Trump urgently seeks to reverse a tough week with an exuberant rally
by W. James Antle III, Politics Editor |
| June 20, 2020 12:00 AM
President Trump is going into Saturday’s “Make America Great Again†rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his first since the coronavirus paused traditional campaigning in early March, with an urgent need to turn the page on a tough week of mostly bad news.
The conservative majority Trump has tried to build on the Supreme Court failed him twice, rebuffing him on reversing Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals for younger immigrants living in the country illegally and handing down a ruling on gay and transgender rights that social conservatives widely believe will impinge their religious liberty and be a legal nightmare for religious institutions.
“Nonprofit social services are not exactly awash with finances for litigation purposes,†said Timothy Head, executive director of the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition. To add insult to injury, the opinion was authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first appointee to the Supreme Court.
As this undermined one key rationale for Trump’s reelection — you can count on him to deliver conservative judges — the release of former national security adviser John Bolton’s book undercut another. Bolton claimed that Trump begged the Chinese government to cut a deal that would help him win reelection. While the administration strongly denied the allegation, it plays into Democratic claims that the president encourages foreign powers to meddle in the U.S. election process and is a counterpoint to his case that he is uniquely tough on China.
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