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Top Trump official fires US attorney less than five hours into job Story by Joe Sommerlad

Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say

Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say

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Like Sarcone in New York, former Trump lawyer Alina Habba was also found to have unlawfully outstayed her welcome as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey 

Top Trump official fires US attorney less than five hours into job Story by Joe Sommerlad

 Top Trump official fires US attorney less than five hours into job 

 

A freshly-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York was abruptly fired by the Trump administration on Wednesday evening, just hours after accepting the post from a panel of federal judges.

Donald Kinsella, a veteran prosecutor, had been sworn in by Chief Judge Brenda K Sannes in a private virtual ceremony earlier in the day, only to then receive an email from Morgan Dewitt, a special assistant in the White House personnel office, advising him he was being removed, according to The Albany Times Union

 

“Judges don’t pick U.S. Attorneys, POTUS does,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on X. “See Article II of our Constitution. You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”

Kinsella, 79, subsequently told The New York Times that he was not certain whether his removal was legal and said he would consult with the Northern District judges on Thursday about next steps.

 

Kinsella had been chosen as the replacement for John A Sarcone III, who was appointed to the position on an interim basis last year by Attorney General Pam Bondi, rather than being formally nominated by President Donald Trump, which would have required a Senate confirmation hearing.

A judge found in January that Sarcone’s 210-day term, granted under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, had expired the previous July, meaning he was serving unlawfully, the same fate that also met Trump allies Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively.

 

Sarcone had no prior experience as a prosecutor before he took office and had clashed with judges since they decided against giving him the position permanently last summer, an embarrassment for the appointee, given that he had told a TV news station three days earlier that he had extended his tenure.

The judges instead announced they would not be appointing anyone to the position in a short statement in which they said they declined to “exercise the authority granted pursuant to (U.S. Code) to appoint a United States attorney for the Northern District of New York.”

Bondi hit back by naming Sarcone a “special attorney to the United States attorney general,” enabling him to return to the role.

Wednesday’s events came as Sarcone was awaiting a ruling on his office’s request for a stay in the January ruling against him. It is not currently clear what his next moves will be, according to The Times Union, although he is expected to remain with the Department of Justice.

 

Kinsella, for his part, is a graduate of Boston University School of Law who, early in his career, served as an assistant state attorney general and an assistant district attorney in Monroe County, New York.

He was an assistant U.S. attorney in Albany from 1989 to 2002 and, during that time, worked as chief of the office’s criminal division and as leader of its Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

 

He subsequently worked for several law firms, most recently as senior counsel at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP.

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Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say

Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say

Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say

  

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, alongside the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026.


Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say medical care to those affected by the disaster.

 

By Steve Holland

Thu, 12 February 2026

 Exclusive-Trump plans to announce Gaza funding plan, troops at first Board of Peace meeting, US officials say - Yahoo News UK 


 

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will announce a multi-billion dollar reconstruction plan for Gaza and detail plans for a U.N.-authorized stabilization force for the Palestinian enclave at the first formal meeting ‌of his Board of Peace next week, two senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Delegations from at least 20 ‌countries, including many heads of state, are expected to attend the meeting in Washington, D.C., which Trump will chair on February 19, the officials told Reuters ​on condition of anonymity.

 

The details on Trump's plans for the first meeting of his Board of Peace for Gaza have not been previously reported.

Trump signed documents in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23 establishing the Board of Peace. The board's creation was endorsed by a United Nations Security Council resolution as part of Trump's Gaza plan.

While regional Middle East powers, including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, ‌as well as major emerging nations such ⁠as Indonesia, have joined the board, global powers and traditional Western U.S. allies have been more cautious.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday during his visit to Washington that Israel has joined ⁠the board.

 

Trump has stirred concerns that the Board of Peace might try to resolve other conflicts around the world and compete with the United Nations. The U.S. officials said the meeting next week will focus solely on Gaza.

They said a central part of the meeting will ​be ​Trump's announcement of a multi-billion-dollar fund for Gaza, which will include ​monetary contributions from participating board members.

One official called the ‌offers "generous" and said that the United States had not made any explicit requests for donations.

"People have come to us offering," the official said. "The president will make announcements vis a vis the money raised."


 

Deployment of the International Stabilization Force is a key part of the next phase of Trump's Gaza plan, announced in September. Under the first phase, a fragile ceasefire in the two-year-old war began on October 10 and Hamas has released hostages while Israel has freed detained Palestinians.

Trump will announce that several ‌countries plan to provide several thousand troops to the stabilization force that ​is expected to deploy in Gaza in the months ahead, the officials ​said.

