Trump Says He’s ‘Strongly Contemplating’ Pardoning Flynn

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Trump Says He’s ‘Strongly Contemplating’ Pardoning Flynn

Mr. Trump’s feedback got here hours after he referred to as for a day of nationwide prayer within the nation.As passengers getting back from Europe


Mr. Trump’s feedback got here hours after he referred to as for a day of nationwide prayer within the nation.

As passengers getting back from Europe confronted long waits at airports for well being screenings, Mr. Trump initiated a Twitter broadside in opposition to Mrs. Clinton, his opponent within the 2016 election.

“Nice Job by Judicial Watch,” Mr. Trump said, selling a information alert from a nonprofit group a couple of authorized growth in its persevering with combat to acquire Mrs. Clinton’s depositions about her emails in addition to information associated to the 2012 Benghazi assault. “Probably a treasure trove,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Too dangerous you aren’t given extra assist, however it’ll all work out!”

Mr. Trump, who skipped his Sunday routine on the golf course, additionally sought to recommend the Obama administration performed a task within the present disaster.

In saying his coronavirus job power’s 5 p.m. information convention, the president singled out Mr. Biden, the present front-runner within the Democratic presidential main.

“The USA was by no means arrange for this, simply take a look at the disaster of the H1N1 Swine Flu (Biden in cost, 17,000 folks misplaced, very late response time),” Mr. Trump tweeted. Actually, beneath the Obama administration, diagnostic checks for the 2009 swine flu outbreak have been approved and shipped less than two weeks after the H1N1 virus was identified and a day earlier than the primary dying in the US.

And whilst a top health official warned that Individuals ought to put together to “hunker down considerably greater than we as a rustic are doing,” Mr. Trump was centered on Mr. Schumer, the Senate minority chief. Resuscitating a narrative that made the rounds in conservative information media weeks earlier, the president accused Mr. Schumer of threatening his two appointees to the Supreme Courtroom.

“Can’t consider they aren’t going after Schumer for the threats he made to our cherished United States Supreme Courtroom, and our two nice Justices,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “If a Republican did that, there could be an countless value to pay. Pathetic!” He was referring to comments Mr. Schumer made this month, when he mentioned Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Neil M. Gorsuch had “launched the whirlwind, and you’ll pay the worth! You received’t know what hit you when you go ahead with these terrible selections.”





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