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Trump Pushes RICO Charges On Protest Groups After Kirk Killing

Trump Pushes RICO Charges On Protesters After Kirk Killing

September 26, 2025 9:25 pm

Trump is calling for sweeping legal action against left-leaning protest groups, invoking a powerful federal statute once aimed at the mafia, following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

US President Donald Trump said he is consulting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to bring charges against groups he accuses of inciting violence. He has also singled out billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a major donor to Democratic causes, suggesting he should face investigation under the same law – despite providing no evidence of wrongdoing.

The RICO statute, enacted in 1970 to …

Trump Sues New York Times Seeks $15B In Major Defamation Case

Trump Seeks $15B From New York Times In Defamation Suit

September 24, 2025 4:06 am

US President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, escalating his long-running feud with the newspaper and other mainstream media outlets.

The 85-page complaint, filed in federal court in Tampa, Florida, also names four Times reporters and book publisher Penguin Random House. The filing accuses the Times of publishing “false and defamatory statements” about Trump, his family, and his business empire, and cites the book “Lucky Loser: How the American President Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success” as central to the claims.

The American President announced the lawsuit late …

Trump Finally Agrees To Leave White House

Trump Finally Agrees To Leave White House

November 28, 2020 5:38 am

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden.

This is closest he has come to conceding the November 3 election, even as he repeated claims of massive voter fraud.

He made this known while speaking to reporters on the Thanksgiving holiday.

Trump also stated that he will depart the white house if Biden is formally declared the winner by the Electoral College. Biden will be officially sworn in on January 20, 2020.

Read Also: Trump Will Lose @POTUS Handle After Jan 20 – Twitter

When asked …

Trump says he wanted to kill Assad, but Mattis opposed

Trump Says He Wanted To Kill Assad, But Mattis Opposed

September 15, 2020 5:51 pm

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad in 2017, but that his then-secretary of defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation.

“I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set,” Trump told the morning show Fox & Friends.

“Mattis didn’t want to do it. Mattis was a highly overrated general, and I let him go.”

The revelations support reporting that came out in 2018 when Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward published his book “Fear: Trump in the White House” and which the president denied at the time.

“That was never even …

Snapchat curbs Trump posts for inciting 'racial violence'

Snapchat Curbs Trump Posts For Inciting ‘Racial Violence’

June 3, 2020 5:00 pm

Snapchat on Wednesday stopped promoting posts by US President Donald Trump, saying they incite “racial violence.”

“We are not currently promoting the president’s content on Snapchat’s Discover platform,” Snapchat said in response to an AFP inquiry, referencing the youth-focused social network’s section for recommended content.

“We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover.”

The move came after Twitter took an unprecedented stand by hiding a Trump post it said promoted violence, thrusting rival Facebook into turmoil for refusing to sanction false or inflammatory posts by the US president.

The …

country 'Save Your Country From Coronavirus, Not Make Threats'

‘Save Your Country From Coronavirus, Not Make Threats’

April 23, 2020 7:10 am

Iran’s military spokesman on Wednesday said US President Donald Trump should concentrate on “saving” his own country from the “major crisis” caused by coronavirus, instead of making threats.

“Today, instead of intimidating others, the Americans would do better to save their troops infected by the coronavirus,” said Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran’s armed forces.

Read Also: Destroy Hostile Iranian Boats – Trump Orders US Navy

His comments, in an interview with the semi-official ISNA news agency, came after Trump said on Twitter he had “instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian …

Global Backlash After Trump Orders Funding Freeze On WHO

Global Backlash After Trump Orders Funding Freeze On WHO

April 15, 2020 6:25 pm

Criticism was heaped on US President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he ordered a freeze on funding for the World Health Organization, with friends and foes of the United States calling for global solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus and its economic devastation.

The pandemic is entering a new and uncertain phase as governments debate how to reboot commerce without triggering new infection waves of a virus that has killed more than 125,000 people.

In hard-hit Europe, a patchwork of countries are easing lockdown measures, with Denmark the first on the continent to send some children back to school …

Oil Rockets As Trump Signals End To Price War

Oil Rockets As Trump Signals End To Price War

April 2, 2020 6:23 pm

Oil prices rocketed Thursday, posting the largeset percent increase ever, after US President Donald Trump said Russia and Saudi Arabia planned to end their price war by slashing output.

But the initial surge cooled after Russia denied it had spoken with Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest exporter of crude.

After Trump tweeted that Saudi and Russia could slash production by up to 15 million barrels, Brent hit $36.29 a barrel, up almost 46 percent, and West Texas Intermediate soared around 35 percent to $27.39.

Gains were trimmed soon after, with Brent up 21 percent to $29.94 per barrel and WTI …

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