A primary concern for now is disarming Hamas fighters ​who have been reluctant to give up their weapons. Under Trump's Gaza plan, Hamas members who commit ‌to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons ​will be given amnesty. Members of ​Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries, under the plan.

 

The Board of Peace meetings will also include detailed reports on the work of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, ​which was established to take over the ‌day-to-day civil administration of Gaza Strip from Hamas. The committee announced its members and held its first meeting ​in January.

Other updates will cover humanitarian aid for Gaza as well as the Gaza police, the officials ​said.

(Reporting by Steve Holland; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman)



Trial date set for Donald Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit against the BBC

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Photo Above: Donald Trump Is Suing BBC for 10 Billion Dollars February 2026


Trial date set for Donald Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit against the BBC

 

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Thu, 12 February 2026

 Trial date set for Donald Trump's $10bn defamation lawsuit against the BBC - Yahoo News UK 

 

A JUDGE has set a date for a court to hear a $10 billion (£7.5bn) defamation lawsuit brought against the BBC by US president Donald Trump.

A judge in Florida, where the case has been lodged, has said it will proceed to trial in February 2027.

The BBC previously tried to have the case dismissed, but failed.

The defamation suit centres around the editing of a BBC Panorama documentary in 2024. The US president alleges that it gave the impression he had encouraged his supporters to storm the Capitol building in 2021.

 Court documents from the US District Court Southern District of Florida show judge Roy K Altman set a trial date of February 15 next year 

 

The order, made on February 11, said: “This matter is set for trial during the Court’s two-week trial calendar beginning February 15, 2027.

"Counsel for all parties shall also appear at a calendar call at 1:45 p.m. on February 9, 2027.

“Unless instructed otherwise by subsequent order, the trial and all other proceedings in this case shall be conducted in Courtroom 12-4 at the Wilkie D Ferguson Jnr US Courthouse, 400 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33128.”

 Trump’s lawyers have argued the depiction of him given in the Panorama edit “was false and defamatory” and they also said “the BBC intentionally and maliciously sought to fully mislead its viewers around the world”. 

 

The BBC previously apologised for an "error of judgment" for the way it edited the Panorama episode, but refused to compensate the US president.

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned from the BBC over the Panorama edit (Image: PA)

The move led to two high-profile resignations. Tim Davie stood down as director-general, and Deborah Turness quit as chief of news in November last year.

 

At the time, the US president posted a lengthy statement welcoming the resignations.

Days later, Trump announced that he would be suing the BBC.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on November 15, the US president said he would sue the corporation for “anywhere between $1bn (£759.8 million) and $5bn (£3.79 billion), probably sometime next week”.

He had previously said he had an “obligation” to launch a billion-dollar lawsuit against the broadcaster, saying in an interview with Fox News that the BBC had “defrauded the public”.

Trump told journalists at the time: “I think I have to do it. They’ve even admitted that they cheated … They changed the words coming out of my mouth.

  

“The people of the UK are very angry about what happened.”

Before the US president announced his legal action, the BBC said the edit of Trump’s speech on January 6 2021 had given the “mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action”.

The broadcaster apologised but refused to pay financial compensation after the president’s lawyers threatened to sue for $1bn in damages unless a retraction and apology were published.

Chairman Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House to apologise for the editing, and lawyers for the corporation wrote to the president’s legal team, a BBC spokesperson said.

 

The spokesperson added: “While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”

The programme, broadcast a week before the 2024 US election results, spliced two clips together so that Trump appeared to tell the crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol … and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.”

The broadcaster said it will not air the Panorama episode Trump: A Second Chance? again, and published a retraction on the show’s webpage.

In July, US media giant Paramount agreed to pay Trump $16m (£13.5 million) to settle a lawsuit over a 2024 CBS interview with Kamala Harris, the former vice-president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

Photo Above: President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

 The president has called for the U.S. to move on from the Epstein matter, framing it as a failed conspiracy against him. 

 By: Scripps News GroupPosted 55 minutes ago

President Donald Trump is defending Attorney General Pam Bondi following her heated testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, in which she deflected questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Democrats “Deranged Radical Left Lunatics” and accused them of trying to “take away attention” from what he described as accomplishments by his administration.

 as a failed conspiracy against him.


President Donald Trump is defending Attorney General Pam Bondi following her heated testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, in which she deflected questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Democrats “Deranged Radical Left Lunatics” and accused them of trying to “take away attention” from what he described as accomplishments by his administration.

