Trump to Canada’s Mark Carney: you are uninvited to my ‘board of peace’ – as it happened

With the news that Air Force One has returned Donald Trump from his bruising trip to Davos, this concludes our live coverage of his second administration for the day. We will return on Friday. Here are the latest developments:

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  Having spent 11 months trying to conceal the bruising on his right hand from public view, Donald Trump developed a large bruise on his left hand on Thursday. His chief spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, deflected questions about hte prsident’s health by claiming that the damage to his hand was caused by a collision with a table during an event at Davos earlier in the day. But then again, the previous day, she accused a reporter of lying for accurately reporting that the president, who turns 80 in a few months, repeatedly referred to Greenland as “Iceland” while staking a territorial claim to one of those places.

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  The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization with a statement in which the health secretary, RFK Jr, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, accused the body of botching the response to Covid-19 – the pandemic Trump downplayed as president – and of trying to steal an American flag.

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  Trump informed Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, that he is no longer invited to join the “board of peace” the US president unveiled to the world with much fanfare at Davos on Thursday.

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  By a vote of 220-207, the US House narrowly passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the two agencies carrying out Trump’s mass deportation raids, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Seven Democrats voted for the funding.

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  Asked when he might be willing to allow Venezuela to elect a new leader, Trump said his first priority was keeping control of the nation’s oil sales. “First of all, we have to take in a lot of money, we have to get that back”, he said.

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  Trump again warned Iran not to kill protesters, or else. “Nobody knows a number. I mean it’s a lot no matter what. Hey, if it was one person,” the president said. “In this country if it’s one person, it’s front-page news”, he added, in apparent reference to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis this month by an ICE officer, which he immediately lied about and dismissed.

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The United States formally withdrew from the main global public health body, the World Health Organization, on Thursday, according to a joint statement from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

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“Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), freeing itself from its constraints,” the statement began. “This action responds to the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”

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While making such a grand, evidence-free, pronouncement, the two men seemed to channel their boss, Donald Trump, by devoting a portion of the statement to complaining about the international body not promptly returning the US flag that has flown outside its headquarters in Geneva, alongside those of the other 193 member nations, for decades.

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“We will get our flag back for the Americans who died alone in nursing homes, the small businesses devastated by WHO-driven restrictions, and the American lives shattered by this organization’s inactivity,” the statement says. “Our withdrawal is for them.”

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En route home from Switzerland, Donald Trump is whiling away the hours posting on his own social media site.

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One of his latest posts is a jibe at Nato, the international military alliance formed to promote the collective security of Western Europe and the US after the second world war.

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A cornerstone of the founding treaty is article 5, which commits all member nations to defend the others from “armed attack”.

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“The Parties agree, the treaty text reads, “that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.”

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Article 5 has only been invoked once, after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. In the subsequent fighting in Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda was based at the time, hundreds of troops from Nato member nations were killed fighting alongside US forces.

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Trump’s anger at Nato, for not agreeing to let him annex Greenland, which is part of the territory of one of the Nato members, the Kingdom of Denmark, led to an angry outburst at Davos this week, when he claimed, falsely, that the allies who served alongside the US only did so away from the frontlines. In fact, on a per capita basis, the loses for Denmark and Britain nearly equalled those for the US.

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Either unaware or unconcerned that the arrival of undocumented immigrants in the United States is obviously not :an armed attack”, Trump just posted:

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Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.

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In a post on his social media platform, apparently posted from Air Force One, Donald Trump has informed Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, that he is no longer invited to join the “board of peace” the US president unveiled to the world with much fanfare at Davos on Thursday.

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“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump’s post began. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”

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While the leaders of many liberal democracies declined to sign on the Trump’s new international organization, Carney had, before Davos, accepted in principle, though he said on Sunday his officials had not yet gone through “all the details of the structure, how it’s going to work, what the financing is for, etcetera.”

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“Canada wants money to have maximum impact,” Carney told reporters.

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Canada’s finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, then said on Tuesday that the Canadians did not plan to pay the $1bn countries were asked to hand over to Trump for a permanent seat on the board that was originally described as a temporary body to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.

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In a frank address to world leaders at Davos on Tuesday, however, Carney described what he called “a rupture” in the previous “rules-based” world order overseen by the United States caused by Trump’s aggressive behavior.

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When he arrived in Davos, Trump made it clear that he had heard or at least heard of Carney’s viral speech.

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“Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump said in his own address on Wednesday. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”

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“Canada doesn’t live because of the United States,” Carney responded Thursday. “Canada thrives because we are Canadian.”

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At the end of an exchange with reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, Donald Trump was asked about a new, large bruise on the back of his left hand that was visible in video and news images of his appearance at Davos earlier in the day.

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“We saw the bruising on your hand; are you OK?” a reporter asked.

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Trump, who had turned away to leave, turned back to say: “I’m very good.”

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“I hit, I clipped it on the table,” he said, repeating the explanation his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, offered to reporters earlier in the day.

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As Leavitt looked on, Trump added: “I clipped it. I would say, take aspirin if you like your heart, but don’t take aspirin if you don’t want to have a little bruising.”

