Tag: Donald Trump

• Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Assange said Trump offered to pardon him if he let Russia off Wikileaks disclosures

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he said that Russia had nothing to do with WikiLeaks’ publication of Democratic Party emails in 2016, a London court heard on Wednesday. Assange appeared by videolink from prison as lawyers discussed the management of his hearing next week to decide whether he should be extradited to the United States.

• Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 07:54 UTC

  Trump launches the aircraft trade dispute with the European Union

  

  The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  US criticizes lack of transparency from China over the coronavirus outbreak

  

  The United States feels let down by a lack of transparency from China over the coronavirus crisis, a senior White House official said on Thursday. “We are a little disappointed that we haven't been invited in and we're a little disappointed in the lack of transparency coming from the Chinese,” Larry Kudlow, the director of President Donald Trump's Economic Council, told reporters.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Trump plans to slash foreign aid and invest funds to counter threats from China and Russia

  

  President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials revealed.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  “Tell president Fernandez that he count with the support of this president”, Trump tells Argentine ambassador

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez should be back in Buenos Aires on Friday following a European weeklong tour where he met the Pope and several leaders as part of his strategy to address the rescheduling of the country's foreign debt, which has the Argentine economy prostrated and with minimum chances of recovery if it has to meet capital and interest commitments.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  “Trump acquitted” celebration in the White House; the president calls Pelosi and Senator Romney “dishonest and corrupt”

  

  President Donald Trump celebrated his impeachment acquittal on Thursday in a rambling, emotional speech raging against the investigations that have overshadowed his entire administration.

• Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  “Not a page without a lie”, House leader Pelosi comment on Trump's State of the Union

  

  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi had not planned to tear up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech but decided to do so after she could not find a page “that didn’t have a lie on it,” she told fellow Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Strong support message from US Congress for Guaidó, present at Trump's State of the Union speech

  

  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó's appearance in the US Congress at the State of the Union — as well as the bipartisan ovation he received — was intended to send a strong message of U.S. support for his efforts to unseat Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó attended the address as a guest of the White House.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  EU blasts US decision to relax restrictions on anti personnel mines as “completely unacceptable”

  

  United States president Donald Trump’s decision to relax restrictions on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines was “completely unacceptable”, the European Union said on Tuesday in a rare formal criticism of Washington.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Trump's acquittal of the impeachment trial any moment with solid Republican Senators' support

  

  The US Senate on Friday voted against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump's likely acquittal in the coming days.