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Politico
35 minutes ago
- Politico
Trump plans to tout Iran strikes at NATO summit focused on European defense spending
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The singular narrative of this NATO summit is European allies investing more in their own defense. But Donald Trump isn't interested in following anyone else's script. At his press conference here on Wednesday, the president intends to talk as much about the U.S. strikes on Iran and its fragile ceasefire with Israel — for which he credits himself — as he does the historic defense spending pledge NATO members agreed to this week largely at his behest, according to a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the president's plans. And as Trump made clear in his comments on Tuesday, his view of the transatlantic alliance is a departure from predecessors who long described Article V as sacrosanct. When asked aboard Air Force One if he was committed to that bedrock principle of the NATO charter, under which an attack on any member nation is deemed an attack on all, Trump hedged. 'Depends on your definition,' Trump said. 'There's numerous definitions of Article V.' A second White House official, also granted anonymity to discuss the president's thoughts about NATO, said the president was referring to the open-ended nature of Article V's potential application and how circumstances would likely dictate what allies would be compelled to do to defend a member country in the event of an attack. Trump has said previously he might only come to the defense of nations that are meeting NATO's agreed upon spending benchmarks. When pressed on the matterTuesday, he said he was 'committed to being their friend. You know I've become friends with many of those leaders. And I'm committed to helping them.' 'I'm committed to saving lives. I'm committed to life and safety,' Trump added, declining to get specific. Trump was all smiles as he posed for a 'family photo' alongside the other leaders Tuesday evening at a welcome dinner hosted by the Dutch royal family at the Paleis Huis ten Bosch. The group included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who Trump is expected to meet with on Wednesday in between the main NATO plenary session and his closing press conference. Trump's comments came just hours after Secretary General Mark Rutte chided those who still question America's commitment to the longstanding defense pact under Trump. He urged Europeans to 'stop worrying so much' given all that the U.S. is contributing to continental defenses. 'They are there, they are with us,' Rutte said. But even at this summit engineered to appease Trump by cementing a spending pledge for Europe to share more of the burden of its defense, the questions won't go away. 'Europe and the U.S. seem to share this goal of rebalancing the alliance,' said one European official granted anonymity to discuss private conversations among EU officials. 'But with Trump there is always going to be this uncertainty about how much America will really be there for us if and when we need them to be.' Some of the deeper anxiety stems from the Pentagon's ongoing review of its force posture in Europe, which has NATO members nervous that some U.S. forces may be relocated out of Europe in the months ahead or on a timeline that doesn't allow them to boost their own forces. But a lot of the concern relates to the views the president has expressed, including comments Tuesday likening the alliance to a failing company that he helped revive. 'NATO was broke,' Trump said, noting that only 'seven of the 28' countries in the alliance at that time were 'paying their dues.' The alliance agreed in 2014 that all member countries would aim to spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense by 2024. While Trump correctly says that it wasn't until after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine that a majority of NATO members were at or above the 2 percent level, the pledge was never binding or required for continued membership in the alliance. Rhetoric aside, Trump has moved into closer alignment with NATO allies overall, largely as a result of Russia's unwillingness to go along with his attempts to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. And the alliance's new commitment that member nations will spend 5 percent of GDP on defense by 2035 marks the fulfillment of a foreign policy priority that Trump has been calling for since 2016. With his efforts to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin having hit a dead end, Trump has 'reoriented and is no longer so focused on finding a deal with Moscow,' said Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, a global risk assessment firm. 'They're now putting a lot more effort into engaging with the Europeans on what the additional defense spend looks like. That's a big shift from just a few months ago when everyone thought Trump was about to go to Moscow.' Trump may not be withdrawing the U.S. from the alliance, as he threatened he might during the 2018 summit in Brussels if allies didn't get serious about defense spending. But he's still causing concern among European leaders because he's not consulting with European partners the way his predecessors did. 'They shouldn't expect him to at this point,' the second White House official said. 'He's going to be decisive and do what he thinks is best for America.' Trump, another European official noted, didn't give European leaders much warning before he authorized last Saturday's B-2 strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Although he did leave leaders at the G7 summit in Canada last week with the sense that he was leaning toward such an attack. While he criticized Spain for requesting an exemption from NATO's new defense spending mandate, the president reaffirmed his belief that the U.S. shouldn't have to abide by it either. America spends 3.4 percent of GDP on defense, just shy of the 3.5 percent benchmark countries will have a decade to reach. But Trump's stance has less to do with America's capabilities than with its self interest. As he made clear, he's philosophically opposed to continuing to be responsible for defending Europe. 'I don't think we should pay what everyone else [does]. You know; they're in Europe. We're not,' he said. 'A lot of that money goes to rebuilding their bridges, their roads, so it can take heavy equipment. And you know, we don't have any roads in Europe. We don't have any bridges in Europe.'
