With uncertainty hovering over his campaign, Trump has resorted to turning official White House functions into de facto political events.
New Hampshire, was abruptly canceled – purportedly over concerns of bad weather – amid fears of another disappointing turnout.where Trump is set to accept the GOP presidential nomination next month may be forced to scale back the festivities to a single day because of the coronavirus.
Trump praised the officers as heroes, but he also complained that “far-left mayors are escalating the anti-cop crusade” and decried murders in “radical lib” cities like Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia. The next day, June 24, Trump slammed Biden during a Rose Garden news conference with President Andrzej Duda of Poland. After Duda mentioned that Russia attacked Ukraine and annexed Crimea in 2014, Trump interrupted him to note that President Barack Obama “and Sleepy Joe Biden” were in power at the time. “It hasn’t happened with us, and it won’t happen with us either,” he promised.
An eight-decade-old law known as the Hatch Act bars government employees from engaging in political activity on government time, but that law does not apply to the president, said Delaney Marsco, an attorney with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows also said he saw nothing wrong with Trump's anti-Biden rhetoric in the Rose Garden on Tuesday.
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