Trump news: Lawsuit alleging president profits from White House moves forward, as he rages over impeachment in furious tweets
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has lashed out at moves towards his impeachment in a series of angry tweets claiming he has “done more than any president”.
“You don’t impeach presidents for doing a good (great!) job,” he insisted, before accusing his rivals of “treasonous crimes”.
It followed his frequently incoherent speech to Republican members of Congress about the Clean Waters Act, in which he suggested the US was uninhabited until 25 years ago.
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“By the way today we have the cleanest air, we have the cleanest water that we’ve ever had in the history of our country,” he said.
Mr Trump then appeared to suggest that the history of the US was merely 25 years long.
“Let’s say the history of our country over the last 25 years, I would say that the first few years they probably had cleaner air and cleaner water because there was nobody here.”
The president was speaking in Baltimore, a city which he attacked repeatedly last summer.
He also celebrated a "historic milestone" when the senate approved his 150th federal judge, and sent out some rogue tweets about vaping.
Donald Trump's furious attempt to list his "achievements" may be a response to the resolution passed by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, which is seen as seen as a major step forward in the panel’s investigations into the president.
Meanwhile the American economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has demolished Mr Trump's claims about the US trade war with China.
The president has repeatedly claimed that China is paying the tariffs. "Trump's claim is just false," says Mr Krugman.
Ivanka Trump reportedly told a fundraising event full of rich donors that she got her "moral compass" from her father.
Donald Trump was greeted by a giant balloon depicting him as a rat when he arrived in Baltimore.
It was a reference to the president's description of the city as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live".
The commander-in-chief was also roundly mocked on social media after he mispronounced his vice-president's name as "Mike Pounce" and blamed energy-efficient lightbulbs for making him look orange.
"Democrats are crying foul after ABC apparently ran an advert showing a picture of representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engulfed in flames, revealing a bunch of skulls behind it, during the third Democratic debates in Houston," reports Clark Mindock.
"The video includes a woman attacking Ms Ocasio-Cortez for her embrace of socialism, and claiming that socialism has led to massacres in the past."
The congresswoman criticised ABC for airing the advert in a series of tweets posted on Friday.
"They profit from burning my likeness on TV," she said.
"But who pays for heightened security? Who answers the phones for the threats resulting from a violent, false ad?"
A US court has revived a lawsuit claiming Donald Trump violated the constitution by profiting from foreign and domestic officials who visited his hotels and restaurants, adding to the corruption claims against the president.
The lawsuit accuses him of failing to disentangle himself from his businesses, making him vulnerable to inducements by officials seeking to curry favor.
The case alleged violations of the US Constitution’s anti-corruption “emoluments” provisions, which ban the president from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional consent.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a lower court ruling that had thrown out the case because the people who sued could not prove they were harmed by the president's actions.
Dozens of protesters gathered in downtown Baltimore yesterday as Donald Trump made his first visit to the city since he blasted it as "disgusting" and "rodent-infested" in hotly debated tweets in July.
The chilly reception came after the president lashed out on Twitter at Elijah Cummings, a prominent African-American congressman from Baltimore, calling him a "brutal bully" who should concentrate on cleaning up his "disgusting, rat and rodent infested" district rather than criticizing the work of immigration officers on the Mexican border.
Mr Trump received a warmer reception behind closed doors, while speaking at an annual retreat for House Republicans.
"We are going to fight for the futures of cities like Baltimore that have been destroyed by decades of failed and corrupt rule," he said.
The president is expected to meet with Moon Jae-in, the South Korean leader, at the United Nations this month.
Seoul and Washington are working to fix a date for the meeting during Mr Moon's trip to New York for the UN General Assembly later this month, the South Korean leader's spokesperson said.
The announcement came days after North Korea said it was willing to reopen denuclearisation talks with the United States within the month.
The negotiations stalled after a failed summit in February between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but the two agreed to revive talks when they met in June at the inter-Korean border.
Donald Trump has, once again, blamed illegal immigration for societal problems in the US.
"Illegal Immigration costs the USA over 300 Billion Dollars a year," he claimed on Twitter.
"There is no reason for this, and things are being set in motion to have this number come WAY DOWN. Democrats could end Loopholes and it would be a whole lot easier, and faster."
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