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© APPresident Biden said in a new interview that he would consider dropping out if he was diagnosed with a “medical condition” by doctors.
The 81-year-old president made the remark in a BET interview taped Tuesday when asked what it would take to prompt him to reconsider his candidacy.
"If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem," Biden said in an excerpt released Wednesday.
Comment: One doesn't need a medical degree to see that he is unfit to be the president of the USA. His health problems are evident every time he appears and speaks in public.
© Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Biden apparently checking his watch as he and Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of a fallen service member at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Aug. 29, 2021.
The exchange published in Puck documents Biden lashing out against members of the New Democrat Coalition after they questioned his disastrous debate performance and chances of a 2024 reelection. Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who received a Bronze Star Medal for his role in the 82nd Airborne Division, received the bulk of Biden's wrath after he "asked about the importance of national security to voters."
The president then launched into a screed detailing why he believes Crow is "dead wrong on national security."
© Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images/Unknown/KJNFormer US President and Candidate Donald Trump • Winston Churchill • Signature Hand Gestures
For Donald Trump, the failed assassination attempt in Pennsylvania could prove politically exhilarating. After rising with a fist pump and a call to fight on, Trump seems to have gone from being a movement to a mythological figure with his supporters. All he needs now is a big blue ox named Babe to return to the campaign trail.
This assassination attempt should also concentrate the minds of everyone on the escalating rhetoric in this campaign, particularly the media in maintaining inflammatory narratives. Yet, the hateful and unhinged language has continued unabated from academics declaring that the assassination attempt was staged to those who complain that the only problem was that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.
For years, Democrats have repeated analogies of Trump to Hitler and his followers to brownshirted neo-Nazis. Indeed, defeating Trump has been compared to stopping Hitler in 1933. The narrative began as soon as Trump was elected when the press and pundits uniformly and falsely claimed that Trump had praised neo-Nazis and Klansmen in 2017 as "fine people" in Charlottesville. Watching Trump's statement at the time, it was clear to most of us that Trump condemned the neo-Nazis and that the statement about "fine people on both sides" was in reference to the debate over the removal of historic statues.
It took six years for Snopes to finally have the courage to do a fact check and declare the common attack to be false.
© Michael Kappeler / picture alliance via Getty Images
The Hungarian leader wants the EU leadership and fellow member states to adjust their policies from arming Kiev to seeking a negotiated resolution with Moscow. Orban traveled to Ukraine, Russia, China, and the US, before detailing his proposal in a letter sent to Brussels this week. Senior EU and national officials, including Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, have blasted Orban for engaging with Moscow. Brussels has reportedly rejected his proposal outright.
Peskov was asked during a daily press call whether Moscow received the text of Orban's plan or the EU's response to it. He said neither document was shared with the Russian government, but conclusions can be made based on the public condemnation of Orban.
Comment: Pro-Russian or pro-peace and stability?
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Speaking at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, the top Russian diplomat said "there's a suspicion that some circles in Israel are trying to achieve just that."
Lavrov, citing some American and European analysts, stressed that "escalation, as the practical developments show, is something which Israel is interested in."
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Scoop: Netanyahu works behind the scenes to win Trump back
It seems Donald Trump is not far from the assessment that Sergei Lavrov gives, but he come from another angle:
© Agence France-PresseA Ukrainian prisoner of war posing following a prisoner exchange at an undisclosed location in Ukraine.
Thousands of prisoners of war (POWs) have been freed in more than 50 individual exchanges throughout the war - an area where the two sides have been able to strike rare agreements since Russia invaded in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia's Defence Ministry each said on July 17 that 95 of their soldiers had been freed.
"We continue to bring our people home. Another 95 defenders have been released from Russian captivity," Mr Zelensky said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Comment: Views from each side:
© Gene J. Puskar/APRepublican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event
Butler, Pennsylvania. • Saturday, July 13, 2024
Butler, Pennsylvania. • Saturday, July 13, 2024
Americans from across the political spectrum were treated to yet more evidence that Donald Trump is an invincible force that cannot be easily reckoned with. But this perception will do little to mitigate the media hostility that poisons the US political scene.
Everyone knew it was just a matter of time. Trump, who was addressing a crowd of supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, was grazed by an assassin's bullet during a campaign speech (how the would-be killer managed to get so close to the Republican frontrunner amid an army of Secret Service agents is a question for another day). What must concern Americans now is what exactly triggered this latest display of political violence.
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate, former US President Donald Trump • Vice Presidential candidate, US Sen. J.D. Vance
Republican National Convention • Fiserv Forum • July 15, 2024 • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Republican National Convention • Fiserv Forum • July 15, 2024 • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
On Saturday, former US President Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt. The Republican nominee had his ear grazed and was quickly rushed by the Secret Service, though many are still criticizing the event's apparent lack of safety.
Immediately, the candidate and others were cashing in on the spectacle with T-shirts and other paraphernalia - suggesting that, as always, it will be Trump that walks away victorious.
It is no exaggeration to say that this spectacle has cemented another Trump term. Many experts and Republican officials believe that Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder. Part of the narcissist playbook includes playing the victim. When victimhood is usurped by the narcissist, it's a wash for the opposition. In this case, Trump has a legitimate claim to that title, and he will ride it into the sunset. The shooter, in this case, essentially handed the former president the greatest gift he ever could have.
Comment: Trump's gift is the 'promise' of hope. Becoming reality is a whole different matter.
© Sputnik / Gavriil GrigorovRussian President Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, Trump was targeted at a rally in Pennsylvania, where a gunman attacked but was swiftly neutralized by the Secret Service. The incident has sparked international concern and raised questions about political violence amid upcoming elections in both countries.
Hours after former US President Donald Trump was hurt in an assassination attempt, Moscow charged on Sunday that the US was funding attempts in Ukraine to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Moscow's accusations followed Ukrainian spy director Kyrylo Budanov's admission in an interview on Saturday of his nation's botched assassination efforts reports RT.
Comment: In just the last 7 months or so, assassination threats and attempts, and suspect crashes, largely against nations and leaders who are defying the Western establishment, seem to have spiked:
- Saudi king hospitalised for 2nd time, follows rumours of assassination attempt on prince
- 'You're next': Man arrested for threatening Serbia's President Vucic on social media
- Slovakian government suspects gunman who attempted to assassinate PM Robert Fico 'was not working alone
- Iranian president confirmed dead in helicopter crash
- Turkey thwarts ANOTHER coup attempt, Interior Minister vows justice after 'plot against president Erdogan'
- Motorcade of Hungary's Orban involved in 'horror' crash in Germany, 1 dead
- Convoy carrying Mexico's next president crashes, killing 1 aide
- US postpones military exercise with Georgia, citing 'false' accusations of coup efforts and attempt to open '2nd front against Russia'
- Central African Republic charges European agent of US NGO with plotting coup, says UN in arming rebels
- DR Congo military thwarts 'attempted coup', claims American mercenaries arrested
- Ex-PM Imran Khan, wife arrested on new charges after acquittal in 'illegal' marriage case
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