Trump news: Under-fire postmaster general says he has 'no intention' of returning mail sorting machines
Senate committee interrogates US Postal Service chief as GOP prepares for 2020 convention
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump said he would send law enforcement officers to polling locations for this November's presidential election in comments branded "an attack on America" by a former White House ethics chief.
“We're going to have sheriffs, and we're going to have law enforcement, and we're going to have hopefully US attorneys, and we're going to have everybody and attorney generals (sic),” Mr Trump told Fox News after host Sean Hannity asked if he would have "poll watchers".
Meanwhile, his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said on Friday there was “no intention” to return mail sorting machines that were removed in recent weeks, after it was reported that at least 671 machines were removed in critical voting states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Georgia, among others.
The postmaster general said those machines were “not needed”, while adding that he supports vote-by-mail efforts amid the pandemic.
Mr DeJoy, who has overseen sweeping cuts at the agency following his appointment by the president in June, told a US Senate committee he would be voting by mail in fall elections and insisted that the "American people should feel comfortable that the Postal Service will deliver on this election" despite the president's constant threats to undermine the agency.
On Friday, the president and his family held a funeral service for his brother Robert Trump, who died on 16 August. He was 71. The president held a service in the East Room of the White House.
A group of anti-Trump Republicans have meanwhile seized on the arrest of former Trump campaign chief and senior White House adviser Steve Bannon, who has pleaded not guilty to fraud in an an alleged US-Mexico border wall crowdfunding scheme. He is the subject of an advert targeting Fox News views during next week's 2020 Republican National Convention.
GOP officials and the president are preparing for the event following Joe Biden's official nomination as the Democrats' nominee after his party's week-long convention, during which Democrats and several Republicans condemned the current administration and the president's response to the coronavirus pandemic and economic fallout.
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Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, has revealed he and his team discovered mail sorting machines "thrown outside" and ruined after being left outside in the rain.
It comes amid an apparently deliberate attempt by the White House to slow deliveries ahead of what is expected to be an unprecedented surge in mail-in ballots at November's election due to coronavirus.
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Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, has revealed he and his team discovered mail sorting machines “thrown outside” and ruined after being left outside in the rain.
It comes amid an apparently deliberate attempt by the White House to slow deliveries ahead of what is expected to be an unprecedented surge in mail-in ballots at November's election due to coronavirus.
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A 13-year-old boy with a verbal stutter shared the advice from Joe Biden that helped him find his voice to speak during Thursday night's Democratic National Convention.
Brayden Harrington, of New Hampshire, met the presidential candidate just a few short months ago. But in that time, the teenager was able to grow his confidence in his speaking thanks to the understanding of the former vice president, who overcame a stutter as a child.
“Without Joe Biden I wouldn't be talking to you today,” Brayden said in the video message. “He told me that we were members of the same club, we… stutter.”
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