President Donald Trump has long been fond of turning supposedly official events into de facto campaign rallies. Even by his own standards, though, his Tuesday speech was extreme.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, at what was billed as a"press conference" in which he would give remarks about China, Trump delivered a rambling 52-minute monologue filled with pre-scripted attacks on Democratic opponent Joe Biden.As usual, Trump's comments were filled with egregious lies and other false claims.
His travel restrictions contained multiple exemptions -- for US citizens, for permanent residents, for many of the family members of both groups, and for multiple European countries, including Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia.Nancy Pelosi and Trump's travel restrictions on China Trump claimed that, after he imposed a travel"ban" on China, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was"dancing in the streets of Chinatown" in San Francisco.
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