DNC convention kicks off with peaceful protest
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/trump-says-erdogan-world-class-chess-player-38975
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Turkey's President Erdogan is a world-class chess player.
Trump also criticised presidential candidate Joe Biden about foreign policy, by calling Biden "mentally exhausted," during a Fox News interview.
The White House said on Sunday Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron, and said the leaders "agreed that Greece and Turkey must commit to dialogue, which is the only path to resolving their differences."
Trump said he is "dealing with world class chess players" in these dialogues with world leaders, singling out Erdogan among the national leaders.
Did he just screw over Kirstjen Nielsen
https://www.newsandguts.com/video/former-member-of-the-trump-administration-endorses-joe-biden/
Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, is out with a scathing op-ed and video, that is at the same time an indictment of the president and an endorsement for Joe Biden. In the Washington Post today, Taylor, a self-described Republican, writes, “I can attest that the country is less secure as a direct result of the president’s actions… The president has tried to turn DHS, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, into a tool used for his political benefit.” He cites one instance where “then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced, at the White House’s urging, a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to prosecute anyone who crossed the border illegally.”
“After this ill-conceived operation was rightfully halted, in the following months the president repeatedly exhorted DHS officials to restart it and to implement a more deliberate policy of pulling migrant families apart en masse, so that adults would be deterred from coming to the border for fear of losing their children. The president was visibly furious on multiple occasions when my boss, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, refused.”