August 6, 2020 News Brief

The President said and did incendiary things like claiming he’ll accept his nomination from the White House and posting misinformation that was removed by Facebook and got his campaign account suspended on Twitter. 

The acting inspector general for the State Department Stephen Akard resigned affective Friday. Akard had been on the job only 3 months after Trump fired his predecessor, Steve Linick, who was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s role in a Saudi arms deal. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-department-watchdog-resigns-in-another-shakeup-at-igs-office/2020/08/05/8217c054-d71f-11ea-b9b2-1ea733b97910_story.html

The Manhattan District Attorney subpoenaed President Trump’s records from Deutsche Bank - indicating that their investigation into Hugh payments to Stormy Daniels has expanded to include tax fraud and other financial crimes. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/trump-taxes-vance-deutsche-bank.html

Joe Biden announced plans to accept the Democratic nomination remotely from his home in Delaware. Neither he nor his running mate will travel to Milwaukee for the convention. Chicago Public Schools also scrapped plans for a hybrid model of reopening and announced they will move to a completely online reopening. 

The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 75 years ago today. Three days later, a second bomb leveled Nagasaki. The attacks killed an estimated 200,000 people. 

https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/beyond-wwii

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