Europe is also split about Mr. Trump, where the less liberal states of Central Europe, in particular Poland and Hungary, have been strong supporters of Mr. Trump’s politics, and not just grateful for American troops.
The prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Jansa, who is close to Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, even posted an early and now much-derided tweet congratulating Mr. Trump on his re-election.
For NATO allies, there will be no need to hide decisions or to pre-agree communiqués as they did with Mr. Trump, sometimes with the connivance of American officials. Mr. Biden will not threaten to leave NATO, as Mr. Trump did, nor think of it as a club with dues. And Mr. Biden has expressed no special affinity with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia or President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
But Mr. Biden has a history, post Iraq, of caution in the use of the American military — he opposed the surge in Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya, for example. So while he is likely to renew the New Start nuclear arms treaty with Moscow, he may not think that reducing the number of U.S. troops in Germany is such a bad idea.
And there are suggestions from NATO diplomats that the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, who has been so skillful at dealing with Mr. Trump that his tenure was extended, may be replaced before too long.
The states that bar abortion from conception tend to be located in the South and the Midwest, including Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma. Wisconsin has conflicting laws that leave the legality of abortion uncertain, but clinics stopped providing abortions in the state after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationdecision, effectively ending abortion within its borders. Georgia, Idaho, Ohio and Tennessee have bans that begin when fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which can occur before many people realize they are pregnant.
“We’ll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we’re not going to have a deal at all and that’s OK too,” President Donald Trump said at his re-election rally. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo
The president is running for reelection with a major unfulfilled campaign promise — a trade deal with China.
OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump departed a gathering of world leaders Saturday without striking his long-sought trade deal with China, leaving him with a major unfulfilled campaign promise just as he revs up his reelection bid.
But the leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed that their teams should resume negotiations that had broken down several weeks ago with Trump pushing off another round of tariffs on $300 billion on Chinese imports.
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That incremental step is far from what he promised Americans when he was on the campaign trail in 2016 pledging to beat China — the so-called “enemy” that cost the U.S. jobs, spied on U.S. businesses and stole U.S. technology.
Trump will now need to try to persuade supporters — some of whom have been hurt by rising prices due to his many trade disputes — that not accepting a bad deal with China is actually a win.
“I don’t think they will see this as a failure. I think they will see this as him fighting,” said Jonathan Felts, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and now lives in the swing state of North Carolina and remains close to the Trump White House. “What they see is a man who is doing exactly what he said he would.”
At a rally kicking off his reelection campaign in Florida earlier this month, Trump, a businessman who prides himself on making shrewd deals, tried to put a positive spin on his failure to secure a deal with China.
“We’ll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we’re not going to have a deal at all and that’s OK too,” Trump told the crowd.
Trump held a series of meetings in Japan while he attended the G-20, an annual gathering of the world’s biggest economies, but did not announce any major agreements with those he spoke with, including the leaders of Japan, Germany and Russia.
Most of the attention, however, was on trade. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and their top aides talked for more than an hour at a meeting closely watched by foreign leaders and business executives worried that the trade impasse will continue to hurt the global economy.
“You know, we’ve never really had a deal with China,” Trump said at a news conference Saturday. “Tremendous amounts of money was put into China — $500 billion a year. And I mean, you know, not just surplus and deficit. I’m talking about real, hard cash. And it should have never, ever been allowed to have happened for all of our presidents over the last number of years.”
Trump had already hit China with two rounds of tariffs after unsuccessfully pushing Beijing to change longstanding trade practices that he deems unfair. China retaliated with its own set of tariffs.
“I think you’ve heard the president say publicly on a number of occasions that he’s quite comfortable with where we are, and he’s quite comfortable with any outcome of those talks,” a senior administration official said.
On Saturday, at least, they agreed to the ceasefire.
A former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House said Trump still looks engaged on the issue in contrast to lawmakers of both parties who try to tackle tough issues, such as immigration, only to give in when they can’t initially work out a deal. “The minute things got tough, they bailed,” the former adviser said. “He’s going to keep talking.”
