Donald Trump has claimed ex-Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney “could be in a lot of trouble” after a House GOP subcommittee called for her to be investigated by the Justice Department over her stewardship of the panel that examined the Capitol riot of January 6 2021, accusing her of witness tampering by “colluding” with Cassidy Hutchinson on her testimony.
The president-elect posted the taunt on his Truth Social platform, thanking Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who led the subcommittee and produced the interim report, for “a job well done”.
Cheney herself has already rubbished Loudermilk’s report as “a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth”.
She added, witheringly: “No reputable lawyer, legislator, or judge would take this seriously.”
Meanwhile, Trump has announced two more nominees to his incoming administration, naming Florida philanthropist Nicole McGraw as the the next US ambassador to Croatia and, more surprisingly, ex-NFL star and failed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.
The Republican also used his social media account to order Senate Republicans against agreeing a deal with Democrats on his nominees to top cabinet positions.
“I will make my appointments of Very Qualified People in January when I am sworn in,” he declared.
Key Points
- Donald Trump loses latest bid to throw out hush money case on ‘presidential immunity’ grounds
- Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster for survey released the day before the election
- Trump formally clinches presidency with Electoral College win
- Congressional Republicans say government funding deal reached, report says
Trump meets TikTok CEO as platform fights US ban
Tuesday 17 December 2024 22:00
Graig Graziosi
Donald Trump reportedly met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Monday to discuss the app’s potential ban by the US government.
The two men reportedly had a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, according to NBC News.
In the days leading up to the meeting, Trump had expressed some degree of sympathy for the company, saying he had a “warm spot” for the app, and promising that he’d “take a look” at the ban.
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Republican report suggests Liz Cheney be criminally investigated because of work on Jan 6
Tuesday 17 December 2024 21:47
Gustaf Kilander
Republicans released a 128-page report Tuesday which suggested that former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney be investigated for her work probing the January 6 Capitol riot.
The report looked at the “failures and politicization” of the now-dissolved January 6 Committee, claiming that President-elect Donald Trump was unfairly blamed for the attack.
“Speaker Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” it says.
The conclusion argues that the FBI should investigate Cheney, claiming that her contact with witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, amounted to witness tampering.
“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who is really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement, according to The Hill.
She went on to note that “Chairman [Barry] Loudermilk’s (R-Ga.) ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”
The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister is on the brink
Tuesday 17 December 2024 21:30
Rachel Clun
After nearly 10 years at the country’s helm, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing growing calls from his own party to resign.
Mr Trudeau’s latest crisis has been sparked by the sudden resignation of his finance minister Chrystia Freeland, amid a row over how best to handle US President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened trade tariffs.
Once the poster-boy for liberal politics, his popularity has waned and his approval rating has dipped below 30 per cent several times this year.
So what went wrong?
Pennsylvania state senator mistakes Star Wars prop for drone
Tuesday 17 December 2024 21:00
Gustaf Kilander
I take the actual drone story seriously but re the below, I’m pretty sure Red Leader Garven Dreis shot down that TIE fighter in ep IV A New Hope https://t.co/MD4nRsZqQ7
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 17, 2024
Trump formally clinches presidency with Electoral College win
Tuesday 17 December 2024 20:55
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump has formally won the Electoral College and the presidency after Texas’ electors handed him the state’s 40 electoral votes Tuesday.
After Trump’s election win on November 5, his victory was formalized Tuesday as presidential electors gathered across the U.S.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the Electoral College — Trump won 312 last month to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 226.
The votes of each state will be sent on to Congress next month, where Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance will be declared the next president and vice president before they take office at noon on January 20.
Senators warn that Pete Hegseth’s hearings will echo Brett Kavanaugh’s with fervor from both sides
Tuesday 17 December 2024 20:30
Gustaf Kilander
Senate Republicans fear that the confirmation hearings for secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth will be a repeat of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s heated 2018 hearings.
Both Kavanaugh and Hegseth have been accused of sexual misconduct and have rejected the allegations. Hegseth’s plan to release his accuser from a nondisclosure agreement is setting up the hearing to be filled with tension and fervor from both Democrats and Republicans.
Hegseth is set to push ahead with his nomination despite warnings from Senate Republicans that he’s likely to face a frenzy of uncomfortable questions about the sexual misconduct allegations and the claims against him of excessive drinking and financial mismanagement.
