Trump holds up deal with Iran with demand for more changes
After several days of saying he was deciding what to do about the negotiated agreement by the U.S. and Iran that would end the war he started, Donald Trump has decided not to sign the deal and instead demanded more changes. The White House did not specify what it is that Trump doesn’t like about the agreement. Meanwhile, the U.S. carried out strikes against Iran over the weekend. They targeted Iranian radar and command and control sites. Iran shot down a U.S. drone that the U.S. said was operating over international waters. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have struck a U.S. air base used to launch an attack on a telecommunications tower on Iran’s Sirik Island, according to a statement carried by several Iranian state-run news outlets.
Protests continue at ICE detention facility in Newark
Protests continued Sunday past a curfew that had been imposed for the area around near Delaney Hall, an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Inmates as well as various elected officials who visited the facility have reported unsanitary living conditions including contaminated food and water. A heavy law enforcement presence could be seen Sunday night moving protesters from the curfew zone outside Delaney Hall, according to video from Freedom News TV obtained by CNN. Flash-bang grenades and tear gas had been used against the protesters. Protests have gone on for days outside the 1,000-bed facility where inhumane conditions have been alleged for months.
Trump jumps in for Washington celebration after performers bail out
Donald Trump said he will host the opening ceremony for the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair event in Washington to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary. Trump’s move to center stage came after most of the performing artists pulled out saying they had been misled and it is a partisan, political event. Freedom 250 is a White House organization launched by executive order to create Trump-driven alternatives to the events planned by the nonpartisan United States Semiquincentennial Commission. Trump mocked performers who withdrew from the event, saying on social media he could replace them as the featured attraction. He called them “overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain.”
Trump says he’s out of Kennedy Center
Donald Trump says he’s walking away from the Kennedy Center after a federal judge ordered that within 14 days Trump’s name be removed from the center. Trump had renamed the center for himself after becoming chairman of the center’s Board of Directors. Trump also ordered the center to be closed for two years so changes could be made to the building. U.S. District Judge Casey Cooper concluded that the law establishing the center “makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so.” Trump said he has told the Department of Commerce to transfer control of the Kennedy Center to Congress. He said he had “no interest in continuing” unless he was “free” to do what he wanted to do. Trump’s appointees at the Trump-Kennedy Center say they plan to appeal the judge’s ruling.
Pence slams Trump’s slush fund
Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared on both NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Face the Nation” on CBS and said that he finds the slush fund of $1.8 billion set up by Donald Trump to pay people such as those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 to be quite disturbing. Members of the mob on that day tried to find Pence so they could kill him. “It’s deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6,” Pence said. Pence also said that Trump’s policies no longer reflect traditional conservative views and focus on grievances rather than being positive.
Pentagon loan under scrutiny
ProPublica reports that White House staff member Peter Navarro intervened with the Pentagon to urge quick approval of a $620 million loan for a business in which Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund had an interest. According to the report, Trump’s firm 1789 Capital had an equity stake in the company Vulcan Elements, a start-up that was involved in manufacturing rare earth magnets. The reporting said that Navarro urged the Pentagon to speed up its usual process and quickly approve the Pentagon funding for Vulcan. The reporting said that Trump’s company took a stake in Vulcan about three months before the Pentagon approved the loan.
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