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See What Joe Biden Promised Some Muslim Nations Immediately He Assumes Office Next Year

 After one of the most heated moments in the history of politics in the United States of America, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Joe Biden, was declared winner of the recently concluded elections. Joe Biden was declared as president-elect after scoring 50.6% of the total votes casted, as well as 290 electoral college votes, against the Trump's 47.7% votes and 214 electoral college votes. In a Nationwide broadcast after he was declared winner, Biden thanks Americans for given him this opportunity to lead the country in the next four years.


According to Washington Post, the President-elect, Joe Biden, is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on January 20, next year immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.



Among the executive orders he will sign immediately include the promise he made to some muslim nations. Donald Trump's administration has placed migration ban on some muslim majority countries across the world. But Joe Biden promised to repeal that ban immediately he assumes office next year. He also promised to halt U.S withdrawal from the World Health Organisation which the Trump's administration initially agreed to do. He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months before his election as US president.








Juneteenth: Trump changes Tulsa Oklahoma rally date 'out of respect'



US President Donald Trump is postponing his first post-coronavirus lockdown election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma so it does not fall on a holiday commemorating the end of US slavery.

He tweeted that the 19 June rally would be held a day later out of respect for the occasion, known as Juneteenth.

The choice of date had drawn criticism amid nationwide anti-racism protests.

The location was also controversial, as Tulsa saw one of the worst massacres of black people in US history in 1921.

Up to 300 people died when a white mob attacked the prosperous black neighbourhood of Greenwood, known as the "Black Wall Street", with guns and explosives. About 1,000 businesses and homes were also 

Why is Juneteenth significant?

Juneteenth is not a federal holiday, but is widely celebrated by African Americans.

It celebrates the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved African Americans in Texas.

Texas was the last state of the Confederacy - the slaveholding southern states that seceded, triggering the Civil War - to receive the proclamation, on 19 June 1865, months after the end of the war

President Trump initially defended the timing of his rally, telling Fox News: "Think about it as a celebration. My rally is a celebration. In the history of politics, I think I can say there's never been any group or any person that's had rallies like I do."

But critics accused him of disrespecting the date and the significance of Tulsa to US history.

"This isn't just a wink to white supremacists - he's throwing them a welcome home party," said Democratic Senator Kamala Harris 

Explaining the decision to move his rally, Mr Trump tweeted: "Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents. I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests..."

America Great Again" rally in Tulsa will be the president's first campaign event since 2 March, when the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to mass gatherings.

Mr Trump is seeking re-election in November 2020, but polls show him lagging behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

Campaign rallies are seen as a key method of energising his base, and Oklahoma is traditionally a Republican-voting state. 

event will proceed against a backdrop of ongoing protests against racial inequality and police brutality, triggered by the death of African American man George Floyd on 25 May. Mr Floyd, who was unarmed, died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a policeman knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.


The rally is being held in a 19,000-seat indoor arena, and concerns have been raised about the potential risks.

The US has the world's highest official death toll from coronavirus. More than 114,600 people have died there with the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and there have been more than two million confirmed infections.

Oklahoma has one of the country's lowest infection rates, and businesses are reopening - but the state's Governor Kevin Stitt has urged residents to keep social distancing and to "minimise time spent in crowded environments".

People buying tickets for the Tulsa rally online have to click on a waiver confirming that they "voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19" and will not hold the president's campaign responsible for "any illness or injury".

Correspondents say that while the virus remains a threat, Mr Trump's campaign considers that large crowds at the recent protests will make it harder for his opponents to criticise his rallies.

The president has said he plans to hold further events in Florida, Texas, North Carolina and 


Is Donald Trump's re-election bid in peril?

Polls indicate that the president is trailing Joe Biden - by double digits in some surveys. A recent Economist magazine analysis gives Biden a five in six chance of winning by an electoral margin reminiscent of Barack Obama's comfortable win in 2008.

Trump is running with the same strategy as in 2016, but his struggles suggest that this year the national mood may be different. The American public, grappling with more than 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, a resulting economic slump and now nationwide protests about racial injustice and policing, may have no stomach for further confrontation. The president's bellicosity and bravado, which has served him in the past, at times seems out of step with a public that wants empathy, healing and reconciliation.

The president is touting "law and order" at a time when public opinion has dramatically shifted in favour of the Black Lives Matter movement and toward the belief that racial and ethnic discrimination is a real problem that will be a priority when voting in November.

Trump's Defense Team Argued the Case Like They Know They Have the Votes



WASHINGTON—On Saturday, the president*’s defense team in his impeachment trial presented what amounts to the trailer for its actual case. It is entirely possible that the full banquet of crazy may be served up when we resume on Monday, but, for now, anyway, the White House’s lawyers are simply arguing the case on the basis that they Have The Votes.

Why else would they constantly refer to how long the House managers took to present their case while assuring the senators that the defense case won’t take that long? Why else would they make the transparently hilarious case that the president* is being denied due process when they know that the Republican majority in the Senate voted in lockstep against calling witnesses, and will do so again, even if it’s put up for a vote, which I doubt it will be? Why else would they manage the feat, heretofore thought impossible, of spending two hours talking about the Ukraine scheme without once mentioning the name, “Rudolph Giuliani,” let alone “Lev Parnas”? (Neither, it should be said, were either Joe or Hunter Biden, although that I am sure is coming Monday.) This is how you argue when you know you Have The Votes.

Also, when you Have The Votes, you can begin your presentation this way, the way lead counsel Pat Cipillone did oSaturday.

No errors in judgment. No rookie mistakes. And certainly no high crimes and/or misdemeanors.

Absolutely nothing wrong. A perfect phone call. A full gallon of vintage Flavor-Aid all around.



It would have been so easy for them to say the president* screwed up, that he did something wrong, but not something that requires the drastic step of handing the presidency over to Mike Pence. But that would not please the essential Audience of One whom the defense lawyers have to satisfy. You do not say in public that the president* made a mistake, let alone committed a crime. My dear men, this simply is not done, not unless you want the Internet hellhounds on your trail. Fear is driving the defense team as surely as it’s driving the Republican caucus, and it’s fear that has guaranteed that the defense team Has The Votes.

They’ve known they Have The Votes ever since all those Democratic amendments went down on the first day of the trial. And if they didn’t know it then, they knew it after Friday night, when all of the allegedly wavering Republican senators decided to get all huffy because of something Adam Schiff said.

When you know you Have The Votes, you can say anything at all. You can pretend that most of the people in the Senate chamber have not watched the news at any time since the House Judiciary Committee held hearings. You can pretend that there have been no interviews with Lev Parnas, and that there aren’t any tapes proving that, contrary to his denials, the president* knew Parnas damned well and that it was Parnas who lobbied him (successfully) to have Marie Yovanovich smeared and then relieved as ambassador to Ukraine, not that the president* could find the sand to do it himself. He subcontracted the job to Parnas and his American running buddy, He Who Shall Not Be Named, former mayor of New York. When you know you Have The Votes, nothing matters, not even the unfolding truth, which gets worse for them every day.