Politico
35 minutes ago
- Politico
A Trump lawyer's uphill climb to the federal bench
BOVE AND THE WHISTLEBLOWER — The prospects for Emil Bove's nomination to serve as a federal judge were already uncertain. But today, one day before the confirmation hearing for Trump's former criminal defense lawyer-turned-senior Justice Department official, things may have gotten worse. Attorneys for Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department lawyer who was fired from the department after acknowledging in court that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been sent to El Salvador in error, released a scathing whistleblower disclosure alleging that Bove and other senior Trump DOJ officials sought to defy court orders in three separate cases 'through lack of candor, deliberate delay, and disinformation.' The disclosure heightens the tensions around an already controversial nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Trump DOJ has already pushed back vigorously. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche —who worked with Bove on behalf of Trump last year in the president's criminal trial in Manhattan — described Reuveni's claims in a social media post as 'utterly false.' Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York who overlapped with Bove, initially held out hope that Bove would take on the DOJ job while adhering to the standards of bipartisanship and professionalism that prevailed in the office. But given developments in recent months, and particularly in the wake of Reuveni's disclosure today, Goldman's assessment of his former colleague is now sharply negative. 'In just a few short months,' Goldman said today, Bove 'has single-handedly done tremendous damage to the Department of Justice' and 'repeatedly demonstrated that his oath of office and the rule of law are subservient to his personal and political desires. That record disqualifies him from serving as a lifetime judge responsible for objectively interpreting the law.' Among other things, Reuveni alleges that Bove told a group of lawyers in mid-March, shortly before Trump publicly invoked the Alien Enemies Act as part of his mass deportation effort, that they would need to be prepared for a court order that might quickly put a stop to the removals. 'Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated,' Reuveni's lawyers wrote. 'Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts 'fuck you' and ignore any such court order.' 'Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned,' the account continues, 'and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room.' Reuveni also alleges that Bove told officials in the Department of Homeland Security that they could violate an oral court order — one that directed the return of flights to El Salvador as part of the AEA deportations — because the order had not yet been issued in writing. The presiding judge has since concluded that there is probable cause to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt as a result of that decision. Reuveni's submission provides a remarkable account from within Trump's second-term Justice Department — one that, in an earlier era, might have prompted bipartisan calls for an independent investigation. The account sharply criticizes not just Bove but several other senior administration lawyers who have been handling the litigation over Trump's deportation effort. Bove had already come under sharp criticism from many legal observers over his dismissal of the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The presiding judge described the DOJ's arguments as 'unsupported by any objective evidence,' 'pretextual' and 'unsubstantiated.' In white-collar legal circles, however, a second — and subtler — criticism of Bove's handling of the case has also been making the rounds in recent months. In particular, some experienced lawyers believe that Bove probably could have achieved his and Trump's objective of dismissing the case without creating a weeks-long public spectacle. The argument, essentially, is that Bove made a bad situation much worse by bungling both the internal and external communications around the decision, and that the episode reflected poor political and managerial instincts on top of bad legal judgment. Senate Democrats oppose Bove's nomination, but it has also opened up a fissure within the conservative legal movement. On one side are establishment Federalist Society types, who oppose Bove's nomination to serve as a judge because they believe he is being picked largely — if not entirely — because Trump views him as a diehard loyalist. On the other side are Republicans who are stridently backing Bove. They include Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, who recently co-authored an op-ed in support of Bove. Bove's appearance before the Judiciary Committee tomorrow was already one worth keeping an eye on. Republicans have a narrow margin to get Bove through, and he will now also have to respond to a blistering account that threatens to derail his nomination. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@ Or contact tonight's author at akhardori@ What'd I Miss? — Trump agrees to in-person Wednesday meeting with Zelenskyy: President Donald Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday alongside the NATO summit, according to a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the meeting. The meeting comes as focus on Russia's war with Ukraine has taken a backseat to the Israel-Iran conflict. Leading up to the summit, it was not clear whether Zelenskyy would attend amid fears that a visit wouldn't be worth his time without a guarantee of significant facetime with Trump. Earlier this month, Zelenskyy flew to Canada for the meeting of G7 world leaders in hopes of a meeting with the U.S. president, but Trump left the summit early. — Trump backtracks on 'regime change' talk in Iran: President Donald Trump said today he doesn't want to see regime change in Iran, two days after he floated the idea on social media. 'I don't want it. I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible,' Trump said to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to the NATO summit. 