Trump accused of treating Ukraine ‘horribly' and being very ‘sympathetic' to Putin
'The reality is that President Trump, he is really just not that interested in Ukraine,' Mr Daschle told Sky News Australia.
'He's a lot closer and a lot more sympathetic to Vladimir Putin than any other president … has been.
'Trump doesn't really want to be helping Ukraine to begin with.'
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News.com.au
3 hours ago
- News.com.au
Trump envoy's visit will be 'important', Moscow says
The Kremlin said Monday it was anticipating "important" talks with Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, later this week, ahead of the US president's looming deadline to impose fresh sanctions on Moscow if it does not make progress towards a peace deal with Ukraine. Trump confirmed Sunday that special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Russia, likely on "Wednesday or Thursday", where he is expected to meet President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to reporters, Trump also said that two nuclear submarines he deployed following an online row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev were now "in the region". Trump has not said whether he meant nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed submarines. He also did not elaborate on the exact deployment locations, which are kept secret by the US military. Russia, in its first comments on the deployment, urged "caution". The nuclear saber-rattling came against the backdrop of a deadline set by Trump at the end of next week for Russia to take steps towards ending the Ukraine war or face unspecified new sanctions. The Republican leader said Witkoff would visit "I think next week, Wednesday or Thursday". Russian President Vladimir Putin has already met Witkoff multiple times in Moscow, before Trump's efforts to mend ties with the Kremlin came to a grinding halt. When reporters asked what Witkoff's message would be to Moscow, and if there was anything Russia could do to avoid the sanctions, Trump replied: "Yeah, get a deal where people stop getting killed." The Kremlin said another meeting with Putin was possible and that it considered talks with Witkoff to be "important, substantial and helpful". On the submarines, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "Russia is very attentive to the topic of nuclear non-proliferation. And we believe that everyone should be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric." - 'Secondary tariffs' - Trump has previously threatened that new measures could mean "secondary tariffs" targeting Russia's remaining trade partners, such as China and India. This would further stifle Russia, but would risk significant international disruption. Despite the pressure from Washington, Russia has continued its onslaught against its pro-Western neighbor. Putin, who has consistently rejected calls for a ceasefire, said Friday that he wants peace but that his demands for ending his nearly three-and-a-half-year invasion were "unchanged". "We need a lasting and stable peace on solid foundations that would satisfy both Russia and Ukraine, and would ensure the security of both countries," Putin told reporters. But he added that "the conditions (from the Russian side) certainly remain the same". Russia has frequently called on Ukraine to effectively cede control of four regions Moscow claims to have annexed, a demand Kyiv has called unacceptable. Putin also wants Ukraine to drop its ambitions to join NATO. - Sochi drone attack - Ukraine launched a drone attack Sunday which sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Kyiv has said it will intensify its air strikes against Russia in response to an increase in Russian attacks on its territory in recent weeks, which have killed dozens of civilians. Russia's Ministry of Defence said on Monday its air defences intercepted 61 Ukrainian drones overnight. One person was killed by Russian shelling in the southern Kherson region, Ukrainian military authorities said in a Telegram post early Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Sunday that the two sides were preparing a prisoner exchange that would see 1,200 Ukrainian troops return home, following talks with Russia in Istanbul in July. Trump began his second term with his own rosy predictions that the war in Ukraine -- raging since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022 -- would soon end. In recent weeks, Trump has increasingly voiced frustration with Putin over Moscow's unrelenting offensive.
ABC News
4 hours ago
- ABC News
Europe has fallen
VOICEOVER: It is anarchy in parts of Spain, France and the UK right now as migrant gangs from Northern Africa and the Middle East violently tried to take over and intimidate innocent people … - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Hullo, welcome to Media Watch, I'm Linton Besser. And tonight, we cross to a continent of white people under siege by black people and by brown people tearing at the very fabric of society with all manner of deadly weapons. EUROPE HAS FALLEN Anarchy in Europe as North African and Middle Eastern gangs senselessly terrorise innocent victims - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 That's the headline on a Sky News report published to YouTube last month which sounded the alarm on a migrant crime wave engulfing Europe, including in Spain where: VOICEOVER: … a man with a baby was callously threatened by a knife wielding gang for simply walking down the street. - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 In the Catalonian capital meanwhile, the horrors continued: VOICEOVER: … the cobblestone laneways are no longer filled with people enjoying their vacations, but with hundreds of Muslim men chanting. - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Better cancel your trip to France too, because over there it's even worse: VOICEOVER: France is also in a migration mess with violence running rampant in the streets, like at the Fête de la Musique last month, where hundreds of young people were stabbed with syringes … - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 Hundreds stabbed with syringes? And Sky News selected a very authoritative expert to point out all the black people: VOICEOVER: Online commentators were in shock with the footage, with this person