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Trump insiders reveal candid details about Melania and Barron’s relationship
Tuesday 17 December 2024 20:00
Ariana Baio
Incoming First Lady Melania Trump is devoted to ensuring her 18-year-old son, Barron Trump, is happy and healthy which will likely make her role in the White House less visible than other first ladies, insiders say.
Melania, 54, strives for “open communication” with her son, who recently began attending college at New York University, to help him adjust to the spotlight, two sources familiar with the Trump family told People.
“Melania worries about the hate in the country and how it falls on her son, who is innocent of any of this,” a social source told the magazine.
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Comment: Why Elon Musk should get every cent of his $56bn Tesla pay package
Tuesday 17 December 2024 19:30
Chris Blackhurst
The moment my children became interested in the US election was not when Taylor Swift declared her support for Kamala Harris, it was when Elon Musk appeared alongside Donald Trump.
They’re late teenagers – young adults – and Musk is their hero. It’s not just that he’s the world’s richest man, although that adds considerable lustre. It’s because he breaks boundaries, not least with his attempts to award himself a $56bn pay package, compensation that a judge this week ruled excessive.
He’s also the future, their future. They admire the Tesla – ‘faster than a motorbike from traffic lights’ one said to me recently. They can take or leave X, it’s not their network. And the space rocket reversing into a dock, as neatly as any car – that video has been replayed in our household countless times.
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Why is tech giant SoftBank investing over $100 billion in the US?
Tuesday 17 December 2024 19:00
Elaine Kurtenbach
Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son and President-elect Donald Trump have announced plans for technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States over the coming four years.
Trump said the investments in building artificial intelligence infrastructure would create 100,000 jobs, twice the 50,000 promised when Son pledged $50 billion in U.S. investments after Trump’s victory in 2016.
Son, a founder and CEO of SoftBank Group, is known for making bold choices that sometimes pay big and sometimes don’t. SoftBank has investments in dozens of Silicon Valley startups, along with big companies like semiconductor design company Arm and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The stock market rally and craze for AI has boosted the value of its assets, but it’s unclear whether its investments will create that many jobs.
Who is Masayoshi Son?
‘We live to fight another day’
Tuesday 17 December 2024 18:35
Gustaf Kilander
After losing the ranking member spot on the House Oversight Committee to Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on BlueSky: “Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone - we live to fight another day.”
TikTok ban in numbers: Why the block could change the world even more than we thought
Tuesday 17 December 2024 18:30
Anthony Cuthbertson
After amassing more than 170 million users in the country in less than seven years, TikTok is now facing an outright ban in the US.
On 19 January, just one day before Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated as president, the country is set to become the latest to completely ban the Chinese-owned app.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is still attempting to reverse the ruling, and has three potential ways to avoid the nationwide ban. The first is to ask the US Supreme Court to intervene, which it did on Monday. The second is to convince Trump to reverse the decision when he comes into office, with TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew reportedly meeting with the incoming president on Monday. And the third – though this appears increasingly unlikely – ByteDance can abide by the ruling and sell TikTok to a US-based owner.
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Live: Immigration activists call on Congress to oppose Trump deportation plans
Tuesday 17 December 2024 18:07
Gustaf Kilander
Don Jr insists he will always ‘care for’ Kimberly Guilfoyle
Tuesday 17 December 2024 18:00
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump Jr has said he will always “care for” Kimberly Guilfoyle and that the couple retain “a special bond” amid reports that they have ended their four-year engagement and parted ways.
While the couple has still not officially confirmed the split, the president-elect’s eldest son, 46, was recently pictured with Florida socialite Bettina Anderson celebrating her 38th birthday at Buccan, an exclusive Palm Beach restaurant, and enjoying a romantic evening stroll along the beach.
The photos, published by The Daily Mail, coincided with Guilfoyle, 55, being picked by President-elect Donald Trump to be his next US ambassador to Greece, leading to jokes from the likes of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that she had effectively been exiled to Athens to avoid an embarrassing break-up.
Now, Don Jr has told Page Six he and Guilfoyle “will never stop caring for each other” – though he stopped short of confirming their relationship is over.
“Kimberly and I will never stop caring for each other and will always keep a special bond,” he said.
