to be tearing them apart. And in their dysfunction, they may be ready to thwart the country's best chances of muddling through the present devastation further undermining their own electoral standing heading into November.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has been the subject of much internal scrutiny and discord, as multiple reports and public comments have revealed. Though at times she has sought the president's favor, she broken with him at key points recently — inspiring the wrath of his fierce congressional defenders.
CNN reported that she became a target at Tuesday's Republican conference:
Several House Republicans attacked House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming during a conference meeting Tuesday morning for supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci and splitting with President Donald Trump on a variety of issues over the past few months, three sources who were in the room told CNN.
Members including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ralph Norman of South Carolina all chimed in to air grievances against Cheney.
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During the conference meeting, Gaetz and Massie complained about Cheney supporting a primary challenge to Massie, the sources said. Jordan, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, listed areas where Cheney has publicly disagreed with the President, pointing to her resistance to Trump's plan to pull back troops in Germany and Afghanistan.
Roy hit Cheney for supporting Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, and complained that his Democratic opponent has retweeted some of Cheney's tweets.
But the acrimony also spilled over into public:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), too, let loose on Cheney to the media.
"I mean she tries to sabotage everything he tries to do in foreign policy, so I don't know whether she's a good advocate for the President or not," he told CNN.
He also said: "I don't think she's good for the country."
Meanwhile, rifts are forming over what to do with the next coronavirus relief bill. On that matter, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have found themselves on opposite sides.
The Washington Post's James Hohmann reported that Cruz fumed at Cotton's advocacy for more spending at a recent meeting, exclaiming: "What in the hell are we doing?"
According to Axios, the primary rift falls between Senate Republicans and the Trump White House.
"The Senate Republican lunch descended into chaos, several GOP lawmakers said, revealing that the White House and Republican senators remain far apart on key priorities in the next economic package," reported Alayna Treene. "The White House officials did little talking, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters. Instead, senators used the time to air their disagreements. 'There's a robust difference of opinion,' Hawley said."
Once again, Paul aired his frustrations publicly:
Democrats, on the other hand, remain united. The House passed a $3 trillion spending bill in May that the Senate and the White House have refused to move on.
“Republicans are in complete disarray,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), according to the Washington Post. “Totally incompetent. Totally in disarray. Totally at war with one another.”
CNBC reported Wednesday afternoon that the GOP is drifting toward potentially passing a bill that would extend the expanded unemployment insurance in the country after it is supposed to expire this week — but at a drastically reduced rate:
Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance benefit at a dramatically reduced level of $400 per month, or $100 a week, through the rest of the year, sources told CNBC.Congress passed a $600 per week, or $2,400 a month, boost to jobless benefits in March to deal with a wave of unemployment unseen in decades as states shut down their economies to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The policy expires at the end of July as the U.S. unemployment rate stands above 11%, despite two strong months of job growth.
The GOP, which has not made a final decision on how it will craft unemployment insurance in a bill set to be released this week, previously discussed extending the benefit at an additional $200 per week instead of $600. Democrats want to make the $600 per week sum available at least until next year.
This plan, it should be clear, would be disastrous. There are still many millions of people unemployed because of the initial downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Many are desperate and only scraping by as is. Slashing their benefits by $2,000 a month, with the virus resurgent and the economy at risk of getting worse, would be a brutal blow.
Even if Republicans were to eventually agree with Democrats and extend the $600 a week expanded unemployment (an unlikely scenario), observers expect the program will still lapse before it is renewed. This means recipients would face a gap in the payments they've been receiving, which could itself cause a major shock to the economy.
And all this rancor, dithering, and lack of urgency are likely to be electoral poison for the GOP. With a devastated economy and an out-of-control virus, the ruling party is likely to lose the White House and congressional seats no matter what it does. But guaranteeing economic distress and continued uncertainty for millions of families while the country is trying to recover from financial collapse would be a spectacular form of Republican self-sabotage.
On Wednesday, TMZ reported that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was fired and charged with murder after video showed him kneeling on the neck of George Floyd until he suffocated, is also facing multiple tax fraud charges, along with his wife.
"Chauvin and his estranged spouse, Kellie, were each hit Wednesday with 9 felony counts related to their alleged failure to pay state taxes in Minnesota — including counts for aiding and abetting the filing of false or fraudulent returns and additional counts for failing to file returns at all," said the report. "According to court docs, officials in Washington County, Minnesota claim the couple's tax issues date back to 2014 and they're accused of not filing at all for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. They each face the same 9 counts."
