In America for starters, so one headline out of the states was that Trump has signed an executive order introducing several police reforms while rejecting calls to defund or dismantle the police. His order offers federal grants to improve practices, including creating a database to trace abuses by officers. During the press conference to puff his chest he did not comment about the ongoing US racism debate. Flanked by eight law enforcement officers, only one of whom was non white, Trump began by saying he had met a number of African-American families who had lost loved ones, yet no representatives of the families were present with Mr Trump, he also added that without police, there's chaos and that Americans believe we must support the brave men and women in blue who police our streets and keep us safe and that Americans also believe we must improve accountability, increase transparency and invest more resources in police training, recruiting and community engagement. Just as usual the words left his mouth, but no heart followed the words because the man has no heart, just a racist bank fault where his heart should be. Every thing this man says or does is for publicity in an effort to get re-election and cannot be trusted.
In other headlines the saga with former National Security Adviser John Bolton versus Trump escalated to the point where the US Department of Justice (or should we say Trump's lackey, AG Barr) has filed a lawsuit to prevent Mr Bolton publishing a new book about his time at the White House citing that it contains classified information which comes a day after Trump said Mr Bolton could face "criminal problems" over the release adding I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified, so that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems". Representatives of the non-profit American Civil Liberties Union responded saying that any Trump administration efforts to stop John Bolton's book from being published are doomed to fail and Mr Bolton lawyer followed up stating they were looking through the lawsuit and "will respond in due course". Here you have a president who is hiding scared of the backlash of honesty that will eventually topple his house of lies and open him up to criminal proceedings over his past and present misrepresentations. This man should not have been allowed to set one foot in to the whitehouse without his tax returns been vetted or a thorough back ground check in to his operations with certain countries, but that is four years ago and still nothing has happened.
While all this nonsense is going on in America, all the headlines can come up with in dear old Blighty is about free meals for children over the summer months which the government has done a u-turn on due to campaigning from the public backing a footballer and the merging of two separate departments of government, all in all there is very little information coming out of the halls of government which is a worry in itself as during a pandemic, an economic downturn, growing unemployment and social unrest you would expect more in the headlines from the halls of power or even more face time with the actual leader of the country. Not in the case of this government who is in the habit of hiding away from the hard questions, but as there is very little to read about, there is very little to rant about, so I will call a day on that.
Rant you tomorrow!