US embassy damaged in Vanuatu earthquake
Tuesday 17 December 2024 17:30
Gustaf Kilander
The US embassy was damaged Tuesday in an earthquake striking Port Vila, the capital of the South Pacific Ocean nation Vanuatu.
The 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck at about 12.53 p.m. and there were following “aftershocks,” an embassy alert said.
“There are also reports of landslides in the Port Vila area. People are advised to avoid entering buildings as they may be damaged or unstable,” the embassy added. “The U.S. Embassy in Port Vila has sustained considerable damage during the earthquake and is closed until further notice.”
Electoral college certification today
Tuesday 17 December 2024 17:13
Gustaf Kilander
Presidential electors are meeting in all 50 states and Washington D.C. to ratify President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a mostly ceremonial voting process, 538 electoral votes will be handed down. Thirteen of the electors are Republicans who took part in the fake electors plot in 2020, and some of them face criminal charges.
Connolly beats AOC in race for ranking member slot on Oversight Committee
Tuesday 17 December 2024 17:10
Gustaf Kilander
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly has beaten Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the ranking member spot on the House Oversight Committee.
Connolly received 131 votes to Ocasio-Cortez’s 84.
RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard head to the Hill for meetings with senators
Tuesday 17 December 2024 17:00
Gustaf Kilander
HHS secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr. and the nominee to serve as the director of national intelligence, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard are on the hill Tuesday to drum up support for their respective nominations.
Congressional Republicans say government funding deal reached, report says
Tuesday 17 December 2024 16:45
Gustaf Kilander
Congressional Republicans have reached a deal in principle to fund the federal government, according to CNN.
Speaker Mike Johnson has said he hopes to release the on Tuesday afternoon. It reportedly includes almost $100 billion in disaster aid and another $10 billion in banking relief for farmers.
The deal also includes an extension of the farm bill for one year, a provision aiding biofuels, a measure extending telehealth flexibilities, and another measure for pharmacy benefit managers, the network noted.
Leaders of both parties remain confident that a government shutdown will be averted before Friday.
Trump lashes out at New York justice: ‘A completely illegal, psychotic order’
Tuesday 17 December 2024 16:30
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump lashed out at Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court Juan Merchan after he rejected the president-elect’s attempt to throw out his hush-money case conviction based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
“In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday.
Calling Merchan a “radical partisan,” the former president went on to claim that he wrote, “an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.”
“I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself,” Trump added in a subsequent post after nominating some of his own defense lawyers to top roles at the Department of Justice.
Mallory McMorrow is not running for DNC chair
Tuesday 17 December 2024 16:00
Alex Woodward
Rising Democratic star Mallory McMorrow isn’t running for DNC chair — she went viral for a Michigan Senate speech against anti-trans attacks and “groomer” panic and was on the stage during this year’s Democratic National Convention.
Let’s go pic.twitter.com/npQKTjWWVP
— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) December 17, 2024
Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster for survey released the day before the election
Tuesday 17 December 2024 15:30
Alex Woodward
Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register, its top pollster J. Ann Selzer, her firm, and the newspaper’s parent group Gannett, alleging news coverage of Selzer’s poll showing Kamala Harris with a surprising lead was used to fraudulently boost his rival in the final days of the 2024 election.
The lawsuit accuses the newspaper of “brazen election interference” and violations of consumer protections — his latest line of attack against media outlets he disagrees with as he prepares to wage war against a critical press when he returns to the White House.
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Nigel Farage meets Elon Musk at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion amid rumours of $100m donation to Reform
Tuesday 17 December 2024 15:00
Kate Devlin
Nigel Farage has met Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago mansion amid rumours the tech billionaire is preparing to donate $100m to Reform UK.
The two men met at the Florida club on Monday, alongside Reform’s new party treasurer Nick Candy.
In a statement Mr Farage and Mr Candy said: “We had a great meeting with Elon Musk for an hour yesterday. We learned a great deal about the Trump ground game and will have ongoing discussions on other areas.
“We only have one more chance left to save the West and we can do great things together. Our thanks also to President Trump for allowing us to use Mar-a-Lago for this historic meeting. The special relationship is alive and well.”
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Trump sues Des Moines Register after poll showed Harris winning Iowa
Tuesday 17 December 2024 14:45
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on media companies by suing Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, her polling company, The Des Moines Register newspaper, and Gannett, its parent company. All this comes after a poll showed Vice President Kamala Harris winning Iowa towards the later stages of the 2024 campaign for the White House.
