When President Trump arrived Saturday night at an Ultimate Fighting Championship match in New York City, the crowd reaction was a bit more hospitable than the one he received at World Series Game 5 last Sunday in Washington.
Tara
LaRosa, a mixed martial arts fighter from New Jersey, tweeted video of a
section of the Madison Square Garden crowd where the response seemed
mostly favorably for the president.
USA Today reported the president received "a mixed reaction" from the Garden crowd, and Newsday of Long Island's Mark La Monica tweeted the reception was "nothing like at Nats game."
Nevertheless, many users on Twitter were promoting a "Trump was booed" narrative, which Donald Trump Jr. disputed.
"Despite the bulls--- from blue checkmark Twitter," Trump Jr. wrote,
"when we walked into the arena it was overwhelmingly positive.
@danawhite said it was the most electrifying entrance he seen [sic] in
25 years of doing this." He was refering to Dana White, the UFC
president.
"Despite the bulls--- from blue checkmark Twitter, when we walked into the arena it was overwhelmingly positive." — Donald Trump Jr.
President Donald Trump and UFC president Dana White arrive at
Madison Square Garden to attend the UFC 244 mixed martial arts fights,
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in New York. (Associated Press)
President Trump was in midtown Manhattan for UFC 244,
with the main event featuring two American mixed-martial arts fighters,
No. 3-ranked Jorge Masvidal, with a record of 34-13, against No.
7-ranked Nate Diaz, at 21-11.
The match ended abruptly in favor of
Masvidal on a technical knockout after the third round, when a doctor
called it off over a gash that opened over Diaz's right eye.
Trump is a longtime fan of MMA and received support from White at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
"State
athletic commissions didn't support us, arenas around the world refused
to host our events," White said at the time. "Nobody took us seriously.
Nobody ... except Donald Trump. Donald was the first guy that
recognized the potential that we saw in the UFC and encouraged us to
build our business."
"Nobody took us seriously. Nobody ... except Donald Trump." — Dana White, president, UFC
President Trump -- accompanied by U.S. Reps. Mark Meadows and
Kevin McCarthy, and sons Eric Trump and Donald trump Jr. -- waves at
Madison Square Garden while attending the UFC 244 mixed martial arts
fights, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in New York. (Associated Press)
Trump’s return to New York came during the same week
he revealed he was changing his primary residency to Florida, claiming
he’s received poor treatment from New York’s politicians and has tired
of paying “millions of dollars” in taxes to the city and state.
President Donald Trump watches Derrick Lewis fight Blagoy Ivanov,
right, at UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in
New York. (Associated Press)
Outside the Garden, protesters carried signs with messages including, "Headlock Him Up!," and “Trump/Pence out now!”
Last
Sunday in Washington, the boos were clearly louder than cheers for the
president at Nationals Park for Game 5 between the visiting Houston
Astros and hometown Washington Nationals.
But after the Nationals
won the World Series in Houston three nights later, Trump tweeted a
message of congratulations to the champs, suggesting he harbored no hard
feelings after the harsh welcome.
It was unclear if President Trump planned to attend Sunday morning's running of the New York City Marathon. Fox News' Sam Dorman contributed to this story.
Former Vice President Joe Biden made another small gaffe Saturday while on a campaign stop in Iowa – but quickly corrected himself.
"How
many unsafe bridges do you still have here in Ohio? - I mean Iowa –
" he said to laughter from the crowd at Abby Finkenauer’s Fish Fry in
Cedar Rapids.
He explained that he had just been to Ohio and said they had more unsafe bridges there.
The mistake was just the latest in a series of slip-ups that have plagued Biden throughout his campaign.
Last
May, he corrected himself after referring to then-British Prime
Minister Theresa May as Margaret Thatcher, who served from 1979 to 1990
and died in 2013. In August, he said how much he loved being in Vermont
while he was in New Hampshire.
“I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth,” he said last year.
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Abby Finkenauer’s Fish Fry in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
(Fox News)
Biden -- who will turn 77 on
Nov. 20 -- has long been known for making gaffes and embellishing
stories but the frequency of his misstatements has led some to be
concerned about his age.
At the fish fry, Biden touted his support for investments in infrastructure and his pro-union stance.
