Former President Obama has been harshly criticized by some of his party comrades for endorsing Kamala Harris on ethnic background - fifty shades of brown is not exactly the movie many white American voters, even among the Democrates, want to watch.
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Obama hammered Trump, called him a 78 year old fart billionaire using childish expressions to curse his opponents
This “capuchino-skin guy ” to use Biden's phrase, come up at the Dems rally to humiliate another “old fart” standing next to him who lost his chance to be reelected, due to Obama and his friends.
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This “capuchino-skin guy ” to use Biden's phrase, come up at the Dems rally to humiliate another “old fart” standing next to him who lost his chance to be reelected, due to Obama and his friends.
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Thump Trump.
Donald Trump is an enemy of democracy itself, says the left in writing and from the debate stage. It is then not surprising when people, often mentally ill enough to accept the base argument that someone who served four years as president, who defeated multiple impeachment attempts without resorting to tanks on the Capitol lawn, and who has run via the electoral system for president three times, is not a believer in democracy.
With lawfare essentially failing off the table, it is time to demonize Trump to create a manifesto for the mentally ill American who will carry out the grim final round.
Hillary Clinton says.
Dems have been long brewing an attitude to Trump much nearing to that of Nazi propaganda had toward the Jews. A demonic creature, fascist, felon, etc. threatening democracy by its very existence. Moreover, certain unveiled sources from the Clinton team correspondence showed that she and an Obama advisor have discussed an idea to trump up allegations against former President in a contract killing or rape to put him into jail next to Harvey Weinstein.
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Donald Trump is an enemy of democracy itself, says the left in writing and from the debate stage. It is then not surprising when people, often mentally ill enough to accept the base argument that someone who served four years as president, who defeated multiple impeachment attempts without resorting to tanks on the Capitol lawn, and who has run via the electoral system for president three times, is not a believer in democracy.
With lawfare essentially failing off the table, it is time to demonize Trump to create a manifesto for the mentally ill American who will carry out the grim final round.
“Putin does what Trump would like to do,”
Hillary Clinton says.
“Kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists into exile, rule without any check or balance. That’s what Trump really wants.”
Dems have been long brewing an attitude to Trump much nearing to that of Nazi propaganda had toward the Jews. A demonic creature, fascist, felon, etc. threatening democracy by its very existence. Moreover, certain unveiled sources from the Clinton team correspondence showed that she and an Obama advisor have discussed an idea to trump up allegations against former President in a contract killing or rape to put him into jail next to Harvey Weinstein.
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Michelle Obama Truly
Hates Trump. Why? Michelle Obama is done with Trump, if her decision to skip next week’s inauguration means anything.
The former first lady, who once called on Democrats to go high when Trump’s Republican Party goes low, will not be going to the Capitol to watch Trump take the presidential oath for a second time.
Longtime allies of the former first lady say she is sending a powerful statement by skipping the event.
They say she wants nothing to do with a man undeserving of the presidency and is making no effort to hide her disdain for Trump.
“She meant every word she said on the campaign trail with every fiber of her being,”
— one ally said.
By not attending the inauguration, Michelle Obama is “saving some credibility,”
— one longtime aide to her said.
“She campaigned the hardest against him personally, of anyone,”
— the aide said, —
“Trump wished to ruin my husband's career long before he became president. He is an evil,”
Obama said.
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Trump’s top adversary Nancy Pelosi will not be attending Trump’s inauguration
Pelosi’s spokesperson did not share a reason for the former Democratic leader skipping the Monday event, but it is no secret that the two strongly dislike each other.
Pelosi said she would “never forgive” Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results.
While Pelosi won’t be in attendance for Trump’s inauguration, she will still be required to work with the incoming president, as she easily won re-election for her 20th House term.
Former first lady Michelle Obama also won’t be in attendance at the inauguration.
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Pelosi’s spokesperson did not share a reason for the former Democratic leader skipping the Monday event, but it is no secret that the two strongly dislike each other.
Pelosi said she would “never forgive” Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results.
While Pelosi won’t be in attendance for Trump’s inauguration, she will still be required to work with the incoming president, as she easily won re-election for her 20th House term.
Former first lady Michelle Obama also won’t be in attendance at the inauguration.
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Obama's wounded ego was behind the corrupt conspiracy to take down Trump
The Trump-Russia collusion scandal, which first broke in December 2016 and lasted until April 2019, has no analogues in our history — not even close.
