Content Details
DCPD-202000632 - The President's News Conference
- Category
- Budget and Presidential Materials
- Collection
- Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Publisher
- Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
- Event Date
- August 31, 2020
- President
- Donald J. Trump
- Document Categories
- Interviews With the News Media : News conferences
- Subjects
- Armed Forces, U.S. : National Guard
Communications : News media :: Accuracy and fairness
Communications : News media :: Presidential interviews
Diseases : Coronavirus, domestic prevention efforts
Economy, national : Improvement
Health and medical care : Experimental drugs and therapies
Health and medical care : Research and development
Illinois : Gun violence in Chicago
Immigration and naturalization : Illegal immigration
Law enforcement and crime : Criminal justice system, reform efforts
Law enforcement and crime : Law enforcement officers, service and dedication
Law enforcement and crime : Nationwide civil unrest and violence
Law enforcement and crime : State and community law enforcement agencies, Federal support
Law enforcement and crime : Violence against law enforcement officers, prevention efforts
Oregon : Civil unrest and violence in Portland
Texas : Governor
Wisconsin : Governor
Wisconsin : Kenosha :: Civil unrest and violence
Wisconsin : Kenosha :: Police-involved shooting
- Names
- Abbott, Gregory W.; Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Bowser, Muriel E.; Crump, Benjamin; De Blasio, Bill; Evers, Anthony S.; Harris, Kamala B.; Obama, Barack; Paul, Kelley Ashby; Paul, Randal H.; Rittenhouse, Kyle; Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar; Ward, James E., Jr.; Wheeler, Edward T.
- Locations
- Washington, DC
- Notes
- The President's news conference began at 5:45 p.m. in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. In his remarks, the President referred to Mayor Edward T. Wheeler of Portland, OR; Democratic Presidential Nominee Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Vice Presidential nominee Kamala D. Harris; Gov. Anthony S. Evers of Wisconsin; Sen.; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death for his role in the Boston Marathon Bombing on April 15, 2013; James E. Ward, Jr., pastor, Insight Church in Skokie, IL; Benjamin Crump, an attorney representing Jacob Blake, Jr., who was shot multiple times during an encounter with police in Kenosha, WI, on August 23 and was treated at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, WI; Aaron J. Danielson, a demonstrator who was shot and killed in Portland, OR, on August 29; and Antioch, IL, resident Kyle Rittenhouse, accused gunman in the killing of Joseph D. Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber during a demonstration in Kenosha, WI, on August 25. A reporter referred to Mayor John Antaramian of Kenosha, WI.