We begin on Friday, August 14th, President Trump signs an executive order that will force the Chinese tech company, ByteDance, to sell or spin off the popular video social media app TikTok within 90 days. Under the latest order, TikTok buys some time to make a deal happen in addition to ByteDance being expected to destroy all copies of TikTok data from American users.
If a deal cannot be completed where TikTok is bought by an American corporation, the app will be banned in the U.S. But even if a deal is made, are we really going to be led to believe that ByteDance will destroy all data it collected from American users? If you believe that, I got some ocean front property in Oklahoma for sale.
Saturday, August 15th, in somber news, President Trump announces in a statement that his younger brother, Robert Trump, died from an undisclosed illness he was battling for several months. The president described him as his “best friend.” He was 71.
Sunday, August 16th, after being accused of attempting to “dismantle” the U.S. Postal Service to prevent the expansion of mail-in ballot access ahead of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump takes to Twitter to post a quote from Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying, “If carefully done, according to the guidelines, there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that (vote at polling place).”
It should be noted that the Post Office received a $10 billion loan from the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package in March. The holdup now is the next round of negotiations where the Democrat-controlled House bill proposes giving the Post Office $25 billion, which Trump opposes because of his belief it will go to expanding mail-in voting.
Monday, August 17th, President Trump begins his counterprogramming campaign to the 2020 Democratic National Convention by traveling to Mankato, Minnesota and Oshkosh, Wisconsin to attack Joe Biden on jobs and the economy.
Tuesday, August 18th, on the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, President Trump pardons Susan B. Anthony, the women’s suffragist who illegally voted in the 1872 presidential election and fined $100.Trump then continues his anti-DNC tour by traveling to Yuma, Arizona to attack Joe Biden on immigration and border security.
Wednesday, August 19th, President Trump announces that the U.S. will demand that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran two years after withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, negotiated by his predecessor President Obama.
Meanwhile, Trump gives a pass to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory in which he doesn’t question the validity of their claims that he’s supposedly saving the world from a satanic cult comprised of pedophiles and cannibals associated with the Democratic party, Hollywood celebrities, and the “Deep State.”
Thursday, August 20th, former Trump campaign CEO and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon along with three others are indicted for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a border wall fundraising campaign, known as “We Build the Wall.” President Trump distances himself from Bannon by saying he was “showboating.”
Steve Bannon completes the trifecta for Trump’s 2016 campaign chiefs with his arrest. Trump’s first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was arrested and charged with battery for grabbing former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields. His second campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was arrested and convicted on a number of indictments stemming from his consulting work with the Ukrainian government. While Trump and his supporters believe they’re the target of a politically vindictive Justice Department, Bannon’s case is a tricky one, given it’s an incident of MAGA-on-MAGA crime.
