Trump news at a glance: fears president will seize on Kirk’s murder for campaign of vengeance | Trump administration
Sunday, the late right -wing activist Charlie Kirk should be praised by Donald Trump as a martyr of the Make America Great Again (Maga).
But Kirk’s commemorative service in a football stadium in Arizona could, fearing criticisms, be exploited by the American president to transform collective sorrow into a revenge campaign against his political opponents.
Trump has spent the last 10 days intensifying threats against what he calls the “radical” after Kirk’s mortal shot, 31, on a UTA university campus.
The White House plans to classify certain groups as domestic terrorists and to revoke the status of tax exemption for certain non -profit organizations, even if there is no evidence linking these groups to death.
How Trump capitalizes on the murder of Charlie Kirk
Trump and his allies sought to undermine the legitimacy of the Democratic Party, describing it as an extremist organization despite having condemned the attack on Charlie Kirk.
The officials insist that their objective is to prevent violence, but criticism see an extension of Trump’s remuneration campaign against his political enemies and an erosion of freedom of expression. They warn that his administration is trying to exploit indignation at the murder of Kirk to crush dissent.
“Political violence is very often used as a pretext to suppress civil freedoms and adversaries – this is the first page of autocrats,” said Steven Levitsky, political scientist at Harvard University.
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Trump’s reported break on weapons aid to Taiwan Sparks fearing that he uses Island for China Trade Deal
Donald Trump’s reported break in US $ 400 million in Taiwan weapons has fueled the fears that he uses US support from the island to negotiate with China.
Trump’s break on the arrangements of weapons, if confirmed, included orders of deadly ammunition and autonomous drones, but could still be reversed, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
He came in the midst of American efforts to negotiate a commercial agreement with China and before the leader of Trump and China, Xi Jinping, spoke on the phone on Friday. Trump said they had made “productive” progress on a range of questions. But analysts said that the respective appeal readings did not mention Taiwan.
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Tulsi Gabbard did not alert the White House before revoking 37 security authorizations
Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, did not inform the White House that her office revoked the security authorizations of 37 people – including the best deputies to the CIA director, John Ratcliffe – before this happened last month, according to three people familiar with the problem.
This decision meant that the White House had not had the opportunity to verify the list closely before it became public and that it did not seem to be any paper trace of the President leading the effort, said people.
Officials only surrendered after the fact that Gabbard had managed to draw the security authorizations of career CIA officials. Several Trump’s main advisers consider the episode as a serious strike that occurs while Trump is skeptical about the intelligence community.
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Why is Trump so obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel and American television shows?
Since ABC made the decision to suspend actor Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely from his end -of -evening talkshow after remarks apart from the murder of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump encouraged new measures against other end of evening hosts.
Most of the presidents have accepted the implacable punchlines of the Tonight Show as part of the work since the show became extremely popular in the 1960s under the actor Johnny Carson.
But Trump is a different political animal. He distinguished Kimmel, who kept the Maga movement in his reticle since the candidate Trump fell from an appearance scheduled for 2015 in the last minute.
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