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“You know, if you take the big, I take the big aspirin,” he added, referring to an earlier statement that he takes four times the recommended dose of aspirin as a measure to prevent blood clots. “When you take the big aspirin, they tell you, you bruise,” Trump continued. “The doctor said, ‘You don’t have to take that, sir, you’re very healthy’. I said, ‘I’m not taking any chances’. So, anyway, that’s one of the side effects of taking aspirin.”

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Leavitt claimed to a CBS News reporter earlier on Thursday that Trump “hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise,” at an event for his “board of peace”. The bruise was clearly visible in news photographs taken during the event, and at one stage, after Trump greeted the prime minister of Qatar, he was seen looking down and inspecting the back of his left hand.

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Trump’s latest explanation for what many have speculated is a sign that he is receiving doses of medication intravenously, comes after he had spent 11 months covering up a similar bruise on his right hand, with thick make-up or by keeping his left hand on top of his right at public events.

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The initial White House explanation of the persistent bruise on Trump’s right hand was that it came, in part, from shaking hands, and from the president’s decision to take a much higher dose of aspirin than is recommended. The bruising on his left hand seems to rule out handshakes as a cause.

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Dr Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist who treated Dick Cheney, suggested that Trump’s explanation was baffling. “Why would you continue to take a higher dose of aspirin than your doctor recommends if you’re bruising excessively? Makes no sense,” Reiner observed on social media.

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Concerns that the White House might not be telling the truth the physical health of the president, who turns 80 in a few months, come one day after Leavitt accused a reporter of lying for accurately reporting that Trump had mistakenly called Greenland “Iceland” four times during a speech in Davos, despite the fact that those flubs were recorded on video and even posted on the White House YouTube channel.

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As many observers noted, when Joe Biden tripped over his words, something he had done for many decades before becoming president, Trump and his supporters called such flubs evidence of dementia.

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As our colleague Andrew Roth reported earlier, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, used his address at Davos on Thursday to warn European leaders that their desire to change Donald Trump would not work and the continent’s liberal democracies have to come together to defend themselves from the threat of Russian aggression that might not stop in Ukraine.

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“Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers. Instead of taking the lead in defending freedom worldwide, especially when America’s focus shifts elsewhere – Europe looks lost, trying to convince the U.S. President to change. But he will not change,” Zelenskyy said. “President Trump loves who he is. And he says he loves Europe. But he will not listen to this kind of Europe.”

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The Ukrainian president also criticized the continent’s leaders for failing to take action to protect protesters in Iran, again leaving that to the whims of Trump.

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“There was so much talk about the protests in Iran – but they drowned in blood,” Zelenskyy said. “In Europe, there were Christmas and New Year celebrations. The seasonal holidays. By the time politicians came back to work and started forming a position – the Ayatollah had already killed thousands.”

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“And what will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully: kill enough people, and you stay in power,” he added. “And yet – Europe hasn’t even tried to build its own response.”

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By a vote of 220-207, the US House narrowly passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the two agencies carrying out Donald Trump’s mass deportation raids, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

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Seven Democrats voted to extend funding which expires at the end of this month through 30 September.

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They are: Henry Cuellar of Texas, who was facing corruption charges until he was pardoned by Trump; Don Davis of North Carolina; Laura Gillen of New York; Jared Golden of Maine; Vicente Gonzalez of Texas; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington; and Tom Suozzi of New York.

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Six of the seven, all but Gillen, represent congressional districts won by Trump in 2024. Gillen’s Long Island district voted narrowly for Kamala Harris, 50-49.

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Thomas Massie was the lone Republican to vote against the funding bill.

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Shortly before the US House narrowly failed to pass a war power resolution constraining US military action in Venezuela, Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had called the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, “just to say hello.”

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Machado recently gifted Trump her Nobel peace prize, after reports that her decision to accept the award, rather than saying that it should be given to the US president, is what caused him to sour on her and claim that the popular politician lacked the support to run the country.

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“We have a very good relationship,” Trump said. “She’s a good woman, a very nice woman.”

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“She’s been through a lot, and at the same time, I’ll tell you they’re doing a very good job in Venezuela,” Trump said, in reference to the remnants of the ousted president’s regime he has decided to leave in place instead of calling for new elections Machado would likely win.

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“I get along with both sides,” he said.

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At another point in the exchange with reporters, Trump said: “Delcy’s shown very strong leadership so far, I have to say,” Trump said, referring to Delcy Rodríguez, the interim president of Venezuela who was elected vice-president in what the US called a stolen election.

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Asked when he might be willing to allow Venezuela to elect a new leader, Trump said his first priority was keeping control of the nation’s oil sales. “First of all, we have to take in a lot of money, we have to get that back”, he said.

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“We’re going to start drilling very soon, we have the biggest companies in the world, they’re going to be going in, they’re all negotiating right now,” Trump said. “And we’re representing the nation,” he said, in reference to Venezuela. “And the nation is very thrilled by that, because we’re really good at this. And they’ll be taking in more money than they ever have, but we’ll be taking in a lot of money too.”

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“It’s going to make the United States a lot of money,” Trump added.