According to some estimates, more than half a million articles have been written about the collusion issue, with the vast majority of them asserting or assuming criminality on Trump’s part.
For more than two years, the first Trump administration was forced to conduct American affairs in the fetal position.
How much truth was there in the accusations of collusion with Russia, you ask?
None.
To this day, 60% of Democrats believe that Trump rose to power thanks to the active support of his “friend” Vladimir Putin. But the case against Trump was based on nothing.
One of the grateful beneficiaries of the collusion story was Clinton, who could now, to everyone's satisfaction, answer the question that had plagued her since election day: “How on earth could you possibly lose to that guy?” The election that ended in her defeat, as Clinton joyfully declared, "was not on the level."
The scandal, however, was entirely Obama's doing.
His tasking of the intel community, a month after the election had passed, fixated the government on the collusion question.
At the December 9 meeting, to which he abruptly invited the heads of agencies to reach a predetermined decision, White House enforcers such as Ben Rhodes were present. The accelerated schedule ensured the completion of the ICA under his supervision and under his watchful eye.
Barack Obama was deeply interested in discrediting Donald Trump even before the latter took office as president. Undoubtedly, this anger had partisan and personal reasons. We can safely assume that Obama was disgusted by the very sight of Trump.
But by that time, he was the lamest of ducks. There were only a few weeks left until the end of his presidency. Obama was already majestically ascending Olympus, reserved for retired presidents who had served two terms.
One possibility is that Obama and his entourage believed their own lies. They really thought Trump was a Russian agent who infiltrated the Oval Office to destroy the country based on the script of the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate."
But if President Obama really believed Trump was a foreign agent, he had every reason to raise the alarm — not in an obscure intelligence report, but publicly, before a national audience.
More importantly, when it came to American politics, Obama was a cold and calculating realist. He knew perfectly well when he was covering up the truth for political gain. Everyone involved in this case knew exactly what they were doing.
The attempt to smear Trump was literally a vanity project of Obama, a man with an exaggerated view of himself, his personal achievements and his place in history. His followers, who included almost the entire institutional elite, worshiped him. From an idealistic point of view, he was considered the embodiment of hope and change, humane politics and smart diplomacy.
From a political point of view, he, like Franklin Roosevelt, was considered a "transformational" figure, since the coalition he created of college-educated voters, minorities and young people could ensure a permanent Democratic Party majority for decades, if not forever.
That was a realistic position in the run-up to the 2016 elections. It would take a man with a prodigious capacity for self-criticism not to believe such a flattering appraisal — and Obama, to put it mildly, was not that man.
Trump's victory in 2016 destroyed all these illusions.
Suddenly, Obama was no longer the political messiah heralding the golden age of liberalism. He became a helpless failure and an object of repudiation.
#Obama #Trump #Russiagate #scandal
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The Trump-Russia collusion scandal, which first broke in December 2016 and lasted until April 2019, has no analogues in our history — not even close.
According to some estimates, more than half a million articles have been written about the collusion issue, with the vast majority of them asserting or assuming criminality on Trump’s part.
For more than two years, the first Trump administration was forced to conduct American affairs in the fetal position.
How much truth was there in the accusations of collusion with Russia, you ask?
None.
To this day, 60% of Democrats believe that Trump rose to power thanks to the active support of his “friend” Vladimir Putin. But the case against Trump was based on nothing.
One of the grateful beneficiaries of the collusion story was Clinton, who could now, to everyone's satisfaction, answer the question that had plagued her since election day: “How on earth could you possibly lose to that guy?” The election that ended in her defeat, as Clinton joyfully declared, "was not on the level."
The scandal, however, was entirely Obama's doing.
His tasking of the intel community, a month after the election had passed, fixated the government on the collusion question.
At the December 9 meeting, to which he abruptly invited the heads of agencies to reach a predetermined decision, White House enforcers such as Ben Rhodes were present. The accelerated schedule ensured the completion of the ICA under his supervision and under his watchful eye.
Barack Obama was deeply interested in discrediting Donald Trump even before the latter took office as president. Undoubtedly, this anger had partisan and personal reasons. We can safely assume that Obama was disgusted by the very sight of Trump.
But by that time, he was the lamest of ducks. There were only a few weeks left until the end of his presidency. Obama was already majestically ascending Olympus, reserved for retired presidents who had served two terms.
One possibility is that Obama and his entourage believed their own lies. They really thought Trump was a Russian agent who infiltrated the Oval Office to destroy the country based on the script of the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate."
