US President Donald Trump formallt accepts Republican nomination.
“I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that.”said Trump…Reports Asian Lite News
In a TV interview, US President Donald Trump has said that he “condemns all white supremacists”, following controversy over statements he made during the first presidential debate on September 29.
“I’ve said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys,” the BBC quoted the President as saying on Fox News on Thursday evening
“I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that.”
Based in the US with a presence in Canada, Proud Boys are a far-right, neo-fascist, male-only organization with ties to white supremacists that promotes and engages in political violence.
Trump, Biden trade early jabs in first presidential debate.
During the debate when Trump was asked whether he would condemn white supremacists and ask them to stand down during protests, the President said: “Proud Boys – stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what… somebody’s got to do something about antifa (anti-fascist activists) and the left because this is not a right-wing problem.”
The following day, the President tried to explain his stance at a White House briefing, saying he did not know who the Proud boys were.
Senior Republican members have also expressed unease over the President’s remarks at the debate, te BBC reported
During his time in office, President Trump has been accused of emboldening far-right groups with his rhetoric while being more willing to openly condemn those on the far-left.
“Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third debates when I easily won last time?” said Trump…Reports Asian Lite News
US President Donald Trump has opposed possible changes to the format of the two remaining presidential debates with his Democratic rival Joe Biden after the first one on September 29 quickly escalated into chaos.
Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the President said: “Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third debates when I easily won last time?
“I won the debate big, based on compilation of polls etc. Thank you.”
His tweet came a day after the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) said that they were mulling changes to the format in an effort to ensure that the remaining two encounters were less chaotic.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, CPD said: “Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”
It further said that it was “carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly”, without elaborating further.
Trump, Biden trade early jabs in first presidential debate.
During their first 90-minute presidential debate on Tuesday night which took a chaotic turn, insults such as “clown”, “liar”, “just shush for a minute” and “keep yapping” took centre-stage as the two rivals tore into each other in the presence Fox News anchor and moderator Chris Wallace.
The President frequently interrupted and heckled Biden, ignoring repeated pleas from Wallace, for Trump to stick to his allotted time, CNN reported.
Following the heckling, at one point, told the President: “Will you shut up, man?”
Trump campaign announces second term agenda.
Also on Thursday during a call with reporters, the President’s campaign manager Bill Stepien, said: “Joe Biden is a creature of this city. He’s been cozying up to this city’s wheelers, dealers and insiders for the last half-century. And lo and behold, that’s exactly who runs this commission,” NBC News reported.
Campaign spokesman Jason Miller calling them “permanent swamp monsters”.
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and First Lady Melania Trump depart the White House in Washington D.C. (Xinhua/Ting Shen/IANS)
US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he and his wife Melania have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this together,” he said in a tweet.
The next course of action for the President and the First Lady was not immediately clear as he has events scheduled for Friday in Florida and Saturday in Wisconsin.
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
The announcement came after White House adviser Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest aide, was confirmed to have tested positive for the virus on Thursday.
She had travelled with the President on Air Force One earlier this week, an informed source told The Hill news website.
After the revelation, Trump had tweeted: “Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible.
“The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process.”
Also in a statement, a White House official said contact tracing has been done, “and the appropriate notifications and recommendations have been made”, The Hill news website reported.
Hicks is the latest White House aide to test positive for the virus which has so far infected 7,277,352 people in the US and killed 207,791 others, making it the worst-hit country in the world.
National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien had tested positive, as well as a White House valet who serves the President.
Katie Miller, the Vice President’s communications director and the wife of Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller, were also infected.
South Carolina voters are evenly divided on the President’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy…Reports Asian Lite News
US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden were tied in the state of South Carolina, where the incumbent leader had previously held a 10-point over his rival.
The Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday found Trump at 48 per cent and Biden at 47 per cent among likely voters in South Carolina, down from the President’s 6-point advantage in the same poll from two weeks ago, reports The Hill news website.
South Carolina voters are evenly divided on the President’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy.
US President Donald Trump formallt accepts Republican nomination.
Forty-nine per cent viewed Biden favourably and unfavourably by 46 per cent., while the President revceived a 48-48 split on favourability.
According to CBS/YouGov poll released on Sunday, Trump and Biden were also neck-and-neck in the swing states of Georgia and North Carolina.
In Georgia 47 per cent of likely voters support Trump, versus 46 per cent for Biden, while in North Carolina, 48 per cent of likely voters supported the former Vice President, versus 46 per cent for the President.
