US President Donald Trump has called for Israel to “pardon” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for alleged corruption, or drop the case altogether. In a social media post, Trump also claimed the US had saved Israel – alluding to its intervention in Israel’s war with Iran – and would now also “save”...
Has anyone checked in with Scott Pelley this afternoon to see if he needs smelling salts? How about Bill Owens? Two months ago, both men erupted in anger when Paramount’s board decided to settle an election fraud lawsuit from Donald Trump over the deceptively edited interview of Kamala Harris by 60 Minutes during the general...
At a Nato press conference in the Netherlands, President Trump took a question from Myroslava Petsa from the BBC Ukrainian Service. She asked whether the US would be supplying Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine. Trump then asked where she was from and took an interest in her personal situation, asking whether her husband was...
“That hit ended the war,” Donald Trump declared at a presser during this week’s NATO conference at The Hague. Had the US not struck the Fordow facility, “Iran would still be fighting,” Trump claimed. He compared it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in its impact on Iranian leadership, and scoffed at reports that 12 GBU-57s didn’t...
Leaked damage assessment of US strike on Iran was ‘inconclusive’ – Trump Donald Trump and his top officials have pushed back on a leaked intelligence report that said US strikes on Iran only set its nuclear programme back by a few months. Speaking at a Nato summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Trump said the...
Daniela Relph Senior Royal Correspondent PA Media President Trump during his previous state visit in 2019 Donald Trump will make a full state visit to the UK later this year after King Charles and the US president’s schedules meant they would be unable to meet informally over the summer, it is understood. Buckingham Palace confirmed...
BBC The UK will “match China and Russia with nuclear jets” reports The Times, in a piece about the UK purchasing 12 new fighter jets which can be equipped with nuclear bombs. Acquiring the jets is “the biggest expansion of the deterrent since the Cold War,” it says. Another headline on the front page is...
There were hints last week that something was up between the Trump administration and Harvard. Harvard won in court last Friday and instead of attacking the judge, as Trump tends to do, he posted this positive statement suggesting a deal with Harvard was imminent. If a Settlement is made on the basis that is...
Come on, man. It is NEVER going to happen. Trump could end every war in the world and stand astride the world as the enforcer of global peace and bringer of prosperity to the poorest countries, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee would give Ayatollah Khamenei the prize for reshaping world affairs by giving up his...
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Getty Images Aboard Air Force One en route to the Nato summit in the Netherlands, Trump shared a personal text message from a somewhat unlikely source. It was sent by Nato boss Mark Rutte who praised the American president for what he had accomplished in using US bombers to attack...
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“I didn’t like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal,” a frustrated Trump said. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump laid into Israeli leaders for bombarding Iran right after he announced a ceasefire deal between the warring...
Trump’s message to Israel and Iran on the way to the Nato summit. Read full article at source...
The US president expressed his frustration at the conduct of the two nations. Read full article at source...
There is nothing inherently irrational about opposing the airstrike on Iran. I think the people who do are wrong, and that many who are angry about Trump’s actions are only angry because it was Trump who took them. But there is an isolationist strain in American politics, and hence, there are some politicians whose opposition...