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NATO Secretary General, Mark RootCalled for Thursday US To continue to supply Ukraine And said Europe will pay the bill, according to a Reuters report.
Speaking at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Rutte said the coalition should invest more in defence, boost defense industrial production and take a bigger share of spending on aid to Ukraine.
“On Ukraine, we need the United States to stay involved,” Rutte said. “If this new Trump administration is willing to continue supplying Ukraine from its defense industrial base, the Europeans will pay the bill, I’m absolutely convinced, we need to be prepared to do that,” he added. should
The Secretary General’s comments came after the US President Donald Trump said earlier this week The European Union More must be done to support Ukraine.
In Davos, Rutte also said it was vital. Russia Couldn’t win because it could result in a Russian president. Vladimir Putin ‘High-fiving’ the leaders of North Korea And China.
“We really have to step up and not reduce our support for Ukraine,” Rutte said. “The front line is moving in the wrong direction.”
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By whom forgiveness was granted. Donald Trump They include more than 250 people who were convicted of assaults, some for attacking police. US Capitol Riots With makeshift weapons such as flagpoles, hockey sticks and crutches. There were many attacks. Caught on surveillance or body camera footage. It showed rioters engaging in scuffles with police as officers struggled to contain the angry mob.
Yet in his interview Sean Hannity, A longtime friend and Fox News host, Trump claimed:
Some of these people with the police – true – but they were very minor incidents, well, you know, they meet with a couple of these fake guys who are on CNN all the time. They were very minor incidents and it was time.“
He then pivoted without providing context to the claim:
You have killers in Philadelphia. You have killers in Los Angeles who don’t even get time. They don’t even collect them and they know they are there to collect. And then they go on television and act holier than thou about this or that. You had 1,500 people to deal with. That’s a lot of people.“
Trump’s massive pardon has provided an early loyalty test for the Republican Party. While a handful of senators including the former leader Mitch McConnell While many have condemned the move, most have supported the president or clashed verbally. Two major police unions said they were “strongly discouraged” from the pardons and changes.
On Wednesday night the President said:
It was a political deception. And you know what? Those people – and I’m not saying in every single case – but there was a lot of patriotism with these people.“
Trump then boasted that he provided the vocals for “Justice for All,” a version of the Star Spangled Banner sung over a prison phone line by a group of defendants on Jan. 6. “It was the number one selling song, number one on Billboard, number one on everything for so long. People get They wanted to see these people.”
‘Very minor incidents’: Trump defends Jan. 6 pardon in first interview since inauguration
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Donald Trump I have described the attacks on police personnel. US Capitol on 6 January 2021 as “Very rare eventsAs he tried to defend his decision to pardon the mutineers.
The US president hinted that those who put him through “four years of hell” through criminal prosecutions should be investigated themselves, and that his predecessors, Joe Biden, He made a mistake by not forgiving himself
Trump was giving. First television interview for his second term Sean HannityA longtime friend and Fox News host, I The Oval Office i The White House on Wednesday.
Among those topics was Trump’s move on Monday to pardon, reduce prison sentences or dismiss more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in an effort to reverse his 2020 election defeat. Hannity asked why people who were violent against the police were included.
Trump claimed he faced unnecessary prison conditions then falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen despite the courts, officials and his own attorney general finding otherwise. He said that he was protesting against the vote because he knew that the election was rigged and he was protesting against the vote and you should be allowed to protest against the vote.
Often criticized as Trump. A bully and a propagandistHanty nevertheless objected that protesters should not be able to storm the Capitol building.
The president replied:
Most people were completely innocent. Well, but forgetting all that, these people have served for a long time. It would be too cumbersome to go and see – you know how many people we’re talking about? 1500 people.
Vice President J. D. Vance He has previously said that the perpetrators of the January 6 violence “obviously” should not be pardoned. But media accounts suggest that Trump lost patience with the idea of going through the trials individually and wanted maximum influence on his first day in office. gave Axios website reported: “Trump just said: ‘Fk it: ‘Free them all,'” said an adviser familiar with the conversation.
Trump suggested that it was a mistake for Biden not to pardon himself before leaving office.
US President Donald Trump has suggested that it was a mistake for former President Joe Biden not to pardon himself before leaving office.
In an interview with the Fox News host, Sean HannityTrump said:
This boy went around apologizing to everyone. And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is that he didn’t forgive himself. And if you look at it, it was all with him.
It came after Trump told Hannity that he had been given the option to pardon himself in 2021 as he was leaving. The White Housebut he refused because he believed he had done nothing wrong despite public efforts to overturn his election defeat, reports Hill.
In the interview — his first one-on-one since returning to the White House for his second term — Trump said Biden had been given “very bad advice.” He said:
Joe Biden is a very bad adviser. Someone advised Joe Biden to forgive everyone but himself.
Additionally, in the same interview, Trump said he could freeze aid. California As far as how the state manages its scarce water resources. He falsely claimed that California’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state were responsible for fire hydrants drying up in urban areas.
“I don’t think we should give anything to California unless they let the water go down,” Trump told Hannity.
More on that in a moment. Here are some other developments:
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Donald Trump called the attacks on police officers at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 “Very rare events“ As he tried to defend his decision to pardon the mutineers. Among those pardoned are more than 250 people who were convicted of assault charges, some for attacking police with makeshift weapons such as flagpoles, hockey sticks and crutches.
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Trump used a prime-time Fox News interview to discuss his ban on executive orders, dismissing security concerns over the Chinese-owned app TikTok. (“Is it important for China to spy on teenagers, watch crazy videos of young children?”) and discuss the possibility of cutting federal funding for so-called “sanctuary cities” that house undocumented immigrants. Protects against federal custody requests.
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On Thursday, Trump will speak remotely from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, making his first major speech to global business and political leaders. According to the meeting schedule, he will deliver a speech and engage in dialogue at 11 a.m. US Eastern Time (4 p.m. GMT). It is not clear what they will discuss.
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The new U.S. presidential envoy for special missions has pushed back on NATO chief Mark Rutte’s talk at the World Economic Forum about Ukraine joining NATO, pointing out that many members of the alliance already have their ” “Not paying their fair share”. Richard Grinnellappointed by Trump in December, said it was “very surprising” that many foreign ministers in Europe, and many American politicians, did not try to stop the Russia-Ukraine war, and that Biden’s situation Criticized for dealing with
