Trump news: Four RNC attendees test positive for Covid as president gives full pardon to Alice Johnson after she praised him in speech

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Trump 'profoundly' accepts GOP nomination for president of the United States

Donald Trump gave a full pardon to Alice Johnson on Friday after she praised the president at the Republican National Convention.

Trump gave his own performance at the convention top ratings for the second-longest acceptance speech since 1984, behind only himself in 2016. Fox News called it "flat and too long".

Rand Paul called on the FBI to investigate 'paid anarchists' that harassed the Senator and other RNC attendees as they left the White House on Thursday night.

The end of the Republican convention came as four people who attended in Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier in the week tested positive for Covid-19.

The House Foreign Affairs committee, meanwhile, announced the panel would carry out contempt proceedings against US secretary of state Mike Pompeo for refusing to provide subpoenaed documents in an investigation into government resources.

While thousands attended the March on Washington calling for federal police reforms, Trump finished his week at a New Hampshire campaign rally saying protesters during the RNC were just bad people and troublemakers who didn't know who George Floyd is.

Key Points

• Donald Trump says DC protestors are just bad people
• Trump pardons Alice Johnson after former inmate praised him in RNC speech
• Senator attacked outside White House calls for FBI probe into group 'paid to be anarchists'
• Are you listening Portland' - Trump asks as National Guard rolls into Kenosha 
• RNC attendees in Charlotte test positive with Covid

[28 August 2020 23:45 · Justin Vallejo]

Trump: 'Are you listening Portland?' Portland: 'No'

Portland gave Donald Trump and answer to his question of whether the city was listening to the National Guard roll into Wisconsin to quell the violence flowing from the shooting of Jacob Blake.

"No thanks," mayor Ted Wheeler wrote.

[29 August 2020 00:00 · Justin Vallejo]

Hurricane Laura: Four die from carbon monoxide poisoning in Louisiana

Four people in Louisiana have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in "hurricane-related deaths", the state's department of health has announced.

The news comes after Hurricane Laura hit the territory this week with 150 mph winds as a Category four storm, becoming one of the strongest ever to hit the US.

"The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) is sadly verifying an additional four storm-related deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. We do not have other details at this time," the department posted on Twitter.

Over 850,000 people were left without power across Louisiana and east Texas, in many cases forcing people to turn to the use of alternate power sources such as gasoline generators

Louise Hall has the latest from the storm watch.

[29 August 2020 00:03 · Justin Vallejo]

Trump begins campaign rally in New Hampshire

"The poll numbers have swung, if you go back six months before the plague flew in from China this election was over," Trump said as he renewed his campaigning following last night's RNC.  "Today it was announced that Joe Biden is coming out of the basement because the poll numbers have totally swung."

"But here's what I don't get, Sleepy Joe's coming out he said, in 10 days! That's a long, 10 days, that's like an eternity in Trumpville," he continued.

[29 August 2020 00:18 · Justin Vallejo]

'They don't know who George Floyd is' - Donald Trump says DC protestors are just bad people

At his rally in New Hampshire today, Donald Trump said protestors outside the White House during the RNC were just "bad people, troublemakers".

"Today's Democratic party is filled with hate. Just look at Joe Biden's supporters on the streets screaming and shouting at bystanders with unhinged, manic rage," he said. 

He said the protestors in Washington, who would have assaulted Rand Paul and his wife if not for police, were a "disgrace".

"Protestors. You know what I say, protestors your arse. I don't talk about my arse. They're not protestors. Those are anarchists, agitators, they're rioters, they're looters," Trump said. 

"Has nothing to do with George Floyd, has nothing to do with anything. They don't even know who George Floyd is... they have no idea. If you asked them who George Floyd is they couldn't even tell you. These are just bad people, troublemakers."

[29 August 2020 00:32 · Justin Vallejo]

Media stoking flames of racial hatred, Trump says

"We stand for so much, including Martin Luther King's dream of a nation where our children are judged not by colour of their skin but by the content of their character," Trump says.

"The radical left's effort to divide everyone by their race tears us apart, there's so much racial hatred and it's put there by CNN, MSDNC, they stoke the flames and they know it."