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Social media platform says campaign used 'banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol'
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Your support makes all the difference.Facebook has removed dozens of ads from Donald Trump's re-election campaign invoking Nazi imagery against political opponents while he has publicly sparred with the US Supreme Court and his ex-national security adviser John Bolton over allegations in a new book.
The social media platform said its decision to pull dozens of Trump campaign ads that invoked Nazi symbols to mark political opponents was based on the company's policy against "using a banned hate group's symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol."
Bolton say the “stunningly uninformed” president begged Chinese premier Xi Jinping for help with his re-election, said invading Venezuela would be “cool”, believed Finland was in Russia and did not realise the UK was a nuclear power.
Several newspapers published extracts from The Room Where it Happened, which hits shelves next week and paints a damning portrait of the Trump White House and a blustering president willing to do “personal favours for dictators he likes”, ignorant of foreign policy and motivated predominantly by “re-election calculations”.
Trump wasted no time in angrily hitting back at Bolton, disparaging him as “a washed up guy” on Fox News and taking to Twitter to label him: “A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war.”
A senior State Department official meanwhile has resigned over the president's poor handling of racial tensions in the wake of the police killings of black Americans, as the president lashed out over the Supreme Court's ruling that halts the administration's bid to end DACA, an Obama-era programme that provided a legal path for migrants who entered the US without legal permission to stay in the country.
The president, who has two of his own appointees on the high court, threatened the possibility of more nominees, underscoring the future of SCOTUS as a larger campaign issue in November.
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Trump on SCOTUS DACA decision: 'Now we have start this process all over again'
After calling the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA a "shotgun blast to the face," Donald Trump said the decision was a "political one" and implied its decision was "not consistent with the rule of law".
The decision on Thursday blocks his attempt to end an Obama-era policy that allowed people who entered the US as children to remain in the country legally.
"So now we have to start this process all over again," he said
Trump 'releasing a new list of Supreme Court nominees' following DACA decision
Two conservative justices appointed by the president to the US Supreme Court have apparently have not yielded the kind of results he wanted, following the high court's decision decision to uphold DACA and allow Dreamers who entered the US without legal permission as children to remain in the country.
Now, he "will be releasing a new list of Conservative Supreme Court Justice nominees, which may include some, or many of those already on the list, by September 1, 2020," he said, heightening the role of the future of SCOTUS as a central campaign issue.
"If given the opportunity, I will only choose from this list, as in the past, a Conservative Supreme Court Justice ... Based on decisions being rendered now, this list is more important than ever before (Second Amendment, Right to Life, Religous Liberty, etc.) – VOTE 2020!"
Facebook removes dozens of Trump ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' by using Nazi symbols for political opponents
Nearly a day after the ads were posted by the president's re-election campaign across Facebook, racking up thousands of views, Facebook says it removed them because they were a violation against the company's rules about "organised hate".
Facebook: 'We don't allow symbols that represent hateful organizations or hateful ideologies'
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's security chief, was asked by California Congressman Eric Swalwell whether the company intends to "sanction" Donald Trump's campaign after posting campaign ads using Nazi imagery to identify political opponents.
He said: "We don't allow symbols that represent hateful organizations or hateful ideologies unless they're put up with context or condemnation."
"That's what we saw in this case with this ad," he said.
Trump spends 300 words defending slow West Point ramp walk, repeats lie that he ran the last 10 feet
Donald Trump's interview with the Wall Street Journal spends some time discussing his bizarre, deliberate stroll down a ramp after delivering commencement remarks.
Fauci pledges to oppose Trump announcement of coronavirus vaccine breakthrough before November election if science doesn't back it up
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told McClatchy that he doesn't approve of Donald Trump's naming of vaccine development as "Operation Warp Speed” and has pledged to prevent the administration from rushing an announcement about a vaccine breakthrough if the science isn't there.
The president has relied on a promise of a vaccine by the end of the year as he heads to November elections.
“Take that to the bank,” Dr Fauci said when asked whether he would oppose any administration effort to announce a vaccine by November if one is not ready. “There is no chance in the world that I’m going to be forced into agreeing to something that I don’t think is safe and scientifically sound. I’ll guarantee you that."
Tump checks phone during roundtable meeting with governors on small businesses
The president participated in a small business roundtable meeting with administration officials on Thursday, though it appears he was on his phone as the last participants were talking.
This is what appeared on his Twitter around that time, though it's unclear whether he wrote it.
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'Nobody had ever heard of it': Trump claims he made Juneteenth 'famous'
Donald Trump, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, claims he made Juneteenth — commemorating the end of slavery and recognised across the US among black Americans — "famous".
He made this claim after postponing a rally, his first in months, for Juneteenth, aka 19 June, in Tulsa, which recently held memorials for the 99th anniversary of one of the worst racist massacres in US history.
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