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Donald Trump Jr. has suggested sending his father to Europe to meet with NATO leaders to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine instead of President Joe Biden.

The former president's eldest son claimed that having Biden speak to European leaders at a NATO summit in Brussels on March 24 would "embolden our enemies further."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Tuesday that Biden will meet face-to-face with his European counterparts in the Belgium capital. He will also attend a scheduled European Council summit to discuss imposing further sanctions against Russia and provide further humanitarian support to those affected by the conflict, which is entering its third week.

"Sending Biden to Europe for 'High Stakes' NATO talks will only embolden our enemies further," Trump Jr. tweeted.

"If you want to get something done right send Trump."

Trump Jr.'s tweet arrived after his father appeared to attempt to revise history regarding his relationship with NATO.

Before he entered office, Trump described NATO as "obsolete" and threatened to withdraw the U.S. from the coalition while president if more countries didn't meet the minimum spending requirements of 2 percent of GDP.

In 2019, The New York Times reported that Trump discussed pulling the U.S. out of NATO, a move that would have emboldened Russia and Vladimir Putin. According to the report, Trump considered the military alliance a financial drain and was unhappy with the other countries that failed to meet the spending targets he had set.

Retired Adm. James G. Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, told The Times pulling out of the Western alliance, which has been a deterrent of Russian aggression since the fall of the Soviet Union, would be "a geopolitical mistake of epic proportions."

"Even discussing the idea of leaving NATOlet alone actually doing sowould be the gift of the century for Putin," Stavridis said.

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Trump attempted to claim credit for the continuation of the alliance and the military support being given to the country being attacked by Russia.

"I hope everyone is able to remember that it was me, as President of the United States, that got delinquent NATO members to start paying their dues, which amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars," Trump said in a February 28 statement.

"Also, it was me that got Ukraine the very effective anti-tank busters (Javelins) when the previous Administration was sending blankets."

It was noted at the time that Trump threatened to withhold weapons from Ukraine in a 2019 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky where he was accused of attempting to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, ahead of ahead of the 2020 election, which lead to Trump's first impeachment.

Recently, Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton told The Washington Post that he believed the former president would have pulled the U.S. out of NATO had he won reelection in 2020, and that Putin was "waiting" for him to do that.

In another interview with SiriusXM's Julie Mason, Bolton added that the U.S. would be in "a lot worse shape" had Trump followed through with his threats to withdraw from NATO.

"I think one of the reasons that Putin did not move during Trump's term in office was [that] he saw the president's hostility with NATO...and to Putin's mind, it's a binary proposition: A weaker NATO is stronger Russia," Bolton said.

"So I think Putin saw Trump doing a lot of his work for him and thought, maybe in a second term, Trump would make good on his desire to get out of NATO, and then it would just ease Putin's path just that much more."

In a tweet ahead of the "extraordinary" summit on March 24, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: "We will address Russia's invasion of Ukraine, our strong support for Ukraine, and further strengthening NATO's deterrence & defense.

"At this critical time, North America & Europe must continue to stand together."

The White House has been contacted for comment.

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Donald Trump had a notoriously close relationship with Vladimir Putin during his time in office as US president, with the American even labelling the Russian president as a friend, however he now has revealed just why Putin invaded Ukraine.

Trump has been roundly criticised for his public admiration of Putin, but he really doesn't seem to mind as long as his own base continues to laud his every move.

"He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union," Trump told Jeanine Pirro in a radio interview with Fox News.

"They had a country, you could see it was a country where there was a lot of love and, you know, we're doing it because someone wants to make their country bigger or wants to rebuild back to the way it used to be when it wasn't really working too well."

Trump continued to describe Putin as a person with a big ego, who would do 'unspeakable things' if he continues to feel cornered by Ukrainian resistance and Western sanctions.

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Donald Trump made it clear how he felt about the media during his time in the White House. He capitalized the term "fake news" and often used it to describe anyone who disagreed with him (via CNN). "It is amazing what's happening to the discredited media like CNN, MSDNC, New York Times, and Washington Post," Trump said in an August 2021 statement. "Their businesses have dropped off a cliff, which is actually a very good thing for the American people, because they are Fake News (likewise the networks, ABC, NBC, CBS)."

There are a few networks he didn't consider to be fake news, though, and one of them was the conservative-leaning One America News (OAN). According toThe Independent, Trump released a statement shared through his son's Twitter account that called for protests against Time Warner Cable and DirecTV, who both chose to drop the network from its services.

"Between heavily indebted Time Warner, and Radical Left Comcast, which runs Xfinity, there is a virtual monopoly on news, thereby making what you hear from the LameStream Media largely FAKE, hence the name FAKE NEWS," Trump's statement read. "It is a very popular channel, far more popular than most would understand, and they are being treated horribly by the Radical Left lunatics running the networks."

His statement concluded with him saying, "Instead of being allowed to grow, their voice is being shuttered. Don't let it happen, cancel DirecTV. If you feel infringed by what this Communist movement is doing, cancel DirecTV!"

