On Jan. 3, three days before the attack on the Capitol, Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right organization known as the Proud Boys, shared a cryptic post on the messaging app Telegram: “What if we invade it?” The message was sent to his more than 7,000 followers on the app, …
Read More »: Twitter and Facebook temporarily lock Trump’s accounts following Capitol siege
Social media companies condemned a video posted by President Donald Trump during a withering assault on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, prompting Twitter to lock his account for 12 hours and threaten to permanently ban it, while Facebook imposed a 24-hour block. Facebook and Alphabet excoriated the president but stopped short …
Read More »: Trump’s longtime personal bankers resign from Deutsche Bank
Two Deutsche Bank employees responsible for lending to President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have resigned. “Rosemary Vrablic and Dominic Scalzi have tendered their resignations to Deutsche Bank effective as of year-end, which was accepted by the bank,” Deutsche Bank AG DB, -0.28% said in a statement Tuesday. …
Read More »Georgia Republicans try to keep fissures from developing over Trump’s loss ahead of U.S. Senate runoffs
A previous version of this report incorrectly described Chuck Schumer as the majority leader of the Senate. He is the minority leader. The story has been corrected. Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has vowed to spend a lot of time in the Peach State. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images …
Read More »Coronavirus update: Global case tally tops 35 million and doctors are alarmed that Trump’s Sunday jaunt put his security detail at risk
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 climbed above 35 million on Monday, as doctors expressed alarm at President Donald Trump’s decision to leave his hospital bed to wave to supporters from a motorcade on Sunday, saying he has put all of the people in the …
Read More »: ‘Just stay calm. It will go away’: A look back at Trump’s shifting stance on face masks and on the threat of COVID-19
In this photo taken on July 11, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump wears a mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.) President Donald Trump was transported on Marine One from the White House to Walter Reed Hospital late Friday, the …
Read More »Coronavirus update: Expert calls for ‘radical transparency’ on Trump’s coronavirus treatment and progress as more in president’s circle test positive
The number of confirmed U.S. cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 7.3 million on Saturday, and now includes President Donald Trump and first lady Melania and at least eight others in their circle, with more people expected to test positive from a White House Rose Garden event …
Read More »The Margin: Trump’s ‘positive for COVID-19’ tweet is his most ‘liked’ post ever
Bad news travels fast. President Trump revealed early Friday that he and his wife Melania have tested positive for COVID-19. And even though he tweeted the bombshell health revelation at 12:54 a.m. Eastern time, when many Americans were asleep, it quickly became his most liked and most widely shared post …
Read More »Europe Markets: U.S. and European stock futures fall after Trump’s positive coronavirus test
US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence make their way to the Rose Garden to speak on COVID-19 testing at the White House in Washington, DC on September 28, 2020. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images U.S. and European equity futures fell sharply on Friday after President Donald Trump announced …
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