On the road with Trump
President Trump will attend a Gulf summit in Riyadh with 6 Arab leaders and then head out to Qatar later today. Yesterday the Saudis announced they would purchase $1 trillion dollars in state-of-the-art military equipment from the U.S. That followed a commitment from the Saudis to invest $600 billion in the US with a focus on energy security, defense, technology and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals. Several Saudi companies committed to building new plants in the U.S. IMHO the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a leader that Trump actually likes.
The President also got to meet with the Syrian president for the first time. It’s a remarkable feat for the leader of the rebel uprising that ousted Bashar al-Assad. Trump announced he would roll back U.S. sanctions on Syria in an effort to boost the new government there. Many middle east countries believe it to be a good move. Others in the US Senate (led by Sen Lindsey Graham) think it may be better to wait and see with the new Syrian president. Trump is still extending the olive branch to Iran, though many may wonder why. Trump warned Iran as to what the alternative would be. Iran is floundering under Trump sanctions and the recent Israeli destruction of its defenses.
Trump has picked up from where he left off in his first term with a massive step forward in trying to work with moderate Arab states. It is a clean break from decades of a bipartisan foreign policy which alienated many of those countries. It is too soon to judge it, but his grand vision may just pay dividends in multiple ways.
In other news:
A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents.
Another federal judge took Rikers Island took Rikers Island out of New York City control and ordered that an outside official be appointed to make major decisions about the dysfunctional jail.
Another federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on May 13 that the United States can use the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members, in what appears to be the first court ruling that backs the Trump administration’s interpretation of the 1798 law.
Twenty states sued the Trump administration after it threatened to withhold billions of dollars unless they followed immigration law.
Harvard University expanded its lawsuit against the Trump administration after the government cut another $450 million of its research funding.
A House hearing to consider Medicaid cuts to able-bodied people turned nasty as "protesters" shouted from the back of the room and lawmakers bickered.
House committees are ironing out a big, beautiful bill with House Speaker Johnson promising to have it done by Memorial Day.
Last but not least: A new book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, of Axios, offers an inside story of President Biden’s physical decline. Ironically it was Tapper who once talked over and mocked Laura Trump for recognizing Biden's obvious senile dementia:
Tags
Who is online
150 visitors
Good morning from Riyadh.
The President has a few more meetings here this morning and then he is off to Quatar.
We will try our best to keep up with him.
Ask someone there to take your picture in front of a landmark and post it.
I'm sure that the fact that I'm using one of the greatest journalist personas to cover one of the greatest Presidencies bothers you. Unlike the outrageous activists' liars of today, Murrow covered the news.
Why dont you call yourself Rush Limbaugh? That would be infinitely more accurate.
It is understood that to you, that is an insult, however, to most critical thinking Americans, being called Rush is a high compliment.
Why don't you call yourself Al Sharpton? That would be accurate when it comes to social analysis.
Rush Limbaugh was a news analyst. There is a difference between an analyst and a journalist.
I guess some people don't know that since there are so few real journalists these days. Unfortunately, the left has made this the era of the activist reporter. You know, like when the news section is mixed up with the editorial page. Prime example would be The New York Times. Whenever they quote Trump, they follow it with "which is not true." That isn't journalism. It isn't even analysis. It is propaganda.
And that is today's lesson.
The same place that produced the people that perpetrated 9/11... A real feather in trump's cap! WooHoo!
They had a different leader then.
Please forgive me if I'm somewhat limited in my understanding of the English language, but I was always of the opinion that the word "federal" meant pertaining to the whole nation, so that jurisdiction would not be limited only to a specific part of the whole nation.
Kristi Noem: Democratic lawmakers committed "felonies" at ICE facility, calls for censuring.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday accused three Democratic lawmakers from New Jersey of committing “felonies” while visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Jersey.
Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver were present at the Delaney Hall detention center on Friday, where a scuffle with law enforcement ensued and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested for trespassing.
“This wasn’t oversight, this was committing felonies. This was going out and attacking people who stand up for the rule of law. And it was absolutely horrible,” Noem said during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News.
Noem was not present for the Friday incident, but Democrats have accused the administration of lying about what happened.
Watson Coleman posted a video of the group of lawmakers entering the building with escorts while a crowd of people waited outside the gates.
“We will be your eyes and your ears and we will report back to you mayor,” Watson Coleman told Baraka, who waited outside the gates.
The New Jersey lawmaker said upon leaving that ICE agents had “shoved” her and others.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin suggested more Democratic lawmakers could face arrests as a result of the incident while GOP Rep. Buddy Carter (Ga.) introduced a Tuesday resolution to strip House members of their committee assignments.
Noem: Democratic lawmakers committed ‘felonies’ at ICE facility, calls for censuring
Censuring?
she’s much too kind. If republican representatives ever did that they’d be indicted and expelled from congress, Republicans just aren’t as ruthlessly partisan as democrats.
Seriously? A republican lawmaker refused to comply with a legal subpoena, how was he punished?
Disputing the validity of a subpoena is called due process, it’s not a felony.
The democrat party is far more than just a political party. It is a leftwing cult.
Lucky for the people of 1960, they still had mental institutions then too.
Most sane Americans saw a substantial increase in lunacy of the democratic party after the mental institutions were shut down in the 80s.
Direct tie in?
He didn't dispute it, he made an unsubstantiated claim and refused to honor it.
Disputing is fine, refusing one IS a felony.
Then Trump should prosecute Eric Holder.
[✘]
Evidently, she is getting the job done.
Here is what the New York Times is working on today:
"Workers clearing out the basement of Argentina’s Supreme Court made a startling discovery recently. They found boxes filled with swastika-stamped notebooks, propaganda material and other Nazi-era documents.
The boxes had been stored there for more than eight decades, the court said, and were uncovered by accident because workers were going through archives for the creation of a Supreme Court Museum.
Upon opening the boxes, they found “material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler’s ideology in Argentina, during the height of World War II,” according to a statement from the court in Spanish."
Boxes of Nazi Material Are Found After Decades in Basement of Argentina Court - The New York Times
Argentina was once very close to being a first world nation. The people voted against themselves. The Perons destroyed the country.
Trumps decline is in morals, ethics, empathy and intelligence. It started about 50 years ago.
Pushing opinion as fact again?
Is that supposed to be a rebuttal?
Besides your incorrect opinion, do you have proof of this?
Obviously the comment, like the avatar and most of your comments, is not to be taken seriously.
Funny how the "Nobody is above the law" are crying over a Judge breaking the law being held accountable.
The morals of the media:
She hid an illegal alien. She ignored the victims of that illegal alien who were sitting in her courtroom. She ignored the prosecutor. She took the law into her own hands, breaking the oath she took and escorted him out.
The media turns around and tries to present her as a heroine.
The left is as well. All the time crying "Trumps morals" BS. Then pretend like they are taking the high ground.
Since the 2020 riots the left has zero credibility.
That exposed their disregard for the country and their violent side and it's been in full view since.
Let's face it, many of them hate traditional America.
Wasn't he the same MBS that had a journalist cut up into little pieces while he was still alive?
No wonder trump likes him, they are both shit human beings.
Bin Salman said he accepted responsibility for the killing "because it happened under my watch" but asserted that he did not order it. I recall a self-identified critical thinker once telling me that we must wait for verifiable evidence.
And you believe him? wow lol