WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s presidency was in turmoil on Thursday (Jun 19) after top ex-aide John Bolton declared him unfit for office in a bombshell book and the Supreme Court blocked a key part of his re-election vow to deport undocumented migrants. The mounting drama around the Republican’s already rocky re-election bid raised the stakes for his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday – the first he will have held since the US coronavirus lockdown began, but mired in controversy over whether it is safe. Trump’s once supremely self-confident march toward a second term was already in a hole due to criticism over his responses to the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide anti-racism protests. A Supreme Court ruling against his administration’s bid to remove protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants classified as “Dreamers” struck another blow as Trump’s re-election platform rests in large part on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration. The ruling was doubly stinging because Trump has long boasted that his appointing of two justices succeeded in tilting the nation’s top court to the right. In an outburst on Twitter, Trump called this and other recent rulings he didn’t like “shotgun blasts into the face of people… Read full this story
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