Good morning. Long-standing White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has announced she will leave the Trump administration at the end of August to focus on her family. Famed for describing the administration’s use of “alternative facts”, Conway was Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 election before becoming senior counsellor to the president. Her husband, a vocal critic of Trump, has also announced he will step back from his role at the Lincoln Project. As Conway steps back from Republican politics, questions have been raised about those entering, with a wave of extreme rightwing candidates running for office. This week, Trump congratulated Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and Islamophobe who has been banned from social media for hate speech, while a report showed that 67 current or former rightwing congressional candidates have embraced QAnon, a complex conspiracy theory that has been flagged as a potential domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. Former FBI director James Comey has said Steve Bannon is “in a world of trouble”, after the former Trump campaign manager was arrested last week on fraud charges relating to a campaign to build a border wall with Mexico. The president has announced he is authorising the use of plasma treatment, which has been used to treat flu and measles, for Covid-19 patients, after blaming the ‘deep state or whoever’ for slow progress on treatment for the virus. Despite the fact that more than 64,000 coronavirus patients in the US have already been given convalescent plasma, there is no solid evidence it is effective against Covid-19. The development came after the US coronavirus death toll passed 175,000 this weekend, with about 5,700,000 cases.

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Article Link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/first-thing-kellyanne-conway-to-leave-donald-trump-white-house


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