Trump news live – Trump ‘very disappointed’ in reports North Korea rebuilding missile site as Democrats threaten impeachment

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Donald Trump says he is "very, very disappointed" to hear that North Korea is rebuilding a missile site that Pyongyang has said will be closed amid ongoing denuclearisation negotiations.

Earlier, the president lashed out at a number of old enemies on Twitter, including Hillary Clinton, showing his growing frustration with House Democrats and the investigations surrounding him.

In those tweets, the president accused the Democrats of “playing games” by instigating “McCarthyite” congressional investigations against him rather than getting on with the business of government, refusing to hand over files related to his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s security clearance to the House Oversight Committee and indicating he might not co-operate with the House Judiciary Committee’s abuse of power investigation into his inner circle.

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Donald Trump has responded to reports that North Korea is rebuilding a nuclear weapons facility, saying his is "very, very disappointed" in the development. Here is some of the latest the investigation into Jared Kushner's security clearance: Trump refuses to hand over ‘Kushner clearance’ documents to Congress: ‘It’s a disgrace’ House Democrats are considering 'next steps' as the White House refused to supply clearance documents Here's more on the fallout we have seen in the wake of the failed Trump-Kim summit last week. North Korea is rebuilding a missile site they promised to scrap, according to reports. Here's our story: North Korea 'rebuilding missile site' it promised Trump would be scrapped There has been no response yet from Pyongyang The Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi was just last week, even if it feels like much longer. We've just reported that a major security firm has found groups connected to North Korea have been hacking western sources for 18 months — and they did not stop during the summit last week. Here's our report: North Korean hackers targeted US ‘critical infrastructure’ during Trump-Kim summit Cybersecurity firm says attacks began a year and a half ago amid heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang In case you missed this news earlier: A new report on the state of the US economy has dealt a blow to Donald Trump's deficit reduction plan. The deficit between the US and the rest of the world reached a 10-year-high last year, clocking in at $621bn (£472.5bn). The president has justified big new tariffs on foreign trading partners by saying his goal is to reduce the deficit. Representative Rashida Tlaib has announced she plans on introducing legislation to start the impeachment process against Donald Trump. "We saw record turnout in an election year, where people wanted to elect a jury that would begin the impeachment proceedings to Donald Trump," Ms Tlaib said during a press conference. She continued: "We want to work on these economic justice issues, racial justice issues and everything. But guess what? There is a wall there, and a constitutional crisis that is not going to [let us] do our jobs as American Congress members to push a lot of these agendas forward." Here's a latest tweet from Donald Trump as the Senate is poised to vote on his emergency declaration. Worth noting: Congress has already voted on border wall appropriations (and voted against the president's agenda). Also, most Republicans vowing to vote against the president's emergency declaration are saying they are motivated specifically based on constitutionality and precedent. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told the House Committee on Homeland Security that the Trump administration's view is that America needs to reform its immigration laws. “We want to strengthen legal immigration and welcome more individuals through a merit-based system that enhances our economic vitality and the vibrancy of our diverse nation. We also will continue to uphold our humanitarian ideals,” she said. “But illegal immigration is simply spiraling out of control and threatening public safety and national security.” Here is DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the most recent numbers form the US border. “In February, we saw a 30 percent jump over the previous month, with agents apprehending or encountering nearly 75,000 aliens,” Ms Nielsen told the House Committee on Homeland Security. “This is an 80 percent increase over the same time last year. And I can report today that CBP is forecasting the problem will get even worse this spring as the weather warms up.” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is currently giving testimony in the House, where Democrats are grilling her on issues like family separation and the situation at the border. She had a shocking prediction: "We are on track to encounter close to one million illegal aliens at our southern border this year." Imagine finding yourself having to answer this question... Don Jr is saying precisely what you'd expect him to following the publication of new illegal border crossing statistics. For a contrary opinion, here's analyst Sarah Pierce from the Migration Policy Institute think-tank, who told The Independent: “Today’s numbers suggest that the administration’s chaotic approach to southern border security is actually encouraging illegal migration.” Ms Pierce says the shift to non-points of entry suggested the Trump administration’s policy of metering - placing limits on the number of people who can claim asylum at a border checkpoint - and others have created circumstances that actively encourage illegal entry into the US from desperate refugees. President Trump reportedly made no fewer than 60 false claims in his two-hour address to CPAC in Maryland on Saturday night. Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is joining two protest groups - CREDO Action and By The People - at a Washington rally today calling for President Trump's impeachment, a line of attack House speaker Nancy Pelosi has so far discouraged. Representative Tlaib has also courted controversy by expressing her support for fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar after the latter became embroiled in an antisemitism row after criticising the influence of Israeli lobby groups in the US capital. Homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has appeared before Congress for the first time to speak on the "national emergency" President Trump has declared at the southern border. Appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, she warned of the "humanitarian catastrophe" unfolding in Central America and called on Washington to support the border wall and crackdown on illegal immigration, "a crisis - pure and simple". The new Customs and Border Protection statistics cited below declaring a 50 percent increase in illegal crossing in February year-on-year support her case. The panel is expected to grill Ms Nielsen on the administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy and the practice of separating children from their parents in border detention centres. One hell of a paragraph in Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker's New York Times piece on the Cohen cheques: "Some people close to Mr Trump have privately predicted that he will ultimately choose to seek a second term in part because of his legal exposure if he is not president. While there is no legal consensus on the matter, Justice Department policy says that a president cannot be indicted while in office." In other words, insiders are suggesting in all serious Donald Trump is only running in 2020 to avoid facing the music, not because of any real dedication to "making America great again". Donald Trump’s nominees to become the next US ambassadors to Saudi Arabia and Iraq - John Abizaid and Matthew Tueller respectively - are scheduled to meet with politicians during confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill this week.

