EXCLUSIVE Vindictive Harvey Weinstein goes nuclear in rare jail interview: I'll get revenge before my cancer kills me
A vengeful Harvey Weinstein is not going quietly without a fight.
The disgraced movie mogul, 73, remains incarcerated in a special unit of a New York City hospital, cancer-stricken and desperate to clear his name before his disease claims his life.
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Telegraph
13 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Trump sends in troops in make-or-break moment for his immigration crackdown
Donald Trump's first presidency ended with city centres turned to blackened ghost towns. They looked not unlike Los Angeles on Sunday morning, where rioters had left graffiti and the ashes of burned cars in protest Five years ago it was a different cause. The US endured a long, hot summer of riots after police murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis, kneeling on his neck as he protested that he could not breathe. 'Looks so familiar,' Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference and a confidant of the US president, posted on social media. 'It's almost as if we saw the same tactics with a different radical topic and diff logo wear.' In 2020, Mr Trump threatened to take matters into his own hands if the country's governors did not stamp out violence, promising to deploy armed forces to quell the violence. Several states took heed and used their own authority to deploy their National Guard forces. This time around, as his immigration service takes a new, tougher tack in rounding up illegal immigrants, the president has not waited. With Los Angeles on fire, and protests growing in New York, he issued his presidential memorandum on Saturday night, in an effort to snuff out the violence before it could spread further. 'In the wake of this violence, California's feckless Democrat leaders have completely abdicated their responsibility to protect their citizens,' is how Karoline Leavitt, Mr Trump's press secretary announced it. 'That is why President Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.' One of the difficulties in 2020 was navigating the legal limits on presidents deploying troops on their own soil. Then Mr Trump floated using the nuclear option and invoking the Insurrection Act. It was last used in 1992, when George HW Bush used it to send troops into Los Angeles to control rioting at the request of California's governor after four white police officers were acquitted of beating up Rodney King, a black motorist. Using it without the consent of the state governor brings a whole other level of political jeopardy. Trump 2.0 has had time to find alternative tools. For four years his lawyers and advisers have planned for their return to power, legal-proofing policies that came unstuck in the courts first time round. So on Saturday night, they apparently used a different course of action and a little-known provision with Title 10 of the US Code on Armed Forces. It allows the deployment of National Guard forces if 'there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States.' It has not been used since 1965. The stakes this time are high. Mr Trump's opponents have struggled to cope with his 'flood the zone' strategy, unleashing executive orders, presidential proclamations and Truth Social posts at a torrential rate. The result is that Democrats in Congress and on the street have failed to coalesce into a united opposition. That could be changing with raids on factories, food trucks and the parking lots where foreign workers congregate to pick up a day's work on building sites. They offer a focal point in an already febrile debate over immigration, the freedom to protest, and the limits of presidential power. Los Angeles was calm overnight on Saturday, but more protests are expected on Sunday afternoon. Immigration groups in New York also have events lined up on Sunday and Monday. Against that backdrop, Mr Trump and his government of loyalists is gambling that sending in troops will end the trouble before it can spread and prevent months of riots, not create an even bigger conflagration.
