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Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2023 19:41:00 GMT
Former U.S. President Donald Trump publicly empathized with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un after the authoritarian state’s recent missile tests. Pointing to his close relationship with the dictator, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday to defend the tests and share his perspective on Kim’s circumstances. Kim Jung Un of North Korea, who I got to know and got along with very well during my years as President, is not happy with the U.S. and South Korea doing big training and air exercises together. He feels threatened. Even I would constantly complain that South Korea pays us very little to do these extremely expensive and provocative drills. It’s really ridiculous. We have 35,000 in jeopardy soldiers there, I had a deal for full payment to us, $Billions, and Biden gave it away. Such a shame!!! This isn’t the first time Trump has publicly touted his close relationship with Kim. More from NextShark: Savita Halappanavar's story takes the spotlight amid intensified debate on Roe v Wade overturning The former president's relationship with Kim, who he once dubbed as “Rocket Man,” began with their first meeting in 2018. Trump would go on to describe their ensuing messages to each other as “love letters,” with Kim describing their relationship as “reminiscent of a scene from a fantasy film.” Trump later confirmed these statements when speaking at a 2018 rally in West Virginia. "I was being really tough and so was he. And we’d go back and forth, and then we fell in love, OK? No, really. He wrote beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love," he said."
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2023 18:22:37 GMT
WASHINGTON — There’s an old joke that senators look in the mirror and see a president. These days, a whole lot of mirrors in the chamber seem to be broken.
Republicans have an open presidential primary in 2024, and the Senate is packed with hyper-ambitious and self-confident politicians, many with national followings and barely concealed presidential aspirations. Yet nearly all of them are taking a pass at a White House bid next year after former President Donald Trump launched his attempted comeback campaign in November.
“This cycle is shaping up to be very different from every cycle since 2000, where it seemed half the Senate was campaigning for president,” said Alex Conant, who worked for Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in his Senate office and then his 2016 presidential campaign.
That year, the GOP field was so crowded with senators — Rubio, Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — that Conant recalled a candidate forum in New Hampshire where a crop of candidates took part from a Capitol Hill studio. None of them have expressed interest in running this cycle.
Now, a newer group of Republican senators rumored to have higher aspirations — Rick Scott of Florida, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Joni Ernst of Iowa — are also bowing out or sitting on the sidelines.
“Every senator has a different reason,” Conant said. “A lot of them are young and have the luxury to wait. In 2024, you’re running against an incumbent president and a former president, so historically it’s a big hill to climb. This isn’t like 2016 when there was an open White House and wide-open GOP race.”
Cruz, Hawley and Rick Scott, whose seats are up in 2024, have chosen to seek re-election rather than roll the dice on a White House run.
“I’ve never said I was going to run for president,” said Hawley, 43, who has been steadily raising his national profile with foreign policy speeches and headline-grabbing legislation. “I have not visited Iowa or any of those places. So I hope to run for re-election” in the Senate, he said.
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2023 3:33:53 GMT
Divisions over Russia’s war in Ukraine have dominated G20 talks between nations - with no joint statement as a result.
The US secretary of state said the meeting had been marred by Russia's "unprovoked and unjustified war".
Russia's foreign minister accused the West of "blackmail and threats".
India, which hosted the talks, had wanted to focus on other issues affecting developing nations, but it said the differences over Ukraine "could not be reconciled".
"We tried, but the gap between the countries was too much," India's foreign minister S Jaishankar said.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2023 18:48:30 GMT
Former President Donald Trump ramped up his criticism of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually control all of Ukraine. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2023 14:38:07 GMT
Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he could singlehandedly end Russia’s war in Ukraine, on Sunday laid out exactly how he’d go about bringing the conflict to a close. Asked by Maria Bartiromo on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures about his plan, Trump initially took off on a tangent about his “perfect phone call” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019. Bartiromo interrupted to tell him “that’s not going to be enough for Putin to stop bombing Ukraine.” Back on track, Trump claimed he would simply tell Zelensky: “No more, you gotta make a deal.”
The next step? Go to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and threaten him with more support for Ukraine: “If you don’t make a deal we’re going to give them [Ukraine] a lot, more than they ever got if we have to.” Trump claimed that Putin is “wounded” but “let’s see how it all turns out, one way or the other.” He then added, “I was tougher on Russia than anybody in history.” Bartiromo did not push back on the claim.
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