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By seizing control of Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump is finally putting into action a scheme to use the US military as the muscle in a global protection racket he first proposed 15 years ago, in a post for the video blog he set up to promote The Celebrity Apprentice.

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“I can’t believe what our country is doing,” Trump said in a video posted on YouTube on 28 February 2011, two weeks before the Obama administration got US Security Council authorization “to protect civilians” in Libya during Arab spring protests against Col Muammar Gaddafi. “Gaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around we have soldiers all have the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage and that’s what it is: It’s a carnage.”

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“After it’s all done, we go to the protesters, who end up running the country,” Trump added, “and we should then say, ‘By the way, from all of your oil, we want reimbursement.’”

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A month later, as he teased a run against Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012, the Fox host Bill O’Reilly quizzed him on how he would handle foreign policy as president. Trump revealed that he had an entirely new plan for Iraq: American troops should be withdrawn, but only from those parts of the country without oilfields.

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“In the old days, when you had wars, you win, right? You win. To the victor belong the spoils, Trump said. “I like the old system better: You won a war, you stay there, and you keep the oil.”

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“You stay and protect the oil, and you take the oil and you take whatever is necessary for them and you take what’s necessary for us and we pay our self back, Trump added. “I study wars, OK? My whole life is a war. You look at wars over the years. A country goes in, they conquer and they stay. We go in, we conquer, and then we leave. And we hand it to people that we don’t even know. … So, in a nutshell, we go in, we take over the second largest oilfields, and we stay.”

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The US House failed to pass a Democratic-backed resolution on Thursday that would have prevented Donald Trump from sending US military forces to Venezuela after a tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage.

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Democrats forced the vote on the war powers resolution, bringing up a debate in the Republican-controlled Congress on Trump’s unauthorized military intervention.

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The Trump administration told senators last week that there are no US troops on the ground in Venezuela and committed to getting congressional approval before launching major military operations there. But Democrats argued that the resolution is necessary after the US raid to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and since Trump has stated plans to control the country’s oil industry for years to come.

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Reminded by a reporter on Air Force One that he had said last week that he would be imposing tariffs of 25% on countries that trade with Iran, Donald Trump said: “I am doing that, yeah. We’re doing that. If you do business with Iran, you’re going to have a tariff of 25%.”

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Pressed to say when that would go into effect, Trump said “It goes into effect very soon.”

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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he flies back to the US, Donald Trump was just asked about the possibility of US military intervention in the country amid widespread reports of protesters being killed.

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“We’re watching Iran,” the US president said. “You know we have a lot of ships going that direction, just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we’ll see what happens.”

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“We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen. But we’re watching them very closely,” he added.

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Minutes later he also said that “a lot” of protesters had been killed, but did not know the exact number.

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“Nobody knows a number. I mean it’s a lot no matter what. Hey, if it was one person,” the president said. “In this country if it’s one person, it’s front-page news”, he added, in apparent reference to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis this month by an ICE officer, which he immediately lied about and dismissed.

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“It’s a lot of people, but you know there’s a difference between ‘a lot’ and 20,000 people, so we’ll find out,” Trump added.

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“But we have an armada, we have a massive fleet heading in that direction, and maybe we won’t have to use it. We’ll see.”

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Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, has filed paperwork to establish a campaign committee that would allow her to run for governor later this year, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

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The newspaper quotes a source close to the senator saying that the filing is a preliminary step but “The senator will make an announcement of her plans in the coming days”.

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Klobuchar, who ran for the presidency in the 2020 Democratic primaries, is expected to enter the race to replace Tim Walz, who dropped his bid for a third term after Donald Trump made the state the focus of his immigration crackdown, which is doubling as an effort to attack Democratic run states and cities.

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Accusations of fraud by dozens of Somali-Americans in the state have also been used by Trump to attack Walz, who was the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 2024.

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Leaders of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party have reportedly urged Klobuchar to run, viewing her as the strongest Democratic candidate.

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In recent days, Klobuchar has come under withering criticism from Minneapolis residents for making a series of light-hearted posts about her public appearances around the state as the Twin Cities have been under siege by federal immigration officers.

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On social media on Thursday, Klobuchar repeatedly criticized the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, where Renee Good was killed by an officer this month, and posted a letter to the acting director of the agency in which she and her fellow senator Tina Smith argued that ICE was violating the constitution by not allowing people they detain access to legal counsel. “ICE must comply with the law and allow access to attorneys,” Klobuchar wrote. “This is not optional.”

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Smith has already announced that she will not be seeking re-election in the 2026 midterms, meaning that both of the state’s seats in the US Senate could be at stake in the midterms.

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The president kept an eye on Jack Smith’s testimony in front of House members on the judiciary committee today, as he journeyed back from Switzerland. In a recent post on Truth Social he, once again, called the former special counsel “deranged”.

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Earlier in today’s hearing, congresswoman Becca Balint said that the president has used the epithet to describe Smith more than 180 times on social media.

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Trump added that Smith “should be prosecuted for his actions”, adding that “he destroyed the lives of many innocent people, which has been his history as a prosecutor.”

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The president said that “at minimum” Smith was guilty of “large scale perjury”.

