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Donald Trump says it’s “an absolute necessity” for our nation to possess Greenland.
He says the U.S. should take again the Panama Canal except the “ridiculous” delivery charges are diminished.
He threatened that any Republican who adversarial him at the invoice to keep away from a central authority shutdown can and will have to be primaried.
The president-elect is incomes his recognition as a disruptor, with enough quantity affect over what’s now his birthday celebration to explode moderately negotiated bipartisan compromises. Let’s take a look at every of those.
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Trump attempted in his first time period to shop for Greenland, which is controlled by Denmark however beneath house rule. That went nowhere, even though it created a diplomatic situation with Danish officers.
Date the U.S. constructed the Panama Canal within the early twentieth century, it was once became over to Panama beneath a treaty licensed via each international locations. Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino says “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone is Panama’s and will continue to be so. The sovereignty and independence of our country are not negotiable.”
That didn’t prevent Trump from posting an AI symbol of an American flag aviation over a waterway presumed to be the canal.
The incoming president has no doubt demonstrated the facility to engineer number one demanding situations to people who move him. However 3 accumulation conservative Republicans voted in opposition to him at the govt shutdown invoice, together with on ultimate passage, which dropped his call for to get rid of the debt ceiling right through his time period. Would he actually gin up primaries in opposition to they all?
So the overpowering chances are the condition of Greenland, the Panama Canal and rebellious Republicans gained’t exchange in the second one time period.
The explanation Trump does that is that it reinforces his position as a disruptor, any individual taking at the decrepit Washington status quo, even if a president, via definition, is the fresh status quo.
President-elect Donald Trump issues at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Picture/Rick Scuteri)
Past that, whether or not he’s making outrageous calls for or now not, Trump shapes, and frequently dominates, the scoop schedule. Because the forty seventh president has said to me, he every now and then crosses the series as a result of he is aware of it’ll galvanize a robust media response. As Trump sees it, even unfavorable protection is good coverage for the reason that press is taking part in on his turf.
And every now and then those are simply negotiating positions to win concessions, as with the threatened 25 % price lists in opposition to Canada and Mexico.
Bear in mind, maximum population outdoor the media-political complicated aren’t breathlessly following those trends. Because the govt didn’t if truth be told alike indisposed, they don’t see it as a setback for Trump that he didn’t get maximum of what he sought after. They more than likely don’t recall that he attempted to shop for Greenland earlier than.
What Trump obviously has the facility to do is to explode moderately crafted bipartisan promises. He did it next Speaker Mike Johnson–whose personal year is in uncertainty as a result of, like Kevin McCarthy earlier than him, he didn’t have the votes–let the invoice develop right into a Christmas tree monstrosity.
And he did it right through the marketing campaign when each events correct on a difficult border enforcement do business in, which was once after trashed via Trump’s objections.
However there are obviously limits to Trump’s skill to state occasions, particularly with the rustic. For 3 accumulation Republicans to defy him on as basic an issue because the debt ceiling displays that he can most effective push his birthday celebration thus far.
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Rep. Nancy Mace, a Trump supporter who voted in opposition to him on ultimate passage–advised me on Sunday’s Media Buzz that was once as a result of she desires to store the debt ceiling.
However with the GOP clinging to a 1-vote Area margin, for now, the cauldron of marketing campaign rhetoric is operating up in opposition to the chilly, withered math of having to the quantity 218.
Democrats must marvel if it’s usefulness negotiating with the alternative birthday celebration in the event that they’re simply making a goal for Trump’s devastate derby.
It was once Elon Musk who first tweeted about how sinister the unedited invoice was once–at Trump’s advice–and next 70-plus tweets (together with some falsehoods), the fresh president was once drawn into the battle.
BUTLER, PA – OCT. 5: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with former president Donald Trump right through a marketing campaign tournament on the Butler Farm Display, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. ((Picture via Jabin Botsford/The Washington Put up by way of Getty Photographs))
Over the weekend, Trump denied that he had surrendered his presidential powers to his billionaire good friend, and half-mockingly mentioned Musk may just by no means be president:
“You know why? He wasn’t born in this country. Hahaha.”