The hearings arrive a day after the Senate was provided new details about the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi during closed-door meetings on Tuesday afternoon.

Here's Chris Riotta. Trump nominees for Saudi and Iraq ambassadors face grilling as Senators demand more answers on Khashoggi murder President still refuses to implicate Saudi crown prince in journalist's murder, angering Republican senators Some delightful insights into the Trump inauguration from Bloomberg's Caleb Melby, an event currently being investigated by New York federal prosecutors and the attorneys-general of New Jersey and the District of Columbia over concerns about how its record-breaking $107m (£81m) fundraising was spent and some of the donors making contributions. Despite Sarah Sanders' insistence to the contrary, the 45th president did personally involve himself in the planning for his swearing-in ceremony in Washington on 20 January 2017, which was famously poorly-attended and struggled to book musical acts because of the divisive nature of the candidate's rhetoric on the campaign trail. Donald Trump reportedly fretted about securing the services of the New York dance troupe The Rockettes and finding the right tablecloths and hoped to give his friends at Fox News the exclusive broadcast rights as a thank you for their support. The following extract is particularly glorious: "In the final days before the inauguration, a contractor called Don’s Johns began lining up portable toilets near event sites. [Rick] Gates instructed staff to cover the company logo with tape, which prompted the chief operating officer of Don’s Johns to promise to rip it off." Republican senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota bending over backwards to defend the president's "hush money" payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal here on CNN after The New York Times reported he routinely took time out from his working day to sign cheques reimbursing his then-lawyer turned "rat" Michael Cohen. He did it to spare his family the pain of finding out about the alleged infidelities, apparently. Speaking of the White House press secretary, she's been on Fox and Friends this morning with some top-drawer sloganeering. 1 2 Next

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As the investigations into Mr Trump have swirled, a damning new poll has emerged suggesting two-thirds of American voters believe he committed a crime before his election.

On Tuesday, Mr Trump also walked back his decision to pull all US troops out of Syria, saying he now agreed “100 per cent” with keeping a military presence there.

Meanwhile, the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will return to Capitol Hill for a fourth day of testimony.

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snootyvillager on March 6th, 2019 at 12:10 UTC »

So based on his disapproval numbers, it seems there's a small segment of the population that believes he committed crimes yet still does not disapprove of him.

bodhisoma on March 6th, 2019 at 11:42 UTC »

Wow. Check out his Twitter feed. That’s not a rational, healthy or even remotely presidential response.

To think there are people who think TRE45ON compares favorably to Obama is a little like getting an Airwick suppository.

Also, if you want to unfollow Herr Groppenfuhrer, go here.

[Edit: Shifted tweet link to reddit mirror and added unfollow.]

AccountBanned61593 on March 6th, 2019 at 11:11 UTC »

"I'm not a crook!" insists the criminal.