Trump claims Liz Cheney ‘could be in a lot of trouble’ over Jan 6 probe and makes ex-NFL star ambassador: Live updates | EUROtoday

The president-elect has introduced two extra nominees to his incoming administration, naming Florida philanthropist Nicole McGraw because the the subsequent US ambassador to Croatia and, extra surprisingly, ex-NFL star and failed 2022 Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.

This is what Trump needed to say concerning the former athlete:

Here’s Ariana Baio with a throwback to Walker’s final look within the public eye on Election Eve, a gaffe-heavy look stumping for Trump at a Peach State rally.

Donald Trump has claimed ex-Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney “could be in a lot of trouble” after a House GOP subcommittee referred to as for her to be investigated by the Justice Department over her stewardship of the panel that examined the Capitol riot of January 6 2021, accusing her of witness tampering by “colluding” with Cassidy Hutchinson on her testimony.

The president-elect posted the taunt on his Truth Social platform, thanking Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who led the subcommittee and produced the interim report, for “a job well done”.

Cheney herself has already rubbished Loudermilk’s report as “a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth”.

Here’s her assertion in full:

“Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator, or judge would take this seriously.

“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who he really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave.

“The January 6th Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration. All of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcripts, made public along with a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800-page report.”

John Bowden has this report on the subcommittee’s doubtful suggestions.

President Joe Biden’s administration is violating U.S. legislation that blocks help to international militaries credibly accused of committing human rights abuses, in accordance with a federal lawsuit from a gaggle of Palestinians in Gaza and their American households.

A lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday marks the primary time that victims are alleging the federal government’s “calculated failure” to comply with the so-called Leahy Law, a decades-old statute that prohibits taxpayer-funded weapons and help in the direction of international militaries implicated in human rights abuses.

Former State Department officers who navigated Leahy Law necessities helped draft the lawsuit.

The United States ought to proceed cautiously as officers take into account new pure gasoline export terminals, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated Tuesday, warning that “unfettered exports” of liquefied pure gasoline, or LNG, might increase wholesale home costs by greater than 30% and enhance planet-warming greenhouse gasoline emissions.

Granholm’s assertion got here because the Energy Department launched a long-awaited research on the environmental and financial impacts of pure gasoline exports, which have grown exponentially previously decade. The evaluation discovered that U.S. LNG shipments drive up home costs and incessantly displace renewable power sources akin to wind and solar energy.

The U.S. nonetheless separates some migrant kids from mother and father whereas holding them after they cross the border regardless of broad enhancements at detention facilities in Texas, in accordance with a court-ordered monitor’s ultimate report.

The heightened scrutiny of the Border Patrol’s Texas holding services is a part of broader court-appointed oversight, which President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have criticized.

The report, issued Friday below a monitoring settlement that started in 2022, gives a ultimate glimpse into situations contained in the services forward of Trump’s return to workplace. The report famous enhancements to hygiene, meals and medical care however discovered that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol brokers routinely separated kids from grownup kin throughout their time in custody.

When Justin Trudeau grew to become the Canadian prime minister in 2015, folks have been nonetheless utilizing that factor referred to as Facebook. I can keep in mind nicely the frothing posts by feminine buddies, none of whom might comprise their pleasure on the election of this hottie PM. Furthermore, they gushed on the notion that what made him hotter nonetheless was not solely that he was younger and good-looking, he was a stunning liberal dude too, which made him much more super-duper man.

(If my male buddies had written about an equally engaging feminine prime minister in such a method, they could nicely have been cancelled, however let’s park that.) As far as my buddies have been involved – and to be truthful, Trudeau had loads of male fanboys – right here was the right Generation X politician, and all would absolutely be nicely in his good arms.

Pennsylvania Republican Doug Mastriano is going through some warmth after posting an image of what seems to be a Star Wars prop as a substitute of one of many mysterious drones which are flying across the East Coast this month.

The meme the politician shared on the social media platform X features a image of what appears to be like like a reproduction of a TIE Fighter, which is a fictional spacecraft utilized by the Sith Empire’s Imperial Fleet and seen within the 1977 traditional and first movie Star Wars: A New Hope.

“Breaking News: Crashed drone in Orange Beach retrieved from water, and taken to undisclosed location for further investigation,” the meme’s caption reads.

Mastriano reposted the picture with a critical touch upon Tuesday.

A federal choose stated Tuesday that he gained’t dismiss a bribery cost towards New York Mayor Eric Adams as a result of prosecutors described the allegations adequately in an indictment.

Judge Dale E. Ho wrote in an opinion that an indictment unsealed towards the Democrat in September sufficiently particulars alleged bribery crimes, stopping dismissal of the cost previous to an April trial.

Adams has pleaded not responsible to corruption costs stemming largely from his relationships with a number of Turkish authorities officers and businesspeople from 2015 to 2022. The indictment alleged that he accepted tens of hundreds of {dollars} in abroad journey advantages and unlawful marketing campaign donations from folks searching for to purchase his affect.

Joe Biden’s administration, with simply over one month left in workplace, is heading into the vacation season in full lame-duck mode. As rumors of a ceasefire in Gaza being “close” increase the hopes of some Democrats wanting to see the president pull out a ultimate legacy-defining win, extra have gotten vocal concerning the failure of the broader administration to handle what’s rapidly changing into a supply of significant misinformation.

A House GOP subcommittee is pushing for ex-Congresswoman Liz Cheney to be investigated by the Justice Department for witness tampering in retaliation for her efforts on the January 6 probe.

In a report from the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Republican lawmakers led by Barry Loudermilk of Georgia argued that Cheney’s communications with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House official, violated the legislation as a result of Hutchinson’s lawyer was supposedly unaware they have been occurring.

“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” it reads. “This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512.”