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Reporting from Minneapolis

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After a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good, Vance previously said that federal law enforcement is “protected by absolute immunity.” On Thursday, in Minneapolis, he called Good’s death a “tragedy” and said that “of course, we’re investigating the Renee Good shooting”.

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He said the intent is for agents to have due process and “real investigation” because “sometimes they’re accused of wrongdoing, and it turns out, when you learn the context, they didn’t actually do anything wrong”.

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It is also a “tragedy” that agents in the city are worried that if they call 911, no one will come to help them, he said. He said he would take accusations of racial profiling back to Washington to investigate further, but said that much of the viral claims of ICE excess and brutality to be overblown or out of context.

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“We have so much federal law enforcement resources here right now. We have so many people here that we do not want to have here,” he said. “I do not want so many ICE officers in Minneapolis right now. I mean, it’s really, really freaking cold outside, but they’re here not even to enforce immigration laws, but to protect the people from the rioters. That’s an absurd state of affairs.”

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Reporting from Minneapolis

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Vance called those who are seeking to disrupt ICE “far-left agitators” and said state and local public officials should be cooperating on immigration enforcement. He said he has “reasons to believe” that local officials will soon be more cooperative and ask local law enforcement to help facilitate arrests of people like criminal sex offenders. The “number one thing” that would lower the temperature would be for local officials to help facilitate “reasonable enforcement of the law”.

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“Come out and protest. Protest me. Protest our immigration policy, but do it peacefully,” Vance said. “If you assault a law enforcement officer, the Trump administration and the Department of Justice is going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.”

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He also defended ICE agents over the 5-year-old child who was detained alongside his father, saying media missed the context of the situation, claiming the father fled officers.

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“What are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America?” he said.

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“Do we want these things to happen? Do we want these arrests to be so chaotic? No, we don’t. These guys want it, least of all,” Vance added. “But if we had a little cooperation from local and state officials, I think the chaos would go way down in this community.”

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Notably, Jack Smith said that he didn’t understand why Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 Capitol rioters when he returned to office last year. “I don’t get it, I never will,” he added.

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“The people who assaulted police officers, were convicted after trial, my view, and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison, are dangerous to their communities,” Smith said. “Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again, and I think all of us reasonable know that there’s going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future.”

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Congresswoman Becca Balint, a Democrat, pushed Smith to explain whether it’s uncommon for a special counsel’s report to remain unreleased.

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A reminder that judge Aileen Cannon ordered Volume II of Smith’s report, on his investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, to remain sealed. Smith said he was limited about what he could mention about the report given the court’s order.

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The former special counsel also responded to Blint’s question about how Trump’s incessant insults against him.

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“The statements are meant to intimidate me. I will not be intimidated,” Smith said. “I think these statements are also made as a warning to others what will happen if they stand up and I am, as I say, not going to be intimidated.”

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Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal, of Washington, said that her Republican colleagues were trying to “rewrite history” by claiming that “somehow Trump’s words and actions did not legally rise to the level of criminal activity, that he did not directly cause violence at the Capitol”.

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She said she wanted to set the record straight. Responding to her questions about what his investigation found, Jack Smith gave the following answers:

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Did your investigation find that Donald Trump attempted to manufacture fraudulent slates of presidential electors in seven states that he lost? Yes.

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Did he pressure state officials to ignore true vote counts in those states? Yes.

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Did he spread lies and conspiracy to his followers to make them believe that the election had been illegally rigged against him? Yes.

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Did he pressure DOJ officials to stop the certification of the election? He did.

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Did he pressure his own vice-president, Mike Pence, to stop the certification, against the oath of office he had sworn to the constitution? He did.

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And when all of this didn’t work, did he – Donald Trump – motivate and inspire an angry mob to the US Capitol to stop the certification. Our proof showed that he caused what happened on January 6, that it was foreseeable and that he exploited that violence.

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Did Donald Trump know that his allegations of election fraud were lies when he spread them? Our proof was that he did and we intended to prove that at trial.

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He even privately admitted that he lost the election, correct? Yes.

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Jack Smith said earlier that he opted not to charge Trump with insurrection, but he is asserting clearly that the January 6 Capitol riot was principally the fault of the president.

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While answering questions from lawmakers earlier, Jack Smith defended gathering “toll data” from lawmakers’ personal mobile phones as part of his fake-elector investigation, known as “Arctic Frost”.

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A reminder that as part of the probe, the FBI subpoenaed phone records of several Republican members of Congress. Notably this did not include the content of any correspondence, but the metadata of the calls.

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“We wanted to conduct a thorough investigation of the matters that was assigned to me, including attempts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power,” Smith said. “It was relevant to get toll records to understand the scope of that conspiracy, who they were seeking to coerce, who they were seeking to influence, who was seeking to help them.”

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The former special counsel also said that it is “common practice” to obtain non-content toll records in complex investigation.

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While speaking in Toledo, Ohio, vice-president JD Vance slammed the ongoing demonstrations against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis (where he’s due to visit later today).

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“If you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement and accept that we have to have a border in this country. It’s not that hard,” he said during his Thursday remarks at a shipping facility.

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He went on to say that people should show their disapproval at the ballot box, not by going “to the street and assaulting federal law enforcement.”

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“It’s cowardly bullshit,” he added.

