President instructs Department of Justice to ‘stop the enforcement’ of state climate laws, calling out New York and Vermont’s ‘climate superfund’ lawsIsrael would be the “leader” of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesn’t give up its nuclear weapons program, Donald Trump said on Wednesday.The president’s comments, reported by the Associated Press, come ahead of this weekend’s scheduled talks involving US and Iranian officials in Oman, which Trump has insisted this week would be “direct” while Iran has described them “indirect”. Trump issued a thinly veiled threat on Monday that if the talks failed, Iran would be in “great danger”.If it requires military, we’re going to have military. Israel will obviously be very much involved in that. They’ll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us, but we do what we want to do.I want Iran to be great. The only thing that they can’t have is a nuclear weapon. They understand that.His excellency has no opposition to investment by American investors in Iran. American investors: Come and invest.[Trump] campaigned on draining the swamp, and yet he gets in there and he says, no, lobbyists can give gifts to White House officials. What I’m saying is that we need to ban lobbyists from giving gifts to White House officials, not just this administration, but for all administrations going forward. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2025-04-10 12:39:00
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Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order – US politics live