But David Dollar, who served as economic and financial emissary to China for the Treasury secretary and is now a leading expert on China for the center-left Brookings Institution, said Trump was never going to leave his meeting with Xi this week with a win when the two sides hadn’t been talking for weeks.
“There hasn’t been enough preparation for there to be a really detailed trade deal between China and the United States,” he said.
Now, after more than two years of negotiations and his reelection campaign looming, Trump faces intense pressure to find a compromise before his yet-to-be-named opponent criticizes his lack of deal-making skills and his tariff threats continue to cost Americans money, including in states that helped him win in 2016.
And some of Trump’s allies fear that the tariffs could put a dent in the economy — his strongest reelection selling point — though they note the economy has stayed strong despite earlier Trump-imposed tariffs.
“Exporters are suffering from the retaliatory tariffs from China,” Matthew Goodman, who served as director for international economics on the National Security Council staff and is now senior adviser for Asian economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“It’s causing some political blowback for the president. His polls in some states that are red states and farm states are not as good as he would like. And so, you know, it’s possible that he has an incentive to do a deal.”
Scott Jennings, who worked under President George W. Bush and is close to the Trump White House, said Trump still has plenty of time left in his term to make good on this campaign promise.
“Trump is in a strong political position,” he said. “He’s put so much effort in for them to roll over and accept less is not an option.”
El coordinador de la misión de observadores de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur), Alexander Vega, advierte violencia política si los dos candidatos presidenciales finalistas no llaman a su militancia a aceptar los resultados electorales. Lamenta que antes que el diálogo haya escalonado la violencia y ultrajes entre ambos aspirantes a Carondelet.
¿Cuál es su visión sobre el proceso de segunda vuelta?
Desde el punto de vista técnico serán las mismas tecnologías que aplicó el CNE el pasado 19 de febrero; lo preocupante es el tema del diálogo y, sobre todo, el lenguaje que utilizan ambas campañas.
¿Qué le preocupa a Unasur?
El conflicto, lo que pueda llegar a armarse; que la democracia resulte sacrificada y a nivel mundial el Ecuador afecte su imagen.
¿Cuál es el peor escenario?
Primero se espera que ambos candidatos acepten los resultados; si no se acepta quien crearía la inestabilidad podría generar el resquebrajamiento de la democracia y obviamente la violencia política. Por eso, hay que hacer un llamado para que ambos candidatos hablen a sus militantes para que eviten esas confrontaciones y se haga un discurso pacífico.
¿Qué papel ha jugado la autoridad electoral en este caso para evitar esta confrontación?
Cualquier órgano electoral del mundo tiene que ser de árbitro imparcial, en este caso, los que se encargan de ser árbitros en Ecuador deben dar esas garantías para que la gente vote libremente. En ese orden de ideas, lo que estamos viendo es que hay confrontaciones de campaña que están afectando la democracia.
¿Han observado si el CNE ha realizado el suficiente control para evitar el uso de recursos públicos en la campaña electoral?
Nosotros hemos recibido quejas por parte de la oposición de que se han utilizado bienes del Estado a favor de un candidato; y ese actuar lo rechaza no solo la misión de Unasur, sino cualquier sistema democrático. En Ecuador, deben ser los órganos de control como Fiscalía y Contraloría los encargados de vigilar que esos dineros y recursos del Estado no se apliquen en campañas electorales.
El CNE anunció que habrá fiscales de flagrancia para el proceso del domingo.
Creo que no debería haber anuncios, es obligación de la Fiscalía. En el Código Penal hay un capítulo de delitos electorales y debe ser la Fiscalía la que garantice eso, independientemente de que lo haya anunciado el CNE…
Esta activación de los fiscales de flagrancia no ocurrió el 19 de febrero.
Es cierto eso, creo que ahí faltó y debió aplicarse en la primera vuelta; y reitero que eso no es un tema que se tenga que activar, eso debe funcionar constantemente…
La presencia de fiscales debe ser tomada como garantía de que el sistema democrático va a estar salvaguardado; pues a quien va a afectar que un fiscal esté ahí es al que quiera cometer un delito.
¿Ustedes han podido detectar quiénes han promovido esta escalada de violencia y campaña sucia?