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The top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, Jamie Raskin, praised Jack Smith’s handling of his investigations into the president. Raskin also noted the persistent denigration by Donald Trump as Smith conducted the probes.

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“He says you belong in prison not because you did anything wrong, mind you, but because you did everything right,” the Maryland congressman said.

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Raskin also ran through the myriad instances in which Smith found that Donald Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election.

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“If anybody decides to attack you [Smith] personally, they will only be revealing their own ignorance of what prosecutors do and their own indifference to what the rule of law requires in America,” Raskin said. “They will only be stroking the wounded ego of a lawless, twice impeached, convicted felon president.”

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In his opening remarks today, House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan slammed Jack Smith and his two failed investigations into the president.

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“It was always about politics and to get president Trump. They were willing to do just about anything,” Jordan said.

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He maintained that the probes into the president were part of a scheme to prevent Trump’s re-election. Jordan repeated the ruling by judge Aileen Cannon – who dismissed the classified documents case – saying Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.

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“In spite of the Left and the weaponization efforts of Jim Comey, Alvin Bragg, Bonnie Willis and Jack Smith, we the people saw through it all, and we elected President Trump twice,” Jordan concluded.

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In a short while we’ll hear from former special counsel under, Jack Smith. The prosecutor, who served under Joe Biden, is to testify in front of House lawmakers on the judiciary committee about his handling of two federal investigations into Donald Trump.

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A reminder that Smith, reviled by Donald Trump, was in charge of the probes into the president’s attempts to subvert and overturn the 2020 election, and the classified documents recovered from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

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Ultimately, when Trump won the 2024 election the justice department dropped both cases. Smith, however, has routinely defended his indictments against the president during his eight-hour closed door testimony in front of the same committee in December, and said he would “still bring charges” against Trump given the evidence.

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The eighth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday lifted restrictions on federal immigration agents’ use of force against protesters.

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Last week, a US district judge in Minnesota issued a preliminary injunction curbing tactics that have been used widely by ICE agents against protesters in Minneapolis.

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In her ruling, judge Katherine Menendez found that the federal officers’ actions, which included “the drawing and pointing of weapons; the use of pepper spray and other non-lethal munitions; actual and threatened arrest and detainment of protesters and observers; and other intimidation tactics,” had a chilling affect on protesters exercising their first amendment rights.

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Attorney general Pam Bondi called the appeals court ruling a “victory”, called Menendez an “liberal judge” and said her initial ruling was “designed to undermine federal law enforcement”.

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Senator Patty Murray, the top Democratic appropriator in the upper chamber, said that “there is much more we must do to rein in DHS”, but ulimtaltely Democrats need to reclaim power in Congress to enact meaningful change.

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In a statement, she explained that she agreed with most of her colleagues that Kristi Noem’s Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) is “sick and un-American”, but a government shutdown, or a stopgap spending bill, would mean remove the “critical guardrails and constraints imposed by a full-year funding bill” on DHS, and federal immigration officers.

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“The hard truth is that Democrats must win political power to enact the kind of accountability we need,” Murray said. “We must take our fight to the ballot box.”

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As Donald Trump wraps up his time in Switzerland, his vice-president JD Vance will head to Minneapolis today, as protests against federal immigration enforcement continues throughout the Twin Cities in the weeks since the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.

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The vice-president will first attend a meeting with ICE agents, and then hold a roundtable with local business leaders and officials. Both of these events will be closed to the press. He’ll then deliver public remarks at 2:40pm ET.

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Prior to travelling to Minneapolis, Vance will head to Toledo, Ohio to tout the administration’s economic agenda.

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father to a Texas detention center, according to school officials.

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Liam Ramos, a preschooler, and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway, the superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in the region over the last two weeks, the district said.

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Liam and his father had just arrived home when they were detained, according to Zena Stenvik, the superintendent, who said she drove to the home when she learned of the detentions.

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When she arrived, Stenvik said the father’s car was still running and the father and son had already been apprehended. An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.

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Donald Trump is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where on Thursday he, alongside several other leaders, signed the Board of Peace charter. While initially framed as a narrow mechanism to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, the board is now instead being positioned as a standing global body, chaired by Trump himself, operating in parallel to the United Nations.

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Some countries such as France and Britain have declined the offer of membership, with Yvette Cooper, the UK foreign secretary, expressing concern over the announcement on Monday that Vladimir Putin had been invited to join.

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In a marathon speech in Davos on Wednesday, Trump reiterated his desire to take control of Greenland, “including right, title and ownership,” but backed away from threats of military intervention. He later announced a “framework for a future deal” to settle the issue and withdrew the threat of tariffs against eight European countries.

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For more Davos coverage, follow our colleage Graeme Wearden here:

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Meanwhile back home, Trump’s immigration crackdown continues with enforcement efforts persisting in Minnesota and spreading to target Somali communities in Maine.

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In Washington, congressional Democrats are coming out en masse to reject a bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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“In the last 24 hours, we’ve heard our members speak loudly that ICE isn’t doing enough, these reforms aren’t doing enough. This lawlessness has to stop,” said Pete Aguilar, the chairman of the party’s caucus.