Prosecutors allege that the couple underreported tens of thousands of dollars from state taxes, with Chauvin working side jobs as a security officer and failing to report the income. They further allege that Chauvin and his estranged wife discussed their tax troubles on the phone while he was in custody for the Floyd killing.
The death of Floyd has sparked nationwide racial protests and a national debate over police accountability and reform.
Much of the analysis of President Donald Trump’s use of federal Department of Homeland Security officers against protesters in Portland, Oregon has discussed Trump’s actions from a legal or constitutional standpoint. But Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of international politics at Tufts University in Massachusetts, contemplates Trump’s possible political motivations in an op-ed published this week in the Washington Post.
“The official version is that federal officers from the Department of Homeland Security are protecting federal buildings that have been the focus of Black Lives Matter protests,” Drezner explains. “The more disturbing version is that unidentified U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are wearing camouflage gear, assaulting protesters and driving around in unmarked vans picking up random people. These actions have raised questions about the legality of what is being done…. I’ll confine my response to a more concrete question: what is the political gain that Donald Trump and his administration perceive they will garner from these actions?”
Drezner is dismissive of Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf’s claim that Trump is merely using DHS to protect Portland from “violent anarchists.”
“This is not actually about anarchy in Portland because the city seems both ordered and copacetic with what’s happening,” Drezner argues. “This is about something else. What political gain does Trump see from escalating and nationalizing this situation?”
Drezner goes on to say that Trump is motivated by either “incompetence” or “malevolence,” although he isn’t sure which one and finds the latter to be the more frightening possibility.
If it’s “incompetence,” Drezner argues, Trump has made a political miscalculation because he fails to realize that that using DHS officers against protesters is only giving his detractors yet another reason to vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, this year’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“It is possible that Trump mistakenly believes that this is a winning political move,” Drezner writes. “But there is another, darker possibility. As 2020 has progressed, two things have become increasingly clear: (1) Donald Trump is losing the presidential race to Joe Biden. (2) Trump is doing everything in his power to consolidate and expand his power over the executive branch. From loyalty tests to D-list appointments to his attraction to legally dubious executive orders, Trump has tried to surmount his fundamental weakness as a political leader and augment the awesome powers of the presidency.”
Drezner writes that although he isn’t sure, he is inclined to see “incompetence” as the president’s motivation with DHS and the Portland protesters — quickly adding that if he is wrong, that possibility “scares the bejeezus out of me.”
“With Trump, I tend to choose incompetence over malevolence in explaining his actions,” Drezner writes. “It is likely that he thinks this will be a winning political move, even if it is not. This is one of those instances, however, in which one should absolutely be prepared for malevolence. Democrats in Congress, the Biden campaign, the courts, the governors, civil society organizations, and even the U.S. military need to start preparing for the contingency of an immature president who refuses to leave the office. Because this is all too plausible an explanation for why Trump and his toadies are doing what they are doing right now.”
President Donald Trump is using federal troops to help him create a B-roll for his campaign commercials by sending them into cities that he doesn't like to supersede the police.
Daily Beast editor Sam Stein explained that while Trump's tactics may have worked in 2016, now that he's president, he can't blame anyone other than himself. All he can do is claim that somehow mayors are mismanaging the Black Lives Matter protests, most of which have been peaceful and quieted down since the months following George Floyd's death. It was only after Trump sent the troops into the streets that things started to get worse. It first happened in Washington, D.C., in which Park Police cleared the streets so Trump could take a photo-op outside of a church with a Bible. Then mothers were attacked in Portland, with protesters thrown in unmarked vans like a scene out of "V for Vendetta."
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace turned to former FBI counterintelligence expert Frank Figliuzzi, asking if Trump is "off" as he boasts about his dementia screening.
"The president is without a doubt uninformed, but he's also incredibly consistent with his constant arching and bending towards authoritarian practices. And Sam Stein is absolutely right to point us back towards the clearing of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square. Trump learned no lesson. He simply learned to replace active-duty military with border patrol agents."
"Since at least March he has wanted to be a wartime president," Figliuzzi said, recalling a White House press briefing in which Trump referred to himself as precisely that.
