Donald Trump indicators order to declassify JFK, RFK and MLK assassination recordsdata
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President Donald Trump and First Girl Melania Trump will go to hurricane-battered Asheville, North Carolina, on Friday morning 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) and after the president was extremely essential of California Governor Gavin Newsom and native officers’ response to the catastrophe in that state.
Throughout 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 stated Zelensky was “no angel” and had allowed the struggle to rumble on however added he could be ready to impose large tariffs on Moscow if Vladimir Putin refuses to enter talks on ending the battle.
Trump additionally stated he “would rather not” place tariffs on China however insisted it was a “tremendous power” at his disposal in coping with Beijing.
Additionally on Thursday, the president declassified high secret recordsdata on the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr and noticed his bid to finish birthright citizenship challenged in courtroom as “blatantly unconstitutional”.
Trump makes use of full stairs to board Air Drive One
President Donald Trump and First Girl Melania Trump board Air Drive One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 24, 2025 (AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Donald Trump climbed aboard Air Drive One for the primary journey of his second administration, utilizing full-sized stairs from the tarmac to the aircraft.
His predecessor, Joe Biden, typically used a small set of stairs that took him into the stomach of the aircraft.
Trump used the total set of stairs to succeed in the entrance of the plane’s cabin as he ready to fly Friday to North Carolina, then Los Angeles, then Las Vegas.
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 14:44
Trump is a ‘dictator that the American people voted for’, says Newsmax host
Gushing over Trump’s “shock and awe” flood of govt orders upon returning to the White Home, Newsmax host Rob Finnerty excitedly declared this week that the president was certainly a “dictator on day one” and one “that the American people voted for.”
Justin Baragaona has this one.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 14:40
Trump departs White Home for North Carolina and California visits
President Donald Trump speaks to the media, subsequent to first girl Melania Trump, throughout departure from the White Home on a go to to Asheville, NC, and Los Angeles, CA. (REUTERS)
Donald Trump started his first journey as president on Friday, heading to hurricane-battered Asheville in western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles. He’s utilizing this primary journey of his second administration to tour areas the place politics has clouded the response to lethal disasters.
The Republican president has criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration’s response in North Carolina and proven disdain for California leaders’ water insurance policies, which he falsely claimed worsened the latest blazes.
Trump can also be contemplating overhauling the Federal Emergency Administration Company. A few of his conservative allies have proposed lowering the quantity the company reimburses states for dealing with floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and different calamities.
As he departed the White Home simply after 9 a.m., the president answered questions from a big media contingent. He stated he was “very surprised” that Senators Collins and Murkowski voted towards Pete Hegseth, his decide for protection secretary.
With reporting by the Related Press
Oliver O’Connell24 January 2025 14:28
Trump is ‘no hero’ for releasing Kennedy assassination recordsdata, says JFK’s grandson
John F Kennedy’s grandson has hit out at Donald Trump’s resolution to launch highly-classified JFK assassination recordsdata which have saved from the general public for over half a century.
Jack Schlossberg took to X on Thursday in response to Trump’s govt order to declassify information on his grandfather’s homicide in 1963, plus these of Senator Robert F Kennedy in 1968 and Dr Martin Luther King Jr the identical yr – three deaths which have sparked numerous conspiracy theories.
“The truth is a lot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” he wrote.
“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back.
“There’s nothing heroic about it.”
Madeline Sherratt stories.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 14:10
The person who controls what comes throughout Trump’s desk
These binders stuffed with govt orders that Trump has been signing with a flourish and a wide-tipped Sharpie all week don’t simply magically seem earlier than him.
White Home employees secretary Will Scharf has been a outstanding a part of the tableau, standing at Trump’s facet and teeing up the leather-bound folders, one after the other, for the president to scrawl his John Hancock throughout.
With the cameras rolling, Scharf gives operating narration on what Trump is signing, at instances leaning into a close-by microphone on the president’s route for impact.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 13:55
MTG has meltdown when reporter asks her about Jan 6 pardons
Georgia’s MAGA Represenative has lashed out at a reporter who requested about Trump’s sweeping pardons for January 6 criminals, telling Punchbowl Information’s Melanie Zanon: “I’m not doing this.”
Infuriated by the road of questioning, Greene continued: “All of y’all’s obsession with January 6 is absurd. Everybody outside of here is sick and f***ing tired of it.”
The change happened within the halls of the Capitol constructing, the positioning of the riot 4 years in the past.
Kelly Rissman has the story.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 13:40
Trump is ‘quintessential New York con man’, says AOC
The progressive Democrat has been sharing her ideas with The Every day Present’s Jon Stewart on the brand new Trump administration in its earliest days, notably characterizing the president’s inauguration earlier this week “a billionaire feeding frenzy”.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 13:25
The get together’s over: Trump White Home cracks down on aides ingesting with lawmakers in DC
The president’s aides and staffers have been strongly suggested to not socialize with lawmakers in Washington, in response to a report.
Staffers throughout the White Home legislative affairs workplace, notably in external-facing roles, have been “strongly discouraged” from consuming alcohol with members of Congress, in response to Politico’s West Wing Playbook.
“We strongly urged everyone in the legislative affairs office and everyone who’s externally facing to be thoughtful about their alcohol use in public, and specifically with members,” a supply advised the outlet.
“We strongly discouraged drinking with members.”
“It’s a free country, but we represent the White House and the president and that’s best done sober,” a second supply added.
Right here’s extra from Rhian Lubin.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 13:10
Trump to rent Large Pharma lobbyist in obvious rebuke of RFK Jr
The president is reportedly set to nominate a outstanding healthcare trade lobbyist to his new administration in a transfer that might doubtlessly tee up an influence battle with Robert F Kennedy Jr, his controversial nominee to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies.
In keeping with The Monetary Occasions, the brand new president has Don Dempsey in thoughts to be his high well being official on the Workplace of Administration and Price range (OMB).
Dempsey is the present head of coverage and analysis at Higher Medicare Alliance, a foyer group that advocates for an alternative choice to the federal Medicare program and that’s funded by insurance coverage firms, together with UnitedHealth and Humana.
Ought to he be provided the place of the OMB’s well being program affiliate director and settle for it, Dempsey would maintain sway over the US’s $1.8trn healthcare finances and have accountability for 13 separate divisions and companies, a prospect seemingly at odds with Trump’s promise to Kennedy that he could be free to run “wild” throughout authorities along with his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 12:55
‘Putin is ready,’ Russia tells Trump
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to the president’s Reality Social problem to his Russian counterpart on Wednesday and his remarks yesterday to the World Financial Discussion board and to Sean Hannity concerning the Ukraine struggle by saying “Putin is ready” to debate its endgame with the brand new American administration.
Russia is just “waiting for signals” from the Trump administration, Peskov added, in response to AFP, however declined to supply a timeline on talks, saying it was “hard to read coffee the grounds” [i.e. predict the future].
The spokesman additionally rejected Trump’s declare to the Davos crowd that the struggle in Ukraine was tied to excessive oil costs (the president stated he would ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to decrease oil costs as a result of “if the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately”).
Peskov insisted the “conflict does not depend on oil prices” and was somewhat about “threats to Russia’s national security”, “threats to Russians” residing in Ukraine and “the lack of desire and complete refusal of Americans and Europeans to listen to Russia’s concerns”.
Vladimir Putin (AP)
Joe Sommerlad24 January 2025 12:40