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With the news that Air Force One has returned Donald Trump from his bruising trip to Davos, this concludes our live coverage of his second administration for the day. We will return on Friday. Here are the latest developments:

• Having spent 11 months trying to conceal the bruising on his right hand from public view, Donald Trump developed a large bruise on his left hand on Thursday. His chief spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, deflected questions about hte prsident’s health by claiming that the damage to his hand was caused by a collision with a table during an event at Davos earlier in the day. But then again, the previous day, she accused a reporter of lying for accurately reporting that the president, who turns 80 in a few months, repeatedly referred to Greenland as “Iceland” while staking a territorial claim to one of those places.

• The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization with a statement in which the health secretary, RFK Jr, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, accused the body of botching the response to Covid-19 – the pandemic Trump downplayed as president – and of trying to steal an American flag.

• Trump informed Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, that he is no longer invited to join the “board of peace” the US president unveiled to the world with much fanfare at Davos on Thursday.

• By a vote of 220-207, the US House narrowly passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the two agencies carrying out Trump’s mass deportation raids, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Seven Democrats voted for the funding.

• Asked when he might be willing to allow Venezuela to elect a new leader, Trump said his first priority was keeping control of the nation’s oil sales. “First of all, we have to take in a lot of money, we have to get that back”, he said.

• Trump again warned Iran not to kill protesters, or else. “Nobody knows a number. I mean it’s a lot no matter what. Hey, if it was one person,” the president said. “In this country if it’s one person, it’s front-page news”, he added, in apparent reference to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis this month by an ICE officer, which he immediately lied about and dismissed.

RFK Jr and Rubio issue joint statement on US withdrawing from World Health Organization

The United States formally withdrew from the main global public health body, the World Health Organization, on Thursday, according to a joint statement from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

“Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), freeing itself from its constraints,” the statement began. “This action responds to the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”

While making such a grand, evidence-free, pronouncement, the two men seemed to channel their boss, Donald Trump, by devoting a portion of the statement to complaining about the international body not promptly returning the US flag that has flown outside its headquarters in Geneva, alongside those of the other 193 member nations, for decades.

“We will get our flag back for the Americans who died alone in nursing homes, the small businesses devastated by WHO-driven restrictions, and the American lives shattered by this organization’s inactivity,” the statement says. “Our withdrawal is for them.”

Trump trolls Nato, suggesting military allies should be ‘forced’ to protect US-Mexico border

En route home from Switzerland, Donald Trump is whiling away the hours posting on his own social media site.

One of his latest posts is a jibe at Nato, the international military alliance formed to promote the collective security of Western Europe and the US after the second world war.

A cornerstone of the founding treaty is article 5, which commits all member nations to defend the others from “armed attack”.

“The Parties agree, the treaty text reads, “that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.”

Article 5 has only been invoked once, after the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. In the subsequent fighting in Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda was based at the time, hundreds of troops from Nato member nations were killed fighting alongside US forces.

Trump’s anger at Nato, for not agreeing to let him annex Greenland, which is part of the territory of one of the Nato members, the Kingdom of Denmark, led to an angry outburst at Davos this week, when he claimed, falsely, that the allies who served alongside the US only did so away from the frontlines. In fact, on a per capita basis, the loses for Denmark and Britain nearly equalled those for the US.

Either unaware or unconcerned that the arrival of undocumented immigrants in the United States is obviously not :an armed attack”, Trump just posted:

Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.

Trump tells Canada’s prime minister he is no longer invited to join his ‘board of peace’

In a post on his social media platform, apparently posted from Air Force One, Donald Trump has informed Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, that he is no longer invited to join the “board of peace” the US president unveiled to the world with much fanfare at Davos on Thursday.

“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump’s post began. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.”

While the leaders of many liberal democracies declined to sign on the Trump’s new international organization, Carney had, before Davos, accepted in principle, though he said on Sunday his officials had not yet gone through “all the details of the structure, how it’s going to work, what the financing is for, etcetera.”

“Canada wants money to have maximum impact,” Carney told reporters.

Canada’s finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, then said on Tuesday that the Canadians did not plan to pay the $1bn countries were asked to hand over to Trump for a permanent seat on the board that was originally described as a temporary body to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.

In a frank address to world leaders at Davos on Tuesday, however, Carney described what he called “a rupture” in the previous “rules-based” world order overseen by the United States caused by Trump’s aggressive behavior.

When he arrived in Davos, Trump made it clear that he had heard or at least heard of Carney’s viral speech.

“Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump said in his own address on Wednesday. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”

“Canada doesn’t live because of the United States,” Carney responded Thursday. “Canada thrives because we are Canadian.”

Trump blames clipping a table, and aspirin, for new bruise on his left hand

At the end of an exchange with reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, Donald Trump was asked about a new, large bruise on the back of his left hand that was visible in video and news images of his appearance at Davos earlier in the day.

“We saw the bruising on your hand; are you OK?” a reporter asked.

Trump, who had turned away to leave, turned back to say: “I’m very good.”

“I hit, I clipped it on the table,” he said, repeating the explanation his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, offered to reporters earlier in the day.

