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Trump warned by NRA over background checks – GreenwichTime

President Donald Trump has repeatedly told lawmakers and aides in private conversations that he is open to endorsing extensive background checks in the wake of two mass shootings, prompting a warning from the National Rifle Association and concerns among White House aides, according to lawmakers and administration officials.

Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday before visiting Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, where weekend shootings left 31 dead, said there “was great appetite for background checks” amid an outcry over government inaction in the face of repeated mass shootings

Source: Trump warned by NRA over background checks – GreenwichTime

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Trump Visits Dayton and El Paso

President Trump arrived Wednesday morning at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where White House officials said he planned to thank emergency and hospital workers and visit with families and victims of the city’s tragic shooting.

The president was greeted at the airport by the city’s mayor and other officials. His motorcade passed two recreational vehicles adorned with pro-Trump signs and flags as well as one man standing outside of a store advertising survival supplies with a sign that appeared to object to so-called red-flag laws that prevent people with mental illness from getting guns: “Red Flag is Dystopic Future.”

He planned to visit El Paso later in the day.

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Trump calls off planned trip to Shell’s cracker plant in Beaver County | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The President was expected to tour the petrochemical complex in Beaver County. There is no word of rescheduling as of now.

Emergency Services Director Eric Brewer said there was no mention of postponing or rescheduling the event, which was supposed to include a tour of Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical complex in Potter Township and a speech about the economy and manufacturing.

Source: Trump calls off planned trip to Shell’s cracker plant in Beaver County | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments | Fox News

President Trump drew a torrent of criticism from Democrats on Saturday over a series of Twitter messages aimed at U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and the Baltimoredistrict that Cummings represents in Congress.

But just a few years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders — a candidate seeking the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination — took his own shots at Baltimore, a struggling Northeast city grappling with high rates of violent crime, drug abuse, poverty and political corruption.

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders said during a visit to the city’s West Baltimore section in December 2015, the Baltimore Sun reported. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”

Source: Bernie Sanders blasted Baltimore as ‘Third World country’ and ‘disgrace’ in past comments | Fox News

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Is Anything Worth Increasing the Risk of Trump’s Reelection? Wasting time and money is important to some people!

With respect to a doomed impeachment drive, or selecting an iffy 2020 candidate, Democrats need a sober look at the consequences of risky behavior.

Republicans seem more unified in their quest. Perhaps that is why Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016. The way things look now, he just needs to just show up for the election to get a win in 2020.

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Barr says Mueller asked DOJ to send letter limiting testimony to ‘boundaries’ of report

Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News on Tuesday that it was former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team who asked the Justice Department to send Mueller a letter telling him to keep his upcoming testimony to House lawmakers “within the boundaries” of the public version of his Russia probe report.

Source: Barr says Mueller asked DOJ to send letter limiting testimony to ‘boundaries’ of report

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Trump administration to propose rule that would cut 3.1 million people from food stamp program: report | Fox News

The Trump administration is set to propose a rule Tuesday that would cut about 3.1 million Americans from the food-stamp program in an effort to save taxpayers about $2.5 billion a year, reports said.

The U.S. has seen low levels of unemployment, which is seen as a major factor in low levels of participation in the program. President Trump tweeted earlier this month that food stamp use is at a 10-year low. Politifact verified the claim.

Reuters, citing a U.S. Department of Agriculture, reported that residents in 43 states who receive help from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, automatically enroll in the food-stamp program, known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Source: Trump administration to propose rule that would cut 3.1 million people from food stamp program: report | Fox News

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Graham declines to condemn racist Trump tweets and calls Democratic congresswomen ‘a bunch of communists’ – CNNPolitics

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, declined on Monday to condemn the President over his racist tweets against several minority members of Congress, instead calling them a “bunch of communists.”

Graham’s comments, which were later tweeted out by Trump, are the latest example of congressional Republican alignment with Trump in the face of fierce controversy.
“Well, we all know that (New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country,” Graham said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.” “They’re calling the guards along our border, the border patrol agents, ‘concentration camp guards.’ They accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins. They’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America.”

Source: Graham declines to condemn racist Trump tweets and calls Democratic congresswomen ‘a bunch of communists’ – CNNPolitics

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Trump, ‘not backing down’ in effort to count citizens amid census fight, announces executive order | Fox News

President Trump, speaking at the White House on Thursday, announced that he would “immediately” issue an executive order to get an accurate count of non-citizens and citizens in the United States — a measure Trump said would be “far more accurate” than relying on a citizenship question in the 2020 census.

Source: Trump, ‘not backing down’ in effort to count citizens amid census fight, announces executive order | Fox News

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UK ambassador to US who criticized Trump resigns, British Foreign Office says | Fox News

Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the U.S. who criticized President Trump, has resigned, the U.K. Foreign Office said Wednesday.

Ambassador Kim Darroch — in documents leaked in recent days — slammed the Trump administration as “diplomatically clumsy and inept,” and said he doubted it would become “substantially more normal.”

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In a resignation letter on Wednesday, Darroch said “the current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.”

Source: UK ambassador to US who criticized Trump resigns, British Foreign Office says | Fox News