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Trump makes triumphant return to Washington, meets with Biden
Donald Trump made a victor’s return to Washington on Wednesday, visiting the White House for an Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden and committing to a smooth transition of power as the president-elect moves quickly to build out his new administration. Sitting in front of a crackling fire, the rivals shook hands as reporters looked on. Biden called Trump “Mr. president-elect and former president” before settling on “Donald.” “Congratulations,” the Democrat told the Republican. “I look forward to having, like they said, a smooth transition,” Biden said. Trump replied,Read more
Trump’s appointees have criticized Trudeau, warned of border issues with Canada
Donald Trump’s second administration is filling up with some of his most loyal supporters — and many of the people landing top jobs have been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and security at Canada’s border. One expert says there are not many Canadian allies, so far, in the president-elect’s court. “I don’t see a whole lot of friends of Canada in there,” said Fen Hampson, a professor of international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa and co-chair of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations. As the Republican leader startsRead more
Trump allies make crude, false and racist Harris remarks at New York City rally
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in New York City on Sunday. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press) Donald Trump took the stage Sunday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden to deliver his campaign’s closing argument with the election nine days away after several of his allies used crude and racist insults toward Vice-President Kamala Harris and other critics of the former president. The Republican nominee began by asking the same questions he’s asked at the start of every recent rally: “Are you better off now thanRead more
Trump says he won’t debate Harris again before election day
Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not participate in another presidential debate against Kamala Harris ahead of the U.S. Nov. 5 election, after several polls showed his Democratic rival won their debate earlier this week. “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” the former president wrote on his social media site Truth Social. Although Trump touted his performance on Tuesday against Harris, six Republican donors and three Trump advisers who spoke to Reuters earlier this week said they thought Harris had won the debate largely because Trump was unable to stay on message. The debate attracted more than 67 million television viewers, according to early Nielsen data. Harris, speaking atRead more
Trump pleads not guilty to revised federal indictment in 2020 election case
Lawyers for Donald Trump entered a not guilty plea on his behalf on Thursday in a Washington, D.C., court in relation to a revised indictment filed in a federal election subversion case. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team filed last week to strip out certain allegations of the original indictment handed down in 2023, after a momentous U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that set out limits on when former presidents could be subject to criminal prosecution. The former U.S. president faces four charges related to plotting to overturn the results ofRead more
Trump and Vance take aim at Biden’s climate legislation. Some Republicans would rather they didn’t
In nearly every speech, J.D. Vance, the Republican hopeful for U.S. vice-president, drums home that Americans are being duped by the Democrats’ fixation on the low-carbon economy and their wild spending on what Vance calls “green scams.” “We need a leader … who rejects Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s green new scam and fights to bring back our great American factories,” he belted out at his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention in July, drawing exuberant cheers. Vance calls Democrats’ environmental focus “crazy.” “Kamala Harris cares more about climateRead more
Conviction fallout: Trump would need special permission to attend next year’s G7 in Canada
As a result of Donald Trump’s criminal convictions he would require special permission, if he becomes U.S. president, to enter Canada for next year’s G7 summit. The precedent-smashing guilty verdict against a major-party U.S. presidential candidate has prompted confusion about the potential international ripple effect, given that Canada is among dozens of countries to refuse entry to felons. Canadian officials have already begun discussing, among themselves, how they would navigate what could be a novel scenario as early as next summer. A federal official laid out to CBC News the CanadianRead more
Destroying Michael Cohen: Trump team sets off on mission at trial
Donald Trump’s legal team set out to demolish the credibility of the key witness in his criminal trial, assailing Michael Cohen as an untrustworthy, ill-tempered, revenge-hungry narrator. For two days, a jury heard Cohen methodically build up elements of the case against his former boss and confidant. But just seconds into the cross-examination Tuesday, the defence’s objective became clear: Tear down the witness in the jury’s eyes. The grilling started with a fiery opening. Cohen was accused of making clear his desire to see Trump imprisoned, in profane public tirades against the defendantRead more
On the witness stand, Stormy Daniels details alleged sex with Trump
Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial in New York on Tuesday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public. For several hours, Daniels, 45, offered details on the witness stand about her encounter with the former U.S. president, 77, and the hush-money deal she reached to stay quiet about it ahead of the 2016 election, when he won the White House. She told jurors that her life descended into “chaos” afterRead more
National Enquirer publisher testifies he used tabloid to suppress unfavourable Trump stories
The first witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified on Tuesday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump’s 2016 presidential bid. Pecker, 72, testified in a New York court that the Enquirer paid two people who were peddling stories of Trump’s sexual misbehaviour but never published them — a practice known as “catch and kill.” “When someone’s running for public office like this, it is very common for these women to call up a magazineRead more