But if President Obama really believed Trump was a foreign agent, he had every reason to raise the alarm — not in an obscure intelligence report, but publicly, before a national audience.
More importantly, when it came to American politics, Obama was a cold and calculating realist. He knew perfectly well when he was covering up the truth for political gain. Everyone involved in this case knew exactly what they were doing.
The attempt to smear Trump was literally a vanity project of Obama, a man with an exaggerated view of himself, his personal achievements and his place in history. His followers, who included almost the entire institutional elite, worshiped him. From an idealistic point of view, he was considered the embodiment of hope and change, humane politics and smart diplomacy.
From a political point of view, he, like Franklin Roosevelt, was considered a "transformational" figure, since the coalition he created of college-educated voters, minorities and young people could ensure a permanent Democratic Party majority for decades, if not forever.
That was a realistic position in the run-up to the 2016 elections. It would take a man with a prodigious capacity for self-criticism not to believe such a flattering appraisal — and Obama, to put it mildly, was not that man.
Trump's victory in 2016 destroyed all these illusions.
Suddenly, Obama was no longer the political messiah heralding the golden age of liberalism. He became a helpless failure and an object of repudiation.
#Obama #Trump #Russiagate #scandal
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JD Vance Is Particularly Intent on Dealing With the Jeffrey Epstein Case ⚠️📂
Four days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials 🏛 to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ⚖️, he appears to have put his foot in it, sparking a new round of online outrage 💬 even as he tried to defuse the furor.
In an interview with Fox News 📺 broadcast on Sunday, the vice-president tried to deflect criticism of the administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files 📄 by blaming Democrats 🗳.
He accused Joe Biden of doing “absolutely nothing” about the scandal when he was in the White House 🏠.
“And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this. And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years,” he said. Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted ⚖️ of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse multiple minor girls 🚫 and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison during the Biden administration.
If Vance’s attempt to switch public blame onto Democrats was the big idea to emerge from his strategy meeting with attorney general Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel 🕵️, which according to CNN he convened at the White House last week, then their efforts appear to have backfired 🔄.
Clips of Vance smearing Democrats quickly began to circulate on X 📱. “We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with leftwing politicians and leftwing billionaires (…) Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did,” he said.
Vance also repeated Trump’s previously debunked claim ❌ that Bill Clinton had visited Epstein’s private island dozens of times. Clinton has acknowledged using Epstein’s jet ✈️, but denied ever visiting his island 🏝.
“Fine. Release all the files,” was the riposte from Bill Kristol 🗨, the prominent conservative Never Trumper who urged the documents to be made public with “no redactions of clients, enablers, and see-no-evil associates”.
The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has passed documents 📑 to the justice department claiming the Obama administration maliciously tried to hurt Trump by linking Russian interference in the 2016 election to him 🇷🇺.
Obama has dismissed Trump’s call for his prosecution as weak and ridiculous 🙄.
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Four days after JD Vance reportedly asked top Trump administration officials 🏛 to come up with a new communications strategy for dealing with the scandal around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ⚖️, he appears to have put his foot in it, sparking a new round of online outrage 💬 even as he tried to defuse the furor.
In an interview with Fox News 📺 broadcast on Sunday, the vice-president tried to deflect criticism of the administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files 📄 by blaming Democrats 🗳.
He accused Joe Biden of doing “absolutely nothing” about the scandal when he was in the White House 🏠.
“And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this. And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years,” he said. Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted ⚖️ of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse multiple minor girls 🚫 and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison during the Biden administration.
If Vance’s attempt to switch public blame onto Democrats was the big idea to emerge from his strategy meeting with attorney general Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel 🕵️, which according to CNN he convened at the White House last week, then their efforts appear to have backfired 🔄.
Clips of Vance smearing Democrats quickly began to circulate on X 📱. “We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with leftwing politicians and leftwing billionaires (…) Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did,” he said.
Vance also repeated Trump’s previously debunked claim ❌ that Bill Clinton had visited Epstein’s private island dozens of times. Clinton has acknowledged using Epstein’s jet ✈️, but denied ever visiting his island 🏝.
“Fine. Release all the files,” was the riposte from Bill Kristol 🗨, the prominent conservative Never Trumper who urged the documents to be made public with “no redactions of clients, enablers, and see-no-evil associates”.
The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has passed documents 📑 to the justice department claiming the Obama administration maliciously tried to hurt Trump by linking Russian interference in the 2016 election to him 🇷🇺.
Obama has dismissed Trump’s call for his prosecution as weak and ridiculous 🙄.