Daily Mail
13 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
British photographer, 60, is shot by police at LA riots and forced to undergo emergency surgery
A British photographer was forced to undergo emergency surgery after being shot by police in Los Angeles while taking pictures of the anti-ICE protests currently gripping the US. Nick Stern, 60, from Hertford, had been snapping images of a stand-off between protestors and armed police in the Californian city when a 14mm 'sponge bullet' pierced his thigh. The photographer, who emigrated to the US in 2007, had rushed to the area following reports that protests had broken out in response to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement mobilising large raid operations in the city's Paramount area. Mr Stern said he had been 'making a point as making myself visible as media' before the bullet struck him and plunged him into a state of unconsciousness. 'I felt this horrific shooting pain impacting my leg. I felt down immediately and felt this large lump … protesters came to help and I was just saying, 'Sit me down, sit me down'… then I blacked out', he told The Times. When he first arrived at the scene, the 60-year-old said he was surprised to see how quickly things had 'escalated'. He recalled witnessing 'a car on fire' and a Black Hawk military helicopter which he says was 'dropping off ammo for ICE, boxes and boxes of it'. Mr Stern told how officers on the ground were armed with 'less-lethal' weapons such as stun-grenades, which are typically used when deadly force is actively being avoided. At one point, the photographer even picked up a round labelled an 'exact impact' 40mm sponge bullet, which although is shot from a rifle, consists of a plastic body and sponge nose. But the 60-year-old, who was previously injured while covering Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, said yesterday's sponge bullet impact felt 'different'. He said protestors helped him to a nearby kerb after the impact, where he was assisted by medics who cut a hole in his trousers to reveal a 'giant hole' in his leg. 'The next thing I remember I was waking up and someone was pouring juice into my mouth,' Mr Stern continued. He was rushed to Long Beach Memorial Hospital where he received X-ray examinations and scans which revealed the gashes on his leg to be '40mm wide and 60mm long'. And after the National Guard arrived in Los Angeles today, Mr Stern said he fears what could happen over the coming days. He added: 'I feel it's going to get worse before it gets better … I wouldn't be surprised if they start firing live rounds over people's heads next.' Throughout the day, images have emerged of troops on the ground in the downtown area of the city ahead of an expected demonstration near City Hall. President Donald Trump said he was deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests which he labelled 'a form of rebellion.' But the protestors believe that Trump's raids, which last month sought to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day, have gone too far. The National Guard's arrival follows days of protests that began Friday in downtown Los Angeles before spreading on Saturday to Paramount and neighboring Compton. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had warned on Saturday that 'active duty Marines' were on 'high alert' as the riots created havoc on the streets. On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would 'keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order.'
BreakingNews.ie
25 minutes ago
- BreakingNews.ie
National Guard face protesters hours after arriving in LA on Trump's orders
Members of the National Guard faced protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday, and tear gas was fired at a growing crowd that gathered outside a federal complex, hours after the troops arrived in the city on President Donald Trump's orders. The confrontation broke out in front of the Metropolitan Detention Centre in central Los Angeles, as a group of demonstrators shouted insults at members of the federal guard lined shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields. Advertisement There did not appear to be any arrests. About 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday on orders from Mr Trump, in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations. Members of California's National Guard had mobilised at the federal complex in central Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Centre, one of several sites that have seen confrontations involving hundreds of people in last two days. The troops included members of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, according to a social media post from the Department of Defence that showed dozens of National Guard members with long guns and an armoured vehicle. Advertisement Mr Trump has said he is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called 'a form of rebellion'. The deployment was limited to a small area in central Los Angeles. The protests have been relatively small and limited to that area. The rest of the city of four million people is largely unaffected. Their arrival follows clashes near a Home Depot in the heavily Latino city of Paramount, south of Los Angeles. As protesters sought to block Border Patrol vehicles, some hurling rocks and chunks of cement, federal agents unleashed tear gas, flash-bang explosives and pepper balls. Advertisement Tensions were high after a series of sweeps by immigration authorities the previous day, as the weeklong tally of immigrant arrests in the city climbed past 100. A protester throws a rock while surrounded by tear gas from law enforcement during a demonstration in Paramount on Saturday (Eric Thayer/AP) A prominent union leader was arrested while protesting and accused of impeding law enforcement. On Sunday, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said the National Guard would 'keep peace and allow people to be able to protest but also to keep law and order'. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, defence secretary Pete Hegseth also threatened to deploy active-duty marines 'if violence continues' in the region. Advertisement The move came over the objections of governor Gavin Newsom, marking the first time in decades that a state's national guard was activated without a request from its governor, according to the Brennan Centre for Justice. Police detain a man during a protest in Paramount (Eric Thayer/AP) In a directive on Saturday, Mr Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is 'a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States'. Mr Newsom, a Democrat, said Mr Trump's decision to call in the National Guard was 'purposefully inflammatory'. He described Mr Hegseth's threat to deploy marines on American soil as 'deranged behaviour'. Advertisement In a statement on Sunday, assistant homeland security secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused California's politicians and protesters of 'defending heinous illegal alien criminals at the expense of Americans' safety'. 'Instead of rioting, they should be thanking Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers every single day who wake up and make our communities safer,' Ms McLaughlin added. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Mr Trump reflected 'a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism' and 'usurping the powers of the United States Congress'. Mr Trump's order came after clashes in Paramount and neighbouring Compton, where a car was set on fire. Protests continued into the evening in Paramount, with several hundred demonstrators gathered near a doughnut shop, and authorities holding up barbed wire to keep the crowd back. Crowds also gathered again outside federal buildings in central Los Angeles, including a detention centre, where police declared an unlawful assembly and began to arrest people.
