The Latest: Trump gave $45,000 cash to Natalie Harp amid gifts to White House aides

President Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration. A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector.” The Justice Department is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury in an investigation aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The new subpoenas represent an escalation in the year-long investigation.

Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal governmen tinformation about elections and politics, foreign affairs or the environment, a new poll finds. Here’s the Latest Trump’s map-making on social media stirs controversy in North Atlantic During a flurry of social media posts over the long holiday weekend, Trump posted a map showing the U.S. sprawling across all of North America and extending to Greenland and Iceland.

The map was colored in the red, white and blue stars and stripes of the U.S. The Truth Social post offered no explanation but recalled Trump’s earlier talk of making Canada the 51st state and his repeated musings about taking over Greenland, Denmark’s self-governing territory. “It’s disturbing and, in many ways, completely inappropriate,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Tuesday.

“It’s obviously a sign that the U.S. president still harbors some kind of maximalist vision in his own mind. We need to rein that in.” Iceland’s Foreign Secretary Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir summoned U.S.

Ambassador Billy Long to a meeting and said she made it clear that the post was unacceptable, national broadcaster RÚV said. flag.The Truth Social post offered no explanation but recalled Trump’s earlier talk of making Canada the 51st state and his repeated musings about taking over Greenland, Denmark’s self-governing territory.“It’s disturbing and, in many ways, completely inappropriate,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Tuesday.