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       Former president Donald Trump has promised to return to the White House at the "American Freedom Tour" in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

       “With the support of everyone in this room, we will take back the House, we will take back the Senate and we will take back our country,” he said.

       Mr Trump added: "And then most importantly in 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House".

       He has continued to drop hints about his 2024 presidential run but has not announced any formal plans so far.

       Following his remarks, Congresswoman Liz Cheney on Sunday warned that Mr Trump could face criminal penalties over the 6 January riots at Capitol Hill.

       The Republican leader told NBC’s Meet the Press that the House investigating committee is considering whether to recommend criminal punishment for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump”.

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       Show latest update 1647843584 Kennedy Center in Washington DC drops their ‘Russian lounge’

       The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has “quietly” renamed a meeting space previously decorated with Russian art dubbed the “Russian Lounge”.

       According to reports, the relocation took place because of a $5m donation from businessman Vladimir Potanin in 2011.

       Mr Potanin, who owns nickel mines in the country, is one of the Russian oligarchs with ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin who has thus far escaped US sanctions over the Ukraine invasion.

       John Bowden has more.

       Kennedy Center in Washington DC drops their ‘Russian lounge’ Move comes amid international backlash following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 06:19

       1647842477 Oligarchs drop defamation lawsuit over Trump-Russia dossier

       Three Russian oligarchs who said their reputations were smeared by a dossier examining former president Donald Trump’s ties to Russia have agreed to dismiss their defamation lawsuit.

       Businessmen Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan sued Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, and one of its founders, Glenn Simpson, in 2017.

       The oligarchs alleged that they had been defamed by various statements in a Democratic-funded dossier that Fusion had commissioned former British spy, Christopher Steele, to produce on the relationship between Mr Trump and the Kremlin.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 06:01

       1647840679 Trump’s chief of staff was on call planning march to Capitol: report

       Former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows and a national campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson were involved in a call to plan a march to Capitol Hill on 6 January 2021, alleged a witness.

       Scott Johnston, who overheard the conversation told Rolling Stone that “they were very open about how there was going to be a march. Everyone knew there was going to be a march”.Mr Meadows and Ms Pierson were in conversation over a call with Kylie Kremer, the executive director of Women For America First.

       The witness added that the trio decided against officially permitting the march, citing concerns “about security costs and about the optics of a sitting president organising a push towards Congress as lawmakers certified his loss in the 2020 election”. Instead, they planned to “direct the people down there and make it look like they went down there on their own.”

       Mr Meadows, meanwhile, is under investigation over allegations that he registered to vote in 2020 at a home where he never resided.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 05:31

       1647839253 Biden to visit Poland on Europe trip this week

       US president Joe Biden will be visiting Poland on his trip to Europe for urgent talks with Nato and allies almost a month into Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

       Mr Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland to meet with leaders there, press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday night.

       Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis and is hosting thousands of American troops.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 05:07

       1647838355 Pence distances himself from Trump

       Mike Pence, the former president’s benevolent sidekick, is beginning to distance himself from Donald Trump as he takes increasingly overt steps toward a White House bid of his own.

       Pence, a former congressman and Indiana governor, is working to craft a political identity independent of his former boss.

       Last month, he called out Mr Trump by name, saying his former boss was “wrong” to insist that he had the power to unilaterally overturn the results of the 2020 election.

       Although the Republican party remains largely dominated by the former president, Mr Pence, if becomes successful in navigating this moment, it could offer a model for Republicans to benefit from their work with Mr Trump without being tied to his most toxic behaviour, Associated Press reported.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 04:52

       1647836909 Conspiracy theorists believe Trump is purposely pronouncing China wrong

       QAnon conspiracy theorists believe that former president Donald Trump’s past mispronunciation of the word China as “Chy-na” is actually a secret code word meaning Ukraine.

       According to the theory, a QAnon believer claims they “discovered” that there is a place in Ukraine named “Chy-na,” and believes Mr Trump was secretly referring to this location when he used the term “China virus”.

       Graig Graziosi reports.

       QAnon followers believe Trump pronouncing China wrong is secret Ukraine code Some QAnon conspiracy theorists think Trump and Putin are working together to out the ‘deep state’ in Ukraine

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 04:28

       1647836117 Trump promises to take back 'beautiful White House' in 2024

       Former president Donald Trump, who has continued to drop hints regarding his presidential run, promised supporters that he will return to the White House in 2024 during a speech in Florida on Saturday.

       “With the support of everyone in this room, we will take back the House, we will take back the Senate and we will take back our country,” said Mr Trump, according to a report by Insider.

       He continued: “And then most importantly in 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House.”At the Florida rally, he also repeated false claims that he had won the 2020 US presidential election.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 04:15

       1647835745 Cheney warns Trump of criminal penalties

       Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said there could be criminal penalties for former president Donald Trump over the 6 January riots at Capitol Hill.

       She told NBC’s Meet the Press that the committee is considering whether to recommend criminal punishment for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump”.

       “I can tell you I have not learned a single thing since I have been on this committee that has made me less concerned or less worried about the gravity of the situation and the actions that President Trump took and also refused to take while the attack was underway,” Rep Cheney, who is vice-chair of the committee, said.

       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 04:09

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       Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 21 March 2022 03:49