Acá no hay que sindicar si es uno u otro, creo que ambas campañas han escalonado el diálogo a un tema de violencia y de ultrajes. Yo creo que si hay un responsable es la falta de manejo y control de las mismas campañas sobre sus militantes. (I)
But action on that may not happen until September, when Congress also has to address appropriations for fiscal year 2021, which begins in October. A delay on that would prompt a partial government shutdown.
“I cannot imagine any way in which Republicans or Democrats want to have a government shutdown a month out from the election,” Hoagland said.
The stimulus aid could get taken up in a continuing resolution, he said.
Meanwhile, Americans who are counting on more financial help will have to wait, Hoagland said. That’s as Trump’s executive order did little to prevent evictions and details of how the new extended unemployment benefits will be paid on a federal and state level is still getting sorted out.
“I think there’s going to be some people that are going to be hurting between now and September,” Hoagland said. “Come Labor Day, there’s going to be a lot of angry people.”
If Congress signs off on the stimulus checks in September, Americans may have to wait until October or later to receive the money.
“Politically, some of the people in the White House might think it’s a good thing to get a check signed by Donald Trump right before the election,” Hoagland said.
This time around, deploying millions of $1,200 payments will likely be easier for the IRS, which means people could receive the funds more quickly, said Kris Cox, senior tax policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
“Despite decades of funding cuts, the IRS impressively got stimulus payments out the door within weeks of the CARES legislation passing,” Cox said. “We expect the IRS is anticipating a second round and they’re ready and equipped to get money out the door quickly.”
But that depends on lawmakers coming back to the negotiating table and agreeing, she said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis not only broke from decades of precedent on Thursday when he blocked all news outlets except Fox News from covering the signing of a voting bill into law. He also may have violated the U.S. Constitution.
That’s the opinion of First Amendment experts who told the Tampa Bay Times it is illegal for DeSantis to hand-pick which media can cover a public proceeding.
“The law leaves no question as to the impropriety of banning certain media while allowing only friendly media,” said Pamela Marsh, executive director of the First Amendment Foundation, an organization that advocates for open government and represents news organizations, including the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald. “That is viewpoint and content discrimination.”
Decades of precedent in federal courts have affirmed that elected officials cannot block certain news outlets from reporting on public events just because they don’t like the coverage.
In Louisiana in the 1980s, a local mayor attempted to exclude reporters from a certain newspaper from major press conferences. The newspaper sued. A federal court called the mayor’s actions “the essence of censorship forbidden by the First Amendment and so abhorred by the founding fathers,” and the newspaper won.
In 2007, an Ohio federal judge ruled against the mayor of Toledo, who had stopped notifying a local radio station of the mayor’s news conferences. The mayor’s office also blocked one of the station’s reporters from attending. The court said the mayor was attempting to “manage the news by manipulating who comes to hear what’s to be said and therefore who reports it. ” It required that the reporter be given access.
DeSantis visited West Palm Beach on Thursday to sign a controversial bill that made it more difficult to vote by mail in Florida. In his three years in office, DeSantis has frequently held similar signing ceremonies, and they are open for journalists to attend. This time, reporters and television crews that showed up to cover the signing were turned away by the governor’s staff.
The signing, however, was carried live on Fox & Friends, the conservative network’s morning show, during a 7 minute and 30-second segment. DeSantis later said he gave Fox News an “exclusive,” a term that media types and politicos use for granting a story or interview to a single outlet or reporter.
Because the bill signing was a “public proceeding,” DeSantis should not have been able to limit which news outlets could cover it, said Clay Calvert, a University of Florida law professor and director of the school’s First Amendment Project.
People who don’t have a cable subscription or who don’t watch that network wouldn’t have seen it.
“Unless you’re watching Fox, you’re going to be denied access to information,” Calvert said. “That’s troubling regardless of the First Amendment issues.”
In addition to DeSantis, several elected officials joined him in West Palm Beach for the bill signing, including Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez and the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Blaise Ingoglia and Sen. Dennis Baxley. Members of a local fan club for former President Donald Trump were also in attendance.
DeSantis defended only letting Fox & Friends in the room because it was aired on national television. His office did not respond to requests for comment on the First Amendment concerns.