“One thing that has been proven conclusively, much to their chagrin, was that President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated of their ridiculous Russia, Russia, Russia type charges,” Trump wrote. “Actually, it is the SLIMEBALL Democrats, many of them big Donors and Politicians, that have been proven GUILTY!”

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President Trump also addressed the renewed focus on the disgraced financier, who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

“Nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive, they only cared about him when they thought he could create Political Harm to a very popular President who has brought our Country back from the brink of extinction, and very quickly, at that!” he stated.

 

During her testimony, Bondi faced pointed questions about the Epstein files and accusations the DOJ had been weaponized. She offered combative responses, mocked Democrats, and praised Trump, whom she portrayed as a victim of past investigations and impeachments.

“You sit here and you attack the president and I’m not going to have it,” Bondi said. “I am not going to put up with it.”

 

With accusers of Epstein watching from the hearing room, Bondi defended the DOJ’s handling of the files, which have named several powerful men, including former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Britain’s former Prince Andrew, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trump.

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President Trump has not been accused of criminal activity related to Epstein, though his name appears in the files numerous times. Earlier this month, he urged the U.S. to move on from the matter.

“I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else. Now that nothing came out about me, other than it was a conspiracy against me, literally, by Epstein and other people,” he said. “But I think it’s time now for the country to maybe get on to something else, like healthcare, or something the people care about."

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating With Gen Z Shows Major Change

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating With Gen Z Shows Major Change


Donald Trump’s Approval Rating With Gen Z Shows Major Change

February 12, 2026

By Evolve Editors


Donald Trump‘s approval ratings among Gen Z have reportedly undergone a big change that might hurt the US President in the upcoming midterm elections. The change in the ratings might be a result of the things happening in the US currently. These range from the ICE situation to the release of the Epstein files, which depict an alleged close relationship between Trump and the late convicted financier.


Donald Trump’s approval rating with Gen Z

According to a recent poll by YouGov/The Economist, almost 67 percent of Gen Z citizens disapprove of Trump. The poll also stated that only 1 out of 4 Gen Zers agreed with Donald Trump’s decisions and policies. Thus, making it the lowest number recorded among the other age demographics. Also, the poll concluded that in his controversial second term, Trump has a reported approval rating of 25 percent among Gen Z adults.


These numbers have dropped from the previous 52 percent approval ratings, which were recorded in a poll conducted in February 2025. At that time, Trump’s disapproval ratings were 42 percent. Additionally, according to a report by the Independent, CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten also stated recently that Trump’s net approval ratings were at -32 percent. He also added, “My goodness gracious. This is, I said, a very swinging group and it has swung very much away from Donald John Trump.”


Contrary to the findings, Davis Ingle, a spokesperson from the White House, claimed that Trump’s approval rating is high in a statement to Newsweek. He said Trump has “already made historic progress not only in America but around the world. It is not surprising that President Trump remains the most dominant figure in American politics.” On the other hand, recently, while speaking to Larry Kudlow of Fox Business, Trump claimed, “I’m popular, and I’ve done well. I think we have the greatest economy, actually, ever in history.”
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Trump’s AI push exposes a divide in the MAGA movement

Trump defends Bondi after fiery testimony on Epstein files, slams Democrats

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating With Gen Z Shows Major Change


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 President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order on artificial intelligence in the Oval Office at the White House in December. 

Trump’s AI push exposes a divide in the MAGA movemenis.

 Feb 2, 2026 by  
Steve Contorno
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/artificial-intelligence-maga-divide-trump


 

A monthslong power struggle over the future of artificial intelligence spilled into Vice President JD Vance’s office in November, when two of President Donald Trump’s allies met face-to-face for a frank conversation.

David Sacks, the White House AI czar, had spent 2025 trying to tuck language into must-pass federal funding bills that would have wiped away state AI regulations and left Congress with limited new oversight of the powerful technology. But Mike Davis, a longtime Trump legal adviser skeptical of the president’s new tech allies, twice helped rally conservative activists and lawmakers to stop it. Trump, meanwhile, had grown publicly frustrated at the lack of progress on one of his top priorities.

In Vance’s office, Davis, known for his combative style, accused Sacks of trying to run over Congress and impose artificial intelligence on the country without sufficient safeguards, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting. Sacks countered that he was simply carrying out Trump’s desire to unleash an AI boom, and Davis was getting in the way.

Vance ultimately encouraged Sacks to work with Davis. A few weeks later, Trump signed an executive order, shaped in part by both men, that aims to block states from enforcing their own artificial intelligence regulations and directs his administration to team up with Congress to create a “single national framework” for AI. The order is widely expected to face legal challenges.

