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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump‘s former aide Sebastian Gorka was involved in a scuffle with members of the press in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday as a host of right-wing commentators congregated to attend the president’s Social Media Summit.
Despite not inviting any representatives from Twitter to the event, Mr Trump used the platform to attack Republican former House speaker Paul Ryan over comments he made about the president in a new book and to lay into Facebook Libra and other cryptocurrencies, which he said were “not money” but should be subjected to banking regulations.
The day unfolded against the backdrop of a major defeat for Mr Trump, who abandoned plans to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census in favour of ordering federal agencies to turn over their data on the matter with a view to mining it for information.
A federal appeals court meanwhile seemed inclined Friday to side with a House committee seeking some of Mr Trump’s financial records as part of an investigation, a disclosure he is fighting.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard more than two hours of arguments in the case Friday, but the judges gave no indication when they would rule.
It seemed that at least two of the judges were inclined to side with the Democratic-led House committee, which in April issued a subpoena for records from Mazars USA, which has provided accounting services to Mr Trump. A lower court previously ordered the records turned over, but the president called the decision “crazy” and his lawyers appealed.
The case is one of several working its way through courts in which Mr Trump is fighting with Congress over records.
Earlier this month, the House Ways and Means Committee sued the Trump administration over access to the president’s tax returns. And in a case in New York, Trump sued to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from complying with House subpoenas for banking and financial records. A judge ruled against him, and Mr Trump is appealing.
The president has argued that House Committee on Oversight and Reform seeking the records from Mazars is out to get him and lacks a legitimate “legislative purpose” for its request. His lawyers have argued that congressional investigations are valid only if there is legislation that might result from them.
On Friday, Judge Patricia Millett told Trump lawyer William Consovoy at one point that he was suggesting that the president was “absolutely immune from any oversight.” And her colleague, Judge David Tatel, told Consovoy that what the House is seeking is “just financial disclosure which presidents for years have been doing.” Tatel was appointed by President Bill Clinton and Millett by President Barack Obama.
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Donald Trump's labour secretary Alex Acosta has resigned over his involvement in a controversial plea deal handed to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a decade ago.
Mr Acosta has maintained when he helped prosecute financier Jeffrey Epstein for sex crimes in 2008 he sought the best prosecution deal he could, but acknowledged the terms of the deal now look lenient.
Here's video of Donald Trump discussing Alex Acosta's apparent resignation -
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Donald Trump is celebrating his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un -
A new report alleges US Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost participated in a secret Facebook group used by members of her agency to share racist and violent commentary about migrants.
The stunning development arrives after Ms Provost addressed the group and its controversial content posted by current and former Border Patrol officers when they were later uncovered by national news outlets.
The Border Patrol chief rebuked the group at the time, saying in a public statement: “These posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honour and integrity I see — and expect — from out agents day in and day out.”
“Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable,” the statement read.
Ms Provost seemed to be well aware of the secret group long before her public statement, however, responding to a post in it just three months after she was appointed to chief of the patrol, The Intercept reported on Friday.
Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar suggesting the Minnesota congresswoman "ought not to be" in office".
Here's Alex Acosta defending himself in the wake of his resignation amid controversy over a secretive sweetheart deal he made with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein -
Donald Trump also praised his just-resigned labour secretary for being hispanic during his rambling spiel to reporters today -
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