Administration officials say there have been numerous discussions arguing for and against having the president address the nation on police-community relations and racial injustice.
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Group warns Trump protesters to avoid Guilford, gather in Bangor
Some are concerned about potential violence if protesters and Trump supporters gather outside Puritan Medical Products in Guilford, where the president plans to visit Friday.
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Members of Maine’s congressional delegation criticize Trump’s response to protests
Rep. Pingree says the president abused his power, while Sen. King lists ‘many things wrong’ and Sen. Collins says Trump’s use of force against D.C. protesters wasn’t justified. Rep. Jared Golden cautioned the president about deploying U.S. troops on American soil.
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Mills raises security concerns about Trump’s plan to visit maker of test swabs in Maine
The governor raised issues during a conference call in which Trump berated governors, telling them to ‘dominate’ protests of racial injustice. Mills added more pointed criticism at a news conference in which she said the country needs leadership, ‘not more hatred and more division.’
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Pandemic politics: Maskless Trump tours Ford plant in Michigan
The president’s visit comes amid a long-running feud with the battleground state’s Democratic governor.
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Trump threatens funds for states easing voting in pandemic
The president’s tweets targeting Michigan and Nevada mark an escalation in his campaign against voting by mail.
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Collins says Trump didn’t follow the law when firing inspector general
In an exchange on Twitter, Maine’s senior U.S. senator said the president did not follow a federal law, which she helped pass in 2008, when he fired a federal watchdog in the office of the U.S. Inspector General late last Friday.
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Trump, Republicans launch broad attack on Russia probe foundations
The Justice Department’s dismissal of the Michael Flynn case is swept up in a broader push by the president and his allies to reframe the Russia investigation as a plot to sabotage his administration.
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Trump says ‘no rush’ on more aid as jobless crisis grows
Democrats are preparing to unveil a ‘Rooseveltian-style’ package to shore up the economy and address the health emergency.
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John Bolton book again delayed, this time to June 23
The book reportedly describes a conversation with the president in which Trump told Bolton that he wanted to withhold security aid from Ukraine until it helped him with investigations into political rival Joe Biden.