 David Sacks, the White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar, speaks to the press in March.

David Sacks, the White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar, speaks to the press in March. 

 Mike Davis, a longtime Trump legal adviser, arrives for the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Mike Davis, a longtime Trump legal adviser, arrives for the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference. 

 

The episode laid bare a growing fault line within Trump’s coalition over how aggressively to unleash a technology that is rapidly reshaping society and the economy. On one side are increasingly influential tech leaders and their allies. On the other are working-class voters fearful of job disruption; cultural conservatives worried about child safety; and MAGA loyalists who view the industry with deep suspicion.

While the uneasy alliance delivered Trump a short-term victory, the battle over AI is just beginning — and Congress may be the next front. In anticipation, tech companies have hired hundreds of lobbyists and donated millions of dollars to congressional campaigns, and they are stockpiling cash in AI-friendly super PACs ahead of the midterms. Opponents are also preparing to mobilize.

“We’re going to fight like hell,” Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser and a leading tech critic, said on his podcast after the president signed the executive order. “So don’t think that anybody is placated.”

‘Sand gods’ vs. ‘civil liberty’

Trump has already moved quickly to boost a technology that, by some measures, helped prop up the US economy through much of his first year back in office. With Sacks working as a special White House adviser on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, Trump laid out a framework last summer to fast-track AI projects. To gain an edge in the AI race against China, his administration also took a 10% stake in the chipmaker Intel Corporation and imposed 25% tariffs on foreign chips.

 

But Trump has made clear he wants to go further, promising to deliver for tech companies the regulatory freedom they crave. Many of those companies are among the largest financial backers to his political operation and his new White House ballroom.

“We have the big investment coming, but if they had to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states, you can forget it, because it’s not possible to do,” Trump said when he signed the executive order.

Opposition to these efforts has emerged from influential voices within Trump’s own movement. Bannon has positioned his influential “War Room” podcast at the vanguard of a growing wave of anti-tech populism. Davis is a regular guest.

So is Joe Allen, a leading AI skeptic and “War Room” contributor who has traveled the country trying to urge conservative audiences to push back against tech CEOs and their plans to force their technology on humanity.

“They are ultimately aiming toward building sand gods,” Allen said. “And I fear there are enough credulous people in the world that whatever comes out of these research projects will be worshipped as a god.”

The risks of the administration’s embrace of AI are beginning to crystalize heading into an election year. Half of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about AI’s increasing intersection with their lives, according to a Pew Research Center poll from September, while just 10% feel more excited than concerned.

In communities of all political stripes, local leaders are responding to public pressure to block or slow AI projects, especially data centers. Increasingly, candidates for office are blaming rising utility bills on energy-hungry AI companies.

 

Sacks has argued the “very visceral” conservative disdain for AI stems from hostility toward Big Tech dating to the pandemic and from lasting fears about social media. He says that’s misguided.

“I don’t think that people on the right who are concerned about civil liberty should want the government to play this super-intrusive role in AI,” he said on his podcast.

But one Republican who advises tech clients on political strategy told CNN that AI companies should be concerned by growing backlash because “there’s a potential in the long run for Trump to see political headwinds and walk away from AI.”

“It should be a genuine concern of the industry,” said the person, who asked not to be named in order to speak freely. “I think that’s why there’s so much discussion from proponents about the national security risks of losing the AI race to China. They’re trying to box Trump into a corner.”

The Republican rebellion

Some Republicans are already breaking from Trump’s full embrace of AI.

When language banning state-level AI regulations first surfaced in a congressional budget reconciliation package that carried much of Trump’s legislative agenda, 17 Republican governors sent a letter calling on Congress to strip it from the bill. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed ahead with proposals for his state to put its own safeguards around AI, defiantly declaring, “We’re not going to give up any rights.” Sen. Josh Hawley, meanwhile, has held hearings to admonish AI executives for failing to protect children.

As more Republicans stitch anti-tech stances into their political brands, the backlash is creating challenges not only for Trump, but also for Vance, his most likely successor. The vice president has long tried to straddle a line between his deep ties to Silicon Valley and his populist roots — a tension on display in the Davis-Sacks meeting in his office.

 

“The path to power in America is through the anti-tech oligarch gate,” Bannon said to CNN when asked about this emerging divide. “You have to be hard, consistent and authentic.”

Even among Trump’s AI cheerleaders, there is a growing realization that public sentiment is quickly shifting against the technology. In December, Sacks and the co-hosts on his “All-In” podcast acknowledged that the industry had been slow to respond to mounting public fears and criticism during a conversation with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, an outspoken AI critic.