Meanwhile, an NBC News-Marist poll also released on Sunday found Biden leading Trump in two other swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Last month, the CBS News Tracker revealed that the states of Florida and Texas remain tight battlegrounds in the November 3 presidential election, reports Politico news.
In the 2016 election, Trump won both the states.
No Democratic presidential candidate has won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Also late last month, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Biden ahead of Trump nationally by a margin of 51 per cent to 43 per cent.
In 12 battleground states, including Florida but not Texas, the former Vice President’s lead was 51 to 45.
The swing states are Florida, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
(140213) -- WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2014 (Xinhua) -- A plane of American Airlines is seen in snow at Reagan National Airport in Washington, capital of the United States, Feb. 12, 2014. Snowstorm hitting south U.S. has extended to its east areas, causing many flights cancelled or delayed. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu) (bxq)
It would reverse the move if Congress reaches a deal to extend aid…said Doug Parker…Reports Asian Lite News
(140213) — WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2014 (Xinhua) — A plane of American Airlines is seen in snow at Reagan National Airport in Washington, capital of the United States, Feb. 12, 2014. Snowstorm hitting south U.S. has extended to its east areas, causing many flights cancelled or delayed. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu) (bxq)
At least 19,000 American Airlines workers will be furloughed from Thursday, the Texas-based airline said in a statement, adding that it would reverse the move if Congress reaches a deal to extend aid.
In the statement issued on Wednesday, CEO Doug Parker said that he spoke with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that negotiations were continuing on an agreement that would include the extension of funds, The Hill news website reported.
“Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that any of these efforts will come to fruition. However, in an effort to encourage cooperation and keep hope alive or our team, I informed the Secretary that if these efforts to extend (the Payroll Support Program) are successful over the next few days, we will reverse our furlough processes and recall any impacted team members,” Parker was quoted as saying in the statement.
The CEO added that Congressional leaders were also discussing to pass a separate extension.
“I am extremely sorry we have reached this outcome. It is not what you all deserve. It is a privilege to advocate on behalf of the hardworking aviation professionals at American and throughout the industry, and you have my assurance that we will continue to do so in the days ahead.
“Please keep contacting your elected officials about the importance of reaching an agreement that will extend PSP. We are not done fighting,” he added.
Trump, Biden trade early jabs in first presidential debate.
“Clown”, “Liar”, “just shush for a minute” and “keep yapping” were the insults that will forever be the highlight of the first Trump-Biden US presidential debate 2020 with Fox News anchor and moderator Chris Wallace coming in for serious flak based on how he allowed American President Donald Trump to aggressively interrupt his Democratic challenger Joe Biden throughout the first US presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump snarled, grimaced and wagged his fingers at Biden repeatedly throughout the 90-minute debate. At one point, he said: “I’ll tell you Joe, you could never have done the job that we did. You don’t have it in your blood.”
“Everything he says here is a lie”, Biden snapped. The wrong guy, wrong night, wrong time.”
“This man doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Biden said several times during the evening.
The US election is 35 days away and it is increasingly likely that in the current Covid-19 situation, the results may not be known for days or weeks after November 3 — the election date.
“I’m 80 per cent sad, and 20 per cent mad as hell”, is how Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri, described her takeaways from the debate.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson thinks “much of the nation must have been appalled.” “I don’t know what the hell we watched.”
Donald Trump chased the “television audience away” according to veteran Democratic strategist James Carville. “It was unwatchable, 25 minutes in.”
In less than 10 minutes, the debate descended into personal attacks when the moderator failed to keep Trump quiet during Biden’s two minute talk time. Biden shot back at Trump, “Will you shut up, man?”
Reacting to the first debate performance, Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said “America was given a very clear choice”. She cast Trump as a man out of his depth and playing defence.
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“What we saw was a dog whistle through a bullhorn,” she said on late night television.
“That performance tonight is going to convince people Donald Trump is not worthy of another term” David Plouffe, former Barack Obama campaign manager, said in post debate comments.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden skewered each other with angry words over Trump’s coronavirus response, racial justice, the economy and each other’s fitness for the president’s office in their chaotic 90 minute meeting.
“The fact is that everything he’s said so far is simply a lie,” Biden said. “I’m not here to call out his lies. Everybody knows he’s a liar.”
Biden tore into Trump within the first five minutes. He told Trump to “get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap” and “get into his golf cart to the Oval Office and come up with a plan to save people”.
