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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump will face a shock on Wednesday morning when his favourite breakfast show Fox and Friends runs an attack advert paid for by 2020 Democratic presidential challenger Julian Castro in which the candidate accuses him of “stoking the fire of racists” and inspiring the El Paso mass shooting.
As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, Donald Trump says he has “no idea” if Bill Clinton was involved in the disgraced financier’s death, accusing former President Bill Clinton of lying about his air travel on Epstein’s planes.
The president has been heavily criticised for promoting the unfounded theory that the Clintons were somehow involved in Epstein’s death.
Attorney General William Barr has expressed concern at the “serious irregularities” surrounding the death of the billionaire paedophile – a former friend of Mr Trump – in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend.
The FBI conducted a raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, according to reports, as two guards assigned to watch the disgraced financier before his apparent suicide in prison were put on administrative leave.
The president meanwhile took a break from his vacation to speak about energy investments at a Shell complex in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. During the speech Mr Trump launched a series of attacks, primarily focusing his sights on 2020 Democratic candidates. He criticised Elizabeth Warren, using his common slur of “Pocahontas”, before moving onto “sleepy” Joe Biden.
The president then went on to attack his home state of New York, in a rambling tirade about power outages and lawsuits. “They’re burdened with power outages,” he said. “New York energy rates are through the roof. All New York likes to do is sue me, they like to sue me, they’re always suing. They sue me for everything so they can try to stop us by any means possible.”
Donald Trump has meanwhile wrongly claimed that the US has “similar, more advanced” missile technology to that currently being experimented with in Russia, apparently alluding to the nuclear-powered cruise rockets developed under Project Pluto in the 1960s during the Cold War, an initiative that was ultimately dismissed as “too crazy” to be viable.
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Donald Trump has claimed the US possesses “advanced” nuclear-powered cruise missiles, in a suggestion rapidly dismissed by experts.
As funerals were held for five Russian nuclear engineers killed in a rocket test last week the American president said his administration was “learning much” from the accident, believed to be linked to a nuclear-powered weapon announced by the Kremlin last spring.
He tweeted: “The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia. We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian ‘Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!”
Donald Trump says he has 'no idea' if Bill Clinton was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's death before departing for his speech -
Donald Trump called Chris Cuomo a “total out of control animal” and said he hopes “nobody gets killed” in the Hong Kong protests.
Donald Trump will be delivering remarks on America’s “energy dominance and manufacturing revival” according to the president’s public schedule. He’ll arrive at the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex around 2:00 pm local time.
He then returns to his ten-day golfing retreat in Bedminster, New Jersey before nighttime.
Donald Trump’s administration delayed tariffs the president previously announced against Chinese products in a move that would allow retailers to stock up on foreign goods before the holiday season.
The delay came as an unexpected relief for technology investors, who welcomed the news as shares of Apple surged more than five per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 500 points.
Since Mr Trump threatened the new tariffs in a tweet posted 1 August, the US benchmark S&P stock index dropped by more than four per cent.
A day before the White House announced the delay, the Dow lost 391 points and the S&P 500 fell nearly 1.2 per cent amid concerns the trade conflict between the US and China would cause a global economic downturn.
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Donald Trump is now speaking on American energy investments at a Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex.
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