Trump threatens to tap allies for military shipbuilding if US can’t produce
Fed up with lagging American shipbuilding capabilities, President-elect Donald Trump offered an unconventional solution to the problem. The idea is that if the US cannot keep up with shipbuilding capacity, production will be outsourced. “We're going to do things with ships. We need ships. And we may have to go a different route than you […]
Reform Allies Rally Around Farage as Leader After Musk Comments
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Alliance UK, has endorsed the leadership of tech billionaire Elon Musk following calls for him to be ousted as party leader. A flurry of posts over the past week about British politics are an apparent attempt to deflect the conversation from his controversial support for mass “skilled” immigration to […]
WWII Allies refused to destroy Germany — now it’s ruined itself
With less than a year to go before World War II ended, then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau hatched a nightmarish plan to punish Germany after the war. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, World War I, World War II, and the failure of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the Allied powers of World War […]
Trump Names Two Business Leaders As Ambassadors To Major US Allies
President-elect Donald Trump named two business leaders, Joe Popolo and Benjamin Leon Jr., as ambassadors to major European countries in a Thursday Truth social post. President Trump nominated Popolo, founder of investment firm Charles & Potomac Capital, to be ambassador to the Netherlands, and Leon Jr., founder of Medicare provider LEON Medical Center, to be […]
Johnson allies urge Trump to intervene as messy speaker battle threatens to delay 2024 certification
Allies of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) have publicly signaled their support to House Republican leadership to avoid a messy and drawn-out battle that could delay the certification of his victory over President-elect Trump. I am asking you to reconfirm. “If there is some kind of long-running conflict and we cannot elect a speaker, then […]
Zelensky’s Criticisms of Allies Can Go Too Far, Says NATO Boss
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has been paid millions of dollars by Western allies to fight a nearly three-year war of defense against Russian aggression, has developed a habit of biting the hand that feeds him, the NATO secretary general said. Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who was appointed this year as the new […]
‘Bargaining chip’: Trump allies dismantle Liz Warren’s claim GOP blocked childhood cancer research
Conservatives and allies of President-elect Donald Trump are dismantling claims from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats that Republicans blocked funding for childhood cancer research in a spending bill that has stalled within the Democratic Party. He points out the single bill that was in place. – Controlled the Senate for months. Congress passed a […]
Arizona Prosecutors Investigate Trump Allies, Demand Access To Emails And Texts Related To 2020 Election
Arizona prosecutors are investigating key allies of President-elect Donald Trump, securing a trove of emails, text messages and phone records as part of an investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. . The documents span from November 1, 2020 to February 1, 2021, and are directed to the Google and Apple iCloud accounts […]
Trump allies work to sink government spending bill
President-elect Trump's allies on Wednesday blasted the huge government funding deal ahead of a deadline looming this weekend, urging lawmakers to oppose the deal and pushing House Republican leadership to move forward with passing the bill. It complicated an already difficult mission. finish line. Notably, President Trump himself has yet to comment on the roughly […]
MAGA allies join DOGE pile against Speaker Johnson's funding bill
Since House Speaker Mike Johnson released the 1,547-page funding bill Tuesday night, several allies of President-elect Donald Trump have been leading a pressure campaign to block the continuing resolution. Johnson's CR has been the focus of scrutiny from lawmakers and MAGA allies alike, with tech mogul Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy […]