Trump news: President says Bahamas full of 'bad gang members', as official threatens to fire NOAA employees over Hurricane Dorian claims
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina on Monday in support of Republican Mark Harris, who faces a strong challenge in a special election in a district that the president carried overwhelmingly in 2016.
During an impromptu press conference before boarding his plane to that state, Mr Trump shocked reports by telling them that he is hesitant to allow Bahamians to enter the US after Hurricane Dorian because the island is full of "bad gang members". Also during that press conference, the president repeatedly said that Barack Obama had given him a present by leaving judicial vacancies, and repeatedly insisted that pundits had misanalysed the 2018 election results — in which Republicans lost control of the House — because his party had retained control of the Senate in an election year that favoured the GOP.
Speaking of Hurricane Dorian, Mr Trump's use of a sharpie to modify a hurricane projection map has kept in the news, with reports indicating that employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been threatened by the Commerce Department if they contradicted the commander-in-chief when he claimed that the storm was set to smash into Alabama.
As Mr Trump returns to campaign mode once again, the president has also faced a burgeoning field of Republican challengers to him in 2020, prompting him to declare that he would not join a debate stage with any of them.
Mr Trump also engaged in a fight with Chrissy Teigen and her husband, John Legend, who called the president a "p**** a** b****".
And, Mr Trump has also been accused of treating foreign policy "like a gameshow", after talks with the Taliban broke down before they even started at Camp David.
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The president's remarks honouring the responders to the shootings last month have now concluded.
He did not take any questions.
In case you missed it, House Democrats are getting closer to official impeachment efforts against Mr Trump.
In a statement, House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler said that he would put a vote before the committee that would solidify rules and formalize procedures as they move closer to introducing articles of impeachment.
"The adoption of these additional procedures is the next step in that process and will help ensure our impeachment hearings are informative to Congress and the public, while providing the President with the ability to respond to evidence presented against him," Mr Nadler said in a statement. "We will not allow Trump’s continued obstruction to stop us from delivering the truth to the American people.”
The rules would allow, among other things, the committee to question witnesses longer.
A new report suggests that Mike Pence and John Bolton both opposed a planned meeting between Donald Trump and Taliban leaders at Camp David, which was scrapped over the weekend.
The report comes from NBC News, which cited US officials and others who were briefed on the discussion surrounding the potential meeting, which would have come 18 years after the US was attacked by the terrorist group.
"The Vice President reserves his counsel for the President, and anyone claiming to know his thoughts on the matter aside from the President is mistaken," a spokesperson for the vice president said in a statement.
Earlier today, Mr Trump went on the offensive against his three Republican primary challengers, after former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford joined the race over the weekend.
Mr Trump called the group — which includes Bill Weld and Joe Walsh — the "Three Stooges" during a morning Twitter attack.
"When the former Governor of the Great State of South Carolina, @MarkSanford, was reported missing, only to then say he was away hiking on the Appalachian Trail, then was found in Argentina with his Flaming Dancer friend, it sounded like his political career was over," Mr Trump tweeted.
"It was, but then he ran for Congress and won, only to lose re-elect after I Tweeted my endorsement, on Election Day, for his opponent. But now take heart, he is back, and running for President of the United States."
We are moments away from a briefing from acting US Customs and Border Protection chief Mark Morgan, in the White House.
It appears he is a few minutes late.
Acting CBP chief Mark Morgan's briefing will focus on the situation at the US-Mexico border.
Acting CBP chief Mark Morgan is now addressing reporters in the White House.
He's detailing information from the month of August, and has claimed that Congress has "failed" and "continued to fail" to pass immigration overhauls.
Mr Morgan says the Trump administration's efforts on the US border are unprecedented.
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