saying 'This is France?! This looks like Ghana, not France.' - Sky News Australia, YouTube, 15 July 2025 This exquisitely nuanced piece garnered almost 40,000 comments, many of which were just as erudite, linking the video's many crimes not just with our well-known Jewish overlords but also to the 'great replacement' theory which motivated the 2019 Christchurch massacre. Although, scattered through the vitriol, a handful of Sky's audience had a somewhat different analysis: the biggest race baiting video I've seen so far on these YouTube streets lol - Sky News Australia, YouTube comment, @RenzelYoung, 27 July 2025 Which was a bit like stepping back out of the looking glass because this video has to be one of the most appalling and incendiary things I've seen in journalism for a very long time which, it should also be said, was also wildly wrong from the very first frame. This is not police beating back a violent migrant gang, but police beating back a violent mob of far-right vigilantes. And this video of a man threatened by a knife was in fact filmed in 2023, with no evidence the group was a 'migrant gang'. Likewise this video, rather than a migrant 'take over' of Barcelona, it captures Ashura, an annual day of commemoration for the Islamic faith. And on it goes. The mass syringe attack was in fact a mass panic triggered by a social media hoax with not a single confirmed case, and many of the reports of syringe stabbings in several locations quickly attributed not to migrants but mosquitos. Oh, and this vision is not a migrant takeover either, as dramatic as it might look, but the aftermath of the UEFA Champions League final in which fans clashed with each other and with les flics. As for this appalling internet comment, was it taken from a witness at the scene or an expert in migrant crime? Don't be silly, it's just a mean, deliberately racist remark from some far-right American keyboard warrior. And is Spain, to take one of Sky News' case studies, actually grappling with a surge of migrant-driven crime? Not even close. Whatever angst migration might be causing in the country, Spain's Interior Minister explained last month that: "Crime is not on the rise, nor is it linked to migration," … Despite a 54% rise in foreign residents between 2011 and 2024, crime has dropped seven percentage points, with hate crimes down 13.8% last year and Spain among the world's 25 safest nations … (Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska) - Reuters, 17 July 2025 And who is the journalist behind this call to arms? Her name is Carla Efstratiou, who has a very busy social media feed full of charming observations such as when she took a stroll through a pro-Palestinian student protest: CARLA EFSTRATIOU: … I swear it smells here, there is a definite stench … I feel like I'm getting rabies just being here … - Go Woke Go Broke, TikTok, 6 May 2024 And why has she been given license to produce this delightful contribution to human advancement? Read the numbers, baby. 3.6 million views. Kerrr-ching. In fact, Carla's contribution to the Sky News catalogue has attracted oh, just a few eyeballs. 7.6 million to be precise, just for this little selection, uploaded in the past few months. But, late on Friday, after receiving our questions, Sky News deleted Carla's nine-minute 'Anarchy in Europe' magnum opus, posting not a 'correction' of course but a 'clarification'. Carla declined to offer us a comment and Sky News would not answer questions about whether its journalist had been provided any guidance, support or editorial direction in the preparation of her package. A spokesperson told us: Sky News Australia rejects the characterisation of the online video by Media Watch but acknowledges that several elements lacked appropriate editorial context. - Email, Sky News Australia Spokesperson, 1 August 2025 Because that's all that was missing, just the context. And what was the video's headline again? Ah yes, 'Europe Has Fallen'. No it hasn't, Carla and co. What has fallen however, what has plummeted through the floor in this piece of drivel, is any sense of responsibility and the public interest.
Perth Now
5 hours ago
- Perth Now
Donald Trump would find it 'difficult' to pardon 'hostile' Sean 'Diddy' Combs
US President Donald Trump would find it "difficult" to pardon Sean 'Diddy' Combs because the rapper was "very hostile" towards him. The 55-year-old music mogul is behind bars awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and despite rumours the commander-in-chief is set to issue a presidential pardon, the former Apprentice star has suggested that won't be the case. Speaking to Newsmax host Rob Finnerty, he said: 'Well, he was essentially, I guess, sort of half-innocent. [He's] still in jail or something, but he was celebrating a victory. But I guess it wasn't as good of a victory... "I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great, and [he] seemed like a nice guy. I didn't know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile. "It's hard, you know? We're human beings. And we don't like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone and you were fine, and then you run for office, and he made some terrible statements. " So I don't know …. it makes it more difficult to do.' Back in May, Trump - who previously described Combs as a "good friend" - insisted he wouldn't let people's personal opinions of him cloud his judgement when it came to a pardon. He said of the Bad Boy Records founder: 'I haven't seen him, I haven't spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, that relationship busted up. I read some little bit nasty statements in the paper all of a sudden.' Of a potential pardon, he added: 'I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody is mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact on me.' Despite their previous friendliness, Combs argued in 2020 that Trump should be "banished". He told Charlamagne tha God: 'White men like Trump need to be banished. That way of thinking is real dangerous. This man literally threatened the lives of us and our families about going to vote … "The number one priority is to get Trump out of office.' The I'll Be Missing You hitmaker - who was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges - faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced in October.