“We did a wonderful bill signing for this great elections bill,” DeSantis said. “It was live on national television. We were happy to give them the exclusive on that. That’s broadcast to millions of people.”
Fox & Friends averages about 1.1 million viewers nationwide. Florida’s voting age population is nearly 17 million.
Fox said it did not ask DeSantis’ office for the special treatment. In a statement to the Tampa Bay Times, the network said, “FOX & Friends did not request or mandate that the May 6th event and interview with Gov. Ron DeSantis be exclusive to FOX News Media entities.”
Later, the network clarified that its producers weren’t aware that DeSantis was going to sign the bill on camera. He was booked Thursday for “an interview and not as a live bill signing.”
This is not the first time DeSantis’ administration has clashed with news organizations on access. When the coronavirus first arrived, DeSantis’s administration waited 24 hours to tell the public about a known case in Florida. Throughout the pandemic, DeSantis’ office has withheld data and reports on the outbreak from reporters, only releasing the information after news outlets sued.
Thursday’s news conference also highlights how much DeSantis has relied on Fox News to amplify his message and grow his national brand. He is a frequent guest on the show’s prime time programs, whose hosts often heap praise on the Republican governor.
And the network has in turn welcomed DeSantis, one of the most popular figures in the GOP, as often as he’s available. Hours after a national firestorm over DeSantis’ appearance on Fox & Friends, he sat down for another interview on the network, this time with Sean Hannity.
Edward Birk, a Jacksonville-based First Amendment attorney, said elected officials can grant exclusive arrangements with certain news organizations but they cannot exclude media from a public event.
“Regardless whether it violates the First Amendment, which it may,” Birk said, “it’s bad government.”
Times/Herald reporter Lawrence Mower contributed to this report.
“Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?” wrote Trump, who is staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., for the holidays.
He also called the impeachment process “very unfair.”
Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States? Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” She said it must be “bipartisan…
…& overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!
The tweets come a week after the House voted largely along party lines to impeach Trump. The two articles of impeachment accuse Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Trump criticized Pelosi on Monday for not sending the articles to the Senate.
The Speaker defended her decision, arguing that she can’t choose trial managers until she has a clear picture of how the Senate plans to proceed.
“The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct,” Pelosi wrote. “President Trump blocked his own witnesses and documents from the House, and from the American people, on phony complaints about the House process. What is his excuse now?”
Rescatistas a bordo de dos helicpteros ya estn en tierra firme luego de que el mal tiempo impidiese que aterrizaran en horas de la manaa.
Dos helicópteros, uno la Fuerza Aérea y el segundo del Ejército, salieron esta mañana (martes) rumbo a la agreste zona entre Ayabaca y Huancabamba para sumarse a las acciones de búsqueda de las tres personas desaparecidas cuando cumplían una misión para la empresa minera Rio Blanco Cooper.
Los rescatistas de la Policía Nacional, al mando del coronel Luis Quiñones llegaron a la zona acompañados por el sobreviviente rescatado ayer, Manuel Herrera Peña; quien indicará la zona exacta en dónde estuvieron perdidos, pero además con la misión de ubicar las coordenadas que se han registrado en el GPS del sobreviviente.
“Los helicópteros salieron desde la mañana. Hubo problema por el clima en la mañana pero ya aterrizaron y están en tierra firme rumbo al punto exacto que señala las coordenadas. Ellos (los rescatistas) ya han descendiendo. En el trascurso del día se tendrá información oficial sobre esta operación”, declaró el coronel Isaac Alvarado a RPP Noticias.
Tanto la Policía Nacional, las Fuerzas Armadas, como la población, esperan que la operación sea exitosa y pese a lo que se teme, la esperanza es hallar con vida a los desaparecidos.
En Piura, los representantes de la minera, así como los familiares y la prensa, esperan noticias en la base del Grupo Aéreo N°07, de la FAP.
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“Bob Mueller has made that abundantly clear that he has not presented accurately the context, the nature and the substance of the investigation,” she continued.