Trump is suing under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which outlaws deception in advertising or the selling of merchandise, CNN noted.
The claims are unlikely to be successful in court, but Trump is using the measure to go after what he views as Democratic-friendly media outlets, pollsters, and press coverage of elections.
Trump claims that the news coverage of the Selzer poll was meant to help Democrats. The poll showed Harris with a surprising lead in the Hawkeye State, which didn’t come to pass in the actual vote.
Trump wants immigrants gone. He keeps hiring them for his businesses
Tuesday 17 December 2024 14:30
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect has made it clear that he wants to crack down hard on immigration once he’s in office.
But his own businesses keep employing foreign guest workers, hiring more of them this year than any other on record.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander’s report.
Trump is bringing a hawkish Iran policy back in with him
Tuesday 17 December 2024 14:00
Joe Sommerlad
With the end of Joe Biden’s administration on the horizon, American foreign policy is in flux.
Donald Trump, the president-elect, remains in Mar-a-Lago for now, but even without a presidential seal behind him has taken to holding discussions with world leaders beyond the typical congratulatory calls that occur in the post-election period.
And it’s increasingly becoming clear that US-Iran policy will be an arena where one of the biggest shifts in the American posture will occur.
A Wall Street Journal report in November unveiled the discussions underway about “maximum pressure 2.0” — a return to an updated version of the hardline policy platform the first Trump administration deployed against Iran with the expressed intention of cutting off the country’s nuclear program and weakening its government and state economy.
John Bowden has more.
Trump reportedly considering nominating Democrat to run FEMA
Tuesday 17 December 2024 13:30
Joe Sommerlad
In what would be one of his more surprising cabinet nominations were it to come to pass, the president-elect is reported by CNN to be toying with the idea of appointing a Democrat, Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz, to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which handles natural disaster relief.
It is not clear whether Trump and Moskowitz have met yet to discuss the proposition, which would see him take a leaf out of Kamala Harris’s book.
TikTok CEO visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago as US ban looms
Tuesday 17 December 2024 13:00
Joe Sommerlad
Shou Zi Chew became the latest Big Tech boss to meet with the president-elect in Florida yesterday, following in the footsteps of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai, all of whom have sought closer ties with the president-elect since his November election win.
This is what Trump had to say about the platform at yesterday’s press conference:
Trump on a possible TikTok ban: "I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points, and there are those that say TikTok had something to do with that." pic.twitter.com/xv2rm78oMc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 16, 2024
That came as US lawmakers told Apple and Google to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores on January 19 after the Chinese-owned platform failed in its bid to delay a nationwide ban.
China-based ByteDance must sell TikTok in the US before that date to avoid the ban, which has been ordered due to national security concerns.
TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week, asking for more time to make their case to the US Supreme Court.
Here’s the latest from Anthony Cuthbertson.
Trump slams ‘totally toxic’ ousted Canadian finance minister
Tuesday 17 December 2024 12:30
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect had this fairly frank dismissal of Chrystia Freeland after she resigned unexpectedly as Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister.
“She will not be missed!!!” he hisses.
The Great State of Canada is stunned as the Finance Minister resigns, or was fired, from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau. Her behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) December 17, 2024
Here’s more on what’s going on up there.
Trump nominates five more ambassadors
Tuesday 17 December 2024 12:00
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect named another quintet of nominees to his new administration late yesterday, who are as follows:
- Arthur Graham Fisher was named as Trump’s choice to be the next United States Ambassador to the Republic of Austria
- Leah Francis Campos will be United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
- George Edward Glass will be United States Ambassador to Japan
- Stacey Feinberg will be United States Ambassador to Luxembourg
- Lou Rinaldi will be United States Ambassador to Uruguay
Trump mocked over geography gaffe: ‘You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are’
Tuesday 17 December 2024 11:30
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect also raised eyebrows at Mar-a-Lago yesterday after marveling at the number of countries that reached out to him following his election victory last month.
“I’ve spoken to way over 100, where they called to congratulate not only the election but also the size of the election and the extent of the victory,” Trump said on Monday.
“They were great. I spoke to over 100 countries.
“You wouldn’t believe how many countries there are. I’m trying the best I can to get back to everybody.
“There are a lot of countries. Literally, everyone called. It was very nice.”
Gustaf Kilander has more.
Trump makes New Jersey drone sighting plea to White House: ‘Something strange is going on’
Tuesday 17 December 2024 11:00
Joe Sommerlad
This is what the president-elect had to say about the matter of unidentified flying objects over the East Coast and the Biden administration’s odd failure to put people’s concerns at rest.
Trump says he would consider pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Tuesday 17 December 2024 10:30
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect, all too familiar with federal indictments himself, said yesterday that he believed Mayor Adams was “treated pretty unfairly” and said he “would” issue a pardon once he had reviewed the indictment against him on corruption charges that was issued in September if he felt it merited it.
Here’s more from Ariana Baio.
Trump claims ‘there’s something wrong’ with autism rates when asked about vaccines
Tuesday 17 December 2024 10:00
Joe Sommerlad
Let’s have a look back at the president-elect’s latest meandering press conference yesterday, at which he took questions on a wide range of subjects in addition to making the SoftBank announcement.
Here’s Eric Garcia on his worryinging refusal to say definitively that vaccines do not cause autism during comments intended to ease concerns about his nomination of vaccine-sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary.
He was at least positive about the polio vaccine, although not about mandates relating to it.
SoftBank CEO announces $100bn investment in US during Mar-a-Lago visit
Tuesday 17 December 2024 09:30
Joe Sommerlad
Trump used a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday to announce a $100bn investment deal with Japan’s SoftBank, which he and the bank’s CEO Masayoshi Son promised would create hundreds of American jobs.
Here’s what they had to say:
President-elect Trump is joined by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son in announcing the Japanese bank's $100 billion investment in the U.S. over four years. pic.twitter.com/Hl0T0iy1W5
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 16, 2024
Donald Trump loses latest bid to throw out hush money case on ‘presidential immunity’ grounds
Tuesday 17 December 2024 09:00
Joe Sommerlad
Good morning!
Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to throw out his New York hush money conviction, with the judge overseeing the case rejecting his attorneys’ conjecture that he is protected by “presidential immunity”.
The president-elect appears likely to enter the White House as a convicted felon, though it remains unclear when, or if, the justice will continue to postpone a sentencing date after a unanimous jury found him guilty in May of falsifying business records tied to hush money payments made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels in October 2016.
Here’s a full report from Alex Woodward.
Lindsey Graham breaks with Trump on jailing Jan 6 committee members
Tuesday 17 December 2024 08:00
Ariana Baio
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina explicitly said he disagrees with Donald Trump’s suggestion that the members of the House Select Committee to investigate January 6, 2021, should be jailed.
Graham, a staunch Trump supporter, told Kristen Welker of Meet the Press on Sunday that he disagrees with the presidency-elect but did not elaborate further.
“President-elect Trump told me he thinks the members of the January 6 committee should go to jail, do you agree with that statement?” Welker asked.
Graham replied, “No.”
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TikTok prepares for US ban after delay bid rejected
Tuesday 17 December 2024 07:00
Anthony Cuthbertson
US lawmakers have told Apple and Google to prepare to remove TikTok from their app stores on 19 January after the Chinese-owned platform failed in its bid to delay a nationwide ban.
China-based ByteDance must sell TikTok in the US before that date to avoid the ban, which has been ordered due to national security concerns.
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Steve Bannon is pushing the idea that Trump can run in 2028 (despite what the Constitution says)
Tuesday 17 December 2024 06:00
Justin Baragona
MAGA acolyte Steve Bannon is currently floating the idea that Donald Trump could run for a third presidential term, even though the United States Constitution says otherwise.
During a speech at the New York Young Republican Club’s Gala on Sunday night, the former Trump chief strategist suggested that the 22nd Amendment – which states that presidents can not be elected more than twice – didn’t apply to Trump because the president-elect’s terms are non-consecutive.
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Trump’s mass deportation plan could hurt the country more than the Great Recession, report says
Tuesday 17 December 2024 05:00
Kelly Rissman
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise of sweeping deportations could result in “severe economic fallout,” devastating the economy even more than the Great Recession, according to a report by Democrats in the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.
Although Trump’s messaging about improving the economy for Americans during his second term appeared to strike a chord with voters, another one of his campaign fixtures — mass deportations — could have harmful economic consequences, the December 11 report warns. The 78-year-old Republican has suggested that would use the military to assist in mass deportations.
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