Jakub Krupa
Right here’s some extra on Trump’s feedback about Putin. Speaking in regards to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he stated:
“That was a battle that ought to have by no means occurred. Lots of people are dying and it ought to finish.
We get numerous bullshit thrown at us by Putin if you wish to know the reality. He’s very good on a regular basis, however it seems to be meaningless.”
Requested if he desires to see additional sanctions towards Russia, he says: “I’m it.”
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When requested in regards to the newest on the Jeffrey Epstein case – during which the Division of Justice concluded there was no secret consumer checklist and it lacked proof to prosecute – Pam Bondi introduced up her Fox Information interview feedback from earlier this yr that has gone viral this week about Epstein’s consumer checklist, explaining that when she stated information had been “sitting on my desk to be reviewed”, she meant the Epstein file together with JFK and MLK assassination information.
The US lawyer normal defined that investigators discovered “tens of 1000’s” of kid sexual abuse movies downloaded by Epstein, which she stated would “by no means be launched, by no means going to see the sunshine of day”.
Concerning Epstein’s loss of life, Bondi stated jail video confirmed he dedicated suicide, although she famous a technical situation with the recording system primarily based on the jail’s outdated video system.
In the meantime, Trump was clearly irritated by the query, saying: “You continue to speaking about Jeffrey Epstein? This man has been talked about for years … And are individuals nonetheless speaking about this man, this creep? That’s unbelievable.”
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Up to date at 12.46 EDT
Trump ‘not blissful’ with Putin however says any potential motion would come as ‘somewhat shock’
Talking to reporters, Trump stated that he’s “not blissful” with Russian chief Vladimir Putin, and famous that weekly casualties in Ukraine at the moment are at 7,000 every week.
“I’m not proud of Putin. I can let you know that a lot proper now, as a result of he’s killing lots of people, and numerous them are his troopers, his troopers and their troopers largely. And it’s now as much as 7,000 every week,” Trump stated.
When pressed by reporters about potential motion, Trump declined to elaborate, saying: “I wouldn’t be telling you, we need to have somewhat shock.”
Trump praised Ukrainian resistance whereas crediting US navy assist: “The Ukrainians had been courageous, however we gave them the perfect gear ever made.”
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Opening his full cupboard assembly simply earlier than midday, Donald Trump once more focused his predecessors’ commerce insurance policies, claiming the US was beforehand “led by silly individuals” who lacked enterprise acumen.
Trump stated: “We solely adhered to the foundations of different nations who cost us great tariffs as a result of we had been led by silly individuals, or individuals with none enterprise sense.”
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Donald Trump is about to attend Sunday’s Membership World Cup remaining at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, a senior administration official tells NBC Information senior White Home correspondent Garrett Haake.
The Membership World Cup remaining would conclude Fifa’s newly expanded 32-team world event.
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Trump confirms new tariffs to take impact 1 August: ‘there shall be no change’
Donald Trump has issued an ultimatum to the US’s buying and selling companions, confirming that new tariffs will take impact on 1 August with no chance of delays.
In a Reality Social put up on Tuesday, Trump stated:
As per letters despatched to numerous international locations yesterday, along with letters that shall be despatched at this time, tomorrow, and for the following quick time period, TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025. There was no change to this date, and there shall be no change. In different phrases, all cash shall be due and payable beginning AUGUST 1, 2025 – No extensions shall be granted. Thanks in your consideration to this matter!
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Up to date at 11.24 EDT
The US authorities will ban gross sales of US farmland to Chinese language patrons and different overseas adversaries, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, introduced at a joint press convention on Tuesday.
Talking alongside protection secretary Pete Hegseth and homeland safety secretary Kristi Noem, Rollins stated the administration would pursue government actions and work with states to halt such purchases, citing nationwide safety and meals safety considerations.
“Now not can overseas adversaries assume we’re not watching,” Hegseth stated, including that the Pentagon would block farmland gross sales close to navy installations to guard meals provides for troops “particularly in a contingency”.
The transfer consists of plans for elevated monitoring of current farmland owned by entities from China, Russia and Iran. Chinese language buyers presently management 265,000 acres of US land, based on authorities information, with roughly half linked to Smithfield Meals, which was purchased by Chinese language conglomerate WH Group in 2013.
Chinese language possession of US farmland has already fallen considerably, dropping from 384,000 acres in 2021 to present ranges.
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Up to date at 11.11 EDT
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and a few of his high officers met with JD Vance at Blair Home on Tuesday, based on Israeli media experiences.
Blair Home, immediately throughout from the White Home, serves because the official presidential visitor home and has been referred to as “the world’s most unique lodge”. Solely an important overseas dignitaries get invited to remain there.
Netanyahu’s lodging on the historic residence alerts the Trump administration’s dedication to sustaining the particular US-Israel relationship, even because the prime minister faces an arrest warrant from the worldwide felony courtroom over battle crime allegations stemming from Israel’s devastating conduct in Gaza.
He was joined by strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer, nationwide safety adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, ambassador to Washington Yechiel Leiter and navy secretary Maj Gen Roman Gofman.
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Up to date at 11.12 EDT
Rightwing influencers within the US who are sometimes aligned with Donald Trump are offended {that a} joint justice division and FBI memo has dismissed the existence of a “consumer checklist” within the case towards late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The disgraced financier killed himself in a jail cell on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in New York Metropolis in 2019 whereas awaiting prosecution on little one sex-trafficking and conspiracy expenses.
Nearly ever since, Epstein’s loss of life has been the topic of conspiracy theories on the appropriate, together with a supposed “consumer checklist” that he purportedly used to blackmail rich co-conspirators.
Trump’s presidential administration then created anticipation that the alleged checklist could be publicly disclosed, together with the US lawyer normal, Pam Bondi, who had advised Fox Information in an interview: “It’s sitting on my desk proper now to assessment.”
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Up to date at 10.32 EDT
A cut up Wisconsin supreme courtroom is paving the way in which for a statewide “conversion remedy” ban by putting down a Republican committee’s constitutional problem to the proposed rule.
The 4-3 choice from the liberal-majority courtroom overturned the GOP-controlled joint committee for the assessment of administrative guidelines, which had twice rejected a state company regulation banning the scientifically discredited observe geared toward “changing” LGBTQ+ individuals to heterosexuality.
The ruling is yet one more brush up between the Democratic governor, Tony Evers, and the Republican-controlled legislature over LGBTQ+ rights. Evers has beforehand vetoed GOP payments concentrating on transgender highschool athletes and has sought to restrict the legislature’s energy.
Conversion remedy is already banned in 23 states and Washington DC.
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