Author: J.P. Knowles

President Trump did not hold back when attacking Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden over his son Hunte’rs foreign business dealings and things got heated.

The Exchange started after Biden criticized the Trump administration for their economic policy toward China. President Trump fired back with claims that Hunter Biden had partaken and wrongdoing while serving on the board of BHR, a Private Equity Firm supported by stakeholders with close ties to the Chinese government as well as a board member of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.

It was rumored that Hunter Biden had leveraged his father’s position in the Obama administration to gain influence in his business dealings.

“China ate your lunch, Joe,” said the president. “And no wonder, your son goes in and he takes out billions of dollars, he takes out billions of dollars to manage. He makes millions of dollars.”

“And while we’re at it,” he added, “why is it, just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son $3.5 million. What did he do to deserve it? What did he do with Burisma?”

Biden responded, “None of that is true” and added that Trump’s claims regarding alleged business-related wrongdoing on his son’s part had been “totally discredited.”

“My son did nothing wrong at Burisma,” Biden argued. “He doesn’t want to let me answer because he knows I have the truth. His position has been totally, thoroughly discredited — by the media, by our allies, by the World Bank, by everyone.”

Biden was referring to an 87-page interim report released by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees that detailed their investigation into Hunter Biden to work with Burisma. 

It is noted in the report that “officials within the Obama administration ignored the glaring warning signs when the vice president’s son joined the board of a company owned by a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch.” 

The report also included claims that Hunter Biden “received a $3.5 million in a wire transfer” sent from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife. Of course, Democrats deny the claim is accurate

President Trump brought up Hunter Biden again later in the debate saying, “He didn’t have a job until you became vice president. Once you became vice president he made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow, and various other places. He made a fortune and he didn’t have a job.”

President Trump is honored to receive his third 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination this month from a group of Australian law professors .

Australian legal scholar David Flint told Sky News Australia, “What he has done with the Trump Doctrine is that he has decided he would no longer have America involved in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of Young Americans and enormous debts imposed on America.”

Flint praised President Trump’s role in facilitating a piece agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

“What Trump did is he went ahead and negotiated against all advice, but he did it with common sense,” Flint said. “He negotiated directly with the Arab states concerned and Israel and brought them together.”

Flint added, “He’s also been the first American president to work out how to make America energy independent of the Middle East.”

Trump’s first nomination for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize came from a Norwegian Parliament member and was for his role in the United Arab Emirates-Israel peace deal. Just a few days later the president was nominated again by a Swedish Parliament member after he helped secure a deal for normalized economic relations between Serbia and Kosovo.

“It’s a great honor to be nominated, and I know it has tremendous significance,”Trump told White House correspondent Fox News Radio John Decker. “I just think it’s a great thing for our country. It shows that we’re trying to make peace, not war all the time.”

The winner for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 9th.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has a habit of avoiding the press. Recently she faced renewed scrutiny when she quickly left the stage without taking questions after a speech in which she criticized President Trump for his efforts to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat before the election.

Besides her role as Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris is also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and will have an opportunity to directly question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in any confirmation hearing that would take place prior to November 3rd.

The event, which took place in North Carolina’s Shaw University, a historically black college, was closed to the general public and attended only by news reporters.

Harris’s speech was heavily criticized by the research wing of the Republican National Committee for ripping the GOP’s plan to move forward with the nomination so close to an election.

“We will not give up, and we will not give in,” Harris said in her speech. “We will not let the infection that President Trump has injected into the presidency and into Congress, that has paralyzed our politics and pitted Americans against each other, spread to the United States.”

President Trump nominated Barrett Saturday for the Supreme Court seat and in her speech, Harris warned that Barrett’s presents to the Supreme Court would endanger former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. 

Reporters from several different outlets question why Harris refuses to address the media and  Trump and members of his campaign are complaining that the press has given both Biden and Harris a free pass from answering questions. 

Last week Fox News pointed out that Harris hasn’t participated in a single formal press conference since being confirmed as Biden’s running mate in AugustAnd has only spoken to friendly outlets such as BET, MSNBC, and CNN.

Sunday morning President Trump posted a tweet demanding that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden take a drug test right before or directly after the presidential debate

The president claims there has been a disturbingly erratic patterns in the former vice president’s debate performance and the only explanation is drug use.  

Of course Trump said he would also take a drug test if Biden agreed.

“I will be strongly demanding a drug test of sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the debate on Tuesday night,” Trump tweeted. “ naturally, I will agree to take one also. His debate performances have been record-setting uneven, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???”

Joe Biden’s campaign team deflected the request by mocking the president for wanting to make his case “in urine.”

Biden’s deputy campaign manager responded to Trump’s comments,Belittling the president and accusing him of trying to steer away focus from the coronavirus pandemic.

“Vice President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words. If the president thinks his best case is made in urine he can have at it,” wrote the deputy campaign manager. “We’d expect nothing less from Donald Trump, who pissed away the chance to protect the lives of 200K Americans when he didn’t make a plan to stop COVID-19.”

