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Lancet editorial blasts Trump administration’s coronavirus response
McConnell takes flak after suggesting bankruptcy for states rather than bailouts
Trump rejects criticism that his weekend tweet about four minority lawmakers was racist, says they ‘hate our country’
President Trump said Monday that he is not concerned by criticism that his tweets suggesting four minority congresswomen return to their home countries were racist, asserting that they hate the United States and are free to leave. His comments at a White House event came as Democratic leaders in the House prepared a resolution condemning tweets over the weekend in which Trump said the liberal lawmakers critical of him should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Trump eyes ending birthright citizenship with executive order
President Trump is vowing to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to noncitizens, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution. The action, which Trump previewed in a television clip broadcast Tuesday, would be the most aggressive by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration, an issue he has revived in advance of next week’s midterm elections.
Trump calls Mueller lawyers ‘thugs’ and ‘a National Disgrace!’
Trump says he has ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself of federal crimes but denies any wrongdoing
President Trump on Monday asserted an “absolute right” to pardon himself of any federal crimes but said he has no reason to do so because he has not engaged in any wrongdoing. In a subsequent tweet Monday, Trump also claimed that the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election had been “totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”