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On April 10, 2021, DeSantis signed the Combating Public Disorder Act, a conservative response to Black Lives Matter and other protests that turn violent or destructive. On Sept. 9, 2021, however, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked enforcement of the law because a person of ordinary intelligence could not be sure if he or she broke the law while participating nonviolently in a protest that turned violent:

The vagueness of this definition forces would-be protesters to make a choice between declining to jointly express their views with others or risk being arrested and spending time behind bars, with the associated collateral risks to employment and financial well-being.

DeSantis has capitalized on Floridas outdoor culture to become the nations leading opponent of mask mandates and lockdowns of schools and businesses, including a May 3, 2021, executive order declaring:

In order to protect the rights and liberties of individuals in this State and to accelerate the States recovery from the Covid-19 emergency, any emergency order issued by a political subdivision due to the Covid-19 emergency which restricts the rights or liberties of individuals or their businesses is invalidated.

For DeSantis, the pandemic offered the opportunity to distinguish himself from Trump. In January, Jonathan Chait described his strategy in New York magazine:

Where Trump was tiptoeing around vaccine skepticism, DeSantis jumped in with both feet, banning private companies like cruise lines from requiring vaccination, appointing a vaccine skeptic to his states highest office, and refusing to say if hes gotten his booster dose.

DeSantis may or may not actually be more delusional on Covid than Donald Trump, Chait wrote, but it is a revealing commentary on the state of their party that he sees his best chance to supplant Trump as positioning himself as even crazier.

Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, has a similar take on the Trump-DeSantis Covid feud, writing on Jan. 18:

Whats suddenly intriguing is that DeSantis has decided to try to outflank Trump, to out-Trump Trump, in terms of his hard-trolling of the libs on the vaccine question. And its Trump Donald Trump! who is playing the role of civilizing, normalizing truth teller.

Politically speaking, however, DeSantiss stance on Covid policy, together with his culture war agenda, has been a success. His favorability ratings have soared and in the third quarter of 2021, the most recent data available, Floridas gross domestic product grew by 3.8 percent, third fastest in the nation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, behind Hawaii and Delaware.

DeSantiss aggressive posture and threats to bring legal action have created anxiety about retribution in some quarters. In January, for example, Dr. Raul Pino, the administrator for the Florida Department of Healths office in Orange County, wrote his staff to say that only 77 of 558 staff members had received a Covid-19 booster, 219 had two doses of the vaccine and 34 had only one dose, according to reporting by my colleague Patricia Mazzei in The Times. I am sorry but in the absence of reasonable and real reasons it is irresponsible not to be vaccinated, Dr. Pino added. He went on: We have been at this for two years, we were the first to give vaccines to the masses, we have done more than 300,000 and we are not even at 50 percent. Pathetic.

Shortly afterward, Pino was put on administrative leave for a month. Jeremy T. Redfern, the press secretary for the Department of Health, said when the leave of absence was announced that the department was conducting an inquiry to determine if any laws were broken in this case. Redfern said in a statement that the decision to get vaccinated is a personal medical choice that should be made free from coercion and mandates from employers.

This and other similar developments have certainly not hurt DeSantiss poll numbers. The latest survey released on Feb. 24 by Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida found not only that of the elected officials on this survey, Governor Ron DeSantis had the highest job approval rating at 58 percent, with 37 percent disapproval, but also that Florida Republicans preferred DeSantis over Trump 44-41 as their presidential nominee.

John Feehery, a Republican lobbyist who previously worked for the partys House leaders, argues that DeSantis is

attuned to the libertarian impulses of an electorate that simply doesnt trust the conventional wisdom coming out of Washington. DeSantis also seems willing to court cultural conservatives in ways that most Washington politicians dont, like with the sex education bill that he signed. DeSantis also seems willing to take on big corporations for their wokeness, a potent issue among the G.O.P. base.

Feehery described DeSantis as a wild card, noting he was also right on Covid, which took an incredible amount of courage.

As governor, DeSantis is wary when he senses the potential for blowback, waiting days before commenting on Russias invasion of Ukraine. When he finally did so, his comments were largely focused on domestic politics.

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While speaking with the Nelk Boys for their podcast, "Full Send," former President Donald Trump received an expensive gift from one of the Nelk Boys. According to TMZ, the Nelk Boys' SteveWillDoIt, also known by his real name, Stephen Deleonardis, gave Trump an ice blue platinum Day-Date 40mm Rolex, worth a staggering $75,000. This particular model of the Rolex watch is actually not sold in stores, which means that SteveWillDoIt had to place a custom order to craft Trump's gift. SteveWillDoIt claimed that he felt the need to give Trump a gift after selling $500,000 worth of t-shirts featuring his face alongside Trump's face.

Just hours after uploading the podcast on YouTube, the platform removed the video for violating its misinformation policy, which was likely sparked by Trump's claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. After his interview with the Nelk Boys was taken down, Trump released a statement through his Save America PAC, citing this incident as proof that American censorship is becoming similar to Russian censorship. "Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down my interview with the very popular NELK Boys so that nobody can watch it or in any way listen to it," Trump said in a statement, per the New York Post.

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Donald Trump Just Received A Massive Gift That Is Sure To Turn Heads - The List