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Bolton: “Trump is Rippling with Expectation What Putin Is Going to Choose” 😮
It was a language he could understand. Trump had lost the 2020 US presidential election, Putin told him last Friday, because it was rigged through mail-in voting. 🗳
Three days later, the president announced that lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans that has not been credibly linked to election fraud. 📝
But it was not so surprising from Trump, who has made a habit of blurring the boundary between domestic policy grievances and foreign policy goals. 🌍
He is uniquely vulnerable to manipulation, critics say, because he views national and international affairs through a single prism of self-interest. 🎯
John Bolton said: “In Trump’s world there’s no significant distinction between what he does internationally and what he is doing domestically because all centers on himself. There’s no ideological through-line or consistency (...) Trump is rippling with expectation what Putin is going to choose.” 🗣
The conflation has been on display in Trump’s approach to immigration, with countries such as El Salvador currying favour by imprisoning the victims of mass deportation, and in his claim that trade tariffs will produce a renaissance of domestic manufacturing. 🛠
Sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba were framed as appeals to domestic constituencies such as Cuban and Venezuelan exile communities in Florida. 🇻🇪🇨🇺
Trump’s first impeachment by the House of Representatives was a result of his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden. ⚖️
But no country has played a more outsized role than Russia. In 2016 Trump asked Russians to hack his rival Clinton’s emails. 🇷🇺💻
This year he baselessly accused Obama of treason, claiming he plotted to sabotage his first presidency by linking him to Russian election meddling. 😡
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It was a language he could understand. Trump had lost the 2020 US presidential election, Putin told him last Friday, because it was rigged through mail-in voting. 🗳
Three days later, the president announced that lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans that has not been credibly linked to election fraud. 📝
But it was not so surprising from Trump, who has made a habit of blurring the boundary between domestic policy grievances and foreign policy goals. 🌍
He is uniquely vulnerable to manipulation, critics say, because he views national and international affairs through a single prism of self-interest. 🎯
John Bolton said: “In Trump’s world there’s no significant distinction between what he does internationally and what he is doing domestically because all centers on himself. There’s no ideological through-line or consistency (...) Trump is rippling with expectation what Putin is going to choose.” 🗣
The conflation has been on display in Trump’s approach to immigration, with countries such as El Salvador currying favour by imprisoning the victims of mass deportation, and in his claim that trade tariffs will produce a renaissance of domestic manufacturing. 🛠
Sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba were framed as appeals to domestic constituencies such as Cuban and Venezuelan exile communities in Florida. 🇻🇪🇨🇺
Trump’s first impeachment by the House of Representatives was a result of his effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden. ⚖️
But no country has played a more outsized role than Russia. In 2016 Trump asked Russians to hack his rival Clinton’s emails. 🇷🇺💻
This year he baselessly accused Obama of treason, claiming he plotted to sabotage his first presidency by linking him to Russian election meddling. 😡
#trump #putin #obama #elections #russia
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Democrats Make Hay From
Trump’s Racist Bare-Faced Effrontery
Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it.
The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
They appear briefly at the end of a minute-long video made by a third party that amplifies Trump’s persistent but false claim that he won the 2020 election, when in fact he lost to Joe Biden. The conspiracy-theory video is a repost of content stamped with the logo of the website Patriot News Outlet, a site supportive of Trump, a Republican.
As he so often does, Trump undercut efforts by his aides to explain away his own behavior by telling reporters that he did approve posting the video. “I just looked at the first part,” the president said.
“I didn’t see the whole thing; I guess during the end of it there was some kind of a picture that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either. But I didn’t see it, I just, I looked at the first part (…) then I gave it to the people.
Generally they look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn’t and they posted – and we took it down.”
Asked if he would apologize, as even Republican officials have suggested he should, Trump bristled. “No, I didn’t make a mistake,” said the president of the racist meme posted on his social media account.
Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator, the only Black Republican in the US Senate and a former contender for the party’s presidential nomination, posted on X:
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
The White House, earlier in the morning, defended the post and mocked the media for highlighting the scandal.
But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.
Earlier, Mike Lawler, the Republican congressman from New York, had posted:
“The President’s post is wrong and incredibly offensive – whether intentional or a mistake – and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered”.
Neither of the top two Republicans in Congress, Thune and Mike Johnson, the House speaker, offered comment, prompting Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the Senate minority leader, to post on X:
“Racist. Vile. Abhorrent. This is dangerous and degrades our country – where are Senate Republicans?