When Trump struggled to answer questions about reports he paid a measly $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, Biden waded in. “Show us your taxes. Show us your taxes,” he pushed, even as Trump claimed he has paid “millions in taxes”.
Recent polling shows Trump’s support among key voter groups has slipped since 2016. Biden stepped onto the stage leading in head to head national polls and by razor thin margins in some battlegrounds.
In the crucial battlegrounds of Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, where Trump was leading at this time in 2016, he is now trailing Biden. A RealClearPolitics poll of polls average puts Biden at about 6 points ahead of Trump nationally.
Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and ended the night refusing to say whether he would accept the election results. Trump’s coronavirus response was at the heart of the first presidential debate.
Biden called Trump a “failure” on the Covid-19 response. “You blew it”.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ripped into US president Trump’s Calling a “liar” and a man who “doesn’t know what he’s talking about”, in a response to the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 200,000 Americans, plunged the economy and upended life across the country.
President Trump and Biden waded into their first debate Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio with exactly 35 days until the 2020 US election.
In the 90 minute long schedule, Trump’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to remain front and center in this first 2020 presidential debate. The debate began with the hot button issue of Trump’s recent Supreme Court pick.
Trump picked Amy Coney Barrett days after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sparking fears among Democrats that Trump is pushing through his agenda to move the country’s highest court to a 6-3 conservative majority.
US President Donald Trump formallt accepts Republican nomination.
“And we just, we won the election and therefore we have the right to choose her and very few people knowingly would say otherwise,” Trump said on his choice of Barrett.
“Everything he says here is a lie,” Biden snapped. “The wrong guy at the wrong time.”
“This man doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Biden said in response to many of Trump’s claims.
Biden also mocked Trump for his controversial remarks on using bleach as a possible remedy for the coronavirus.
For Trump, this pivotal moment in his re-election campaign comes days after a New York Times investigation revealed shocking details on Trump’s taxes. Trump, the Times said, paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
Recent polling shows Trump’s support among key voter groups has slipped since 2016. Biden stepped onto the stage holding leading in head to head national polls and by razor thin margins in some battlegrounds.
In the crucial battlegrounds of Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan where Trump was leading at this time in 2016, he is now trailing Biden. A Real Clear Politics poll of average puts Biden at about 6 points ahead of Trump nationally.
Trump spent a good part of the day in debate prep, with many of his close aides in tow. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway were in the mix.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on network television that she is watching the debate with “great interest”.
She had a piece of pre-debate advice for Biden. “Don’t get pulled into all the craziness”, she said and said Biden must just tell his story to the American people.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace is moderating the showdown and has broken up the debate into six parts: the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court, Trump’s and Biden’s records, the economy, the integrity of the election and “race and violence in our cities.”
Trump has been drumming up the notion that he is preparing an “all-out” assault on Biden. Trump will try, as he has done before, to paint Biden’s four decades in Washington as proof that he is incapable of closure and that his son Hunter Biden benefited from corruption.
Two more debates are coming up next month, on October 15 at Miami, Florida and October 22, at Nashville, Tennessee.
US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has released his tax returns just hours ahead of the first debate with President Donald Trump. Biden and his wife Jill paid nearly $288,000 in income tax last year, according to the filings.
He has also called on the President to release his returns, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The move follows a report by the New York Times that Trump paid just $750 in income tax in 2016. Trump said the claims were “fake news”.
For years, Trump has been criticised by Democrats for not making his tax returns public as his predecessors did.
He says his tax returns are currently being audited, and that he will not release them while an inspection is continuing. There is no legal reason why the president cannot release his returns while an audit is taking place.
Biden’s tax returns showed he paid $346,000 in federal taxes and other payments last year on an income of nearly $985,000 before seeking a refund of nearly $47,000 they said they had overpaid.
Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield described the release of the returns as a “historic level of transparency”, saying: “Mr President, release your tax returns or shut up”.
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Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff reported $3,018,127 in taxable income, most of this was from Mr Emhoff’s partnership at a law firm. The pair paid $1,185,628 in taxes.
The New York Times claimed Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years of tax records that were examined.
After the success of The Apprentice TV show, he did initially pay significant taxes – $95 million over 18 years. But he later got most of that back via a $72.9 million federal tax fund. The refund remains under review.
The newspaper also alleges Trump claimed tax deductions on expenses including $70,000 of hair styling for television
The top-ranked Democrat in Washington has called US President Donald Trump’s alleged tax avoidance a question of “national security”.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, asked whether Trump owed money to foreign interests, following an article on his financial records by the New York Times.
