8 Apr, 2025 20:01

Trump Jr. demands answers from Ukraine over alleged assassination plot

The US president’s son has questioned why Kiev did not tell Washington about Ryan Routh’s weapons request

Donald Trump Jr. has criticized Kiev for failing to alert the US authoritiesabout a man who reportedly tried to obtain military weapons from Ukrainian contacts to assassinate his father during the 2024 presidential campaign.

In a tweet posted on Tuesday, Trump Jr. responded to recent revelations about Ryan Wesley Routh, a pro-Ukraine activist currently facing federal charges after being arrested near Donald Trump’s golf resort in Florida with a rifle in September.

According to newly surfaced court documents obtained by Fox News, Routh had allegedly sought to acquire heavy weaponry from someone he believed had access to Ukraine’s military arsenal in order to kill the then-presidential candidate.

“If you think it’s bad that Ukraine never said thank you for everything the United States has done for them,” Trump Jr. wrote on X, “the fact that they seemingly did not tell us that this sociopath literally tried to buy arms from them to assassinate my father seems like a much bigger deal. Wonder why?!?”

Routh, a convicted felon, had attempted to enlist in the Ukrainian military in 2022. Though unsuccessful, he remained engaged in the conflict in the region, reportedly working to recruit ex-Afghan soldiers to fight on Ukraine’s behalf, according to a Justice Department filing with the Florida Southern District Court.

In August 2024, prosecutors say Routh used an encrypted messaging app to reach out to an individual he believed to be a Ukrainian weapons supplier. He allegedly requested a Russian RPG grenade launcher and a US-made Stinger missile, stating explicitly why he needed the weapons. “I need the equipment so that Trump don’t [sic] get elected,” one message read.

Routh also insisted that obtaining such arms wouldn’t be difficult due to the chaos of war, adding that “one missing would not be noticed.”

The court filing also reportedly notes that Routh never received the weapons he sought. He was arrested shortly afterward near Mar-a-Lago and remains in custody. His trial is scheduled for September, and he faces a potential life sentence if convicted.

(https://www.rt.com/news/615413-trump-son-slams-ukraine/

(I think it was quite obvious Zelensky and friends hated Trump before the election when they all were colluding with the Bidan Admin. Of course they’ve been thinking of assassination!)

Senate confirms Trump’s controversial pick for Pentagon No. 3 job

04/08/25 12:31 PM ET

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The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s “lightning rod” pick to serve as the Pentagon’s under secretary for policy, despite the private concerns of several Republican senators about Colby’s past statements and views.

The chamber voted 54-45 to confirm the nominee, who will hold the No. 3-ranking job at the Pentagon and be in charge of briefing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on all defense policy matters.

Notably, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), an outspoken advocate for projecting American military strength throughout the world and supporting NATO allies, voted against Colby.

McConnell voiced concern about what he called Colby’s desire to prioritize U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific over those in Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East.

“Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geostrategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” he said in a statement explaining his vote.

McConnell had voted to advance Colby by voting for a procedural motion Monday afternoon, as he has voted to advance other controversial Trump nominees before later opposing them on the final confirmation vote.

Several Democrats voted for the nominee, including Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), swing-state moderates who sit on the Armed Services panel.

The Senate Armed Services Committee advanced Colby’s nomination last week in a closed-door vote.

Colby received a boost at his confirmation hearing from Vice President Vance, who called “Bridge” a friend when he introduced him to the Armed Services panel.

Republican senators grilled the nominee last month over his past statements about the strategic importance of projecting military power into Europe and the Middle East. They also questioned him about his views on whether the U.S. should fully commit to the defense of Taiwan.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the panel, warned Colby that his previously stated view that that U.S. should tolerate and attempt to contain a nuclear-armed Iran was contrary to Trump’s policy.

Colby pledged he would provide the president with “credible and realistic” military options to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.

Several Republican senators had “serious concerns” about Colby’s nomination, a source familiar with the vetting process told The Hill.

The Wall Street Journal in a March 3 editorial called Colby “a lightning rod in the fight between the GOP’s peace-through-strength wing and its retreat-from-the-world faction.”

The Journal described him as the “intellectual front man for a wing of the political right that argues the U.S. should retreat from commitments in Europe and the Middle East.”

Colby told Freddy Gray, the host of The Spectator’s “Americano” podcast, last year that the United States should reduce its support of Ukraine and Europe to focus on the threat posed by China to Taiwan.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations raised “serious concerns” about Colby’s views of U.S. policy toward the Middle East.

The group questioned Colby’s views of former President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and his remarks to conservative media host Tucker Carlson that a military strike to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon lacked “a clear connection to American interests.”

Colby performed well at his confirmation hearing last month by offering nimble responses to senators’ questions and making efforts to settle their concerns.

He assured Cotton, a leading defense hawk, that he thinks Taiwan is “very important” to the United States.

He also told Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) that he views NATO as an important alliance, even though he believes it has to “adapt.”