In
an Iowa poll that came out last week, Biden trails in fourth place
behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who has recently surged, Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Democratic 2020 presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appeared to misunderstand a question about access to child care at an NAACP forum in Iowa on Saturday, launching into an answer about health care instead -- for more than two minutes.
“Senator,
the average cost of child care in Iowa is $8,200 a year,” Des Moines
NAACP President and moderator Kameron Middlebrooks said, according to a
report. “How would you both increase the availability of high-quality
care, why at the same time reducing the costs so providers could still
have a livable wage?”
“The health care industry has done a good job of lying to the American people,” Sanders began. He continued to speak at length about the high costs of drugs and insurance, never mentioning child care.
“We
can, in fact, substantially lower the cost of health care for the
average American and that’s what I intend to do," he concluded, according to Mediaite.com.
The moderators did not comment on his answer.
Sanders is in second place behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in a new Iowa poll that came out last week.
Gage Halupowski, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in
connection with a baton attack in June, authorities say. (Multnomah
County Sheriff's Office)
A 24-year-old man who authorities say was among masked Antifa supporters attacking conservatives at a June demonstration in Portland, Ore., was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison in connection with a brutal baton assault.
Gage Halupowski pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after authorities accused him of using a weapon against a conservative
demonstrator who suffered blows to the head that the victim claims left
him with a concussion and cuts that required 25 staples to close.
After the assault, police saw Halupowski collapse his metal baton and conceal it in his pants, FOX 12 Oregon reported.
The
attack outside a Portland hotel on June 29 was “completely
unexplainable, completely avoidable and didn’t need to happen,”
Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Marrero said,
according to OregonLive.com.
Gage Halupowski, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in
connection with a baton attack in June, authorities say. (Multnomah
County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities say Halupowski attacked Adam Kelly as
Kelly was attempting to help another man who’d been assaulted, the news
outlet reported.
Halupowski’s
defense attorney, Edward Kroll, called his client’s prison term “one of
the harshest sentences I’ve seen for someone with no criminal
background and young age,” but acknowledged that having the attack
caught on video left Halupowski with few legal options other than
accepting a plea deal.
Marrero disagreed, calling the sentence appropriate for Halupowski’s crimes, according to OregonLive.com.
Charges
dropped under Halupowski’s plea agreement included unlawful use of a
weapon, attempted assault of a public safety officer and interfering
with a peace officer, the outlet reported.
The attack against Kelly occurred the same day that a group of assailants attacked conservative writer Andy Ngo, dousing him with liquids and pelting him with objects, with those attacks also caught on video.
Ngo
claims he was later hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage and says no
suspects have yet been charged in connection with the assaults against
him.
Violent clashes between Antifa supporters and members of
conservative groups have been a vexing problem for the city of Portland,
whose mayor, Ted Wheeler, has faced harsh criticism for the city’s
response to such events. President Trump and some Republicans in
Congress have called for Antifa to be declared a domestic terror organization.
Brad
Parscale, campaign manager to President Donald Trump, speaks to
supporters during a panel discussion, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in San
Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:27 PM PT — Friday, November 1, 2019
President Trump’s campaign is saying it raised millions of dollars on
the same day Democrats voted for an impeachment inquiry. In a Friday
tweet, campaign manager Brad Parscale said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
impeachment resolution turned into a massive fundraising boom for the
president.
Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment resolution day turned into a MASSIVE fundraising day for @realDonaldTrump.
✅ $3 MILLION raised online alone in one day.
✅ That makes $19 MILLION in October online alone!
Impeachment sham is backfiring already!
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 1, 2019
Parscale claimed the campaign raised $3 million online in just one
day, totaling to $19 million in funds raised over the course of the
month. Parscale went on to say that the “impeachment scam” is already
backfiring.
Democrats know they can’t beat @realDonaldTrump so they’re trying to impeach him.
The whole sham is based on a phone call where the President did nothing wrong.
Show your support, buy the t-shirt & READ THE TRANSCRIPT!https://t.co/QPhQqHMkPP
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 1, 2019
This comes after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats
are considering other controversies beyond Ukraine as part of their
impeachment inquiry. In a Friday interview, Pelosi gave an update on
where her caucus stands in its investigation. She said public hearings
tied to their inquiry could start as soon as this month.
The House speaker said the decision to file articles of impeachment
will ultimately be decided by the committees leading the impeachment
probe. However, she added they’re not ruling anything out.