'Regime change takes chaos, and ideally, we don't want to see so much chaos, so we'll see how it does.' Some of Trump's long-time supporters, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Steve Bannon, criticized the earlier suggestion of regime change, worried the effort would bog down Americans in another costly Middle East expedition. Right-wing influencers today were quick to cheer the president's apparent pivot. — Senate parliamentarian approves tweaked SNAP cost-share plan: Senate Republicans have saved their plan to push some costs of the nation's anti-hunger program onto states, maintaining a crucial $41 billion spending cut that will help pay for their policy megabill. The Senate parliamentarian today approved Republicans' tweak to give states more time between finding out how much of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program they'll need to pay for, and when they actually need to start paying. That avoids one of GOP leaders' top issues as they work to address several other adverse rulings from the parliamentarian in accordance with the chamber's strict reconciliation rules — all ahead of a July 4 deadline. — Another man who was deported in violation of court order must be returned to U.S., court rules: The Trump administration must try to bring back to the U.S. another man who was deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order, a federal appeals court ruled today. It's the fourth time since March that federal courts have ordered the administration to return immigrants who were deemed illegally or improperly deported. Officials must begin seeking the return of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, who was sent to his native country on May 7, 'as soon as possible,' a three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. — New York City hits high temps as mayoral candidates make their final push on Primary Day: As voters headed to the polls in New York City in triple-digit temps to cast a vote in the contentious mayoral primary today, the once-clear frontrunner Andrew Cuomo appeared to be on his back foot — and begging. 'We can do it, but it's going to take all of us,' Cuomo said Monday night in a leaked private call with health care worker union members entrusted with getting out the vote for him. 'Please, please, please make the special effort.' Real-feel temps in New York City exceeded 105 degrees today, and older voters — who make up Cuomo's base — faced dangerous conditions across the city. By 12 p.m., the city's board of elections said 605,543 voters — including 384,338 who opted for early voting — checked into polling locations to cast their ballot. What started as a race defined by a decisive frontrunner and a distant, crowded field of candidates has winnowed down to a two-person race, with recent polls showing Zohran Mamdani has closed the gap between him and Cuomo. AROUND THE WORLD ANOTHER RUSSIAN ATTACK — Russia hit Ukraine's key industrial city of Dnipro with ballistic missiles today, causing massive destruction that killed 17 people and injured more than 270, local authorities reported. 'This is an unprecedented amount of destruction that the city has not seen in the entire time of [Russia's] full-scale war,' Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said in a statement while announcing a day of mourning. Russia has increased the frequency of its attacks on Ukraine since May when it launched a summer offensive in the conflict, now in its fourth year. It has also ramped up its production of drones: In June alone Moscow launched 2,736 Shahed kamikaze drones at Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an address to the parliament of the Netherlands today. In addition, the Kremlin continues to launch dozens of missiles at Ukraine. Meanwhile, the recent conflict between Israel and Iran has complicated Ukraine's position, with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump moving to the Middle East some of the unmanned aerial defense systems it had given Ukraine to counter Russia's air assaults. NATO'S NEW PARIAH — Canada used to be NATO's biggest headache for its chronic defense underspending. Now, at this year's summit, everybody agrees: Spain's the problem, with Slovakia coming a close second in stoking anger among alliance members. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's 11th-hour insistence that his country doesn't need to hit NATO's new 5 percent of GDP defense spending target, and managing to get a carve-out in an agreement on the spending goal, has turned Madrid into the alliance's new pariah. 'I have no words to express my disgust,' one European defense official, who like others was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said on the sidelines of the summit. Sanchez was followed by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Monday, who posted on X that his country 'has other priorities in the coming years than armament,' and can get by without increasing spending. At last year's summit in Washington, frustration with Canadian defense spending was high, with Ottawa simply refusing to increase its defense budget to anywhere near NATO's 2 percent of GDP guideline. The new government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged an extra $9 billion in defense expenditures, finally bringing the country to 2 percent and getting it out of the alliance's doghouse. Nightly Number RADAR SWEEP ROUGH RIDING — Taking a taxi to work is the new normal for commuters in Johannesburg. After the city's passenger-rail system shut down in 2020, an overwhelming majority of public transport riders turned to 14 or 15-seater taxis to commute from the sprawling city outskirts. Despite high fares and frequent violence, taxi riders have few other options as government public transport projects fail or remain unaffordable for most. Zinhle Xaba explains the challenges of expanding public transport in South Africa for Bloomberg. Parting Image Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here.
Fox News
36 minutes ago
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Evening Edition: Trump Heads To NATO Summit Angry Over Ceasefire Violations
President Trump is at the NATO summit in the Netherlands this week, just hours after announcing a ceasefire deal was made between Israel and Iran to end the '12-Day War'. President Trump lashed out at both countries after he said they both 'violated' the ceasefire agreement just made. Where does the ceasefire stand and with the tensions between Israel and Iran looming large over the summit, what world leaders join the United States it trying to end the conflict? FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Edward Lawrence, White House Correspondent for FOX Business, who says President Trump looked livid before his travels to attend the NATO Summit in which he should see more support from around the globe. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
