Kellyanne Conway Leaving The White House

Kellyanne Conway, a senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump and his final campaign manager in 2016, announced yesterday that she is leaving The White House at the end of the month to homeschool her children.

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Trump announces FDA authorization of COVID-19 treatment

President Donald J. Trump announced this evening that the FDA has authorized the use of Convalescent plasma to treat patients suffering from COVID-19.

LIVE: President @realDonaldTrump holds a news conference https://t.co/BvYoN0T57c

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 23, 2020

From the FDA:

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China Wants Biden Elected

.@JoeBiden is smoother to deal with than @realDonaldTrump. This is the consensus of most countries around the world, including China, said experts, after Biden was officially declared the Democratic presidential candidate. https://t.co/OoL0rVL1tp pic.twitter.com/oTbQVqcRMu

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 19, 2020

The people who brought us the coronavirus, deadly fentanyl to fuel the opioid crisis, and who regularly crush the human spirit by limiting free speech and religion, want you to vote for Joe Biden for President of the United States.

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Trump fundraising in Deal, NJ on Sunday

President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to attend a high dollar fund raiser in Monmouth County on Sunday, August 9, according to a report in Yeshiva World News. (h/t app.com)

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Looks like Trump is returning to N.J. this weekend

President Donald Trump is preparing to visit his Bedminster golf club for the first time in more than a month.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary flight restriction for the airspace around his golf club from Friday to Sunday.

Those announcements accurately have forecast Trump’s getaways to Bedminster since he became president, but he has cancelled two visits at the last minute.

It will be Trump’s second trip to Bedminister this year. His first was during the weekend of June 12-14, where he hosted a fundraiser for his re-election campaign and dined with Gov. Phil Murphy. Follow… Read the rest of this entry »

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Rep Smith: President Trump’s Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities is an Important Step Forward

By Congressman Chris Smith

In signing an executive order on policing today—Safe Policing, For Safe Communities—President Trump said that “reducing crime and raising standards are not opposite goals.”

This is an important step forward.

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Smith Applauds Trump’s Crackdown on China

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ4), a forty year critic of China and champion of human rights throughout the world, today applauded President Donald J. Trump for “doing what previous presidents have failed to do” by sanctioning China for violating the “one country, two systems” treaty and ending democratic freedom for the people of Hong Kong.

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US Justice Dept drops case against ex-Trump aide Flynn

Washington (AFP) – The US Justice Department withdrew its case against former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn Thursday, handing President Donald Trump a major political victory.

The department said in a filing Flynn’s December 2017 guilty plea for lying to the FBI in an interview over his Russia contacts was moot because the lies were not significant.

It said the FBI’s original probe of him had no “legitimate investigative basis.

“The decision by the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Bill Barr, came as Flynn was fighting possible imprisonment, and af… Read the rest of this entry »

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Trump says he’ll ‘suspend immigration’ because of coronavirus, offers no details

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus.

“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” Trump tweeted.He offered no details as to what immigration programs might be affected by the order. The White House did not immediately elaborate on Trump’s tweeted announcement.Trump has taken credit for his … Read the rest of this entry »

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Trump letting Murphy decide when to reopen N.J.

President Donald Trump’s new guidelines for reopening states as the coronavirus pandemic recedes leaves the decision to lift restrictions solely up to the governors, and Phil Murphy says he’s in no rush to do so in New Jersey.

Trump outlined the federal guidance Wednesday during a conference call with governors and then at his daily White House coronavirus press conference later that day.

“The curve has flattened and the peak in new cases is behind us,” Trump said. “We’re opening up our country. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open. A national shutdown is not a sustainable longte… Read the rest of this entry »

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