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In a post on Truth Social Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would impose a 100% tariff on the BRICS geopolitical coalition of non-Western countries if the group moves away from trading using the U.S. dollar. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump wrote. Still, some members of BRICS are among the United States’ largest trading partners, including India and China. Representatives for the BRICS countries’ embassies in the U.S. did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sheinbaum and Trump spoke over the phone on Wednesday, but the conversation spurred a “he said, she said” controversy over whether Sheinbaum had agreed to stop immigration from Mexico into the United States, something Trump alleged she did.

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☆ Judge threatens Trump with contempt for 'cursing audibly' during Stormy Daniels testimony, new trial transcript shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In a private sidebar conversation, Donald Trump's hush-money judge said he acted out while Stormy Daniels testified. Trump was "cursing audibly" and "uttered a vulgarity" while Daniels answered questions for jurors, the judge said. "I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually and that's contemptuous," Merchan told Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche. AdvertisementDonald Trump was "cursing audibly" during testimony from Stormy Daniels, according to New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. The judge also said Trump "uttered a vulgarity" when Daniels testified about "The Apprentice."

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CNN —House conservatives revolted against GOP leadership and defeated a FISA rule vote on the floor Wednesday, the latest blow to Speaker Mike Johnson that comes after former President Donald Trump called on Republicans to kill the bill. “KILL FISA,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. Johnson told members at a closed-door conference meeting Wednesday morning that he spoke with Trump Tuesday night. But, according to members, Johnson told them they didn’t discuss FISA. In his call to “kill FISA,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS.

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☆ Fact check: Trump makes false claims in New Hampshire victory speech
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump made several false claims in a speech Tuesday night after CNN and other media outlets projected that he would win the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire. CNN also watched rival candidate Nikki Haley’s Tuesday night speech in New Hampshire; Haley’s claims were either accurate or too general to fact check. He lost the 2020 election fair and square to Joe Biden, by a 306 to 232 margin in the Electoral College, and also lost New Hampshire in that election. Chris Sununu, a supporter of Haley, Trump said that because of Sununu’s incompetence, “in the Republican primary, they accepted Democrats to vote. In fact, I think they had 4,000 Democrats – Democrats before October 6 – they already voted.

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☆ Mike Johnson endorses Trump just after the NYT unearths his old Facebook posts questioning whether Trump was too dangerous to be president: 'I just don't think he has the demeanor'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But the new House speaker previously criticized Trump during the 2016 GOP primaries. At the time, Johnson said Trump "lacks the character and the moral center" to be president. Johnson endorsed Trump Tuesday morning, saying he was "one of the closest allies Trump had in Congress." I'm all in for President Trump. "During his 2016 campaign, President Trump quickly won me and millions of my fellow Republicans over," Johnson said in a statement to The Times.

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CNN —Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies. McCarthy called Trump Tuesday morning to apologize, two sources familiar told CNN. The call came after McCarthy said during a CNBC interview that he thinks Trump can win in 2024, but does not know if he is the “strongest” candidate. Allies were pleased with McCarthy’s apology, though several Trump advisers told CNN they were still wary of the speaker. Not long after the call, McCarthy also walked back his remarks in an exclusive interview with the right-wing publication Breitbart.

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☆ DeSantis slams Trump for dodging question on 6-week abortion ban, doubles down on his support for the issue: 'I was proud to do it'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He criticized DeSantis' six-week ban in Florida as 'too harsh.' Ron DeSantis of Florida put pressure on former President Donald Trump Tuesday to answer whether he'd sign a six-week abortion ban into law. "I signed the bill, I was proud to do it," DeSantis said of the six-week ban. Voters also overwhelmingly support allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest, or when a pregnancy is life threatening. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to an Insider email requestion a response to DeSantis' latest abortion comments.

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