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https://www.rt.com/news/613691-trudeau-trump-dumb-tariffs/
Trudeau blasts Trump’s ‘dumb’ tariffs
America’s 25% levies on Canadian goods are unjustified, the prime minister said
US President Donald Trump’s decision to slap Canada with tariffs was completely unjustified, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said.
Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% tariffs on Canadian energy took effect on Tuesday, after a month-long delay.
Trump has previously accused Ottawa of unfair trade practices and suggested that Canada would be better off as the “51st state” of the United States.
“We don’t want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally, and we don’t want to see you hurt either, but your government has chosen to do this to you,” Trudeau said in a televised speech.
“They have chosen to launch a trade war that will, first and foremost, harm American families.”
“Let me be unequivocally clear – there is no justification for these actions,” the prime minister argued. He added that Canada had “worked relentlessly” to curb the shipping of fentanyl across the border. The seizures of the drug coming from Canada have dropped 97% between December 2024 and January 2025, he said.
Trudeau ended his speech by mentioning the recent editorial in the conservative Wall Street Journal magazine, which described Trump’s tariffs as “the dumbest in history.”
“It’s not in my habit to agree with The Wall Street Journal, but Donald, they point out that even though you’re a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do,” Trudeau said. The prime minister promised that Canada would respond in kind and impose 25% tariffs on American goods.
Trump dismissed Trudeau’s response on Tuesday, mockingly calling him the “governor.”
“Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the US, our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
https://www.rt.com/news/613688-iran-discussions/
US and Russia made deal on Iran talks – top Putin aide
President Donald Trump has ramped up sanctions on Tehran, but also shown interest in a deal on its nuclear program
Washington and Moscow decided to hold separate talks centered on Iran during last month’s high-level negotiations in Riyadh, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov has said.
Senior US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia in February, in the first major talks between the two superpowers since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
”We discussed the situation around Iran, yes. And we agreed to hold separate talks on this matter,” Ushakov told the press on Tuesday when asked about Western media reports to that effect.
No set date for the talks has been agreed as of yet, he added.
US President Donald Trump has imposed heavier sanctions on Iran, touting a return to his campaign of “maximum pressure” on Iran in an effort to disrupt its nuclear program, network of regional proxies and conventional weapons capability. At the same time, he has shown interest in revisiting a nuclear deal with Tehran.
In 2015, Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with world powers, agreeing to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, but Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the deal during his first presidency. In response, Tehran took steps back from the nuclear deal.
Germany, France and the UK have demanded that Iran give up its nuclear program in a revisited deal in the coming months, under the threat of further sanctions, UK Ambassador to Israel Simon Walters said last week.
Over the past few years, Iran has been accused of ramping up production of pre-weapons-grade uranium, which Tehran has denied.
”Iran's nuclear program is within international frameworks,” agreements and the treaty on non-proliferation, and the International Atomic Energy Agency has all the “necessary facilities” for monitoring it, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esma’eel Baqayi stressed in a press conference on Monday.
https://headlineusa.com/group-sues-over-efforts-to-strip-trump-of-secret-service-detail/
Group Sues over Efforts to Strip Trump of Secret Service Detail
'Given the multiple assassination attempts and the many varied threats received by President Trump and his team prior to his re-election, transparency regarding attempts to strip him of his Secret Service protection are of utmost concern to the American people…'
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Center to Advance Security in America has sued the Department of Homeland Security to compel bureaucrats to release records related to Secret Service staff possibly colluding with Democratic members of Congress to strip then presidential candidate Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail.
In July, CASA’s director, James Fitzpatrick, filed Freedom of Information requests with DHS inquiring if DHS Legislative Affairs’ and Secret Service’s staff were involved with House Democrats who filed a bill to strip Trump of his USSS detail in the event that he were sentenced to prison, The Center Square exclusively reported.
At the time, one failed assassination had already occurred, and a New York judge had yet to issue a sentencing in a 34-felony count verdict in a trial Democrats argued would send Trump to prison for decades. Trump denied the charges, arguing the case and trial were a witch hunt, the weaponization of the court system, lawfare and baseless.
It would not be until after he was reelected that that the judge sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, meaning Trump wouldn’t face jail time. This was after two other federal cases against Trump were dropped, an alleged election interference case in Washington, D.C., and a classified documents case in Florida.
Prior to the first assassination attempt in Butler, PA., nine House Democrats cosponsored a bill last April, led by U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to strip Trump of his Secret Service detail. After the failed assassination attempt, one of Thompson’s staffers, who was subsequently fired, reportedly said in a Facebook post the shooter needed shooting lessons so he wouldn’t “miss the next time.”
Thompson’s bill went nowhere in the Republican-controlled House. But Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. Senate staffer, had questions about how writing the bill came about, including how involved USSS staff were in crafting it – if at all– just months before the agency’s security failure in protecting Trump from the assassination attempt, The Center Square reported.
Fitzpatrick sent two FOIA requests, one to DHS and USSS, which is part of DHS, and another to DHS’s Office of Legislative Affairs. The first FOIA requested records, calendar entries, communications and other information related to a specific staffer “or any U.S. Secret Service Office of Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs employee” and Thompson’s bill. The second request asked for similar information but lists other staffers’ names.
The Center Square asked Thompson’s office if he or his staff sought the input of Secret Service staff to craft the bill and received no response.
After more than six months of not receiving a response, CASA sued DHS on Monday. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It states that it filed two FOIA requests last July and did not receive the requested information. It cites federal law, arguing DHS violated its FOIA obligations. It requests the court to require DHS to comply with federal FOIA requirements, provide the requested information and cover its attorney fees.
Even though there’s a new administration, a new DHS secretary and new USSS director, the information has yet to be released and the public has a right to know, CASA argues.
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