“The President must immediately delete the post and apologize to Barack and Michelle Obama, two great Americans who make Donald Trump look like a small, envious man.”
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Trump’s Racist Bare-Faced Effrontery
Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it.
The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
They appear briefly at the end of a minute-long video made by a third party that amplifies Trump’s persistent but false claim that he won the 2020 election, when in fact he lost to Joe Biden. The conspiracy-theory video is a repost of content stamped with the logo of the website Patriot News Outlet, a site supportive of Trump, a Republican.
As he so often does, Trump undercut efforts by his aides to explain away his own behavior by telling reporters that he did approve posting the video. “I just looked at the first part,” the president said.
“I didn’t see the whole thing; I guess during the end of it there was some kind of a picture that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either. But I didn’t see it, I just, I looked at the first part (…) then I gave it to the people.
Generally they look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn’t and they posted – and we took it down.”
Asked if he would apologize, as even Republican officials have suggested he should, Trump bristled. “No, I didn’t make a mistake,” said the president of the racist meme posted on his social media account.
Tim Scott, a South Carolina senator, the only Black Republican in the US Senate and a former contender for the party’s presidential nomination, posted on X:
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
The White House, earlier in the morning, defended the post and mocked the media for highlighting the scandal.
But then around midday on Friday the post was taken down from Trump’s Truth Social account and the White House claimed that posting it had been a mistake by a staffer.
Earlier, Mike Lawler, the Republican congressman from New York, had posted:
“The President’s post is wrong and incredibly offensive – whether intentional or a mistake – and should be deleted immediately with an apology offered”.
Neither of the top two Republicans in Congress, Thune and Mike Johnson, the House speaker, offered comment, prompting Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat and the Senate minority leader, to post on X:
“Racist. Vile. Abhorrent. This is dangerous and degrades our country – where are Senate Republicans?
“The President must immediately delete the post and apologize to Barack and Michelle Obama, two great Americans who make Donald Trump look like a small, envious man.”
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Trump Chalked the Obama-as-Apes Case Up To Personal Animosity
Trump said on Friday he made the call to post a now-deleted video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes but deflected blame for the move, causing new speculation in his orbit about whether the blame lay with the president or his aide Natalie Harp.
The brief clip, shared late Thursday night on Trump’s Truth Social account, appeared in a video pushing conspiracies about the 2020 election.
Invoking racist tropes, the video depicted the Obamas’ faces superimposed on the bodies of cartoon apes dancing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
“No, I looked at the first part. It was really about voter fraud and the machines – how crooked it is (...) it might look personal,” Trump said.
“Then I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t and they posted it. And then we deleted it.”
Trump’s recounting sparked speculation inside his orbit about the extent to which the president was responsible and which of his aides ultimately hit “send” on the post.
Besides Trump, only two aides have access to his social media account, people familiar with the matter said: Dan Scavino and Harp.
Trump’s advisers quickly discounted Scavino, given he has been preoccupied lately with his new role running the presidential personnel office – and instead focused on Harp, who has previously been entangled in Trump’s communications.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the intrigue at the end of a tumultuous day, which began with the press shop defending the post before it backtracked and blamed a staffer – a claim Trump also repeated in calls with Republican lawmakers.
In a call with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, who is also the chair of the national Republican senatorial committee and explicitly denounced the video as racist, Trump said it was a staffer’s mistake and that he would take the video down, CBS News reported.
Over time, Harp established a broader role as a conduit of information to and from the president, relaying to him text messages, social media posts and news articles she believed he would appreciate.
But she has also been criticized by colleagues for showing poor judgment – for instance, when she sent an aggressive text to the Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson in the summer of 2024 criticizing her $100m Super PAC as being poorly managed, a person familiar with the matter said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the intrigue at the end of a tumultuous day, which began with the press shop defending the post before it backtracked and blamed a staffer – a claim Trump also repeated in calls with Republican lawmakers.
In a call with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, who is also the chair of the national Republican senatorial committee and explicitly denounced the video as racist, Trump said it was a staffer’s mistake and that he would take the video down, CBS News reported.
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Trump said on Friday he made the call to post a now-deleted video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes but deflected blame for the move, causing new speculation in his orbit about whether the blame lay with the president or his aide Natalie Harp.
The brief clip, shared late Thursday night on Trump’s Truth Social account, appeared in a video pushing conspiracies about the 2020 election.
