

He commented: "Will March 22st become another January 6th? Now that Donald Trump has announced his impending arrest and called for his Ultra MAGA supporters to protest, it could happen. In Brussels, Trump addresses North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) heads of state and government, calling on each of them to finally contribute their fair. Grant Stern, executive editor of the left-wing group Occupy Democrats, also compared the situation to January 6. "Law enforcement needs to be fully prepared this time for the potential for violence by far-right extremists. To save himself from the justice he fears is coming, he's hoping for a repeat of January 6th - but on a larger scale. House investigators held their seventh hearing on the insurrection Tuesday, arguing that the mob that invaded the Capitol were galvanized by the then-president's lies and his tweet that Jan. "Trump is growing increasingly desperate. Trump’s ‘call to arms’ in an ‘unhinged’ West Wing The buck stops there. To save himself from the justice he fears is coming, he’s hoping for a repeat of January 6th -… /YGCKiZeuvM- Jon Cooper March 18, 2023 By calling for them to “Protest, take our country back!” he’s implicitly urging them to riot in the streets. This means the sales were delayed prior to Trump's July 25 phone call with Zelensky that was at the center of the impeachment proceedings.Trump knows his cult followers. Lawyers for the former president had been poised to call one. President Donald Trump to put an end to a global arms race.
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But impeachment witnesses, including former US ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, said that Zelensky would never admit to feeling pressure due to Ukraine's culture and the fact Kiev is heavily reliant on US assistance amid an ongoing, bloody war.įive of the six sales that are currently pending were placed on hold roughly a year ago, and one has been on hold for more than a year, according to BuzzFeed. NEW YORK Donald Trump won’t present a defense case in a civil rape trial in Manhattan federal court, his lawyer said Wednesday. Russias Foreign Ministry called for Washington to destroy its chemical weapons on Wednesday, mocking a proposal by U.S. One of Trump's central defenses against impeachment was that Zelensky said he felt "no pressure" to launch investigations into the US president's political rivals. The State Department approved an additional sale of the anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in October. The sale was competed in March 2018, when the State Department announced it would sell Ukraine 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers worth $47 million. But based on the terms of the sale, Ukraine cannot actually use these weapons in the conflict in the eastern part of the country.Īs Insider previously reported, the Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in December 2017. It was a call to arms for the disaffected Americans who fuelled the improbable rise of the New York real-estate mogul and reality television star to the White House. Throughout the impeachment proceedings, the president and his Republican allies touted his administration's sale of Javelin missiles to Ukraine as evidence he's supported it against Russian aggression. 6 committee is working to make the case that Trump was trying to hold on to power after losing. The BuzzFeed report came one day after President Donald Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment, which were linked to his effort to pressure Ukraine to launch inquires into his political rivals as he simultaneously froze almost $400 million in congressionally-approved security assistance to Kiev.ĭemocrats essentially accused Trump of soliciting foreign election interference and attempting to use military aid to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a top contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, as well as a debunked conspiracy theory on the 2016 election. 6 panel argues Trump summoned the violent extremists The House Jan. Last summer, then-national security adviser John Bolton was concerned that the acquisition of this company would give Beijing access to important defense technology, the Wall Street Journal reported in August. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on why final approval has allegedly not been granted on these sales.īut the delay could be linked to the US attempting to block China from buying a Ukrainian aerospace company, according to the BuzzFeed report. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