It alleges Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax in both 2016 and 2017. The President called the report “fake news”, the BBC reported on Monday.
Speaking on NBC, Pelosi said the report showed that “this president appears to have over $400 million in debt”.
“To whom? Different countries? What is the leverage they have?” she asked, adding: “So for me, this is a national security question.”
“The fact that you could have a sitting president who owes hundreds of millions of dollars that he’s personally guaranteed to lenders, and we don’t know who these lenders are,” she said, and suggested that Trump may be indebted to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“What does Putin have on the president politically? Personally? Financially?”
According to the explosive report in the New York Times – which says it obtained tax records for Trump and his companies over two decades — Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. It adds that the president is personally responsible for more than $300m in loans, which will come due in the next four years.
It does not suggest Trump received any previously unknown income from Russia, though it said that the president had earned some money from foreign sources.
The records reveal “chronic losses and years of tax avoidance”, it says.
In a tweet on Monday, the president accused the media of bringing up his taxes and “other nonsense with illegally obtained information and only bad intent”.
He said he had “paid many millions of dollars in taxes” but received tax credits as well. Responding to the accusations of losses, Trump added he had “very little debt” compared to the value of his assets.
Trump has faced legal challenges for refusing to share documents concerning his fortune and business. He is the first president since the 1970s not to make his tax returns public, though this is not required by law.
The New York Times said the information scrutinised in its report was “provided by sources with legal access to it”.
The report came just days before Trump’s first presidential debate with his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, and weeks before the 3 November election.
The New York Times said it reviewed tax returns relating to President Trump and companies owned by the Trump Organization going back to the 1990s, as well as his personal returns for 2016 and 2017.
It said the president paid just $750 in income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, while he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years, “largely because he reported losing much more money than he made”.
The newspaper also claims that “most” of Trump’s biggest businesses – such as his golf courses and hotels – “report losing millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars year after year”.
US President Donald Trump formallt accepts Republican nomination.
US President Donald Trump formallt accepts Republican nomination.
US President Donald Trump or his company paid $145,400 in taxes to India and received $2.3 million from projects there, according to The New York Times.
The newspaper said the taxes were paid by him or his companies in 2017 and the $2.3 million in income came during Trump’s first two years in office.
The New York Times did not give details of the income Trump derived from India. It was also not clear if it was Trump’s personal income or his organisation’s.
Before he became the President, Trump was principally a real estate developer running the Trump Organization, besides dabbling in show business.
He had visited Mumbai in 2014 before plunging into politics to meet with developers of the local Trump Tower and other business people.
The Trump Organization lists four residential projects located in Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Gurugram.
The projects have local associates and typically in such deals they run them and pay a royalty or other fees to the Trump Organization, mainly for branding.
The web sites of the Trump Tower projects in Kolkata and Pune carry the disclaimer that the properties are “not owned, developed or sold by the Trump Organization or any of their current or former principals or affiliates.”
The newspaper, which said that it had received copies of Trump’s income tax records, claimed that the self-proclaimed billionaire had paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2017, his first year in office.
It said that for 10 of the previous 15 years, he had not paid any taxes because his losses were higher than his income.
The disclosures on Sunday evening by the New York Times, which did not say how it received the copies of the tax filings, came as Trump was getting ready for a debate with Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Biden’s campaign immediately released an ad comparing Trump’s $750 taxes reported by the Times with that paid typically by the teachers, which is about 10 times as much, and by nurses and firefighters.
Trump has refused to disclose his income tax filings which all Presidents had in recent times. He said he will not make them public while the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), the federal tax authority, was auditing his tax filings, and would release them only after the audits were over.
At a news conference on Sunday, Trump called the Times report “fake news”.
He said, “Actually, I paid tax, but — and you’ll see that as soon as my tax returns — it’s under audit. They’ve been under audit for a long time.”
But he refused to say how much tax he had paid.
Trump also said that he had been negotiating with the IRS for a long time.
The Times said that he made $73 million from projects abroad, most of it from golf properties in Ireland and Scotland.
He also received $3 million from the Philippines and $1 million from Turkey, which along with India, the Times asserted, were “countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders or thorny geopolitics”.
Outside of the US, India with four has the most number of Trump Organizaiton-affiliated projects.
The Trump Tower built in Mumbai in association with the Lodha Group says on its website that apartment prices start at Rs 7.8 crore.
Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., are listed on the Trump Organization web sites as executive vice presidents.
Donald Trump Jr. had visited India on a business trip in 2018.