Carlson pressed the hosts on concerns ranging from energy consumption to job disruption and “the potential this gets completely away from us and eats us.” But he also mocked the technology’s uneven public rollout.

“Who’s in charge of the marketing for this?” Carlson asked.

“I don’t know,” Sacks replied. “Me?”

AI fight moves to Capitol Hill

The fast-changing sentiments have forced a shift in tactics from the White House.

The final executive order Trump signed was noticeably scaled back compared with a draft that leaked in November.

Unlike that version, the final copy said his administration “must act with the Congress” on a national AI standard. The order also won’t apply to state protections for minors or regulations of data centers, two critical carve-outs that Davis had long demanded.

“We’re very much at the table and driving this process,” Davis said on Bannon’s podcast after Trump signed the order.

Sacks did not respond to a request for comment. Davis also declined to address the meeting in Vance’s office, telling CNN: “I am not going to talk about my private discussions with White House officials.”

“But David Sacks is a good man who is working with me in good faith for the best AI policy for President Trump,” he added.

On Capitol Hill, there is for the first time real momentum for lawmakers to shape the future of AI and respond to growing voter backlash over the technology. For much of 2025, Congress was effectively sidelined while factions within the White House debated how much latitude to give Sacks and tech executives, said a Republican Senate staffer with knowledge of the negotiations. But the executive order “should be the kick in the pants lawmakers need to act,” the staffer said.

 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who has worked closely with Davis, is expected to introduce new national AI rules in the coming weeks. Trump, though, has tapped Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, an ally of the tech industry, to take the lead on legislation.

Any legislation would likely need Democratic support to pass the Senate, and the minority party has yet to articulate its own strategy for regulating AI. Democratic senators previously banded together to block AI language from the reconciliation package, but a broader split remains between lawmakers optimistic about AI’s potential and those eager to crack down on the technology.

A Senate deal must also get through the House and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who tried last year to tack on to the National Defense Authorization Act a blanket ban on state AI laws before Davis, Blackburn and others mobilized opposition.

After multiple defeats, AI advocates have quietly urged Sacks and Scalise to move off that approach.

Late last year, the pro-Trump super PAC Building America’s Future released survey data from the president’s favorite polling firm that suggested Americans want Congress to set AI policy, rather than a patchwork of states. But their data also showed voters overwhelmingly supported legislation protecting children from AI’s more problematic powers.

The polling was intended to signal a potential path forward for Scalise and other aligned Republicans in Congress — one that could be supported by Big Tech but also address some looming child safety concerns that those in the pro-family wing of the GOP have with AI, according to a person with knowledge of the strategy.

One Republican working with groups advocating against state regulations called the political landscape a “minefield” for the GOP.

“We represent working people, and if we’re not sensitive towards the impact on jobs, no question, there’s going to be political cost to that. If we’re not sensitive to protecting children, no question” there will be a political cost, the person said. “I think the president’s aware of that.”

 

Whose utopia?

As the 2026 fight heats up, major players in the AI industry have become more versed in the ways of winning influence in Washington.

Greg Brockman, the co-founder and president of OpenAI, a company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, gave $25 million to the pro Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. last year. Another super PAC, called Leading the Future, is backed by industry interests and has amassed about $100 million to target anti-AI candidates.

But that will only go so far, advocates acknowledge, and a change in the AI narrative might be needed to combat a vocal opposition.

“Lots and lots of Americans are scared of AI and don’t understand it,” said former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who launched the AI Infrastructure Coalition this year to advocate for the industry. “AI companies haven’t done the most excellent job of helping people see AI in their daily lives. That story needs to be told.”

Elon Musk recently argued that within two decades, AI automation and robotics will eventually make work optional, humans will have everything they need and most people will live off a universal income. Jason Calacanis, an angel investor and Sacks’ “All-In” co-host, called for “a Manhattan Project” that the country can rally around. It would include “10 new cities with 10 million new homes and free health care for everybody and free education for trade schools,” he said.

“That’s what solves the problem,” he said. “That’s what nobody’s doing.”

But those fantastical scenarios have hardly appeased the loudest dissenters. Allen called Calacanis’ proposal a plan for “how to replace everyone and keep the population placated.”

Carlson, for his part, dismissed such utopian visions as “the thing that offended me most about the AI conversation.”

CNN’s Hadas Gold and Kristen Holmes contributed to this report.

Trump Calls On Israel To End The Israel Gaza War

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Trump Calls On Israel To End The Israel Gaza War New York Times

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POLITICAL MEMO

 

Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right


Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were another departure from conservatives’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu.

