President Donald Trump took his Cabinet meeting on the road to Camp David, using the historic rustic backdrop of the presidential retreat to boast of his administration’s achievements while seizing on a migrant crisis in Spain to make his case for why voters should keep the Republican Party in power.
Migration Crisis
Some 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain’s tiny Ceuta territory over the past 24 hours. Roughly half of them have already made their way back voluntarily, according to the Spanish government, but at least 57 have died on the journey. Trump warned that the same thing could happen to the United States if the Republicans don’t get elected.
Trump also deflected blame for a series of cyberattacks that targeted 30 water systems in Minnesota on the state’s ‘grossly incompetent’ Democratic leadership. Officials have not publicly identified who was behind the attacks, though the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other agencies warned in an advisory last week that Iranian hackers have been targeting water and wastewater systems and the operational controls of other critical infrastructure sectors.
Camp David
Camp David has been a retreat for presidents since FDR. The camp’s primary purpose is to provide presidents a place to rest, relax and recharge. It was established in 1942 during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency and has been used by every president since.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
