Trump adviser silent on president-elect’s pardon plans; Biden ducks Hunter questions during Angola trip: Live
Meanwhile, Trump threatened ‘all hell to pay’ if the remaining hostages are not released and vowed to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese firm Nippon Steel
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has announced his plans to attend the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, marking his first foreign trip since his election victory.
In a statement on Truth Social, the president-elect called it “an honor” to join the celebrations in Paris.
The announcement came among a series of other posts where he threatened “all hell to pay” if the remaining hostages in Gaza are not released before his inauguration and vowed to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese firm Nippon Steel.
The president-elect also announced that he has chosen billionaire donor Warren Stephens to serve as US ambassador to the UK in his next administration.
This comes as Washington remains rattled by President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, days before he was due to be sentenced on tax and federal gun charges.
Biden previously insisted he would not pardon his son. The move has divided lawmakers, with some Democrats also slamming the president.
On Monday, Special counsel David Weiss – who led the prosecution of Hunter in both cases – denied Biden’s claims that his son was selectively prosecuted and also pushed back against dismissing the charges.
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What happened to Trump’s border wall?
Josh Marcus writes:
Donald Trump doesn’t really talk about the border wall anymore.
After making the wall the central part of his 2016 campaign, shutting down the government for weeks in an unsuccessful bid to secure its funding, and spending billions to build it anyway, the president-elect’s immigration politics have shifted to an even more aggressive place this time around.
Instead of a wall, paid for by Mexico, Trump now wants a “bloody” mass deportation operation immediately removing millions of people, including by potentially reviving family separation.
But the federal border wall, spanning more than 450 miles across four states, remains. It continues to deeply impact the people, environment, and politics of the border and beyond.
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What ever happened to the border wall Trump promised 8 years ago?
The wall is no longer Trump’s central idea, and it never really slowed migration, but it continues to put lives at risk, cost billions, and harm the environment. And with Trump returning to office, the border wall may take center stage once again, Josh Marcus reports.
Trump’s press secretary pick deleted posts praising Pence and Capitol cop on Jan. 6
Karoline Leavitt, the longtime Donald Trump aide who will become his White House press secretary when his second term begins in January, removed a pair of social media posts in which she reposted praise of former Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election.
Andrew Feinberg reports.
Trump’s press secretary pick deleted posts praising Pence and Capitol cop on Jan. 6
Incoming White House press secretary ran on an election denial platform as a congressional candidate in 2022
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