Trump news: President says US forces killed terrorists behind Paris attacks, after launching latest insults at John McCain
Updates from Washington as they happened on Wednesday
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has resumed his attack on George Conway, the husband of White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway, after the latter questioned the president’s mental health.
In response, Mr Trump called the lawyer “a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
Mr Trump has also been accused of “punching at a person that can’t fight back because he’s dead” over his feud with recently deceased Vietnam War hero and Republican senator John McCain.
“I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be,” Mr Trump said yesterday during a press conference at the White House with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, prompting the comment from CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on the disrespect being shown to a long-serving American public servant who passed away of brain cancer last August, aged 81.
The ongoing attacks on the late senator has led many to express support for the famed Arizonan, even as the president has continued to double down on his criticism of the war hero.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr Trump took a trip to Lima, Ohio, where he visited a tank manufacturing plant and expressed admiration for the "patriotism" he said was on full display in the company.
Before boarding his plane to leave Washington, Mr Trump told reporters that he expects special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election to be released publicly.
Mr Mueller's report is expected any day now, with many reports indicating the investigation is winding down or already finished up.
The report would first be sent to the Justice Department, at which point Attorney General William Barr would determine what form of a report he would pass along to Congress for further review.
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President Trump announced that 400 new jobs are coming to Lima, Ohio:
Per the Jerusalem Post:
Jared Kushner's vision for the Middle East includes swapping lands between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Newsweek's James LaPorta fact checks the president's claim the US economy grew by 3.1 per cent.
The president on running for re-election: "If you do a good job, it's a lot easier the second time. But nobody's done the job we've done."
The president mocked CBS' "Face the Nation" by calling it "Deface the Nation."
Donald Trump just suggested that unions are to blame for the shutdown of GM's plant.
A quick recap on what topics Mr Trump covered so far in his speech at an army manufacturer plant in Lima, Ohio:
Per the Hill:
"New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres on Tuesday accused Kushner Companies of illegally operating nine buildings without a certificate of occupancy.
“We’ve come to discover that Kushner Cos. is illegally operating buildings without a certificate of occupancy,” said Torres, who heads the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigation.
“Our investigation reveals that there are nine properties in the portfolio of Kushner Cos. that have no certificate of occupancy and one of those properties has gone six years without a certificate of occupancy.”
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