As Leavitt looked on, Trump added: “I clipped it. I would say, take aspirin if you like your heart, but don’t take aspirin if you don’t want to have a little bruising.”

“You know, if you take the big, I take the big aspirin,” he added, referring to an earlier statement that he takes four times the recommended dose of aspirin as a measure to prevent blood clots. “When you take the big aspirin, they tell you, you bruise,” Trump continued. “The doctor said, ‘You don’t have to take that, sir, you’re very healthy’. I said, ‘I’m not taking any chances’. So, anyway, that’s one of the side effects of taking aspirin.”

Leavitt claimed to a CBS News reporter earlier on Thursday that Trump “hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise,” at an event for his “board of peace”. The bruise was clearly visible in news photographs taken during the event, and at one stage, after Trump greeted the prime minister of Qatar, he was seen looking down and inspecting the back of his left hand.

Trump’s latest explanation for what many have speculated is a sign that he is receiving doses of medication intravenously, comes after he had spent 11 months covering up a similar bruise on his right hand, with thick make-up or by keeping his left hand on top of his right at public events.

The initial White House explanation of the persistent bruise on Trump’s right hand was that it came, in part, from shaking hands, and from the president’s decision to take a much higher dose of aspirin than is recommended. The bruising on his left hand seems to rule out handshakes as a cause.

Dr Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist who treated Dick Cheney, suggested that Trump’s explanation was baffling. “Why would you continue to take a higher dose of aspirin than your doctor recommends if you’re bruising excessively? Makes no sense,” Reiner observed on social media.

Concerns that the White House might not be telling the truth the physical health of the president, who turns 80 in a few months, come one day after Leavitt accused a reporter of lying for accurately reporting that Trump had mistakenly called Greenland “Iceland” four times during a speech in Davos, despite the fact that those flubs were recorded on video and even posted on the White House YouTube channel.

As many observers noted, when Joe Biden tripped over his words, something he had done for many decades before becoming president, Trump and his supporters called such flubs evidence of dementia.

‘Trump loves who he is’, Zelenskyy tells European leaders. ‘He will not change’.

As our colleague Andrew Roth reported earlier, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, used his address at Davos on Thursday to warn European leaders that their desire to change Donald Trump would not work and the continent’s liberal democracies have to come together to defend themselves from the threat of Russian aggression that might not stop in Ukraine.

“Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers. Instead of taking the lead in defending freedom worldwide, especially when America’s focus shifts elsewhere – Europe looks lost, trying to convince the U.S. President to change. But he will not change,” Zelenskyy said. “President Trump loves who he is. And he says he loves Europe. But he will not listen to this kind of Europe.”

The Ukrainian president also criticized the continent’s leaders for failing to take action to protect protesters in Iran, again leaving that to the whims of Trump.

“There was so much talk about the protests in Iran – but they drowned in blood,” Zelenskyy said. “In Europe, there were Christmas and New Year celebrations. The seasonal holidays. By the time politicians came back to work and started forming a position – the Ayatollah had already killed thousands.”

“And what will Iran become after this bloodshed? If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully: kill enough people, and you stay in power,” he added. “And yet – Europe hasn’t even tried to build its own response.”

Seven House Democrats vote for bill to fund agencies running Trump’s immigration crackdown

By a vote of 220-207, the US House narrowly passed legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes the two agencies carrying out Donald Trump’s mass deportation raids, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Seven Democrats voted to extend funding which expires at the end of this month through 30 September.

They are: Henry Cuellar of Texas, who was facing corruption charges until he was pardoned by Trump; Don Davis of North Carolina; Laura Gillen of New York; Jared Golden of Maine; Vicente Gonzalez of Texas; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington; and Tom Suozzi of New York.

Six of the seven, all but Gillen, represent congressional districts won by Trump in 2024. Gillen’s Long Island district voted narrowly for Kamala Harris, 50-49.

Thomas Massie was the lone Republican to vote against the funding bill.

Before elections in Venezuela, Trump says, ‘We have to take in a lot of money’ from selling its oil

Shortly before the US House narrowly failed to pass a war power resolution constraining US military action in Venezuela, Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had called the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, “just to say hello.”

Machado recently gifted Trump her Nobel peace prize, after reports that her decision to accept the award, rather than saying that it should be given to the US president, is what caused him to sour on her and claim that the popular politician lacked the support to run the country.

“We have a very good relationship,” Trump said. “She’s a good woman, a very nice woman.”

“She’s been through a lot, and at the same time, I’ll tell you they’re doing a very good job in Venezuela,” Trump said, in reference to the remnants of the ousted president’s regime he has decided to leave in place instead of calling for new elections Machado would likely win.

“I get along with both sides,” he said.

At another point in the exchange with reporters, Trump said: “Delcy’s shown very strong leadership so far, I have to say,” Trump said, referring to Delcy Rodríguez, the interim president of Venezuela who was elected vice-president in what the US called a stolen election.

Asked when he might be willing to allow Venezuela to elect a new leader, Trump said his first priority was keeping control of the nation’s oil sales. “First of all, we have to take in a lot of money, we have to get that back”, he said.

