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In in the present day’s version, we discover how President Donald Trump is angling for an award that eluded him throughout his first time period and the way he takes a extra lively position with main companies.
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— Adam Wollner
Trump ramps up his marketing campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize
By Peter Nicholas, Megan Shannon and Monica Alba
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump and his aides are intensifying a public marketing campaign to snag the Nobel Peace Prize forward of a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Day-to-day, the White Home is amplifying Trump’s position in curbing hostilities and placing out the message that this most combative of presidents is at coronary heart a “peacemaker.”
Aides have highlighted his position in settling disputes between Israel and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, selling “worldwide calls” from the heads of a number of of these nations for Trump to win the peace prize.
Trump can be touting his efforts to finish a worrying battle between two nuclear-armed combatants, India and Pakistan. He steered he used commerce as an inducement to cease the preventing, although an Indian official has denied that Trump’s mediation made any distinction.
Now comes his greatest shot. Tomorrow, Trump will fly to Alaska for a sit-down with Putin geared toward ending the warfare with Ukraine. The percentages of a breakthrough are robust, but when Trump brokers a truce on phrases which are truthful to Ukraine, it might be a diplomatic triumph that eluded Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Within the run-up to the summit, the Nobel Prize has seemed to be high of thoughts in Trump’s circle. With out prompting, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt portrayed Trump as deserving of the prize in three of her 4 briefings in July. In earlier months, she hadn’t introduced up the award.
Trump has posted in regards to the prize seven occasions on his social media web site since his second time period started, six of them in June and July. A theme of his is that whereas he has earned the accolade, he received’t win it.
“The president feels that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize however doesn’t suppose he’ll get it,” a White Home official mentioned, talking on situation of anonymity.
Extra protection of the Trump-Putin summit:
- Trump mentioned on Fox Information Radio that he believes Putin is “satisfied that he’s going to make a deal,” per Lindsey Pipia and Megan Lebowitz.
- Putin sounded optimistic on the eve of the Alaska assembly, saying he believed Trump was making “fairly energetic and honest efforts” towards peace in Ukraine, Alexander Smith writes.
- Trump advised European leaders on a name Wednesday that he doesn’t intend to debate any attainable divisions of territory with Putin, Katherine Doyle, Kristen Welker, Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee report.
The CEO in chief: How Trump is getting what he desires from massive enterprise
By Rob Wile and Allan Smith
For years, conservative teams and company leaders argued that the U.S. authorities could be higher if it have been run like a enterprise.
For President Donald Trump, who has managed his personal companies for many years, that appears like taking an more and more lively position in particular person firms’ affairs, from manufacturing to media to tech corporations.
And firms are assembly the calls for of a president who’s extra freely exerting his powers than he did the final time he was in workplace. At Trump’s urging, Coca-Cola mentioned it might produce a model of its namesake soda with U.S.-grown cane sugar. Paramount paid thousands and thousands to settle allegations Trump levied towards CBS’ honored “60 Minutes.” Two main semiconductor makers agreed to provide the federal government a reduce of their gross sales in China. The CEO of Intel met with Trump quickly after Trump known as on him to resign.
“It’s a lot completely different than the primary time period,” mentioned a Republican lobbyist whose agency represents a number of Fortune 500 corporations, who spoke on situation of anonymity to talk candidly. “He’s simply performing like a businessman. In his first time period, I believe he was making an attempt to cosplay as a politician. He’s extra snug in his personal pores and skin, too. He can clarify offers higher.”
Trump’s position represents a break with previous administrations which will have been unwilling or unable, politically, to convey related strain to bear on companies. Up to now, small-government conservatives accused earlier Democratic administrations of making an attempt to “choose winners and losers” by making an attempt to manage industries. Trump in the present day stands downstream of a bolder right-wing motion that requires enhanced state intervention in company affairs.
🗞️ At the moment’s different high tales
- 🚓 D.C.’s ICE coverage thaws: The Washington police chief issued an order permitting officers making visitors stops to inform federal ICE brokers in the event that they encounter undocumented immigrants. Read more →
- 🥪 Chilly reduce: A Justice Division worker has been fired after he was accused of throwing a sandwich at a border patrol agent in D.C. on Sunday evening. He faces felony assault prices. Read more →
- 🗺️ Redistricting tit-for-tat: Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a special election to permit a redraw of California’s congressional map to counter Texas Republicans’ push. In the meantime, Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state signaled they were inching closer to their return.
- ➡️ Immigration agenda: The Trump administration is set to open a sprawling new immigration detention facility this week at Fort Bliss in Texas after months of setbacks, which can preview points to return. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the opening of a second detention heart in his state to accommodate and course of undocumented immigrants.
- 📝 Résumé test: E.J. Antoni, Trump’s choose to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was among the many crowd outdoors the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White Home saying he was a “bystander” who wandered over after having seen protection on the information. Read more →
- ⚖️ SCOTUS watch: The Supreme Court docket declined to dam a Mississippi regulation that requires social media customers below 18 to confirm their ages and acquire parental consent to make use of social media websites. Read more →
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That’s all From the Politics Desk for now. At the moment’s e-newsletter was compiled by Adam Wollner and Bridget Bowman.
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