Trump threatens to blow up U.S. ally
During a cabinet meeting at the White House, President Trump threatened to blow up U.S. ally Oman. Trump was asked for his reaction to reports that Oman and Iran were taking about cooperating to collect tolls from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said that Oman had better behave and if they didn’t he’d blow them up. The U.S. carried out new strikes in Iran early Thursday morning, targeting a site that a U.S. official said posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial shipping traffic. Iranian state TV said the draft Memorandum of Understanding that the U.S. and Iran are negotiating to end the fighting calls for U.S. military forces to withdraw from the vicinity of Iran and lift the blockade of Iranian ports.
Death toll now 195 in U.S.strikes on boats
The U.S. military has killed at least 195 people in strikes on boats in international waters in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea. At least 61 vessels have been destroyed. There have been at least 18 survivors of those strikes, at least two of whom were briefly detained by the U.S. Navy before being returned to their home countries. About 11 are presumed dead after searches did not locate their bodies in the water. The Trump administration has told Congress that the people killed were “unlawful combatants” and the administration had the right to engage in lethal strikes without judicial review. Some members of Congress as well as human rights groups have questioned that finding and argued that people accused of being drug traffickers should face prosecution, as had been the policy before Trump took office. The Trump administration has not provided public evidence that the boats attacked were being used for drug smuggling.
Jill Biden was worried about Joe Biden
Former first lady Jill Biden says that when former President Joe Biden performed poorly during a debate with Donald Trump she worried her husband was having a stroke. “I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News in an interview scheduled to air Sunday. Joe Biden had trouble answering questions during the debate with Trump. The interview comes as Jill Biden prepares for a June 2 start to a book tour to promote “View from the East Wing,” her forthcoming memoir about her time in the White House. Joe Biden has said claims that he was experiencing cognitive decline while serving in the presidency were wrong and that there was “nothing to sustain that.”
Reflecting Pool contract details revealed
The New York Times reports that the company that received a no-bid contract to make repairs and coat the Washington Mall Reflecting Pool is being paid a higher than usual amount of 20% for overhead and a higher than usual amount for built-in profit of 20%. The Times also reports that the company was told to go ahead with the work before the details of the contract had been worked out. Donald Trump originally took credit for selecting the company, saying that they took care of the swimming pool at his Virginia golf club. Trump subsequently denied knowing anything about the company. The Trump administration at first said the cost of the project would be $2 million to $3 million. The cost then ballooned to more than $13 million. The Times reported that the company has been painting the pool blue while not fixing failed seals between structural slabs that have been causing the pool to leak.
Supreme Court defers decision on Trump’s E. Jean Carroll case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred its decision on whether to take up Donald Trump’s appeal of a verdict against him in the E. Jean Carroll sex abuse case. The Supreme Court has deferred making a decision twelve times. CNN reported Wednesday that the Trump Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Carroll, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is reported to have recused himself from the investigation since he had previously been Trump’s attorney and worked on the matter. Trump has appealed the $5 million sexual abuse case judgement Carroll won to the Supreme Court and has pledged to do the same with the $83 million defamation case she won.
Trump administration decides not to use U.S. Ebola facilities
The Trump administration plans to send Americans who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus to Kenya, officials said Wednesday. They say a facility in Kenya would be able to care for patients, including critical care needs. Jeremy Konyndyk, of Refugees International was with USAID when it handled the 2014-16 West Africa Ebola outbreak and noted that the U.S. has its own network of very capable Ebola isolation and treatment facilities. He charged the Trump administration with turning its back on Americans who get infected and saying “you’re not welcome in your own country.” Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease expert and former medical director of the Sierra Leone Ebola Treatment Center, called the new plan “insane.” Lawrence Gostin, of the World Health Organization said the outcomes will be worse for both patients and humanitarian workers.
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