 A portrait of Donald J. Trump.

In a recent interview with Israeli journalists, former President Donald J. Trump said that Israel was losing public support for the war in Gaza and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should end the conflict soon. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

Jonathan Swan

By Jonathan Swan

Reporting from Washington

 April 1, 2024 

 

Two Israeli journalists traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., a little over a week ago, hoping to elicit from Donald J. Trump a powerful expression of support for their country’s war in Gaza.

Instead, one of them wrote that what they heard from Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago “shocked us to the core.”

“Both U.S. presidential candidates, Biden and Trump, are turning their rhetorical backs on Israel,” concluded Ariel Kahana, a right-wing settler who is the senior diplomatic correspondent for Israel Hayom. The newspaper is owned by the billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson; Ms. Adelson herself arranged the interview with Mr. Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the planning.

What had Mr. Trump said that so alarmed Mr. Kahana?

He told the interviewers that Israel was losing public support for its Gaza assault, that the images of devastation were bad for Israel’s global image and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should end his war soon — statements that sounded far more like something President Biden might say than the kind of cheerleading Mr. Netanyahu has come to expect from Washington Republicans.

 

“You have to finish up your war,” Mr. Trump said. “You have to get it done. We have to get to peace. We can’t have this going on.”

That statement apparently troubled Mr. Kahana even more than Mr. Biden’s warnings to Israel. Mr. Biden has called for a six-week cease-fire in exchange for Hamas releasing Israeli hostages. In the interview excerpts released by Israel Hayom, Mr. Trump did not qualify his call for Israel to finish the war by insisting on the release of hostages.

“Trump effectively bypassed Biden from the left, when he expressed willingness to stop this war and get back to being the great country you once were,” Mr. Kahana wrote. “There’s no way to beautify, minimize or cover up that problematic message.”

 

Israeli troops in Gaza during an escorted tour by the Israeli military in February. In the foreground is a soldier holding a gun, with an Israeli vehicle in front of him.

Israeli troops in Gaza during an escorted tour by the Israeli military in February. Israel invaded Gaza after an attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 

 Trump aides insisted this was a misinterpretation. A campaign spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said that Mr. Trump “fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself and eliminate the terrorist threat,” but that Israel’s interests would be “best served by completing this mission as quickly, decisively and humanely as possible so that the region can return to peace and stability.” 

 BUT THERE IS NO GETTING AROUND THE DIVISION BETWEEN MR. TRUMP AND CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS, WHO SEEM TO BE COMPETING TO SEE WHO CAN MORE OSTENTATIOUSLY DEMONSTRATE SUPPORT FOR MR. NETANYAHU’S GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE FLYING TO ISRAEL TO MEET WITH MR. NETANYAHU, PLANNING TO INVITE HIM TO ADDRESS CONGRESS AND GENERALLY URGING ISRAEL TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES, TO ANNIHILATE HAMAS. 

 

In contrast, Mr. Trump’s hedging commentary to Israel Hayom is only the latest in a long line of public statements he has made to undercut Mr. Netanyahu, whom he has still not forgiven for congratulating Mr. Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.

In 2021, Mr. Trump told the Axios journalist Barak Ravid that he had concluded that Mr. Netanyahu “never wanted peace” with the Palestinians.

 

Mr. Trump’s first reaction to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack was to criticize Mr. Netanyahu and Israeli intelligence services. Advisers privately pleaded with him to clean up his comments and he quickly turned to standard lines of support for Israel’s right to defend itself.

The ambiguity of Mr. Trump’s rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war has let different audiences hear what they want in his public statements. He has said nothing of substance about what he would do differently from Mr. Biden on Israel policy if he were president, and his team again refused to get into specifics when questioned by The New York Times.

Given that void, right-wing supporters of Israel and Israelis like Mr. Kahana are parsing every utterance from Mr. Trump, worried that in a second term he might not be as reliable an ally as he was in his first term, when he gave Mr. Netanyahu nearly everything he wanted, including moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

An Israeli election poster in Jerusalem showing Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Donald Trump.   

 During Mr. Trump’s presidency, his administration moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights

 

“Those who support Trump and also are deeply supportive of Israel’s efforts to win the war with Hamas have to reconcile themselves with the fact that at a crucial moment when the administration seems to be speaking out of both sides of its mouth, and creating a sense of instability in the relationship between the United States and Israel, Trump exacerbated that instability as the putative nominee of the other party,” said John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan.

