Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a rally in South Carolina
In a tweet about Russia putting President Joe Biden on a sanctions list, Donald Trump revived an unproven allegation that Mr Biden has a conflict of interest over Russia and was “slow on the draw” when Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine.
On Tuesday Mr Trump also tweeted congratulations to Paul Mango on his new book about Operation Warp Speed to deliver vaccines against Covid-19.
Meanwhile, a Democratic Party fundraising committee said it will hold the former president accountable by filing a formal complaint against him after he was accused of illegally spending political donations on campaigning for president without registering as a candidate.
American Bridge, a Democrat-aligned political action committee, said late Monday that it has already submitted a complaint to the US Federal Election Commission about Mr Trump’s conduct.
“We’re holding him accountable for dodging the law,” the group said.
Mr Trump continues to boast to his supporters that contrary to reports he failed to deter Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in the post-Soviet sphere, “no one was tougher on Russia” than him – and that “my personality is what kept us out of war”.
He also speculated that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “could lead to World War III”, adding that his successor Joe Biden can still “end this tragedy without getting Americans snared into a gruesome and very bloody war.”
Zelensky to address US Congress on Wednesday
Mr Biden has declared that US troops will not fight to defend Ukrainian soil while Washington approves billions of dollars in humanitarian and military aid to Kyiv. He said enforcing a no-fly zone on Ukraine could take the war to a global stage.
“That’s called world war three,” Mr Biden told lawmakers on Friday.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar16 March 2022 07:34
More than half of American voters don’t believe Biden will run for re-election
More than half of American voters believe that president Joe Biden won’t seek re-election in 2024, according to a new survey.
According to the Wall Street Journal survey, 52 per cent of respondents said they didn’t think Mr Biden will make an attempt at being re-elected in November 2024, compared with the 29 per cent who believed the contrary.
At least 19 per cent indicated that they were undecided about whether they thought the 79-year-old leader would pursue re-election.
Johanna Chisholm has more.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar16 March 2022 07:11
Lawmakers to back Biden on potential penalties for China
Lawmakers across party lines are likely to support president Joe Biden for hitting China with sanctions if it helps Russia evade US and European Union penalties.
“There should be sanctions on those individual companies or whoever’s involved in it,” senator Marco Rubio, the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee, told The Hill. He reportedly believes that China is secretly helping Russia.
“China’s making a big mistake to ally itself with Vladimir Putin and his outrageous conduct. It’s hard to build yourself into a world superpower with that kind of ethic or set of morals,” senate majority whip Dick Durbin said.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar16 March 2022 06:45
Boebert ridiculed for using nonexistent military title
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is facing a severe bout of mockery after she inadvertently invented a military rank to defend her outburst during president Joe Biden’s State of Union address earlier this month.
During a speech she posted on Twitter, Ms Boebert claimed a soldier’s mother had thanked her for heckling. At one point during that address, Mr Biden mentioned “flag-draped coffins”. Ms Boebert responded by shouting out “thirteen of them”, referring to the 13 US service members killed in a terrorist attack on Kabul airport last August.
She claimed that the mother of one of those…
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