“We’re going to start drilling very soon, we have the biggest companies in the world, they’re going to be going in, they’re all negotiating right now,” Trump said. “And we’re representing the nation,” he said, in reference to Venezuela. “And the nation is very thrilled by that, because we’re really good at this. And they’ll be taking in more money than they ever have, but we’ll be taking in a lot of money too.”

“It’s going to make the United States a lot of money,” Trump added.

By seizing control of Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump is finally putting into action a scheme to use the US military as the muscle in a global protection racket he first proposed 15 years ago, in a post for the video blog he set up to promote The Celebrity Apprentice.

“I can’t believe what our country is doing,” Trump said in a video posted on YouTube on 28 February 2011, two weeks before the Obama administration got US Security Council authorization “to protect civilians” in Libya during Arab spring protests against Col Muammar Gaddafi. “Gaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around we have soldiers all have the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage and that’s what it is: It’s a carnage.”

“After it’s all done, we go to the protesters, who end up running the country,” Trump added, “and we should then say, ‘By the way, from all of your oil, we want reimbursement.’”

A month later, as he teased a run against Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012, the Fox host Bill O’Reilly quizzed him on how he would handle foreign policy as president. Trump revealed that he had an entirely new plan for Iraq: American troops should be withdrawn, but only from those parts of the country without oilfields.

“In the old days, when you had wars, you win, right? You win. To the victor belong the spoils, Trump said. “I like the old system better: You won a war, you stay there, and you keep the oil.”

“You stay and protect the oil, and you take the oil and you take whatever is necessary for them and you take what’s necessary for us and we pay our self back, Trump added. “I study wars, OK? My whole life is a war. You look at wars over the years. A country goes in, they conquer and they stay. We go in, we conquer, and then we leave. And we hand it to people that we don’t even know. … So, in a nutshell, we go in, we take over the second largest oilfields, and we stay.”

US House fails to pass Venezuela war powers resolution to keep Trump from sending troops

The US House failed to pass a Democratic-backed resolution on Thursday that would have prevented Donald Trump from sending US military forces to Venezuela after a tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage.

Democrats forced the vote on the war powers resolution, bringing up a debate in the Republican-controlled Congress on Trump’s unauthorized military intervention.

The Trump administration told senators last week that there are no US troops on the ground in Venezuela and committed to getting congressional approval before launching major military operations there. But Democrats argued that the resolution is necessary after the US raid to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and since Trump has stated plans to control the country’s oil industry for years to come.

Trump says he is imposing 25% tariff on nations that do business with Iran ‘very soon’

Reminded by a reporter on Air Force One that he had said last week that he would be imposing tariffs of 25% on countries that trade with Iran, Donald Trump said: “I am doing that, yeah. We’re doing that. If you do business with Iran, you’re going to have a tariff of 25%.”

Pressed to say when that would go into effect, Trump said “It goes into effect very soon.”

Trump says he is watching Iran ‘very closely’ where ‘a lot’ of protesters have been killed

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he flies back to the US, Donald Trump was just asked about the possibility of US military intervention in the country amid widespread reports of protesters being killed.

“We’re watching Iran,” the US president said. “You know we have a lot of ships going that direction, just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we’ll see what happens.”

“We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen. But we’re watching them very closely,” he added.

Minutes later he also said that “a lot” of protesters had been killed, but did not know the exact number.

“Nobody knows a number. I mean it’s a lot no matter what. Hey, if it was one person,” the president said. “In this country if it’s one person, it’s front-page news”, he added, in apparent reference to the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis this month by an ICE officer, which he immediately lied about and dismissed.

“It’s a lot of people, but you know there’s a difference between ‘a lot’ and 20,000 people, so we’ll find out,” Trump added.

“But we have an armada, we have a massive fleet heading in that direction, and maybe we won’t have to use it. We’ll see.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar files paperwork suggesting run for Minnesota governor, as Walz bows out

Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, has filed paperwork to establish a campaign committee that would allow her to run for governor later this year, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports.

The newspaper quotes a source close to the senator saying that the filing is a preliminary step but “The senator will make an announcement of her plans in the coming days”.

Klobuchar, who ran for the presidency in the 2020 Democratic primaries, is expected to enter the race to replace Tim Walz, who dropped his bid for a third term after Donald Trump made the state the focus of his immigration crackdown, which is doubling as an effort to attack Democratic run states and cities.

Accusations of fraud by dozens of Somali-Americans in the state have also been used by Trump to attack Walz, who was the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 2024.

Leaders of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party have reportedly urged Klobuchar to run, viewing her as the strongest Democratic candidate.

In recent days, Klobuchar has come under withering criticism from Minneapolis residents for making a series of light-hearted posts about her public appearances around the state as the Twin Cities have been under siege by federal immigration officers.

On social media on Thursday, Klobuchar repeatedly criticized the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, where Renee Good was killed by an officer this month, and posted a letter to the acting director of the agency in which she and her fellow senator Tina Smith argued that ICE was violating the constitution by not allowing people they detain access to legal counsel. “ICE must comply with the law and allow access to attorneys,” Klobuchar wrote. “This is not optional.”

Smith has already announced that she will not be seeking re-election in the 2026 midterms, meaning that both of the state’s seats in the US Senate could be at stake in the midterms.