I first reported @FT immediately after the Zelenskyy-Bessent meeting in Kyiv in Feb. 2025 that it had gone terribly and devolved into a shouting match – which I knew because I was on the other side of the door listening with Andriy Yermak. And Zelenskyy himself told me: “[Bessent] arrived and said, ‘You must sign this now.’” “I told him: ‘Stop tapping your finger on the document and let’s talk seriously.’”
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Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year
"Trump considered giving up [on Hegseth] and replacing him with Ron DeSantis. “We need plot twists,” Mr. Trump told a surprised ally, the book says" https://t.co/pOl6gHpTgu
New @maggieNYT@jonathanvswan book describes how, after Trump redecorated the Oval Office to fill it with gold flourishes, someone asked the president about the likelihood that the next president would undo all that he done. Trump said: “Cubans love gold.”
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff told lawmakers that Iran will invite the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency to inspect its nuclear sites and begin work on identifying and uncovering the locations of Tehran’s enriched material
https://t.co/wNzKFY0269
NEW: Delicious new details about the Trumps' White House living arrangement from @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan's forthcoming book.
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WOW — Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) takes a major whack at Trump’s Iran MOU
Wicker says the $300B fund “would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison”
"By March, Clark had informed the White House that the projected cost had increased to $600 million. A project summary dated March 5 shows that nearly half of that, $293 million, was expected to come from “private sources.”
The estimate said an additional $155 million would come from the Secret Service, $149 million from the White House Military Office and $3 million from the Executive Residence, all sources funded by taxpayers."
https://t.co/gDD8ZuJGQJ
President Trump said he accepted French President Macron's invitation to dinner at at Versailles because he likes “beautiful places.”
“Versailles is not gold leaf. It’s the real deal,” Trump said.
“All it means is I get home later,” Trump noted, adding: “and I’m not a sleeper anyway.”
UFC Claw arena is lighting up DC sky from White House lawn
President Trump is holding court cageside, including chatting with Mark Zuckerberg, during breaks
A diplomat briefed on Iran developments says 'separate preparatory meetings with each side will now take place in Qatar this week, ahead of the official signing in Switzerland and the start of the technical talks'
Qatari mediators engaged in '17 hours of intensive negotiations' in Tehran ahead of President Trump's announcement of an MOU
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غريب آبادي، نائب وزير الخارجية الإيراني: تمّ الانتهاء من صياغة نص مذكرة التفاهم، وسيتم التوقيع الرسمي على مذكرة التفاهم الخاصة بإسلام آباد في سويسرا يوم الجمعة.#ايران