"He likes that theme," Figliuzzi continued. "He's going to go with it. He's not going to divert from it. In fact, as you just noted, he's going to announce that he's going to bring this really bad Hollywood, terrible movie, to cities near you. He's going to make it happen because that is going to stoke the fear that he needs in people to think the only way that they can get law and order is from him. As Tom Friedman points out, this is really a page right out of the textbook for tyrants. Historically, what dictators and authoritarian regimes do when their people turn against them is to pit their own people against each other."
He went on to say that he thinks that's exactly what Trump wants to happen.
"I heard a report this morning on Fox News of a Trump surrogate claiming that the entire city of Portland has been decimated," said Figliuzzi. "That's not true. We heard similar things about Seattle, and that kind of autonomous zone that they had taken the whole city away when really it was five or six blocks. The facts matter."
He then said that he wanted to deliver a special message to federal agents being deployed to cities.
"The other thing that matters is I want to make an appeal to the federal agents that are on the street of Portland and about to deploy to other cities. I was a federal agent for 25 years years. When I led FBI offices, one of the things I had to make certain of that I wasn't asking agents to do something that would put them in legal jeopardy and take them outside the scope of their employment. I'm here to appeal to those DHS agents today and say there will one day be a legal reckoning for what you are being asked to do. And you are compelled to stand by the rule of law and the Constitution. You are operating outside the scope of your employment when you take people off the street, nowhere near federal buildings when you don't tell them they're under arrest, when you don't tell them your name and your agency, and when you release them because you know you have no probable cause to arrest them. There will be a reckoning. You need to get your professional liability insurance paid up."
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"We're watching the deliberate destruction of the Post Office unfolding in front of us," said one journalist.
A formal complaint filed last week with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General by a Portland, Maine letter carrier alleges that city Postmaster James Thornton is unlawfully mandating the delay of first-class mail in order to prioritize the delivery of Amazon packages.
"Without consultation or input from any of the postal unions, postal customers, or mailing community, [DeJoy] has launched a series of actions that will undermine the Postal Service and are an insult to every postal worker."
—American Postal Workers Union
The complaint, first reported Tuesday by the Portland Press Herald, comes weeks after Louis DeJoy took over as U.S. Postmaster General and wasted little time implementing "major operational changes" and cost-cutting measures at the agency that critics warned would slow mail delivery and leave USPS unable to compete with private-sector competitors.
Before he was unanimously appointed by the USPS Board of Governors in May, DeJoy was a major donor to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The Board of Governors is controlled by Trump appointees.
Mark Seitz, the 16-year Postal Service veteran who lodged the Inspector General complaint on July 13, told the Press Herald that he suspects Thornton's orders to prioritize the delivery of Amazon packages over first-class mail came in response to pressure from national USPS leadership.
"Thornton is willfully delaying thousands of first-class and priority parcels so that fourth-class Amazon parcels can go out for delivery instead," reads Seitz's complaint.
The Press Herald summarized the changes Thornton is imposing at the Portland Post Office:
Typically, letter carriers sort a small amount of mail in the morning before they begin their routes. If mail isn't sorted by the time carriers leave, they return midday to collect it or an assistant carrier would step in and ensure that all the mail is delivered on time. Now, according to letter carriers inside the Portland post office, clerks are told to stop sorting by 8:30 am, an hour and a half before most carriers leave for their routes, and are then sent home to cut costs, leaving first-class parcels unsorted in the office overnight.According to letter carriers in Portland, it's medications, paychecks, and other first-class mail that's getting left in the office overnight. They say Amazon packages are taking priority at the order of the postmaster and other supervisors in the building.
Seitz's allegation, according to the Press Herald, "was corroborated by two other letter carriers who said they wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution."
The operational changes described by Portland mail carriers resemble a new initiative the USPS officially launched Wednesday titled "Expedited to Street/Afternoon Sortation (ESAS)."
Under the new program, according to a USPS document posted on Twitter by The Intercept's Ryan Grim, "city carriers will not sort any mail during the morning operation."
"They will clock in, retrieve mail that was pulled down from the previous day," the document reads. "Any unsorted First Class flats will go directly to the street with the carrier and be routed in delivery sequence while on the street. Upon return from the street delivery, carriers will sort all mail, as directed by management. During this time they will also handle any ancillary duties previously performed in the morning."
In response to the new initiative, Grim tweeted that "we're watching the deliberate destruction of the Post Office unfolding in front of us."
