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President Donald Trump and First Woman Melania Trump are visiting hurricane-battered Asheville, North Carolina, earlier than heading west to evaluate the harm in wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles.
The visits come amid a debate about the way forward for the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) with the president doubling down on the concept states are higher equipt to cope with catastrophe response.
Again on Capitol Hill, the affirmation vote for Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choose for secretary of protection, is anticipated this night and will go all the way down to the wire, with no less than two no-votes already anticipated from Republican senators.
In the course of the second a part of his interview with Sean Hannity, which aired on Fox Information final evening, Trump blamed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia’s invasion of his homeland.
The president mentioned Zelensky was “no angel” and had allowed the warfare to rumble on however added he can be ready to impose large tariffs on Moscow if Vladimir Putin refuses to enter talks on ending the battle.
Trump additionally mentioned he “would relatively not” place tariffs on China however insisted it was a “super energy” at his disposal in coping with Beijing.
Trump and Kellyanne Conway to talk at GOP retreat on Monday
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 19:58
DOJ asks federal decide to elevate launch situations on Oath Keepers founder and others
This morning a federal decide barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from coming into Washington, D.C., with out the court docket’s approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group chief’s 18-year jail sentence for orchestrating an assault on the U.S. Capitol 4 years in the past.
U.S. District Choose Amit Mehta issued the order two days after Rhodes visited the Capitol, the place he met with no less than one lawmaker, chatted with others, and defended his actions throughout a mob assault on the complicated on January 6, 2021. Rhodes was launched from a Maryland jail a day earlier.
Mehta additionally barred different Oath Keepers members who have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for collaborating in a violent plot to assault the Capitol.
Now, in a movement signed instantly by Appearing U.S. Lawyer Ed Martin, asks Choose Mehta to elevate all launch situations for Stewart Rhodes and others with commuted sentences.
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 19:53
Trump ends Fauci’s safety element and says he’d really feel no duty if hurt befell him
President Donald Trump has ended the federal safety element for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious illness professional who suggested him on the COVID-19 pandemic, an individual conversant in the matter mentioned Friday.
Fauci is the most recent in a string of former Trump aides-turned-critics to see their federal safety canceled regardless of ongoing threats to their lives.
Talking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, Trump mentioned he wouldn’t really feel any duty if hurt befell the previous authorities officers. An individual conversant in the matter, who spoke on the situation of anonymity to debate delicate safety points, mentioned that Fauci’s federal safety element was ended on Thursday and that he has since employed non-public safety.
When requested about Fauci and former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton, Trump mentioned, “All of them made some huge cash. They will rent their very own safety, too.”
State Dept freezes new funding for almost all US assist packages worldwide
The State Division on Friday froze new funding for nearly all U.S. assist packages worldwide, making exceptions to permit humanitarian meals packages and army assist to Israel and Egypt to proceed.
The order — despatched in a cable to U.S. embassies worldwide — prohibits new authorities spending, which seems to restrict packages to working solely so long as they’ve money available.
The State Division will conduct a evaluate of which of the 1000’s of U.S. assist and improvement packages can proceed. Its order spells out the execution of an aid-freezing government order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday.
Friday’s order particularly upset humanitarian officers by not together with any exemptions sparing well being clinics and different well being packages worldwide from the brand new funding freeze.
COMMENT: TikTok, commerce and tariffs — What’s Trump enjoying at with China?
How nicely do Donald Trump and Xi Jinping get on? The world’s most essential relationship is between America and China. And it’s within the fingers of two highly effective males of their seventies who’re a research in contrasts.
Their deeds will form occasions for the subsequent 4 years, from TikTok to commerce, tariffs, know-how, warfare and peace.
Xi is a Marxist educated in occasion self-discipline, resistant to allure, hyper-cautious, set on goals fastened in conclaves behind the vermilion partitions of Beijing and never a person to barter on the fly. Trump is, nicely, Trump.
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 19:25
Full story: Oath Keepers founder barred from coming into Washington or Capitol with out court docket’s permission
A federal decide on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from coming into Washington, D.C., with out the court docket’s approval after President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group chief’s 18-year jail sentence within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. District Choose Amit Mehta, who oversaw the seditious conspiracy trial of Rhodes and different Oath Keepers, issued the order two days after Rhodes visited Capitol Hill, the place he met with no less than one lawmaker, chatted with others and defended his actions the day of the riot.
Mehta’s order applies to seven different defendants who have been charged in one of the vital critical conspiracy instances introduced by the Justice Division over the riot. The order additionally prohibits them from coming into the Capitol constructing or surrounding grounds with out the court docket’s permission.
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 19:09
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 19:04
‘A person of his phrase’: Silk Highway founder pardoned by Trump lauds president
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 18:50
Vance celebrates Trump’s earlier actions on abortion
Talking on the March for Life in Washington, Vice President JD Vance mentioned the president “delivered on his promise of ending Roe,” appointed lots of of anti-abortion judges and pardoned anti-abortion activists he says have been “unjustly imprisoned.”
“Our nation faces the return of essentially the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes,” Vance informed the gang of protesters who cheered and chanted “JD” as he took the stage.
In footage: White nationalist group Patriot Entrance attend ‘March for Life’ in D.C.
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 18:35