Invoking racist tropes, the video depicted the Obamas’ faces superimposed on the bodies of cartoon apes dancing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
“No, I looked at the first part. It was really about voter fraud and the machines – how crooked it is (...) it might look personal,” Trump said.
“Then I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t and they posted it. And then we deleted it.”
Trump’s recounting sparked speculation inside his orbit about the extent to which the president was responsible and which of his aides ultimately hit “send” on the post.
Besides Trump, only two aides have access to his social media account, people familiar with the matter said: Dan Scavino and Harp.
Trump’s advisers quickly discounted Scavino, given he has been preoccupied lately with his new role running the presidential personnel office – and instead focused on Harp, who has previously been entangled in Trump’s communications.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the intrigue at the end of a tumultuous day, which began with the press shop defending the post before it backtracked and blamed a staffer – a claim Trump also repeated in calls with Republican lawmakers.
In a call with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, who is also the chair of the national Republican senatorial committee and explicitly denounced the video as racist, Trump said it was a staffer’s mistake and that he would take the video down, CBS News reported.
Over time, Harp established a broader role as a conduit of information to and from the president, relaying to him text messages, social media posts and news articles she believed he would appreciate.
But she has also been criticized by colleagues for showing poor judgment – for instance, when she sent an aggressive text to the Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson in the summer of 2024 criticizing her $100m Super PAC as being poorly managed, a person familiar with the matter said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the intrigue at the end of a tumultuous day, which began with the press shop defending the post before it backtracked and blamed a staffer – a claim Trump also repeated in calls with Republican lawmakers.
In a call with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, who is also the chair of the national Republican senatorial committee and explicitly denounced the video as racist, Trump said it was a staffer’s mistake and that he would take the video down, CBS News reported.
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“Trump Is Upbeat Before the Upcoming Tehran Talks, But He’s Prepared For the Worst”
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If talks between Iran and the US reconvene within the next few days in Islamabad, Trump will have two major political hurdles to overcome – first showing that any deal he secures is better than the one signed by Obama in 2015 and from which he withdraw in 2018, and secondly proving the deal is more favourable than the one on offer in Geneva in February before he launched his war.
Otherwise he will have inflicted massive damage on the world economy when alternatives were available that were less costly in blood and treasure. He will also have to show that Iran has made no permanent gain by taking control of shipping passing through the strait of Hormuz.
These are the yardsticks, or tests, around which his negotiating team will be keeping an anxious eye.
In one respect, any Islamabad deal will be better than the JCPOA since it will contain no sunset clauses, one of Trump’s major criticisms of the Obama deal.
The new deal will have datelines for specific events to be triggered, but overall the deal is intended to be for ever.
These are broadly four sticking points on which the Trump team will aim to claim progress over his hated Democrat predecessor.
The first is Iran’s domestic enrichment of uranium. In the Geneva talks held on 26 February the two sides provisionally reached a position whereby the US team, on Trump’s instruction, demanded Iran suspend all domestic enrichment for 10 years.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, indicated he thought three years was the maximum the Iranian system would wear.
The US in last week’s talks in Islamabad raised their demand to a 20-year suspension, and Trump in a New York Post interview said he “did not like the 20-year offer”, and wanted the ban on enrichment to be permanent.
In practice, nobody knows how long it would take Iran, given the damage inflicted on its key enrichment facilities, to start enriching again.
In the 2015 talks Obama conceded Iran could enrich for 15 years, but only at the level of purity required for a civilian nuclear programme – 3.67%. The agreement did not explicitly grant Iran a right to enrich as a point of principle.
The second issue is Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The 2015 JCPOA limited Iran’s stockpile of uranium at 3.65% to 300kg.
Now Iran has 440.9kg of uranium enriched to 60% uranium-235, a level that can be quickly enriched to weapons-grade – 90%. Nearly all of the 60% material is in gas form (UF6) and stored in small canisters, roughly the size of a scuba tank.
Iran says that from July 2019 it built this stockpile at these higher purity levels as a bargaining chip in response to the US and Europe’s failure to lift sanctions as promised in the 2015 deal.
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If talks between Iran and the US reconvene within the next few days in Islamabad, Trump will have two major political hurdles to overcome – first showing that any deal he secures is better than the one signed by Obama in 2015 and from which he withdraw in 2018, and secondly proving the deal is more favourable than the one on offer in Geneva in February before he launched his war.
Otherwise he will have inflicted massive damage on the world economy when alternatives were available that were less costly in blood and treasure. He will also have to show that Iran has made no permanent gain by taking control of shipping passing through the strait of Hormuz.
