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43 minutes ago
- The Hill
Baltimore mayor: Trump could fight crime by banning AR-15s
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) on Tuesday urged President Trump to ban assault rifle as a way of fighting crime, following the White House deployment of National Guard soldiers in Washington. 'The president could also do some very simple things for us, Jake. Not just for Baltimore, but for the whole country,' Scott said during an appearance on CNN's 'The Lead with Jake Tapper.' 'The president can say, no one will no longer be able to go into a store and buy a AR-15. The president could join mayors around the country and standing up to end these Glock switches that allow our residents and our police officers to be shot with a gun that is now automatic,' he added. Scott has touted low crime rates, the removal of 2,500 guns off local streets and the creation of the violence prevention programs since the start of his tenure as mayor. His comments come after Trump slammed local governance in Baltimore during a press conference announcing the deployment of soldiers in the nation's capital. 'This issue directly impacts the functioning of the federal government and is a threat to America, a threat to our country,' Trump told reporters on Monday. 'We have other cities also that are bad, very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is, you look at Los Angeles, how bad it is, other cities that are very bad, New York is a problem, and then you have of course, Baltimore and Oakland — you don't even mention that anymore they're so far gone,' he added. Each of the listed cities are led by Black Democratic mayors. Scott has taken issue with the narrative and spent the past few days frequenting major cable shows to discuss the importance of diverse leadership. 'The president could learn a lot from us instead of throwing things at us,' the Charm City mayor said on CNN's 'Laura Coates Live.' 'What he's doing is dog-whistling through this right-wing propaganda and, quite frankly, racist viewpoints that they have about these cities and trying to convince the American people that what they know is not true.' However, the White House rejected his stance. 'Baltimore's Mayor has no business commenting on President Trump's bold leadership to crack down on violent crime in our Nation's capital,' White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a previous statement to The Hill. 'Baltimore has one of the highest crime rates in the country and is one the most dangerous cities in America.' 'Instead of criticizing the President's lawful actions to Make DC Safe Again, Democrat-run cities plagued by violent crime should focus on cleaning up their own streets,' she added. Some analysts believe the president is using the rhetoric to lure Democrats into alleging there's no crime in major cities. 'He's really trying to goad Democrats into arguing 'there's no crime in D.C., D.C. is great,'' Alyssa Farah Griffin, a co-host of ABC's 'The View,' said during an appearance on CNN's 'AC360.'
CNN
an hour ago
- CNN
‘A risk to every city, every state, every American": DC Councilman reacts to Trump police takeover
Charles Allen, Ward 6 city councilman for DC, joined CNN's Pamela Brown to discuss President Trump's federal takeover of the police force in the nation's capital, calling it "fundamentally un-American."
Fox News
2 hours ago
- Fox News
Russia may gain Ukraine's fertile, resource-rich territory as Trump proposes land swap
President Donald Trump recently renewed calls for a territorial land swap between Russia and Ukraine — a geopolitical maneuver that, if pursued, could grant Moscow control over some of Ukraine's most strategic and resource-rich regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has firmly rejected any proposal that would allow Russia to retain control of its occupied territory in the war-weary country. Russia currently occupies approximately one-fifth of Ukraine's territory, primarily in the eastern and southeastern regions, including large swaths of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. These areas have been under partial or full Russian control at various points over the course of the Kremlin's three-and-a-half-year war. Russia also holds Crimea, Ukraine's southern peninsula, which it annexed in 2014. The seizure of Crimea triggered a wave of international sanctions and led to Russia's expulsion from the Group of Eight. "The land that Russia currently occupies in Ukraine's south and east is rich in various natural resources," said David Salvo, the managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at German Marshall Fund. "Should Russia keep that land, they'd be stealing vast quantities of critical minerals and other key economic assets. This includes important commodities on the global market, like lithium, coal, and gas," added Salvo, who previously served as the deputy secretary of state's policy advisor for Europe, Eurasia and international security issues. This strategic importance is underscored by a warning from the Institute for the Study of War, a non-partisan, nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., which cautions that Russia could exploit rare-earth mineral deposits in occupied Ukraine and sell them to China. "Russia's access to minerals in occupied Ukraine will likely augment the People's Republic of China's ability to access Ukraine's minerals," the Institute for the Study of War wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital, adding that Russia has previously worked with China to extract these commodities around the globe since at least 2005. "The U.S.–Ukraine mineral deal signed in April 2025 will only be effective if U.S. and Ukrainian companies can access those resources," the statement from the Institute for the Study of War went on to say, noting the challenge given that Russian forces currently hold territory containing significant deposits. Salvo said that Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territory along the Black Sea not only restricts Ukraine's sea-based exports, but also grants Moscow control over valuable offshore gas reserves. Salvo also estimates that Ukraine, historically known as Europe's breadbasket, stands to lose billions of dollars in grain export value. "Ukraine's economy would survive, but it would undoubtedly lose in the hundreds of billions," Salvo said. Before Russia's full-scale invasion, agriculture was Ukraine's third-largest economic sector, contributing nearly 11% of GDP and employing about 2.5 million people, according to a 2024 European Parliament report. According to the latest review from the Kyiv School of Economics, the Ukrainian agriculture industry has sustained approximately $80 billion in damages and losses. The group also projects that the country's economy will shrink by 45%, while disrupted grain exports and ongoing destruction of its agricultural sector threaten millions worldwide with hunger.