Asked about the new directives, an unnamed mail carrier told HuffPost reporter Dave Jamieson that "these orders are immoral to me."
"Is that our new motto? 'If we don't get it done today, we'll get it done tomorrow?'" the mail carrier said.
The changes come as the USPS is in the midst of a financial crisis manufactured by Congress and made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a sharp decline in mail volume. Congress approved $10 billion in emergency relief funds for USPS in March, but the Trump administration has refused to release the money as it seeks to force changes to the agency's finances and operations.
In a message to the American Postal Workers Union's 200,000 members Monday, the organization's National Executive Board accused DeJoy of advancing the Trump administration's privatization agenda by attempting to "undermine service to the point that the people no longer trust and support it."
"Without consultation or input from any of the postal unions, postal customers, or mailing community, he has launched a series of actions that will undermine the Postal Service and are an insult to every postal worker, every postal craft, and every postal customer," the board said.
"The American Postal Workers Union vehemently opposes any actions that slow down and undermine mail processing, delivery, and retail services and thus drives business and revenue away from the Postal Service," the message continued. "United with each other and the people of the country we will defeat those who aim to dismantle and sell off the public Postal Service."
In a large event from the East Room of the White House President Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered a plainly political campaign speech, claiming his top priority is protecting the American people, and promising to "immediately surge" agents from the Dept. of Justice and Homeland Security into Chicago.
"The Department of Justice will immediately surge federal law enforcement to the city of Chicago," Trump announced. "The FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago, to help drive down violent crime."
Reports show the a memo circulated within the Dept. of Homeland Security warned its agents are not trained for crowd control or general policing.
Trump continued his partisan remarks, attacking the "far left," and telling attendees that the citizens of Chicago have the right to live in "safety, dignity, and peace." He went on to denounce politicians who will not "do what is necessary to secure their neighborhood and to secure their city."
Trump's secret police force in Portland, Oregon is the subject of several lawsuits, and the mere presence of the heavily-armed, camouflaged paramilitary troops on the city's streets is legally questionable.
As a result, Trump went on to claim that in Chicago "murderers and violent criminals are breaking a wide range of federal laws, we have that, it's as wide as it can be."
Legally, federal officers cannot arrest Americans on non-federal charges unless state or local law enforcement deputizes them first, which is not expected to happen.
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In a preview of an interview set to air this Friday, Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan questions former GOP Rep. and current Trump supporter Jack Kingston, pressing him on one of the "maddest things I've ever heard from any politician" in his lifetime.
Mehdi asked Kingston about Trump's April comments where he suggested disinfectant can be injected into the human body to combat coronavirus.
"Even you, Jack, at that point must have said this guy shouldn't be in charge of a bake sale, let alone a pandemic response," Mehdi said.
According to Kingston, Trump was actually wondering if there's a way to "internally digest a medicine that could cure it," adding that he could understand Mehdi's "discomfort" at hearing Trump say such a thing at a press conference.
Mehdi repeated Trump's comments, telling Kingston that it was the "dumbest thing I've ever heard any world leader say in my entire life."
"That's what everybody said when Henry Ford said 'I want an automatic transmission,'" Kingston replied. "He had all the engineers at Ford Motor Company telling him it's impossible, and he kept setting it up."
"So Donald Trump is Henry Ford by suggesting bleach and disinfectant?" Mehdi shot back.
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Instead of debating the allegations from the Republican-run Lincoln Project, President Donald Trump's team is trying to take them down with attacks on them instead.
Conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote in his Wednesday column that we should look no further for evidence that the Lincoln Project videos are working than the recent attacks.
"The most common charge is that, as Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel put it, the organization has a 'record of grift' and 'profiting off attacking President Trump,' Boot quoted. "This charge has been faithfully repeated with no evidence by the lapdog conservative press, e.g., the National Review and Ben Shapiro."
It's "pretty rich," he said, coming from Trump's team after watching Trump's friends and top right-wing conservatives who have used the White House to benefit personally and for former employers.
"According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Trump campaign and affiliated committees have spent $22 million at Trump properties since he entered politics in 2015," reported Boot. "Now we learn that Trump directed the U.S. ambassador to Britain to ask the British government to steer the British Open to his golf resort in Scotland."
That, Boot said, is corruption, if McDaniel was confused. The Lincoln Project starting their group and hiring themselves to do the work is the everyday business of politics. The desperate attempt to attack them, however, shows the GOP's hand.
