No. Or the 545 of those children who are still in U.S. custody because the Trump administration didn't make adequate preparation to relocate their parents, whom the administration deported. It's a foregone conclusion. In an oral bench ruling Thursday, Chief U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian, a Barack Obama appointee, said President Trump and U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy were "involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service." What will it take to reconcile us? He is just tossing out red meat for his base. The U.S. intelligence community, however, has assessed that although China and Iran prefer Trump to lose in November, to date neither country is acting on that preference in the same way as Russia. The family of Donald Trump, the owner of The Trump Organization and 45th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in real estate, entertainment, business, and politics. With each tweet or executive order or off-hand insult, he edges us closer to another authoritarian state and further from democracy. The condo-hotel design … In his speech Trump directly blamed school curricula for the violence that resulted from a handful of the protests, saying that "the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. Is there room for those of us with goodwill to come together despite these bitter political differences that Trump both inherited and deliberately stoked? All rights reserved. But his cult — Proud Boys and their ilk — are another matter entirely. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. And we're not talking about the racial and social unrest Trump repeatedly stoked. Sure, there's no surprise here — Wray's message is an echo of the intelligence community's public assessment on Moscow's meddling efforts issued last month. Also, we are afraid of the COVID-19 virus and nervous of the possible — even threatened — Election Day antics of an unhinged Donald Trump and his "stand-down-and-stand-by" cult. It was crafted in such secrecy that senior officials across the government had no idea it was coming, according to The Post. Trump's immediate family circle has been the first family of the United States since his inauguration on January 20, 2017. The election's result is most certainly clear: Donald Trump lost the popular vote and the Electoral College vote — by a lot. This is evident in President Trump's highly partisan words and tweets, the actual impact of the changes on primary elections that resulted in uncounted ballots, and recent attempts and lawsuits by the Republican National Committee and President Trump's campaign to stop the state's efforts to bypass the Postal Service by utilizing ballot drop boxes, as well as the timing of the changes.". Trump sees it as a checkmate to the "deep state" he believes is out to disrupt his coup. We're not just talking about his abject failure to combat COVID-19, which already has killed a quarter of a million Americans and is on course with renewed spikes to kill many more while the Trump administration takes the road of least resistance and mocks accepted precautions. Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump's eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a personal spokesman told CNN on Friday. Trump didn't cause America's wounds, but he surely ripped off the scabs. These are nonpartisan civil servants we're talking about, and his directive — four years in the making — is an assault on nonpartisan civil service and the worker protections it is supposed to provide against the winds of politics. And now we're two days away from the election. Postal Service to reverse its July operational changes that slowed the nation's mail. No. We're not talking even about his almost strong-armed robbery of our tax dollars while he failed to pay as much in taxes as we do, or the millions he raked in for his resorts and businesses when the Secret Service and other government employees had to follow him around on his golf escapades and his ego-driven, COVID-superspreader rallies. No matter the eventual outcome of this election. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. We love you, Joe, and we do think you will be in this for all Americans, not just Democrats. FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers, force the U.S. Rallies where his "team" management was so poor that scores of his supporters were left in freezing cold temperatures for hours with no bus rides back to their vehicles. Wray added that Russia's "malign" efforts include using social media, proxies, state media and online journals to sow "divisiveness and discord" and "primarily to denigrate Vice President Biden and what the Russians see as kind of an anti-Russian establishment. The area is zoned for manufacturing, which precludes permanent residences from being built there. Win or lose this week, Donald Trump has already severely crippled this nation. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing. We have to put some muscle into it. But merely to suggest that Donald Trump is dangerous — irresponsible is how you put it — is far too mild. Sohn: Hope and faith alone will not defeat COVID-19. Floridians had tallied 72%; Kentuckians, 62%; Virginians 55%. Biden, in a CNN town hall last week said he could unite the country as "America's president" rather than a partisan one, and he cast the United States as unsafe under President Trump. Wise observers have counted and recounted the ways, but here's a new wrinkle. He has supporters who really are "fine people" taking a wrong side. This document may not be reprinted without the express written permission of Chattanooga Times Free Press, Inc. Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2020, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. But there are other questions that need answers. Can our nation heal, and how long will it take? Copyright © 2020, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Inc. We're not even talking about the obscene tax break Trump pushed through to benefit himself, his family and the other wealthiest people in our country while the rest of us effectively make and keep less money than we did decades ago. Clearly, election day will be suspenseful, but many experts are telling us not to expect a full count or answer on Tuesday night. This is our time. But really, does any of that matter? As for these swelling vote totals, please note that for once much of the south is not behind. Last Thursday during a Constitution Day speech at the White House Conference on American History at the National Archives Museum, Trump criticized what he called "the liberal indoctrination of America's youth" and said he wants to create a "national commission to promote patriotic education.". Largely because many of us had long ago unequivocally made up our minds. It is a long-overdue recounting of slavery's centrality to America's story. Why? ", In a further analysis, the judge wrote: "Although not necessarily apparent on the surface, at the heart of DeJoy's and the Postal Service's action is voter disenfranchisement. The Dominick, formerly the Trump SoHo, is a $450 million, 46-story, 391-unit hotel condominium located at 246 Spring Street at the corner of Varick Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.