NewzPresident Donald Trump said Monday that newly planned talks with Tehran are the “last chance” for Iran to forge a deal and avoid an escalation of U.S. Trump, speaking at the Oval Office, said he expects negotiations that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and create a pathway for Iran to address United States’ concerns about it’s nuclear program will begin in the next day or two.Meanwhile, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies. The move follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination for the permanent job.The order leaves in place a declaration — rejected by a judge as improper self-dealing — giving Trump and his family retroactive immunity for any tax audits.Immigration remains a stronger issue for Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new AP-NORC poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month.Here is the latest:Trump Washington surge opponents file complaintA group of activists opposing the continued law enforcement and National Guard presence in Washington submitted a letter Monday to the D.C.
Superior Court chief judge asking that he assess the seriousness and racial aspect of cases being brought by prosecutors during the surge.Frankie Seabron, of Court Watch DC, said 100 people a day were being taken into custody for minor crimes that would not have been pursued as vigorously before.“Judges are not defenseless,” she said, “especially when they know prosecutors are abusing their powers.”Seabron’s organization was one of several at a protest at Superior Court led by FreeDC.Ellen Hornstein with Lawyers Defending American Democracy also announced an ethics complaint had been filed last month against Jeanine Pirro with the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The action cited her behavior in several cases, the reflecting pool vandalism case.Trump says Pirro ‘folded like a cheap umbrella’The president reiterated his disappointment with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for a court filing in which her office blamed a contractor’s shoddy work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool rather than vandalism.“I guess she choked.
I don’t know what the hell happened,… (CNN) — President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN. The president is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.
They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.” The other source, a senior administration official, said Trump was “blindsided” by Pirro’s court filing: “The president did not know beforehand that she was going to do that.” CNN has reached out to Pirro’s office and the Justice Department for comment. The White House directed CNN to the president’s prior comments on the filing and did not comment on the substance of the reporting. “Frankly, I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious.
Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked,” Trump said during an unrelated Oval Office event Monday. “I was disappointed in Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed in Jeanine Pirro,” he added.
“She folded like an umbrella.” The Justice Department acknowledged in a court filing on Friday that the president’s $14 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool was “hasty and botched” and said it was dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the landmark. Hearn previously pleaded not guilty to the felony charge in DC’s Superior Court. Trump and Pirro, a former Fox News host and longtime ally of the president, spoke by phone on Saturday about the court filing.
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