“Xi and Putin, smart and firm” – Libero Quotidiano

2024-07-21 06:21:00

“I took a bullet for democracy.” Donald Trumpin his first rally after the attack on Butler i Pennsylvania last week, to reject the label “extremist” and out of step Grand Rapidsin Michigan he reiterates: “I shouldn’t be here. God was with me.”

Without the patch on his right ear, which covered the wound and became a symbol of his election campaign, the Republican candidate for the White House thanked the Chinese president Xi Jinping (“He wrote me a nice letter” after the attack) and praising the leader of Beijing and Vladimir Putin, “clever and firm” leaders who “love their country”. In particular, Trump explained, Xi is “brilliant. He rules 1.4 billion people with the iron fist“. While the Hungarian Viktor Orbán it is right that “we have to have someone to protect us.”

Trump’s 100-minute speech was a lengthy attack on the outgoing president Joe Biden: “The worst in history, he has a low IQ of 70”, he is “disabled”. Among the dems is the dream of replacing him Kamala Harrissays Donald “crazy but I don’t like it Nancy Pelosi“, he noted. He then encouraged his opponent by asking the crowd in attendance who they wanted as a competitor and was a pollster (behind) for Biden, who everyone thought was a loser from the beginning. “I want to do. run with your governor Gretchen Whitmer“, Trump then retweeted, naming one of the possible democratic alternatives to Biden.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post has revived doubts about the shortcomings of the security services in preventing the Butler attack by revealing how “senior US intelligence officials have repeatedly rejected requests for additional resources and personnel made by security forces Trump over the two years before his assassination attempt”. The WP cites four people familiar with the applications. The agents responsible for protecting the former president asked magnet e more agents to screen attendees at sporting events and other large public gatherings attended by Trump, as well as more snipers e specialized teams at other outdoor events, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive security discussions. Sometimes the requests were made, which were not previously reported rejected by senior officers of the agency, cited a variety of reasons, including a lack of resources in an agency that has long struggled with staff shortages, they said.