“The only difference between Trump and Biden — and I say this as somebody who is not a supporter of Biden — is that Biden has put his money where his mouth is. He’s been sending arms,” Mr. Podhoretz added. “So that would seem to suggest that operationally, the problem with Biden is rhetoric and not policy. And all Trump is is rhetoric, and he’s not laying out any policy that should make anybody feel good.”

Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, insisted in an interview that people were misreading Mr. Trump’s statements.

While he said he respected Mr. Kahana, Mr. Friedman suggested the reporter had over-interpreted Mr. Trump’s remarks: “I understand the fear of Republican isolationism, because there is a vein within the Republican Party that moves in that direction, but I didn’t hear him to say what he said. I heard him to say, ‘Finish the job’ — meaning defeat Hamas, defeat them decisively, defeat them as quickly as possible. And then move on.”

 

Some of Mr. Trump’s former advisers have filled the Trump policy vacuum with their own ideas to resolve the conflict. His son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has pursued foreign deals using relationships he built during the Trump administration, said at a Harvard University forum in February that “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable” and that Palestinians should be “moved out” and transported to an area in the Negev Desert in southern Israel that would be bulldozed to accommodate them.

Mr. Friedman has gone much further than Mr. Kushner, who seemed to be only musing. Mr. Friedman has developed a proposal for Israel to claim full sovereignty over the West Bank — definitively ending the possibility of a two-state solution. West Bank Palestinians who have been living under Israeli military occupation since 1967 would not be given Israeli citizenship under the plan, Mr. Friedman confirmed in the interview.

 

David Friedman in the Oval Office in 2020, when he was ambassador to Israel under Mr. Trump.

 David Friedman in the Oval Office in 2020, when he was ambassador to Israel under Mr. Trump. Mr. Friedman has developed a proposal for Israel to claim full sovereignty over the West Bank, which would end the possibility of a two-state solution. 

  It’s far from clear whether Mr. Trump would support this, though he did tell the Israeli interviewers that he planned to meet with Mr. Friedman to hear his ideas. Mr. Friedman said he had not yet discussed his plan with Mr. Trump. 

 

Unlike Mr. Friedman, Mr. Trump has long clung to the possibility of a grand bargain between Israel and the Palestinians, insisting that only he can broker the “deal of the century.” Still, while in office, Mr. Trump acted so lopsidedly in favor of Israel that a two-state solution that would be acceptable to the Palestinians was never realistic.

John R. Bolton, a former national security adviser to Mr. Trump, who has become a sharp critic, said that Mr. Trump’s interview with Israel Hayom “proves the point that I’ve tried to explain to people: that Trump’s support for Israel in the first term is not guaranteed in the second term, because Trump’s positions are made on the basis of what’s good for Donald Trump, not on some coherent theory of national security.”

“What he said in this most recent interview was ambiguous to a certain extent, but it seemed to me to be verging on negative about Israel’s conduct of the war,” Mr. Bolton said in an interview. “And I think there’s more there than meets the eye.”

“What matters to Trump more than anything else is how you look in the press. So forget the justice of it,” he added. “It just looks bad.”

The way Mr. Bolton sees it, when his former boss warns Mr. Netanyahu that his image is failing, “he’s not worried about Israel’s image. He’s worried about his if he has to defend it.”

Jonathan Weisman contributed reporting.

Jonathan Swan is a political reporter covering the 2024 presidential election and Donald Trump’s campaign. More about Jonathan Swan


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Operating under the aegis of the WZO are organizations that define themselves as Zionist, such as WIZO, Hadassah, B'nai B'rith, Maccabi, the International Sephardic Federation, the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS), and more.

The Jewish Agency is a parallel organisation, with goals, attributes and leadership closely intertwined with those of the Zionist Organization during the years before the establishment of the State of Israel, and to varying degrees after that. Significant changes to the statutes of both organisations occurred in 1952, 1970 and 1979.[2]

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A murky alliance between intelligence agencies, among them the UK and US, is revealed in a scandalous tale of mistrust and misjudgment, including British teenager Shamima Begum being smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy

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On the same spring day in 1946 that Winston Churchill made a speech coining the phrases “special relationship” and “iron curtain”, another historic event that would help to shape the next 75 years took place. A secret pact was signed between the UK and the US, a formal agreement to share intelligence in order to combat the Soviet threat.

In time, as Canada, Australia and New Zealand signed on, too, that agreement would become known as Five Eyes – although it was not until 2010 that the alliance was made public. Five Eyes, much like the UK’s permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council and its leadership role in Nato, has allowed Britain to feel, post-Brexit, like it still has a seat at the top table. But, perhaps understandably for a secret alliance of intelligence agencies, little about its inner workings have ever been known. 