"There is no reason to believe that the 'Lincoln Project executives are simply pocketing the money that's channeled through their political consulting firms,'" Boot quoted the Daily Beast. "If those working on the Lincoln Project are compensated, well, they deserve it. They're turning out brilliant videos at a relentless pace that puts most political organizations to shame."
They're arguably also working hard to get their message out and do press and media around it. That's how normal campaigns run. As far as we know, no one at the Lincoln Project has met with a Russian lawyer to discuss "dirt" on any candidate, they're merely using the publicly available information from the president's own mouth.
The war against the Lincoln Project is really a "thinly disguised attack on its tactics," Boot said, noting the ways in which they pick apart Trump and the Republican Party from a moderate political position. The right-wing is furious, Boot described, for targeting vulnerable GOP senators. But the reality is that the Republican senators are only being held accountable for trusting that Trump would protect them or save them from being kicked out of office. As with Trump's allies sitting in jail, it's obvious that isn't the way Trump works.
He went on to cite a book from Stuart Stevens, who has consulted with the Lincoln Project, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. The book outlines the extent to which the GOP has been willing to turn its back on their longtime values to score votes with the far-right.
The book blasts today's Republican Party as "a white grievance party," claiming "there is an ugly history of code words and dog whistles in the party."
Any other parts of the GOP platform are "convenient fiction," Boot said.
"How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy, and the national debt in a matter of months? You don't. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren't deeply held.… [I]t had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was all a lie," Stevens' book reads.
"The most distinguishing characteristic of the current national Republican Party is cowardice," the book goes on. "The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise."
Like a farmer burning the fields, it appears the Lincoln Project thinks the only way to get the real GOP back to what it was is to burn the fields. Boot noted that you know things are bad when the GOP is going after conservatives like Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and John Bolton.
"If we are ever again to have a sane and sober center-right party in America — something we desperately need — then the Trumpified GOP must first be demolished," Boot closed. "That is what the Lincoln Project is trying to accomplish and more power to it. By leading the charge against the Republican Party, its founders have shown greater fealty to conservative principles than 99 percent of elected Republicans."
Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece, appeared in an interview with Mother Jones this Wednesday and gave some more insight into the psychology of Trump and how he came to be who he is today.
"In the interview, Mary, who has a PhD in clinical psychology, discussed her main thesis: Fred Trump was a 'straight-up sociopath' who psychologically destroyed his oldest son and her father, Freddy, who wanted to be a commercial pilot rather than take over the family real estate business, and Donald Trump was permanently warped by witnessing this abuse and by other dysfunction within the family. Donald, Mary said, 'learned…in order to be safe, in order to protect himself from my grandfather’s cruelty, he needed to make himself in his dad’s image, which I think was at the expense of his humanity. My grandfather had no redeeming characteristics…and [Donald Trump] no longer does.' She added that there 'was a point [Trump] wasn’t so cruel, not so deliberatively divisive,'" Mother Jones' David Corn writes.
Watch the full interview below:
President Donald Trump is desperate to host rallies and campaign events, but things haven't been going well. Now, Trump's company has filed an application to trademark the term "telerally" and "tellerallies." Three days after filing the application, Trump announced he would host "my first-ever TELE-rally."
According to the Washington Post, the application came from the Trump Organization, not the Trump campaign.
President Trump’s private company last week filed a trademark application that suggested it is starting a new line of business: organizing “telerallies” for political campaigns.
"That could mark a shift in the company’s business model," said the Post. "Since Trump took office, his business has been paid millions by political campaigns, including Trump’s own reelection effort. But it always remained one step away from politics itself: the company rented out ballrooms and office space to campaigns, but did not market itself as a political company or offer services related to rallies or reaching voters."
Eric Trump said in 2017 that he intended to stay out of politics, so the move is outside of what the younger Trump pledged.
"The trademark application suggests that has changed: by filing it, trademark experts said, the company is saying it intends to enter this business soon," the Post reported. But the application does not give much detail about the Trump Organization’s plans, or which customers it wants to serve."
Trump had tried to hold a rally recently in New Hampshire, but said that it was canceled due to "weather." He was mocked mercilessly, with people claiming that the reality was that Trump couldn't get a decent crowd to RSVP. If it was only due to the weather, it likely would have been rescheduled quickly and easily. That hasn't happened, however.
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