President Donald Trump did not rule out the government’s paying people who were charged with assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” and he also contended without evidence that recent California elections were “rigged.”
Trump defended what his administration has dubbed an “anti-weaponization” fund, saying the protesters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6 were unfairly targeted by prosecutors and deserved compensation.
When moderator Kristen Welker asked whether those who attacked police officers that day should get payouts with taxpayer funds, Trump said: “I wouldn’t be inclined to say so, but I have to see it.”
Trump then called the 2020 presidential election “dirty” and segued to last Tuesday’s elections in California, where votes were still being tallied into the weekend.
“Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?” he said.
Trump criticized the possibility of the Federal Reserve’s raising interest rates but said he wants Fed Chair Kevin Warsh “to do whatever he wants.”
“Kevin is fantastic, and I want him to do whatever he wants,” Trump said. “I don’t want to have a big influence on him. But we had a great report. We’re doing great, and it’s unfair that whenever you do great, they want to raise interest rates.”
The May jobs report indicated that the labor market was still resilient, adding 172,000 jobs as the unemployment rate remained consistent. The report came amid heightened concerns over oil and gas prices, which have risen since the start of the Iran war.
“Nowadays when you have good reports, the market goes down because they think they’re going to raise interest rates,” Trump said. “There’s no reason to raise interest rates.”
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Trump also said that the U.S. will work with Iran to retrieve and destroy its highly enriched uranium if he is able to cut a deal to end the three-month-old war — or that, in the absence of an agreement, he will further degrade Tehran’s military to the point that American forces can safely collect the material on their own.
“If we make a deal that now we’re friendly, we’ll all go together. It’ll be our equipment. We’ll take it out and destroy it, whether it’s on-site or whether we take it off-site,” Trump said.
The Israeli air force hit military targets belonging to the “Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran” early Monday local time, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Iran launched missiles toward Israel on Sunday, the IDF said, in a first since a ceasefire was reached in April. The strikes came after Israeli planes struck the southern suburbs of Beirut in retaliation for alleged Hezbollah attacks.
President Donald Trump had urged both sides to avoid further escalation and ensure negotiations with Iran continue. Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Trump said the Iranian missiles were “certainly not going to help negotiations” and called on Iran to return to the talks.
“You’ve shot your missiles; that’s enough. Get back to the table and make a deal,” he told Fox News.
American influencers and an administration official arrived in Russia just as President Vladimir Putin needed a publicity boost.
Candace Owens, a popular right-wing podcaster and a onetime Trump ally, became perhaps the most visible American guest at an economic forum in St. Petersburg. Manosphere bloggers Andrew and Tristan Tate, dual U.K.-U.S. citizens, also recorded from Moscow but weren’t at the forum.
Their presence may deliver a domestic propaganda victory to Putin, experts say, as Russians become dissatisfied with the cost of the war in Ukraine.
“They want the propaganda value of implying that there’s some kind of economic thaw between the United States and Russia, which is not really the case,” said Michael Kimmage, the director of a nonprofit policy research organization.
The U.S. spent more than half a century and hundreds of millions of dollars driving the flesh-eating New World screwworm as far from its borders as possible. Now, it’s back for the first time since 1982.
The species can eat the tissue of any warm-blooded animal, but it’s a particular threat to livestock, and it is often fatal for cattle. Some bioethicists have openly debated whether it would be moral to deliberately drive it into extinction.
“There are some species that it’s worth considering wiping out altogether, and I do think the screwworm is one,” said Gregory Kaebnick, a senior research scholar at the Hastings Center for Bioethics.
Alexander Zverev is no longer one of the best players never to have won a major title.
He’s finally a Grand Slam champion.
In his fourth major final, Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 for the French Open title Sunday.
Meanwhile, Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva won the women’s singles final Saturday to claim her first Grand Slam title, ending qualifier Maja Chwalińska’s improbable run with a 6-3, 6-2 victory.
If they are confronted with the question: Do they want to see Bad Bunny or do they want to see the pope, I think many will see Bad Bunny. But I think there will also be a few here to see the pope. And that says something, you know.
Pope Leo XIV on his popularity
Pope Leo visited Madrid this weekend, part of his weeklong trip to Spain, as rapper Bad Bunny performed in the city. The pope acknowledged Bad Bunny would provide some competition.
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