Donald Trump

In the midst of a pandemic that threatens his re-election, US President Donald Trump accomplished what few American leaders have ever managed with the appointment of a third Supreme Court justice in his first term in office.

In a usual national election 130,000,000 votes are cast, but this year for myriad reasons, many of which are obvious, the total vote this year in President Trump versus Joe Biden contest it is likely to top 150,000,000.

A determined debate moderator and some rules changes forced the final US Presidential debate into a somewhat more civilised style in Nashville, Tennessee. However, President Donald Trump ran into Joe Biden on one of Biden’s best nights.

With virtually all political polling showing him losing quite badly, Americans are wondering which Donald Trump will show up in Nashville, Tennessee Thursday night (Friday morning IST) for the final US presidential debate. For the past week, the presidential rage has been directed at Hunter Biden, his opponent’s son, in what most political experts believe is a smear job based on fake information.

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It takes a worried man to sing a worried song*. Just about everyone involved in the US national election speaks with a sense of foreboding.

Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett told the committee she has no views on climate change relevant to the court. She couldn’t say Trump’s policy of having small children separated from their immigrant parents at the border was wrong.

Even while the Covid pandemic was in the making, China lit too many fires in global politics, negating the effectiveness of its propaganda blitz across the world, so crucial to President Xi Jinping’s survival

The vice presidential debate was 90 minutes of watching Republican Mike Pence imitate and support US President Donald Trump, using their largely fact-free version of reality concerning the last four years against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

By Kenneth Tiven in...