Richard Kerbaj, a former security correspondent for the Sunday Times and documentary-maker, has made a decent stab at lifting the curtain. He has persuaded many of those involved in Five Eyes to speak to him, and delved into national archives of all five nations to piece together an understandably partial history.

It is a tale that reveals an alliance marred by mistrust, mistakes and misjudgments, one that likes to see itself as responsible for keeping its nations safe but has, at times, not only failed in that endeavour but has also contributed to global insecurity.

Until the end of the cold war, the five nations were united in their attempts to defeat the Soviet Union. Part of that involved rooting out Soviet spies or turning Russian diplomats. This is the work that the Five Eyes has been happy to reveal. It has been less keen on shining a light on the darker role it has played.

Intelligence agencies may like to see themselves as defensive outfits – preventing attacks, not carrying them out themselves. But over the past 70 years, British and American intelligence agencies have been responsible for a series of aggressive moves that have destabilised the Middle East, contributing to many of the geopolitical problems that still exist today.

In the late 1950s, CIA chief Allen Dulles orchestrated the overthrow of a series of democratically elected governments from Iran to Guatemala. In Syria he oversaw “a series of conspiracies” to overthrow the government for committing the crime of refusing to join a western-led military alliance. As Kerbaj points out, “the CIA’s botched operation magnified the already growing anti-western sentiment in the Middle East”.

In the early 1980s, the CIA and MI6 worked together to fund, support and arm the mujahideen in Afghanistan in order to help them defeat the Soviet Union. One of the CIA’s “greatest recipients of funding and arms”, Kerbaj notes, was the leader of the Haqqani network, a group the director of national intelligence now deems to be a terrorist network whose leaders are on the US’s most wanted list.

Bush and Blair may have sold the Iraq war, but the material they used was created by the Five Eyes

And then there is Iraq. This was a war supposedly based on intelligence, namely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that he was prepared to use them, and that he was willing to share them with terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. None of these theories were true. George W Bush and Tony Blair may have sold the war, but the material they used was created by members of Five Eyes.

Not only that, those intelligence agencies were also responsible for some of the most egregious human rights abuses carried out by western powers. Torture was technically illegal, so they instead kidnapped suspected terrorists, flew them to countries with less stringent rules, allowed them to carry out the torture and even provided lists of questions to be asked once the suspects were deemed malleable. It was an American-led operation – Canadian, British and Australian citizens were sometimes the victims – but all members of Five Eyes knew it was happening. Indeed, there were numerous cases where British officials were accused of involvement.

The programme, named “extraordinary rendition” rather than the more accurate “kidnap and torture”, would, as Kerbaj notes, “ultimately haunt the legacy of the Five Eyes”.

The mistrust that has dogged the alliance from the start still exists today. Seventeen British nationals and citizens were held at Guantánamo but it was two years before the US agreed to release just five of them. Kerbaj reveals that Peter Clarke, former head of Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, was urged by the US to imprison them on their return, something Clarke immediately dismissed. “None of the material they provided us with would have been admissible in court,” Clarke told Kerbaj.

Arguably worse is the case of Shamima Begum, who left London in 2015, aged 15, to join Islamic State, and who has now been stripped of her British citizenship. Kerbaj reveals that Begum was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy, a fact the Canadians initially withheld from their supposed ally. Both the Canadian and British governments decided to keep this a secret. Begum’s lawyers hope this revelation will help her win the appeal against the decision to remove her citizenship, which takes place next month.

Intelligence agencies tell us they keep us safe. And perhaps they do. But the stories Kerbaj tells reveal a different truth. From 2001 onwards, this is a story of failure – of missing warnings that could have prevented atrocities, of misusing intelligence to start a war, and of using its almost untrammelled power to terrorise its own citizens.

Spot a problem in the Middle East and Five Eyes either didn’t see it coming, or inadvertently gave it a helping hand.

And yet Kerbaj, oddly, comes to a different conclusion. After 15 chapters outlining the disasters and revealing the outrages, he ends with a parade of 14 former spy chiefs and prime ministers explaining why Five Eyes matters. No critics are quoted, nor does Kerbaj himself offer any alternative view. What he has gained in access he has lost in analysis.

After 300 plus pages of scandal, Kerbaj blandly concludes: “The alliance remains vital in attempting to foresee and combat future threats.” It is a bizarre end to an, at times, brilliant book.

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network by Richard Kerbaj is published by John Blake (£25). 

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