President will give address on racial equality on Tuesday afternoon after senators are sworn in for Trump impeachment
- House delivered article of impeachment against Donald Trump to Senate
- President Joe Biden says impeachment trial ‘has to happen’
- Trump campaign distances itself from new ‘Patriot party’
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We were expecting Joe Biden to speak at 2pm EST today about his racial equity agenda, and to sign executive orders which will address policing, housing and prison conditions. Another event has just been added to his public schedule – a 4:45pm address on the fight against the Covid pandemic.
Add to President Biden’s schedule today –
4:45 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on the fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic
A strange story about Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler emerging from the weekend, as the Washington Post report:
On Sunday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was walking outside a craft brewery on the Oregon city’s southwest side when a man walked up to him and shouted, “Thanks for ruining the city!”
Moments later, the Democratic mayor blasted the man in the eyes with pepper spray.
