10.4.20 “Allies Panic About Trump’s Hospital Stay as White House Deflects” (Vanity Fair)
10.3.20 Time and other sources report that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett had coronavirus earlier in the year.
10.2.20 Donald and Melania Trump test positive for COVID19. Larry Kudlow describes the president as having “a very moderate case.” By evening, Trump has reportedly taken an antibody cocktail by Regeneron that has yet to be FDA-approved and leaves the White House for Walter Reed.
10.1.20 Retired general Stanley McCrystal endorses Biden.
9.30.20 “They wanted disruption in 2016. Now they’re Trump defectors .” (AP)
9.27.20 Republican Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania , announces that he’ll be voting for Biden.
9.24.20 Berrien County, MI, information for voters on voting and voter registration : HERE.
9.20.20 Watch Republicans’ eloquent videos describing why they are against Donald Trump. Go to the RVAT website by clicking here . VIDEO The Biden campaign raised a record $364 million in August. “The massive August haul speaks to the enthusiasm among Democrats to oust Trump from office.” (PBS Newhour)
8.31.20 Kellyanne Conway , Trump’s most effective female surrogate, leaves his administration.
8.25.20 “I was a Republican.” Former South Carolina congressman Trey Goudy reflects on the party’s lack of “core principles” in an interview with Judy Woodruff.
7.4.20 Watch Frederick Douglass’s Descendants recite his 1852 oration, “What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?” (NPR)
VIDEO
6.21.20 A ray of light breaks over our troubled nation as Trump’s first campaign rally, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, proves to be a total flop! Total attendance, in an arena seating 19,000, is just 6,611. Beforehand, Trump had bragged of having sold a million tickets. Many of these proved to have been reserved by K-pop fans and others working for an end to the Trump era.
6.20.20 Federal judge in DC rejects Trump administration effort to stop publication of John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened . Among the book’s claims: that Trump privately condoned Xi’s massive internment of Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) in concentration camps and asked Xi to buy US farm products to boost Trump’s re-election chances.
6.5.20 DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street running to the White House. Its address is now 1600 Black Lives Matters Plaza, NW.
6.1.20 Military police in DC use tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protestors out of Lafayette Park, so that Trump can pose with a Bible in front of St John’s Episcopal Church. Bishop Mariann Budde expresses outrage.
5.30.20 Immigrant entrepreneurs, their businesses destroyed, feel the pain in Minneapolis. Ex-officer Derek Chauvin is charged with murdering George Floyd. Protests continue in Minneapolis and rock many other US cities , including Washington DC.
5.29.20 Trump goes down into the bunker under the White House to hide as Americans protesting racism and police brutality encircle it. His cowardice is widely ridiculed.
5.28.20 Protestors take over and burn the 3rd precinct police station in Minneapolis.
5.27.20 Demonstrations demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to racism give way to looting along East Lake Street in Minneapolis . Protestors set at least 14 buildings on fire.
5.25.20 Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murders George Floyd , 46, in open daylight. Chauvin deprives Floyd of oxygen by kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes, as Floyd lay handcuffed and face-down under him. “Floyd begged for his life before falling unconscious and dying in the street, in full view of witnesses and a rolling mobile phone camera.” (BBC News)
Pingback: The Political History of a Garden « Our Polity