Trump brags about debate performance while New York Times calls for Biden to drop out: Live
Biden and Trump squared-off at a CNN-moderated debate this week
President Joe Biden is facing mounting criticisms and calls for him to step out of the 2024 presidential race after his poor performance in the debate against Donald Trump – this time with the New York Times editorial board calling for him to drop out
“The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November,” the editorial board wrote on Friday.
It arrives after the president gave a fiery speech at a campaign rally in North Carolina where he acknowledged his age and limitations but said the stakes were too high and promised he could do the job
Meanwhile, Trump is capitalizing on the opportunity to flaunt his better-perceived performance during the debate by bragging on Truth Social. The former president claimed reporters praised him for having the “greatest debate performance”
Trump repeated lies and falsehoods throughout, often failing to answer questions. He declined to directly answer if he would accept November’s results.
Will the Supreme Court’s Jan 6 decision affect Trump?
The Supreme Court’s decision to narrow how Jan. 6 defendants may be charged with “obstruction of an official proceeding” will likely only not impact Donald Trump’s federal election interference case.
On Friday, the majority of the Supreme Court justices agreed the government needs to establish that a defendant attempted to or “impaired the availability or integrity” of a record, document, object or thing used in an official proceeding to charge someone with obstruction of an official proceeding.
They argued that the criminal charge was intended to be used in white-collar crime cases and, without specificities, could be used broadly just to give prosecutions the ability to seek 20-year maximum sentences.
Trump is unlikely to see significant change in the charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. He previously indicated the former president’s interference with fake electoral vote certificates would still fall under the new interpretation.
Democratic lawmakers are openly urging Biden to skip out on next debate
Biden officials have said the president has no plans to drop out and that he plans on taking part in the debate set to be hosted by ABC News in the fall.
Gustaf Kilander reports:
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Dems lawmakers are openly urging Biden to skip out on next debate
Elected Democrats urge Biden to either not take part in next debate or make sure the format is changed
Republican congressman trying to remove Biden using the 25th amendment
A Republican congressman from Texas is proposing legislation that would call on Vice President Kamala Harris to convene President Joe Biden’s cabinet and invoke the 25th amendment of the US Constitution.
Representative Chip Roy of Texas proposed the legislation after Biden’s lackluster debate performance against former president Donald Trump in Atlanta on Thursday.
Under the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, the vice president and the majority of cabinet officers can declare “that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and that the vice president may assume the duties of the presidency.
The legislation put forward by Roy specifically claims that Biden has “repeatedly and publicly demonstrated his inability to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency.”
“We’ll be filing it today or early next week, depending on the language being drafted,” Roy told The Independent.
New Jersey threatens to revoke Trump’s golf clubs liquor license after conviction
New Jersey law prohibits a person convicted of a crime “involving moral turpitude” from having a liquor license. Liquor licenses are required to be renewed every year by July.
Moral turpitude is a legal concept that broadly means deviant, immoral behavior that would be unacceptable by social standards or shock a community.
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New Jersey threatens to revoke Trump’s golf clubs liquor license after conviction
New Jersey law prohibits an individual convicted of a crime ‘involving moral turpitude’ from having a liquor license
Watch: Key moments from Biden and Trump’s first debate
ICYMI: Trump tells Biden to ‘get the hell out of here’ at lie-filled rally
Yesterday, Donald Trump spent his remarks at a campaign rally in Virginia repeating his nonsensical and false statements about abortion, immigration, the climate crisis and the 2020 election – told Biden that the country “doesn’t want” him and to “get the hell out of here.”
Alex Woodward reports:
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Trump tells Biden to ‘get the hell out of here’ at lie-filled rally
Trump says he doesn’t believe Biden can be replaced because he ‘polls better than those people’
Trump’s New Jersey properties are at risk of losing liquor license
Alcohol regulators in New Jersey are asking Donald Trump’s golf club properties in the state to prove they deserve a renewed liquor license after the former president was found guilty on felony charges of falsifying business records.
The hearing, which is set for July 19 approximately a week after his sentencing, is being requested by the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control after they found that Trump has a “direct beneficial interest” in at least two liquor licenses, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office said.
New Jersey law prohibits a person convicted of a crime “involving moral turpitude” from having a liquor license. Liquor licenses are required to be renewed every year by July.
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster as well as Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck are owned and operated by the Trump Organization which is currently run by Trump’s adult sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump.
But the alcohol regulators say their review found that the former president is “the sole beneficiary of the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust” - the financial entity that allows him to retain assets and own his businesses.
Now the golf clubs must prove to the state, by a preponderance of evidence, that they’re qualified to maintain the licensures.
Black Democrats share workplace photos after Trump’s bizarre debate line
Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that migrants threaten the availability of “Black jobs” during the first presidential debate has Black people, including members of Congress, asking: what is a Black job?
“They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” Trump said on Thursday night.
The former president’s comment was seemingly an attempt to expand his political reach to more communities of color through his commonly used anti-immigration rhetoric. Enacting strict immigration policies is one of the cornerstones of the former president’s campaign.
But his vague classification of jobs as exclusive to Black or Hispanic people did not land well.
“I’m still trying to figure out what a Black job is,” MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend said on All In With Chris Hayes on Friday.
“Am I at my Black job right now? I don’t know.”
Do presidential debates really matter?
Nearly everyone agrees — including President Joe Biden — that he botched the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election, but the question remains as to how much a debate performance matters when it comes to reclaiming the White House.
Kelly Rissman reports:
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Do debates matter? History hints at whether voters will forgive Biden’s rough night
‘Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,’ Obama said after Biden’s debate night blunder, showing there is time for the incumbent to bounce back
First presidential debate reins in 51m viewers
The first presidential debate, in which Joe Biden stumbled and Donald Trump repeated a barrage of lies and misinformation, was watched by 51.27 million viewers, according to CNN.
The Thursday night debate saw Biden’s befuddled performance spark “deep panic” among Democrats and glee among Trump supporters. The 90-minute event, which took place in Atlanta, was hosted by CNN but carried live by 22 networks.
CNN said on Friday that the debate drew the highest audience on its network with 9.53 million viewers, followed by 9.276 million on right-wing Fox News. Meanwhile, ABC News drew 9.21 million viewers and MSNBC got 4.122 million.
However, the number of people watching dropped more than 30 percent from 2020 when 73 million tuned in to the first presidential debate between Biden and Trump.
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