Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer invited Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to a meeting with his Cabinet ministers on Friday, July 19. The meeting followed a forum of European leaders at Blenheim Palace, underscoring Starmer‘s attempt to underline the new Labour government’s commitment to the Ukraine war by inviting Zelensky to address his ministers, the first foreign leader to do so since President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Zelensky’s visit coincides with the launch of a new initiative aimed at disrupting Russia‘s ‘shadow fleet’ of about 600 oil tankers used to circumvent sanctions.
“I won’t allow Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers, and the dirty money it generates, to flow freely through European waters and put our security at risk,” Starmer said, adding: “Ukraine is, and always will be, at the heart of my government’s agenda.”
The Defence Export Support Treaty, to be signed by defense ministers, will provide Ukraine access to 3.5 billion pounds ($4.5 billion) in export finance to boost defense production.
Last week at NATO, Starmer reaffirmed a commitment, initiated by his predecessor Rishi Sunak, to provide 3 billion pounds annually in military support to Ukraine until at least 2030-31, and potentially beyond.
Meanwhile, in America, former Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson met with former President Donald J. Trump at the RNC to lobby for more support for Ukraine.
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Britain's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer invited Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to a meeting with his Cabinet ministers on Friday, July 19. The meeting followed a forum of European leaders at Blenheim Palace, underscoring Starmer's attempt to underline the new Labour government's commitment to the Ukraine war by inviting Zelensky to address his ministers, the first foreign leader to do so since President Bill Clinton in 1997.
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Following the snap legislative elections in France on June 30 and July 7, a globalist coalition supporting President Emmanuel Macron has secured the presidency of the National Assembly despite coming second in seats and third in the popular vote. They did so with the help of a rump of supposedly “center-right” lawmakers from Les Républicains (the Republicans), who behave in broadly similar fashion to Republicans-in-name-only (RINOs) in the United States.
Amidst a parliamentary landscape divided chiefly between the far-left New Popular Front (NFP) coalition, the Macronist coalition, and Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN), Macron’s MPs successfully re-elected Yaël Braun-Pivet as the leader of the National Assembly.
Braun-Pivet clinched victory in the third round of voting with 220 votes, surpassing Communist politician André Chassaigne with 207 votes and RN candidate Sébastien Chenu with 141 votes, thanks to Republican backing.
Braun-Pivet, who became the first woman President of the National Assembly in 2022, faces renewed criticism from the far-left NFP parties following the election outcome.
“Through an undisclosed agreement with Les Républicains, the [Macron]-backed candidate has reclaimed the presidency of the National Assembly after three consecutive defeats in European and legislative elections,” stated Olivier Faure, the Socialist Party’s first secretary, in reference to the Macronists dire performance in the European elections and two rounds of French national elections. “This constitutes a blatant disregard for democracy,” Faure said of the deal.
As the fourth-highest official in the French state, the President of the National Assembly oversees debates in the Chamber and wields substantial powers of appointment, including appointments to the Constitutional Council.
However, the coalition supporting the Macronist candidate is narrow, lacking the dominance needed to truly govern the National Assembly. France continues to grapple with a political crisis since the dissolution of June 9.
Following the vote returning a Macronist to power in the legislature, the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) called for a demonstration in Paris, urging President Macron to appoint a prime minister from the NFP, which emerged as the largest group of parties in the recent legislative elections.
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Following the snap legislative elections in France on June 30 and July 7, a globalist coalition supporting President Emmanuel Macron has secured the presidency of the National Assembly despite coming second in seats and third in the popular vote. They did so with the help of a rump of supposedly "center-right" lawmakers from Les Républicains (the Republicans), who behave in broadly similar fashion to Republicans-in-name-only (RINOs) in the United States.
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Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is refusing to apologize for calling former President Donald J. Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath” and “tyrant.” He argues, “You’re going to struggle to find any politician who has not had things to say about Donald Trump in his first term, particularly on Twitter.”
Asked if his very public attacks on Trump, now the favorite to win the November presidential elections, will undermine the “special relationship” between Britain and America, the Labour politician told the BBC, “The truth is… Donald Trump has the thickest of skins.”
Lammy then completely reversed his past characterization of Trump, whom he has directly compared to Adolf Hitler, admitting, “There is a lot of rhetoric, but look at the action. He was the first to give Javelins to Ukraine after 2015. He talked about withdrawing from NATO; he actually increased troops to NATO.”
Lammy, who pushed far-left identity politics for years in opposition, has also charged Trump with “grotesque racism” and branded him a “wannabe despot” and a “racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer. ” He derided Trump’s supporters as a “cult of white supremacists.”
As a backbench Member of Parliament (MP), he lobbied against then-President Trump being invited to Britain for a state visit in 2017, arguing the British government should instead “be putting [Trump] on a watch list and barring him from entry to our country” while asking the FBI to investigate him for “inciting hatred” on social media.
Britain's new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, is refusing to apologize for calling former President Donald J. Trump a "neo-Nazi sympathizing sociopath" and "tyrant." He argues, "You're going to struggle to find any politician who has not had things to say about Donald Trump in his first term, particularly on Twitter."