Hillary Clinton: “Calling for” AG Barr’s “resignation makes perfect sense, because he’s not discharging the duties of the office; he’s not going to resign, and at this point, I think that we know what we need to know about him.” pic.twitter.com/iCrFdzi0L0
Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his handling of Mueller’s report on Wednesday, one day after The Washington Post reported that Mueller had expressed frustration in a letter to Barr over how he initially portrayed the investigation.
It was reported Tuesday that Mueller sent Barr a letter in March complaining that the attorney general’s letter mischaracterized the investigation and created “public confusion about critical aspects of the results.”
Barr sent Congress a four-page memo summarizing the report in March, nearly a month before the report on Mueller’s probe was released to the public. The letter was widely lambasted by Democrats, who accused Barr of acting as Trump’s personal attorney, rather than the American people’s attorney general.
Barr testified Wednesday that he did not review the underlying evidence in Mueller’s report before he concluded that the special counsel’s findings did not reach the threshold to charge Trump with obstructing justice.
Mueller’s probe did not uncover evidence to conclude conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow during the 2016 election. But the report noted that Mueller could not “conclusively determine” that no criminal conduct occurred in regard to obstruction of justice.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters Friday after her election as House Republican Conference chair. Stefanik called former President Donald Trump “a critical part of our Republican team.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters Friday after her election as House Republican Conference chair. Stefanik called former President Donald Trump “a critical part of our Republican team.”
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GOP lawmakers have chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York as the No. 3 Republican in the House, anointing a Trump loyalist to a leadership position charged with delivering party messaging.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced her election in a tweet.
In a statement posted to Twitter, Stefanik said she was “honored and humbled to earn the support of my colleagues.” Speaking to reporters later, she thanked former President Donald Trump whom she called “a critical part of our Republican team.”
“I believe that voters determine the leader of the Republican Party and President Trump is the leader that they look to,” she said when asked about Trump’s leadership role within the party.
Stefanik’s swift installment by secret ballot comes two days after House Republicans removed Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from the role following her steadfast criticism of Trump over the last few months.
Stefanik’s name was quickly floated as a replacement for Cheney, who had successfully warded off an attempt on her leadership position in February. Stefanik garnered the public support of McCarthy, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Trump.
While she appeared in some ways to be a foregone conclusion as the new conference chair, Stefanik faced some opposition from conservatives such as Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who sent a memo to colleagues this week criticizing her record as being too moderate.
Roy maintained the conference shouldn’t “rush this process just for the sake of doing it,” telling Capitol Hill reporters Thursday evening he would run for the position himself.
In Friday’s press conference, McCarthy thanked Roy, saying, “We had a healthy debate and a good election.”
Stefanik sent a letter to colleagues Wednesday detailing her vision to “unify” the conference.
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“I strongly believe that one of the most important qualities in any leader is the commitment and ability to listen,” she wrote. “This week, I have had hundreds of productive and informative conversations with Members from all corners of our Conference. Today, I humbly ask to earn your vote for House Republican Conference Chair to unify our message as a team and win the Majority in 2022.”
Stefanik entered Congress in 2015, representing an upstate New York district that voted twice for former President Barack Obama. She amassed a moderate voting record and earned a reputation as one of the more bipartisan members on Capitol Hill.
But as her district shifted hard in favor of Trump, so did Stefanik.
She became a star of the MAGA-verse following her passionate defense of the former president during his first impeachment hearings, with her performance earning her personal praise from Trump and record-breaking fundraising for her reelection.
Stefanik replaces Cheney, a woman she previously called a “huge asset in the role” and whom she twice nominated for the leadership position she now assumes.
Cheney is arguably more conservative than Stefanik, who voted against Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. But the pair diverged most notably on Trump and his role in the GOP. Cheney voted for Trump’s impeachment this year following the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Stefanik did not.
Cheney voted to certify the electoral results from the 2020 presidential election. Stefanik joined 138 House Republicans in voting to object to the counts in Pennsylvania.
Stefanik has also made her embrace of Trump abundantly clear, which aligns with party leaders such as McCarthy who are relying on the former president’s support in the next election cycle to boost Republicans’ numbers in Congress.
But even after her ousting, Cheney remains firm in her stance.
“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” she told reporters following her removal from leadership.
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