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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2020 22:19:46 GMT
Donald Trump Jr. has denied that he prepared for his big Republican National Convention speech by snorting cocaine, blaming his glassy eyes and sweaty forehead on unflattering lighting conditions. Appearing on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, the president’s oldest son was asked about social-media speculation that he might have been high when addressing the RNC on Monday night. “I guess there must have been something with the lighting, but they started doing this trending thing,” he said, before bellowing the mock headline: “DONALD TRUMP JR.’S ON COCAINE.”
Trump went on to repeat a joke he’d made on Twitter a day earlier and apparently believed to be very funny, saying that people accusing him of taking coke must have him “confused” with Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who has previously spoken openly about living with drug addiction.
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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2020 0:38:51 GMT
Day three of the Republican National Convention gets underway virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. Watch live coverage of the Republican National Convention as President Donald Trump is officially nominated as the party's candidate for president. Featured speakers include Vice President Mike Pence, his wife, Karen Pence, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany; Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Joni Ernst of Iowa; South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem; the president's daughter-in-law and campaign adviser Lara Trump; and the former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.
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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2020 5:24:18 GMT
C-SPAN's livestream of the first night of the Republican National Convention has attracted nearly 440,000 views, marking a substantial increase over the start of the Democratic National Convention, which drew 76,000 views.
The numbers for Monday night come ahead of traditional TV ratings from Nielsen Media Research, which will be released on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Nielsen, 18.7 million people tuned in to the first night of the virtual Democratic convention from Milwaukee and Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 17, which featured speeches from former first lady Michelle Obama and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R).
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's speech on Thursday night was watched by 21.8 million people on TV, beating out the numbers for other major speeches at the party's convention earlier in the week.
Still, the numbers for Biden mark a 21 percent drop from presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in 2016. They are also more than 38 percent lower than President Trump's acceptance speech at the Republican convention four years ago, which drew 34.9 million viewers.
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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2020 21:24:22 GMT
Melania Trump's former confidant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is dishing out a behind-the-scenes look at the allegedly contentious relationship between the first lady and first daughter Ivanka Trump. In her forthcoming book, "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," Wolkoff details the painstaking efforts she and, allegedly, Melania took to block Ivanka from appearing in photos of President Donald Trump's swearing in at the inauguration, according to an excerpt published Thursday in New York Magazine. Wolkoff wrote, "We were all exhausted and stressed out. Yes, Operation Block Ivanka was petty. Melania was in on this mission. But in our minds, Ivanka shouldn't have made herself the center of attention in her father's inauguration." Wolkoff, a former director of special events for Vogue magazine who oversaw events like the Met Gala and helped organize events around Trump's inauguration, has known Melania for more than a decade. She was Melania's first hire in the East Wing and worked unpaid as a special government employee. But it proved to be a brief stint. As investigations into inaugural activities progressed, the eye-popping sum Wolkoff's firm was paid -- nearly $26 million -- caused a rift with the Trump family. All but $1.6 million of that payment went to subcontractors and vendors. In February 2018, the East Wing announced it had "severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. Wolkoff." The excerpt from Wolkoff's new book details the bad blood between Melania and Ivanka -- whom Melania, according to Wolkoff, has referred to as "Princess."
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2020 5:39:05 GMT
With the energy of the late Billy Mays, Ivanka Trump sold her father (“my father”) to the American people on Thursday night at the Republic National Convention. Amid the camera’s wide pans of the White House, a place where you’re not legally allowed to hold campaign rallies, she spoke of his track record, his vision, how he cut drug prices.
But first, she opened with a fun little anecdote about her son. He built a Lego model of the White House, she said, that the president keeps in the Oval Office to show heads of state. It’s a great story about a family of builders and of a grandfather who is able to love anyone but himself.
Andrea Bernstein of WYNC did, however, point out that Legos feature pretty heavily in family lore. Seems like every Trump kid has a building story, as a lot of kids who’ve seen a Lego do. For them, it’s a childhood hobby portending a future in the old real estate biz. Their biggest thing, though, is accusing the others of misremembering it:
She had told this story of gluing together Lego version of the Trump Tower as a six year old. But Ivanka’s brothers, according to her own book, The Trump Card, as recounted in Bernstein’s forthcoming book American Oligarchs, countered her tale of the glue and the Legos as apocrypha. The boys did the Lego building. Her own father said that they all “had it all wrong,” per Bernstein recounting Ivanka’s book, and the building story was his. In his own book, The Art of the Deal, his ghost writer described how he asked to borrow his brother Robert’s blocks to build a building, which he liked so much that he glued it together. He never gave his brother’s toy back to him.
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