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The rebuke came after Lai Ching-te made a secret visit to Eswatini, the only African state which still recognizes the island as sovereign China has compared Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te to a “rat crossing the street” after he secretly boarded an Eswatini government aircraft and flew to the small southern African kingdom on an unannounced state visit.The rebuke was issued by China’s Taiwan Affairs Office on Saturday, which lashed out at Lai over the visit, which Beijing views as a direct challenge to the one-China principle. Lai’s visit had originally been scheduled for late April, but was called off at…
PALM BEACH—President Donald Trump said there “could be” a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran in response to a question from Breitbart News on Saturday. Trump spoke to reporters for just over three minutes on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport before boarding Air Force One and departing for Miami. When Breitbart News asked if he envisions a future where American energy companies are operating inside of Iran, much like Venezuela, he said, “Could be.” “Could be. It could be. I’ll tell you what, we have a lot of ships coming up to Texas and…
A former Democrat mayoral candidate in Plainfield, New Jersey, has admitted forging a huge amount of voter registration applications. Seventy-one-year-old Henrilyn Ibezim pleaded guilty in the case surrounding the 2021 Democratic primary, Fox News reported Friday, noting he was running on the Unity Party ticket. In a press release Thursday, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said Ibezim pleaded guilty Monday and was charged with one count of third-degree forgery. “Under the terms of his plea agreement with the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA), the State agreed to dismiss the remaining counts in the indictment and…
President Donald Trump confirmed that he would look at a recent peace proposal from Iran, adding that Iran had told him “about the concept of the deal.” While taking questions from reporters, Trump was asked about Iran’s latest peace proposal. Trump explained that he would look at it on the plane. “I’ll let you know about it later,” Trump said. Another reporter asked about Trump saying the United States “might be better off not making a deal with Iran.” “Well, I wouldn’t have to, I didn’t say that, I said that if we left right now, it would take them…
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is unconstitutional and a private army for President Donald Trump, Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim running strongly for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, says. Trump “recognized that ICE and the pretext of immigration was the best way for him to create a paramilitary force of thugs who he could put on your street corner to be accountable only to him, and that is what he’s doing,” El-Sayed said, adding: I went to Minneapolis to check it out for myself. And guess what? I know maps. I went to public school. Public schools…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revealed that 14,000 people in one state were receiving food stamps while also driving luxury vehicles, the news coming as President Donald Trump’s administration works to crack down on fraud within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The USDA said some have been using a loophole that allows wealthier people to qualify for the benefits, Fox News reported Friday. In a social media post on Tuesday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said authorities found that in one state 14,000 people receiving SNAP benefits were driving luxury vehicles such as Bentleys, Ferraris, and Lamborghinis. “And…
The US has previously warned banks against dealing with firms allegedly involved in Iran’s oil trade China’s Ministry of Commerce has instructed domestic companies not to comply with US sanctions targeting refiners allegedly linked to the Iranian oil trade.Late last month, the US Treasury warned banks against dealing with so-called “teapot” privately owned refineries, which it said account for the majority of the oil China buys from Iran. “This revenue ultimately benefits the Iranian regime, its weapons programs, and its military,” the Treasury said in its notice.China’s government and major state-owned companies deny direct purchases of Iranian crude, while customs…
On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) argued that “Iran has not demonstrated a desire to get a nuclear weapon. In fact, there was a fatwa issued by the previous ayatollah prohibiting a nuclear weapon.” Vindman said that, during his appearance before Congress earlier in the week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “claimed, repeatedly, that, imagine Iran with a nuclear weapon. Well, guess what? Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran has not demonstrated a desire to get a nuclear weapon. In fact, there was a fatwa issued by the previous ayatollah prohibiting…
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that there isn’t any confusion as to who is in charge of Iran, and he thinks President Donald Trump claiming that it’s unclear who runs the country, “is just a pretext for not kind of coming to the table and getting to a deal.” Co-host Kate Bolduan asked, “One thing that I have to say, I am still surprised that this remains a question, but it is a question, because the President posed it again yesterday, is who is the regime? The President says, and said yesterday, that…
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) argued that if there is a termination of hostilities with Iran, that, “in effect, is surrendering.” Host Jim Sciutto asked, “I found it notable that the same day that the president says that hostilities are paused and therefore the deadline doesn’t apply, he threatened additional military action against Iran to, I believe he said, blow the hell out of them. Can both those things be true?” Blumenthal answered, “Trump’s claim that hostilities have terminated is patently absurd. It’s a false distraction in a war of delusion. The blockade…