A favourite media parlor sport is whether or not the 2 strong-willed males will sooner or later have a falling out.
For now, even though, Trump’s tricky discuss Greenland and the Panama Canal displays that he’s maximum relaxed taking part in offense, despite the fact that not anything a lot comes of it.
In alternative information:
–The Area Ethics document says Matt Gaetz “regularly” paid ladies for intercourse, together with with an underage woman, and old unlawful medicine.
In 2017, the previous lawyer normal nominee “engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl,” who was once additionally paid.
Gaetz old or had ownership of such unlawful medicine as cocaine and Ecstasy “on multiple occasions,” and likewise permitted profitable presents, akin to transportation and accommodation within the Bahamas.
“Many of the women interviewed by the committee were clear that there was a general expectation of sex,” with one girl telling the committee Gaetz paid her greater than $5,000 and that intercourse was once concerned “99 percent of the time.”
The panel mentioned Gaetz was once “uncooperative” and that he “knowingly and willfully sought to impede and obstruct the committee’s investigation of his conduct.” The Justice Segment investigated however introduced incorrect fees.
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Gaetz additionally misused Area sources when he had his of team of workers “assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent…
“There was once really extensive proof that Consultant Gaetz violated Area Laws, condition and federal rules, and alternative requirements of behavior prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug importance, acceptance of impermissible presents, the availability of particular favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
If Gaetz was still in the running for AG, this would have blown him out of the water.
Says Gaetz: “I used to be charged with not anything: FULLY EXONERATED. Now not even a marketing campaign finance violation. And the population investigating me hated me. Later, the very ‘eyewitnesses’ DOJ deemed not-credible had been assembled via Area Ethics to copy their claims absent any cross-examination or problem from me or my legal professionals. I’ve had incorrect probability to ever confront any accusers. I’ve by no means been charged. I’ve by no means been sued.” He says he even sent money to women he wasn’t dating.
–A dogged reporter the Dallas Express discovered what happened to Texas Rep. Kay Granger, who went “lacking” months ago. He found her, and got on-the-record confirmation, at a nursing facility that specializes in dementia and other memory problems. She put out a statement about health challenges that utterly missed the point: How could she not tell her constituents about this? Why did she insist on hiding it? There would have been enormous sympathy for her. Instead, the congresswoman kept it all shrouded in secrecy.
–Actress Blake Lively was the target of an online smear campaign, as laid out in texts and emails that blatantly discuss planting stories to ruin her reputation, while cautioning that this must remain secret because they can’t very well admit that they are trying to “bury” her. “You already know we will be able to bury someone.”
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively (David Buchan/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images/Lia Toby/Getty Images)
Lively obtained these documents through legal action against her co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, and reviewed by the New York Times. She is alleging sexual harassment, saying Baldoni and others routinely came into her trailer unannounced when she was topless, such as having body makeup removed, or breast-feeding.
The Wayfarer studio said that the company and its PR people “did not anything proactive or retaliatory” against the actress, accusing her of “every other determined try to ‘fix’ her unfavorable recognition.”
Lively says Baldoni tried to add unneeded sex scenes, had improvised unwanted kissing and discussed his sex life, including instances in which he may not have gotten consent. Another member of the team showed her a video of his wife naked.
The sad thing is that this sort of thing goes on all the time. We just happened to get the goods this time, with Lively being portrayed as difficult, tone-deaf and a bully.
–The Daily Mail reported that Jeff Bezos was going marry his fiancé Lauren Sanchez this weekend in a $600 million extravaganza in Aspen.
The Amazon founder, who owns the Washington Post, says that’s a crock:
“This entire factor is totally fraudelant — none of this is occurring…
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“The old adage ‘don’t believe everything you read’ is even more true today than it ever has been. Now lies can get ALL the way around the world before the truth can get its pants on. So be careful out there folks and don’t be gullible.”
Excellent for Jeff for punching again in opposition to a crappy tale.