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Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during presidency, book says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 April - 12:41

Ex-president ‘could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state’, former adviser Fiona Hill tells author

As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.

“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US National Security Council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West .

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Former Trump adviser appeals to supreme court to keep him out of prison

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 16 March - 14:14

Peter Navarro is appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with the January 6 House inquiry

Donald Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the US supreme court on Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.

Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January 6 attack that Trump supporters aimed at the US Capitol in 2021.

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Brett Kavanaugh knows truth of alleged sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford says in book

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 07:00

In memoir, professor whose accusation rocked 2018 supreme court hearings says rightwing justice not ‘consummately honest person’

The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a “consummately honest person” and “must know” what really happened on the night more than 40 years ago when he allegedly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his accuser writes in an eagerly awaited memoir.

A research psychologist from northern California, Ford was thrust into the spotlight in September 2018 as Kavanaugh, a Bush aide turned federal judge, became Donald Trump’s second conservative court nominee. Her allegations almost derailed Kavanaugh’s appointment and created headlines around the world.

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Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 09:00

Ex-president’s second chief of staff tried to convince him fascist dictator was ‘great guy in comparison’, John Kelly tells Jim Scuitto

Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.

“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” the retired marines general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.

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Ex-Trump adviser must report to prison on 19 March for defying January 6 panel

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 16:58

Peter Navarro, sentenced to four months, was held in contempt by House, charged by DoJ and found guilty in September

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on 19 March to begin a four-month sentence for defying the House January 6 committee, his lawyers said .

Navarro, 74, is an economist turned trade adviser who became closely involved in attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 election, attempts that culminated in the deadly attack on Congress of 6 January 2021.

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Drowning deaths at US-Mexico border up 3,200% since Trump raised wall height – report

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 March - 20:11

Thirty-three people attempting to cross the border into San Diego died in the Pacific Ocean from 2020 to 2023, study shows

Thirty-three people attempting to cross the US border drowned in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego after the Trump administration nearly doubled the height of the walls along the southern border, a staggering increase from previous years.

The number of drownings rose by 3,200% from 2020 to 2023, compared to 2016 to 2019, when just one person drowned, according to a study published this week. By 2019 the Trump administration had elevated the barriers around San Diego from 17ft to 30ft.

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Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 February - 11:00

Among lowest taxpayers were companies whose CEOs have become high-profile advocates for corporate social responsibility

Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors, Citigroup, and Netflix, have slashed their tax bills in the years since the passage of the Trump tax cuts, with nearly a quarter paying rates in the single digits and 23 paying nothing, a report has found.

The 2017 law cut the top corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the new assessment of corporate tax avoidance, published today by the non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (Itep), found that during the first five years the law was in effect, many profitable public companies in the US paid a far lower rate in practice.

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Trump official Jeffrey Clark attempts to move Georgia trial to federal court

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 18 September, 2023 - 20:44

Judge appears inclined to reject ex-DoJ official’s effort and throws out written testimony from Clark

A federal judge appeared inclined on Monday to reject the former Trump justice department official Jeffrey Clark’s effort to transfer his criminal case for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia from state to federal court, striking his written testimony from consideration.

The way that the hearing played out for Clark could dictate how future efforts by Donald Trump or his other co-defendants to remove their cases to federal court could play out, given how Clark’s lawyer at times put blame on the former president.

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Biden administration reverses Trump decision to relocate US Space Command

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 1 August, 2023 - 17:44

Enlarge / A US Space Command flag is displayed outside the White House during a 2019 ceremony announcing the command's re-establishment. (credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images )

President Biden plans to keep the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs and not move it to Alabama as the Air Force proposed under the Trump administration in 2021.

It took two-and-a-half years for the decision to come down from the White House, following what the Pentagon said was a "thorough and deliberate evaluation process."

"Locating Headquarters US Space Command in Colorado Springs ultimately ensures peak readiness in the space domain for our nation during a critical period," said Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary. "It will also enable the command to most effectively plan, execute and integrate military spacepower into multi-domain global operations in order to deter aggression and defend national interests."

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