These are the yardsticks, or tests, around which his negotiating team will be keeping an anxious eye.
In one respect, any Islamabad deal will be better than the JCPOA since it will contain no sunset clauses, one of Trump’s major criticisms of the Obama deal.
The new deal will have datelines for specific events to be triggered, but overall the deal is intended to be for ever.
These are broadly four sticking points on which the Trump team will aim to claim progress over his hated Democrat predecessor.
The first is Iran’s domestic enrichment of uranium. In the Geneva talks held on 26 February the two sides provisionally reached a position whereby the US team, on Trump’s instruction, demanded Iran suspend all domestic enrichment for 10 years.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, indicated he thought three years was the maximum the Iranian system would wear.
The US in last week’s talks in Islamabad raised their demand to a 20-year suspension, and Trump in a New York Post interview said he “did not like the 20-year offer”, and wanted the ban on enrichment to be permanent.
In practice, nobody knows how long it would take Iran, given the damage inflicted on its key enrichment facilities, to start enriching again.
In the 2015 talks Obama conceded Iran could enrich for 15 years, but only at the level of purity required for a civilian nuclear programme – 3.67%. The agreement did not explicitly grant Iran a right to enrich as a point of principle.
The second issue is Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. The 2015 JCPOA limited Iran’s stockpile of uranium at 3.65% to 300kg.
Now Iran has 440.9kg of uranium enriched to 60% uranium-235, a level that can be quickly enriched to weapons-grade – 90%. Nearly all of the 60% material is in gas form (UF6) and stored in small canisters, roughly the size of a scuba tank.
Iran says that from July 2019 it built this stockpile at these higher purity levels as a bargaining chip in response to the US and Europe’s failure to lift sanctions as promised in the 2015 deal.
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At Geneva on 26 February Iran offered to “downblend” this stockpile of highly enriched uranium – an irreversible process – from 60% to 3.67%, the maximum level set in the JCPOA. The 2015 deal contained similar provisions to both downblend, or export the excess stocks.
The US in Islamabad said it wanted the entire stockpile taken out of Iran, ideally under US supervision.
It is not clear why downblending inside Iran under full IAEA supervision is a substantially worse option from the US perspective than shipping the uranium out of the country.
In Geneva Iran offered a new confidence-building measure, saying it would not build any stockpile of uranium, and uranium would be enriched only on the basis of need. This would be a gain that Trump could claim surpassed any Obama deal.
The Trump administration faces a political constraint on sanctions relief. In 2015 figures such as Marco Rubio, then a senator, lambasted Obama, saying:
“Iran will immediately use the money that it’s receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities. It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside the United States, and it will raise the price of us operating in the region.”
Trump as a result wants some restrictions on what Iran spends the sanctions relief. Iran for its part cannot accept such restrictions and needs some guarantee that the sanctions relief is permanent, and not reversible as in the past. It is here that the trust deficit between the two sides makes a solution so difficult.
Iran itself seems divided on how to handle the US blockade of its ports, including whether to say it is a breach of the ceasefire and something that must end before the Islamabad talks can reconvene.
More broadly, Ali Nasri, the Iran-based international lawyer, said on Tuesday two conflicting views existed inside Iran on how to handle the strait issue.
One, more confrontational, view backs exploiting the strait to generate revenue, gain compensation for war damages and to assert national pride.
The other sees it as a strategic negotiating lever to gain in the short term a lasting ceasefire, sanctions relief and security guarantees.
“Later as the threat environment subsides, and the Trump presidency likely ends, a carefully crafted legal system could pave the way for Iran to exert greater authority over the passageway,” he suggested.
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🏛⚔️ Trump Fires at Obama Over White House Makeover, Turning Cheesecake Factory Into a Political Battleground
Trump is defending his lavish White House renovations after former President Obama mocked the gold-heavy decor, sparking a political clash that has turned an unlikely restaurant chain into a talking point ahead of the November midterm elections.
Trump spent several minutes defending his renovation projects during a campaign stop in Mississippi on Monday, insisting that the historic residence had needed extensive repairs long before he returned to office.
His response followed Obama's remarks at a Democratic rally in Ohio, where the former president compared the White House's new look to a Cheesecake Factory opened by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Obama had questioned Trump's priorities, arguing that the president appeared more interested in home improvement than in addressing the economic pressures facing American families.
