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Sun: Bizarre moment Trump plays ‘white genocide’ video as he schools President Ramaphosa in fiery White House meeting

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s leader with a video he claimed supported his allegations of white persecution in the country.

Trump dimmed the lights and shushed President Cyril Ramaphosa in a bizarre moment where he showed the video that purported to show evidence of a genocide of white farmers in South Africa.

Trump hosted Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday to confront him about claims that South Africa’s government isn’t punishing people who kill white farmers.

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Ramaphosa tried to speak to Trump while the clip started to play, but Trump pointed at the video, telling him to pay attention.

Jerk! And later King Donald admits that it might all have been a pile of BS:

Following the meeting, Trump said he wasn’t sure if there was a genocide happening in South Africa or not.

Trump has cut off foreign aid to South Africa based on the claims, which stem from a land reform law.

He accused the country’s government of taking land from white farmers and fuelling violence against them with “hateful rhetoric and government actions.”

Given South Africa’s history of apartheid, some redistribution of land and other resources is to be expected.

Trump plays ‘white genocide’ vid in front of South African prez in tense moment
PRESIDENT Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s leader with a video he claimed supported his allegations of white persecution in the country. Trump dimmed the lights and shushed President Cy…

https://www.the-sun.com/news/14291741/trump-south-africa-genocide-video-president-ramaphosa

Ynet News: Trump shows genocide videos to South African president, who quips: ‘Sorry I don’t have a plane to give you’

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U.S. President Donald Trump requested staff screen videos allegedly showing instances of genocide against White residents in South Africa during his meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House.

What a jerk!

Ramaphosa, who sat quietly watching videos showing politicians calling to kill white farmers, later said: “I would like to know where this is from; this I’ve never seen.” He then took a jab at Trump, saying: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” to which the American president responded: ‘If you had a plane to bring me, I would take it.’

Once a grifter, always a grifter.

Trump shows genocide videos to South African president, who quips: ‘Sorry I don’t have a plane to give you’
U.S. President Donald Trump requested staff screen videos allegedly showing instances of genocide against White residents in South Africa during his meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. Ramaphosa, who sat quietly watching videos showing politicians calling to kill white farmers, later said: “I would like to know where this is from this I’ve never seen.” He then took a jab at Trump, saying: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” to which the American president responded: ‘If you had a plane to bring me, I would take it.’

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/p2op76beq

Daily Express: Qatar prime minister insists $400m gifts are ‘normal’ between friends – like he and Trump

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Qatar’s Prime Minister has claimed the country’s $400 million “gift” to President Trump comes with no strings attached.

The Prime Minister of Qatar has defended the country’s $400 million gift to President Donald Trump, saying that such exchanges between friendly countries are “normal”.

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani commented on the accusations that Qatar was gifting the jet to Trump just to get on the President’s good side, saying that the gift is simply a donation to another world leader.

Baloney!

We’ll find out eventually when they call in the favor.

Qatar prime minister insists $400m gifts are ‘normal’ between friends
Qatar’s Prime Minister has claimed the country’s $400 million “gift” to President Trump comes with no strings attached.

Axios: Qatari jet “gives the appearance of a conflict of interest” for Trump, senator says

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said in a Sunday interview that the pending transfer of a Qatari luxury jet “detracts from” what he saw as President Trump‘s “largely successful” Middle East trip and “gives the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

Why it matters: Paul, who has already cautioned against the possible gift to Trump, is one of a group of Republicans who have raised legal, ethical and national security concerns over the prospect of the administration accepting a jet worth roughly $400 million to potentially serve as Air Force One.

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Paul said on ABC’s “This Week” that there is “probably a perfectly legal way” the plane could be accepted, but added that he thinks the discussion has “raised more questions than I think it’s worth.”

  • Paul, who said he has in the past pushed to block arms sales to Qatar and Saudi Arabia over alleged human rights abuses, contended, “Could it color the perception of the administration if they have a $400 million plane to be more in favor of these things? Perhaps.”
  • Paul continued, “It at least gives the appearance of a conflict of interest. I don’t think it’s worth the headache.”
Qatari jet “gives the appearance of a conflict of interest” for Trump, senator says
Paul said on ABC’s “This Week” that the discussion has “raised more questions than I think it’s worth.”

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/18/trump-qatari-jet-conflict-of-interest-rand-paul

Axios World: Trump administration accepts Qatari 747 to serve as Air Force One

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The U.S. accepted Qatar’s gift of a Boeing 747 to serve as the new Air Force One, the Pentagon said Wednesday, despite the ethical quandaries and potential constitutional violations it entails.

President Trump has brushed off any concerns about the appearance of accepting the $400 million gift despite objections from Democrats and some Republicans.

Trump scoffed at the criticism, saying it would be “stupid” to turn down a new Air Force One.