Trump responded with, “Joe Biden just announced that he will not agree to a Drug Test. Gee, I wonder why?”

The first presidential debate, which is to be moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, is scheduled for Tuesday take place at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The 90-minute event will be broken down into six 15-minute-long segments each dedicated to a critical topic.

The topics, chosen by  Wallace, include the upcoming Supreme Court battle, the response to the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, and the civil unrest that has flared up in America’s cities.

President Trump contested a report from The New York Times claiming the president had not paid his federal income taxes for 10 of the past 15 years. He called the story “fake news” and argued that he has paid large federal and state taxes.

Less than an hour after the story broke in the newspaper Trump held a press briefing and said, “It’s fake news, it’s totally made up. Everything was wrong, they are so bad.”

According to the New York Times report, the year President Trump was elected he paid only $750 and taxes to the federal government then $750 his first year in the White House.

Trump’s net worth is rumored to be in the billions and he denied ever paying such a small amount in taxes.

He said, “I’ve paid a lot and I’ve paid a lot of state income taxes too.”

Even before he won the election in 2016 Trump was heavily criticized for not releasing his tax filing. He has always kept his tax filings very private and is the only president in modern times to not release them to the public.

Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump organization also denied accusations from The New York Times that the president paid such a small amount of taxes. He made a statement saying Trump “has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government, including paying millions in personal taxes since announcing his candidacy in 2015.”

“The New York Times’ story is riddled with gross inaccuracies.  Over the past decade the President has paid tens of millions of dollars in personal taxes to the federal government,” Garten argued. “While we tried to explain this to the Times, they refused to listen and rejected our repeated request that they show us any of the documentation they purport to be relying on to substantiate their claims.”

“Obviously this is just part of the Times’ ongoing smear campaign in the run up to the election,” Garten added.

The New York Times has not released Trump’s tax filings they claimed to have received so they have no real evidence of backing up their story.

After President Trump nominated Federal Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding Democrats to avoid attacking Barrett’s Catholic faith during the confirmation process.

Hawley specifically mentioned made by Senator Dianne Feinstein about Barrett’s faith during her nomination hearing in 2017 the US court of appeals for the seventh circuit.

Hawley wrote in the letter, “I call on you and every member of the Democratic caucus to publicly reject Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s egregious personal attacks on Judge Barrett’s Christian faith during her previous confirmation hearings and to pledge you will abstain from that kind of anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, anti-faith vitriol in the hearings to come. You owe it to the country.”

“As you will recall,” he added, “Sen. Feinstein, the most senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, told Judge Barrett in her previous hearings that ‘the dogma lives loudly within you,’ a clear and condescending disparagement of Judge Barrett’s Catholicism.”

The member of the Senate Judiciary Committee went on to call out other Democrats like Senator Dick Durbin and Mazie Hirono who made it a point to focus on Barrett’s religion during the hearings.

“Over and over these last four years, your caucus has sought to return to the days of ‘religious tests,’ to exclude people of faith from public office and from the public square,” Hawley continued in the letter. “Your members have attacked and attempted to disqualify nominees by questioning their views on the nature of sin, their beliefs about heaven and hell, their memberships in religious organizations, and the activities of their churches. But our Constitution bans religious tests. Democrats’ offensive and wholly inappropriate attacks must not be repeated in this confirmation process.”

Hawley went on to say that there has been “a long history of anti-Catholic hatred by some in this country” and “a growing tide of anti-religious animus on the left now.”

He said, “ I hope you and your colleagues will not play any further part in it.”

The Missouri Republican referred to such attacks as” disgusting” and said their ”religious bigotry” “has no place in the United States Senate.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has this crazy theory that President Trump will refuse to leave the White House if the election doesn’t go his way. 

The president’s recent comments about there not being a transfer of power but a continuation of one caused Pelosi to go over the edge saying he is trying to “ have the Constitution swallow Clorox.”

Reporters asked Pelosi if she thought the president would accept a peaceful transfer of power. She answered, “ It’s really sad you even have to ask that question.”

A reporter asked President Trump if he was willing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power “ when, lose or draw”  in this election and noted his claim of mail-in ballots causing widespread voter fraud. 

“Dad to see what happens,”  Trump responded. “ You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are  a disaster.”

The reporter pressed the president mentioning the anti-police riots that have raged across American cities over the summer.

“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation,” Trump declared. “The ballots are out of control. You know it, and you know who knows it better than anyone else? The Democrats know it better than anyone else.”

“We know who he admires. [Vladimir] Putin. Kim Jong-un. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” Pelosi said. “You are not in Russia. He is not in North Korea. He is not in Turkey.”

Pelosi indeed, “He’s trying to have the Constitution of the United States swallow Clorox.”

The house Speaker also quailed the idea that the House of Representatives would implement another round of impeachment charges against the president  saying, “ I don’t think he’s worth the trouble at this point.”

Last week during an appearance on ABC News’ “This Week” Pelosi was asked whether she and fellow house Democrats would move to impeach the president or Attorney General William Barr to block the Senate from acting.

“We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now, but the fact is we have a big challenge in our country,” Pelosi answered. “This president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election.”

Trump and first lady Melania Trump were at the Supreme Court Building to pay their respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As the couple made their way to the Supreme Court a mob of protesters can be heard booing him and shouting, “vote him out” and “honor her wish” in reference to how Ginsberg allegedly said she wanted to wait until next year’s inauguration for the next Justice to be nominated.

Trump has gone out of his way to be respectful of Ginsburg even holding off on announcing his nomination until after her Memorial ceremonies have concluded.  He also gave words of exceptional praise for the liberal icon upon her passing.

Trump said of the late Supreme Court Justice, “ Today, our nation Mourns the loss of a titan of the law. Renowned for her brilliant mind and her powerful dissents at the Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg demonstrated that one can disagree without being disagreeable toward one’s colleagues or different points of view.”

Thursday was the second day that Ginsberg’s casket has been displayed at the high court for the public to pay their respects. On the previous day, a private ceremony was held. Fellow justices greeted Ginsberg at the court building as well as former law Clerks

The ceremony was held by Rabbi Loren Holtzblatt, whose husband, Ari Holtzblatt was a clerk for Ginsberg in 2014. 

After two days of lying in Repose at the Supreme Court, Ginsberg’s casket is to be transported to the National Statuary Hall of the United States capitol where she will lie in state on Friday. a ceremony will then be held that morning with only invited guests allowed to attend due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. 

President Trump praised Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear calling in the National Guard just hours before two police officers were shot at a protest that took place after a grand jury decision in the Brianna Taylor case.

During a White House press briefing President Trump said, “I will be speaking to the governor, we have a call scheduled. I understand he’s called up the National Guard. That’s a good thing. It’ll all work out.”

President Trump was asked what his message was to the Black community who felt that “justice had not been served.” President Trump cited his record saying that he loved the Black community and that he has done more for Black Americans than any other president, that is except for Abraham Lincoln.

Governor Beshear said that in anticipation of the grand jury’s decision in the case of the police-involved shooting, the city of Louisville made a general request for state assistance about a week ago.

Despite the anticipated violence Beshear still ordered the states’ attorney general to release all the facts in the case to the public.

“I believe that the public deserves this information,” said the governor. “So I previously made what I would call a suggestion to the attorney general, and now I’m making the request that he post online all the information, evidence and facts that he can release without impacting the three felony counts in the indictment issued today.”

One of the three police officers involved in the drug operation that led to the death of Taylor earlier this year was indicted on criminal charges Wednesday.

The grand jury decided that officer Brett Hankison would be indicted on three counts first-degree wanton endangerment 4 the shots that were fired into a neighboring apartment. The charges were not elaborated by the grand jury or the presiding judge.

A warrant for the arrest of Hankison has been issued and his bond is set at $15,000 cash. If convicted he faces up to five years in prison for each count.

Trump also acknowledged Kentucky’s Republican attorney general Daniel Cameron who presented his findings to a grand jury before they came to a decision saying that “he’s handling it very well.”

The indictment comes 194 days after 26-year-old Taylor was shot five times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a drug investigation in March.

Upon investigation, authorities found that the bullets fired by Hankison had traveled into the neighboring apartment while three residents were home. Hankinson was not charged in Taylor’s death but instead for endangering her neighbor’s lives.

Attorney General Cameron called Taylor’s death a “gut-wrenching emotional case” and “the pain is understandable.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci is regarded as the country’s leading infectious disease expert. He said that he and his team remain “cautiously optimistic” about developing a coronavirus that could be approved by the end of the year.

At a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee hearing, Fauci said, “We predict that sometime by the end of this year, let’s say November or December, we will know whether or not these are safe and effective.”

“Early studies in animals and in human Phase 1 and Phase 2 indicate that individuals induce a response that is comparable to, if not better, than natural infection,” he added. “Right now, doses of this vaccine are being produced so they’ll be ready to be distributed.”

Fauci emphasized that he has no qualms about receiving a vaccine approved by the FDA saying, “If a vaccine that is shown to be, and proven to be and authorized by the FDA to be safe and effective, I certainly would take that vaccine, and I would recommend to my family that they take this vaccine.”

The doctor said that although having an approved coronavirus vaccine before Election Day “unlikely” it was not “impossible.”

President Trump is confident that a vaccine could be available “during the month of October.” He said earlier this month, “We are an absolute leader in every way. Under my leadership, we’ll produce a vaccine in record time.”

Just this week, Trump praised vaccine efforts by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and AstraZeneca. He said Pfizer, especially, was doing “really well.”

Meanwhile, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris is casting doubt on the safety of a vaccine with the Trump stamp of approval.

Earlier this month Harris said, “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about.”

This dangerous way of thinking could cause thousands to lose their lives.