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White House News (白宮消息) | Aug. 28, 2020

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Donald Trump brands NBA 'political organisation' after Jacob Blake shooting protests
Jacob Blake was shot in the back several times by a police officer in Wisconsin, sparking widespread protets.

Donald Trump has branded the NBA a "political organisation", as protests intensified over the shooting of a black man by police in Wisconsin.

Aug. 28 - ..."NBA players and coaches met for nearly three hours earlier this week to discuss if the season can continue, as they continue not to play until politicians act to address police brutality.

The US basketball association had managed to make a successful comeback after the sport was suspended due to coronavirus back in March"....     source
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Former top Trump officials are betting he'll lose
And unprecedented number of administration veterans have turned against the president — and even many of those who still back him think he's doomed.

President Donald Trump has outraged Democrats and offended ethics lawyers this week by parading a number of his top officials in front of cameras during the Republican National Convention — a possibly illegal breach of historic norms.


But the furor over the precedent-busting encomiums to Trump by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and others have obscured another way his presidency has broken with the past: just how many of his onetime aides no longer support him.


At least 19 former top Trump administration officials in total have broken publicly with their former boss in one form or another, according to a POLITICO count, and several have already lent their names to various Republicans-for-Biden efforts. Not all of them have said they will vote for Democratic nominee Joe Biden — former national security adviser John Bolton, for instance, says he will pull the lever for an unspecified third person. It amounts to a never-before-seen wave of defections of people who have denounced him or his policies or criticized his character in other ways...   more

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