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  • Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

    04/22/2025 5:45:09 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 42 replies
    Axios ^ | 4/22/2025 | Barak Ravid
    The U.S. expects Ukraine's response Wednesday to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas occupied since the 2022 invasion, sources with direct knowledge of the proposal tell Axios. -snip- What Russia gets under Trump's proposal "De jure" U.S. recognition of Russian control in Crimea. "De-facto recognition" of the Russia's occupation of nearly all of Luhansk oblast and the occupied portions of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. A promise that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. The text notes that Ukraine could become part...
  • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says he is staying neutral in Texas GOP primary

    04/21/2025 2:07:05 AM PDT · by RandFan · 34 replies
    AXIOS ^ | April | Stef W. Kight
    ... What to watch: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he is staying neutral, rather than banding with leadership to back his Texas colleague. "Both John and Ken are friends of mine," Cruz told reporters on Wednesday. "I have worked closely with both of them. I respect them both and I trust the voters of Texas to make that decision."
  • Trump touts new legal path for "great" undocumented people

    04/21/2025 4:21:01 AM PDT · by Strict9 · 190 replies
    Axios ^ | 4-15-25 | Brittany Gibson
    "We're going to give them a stipend, we're going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we're going to work with them if they're good," Trump told Fox Noticias' Rachel Campos-Duffy. "We're going to work with them to get them back as quickly as we can." While Trump said details are still being planned for the program, he wants to make it "comfortable" for people. "We want our great people to stay," he said.
  • 'ICE Barbie' Kristi Noem and her 'lover' Corey Lewandowski are cozier than ever despite White House concerns

    04/18/2025 2:17:33 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 33 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 18 Apr 2025 | NIKKI SCHWAB
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski are cozier than ever, despite White House concerns about their relationship. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night that Lewandowski is now working as a 'special government employee' under Noem at the Department of Homeland Security. Lewandowski had initially wanted to serve as Noem's chief of staff, but President Donald Trump and his top advisers reportedly felt 'uncomfortable' with the optics of such a placement. The president and Lewandowski settled on him becoming a special government employee to DHS so the pair would be more removed...
  • Axios Founder On Trump's Tariff Pull-Back: 'Make No Mistake—He Panicked'

    04/10/2025 9:43:10 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 46 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    File this one under "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." The liberal media has been leading the charge against the Trump tariffs. So what happens when Trump heeds the warning signs and pulls back? Does the MSM applaud his statesmanship, his courage in changing course given changed circumstances? C'mon—of course not. This is the liberal media, after all. Get the rest of the story and view the video here. Thus, on today's Morning Joe, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei, purporting to explain Trump's change of direction, declared: "Make no mistake: he panicked."
  • Trump envoy Witkoff to lead high-stakes nuclear negotiations with Iran

    04/08/2025 12:20:58 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 5 replies
    Axios ^ | 4/8/2025 | Barak Ravid
    President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff will lead the U.S. delegation for nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday in Oman, two sources familiar with the plan tell Axios. -snip- So far, there have only been negotiations about the negotiations — which don't yet seem to be resolved. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, whom Iranian press reports say will be Iran's chief negotiator, insisted the talks would be "indirect" — with Omani mediators passing messages between the sides. Trump insisted the talks would be "direct." Two U.S. officials told Axios that is indeed the plan. Whatever the format, the stakes are clear....
  • Trump tariffs based on massive error, conservative think tank says

    04/06/2025 8:42:24 PM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 224 replies
    The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said. Why it matters: The conservative think tank says the error led to tariff rates massively higher than they should have been to achieve the goals the administration sought.
  • New book on Biden by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson reports a ‘cover-up’ about his decline

    02/26/2025 6:02:51 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 47 replies
    CNN ^ | February 26, 2025 | Brian Stelter
    The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a focus on former President Joe Biden. The deeply sourced reporters found what they call a “cover-up” of the former president’s “serious decline.” The resulting book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” is coming out on May 20. The book’s publisher, Penguin Press, announced the project on Wednesday. “What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run...
  • “I Wrote A BLAZINGLY Hypocritical Biden Book!” – Jake Tapper

    03/05/2025 1:39:44 PM PST · by PJ-Comix · 8 replies
    The Jimmy Dore Show ^ | March 5, 2025 | Jimmy Dore
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  • Trump's surprisingly simple tariff math

    04/03/2025 7:06:12 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 83 replies
    Axios ^ | April 3, 2025 | Neil Irwin
    One of the surprises out of Wednesday's big tariffs announcement was that the Trump administration used a surprisingly simplistic approach to calculating these much-hyped reciprocal tariffs. Why it matters: This was not a finely tuned set of import taxes calibrated to exert pressure on trading partners to adjust specific policies with which the U.S. has grievances. Rather, it was some simple arithmetic, based on overall trade data, that became the justification for the most sweeping U.S. duties in generations — a trade-weighted 22.5% tariff, per the Yale Budget Lab, up from around 2.4% last year. It implies fewer off-ramps for...
  • BREAKING NEWSTrump fires staff of 'idiot' adviser embroiled in Signal scandal after urging by controversial MAGA influencer

