Some of the president’s advisers fear that without a course correction, Pres. Donald Trump could lose the 2020 presidential election.
Advocates say the effort is aimed at changing the role of law enforcement in communities in America following countless deaths of African Americans in police custody.met with advisers from his 2020 re-election campaign, who greeted him with bad news.
This account of the president and his advisers' struggle to respond to the ongoing crises and the political fallout is based on conversations with 17 sources including White House officials, campaign advisers and sources close to the president. Others, like the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, were against such an address, arguing it could do more harm than good, according to four sources. A source close to Kushner disputed that categorization, saying instead the goal has been to announce a policy initiative that will have an impact.
Vice President Mike Pence, on the other hand, has participated in a number of listening sessions on the issue. One such incident occurred on Tuesday when the president tweeted to his over 80 million followers promoting a conspiracy theory where he made unfounded allegations against a 75-year-old protester, Martin Gugino, who was pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y. last week and was seen bleeding from the head, motionless. At the time of the tweet Gugino was still in the hospital, and the two police officers involved in the incident have been charged with assault.
However, two other outside advisers to the president instead said it wasn’t the president’s rhetoric that was problematic -- adding that’s in part how he won in 2016 -- but rather they took aim at Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale's running of the campaign, while noting that daily campaign decisions must be run by Kushner first.
In response to a request for comment for this report, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said the president has"accomplished more at this point in his first term than any President in history," including in the White House's estimation saving"millions of lives" with the pandemic response and"restor[ing] law and order to our streets."
A source close to Kushner pushed back, saying,"This is consistent -- people are constantly trying to cause separation between Jared and the president but they've been unsuccessful because the president knows Jared’s track record of success and his ability to stop bad actors from gaining influence. Trump is slated to return to the campaign trail next week, and the campaign has already sparked controversy for choosing to host the first rally since the coronavirus pandemic in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the site of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 -- and on Juneteenth, an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery.
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