Colby distanced himself from two controversial Trump administration officials: Michael DiMino, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Middle East, and Andrew Byers, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia.

He told Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) that he did not choose DiMino for the job and asserted that DiMino’s views did not reflect Trump’s policy in the Middle East.

DiMino has alarmed pro-Israel advocates by arguing that the U.S. doesn’t face a vital or existential threats in the region.

And Colby told Wicker that he did not share Byers’s view that thinking about China through the lens of deterrence is wrong.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5237883-senate-confirms-elbridge-colby-pentagon/amp/

HHS to brief Energy and Commerce staff on overhaul, layoffs

Democrats are grumbling about the terms of the briefing, calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lack of participation, and the timing, “insulting.”

BEN LEONARD

04/08/2025, 1:41PM

Staff for the Department of Health and Human Services will brief the staff of members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Friday afternoon about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s overhaul of the agency, including major layoffs.

Bipartisan committee staff and health aides will receive the briefing following Kennedy’s moves last week to fire 10,000 of the department’s 80,000-person workforce — hitting key offices like the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.

Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine activist, indicated the restructuring was designed to execute his vision for reorienting the agency toward chronic disease, but the rapid, drastic changes surprised members of both parties and chambers.The chair and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions invited Kennedy to testify before their panel, and Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) spoke to Kennedy directly about his actions.

But Kennedy has not indicated he will participate in a Senate hearing, and his lack of engagement with Energy and Commerce has Democrats grumbling. An aide to a senior Democratic member on the committee, granted anonymity to speak candidly,also complained that the briefing’s timing — at 4 p.m. on a Friday — was “insulting,” as was the fact that Kennedy isn’t personally appearing before the panel.

“A staff briefing is not sufficient. These are seismic changes that demand congressional oversight. If Secretary Kennedy believes in the harm he’s doing, he should have the courage to defend it before Congress and the American people,” said a spokesperson for Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats in a statement. “It’s imperative that Chairman Guthrie schedule a hearing immediately.”

A spokesperson forEnergy and Commerce Republicans said that staff briefings are “always the first step in these cases” and that the next step would be a member briefing.

“I guess Democrats don’t like working on Fridays,” a Republican aide, granted anonymity to speak freely, added.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/08/congress/rfk-jr-s-hhs-staff-to-brief-energy-and-commerce-committee-staff-on-overhaul-layoffs-00278832

(((Harry Enten)))

@ForecasterEnten

Trump's going for history & redefining the presidency: "he ain't no lame duck… He's a soaring eagle!"

1. Record number of executive orders

2. 86% say his approach is completely different from others

3. This isn't seen as a power grab: 53% say his power is too little or right

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https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1909615658817429707

I bet CNN doesn’t love Harry Enten right now, but he brings in conservatives

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>>22885163

I love this guy, he gets so excited on reporting on how great Trump is doing

>>22885161

I know Mitch is the last ancient RINO, he has got to go

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RFKjr already said it toxic when is Zeldin considering it, because leftists will lose their minds? Take a poll Zeldin that will tell you!

Jim can you move the record button further away?

NEW:Tucker and Anson Frericks on How Big Business Was Captured by Wokeism and Is Now Self-Destructing

Former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks watched as Bud Light committed suicide by woke white lady. It’s a gruesome story.

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https://youtu.be/evlQzZbk1BI

President Trump Announces ISIS Leader Killed in US Military RaidAl Bagdadi announcement . The original

I keep on hearing Shane Gillis repeating this. KEK

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https://youtu.be/ewCSNOyl2Ds

>>22885393

SHANE GILLIS IS HILARIOUS - TRUMP and SPEECHES

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https://youtu.be/aqZrIN1aHCQ

BEAUTIFUL CLEAN COAL IS BACK!!!😎🇺🇸🥳🥳🥳

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HAD TO SAY IT!!!🤣🤣🤣

He is the best President and Comedian of our time

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>>22883047, >>22883086 ICYMI: Scientists Genetically Engineer Long-Extinct Dire Wolves, Romulus n RemusPN

Do you really think he doesn’t keep tabs on anons

Now THIS is a cloned Dire Wolf!!!😎🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥OK this is funny!

il Donaldo Trumpo

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>>22885600

There’s another message here, that’s for sure:

In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus (Latin: [ˈroːmʊlʊs], [ˈrɛmʊs]) are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of Remus. The image of a she-wolf suckling the twins in their infancy has been a symbol of the city of Rome and the ancient Romans since at least the 3rd century BC. Although the tale takes place before the founding of Rome around 750 BC, the earliest known written account of the myth is from the late 3rd century BC. Possible historical bases for the story, and interpretations of its local variants, are subjects of ongoing debate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

Kid Rock Rare Interview

Planet Rock Profiles

Dec. 16, 2019

Welcome to our exclusive interview with the legendary Kid Rock! In this compelling discussion, we dive deep into the life and career of one of rock music's most influential figures. From his early days in Detroit to his chart-topping hits, we cover it all!

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https://youtu.be/E0kH3zMslgM