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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.
It appears the president is now in 2020 campaigning mode and plugging the Republican Party, as the Democratic race intensifies.
"The third Democratic debate started and ended with Julian Castro," argues our columnist Holly Baxter.
"'I worked under President Obama too!" the former secretary of housing and urban development reminded the crowd, when Joe Biden got a little too carried away with his own record under the popular former Democratic president; later, he made the charge that “Biden wants to take credit for the good things Obama did” while ignoring the bad."
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Ted Cruz, the Republican senator who lost the party's presidential primary race to Donald Trump, says he hopes to run again for the nomination in 2024.
“Look, I hope to run again,” he said at an event on Friday, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
“We came very, very close in 2016. And it’s the most fun I’ve ever had in my life."
Mr Trump insulted the senator's wife and his father during the 2016 race.
A lawsuit against Donald Trump that alleged the president’s “vast, complicated and secret” business deals were creating conflicts of interest has been restored by an appeals court after it was previously thrown out in 2017.
A US federal appeals court in New York revived the lawsuit after a lower court had previously concluded that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue. The appeals panel rejected that reasoning, allowing the case to once again move forward.
The lawsuit was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a left-leaning government watchdog group that regularly files suits against the administration.
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Donald Trump inadvertently renamed his vice-president by mispronouncing Mike Pence’s name during a speech.
The US president referred to “Mike Pounce” as he reeled off a list of Republicans in attendance at the party’s annual retreat in Baltimore.
Twitter users were quick to pounce on the error and poke fun at the leader, while memes likening the vice-president to a cat were soon being circulated on social media.
“Mike Pounce sounds like someone who guest MCed a Beastie Boys track,” tweeted historian Kevin Kruse.
The black man Donald Trump called “my African American” has quit the Republican Party and accused the president of having a “white superiority complex”.
Gregory Cheadle said he made the decision following Mr Trump’s attacks on four Democrat congresswomen and Baltimore representative Elijah Cummings.
“I’m just sick and tired of the way blacks and other people of colour have been treated by this administration and by the GOP,” Cheadle told CNN.
He said he would not use the term “racist” to describe the president but said Mr Trump had a “white superiority complex” and claimed the Republican party was pursing a “pro-white” agenda.
The middle-aged golfers had finished their last single-malt whiskies late one night this July, and the bartenders were closing up.
Then a bus pulled up to the Trump Turnberry hotel on Scotland’s west coast with a load of new guests, several staff members said. The doormen, dressed in kilts with long feathers protruding from their berets, ushered in more than 50 uniformed US military service members.
After gawking at a fountain encircled by stone horses and classical statues, the troops piled their duffel bags around the table of orchids under the crystal chandeliers of the wood-panelled lobby, checked into their rooms and headed to the bar to begin ordering some whisky of their own.
Throughout President Donald Trump’s term, officials said this week, the US military has been paying his money-losing Scottish golf resort to provide five-star accommodations to US military flight crews and other personnel during refuelling stops on trips to and from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other locations.
Taking several turns and going down multiple tangents, Joe Biden could not seem to answer a simple question about the legacy of slavery during the third Democratic debates.
The former vice president mentioned record players, discussed education and talked about bringing social workers into homes in low-income communities when debate moderator Linsey Davis asked him: “What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”
Mr Biden began by addressing “institutional segregation” and discussing his track record, as well as the need for social reforms, before making several controversial statements that sparked outcry online shortly after the debates on Thursday night.
As a lawsuit is restored alleging Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency, his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is joking about the issue while delivering a speech inside a Trump property:
A giant balloon showing Donald Trump as a rat has been paraded by protesters in Baltimore ahead of the president’s visit to the city he insulted two months ago.
Mr Trump called the Maryland city a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live”.
In his first visit there since his comments caused a storm of anger, he is taking part in a fundraiser before addressing a Republican Party dinner.
It was not clear whether he would get a chance to see the latest inflatable to mock him. The “Trump Rat” depicts him as a giant rodent with slicked back yellow hair, a red tie and holding a mobile phone.
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