Trump news – live: William Barr says unclear if illegal to vote twice after president suggests it and Biden to visit Jacob Blake’s family in Kenosha
Donald Trump’s suggestion that voters cast two ballots in November’s presidential election, one by mail and a second in person to “check’’ the former, has placed the US attorney general under pressure, with William Barr declining to be drawn on the matter other than to say the legality of doing so is uncertain.
“I don’t know what the law in a particular state says”, he said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, in which he joined Mr Trump in disparaging mail-in ballots as “playing with fire” and said Black Lives Matter’s crusade against white police violence was a “false narrative”.
This comes as Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, visits Kenosha on Thursday where he is expected to meet with members of Jacob Blake’s family – the black man hospitalised and left paralysed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back, sparking new demonstrations and fatal unrest in the Wisconsin city.
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