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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt in May, has drawn comparisons between his experience and the recent attack on former President Donald J. Trump. The Slovak populist believes the media and political left stoking hatred fueled both incidents.
Fico criticized Slovak media outlets, referring to them as “adversary media,” “anti-Slovak press,” and “[George] Soros’s herd of pigs,” for inspiring his shooting.
“If Donald Trump’s attacker had spoken Slovak, after reading [Slovak newspapers], it would have been enough to incite him to ‘set things right’ with the former U.S. president,” Fico wrote.
Fico predicted Trump‘s enemies will now begin pushing a discourse “about the necessity of reconciliation, pacification, and forgiveness,” echoing the media rhetoric following his own assassination attempt.
Liberal media, celebrities, and others in the United States and the wider West have demonized President Trump for years.
BBC presenter David Aaronovitch recently called on President Joe Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s society” in a supposedly satirical post responding to a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Many media publications have directly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, including the New Republic, TheWashington Post, and Germany’s Stern magazine.
Nigel Farage has also blamed the media for feeding into hysteria regarding Trump, saying, “It’s so unpleasant, that I think it almost encourages this type of behavior.”
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Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt in May, has drawn comparisons between his experience and the recent attack on former President Donald J. Trump. The Slovak populist believes the media and political left stoking hatred fueled both incidents.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), has revealed that whistleblowers are saying the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) was understaffed during the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump in Pennsylvania, due to commitments to the NATO summit that was ongoing at the same time.
“Americans deserve answers,” Jordan wrote on X, releasing a letter he sent to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray calling for answers regarding the failings that nearly led to the assassination of President Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks on July 13.
Jordan poses 12 questions to Wray, including how many personnel the FBI has dedicated to the investigation into the failure, and why it took authorities so long to identify Crooks as a threat.
Some law enforcement officials say Crooks was identified as suspicious nearly half an hour before the shooting.
The FBI recently announced they had cracked Crooks’s cell phone and discovered another phone in his home. Jordan questions the FBI about what material was found on the devices and whether the FBI investigation is limited to the motivation of Crooks or if it encompasses the security failures as well.
Alongside the dozen questions, Jordan demanded the FBI hand over documentation including all communication between the USSS and the FBI regarding the Butler, PA rally.
Much of the criticism has been laid at the feet of USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle, who claimed that no one was posted on the roof from which Crooks opened fire because its slightly sloped roof made it unsafe.
“The buck stops with me,” Cheatle has claimed, though she is refusing to resign.
On Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told the media that he has contacted the White House and encouraged Joe Biden to fire Cheatle.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), has revealed that whistleblowers are saying the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) was understaffed during the attempted assassination of President Donald J. Trump in Pennsylvania, due to commitments to the NATO summit that was ongoing at the same time.
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The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
The survey indicates that the BSW has surged to 17 percent support in the polls. The party was launched earlier this year by Sahra Wagenknecht, formerly of the Left (Die Left) party. Like the AfD, it is highly critical of mass migration. BSW also rejects net zero policies and wants to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine.
The governing SPD, under Brandenburg Minister President Dietmar Woidke, is currently polling at 19 percent, down from 26.2 percent in the previous state election. Many other parties on the left of the political spectrum have also seen decreases in popularity.
The rise in popularity of populist parties is a trend seen across Europe, including France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally nearly doubled their seats in the French parliament earlier this month.
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The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
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Peter Navarro, former top trade adviser to President Donald J. Trump, was released from federal prison on Wednesday after completing a four-month sentence for defying the corrupt January 6 Committee. Navarro, aged 75, headed directly to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee to support the former president.
News of Navarro’s release was shared on social media by his staff, who optimistically wrote, “The best is yet to come.”
At the convention, he delivered a speech saying the committee had demanded he “betray” Donald Trump and break the law, and Joe Biden’s “Department of Injustice” punished him for refusing to do so.
“They did not break me, and they will never break Donald Trump,” he declared.
JUST NOW – Peter Navarro’s full RNC speech after being released from prison this morning pic.twitter.com/k1FdTYKtnS
In September, Navarro was found guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 Committee. A leftist federal judge in Washington sentenced him to four months in prison and a $9,500 fine.
A three-judge appeals court panel in Washington rejected Navarro’s request to delay his sentence. Subsequently, he sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court, but Chief Justice John Roberts denied his initial request to remain free during his appeal. The full Supreme Court later declined a renewed effort by Navarro.
Navarro became the first former White House official to serve prison time following a contempt of Congress conviction.
Stephen K. Bannon, former White House chief strategist, is currently serving a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Connecticut for similarly defying the January 6 Committee.
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Peter Navarro, former top trade adviser to President Donald J. Trump, was released from federal prison on Wednesday after completing a four-month sentence for defying the corrupt January 6 Committee. Navarro, aged 75, headed directly to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee to support the former president.
