Trump News Live: Latest Updates As President Brags About ‘Most Admired Man’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will have to decide whether or not to approve a plan by State Department officials to designate Cuba as a sponsor state for terrorism, written James crump.

Two US officials said The New York Times Tuesday that Mr Pompeo must decide whether or not to approve the plan ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan.20.

The move would serve as a thank you to Cuban Americans and others in Florida who voted for Donald Trump in the November election, the two officials told the Times.

With just a week before Election Day in the Georgia Senate second round, the polls are tight in the two races that will decide which party will control the upper house of Congress in the early years of the Biden administration.

No candidate having obtained 50% of the votes on November 3, the two races are contested again on January 5, written Oliver o’connell.

The United States yesterday recorded the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in one day, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

Three thousand seven hundred and twenty-five people died.

Donald Trump’s pardon to four US security guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians, including two children, in Baghdad in 2007 was “an affront to justice,” United Nations human rights experts have said.

Nicholas Slatten was convicted of first degree murder, while Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted of intentional manslaughter and attempted manslaughter, following the massacre in which US contractors opened the fire with machine guns, grenade launchers and a sniper in a busy square. in the Iraqi capital, killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Campaigns and outside groups are making a last ditch effort to train election-weary Georgians whose votes will determine control of the US Senate.

More than 2.3 million people – nearly half the turnout in last month’s presidential election – had already voted early, in person or by absent ballot, on Tuesday morning.

With January 5 run-off margins set to be tight, the campaigns of Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are all focused on mobilizing voters.

Mike Pence has refused to support a final attempt to overturn the election in favor of Donald Trump, documents have revealed in a lawsuit against the vice president.

Louie Gohmert, US congressman from Texas, and several other Republicans have sued the vice president asking the federal judge to allow Mr. Pence to have “exclusive authority and sole discretion” to decide what electoral votes will be included when the US Congress meets on January 6.

Ending Barack Obama’s 12-year run as the most admired man in Gallup’s annual poll, and after being tied with the former president in 2019, Donald Trump was finally able to claim victory on Wednesday.

… .Just not against Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race.

Mr. Trump, who has delivered a verdict on his triumph as the most admired man, “appeared to quote Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, who had previously said that” Barack Obama was knocked down from first place. “

Mr Trump added allegations that the presidential election was “rigged,” which were unfounded, and asked why Mr Biden could win an election but not a personality poll.

Jonathan Pollard, a former CIA analyst, flew back to Israel on a plane owned by outgoing US President Donald Trump.

Pollard kissed the ground when he arrived, having spent 30 years behind bars in a US prison for spying for Israel while working for the CIA. He also received a citizen’s identity card.

The 66-year-old was free to relocate to Israel after the US Department of Justice allowed parole restrictions on him to expire last month, ending the decades-long saga, writes Bel Trew.

Donald Trump issued nearly 50 pardons and commutations last week, written Gino Spocchia.

In one of his last acts as president, Mr. Trump used his executive power to grant a wave of pardons, including for aides who lied during the investigation into Russia, Republican politicians and entrepreneurs of the State Department convicted of a massacre in Iraq.

A New York prosecutor has hired forensic accountants as part of his criminal investigation into the president and his trade deals, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, the latest sign of the intense challenges Mr. Trump faces once he leaves office .

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has been investigating Mr. Trump since 2018, reportedly retained the services of an forensic accounting firm called FTI Consulting to review the president’s finances, especially any anomalies in his real estate transactions, written Josh marcus.