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The admiration goes back a long way

On Friday, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale Dale wrote, Trump made no fewer than nine false claims while speaking to reporters. 1.Trump used inaccurate figures for the number of votes he received in the 2024 presidential election (77 million, not 'much more than 80 million'). 2. Amount of US aid to Ukraine 3. The number of migrants who entered the US during the Biden administration 4. The US trade deficit with China 5. US trade deficit with Canada ( vastly overstated, ) 6. Annual US fentanyl deaths ( overstated US deaths per year sixfold) 7.. He wrongly declared, again, that Honda announced it is building a new factory in Indiana. 8.. He repeated his years-old baseless claim that NATO would no longer have existed if not for his first presidency. 9. He told his familiar unsubstantiated story about large numbers of migrants having come from jails in 'the Congo' and elsewhere'. 'Baseless': CNN fact-checker wrecks Trump's fabrication-riddled Oval Office remarks

According to a report from Politico's Amy Mackinnon, Elon Musk and DOGE staffers having a free hand in firing has had the end effect of putting "hundreds of intelligence and national security officials who had access to reams of classified information" on the street. Ex-CIA officer James Lawler remarked, "What we have done is we have created a ripe set of targets for our adversaries." Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, agreed and added “You’re absolutely creating a counterintelligence risk,” he said. “Not by letting people go, but the manner in which you’re letting people go.” Hundreds of officials with access to highly sensitive information have been fired or placed on administrative leave across the federal government. The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it was forging ahead with plans to cut some 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs. A slate of top national security officials at the FBI and Department of Justice have also been removed from their posts. 'A ripe set of targets': Intel experts sound alarm that fired spies could turn on U.S.

Hey, we weren't stupid enough to elect a serial orange liar as a president. Back to this idiot. It's one thing to get scammed so easily and foolishly, it's another thing to go to the media and stand there like a lemon pointing at the 200 baht item he paid 20,000 baht for. He's screaming, look how stupid I am!

Tsikhanouskaya said, "This constant repression that we have been going through for four, almost five years, already hasn't made people forgive or forget, or to deny their pro-European perspectives. This visible quietness of the country doesn't mean that people gave up. It means that people are preparing and they will be ready when there will be the possibility." According to the Belarusian human rights center Vyasna, over 50,000 people have been detained on political grounds after mass protests broke out following Lukashenko's 2020 presidential election win and at least 5,472 people have been convicted in politically-motivated criminal cases. The United Nations estimates that around 300,000 Belarusians have left the country since then, with most going to Poland and Lithuania. Belarus' opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya says regime change just a matter of time

Born on probation too.

Equivalent to Italy's.

I guess the Italians have shred their image of cowards from WW2.

Russian region declares state of emergency as Ukraine strikes military base Russian authorities have declared a local state of emergency in the Saratov region after a Ukrainian drone left the Engels base engulfed in flames. Around 435 miles from the front line, it reportedly hosts the country’s Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers and has been used to launch Russian military planes throughout the war. Images on Telegram channels depicted black smoke rising from the region amid reports that local residents had also been evacuated from the region.

Italy's suggestion Extending NATO's Article 5 to Ukraine without the country becoming a full member of the Alliance. would help expose the bluff of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. "If Russia does not plan to invade its neighbours again, it is unclear why it should not accept security guarantees that are purely defensive," she stated. Italian PM explains why she insists on extending NATO’s Article 5 to Ukraine

Here is the crime in that: Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia During the Russo-Ukrainian War,[3] Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.[7][8] The United Nations has stated that these deportations constitute war crimes.[8][9]