“What we’re talking about now is taking us into a whole other class
of objection to what the president has done,” stated Pelosi. “There were
11 obstruction of justice provisions in the Mueller report — perhaps
some of them will be part of this.”
Speaker
of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just before the
House vote on a resolution to formalize the impeachment investigation
of President Donald Trump, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP
Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Efforts to gather evidence against the president have centered on a
whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine. Democrats have
unified around the issue, though many expressed support for impeachment
following the release of the Mueller report. After the probe wrapped up,
the DOJ determined the president committed no collusion and no
obstruction.
President Trump continues to refute any wrongdoing and took to
Twitter Friday to berate the House speaker’s “corrupt leadership.”
Republicans have never been more unified than
they are right now! The Dems are a mess under the corrupt leadership of
Nervous Nancy Pelosi and Shifty Adam Schiff!
President Trump rallied supporters in Tupelo, Miss.,
on Friday night in a bid to shore up Republican support ahead of the
state's tightest gubernatorial race in nearly a generation.
Trump attacked former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden over their Ukrainian business dealings,
accusing the media -- specifically CNN's Anderson Cooper and Chris
Cuomo, who again Trump referred to as "Fredo" -- of covering up
potential Biden corruption.
"The press protects him," said the president, who also called Biden "One Percent Joe."
Trump also slammed the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, calling
it a "preposterous hoax" one day after the House voted to formalize the
rules of their impeachment process, and accused Democrats of trying to
"delegitimatize" the 2016 presidential election.
House committees
have held nearly a dozen closed-door depositions from witnesses
regarding their knowledge of a July 25 phone call between Trump
and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. An anonymous intelligence
community whistleblower has alleged that Trump sought to persuade
Zelensky to open an investigation into Joe Biden, his son Hunter and
their business dealings in Ukraine in exchange for military aid to the Eastern European nation.
"Do you think I would say something improper when I know there are so many people listening?" Trump asked the crowd.
The president also mocked former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, just hours after the Texas Democrat announced his withdrawal from the 2020 presidential election.
Trump
called O'Rourke a "poor bastard" and a "poor pathetic guy" who "made a
total fool of himself" in the race for the White House.
"Hopefully, we won't be hearing about him for a long time," Trump added.
"Hopefully, we won't be hearing about him for a long time." — President Trump
Trump also decried Hillary Clinton's recent comments about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,
D-Hawaii. The former secretary of state didn't mention Gabbard by name,
but suggested that Gabbard was being groomed to be a third-party
presidential candidate in 2020.
Trump said, "I don't know who Tulsi Gabbard is but I know one thing, she's not an agent for Russia."
Clinton
made similar comments about 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein, to
which Trump responded: "I don't know Jill Stein ... I know she's not an
agent of Russia."
The president opened his remarks at Bancorp South Arena by celebrating the U.S. military raid that led to the death of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying it had "ended his wretched life and punched out his ticket to hell."
"We
have a great military. It was very very depleted when I came into
office ... but it ain't depleted anymore," said Trump, who
called Baghdadi "a savage and soulless monster but his reign of terror
is over."
Trump
lamented the media's coverage of the military's most recent feat,
saying that if former President Barack Obama had killed the leader of
ISIS, the media would have the story "going on for another seven
months."
"Conan the dog got more publicity than me -- and I'm very happy about it," Trump said of the heroic military dog who was injured while pursuing Baghdadi through a tunnel underneath a compound in northwestern Syria.
"Conan the dog got more publicity than me -- and I'm very happy about it." — President Trump
"While we're creating jobs and killing terrorists, the Democrat Party has gone completely insane," Trump said.
Hundreds of people had waited to see Trump at the rally to support Republican gubernatorial
candidate Tate Reeves, who is finishing his second term as
Mississippi's lieutenant governor after previously serving two terms as
the elected state treasurer.
Reeves briefly joined Trump onstage
and accused the "radical liberals" of "disrespecting" Trump by pursuing
impeachment against him and urged the crowd to elect "an ally to Donald
J. Trump."
"He'll never let you down," Trump said of Reeves. "And don't kid yourself, your Second Amendment is under attack."
