#Trump on supplies weapons to #Ukraine: "Just so you know, the #Europeans will for everything. We're not paying anymore. We have an ocean separating us. We make the best stuff, but we can't keep doing this. #Biden should have done this years ago".
"When 👉#Trump says in his Saturday afternoon screed [on #TruthSocial] that the #EpsteinFile was written by #Obama, #Hillary, #Comey, #Brennan, and the losers and criminals of the #Biden administration👉, he may very well be previewing👉 who he is going to go after as part of his effort to convince the base that the clearly-incriminating #Epstein file is somehow a #Democratic plot to take him down👈," #Cohen said Sunday on his show "#NoLies... "
But sources… said #DOGE's involvement in crafting new #policy has rankled some #SEC officials, raising concerns over whether a #Trump initiative should be involved in the core work of an agency long seen as #independent.
Under the #Biden admin, the SEC adopted the #SPAC & private funds #regulations to protect investors from potentially unscrupulous claims by investment promoters & prevent the unchecked buildup of risks to financial stability in the private funds sector.
(1/22) "Under President #Xi#Jinping, #China seems determined to achieve hegemony in #Asia, which explains its stealth border aggression against #India in April 2020 that has resulted in continuing military standoffs along the #Himalayan border... #Biden’s preoccupation with #Russia...bleeding it on the #Ukrainian battlefields, limits his...strategic space 2 deal w/ the threat from a globally expansionist China. The #US...is in no position to...take on Russia + China..."
The outgoing #Biden admin had selected somebody with more #ForeignAid experience to manage #USAID until the new president chose, & #Congress approved, a permanent administrator. But #Trump’s team, apparently eager to reverse any decisions by the former president, told Gray to take the helm instead.
>40k #US active-duty #troops & #civilians are working for the #Pentagon in the #MiddleEast, & billions of dollars in #weapons & #military equipment are stored there. Over decades, both during & after #war, the #USmilitary has fortified its defenses in the region, said Dana Stroul, the Pentagon’s top ofcl for Middle East policy during the #Biden admin.
US further strengthened those defenses, she said, after #Hamas’s attacks on #Israel in Oct 2023, which set off a broader conflict….
Any person in uniform wearing a mask & refusing to be properly & reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in #Minnesota.
#USSteel & #NipponSteel announced on Fri that they had entered into an agreement w/the #USgovernment to seal the terms of a “partnership” between the companies, >1yr after the Japanese #steel maker 1st tried to buy its US competitor.
President Joe #Biden, under pressure from the #UnitedSteelworkers#union, blocked the deal on the basis that it was a threat to #NationalSecurity. #Trump, who also initially opposed the deal, reversed himself & decided…to revive it.
”We have been living in an eternal rerun. … What threw people off the most was the inaction of Biden’s DOJ… You don’t let sedition go unpunished unless the plan is for the seditionist to return.” —Sarah Kendzior, Fake Feuds, Real Crises: Your Questions Answered #biden#trump#usa
There, #Trump unleashed a speech laced w/ partisan invective, goading jeers from a crowd of #soldiers positioned behind his podium — blurring the long-standing & sacrosanct line between the #military & partisan #politics.
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered #troops directed at #California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom … as well as President Joe #Biden & the #press.
#Trump has been largely hostile to large #NationalMonuments & has taken steps to consider allowing #drilling & #mining companies to access minerals within them.
In his first term, Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, which were created by fmr #Democratic presidents Barack #Obama & Bill #Clinton. President Joe #Biden re-expanded those monuments. Both are now subject to litigation brought by Utah….