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France has yet to form a new government after last week’s snap legislative elections, which saw President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble bloc lose its majority. Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, but no one has emerged as a likely replacement. The Macronist bloc in the National Assembly has the second-largest share of seats, behind the far-left New Popular Front (NFP), but this faction also has too few lawmakers to govern alone.
THE LEFT DIVIDED.
The New Popular Front is a coalition of communist, socialist, and green parties, mired in internal conflicts. So far, it has put forward six candidates for Prime Minister and cannot agree to unite behind any of them.
Its major issue is that it has no real leader. The anti-NATO, pro-Palestinian Jean-Luc Melenchon is its leading figure, and his France Unbowed party is its largest faction. However, the Macronists are determined to exclude Melenchon and France Unbowed from any deal with the far left.
Internally, the Socialist Party has rejected all of France Unbowed’s proposed prime ministerial candidates, including Melenchon, suggesting their own leader, Olivier Faure, should get the job.
POPULISTS SEEK INFLUENCE.
Marine Le Pen‘s populist National Rally (RN) came first by share of the popular vote but third by share of lawmakers, compared to the far-left and Macronist party coalitions. Nevertheless, hers is the single largest party in the National Assembly following the elections.
On Tuesday, Le Pen called on all parties to be allowed to participate in the functioning of the parliament.
Jean-Noël Barrot, Attal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, surprisingly echoed her comments on X, saying that excluding parties who won millions of votes will undermine the legislature’s legitimacy.
“Let us fight extremes tirelessly, but without ever weakening institutions,” he said.
The National Rally also faces judicial hurdles, with prosecutors confirming they have launched an investigation into the party shortly after the elections concluded.
MACRONISTS SEEK TO RETAIN POWER.
President Macron is advising his lawmakers to try and forge a majority coalition or make a pact to allow legislation to go through. This would likely involve attempting to peel the Socialists and other parties besides France Unbowed away from the New Popular Front.
Macron’s bloc could also appeal to some members of Les Republicains (LR), an establishment-right faction that contains some RINO-like politicians that may be open to supporting an anti-populist coalition.
Republican lawmaker Philippe Juvin confirmed on Tuesday that his party is in discussions with the Macronists, and that the Republicans will also oppose any prime ministerial candidates from France Unbowed.
Such a “rainbow coalition” of the Macronists, far-left defectors, and the establishment right would lack democratic legitimacy. Still, it could allow Macron to snatch a form of victory from the jaws of electoral defeat.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
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France has yet to form a new government after last week's snap legislative elections, which saw President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble bloc lose its majority. Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, but no one has emerged as a likely replacement. The Macronist bloc in the National Assembly has the second-largest share of seats, behind the far-left New Popular Front (NFP), but this faction also has too few lawmakers to govern alone.
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Voters who backed Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) party in the French snap elections are accusing establishment parties of using “dirty tricks” to steal victory earlier this month. “Nine parties had to join together to beat one, which still increased its number of [lawmakers],” RN activist Luna Aimé told the BBC in a recent interview.
Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, slammed the globalist-progressive bloc aligned with President Emmanuel Macron for allying with an extreme left coalition to stop an RN victory. “An unnatural alliance prevented the French people from freely choosing a different type of politics,” Bardella said.
RN placed first by share of the popular vote, but third behind the far-left bloc and globalist blocs by share of National Assembly seats.
On Monday, the Macron-allied Renaissance party in the French parliament vowed to block the RN from taking any key positions in the National Assembly. However, the group’s members also agreed to do the same to the far-left France Unbowed (LFI), which won the most seats of any individual party in the far-left bloc.
Macron’s outgoing Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, convened the meeting where these policies were decided to, ensure unity among the ‘Macronist’ faction and prevent RN and LFI from gaining significant roles.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has predicted the differences between the far left and the Macronists will lead to chaos in the legislature, with the possibility of another snap election in the not-too-distant future as they fail to agree a government program.
The corporate media, the left, and even the justicesystem have been on the attack against the RN since the election.
Prior to the election, deep state officials banded together to declare that they would defy Le Pen and her party if they won the election outright and formed a government.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
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Voters who backed Marine Le Pen's populist National Rally (RN) party in the French snap elections are accusing establishment parties of using "dirty tricks" to steal victory earlier this month. "Nine parties had to join together to beat one, which still increased its number of [lawmakers]," RN activist Luna Aimé told the BBC in a recent interview.
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Charles Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor convicted of stealing former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns, has revealed he could access sensitive taxpayer information easily. Littlejohn, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and possessed an IRS-issued email address and laptop, admitted to being able to retrieve tax returns of any American without impediment.
In a deposition on March 19, Littlejohn disclosed that he pilfered tax returns from approximately 7,500 wealthy individuals and shared some of the data with journalists. “I was able to access tax returns at will,” he bragged.
Before the deposition, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed the judge in the case that Littlejohn had taken the job in question solely so he would have access to Trump’s tax returns.
Following his admission, Littlejohn reached a plea agreement with the IRS. He is due for release from the Marion Federal Correctional Institution in Illinois on July 13, 2028.
The case raises significant concerns about the security of taxpayer data held by federal agencies.
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