Trump told us he needed Greenland to keep China and Russia out of the Arctic Circle.
Then he gave away Alaska's North Slope to Russia. Just ... invited his buddies in.
https://t.co/PnZUB6m0WU
Trump told us he needed Greenland to keep China and Russia out of the Arctic Circle.
Then he gave away Alaska's North Slope to Russia. Just ... invited his buddies in.
https://t.co/PnZUB6m0WU
Maddow: See if you can spot the pattern here
Headline: White House officials told the DOJ to delay action on abortion ahead of the midterms
Headline: Trump says US will not attack Iran before midterm elections
Headline: US delays rule threatening access to cheaper Canadian drugs. They decided they would delay it for 90 days
Headline: Pentagon plans to hold report on Iran school strike past midterms
Headline: Trump aides are getting ready to penalize defaulting student loan borrowers. Sources said those plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections 🙄
Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
Trump-Putin scandal in Alaska.
"Joel Riddle, chief executive of Polar LNG until he resigned in September, said he had been misled...The true source of at least some of Polar LNG’s money was Novatek, a Russian energy giant under partial U.S. sanctions."
https://t.co/QqbcgV8rkV
🚨 MARÍA ELVIRA SALAZAR AND DIRTY MONEY… AGAIN!💰
First, the controversy over campaign donations linked to two Cuban spies. Now, $112,000 tied to one of her biggest contributors, a Latin American man from Honduras facing criminal charges!
🎥 WATCH THIS! 👀👇🏼
El-Sayed: In my Neurology unit, I would have to give that MOCA exam, that cognitive test he's so proud of… The only people you give that test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you’re taking one of those tests, something is wrong.
And you know the doctor who gave it to him was like, I just want to see how smart you are, sir. And he's like, me too.
He brags about having taken it. He's like I remembered the rhinoceros. You're like Habibi, everybody remember the rhinoceros.
And the funny thing about it is, you know, he's taken it multiple times. So he's not even bragging about the first time he took it. He's like, I took it the 1st time and then I took it the 2nd time. So with Donald Trump, you can't blame him for this, he's just dumb.
But for Mike Rogers, can you imagine how small of a human being you have to be to know that he has real deficits and to just nod your head approvingly at the most ridiculous shit that the man proposes?
Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating.
Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.
🇺🇸 Putins Gaskonzern Novatek hat laut New York Times heimlich ein 25-Milliarden-Dollar-
Gasprojekt in Alaska mitfinanziert.
Putin sprach darüber im September mit Trumps Gesandten Witkoff und Kushner, eine ziemlich krasse Nummer.
Das Unternehmen heißt Polar LNG und will Erdgas von Alaskas North Slope verflüssigen und exportieren. Textnachrichten, die die NYT einsah, zeigen, dass Novatek-Manager bis zu 15 Millionen Dollar an die Mutterfirma Tech Wave in Abu Dhabi schicken wollten. Novatek bestätigt, Minderheitsgesellschafter werden zu wollen. Der Konzern steht teilweise unter US-Sanktionen.
Joel Riddle, der Chef von Polar LNG, trat im September zurück. Er hatte geglaubt, das Geld komme aus den Emiraten. Zusammen mit zwei weiteren Managern warnte er die Trump-Regierung. Polar LNG nennt ihn einen unzufriedenen Ex-Mitarbeiter und spricht von Kündigung. Laut NYT liegen aber sechs Tage zwischen seinem Rücktritt und dem Kündigungsschreiben.
Die FT berichtet, dass es in den Gesprächen auch um einen Tausch ging: Novatek liefert Technik für Alaska, Russland bekommt dafür Erleichterungen bei den Sanktionen für Arctic LNG 2. Ob Witkoff und Kushner von Novateks Rolle hinter Polar LNG wussten, belegt bisher nichts. Mit im Spiel war auch Gentry Beach, ein College-Freund von Donald Trump Jr. Novatek sagt, Beach habe keine Rolle gespielt, und Trump Jr.s Sprecher sagt, die beiden seien nicht mehr eng.
Wir hatten über Lukoil berichtet, wo Trumps Umfeld mit Moskau über Auslandsvermögen verhandelt und Europa am Rand steht. Jetzt geht es ums Gas.
Für die Menschen in der Ukraine heißt das: Sanktionserleichterungen für Russlands Arktis-Gas wären Einnahmen für den Staat, der den Krieg gegen sie führt. Für Europa, das sein Flüssiggas zunehmend aus den USA bezieht, wäre ein verdeckt russisch gesteuerter Lieferant ein ziemlich mieses Szenario.
Quellen: The New York Times, Financial Times, Kyiv Independent, Ukrainska Prawda
More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year.
That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://t.co/cnsx40Aao9