Reeves
has spent $10.8 million in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil
Bryant, while his Democratic opponent, state attorney general Jim Hood,
has spent $5.2 million. Both are receiving financial support from
national governors' groups in their parties.
Reeves has sought to tie Hood as closely as possible to national Democrats, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who are deeply unpopular in a state that voted heavily for Trump in the last presidential election.
Hood has not invited national Democratic figures to
Mississippi and is running campaign commercials that show him with his
family, his pickup truck and his hunting dog, Buck. In one, Hood unpacks
a rifle and says that "Tate Reeves and his out-of-state corporate
masters" are spending money on a "bunch of lies."
"You
all know me. I've worked for you for years. I do my job and I'm a
straight shooter," Hood says. The spot ends with Hood shooting the gun
and shattering a bottle.
Hood is also running radio ads designed
to appeal to African American voters — including one with an endorsement
from former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, who ran a strong but ultimately
unsuccessful race for U.S. Senate in Mississippi last year, and another
that mentions Hood leading the successful 2005 prosecution of Ku Klux
Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen in the 1964 murder of three civil rights
workers.
The outreach reflects the importance of black voters to
any possible Hood victory. African Americans make up 38 percent of the
state's population, but some say they're irritated by Hood's emphasis on
courting rural white voters. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
"Catch and Kill" author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow took aim at former President Bill Clinton on Friday night, saying the nation's 42nd chief executive was "credibly" accused of rape and that alleged victim Juanita Broaddrick's claim was "overdue for revisiting."
Stemming from a panel discussion on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
about the Katie Hill saga -- in which the California congresswoman
resigned after allegations of inappropriate affairs -- host Maher posed a
hypothetical about whether Clinton would have been treated differently
-- for the Monica Lewinsky affair and other matters -- if he were
president in today's political climate.
"Could Bill Clinton, if he
had done what he did in 1998, survive today -- or would his own party
have thrown him under the bus?" Maher asked.
Later
in the conversation, Farrow addressed the question by stressing that
the allegations made against Clinton are a "different" situation.
"I
think that it is very important to interject that Bill Clinton is a
different conversation," Farrow told Maher. "He has been credibly
accused of rape. That has nothing to do with gray areas. I think that
the Juanita Broaddrick claim has been overdue for revisiting."
Farrow,
whose reporting took down disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and
helped propel the #MeToo movement, added that he thought Clinton
wouldn't escape scrutiny today, saying society's views on sexual
misconduct have "changed."
The
U.S. House impeached Clinton in 1998 over the Lewinsky affair but the
Senate acquitted him and he went on to complete his second term in
January 2001.
In 1999, Broaddrick sued Clinton, seeking documents
that might be relevant to her allegations.But a judge dismissed her
lawsuit in 2001.
The Trump administration has agreed to pay $846,000 to the state of California in a settlement over the administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, according to a report.
California
sued the Trump administration earlier this year over concerns a
citizenship question on the census would lead to underrepresentation of
minorities.
In June the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down the administration’s reasoning for adding the question,
calling it “contrived," and calling on the White House to provide other
reasons for wanting the data, The Sacramento Bee reported. In the 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with liberal associate justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagen, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.
Opposing the California lawsuit were conservative justices Neil Gorsuch,
Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
President Trump later blasted the court's ruling in a Twitter message.
"Seems
totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a
basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and
important Census, in this case for 2020," the president wrote. "I have
asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long,
until the ... United States Supreme Court is given additional
information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this
very critical matter."
California had argued it could lose billions in funding if its minority populations are underrepresented.
In the settlement, the administration will pay California the sum for lawyer fees and related costs incurred by the state.
The administration said it would get citizenship information from other sources.
In
July, Trump signed an executive order directing executive agencies to
provide as much citizenship data allowed under the law to the Commerce
Department, The Bee reported.
President Donald Trump and UFC president Dana White arrive at
Madison Square Garden to attend the UFC 244 mixed martial arts fights,
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in New York. (Associated Press)
President Trump -- accompanied by U.S. Reps. Mark Meadows and
Kevin McCarthy, and sons Eric Trump and Donald trump Jr. -- waves at
Madison Square Garden while attending the UFC 244 mixed martial arts
fights, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in New York. (Associated Press)
President Donald Trump watches Derrick Lewis fight Blagoy Ivanov,
right, at UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, in
New York. (Associated Press)
