Trump puts pressure on GOP, dismisses Biden and jabs media in Saturday tweetstorm | TheHill

https://t.co/ltdHSmaMYTThat jab followed a campaign update from Biden's team on Friday in which aides sounded a confident note about the former vice president's prospects in November, saying he could secure upward of 318 electoral votes — more than the 270 needed to win the White House.Trump on Saturday also shared a series of tweets from conservative media figures focusing on "Obamagate," a term the president has used while airing grievances over the FBI’s investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russia in 2016.The president has repeatedly lashed out at his predecessor over the past week after former President Obama said that Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrHillicon Valley: Commerce announces new Huawei restrictions | Russian meddling report round five | Google's ad business in spotlight Justice Department signals opposition to Senate's surveillance bill Dershowitz: Spread the justice in Flynn case but restrain the judge MORE was threatening the rule of the law by dropping the Department of Justice's case against Flynn. That would open up a can of worms, and for a variety of reasons, I don't think that's a good idea," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday.Biden in a tweet on Saturday afternoon sought to put the focus back on Trump's decision the previous day to oust the State Department's inspector general, Steve Linick, a move that has provoked strong criticism from Democrats who see it as part of a "dangerous pattern of retaliation" against government watchdogs."It seems the way to get fired by President Trump is not to commit wrongdoing, but to investigate it," Biden wrote.Trump traveled to Camp David on Friday evening after announcing new members of the White House coronavirus task force and unveiling a team to lead a federal public-private effort to accelerate production of a vaccine to combat the coronavirus.The White House in recent days has sought to cast itself as in control of the pandemic response, with Trump traveling to a distribution center to tout the availability of medical protective gear and the White House press secretary detailing that the administration has its own pandemic preparedness plan.Still, experts say a national testing strategy will be key to prevent future outbreaks and allow different parts of the country to safely reopen, after the president suggested this week that widespread testing may be “overrated” and encouraged states to reopen businesses.Trump tweeted Saturday, "We’ve done a GREAT job on Covid response, making all Governors look good, some fantastic (and that’s OK), but the Lamestream Media doesn’t want to go with that narrative, and the Do Nothing Dems talking point is to say only bad about 'Trump'.