Musk vs MAGA conflict: Trump camp in bitter struggle over immigration, international employee visas
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Donald Trump has endorsed the present speaker of the Home of Representatives, Mike Johnson, for re-election forward of Friday’s essential vote when Congress returns from its vacation recess.
Speaker Johnson, who narrowly averted a authorities shutdown earlier than Christmas, hopes to carry onto the gavel however wants the help of 218 lawmakers so can’t afford multiple GOP rebel, given his facet’s slim majorty of 219 to 215.
Taking to Fact Social to name for Republican unity, the president-elect backed the incumbent by hailing Johnson as “a good, hard working, religious man.”
“He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN,” he mentioned. “Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement.”
In the meantime, a federal appeals courtroom has upheld a ruling towards the president-elect after he challenged a jury’s verdict that discovered him accountable for sexually abusing and defaming former journal columnist E Jean Carroll.
“Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings, and has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial,” three appellate judges wrote of their resolution Monday.
Watch: Peruvian shamans share weird Trump-Putin predictions for 2025
Peruvian shamans share weird Trump-Putin predictions for 2025
Peruvian shamans have predicted a weird alliance in 2025 between US President-elect Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin which might exclude China and probably set off a 3rd World Conflict. In an annual ritual on Friday, 27 December, the group additionally predicted pure disasters in Canada and Japan and suggested carrying gold to stop betrayals within the upcoming 12 months of the Snake. The shamans blew smoke and waved flowers on photos of world leaders equivalent to Mr Trump, Mr Putin and Chinese language President Xi Jinping throughout cleaning rituals atop San Cristobal Hill in Lima.
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 18:20
Musk to Mike: ‘You have my full support’
After firing off dozens of posts this month to derail a bipartisan spending bill helmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, Elon Musk says the Republican congressman has his “full support.”
After the House passed a third attempt at the stop-gap bill, Johnson told reporters he spoke with both Trump and Musk an hour before votes started.
Alex Woodward30 December 2024 18:00
Full story: Trump endorses Mike Johnson for House Speaker days before crucial vote
Trump’s key endorsement forward of Friday’s vote to find out who wields the gavel sends a transparent sign to Home Republicans to line up behind Johnson, who has confronted some resistance from the GOP’s far-right flank after inter-party chaos almost derailed a must-pass spending invoice hours earlier than a authorities shutdown.
Alex Woodward30 December 2024 17:45
Retired Military normal declares Musk a ‘national security risk’ in brutal NYT op-ed
Elon Musk has been branded a “national security risk” by a former US military normal, who cited his issues over the tech billionaire’s shut ties with the Chinese language authorities.
Lieutenant Normal Russel L Honoré, who retired in 2008, highlighted Musk’s historical past of appeasing and praising the Chinese language Communist Occasion and his a number of enterprise offers with the get together, notably within the fashionable area race.
In a scathing op-ed, revealed in The New York Instances, Honoré famous that Musk and his firm SpaceX already face federal evaluations for failing to supply particulars of conferences with international leaders, however mentioned that such infractions had been “just the beginning of my worries.”
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 17:20
Fox Information declares the ‘real losers’ within the MAGA civil conflict over visas – the Democrats
After rigorously tip-toeing across the rising tensions which have rocked the GOP in latest days, Fox Information seems to have lastly discovered a story it could possibly promote to right-wing viewers concerning the MAGA civil conflict presently ongoing over the thorny challenge of immigrant visas.
In accordance with the conservative cable information large, “infighting” is “how politics ought to work” and Democrats who had been “giddy” over the suitable tearing itself aside over highly-skilled immigrant employees are the “real losers” whereas MAGA is merely having a “civilized debate” over the matter.
Justin Baragona has a full report.
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 16:50
E Jean Carroll camp ‘gratified’ by appeals courtroom resolution
Right here’s what Carroll’s legal professional Roberta Kaplan needed to say about in the present day’s attraction’s courtroom ruling in a brief assertion to The Impartial:
“Both E Jean Carroll and I are gratified by today’s decision. We thank the Second Circuit for its careful consideration of the parties’ arguments.”
E Jean Carroll (Getty)
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 16:30
Speaker Johnson says he’s ‘honored and humbled’ by Trump’s endorsement
Right here’s the present Home GOP chief’s usually grovelling response to the president-elect’s submit simply now.
