The president was also accused of “furthering racial entrenchment” by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, which denounced his “abhorrent” threat to repeal an Obama-era initiative requiring local governments to address historic patterns of racial segregation.
“Your home will go down in value and crime rates will rapidly rise,” Mr Trump said, claiming communities would “go to hell”.
John Lewis: Civil rights icon and ‘conscience of Congress’ dies. John Lewis, the civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman, has died of cancer. He was 80-years-old, reports Richard Hall.
Donald Trump reacted angrily after Fox News host Chris Wallace called him out on false claims that his presidential rival Joe Biden is calling to defund the police in a policy pact with Bernie Sanders, shouting off-screen, presumably to an aide: “Let’s go! Get me the charter, please.”
The interview, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday, came as Portland’s mayor demanded that the president remove militarised federal agents from the city after reports of officers snatching residents in unmarked cars. Mayor Ted Wheeler accused Mr Trump of using the military presence to bolster his sagging poll numbers.
Congressman Lewis was a towering figure of the civil rights movement, and later became known as the “conscience of Congress” for his decades of service in the House of Representatives.
He one of the Big Six civil rights activists led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, and was front and centre for the movement’s most pivotal moments.
Mr Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders. He spoke to the massed crowds at the 1963 March on Washington, just before King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, during which he promised to “splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces.”
In 1965, he led some 600 protesters in the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where was brutally assaulted by police and left with a fractured skull. Images of the violent encounter drew national attention and led to more marches across the state. The Voting Rights Act was passed into law later that year
Trump accused of calling South Koreans ‘terrible people’ in front of GOP governor’s South Korean-born wife
Republican governor Larry Hogan of Maryland claimed Donald Trump disparaged the people of South Korea in front of his wife, who is South Korean Graig Graziosi reports.
Mr Hogan made the claims in a Washington Post editorial savaging Mr Trump’s leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Mr Hogan, the remarks were made during a private dinner hosted by the Republican Governors Association. The governor recalls Mr Trump talking about how much he respected Chinese President Ji Xinping, how much he enjoyed playing golf with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and how well he’d gotten along with Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea.
«Then, the jarring part: Trump said he really didn’t like dealing with President Moon from South Korea. The South Koreans were ‘terrible people,’ he said, and he didn’t know why the United States had been protecting them all these years,» Mr Hogan wrote. «‘They don’t pay us, Trump complained.’»
Mr Hogan recalled watching his wife’s reaction to the president insulting her home country. «Yumi was sitting there as the president hurled insults at her birthplace. I could tell she was hurt and upset. I know she wanted to walk out. But she sat there politely and silently,» he wrote.