    04/03/2025 8:52:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 143 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 03, 2025 | NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM AT THE WHITE HOUSE
    President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team. DailyMail.com confirmed an Axios report released Thursday morning. The dismissals come after National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where top administration officials were discussing an attack on the Houthis in Yemen. Trump has publicly supported Waltz, a former Florida congressman, in the aftermath of Signalgate, despite some White House insiders labeling him a 'f***ing idiot.' However The New York Times reported Thursday morning that far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and pressed...
  • Russia not on Trump's tariff list

    04/03/2025 8:35:48 AM PDT · by McGruff · 51 replies
    BBC ^ | April 3, 2025 | Vitaliy Shevchenko
    One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia. US outlet Axios quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying this was because existing US sanctions on Russia "preclude any meaningful trade" and noting that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included. However, nations with even less trade with the US - such as Syria, which exported $11m of products last year according to UN data quoted by Trading Economics - were on the list. The US imposed large-scale sanctions on Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
  • Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole

    03/25/2025 8:27:06 PM PDT · by siunevada · 13 replies
    Axios ^ | March 24, 2025 | Jim VandeHei , Mike Allen
    Top Democrats tell us their party is in its deepest hole in nearly 50 years — and they fear things could actually get worse:
  • Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flights

    03/17/2025 7:00:47 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 88 replies
    Axios (Leftards) ^ | March 17, 2025 | Marc Caputo
    The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell Axios. Why it matters: The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial. "Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached. The White House welcomes that fight. "This is headed...
  • Trump vows to "lead the charge" to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie

    03/10/2025 9:06:06 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 179 replies
    Axios ^ | Andrew Solender
    President Trump said Monday he will "lead the charge" to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for his refusal to support Republicans' government funding bill.
  • Exclusive: Gaetz could be next Florida attorney general

    03/06/2025 5:45:11 AM PST · by Red Badger · 7 replies
    Axios ^ | March 06, 2025 | Marc Caputo
    Florida's next attorney general could be the ex-congressman who almost became President Trump's U.S. attorney general: Matt Gaetz. Why it matters: Despite the intense controversy he generated before withdrawing his nomination to be in Trump's Cabinet, Gaetz still has strong name ID and is well-liked enough among Florida's GOP base to be a formidable candidate. In a hypothetical primary matchup against Attorney General James Uthmeier, Gaetz was favored 39%-21%, according to a recent survey of likely Republican voters by Tony Fabrizio, one of the nation's top pollsters who works for Donald Trump and several GOP clients. Zoom in: There's already...
  • Intuitive Machines readies for historic Moon landing

    03/06/2025 5:51:15 AM PST · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    Axios ^ | March 06, 2025 | Rebecca Falconer
    Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday. Photo: Intuitive Machines via NASA History is set to be made on the Moon again this week, with Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission Nova-C class lunar lander Athena scheduled to land there at 12:32pm ET on Thursday. The big picture: Intuitive Machines has partnered with Lunar Outpost to roll out the first commercial rover on the Moon and with Finnish multinational tech firm Nokia to deliver the first cellular network on Earth's only natural satellite. This mission comes after the Cedar Park, Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar...
  • Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze

    03/03/2025 11:05:44 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    Axios ^ | 3/3/2025 | Barak Ravid
    President Trump will hold a meeting Monday afternoon on the next steps regarding the crisis with Ukraine, including a possible suspension of U.S. military aid, a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of the meeting told Axios. -snip- Trump responded on Truth Social to an AP report that Zelensky had said the end of the war was "still very, very far away," writing: "This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!" -snip- Zelensky wrote on X that "it is very important that we try...
  • Zelensky's five moves that set off Trump

    02/21/2025 4:42:31 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 53 replies
    Axios ^ | 2/21/2025 | Marc Caputo
    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky angered Donald Trump so much during the peace talks with Russia that Trump was on the verge of withdrawing American military support from Ukraine, three U.S. officials familiar with the discussions tell Axios. -snip- The deal Trump appears to be negotiating could be highly controversial. Based on their public and private statements, Trump's team is expected to pressure Zelensky into giving up Crimea (which Putin seized in 2014) portions of eastern Ukraine and the Azov Coast (occupied in Russia's 2022 invasion).
  • Focus group: Arizona swing voters to Trump, Musk: Keep it coming

    02/16/2025 12:53:17 PM PST · by EnderWiggin1970 · 9 replies
    Axios ^ | 2/14/25 | Erin Doherty
    Every Arizona swing voter in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said they approve of President Trump's actions since taking office — and most also support Elon Musk's efforts to slash government. Why it matters: Public opinion can constrain presidents when Congress does not. But these 11 voters — all of whom backed Joe Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump last November — said they're good with Trump aggressively testing disruptive, expansionist expressions of presidential power that are piling up in court challenges. It's needed to "get America back on track," one participant said. What we're watching: One notable area...