Trump’s rich backers are destigmatising illegal behaviour with hefty gifts after conviction
Even donors who had previously said they were finished with Trump have returned. Last week, Schwarzman told Axios he would vote for Trump, after repeatedly calling on the GOP to find another candidate. A group associated with casino billionaire Miriam Adelson also said this week it would spend around $100 million on Trump’s campaign.
Netanyahu rubbishes calls for permanent peace as mediators urge Israel and Hamas to finalise Biden’s Gaza peace plan
The US, Egypt and Qatar have been seeking for months to mediate an end to the war, but a deal has proven elusive. The proposal, Biden said, also “creates a better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power”. He did not elaborate on how that might be achieved. The Iranian-backed Islamist group has given no indication it might step aside or disarm voluntarily.
Black leaders call out Trump’s criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict
Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of his own conviction, in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously. The Central Park Five case was Trump’s first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his full-throated populist political persona. To many, Trump employed dog whistles as well as overtly racist rhetoric in both chapters of his public life.
Opinion poll places Biden slightly ahead of Trump, who on Thursday was convicted of 34 crimes
Joe Biden’s lead was within the survey’s roughly 2 percentage point margin of error for registered voters, many of whom remain on the fence with about five months left before the November 5 election. A prior Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted May 7-14 showed Trump and Biden tied with 40 per cent support each.
Replacing God: Bill Gates invests millions in vaccine to immunise world against ‘climate change’
Immunologist and biochemist Jessica Rose says, “The ‘climate’ is something that can be used against all people, no matter what, because we all breathe air and drink water. This is why it is a perfect ‘item of control’ being used to engineer panic. A new ‘deadly virus/vaccine’ campaign would be less effective in this way, following the colossal failure of the ‘Covid-19 measures.’
Gaza war: Hamas welcome US’ three-phase proposal for a permanent ceasefire, Israel dithers
Hamas said it was ready to engage “positively and in a constructive manner” with any proposal based on a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli forces, the reconstruction of Gaza, a return of those displaced, and a “genuine” prisoner swap deal if Israel “clearly announces commitment to such deal”.
Irate Trump mobs agitate for lynching of judges, violent uprising after New York finds him guilty of 34 crimes
Threats of violence and intimidating rhetoric soared after Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely claimed the vote was stolen. As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has baselessly cast the judges and prosecutors in his trials as corrupt tools of the Biden administration, intent on sabotaging his White House bid. His loyalists have responded with a campaign of threats and intimidation targeting judges and court officials.
Trump makes history as first ex-US president to be convicited of crime, faces four years in jail
Donald Trump, 77, was found guilty of falsifying his New York-based real estate company’s books to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she alleges she had with Trump a decade earlier.
Date with fate: For Trump’s false records charges prison is rare, but not unprecedented
In deciding any sentence, Merchan may weigh the underlying seriousness of the charges due to their ties to the 2016 election, as well as Trump’s decision to go to trial rather than accept responsibility by pleading guilty.
US assails Putin’s misinformation and hints at arming Ukraine to strike inside Russia
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and support for Ukrainian attempts to repel it are a major focus of the NATO foreign minister meetings on Thursday and Friday – the alliance’s last major diplomatic gathering before a leaders’ summit in Washington in July to mark the 75th anniversary of its founding.