He pointed to the planned White House ballroom, changes to the Rose Garden, a new helicopter landing area and the extensive use of gold-colored decorations. Trump rejected the criticism, saying the building had suffered from neglected maintenance, damaged plaster, broken architectural features and missing decorative elements.
He argued that restoring the White House was a matter of national pride, not personal vanity, and insisted the work required only a small portion of his daily schedule.
The president also turned Obama's joke into a personal attack, arguing that mocking the renovations demonstrated a lack of understanding of the White House's symbolic importance.
Trump praised the work of the craftsmen involved and maintained that the building was now in better condition than it had been for decades.
The Cheesecake Factory quickly became an unexpected character in the political dispute. Republican allies accused Obama of looking down on ordinary Americans by using a popular restaurant chain as shorthand for excessive or tasteless design.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent even visited one of the chain's restaurants in Washington, publicly praised the meal and challenged the former president's perceived cultural elitism. But the backlash generated its own criticism.
Some commentators argued that defending the restaurant missed Obama's broader point: that Trump was devoting attention to decorative projects while voters remained concerned about prices, household budgets and the administration's policy priorities.
The dispute arrives at a politically sensitive moment. With control of Congress at stake in the November 3 midterms, Democrats are trying to frame the election as a referendum on Trump's leadership and his handling of the economy.
Republicans, meanwhile, are seeking to portray Obama's remarks as an example of Democratic condescension toward working-class voters.
The clash also reflects a more personal style of American politics, in which former presidents have increasingly become prominent voices in campaigns against their successors.
Obama's criticism followed a similar attack by former President Clinton, who mocked Trump's changes to the Rose Garden. For Trump, the renovations offer a chance to present himself as a builder restoring an important national landmark.
For his critics, the gold decorations and ambitious construction plans raise a different question: whether the president's attention is focused on the concerns that matter most to voters.
Ultimately, the argument is about more than interior design. It is a contest over image, priorities and political identity, unfolding just days before Americans head to the polls.
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Trump is defending his lavish White House renovations after former President Obama mocked the gold-heavy decor, sparking a political clash that has turned an unlikely restaurant chain into a talking point ahead of the November midterm elections.
Trump spent several minutes defending his renovation projects during a campaign stop in Mississippi on Monday, insisting that the historic residence had needed extensive repairs long before he returned to office.
His response followed Obama's remarks at a Democratic rally in Ohio, where the former president compared the White House's new look to a Cheesecake Factory opened by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Obama had questioned Trump's priorities, arguing that the president appeared more interested in home improvement than in addressing the economic pressures facing American families.
He pointed to the planned White House ballroom, changes to the Rose Garden, a new helicopter landing area and the extensive use of gold-colored decorations. Trump rejected the criticism, saying the building had suffered from neglected maintenance, damaged plaster, broken architectural features and missing decorative elements.
He argued that restoring the White House was a matter of national pride, not personal vanity, and insisted the work required only a small portion of his daily schedule.
The president also turned Obama's joke into a personal attack, arguing that mocking the renovations demonstrated a lack of understanding of the White House's symbolic importance.
Trump praised the work of the craftsmen involved and maintained that the building was now in better condition than it had been for decades.
The Cheesecake Factory quickly became an unexpected character in the political dispute. Republican allies accused Obama of looking down on ordinary Americans by using a popular restaurant chain as shorthand for excessive or tasteless design.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent even visited one of the chain's restaurants in Washington, publicly praised the meal and challenged the former president's perceived cultural elitism. But the backlash generated its own criticism.
Some commentators argued that defending the restaurant missed Obama's broader point: that Trump was devoting attention to decorative projects while voters remained concerned about prices, household budgets and the administration's policy priorities.
The dispute arrives at a politically sensitive moment. With control of Congress at stake in the November 3 midterms, Democrats are trying to frame the election as a referendum on Trump's leadership and his handling of the economy.
Republicans, meanwhile, are seeking to portray Obama's remarks as an example of Democratic condescension toward working-class voters.
The clash also reflects a more personal style of American politics, in which former presidents have increasingly become prominent voices in campaigns against their successors.
Obama's criticism followed a similar attack by former President Clinton, who mocked Trump's changes to the Rose Garden. For Trump, the renovations offer a chance to present himself as a builder restoring an important national landmark.
For his critics, the gold decorations and ambitious construction plans raise a different question: whether the president's attention is focused on the concerns that matter most to voters.
Ultimately, the argument is about more than interior design. It is a contest over image, priorities and political identity, unfolding just days before Americans head to the polls.
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