The Grifter-in-Chief gets what the Grifter-in-Chief desires.

The big question now is, “When will the Qataris call in the favor, and what will they want?”

Trump administration accepts Qatari 747 to serve as Air Force One
Trump scoffed at the criticism, saying it would be “stupid” to turn down a new Air Force One.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/trump-qatar-boeing-747-plane-accepted

CNN: Vance says Roberts is ‘profoundly wrong’ about judiciary’s role to check executive branch

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Vice President JD Vance called Chief Justice John Roberts’ comments earlier this month that the judiciary’s role is to check the executive branch a “profoundly wrong sentiment” and said the courts should be “deferential” to the president, particularly when it comes to immigration.

“I thought that was a profoundly wrong sentiment. That’s one half of his job, the other half of his job is to check the excesses of his own branch. And you cannot have a country where the American people keep on electing immigration enforcement and the courts tell the American people they’re not allowed to have what they voted for,” Vance told New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat on the “Interesting Times” podcast, which was taped on Monday.

This idiot J.D. Dunce has a law degree?

Did he even pass civics in high school?

Vance says Roberts is ‘profoundly wrong’ about judiciary’s role to check executive branch | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance called Chief Justice John Roberts’ comments earlier this month that the judiciary’s role is to check the executive branch a “profoundly wrong sentiment” and said the courts should be “deferential” to the president, particularly when it comes to immigration.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/jd-vance-john-roberts-judiciary-role

New York Times: If We Can’t Prosecute Trump’s Foes, We’ll ‘Shame’ Them, Justice Dept. Official Says

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Few, if any, of those singled out have done anything to invite conventional prosecutorial scrutiny, much less committed crimes to warrant an indictment under federal law.

President Trump has kept up a steady bombardment of suggestions, requests and demands to arrest, investigate or prosecute targets of his choosing — the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, various Democrats, officials who refuted his election lies, Beyoncé, the Boss.

But Mr. Trump’s directives have so far hit a stubborn snag. Few, if any, of those singled out have done anything to invite conventional prosecutorial scrutiny, much less committed prosecutable crimes to warrant an indictment under federal law.

But a Trump loyalist, given new, vague and possibly vast power, has found a workaround.

In recent days, Ed Martin, the incoming leader of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” group, made a candid if unsurprising admission: He plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them — weaponizing an institution he has been hired to de-weaponize, in the view of critics.

In other words, if they can’t prosecute their target, they’ll engage in character assassination.

So much for a professional Department of Justice!

https://archive.is/SLN1j#selection-707.0-730.0

New York Times: Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump

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An assessment contradicted a presidential proclamation. A political appointee demanded a redo, then pushed for changes to the new analysis, too.

New emails document how a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, ordered analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating President Trump and Ms. Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezuela’s government controls a criminal gang.

“We need to do some rewriting” and more analytic work “so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” Joe Kent, the chief of staff to Ms. Gabbard, wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials on April 3, using shorthand for Ms. Gabbard’s position and for the president of the United States.

In other words, their idea of “intelligence” is to write what they think Trump wants to hear in a way that won’t inconvenience him, rather than to provide a realistic assessment of what’s happening in the world.

Typical sycophants!!!

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Reuters: Exclusive-Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government

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A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the Trump administration.

Reuters identified more than 60 unique government users of the messaging platform TeleMessage in a cache of leaked data provided by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. nonprofit whose stated mission is to archive hacked and leaked documents in the public interest. The trove included material from disaster responders, customs officials, several U.S. diplomatic staffers, at least one White House staffer and members of the Secret Service. The messages reviewed by Reuters covered a roughly day-long period of time ending on May 4, and many of them were fragmentary.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21

Miami Herald: Supreme Court ruling on TPS stuns South Florida, leaves Venezuelan families in fear

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A U.S Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to strip deportation protections and work permits from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans — including many Miami area residents — sent shock waves through South Florida and across the Sunshine State on Monday.

“That the U.S. would terminate the protections for Venezuelans now, when nothing has improved back home, is just unbelievable,” said Betsy Diaz, a Venezuelan-American in Hialeah whose two daughters, five grandchildren and several other relatives will lose the protections.

In a two-paragraph order, the nation’s highest court on Monday granted an emergency request from the White House to roll back a lower court judge’s order that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Venezuelans. It was part of an ongoing lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco challenging the Trump administration’s February decision to revoke the protections granted to Venezuelans and other nationals from certain countries in turmoil.

The court provided no explanation for why it had lifted the lower court judge’s order, which prevented the Trump administration from removing the protections while the litigation is ongoing.

Supreme Court ruling on TPS stuns South Florida, leaves Venezuelan families in fear
“Unbelievable,” said a Venezuelan American grandmother in Hialeah

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article306751681.html