And right here’s US Lawyer Normal One America Information presenter Matt Gaetz’s take:
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 16:10
Trump claims Invoice Gates requested to go to Mar-a-Lago in obvious message to Musk
As tensions flare between Musk and the president-elect’s MAGA allies, Trump himself posted what gave the impression to be a private message to the SpaceX and Tesla boss on Fact Social over the weekend claiming that fellow billionaire Invoice Gates had requested to return to Mar-a-Lago.
Trump prompt the Microsoft co-founder had requested an invitation to his Florida property and inspired Musk to affix them.
“Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!!” the Republican wrote.
Trump then signed the message “DJT”, as is his customized.
Right here’s Kelly Rissman to try to resolve it.
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 15:50
Breaking: Trump denied new trial in first E Jean Carroll case towards him
A federal appeals courtroom has upheld a ruling towards the president-elect after he challenged a jury’s verdict that discovered him accountable for sexually abusing and defaming a former journal author.
Monday’s resolution from a three-judge panel with New York’s 2nd Circuit Courtroom of Appeals follows a Could 2023 verdict awarding E Jean Carroll $5m for the previous president’s ongoing defamation by denying claims that he sexually assaulted her in a division retailer in 1996.
In January, a second jury in a separate trial ordered Trump to pay Carroll greater than $83m in damages for his defamatory statements concerning the former Elle journal author.
Trump argued the decision from the 2023 judgment ought to be tossed out on his claims that the trial decide mustn’t have let jurors hear testimony from two different girls who accused him of sexual misconduct.
A type of girls, Jessica Leeds, testified that Trump groped her on a airplane within the late Nineteen Seventies.
One other woman, former Individuals journal author Natasha Stoynoff, mentioned Trump forcibly kissed her at Mar-a-Lago in 2005.
Trump’s legal professionals additionally mentioned jurors additionally mustn’t have listened to his feedback on the so-called Entry Hollywood tape, on which the president-elect brags about grabbing girls’s genitals.
“Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings, and Trump “has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial,” appellate judges wrote of their resolution on Monday.
Right here’s the very newest from Alex Woodward.
Alex Woodward30 December 2024 15:20
Breaking: Trump endorses Speaker Johnson and points rallying cry to Republicans: ‘Let’s not blow this nice alternative’
Right here’s the newest from the president-elect on Fact Social by which he rages about this 12 months’s election, slipping in digs about Black Democrats Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey and the Reverend Al Sharpton and claiming voter fraud in California, earlier than lastly attending to the purpose and calling for Republicans to stay collectively and get behind Home speaker Mike Johnson (as long as the latter does his bidding, presumably):
“We are the Party of COMMON SENSE, a primary reason that we WON, in a landslide, the magnificent and historic Presidential Election of 2024. ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, 312 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, AND THE POPULAR VOTE BY MILLIONS OF VOTERS (Despite large scale voter fraud taking place in numerous states, including California, where votes are ridiculously still being counted, or under review!), ALL WON WITH EASE, CALM, & PROFESSIONALISM. Republicans are being praised for having run a “legendary” marketing campaign! Democrats are being excoriated for his or her effort, having wasted 2.5 Billion {Dollars}, a lot of it unaccounted for, with some getting used to illegally purchase endorsements ($11,000,000 to Beyoncé, who by no means even sang a tune, $2,000,000 to Oprah for doing subsequent to nothing, and even $500,000 to Reverend AL, an expert con man and instigator, who agreed to “interview” their “star spangled” candidates, Kamala and Joe). We ran a flawless marketing campaign, having spent FAR LESS, with a number of cash left over. They ran a really costly “sinking ship,” embracing DOJ & FBI WEAPONIZATION towards their political opponent, ME. BUT IT DIDN’T WORK, IT WAS A DISASTER!!! LETS NOT BLOW THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN. The American folks want IMMEDIATE aid from all the damaging insurance policies of the final Administration. Speaker Mike Johnson is an effective, exhausting working, non secular man. He’ll do the suitable factor, and we are going to proceed to WIN. Mike has my Full & Complete Endorsement. MAGA!!!”
Right here’s extra from Alex Woodward.
Joe Sommerlad30 December 2024 15:10
