The tycoon joins Elon Musk in a phone call with the president of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, about supporting the war against Russia
▲ Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky (right) spoke with Trump (left) and Elon Musk (center). kyiv will continue to have the Internet system of the businessman, who is also the owner of Tesla.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 9, 2024, p. 17
Washington. The Department of Justice revealed that there was an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, and charged a man who declared that a government official in Tehran entrusted him to assassinate the Republican candidate before the elections, held on the 5th.
Investigators affirm that the accused is Farhad Shakeri, an alleged asset of the Iranian government, who spent time in US prisons for theft and who, according to authorities, maintains a network of associates who participated in Tehran’s plans to kill Trump.
Shakeri assured, according to official investigations, that a contact from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard instructed him last September to put aside other work he was doing and put together a plan in seven days to monitor and finally assassinate Trump.
Shakeri is a fugitive and is speculated to remain in Iran. Two other men linked to Shakeri were arrested on charges of having been recruited to surveil and kill prominent Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad, who has suffered multiple assassination-for-hire attempts thwarted by law enforcement. There are few actors in the world that pose as serious a threat to US national security as Iran.The US Secretary of Justice, Merrick Garland, said in a statement. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, commented that the case shows the Tehran’s blatant and continued attempts to attack Americansincluding Trump, as well as other government leaders and dissidents who criticize the regime in Tehran.
Brian Hook, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Iran during the president-elect’s first term, assured that the Republican has no interest in a regime change in Tehran, but it does seek to isolate and weaken the Islamic republic, reported The Times of Israel.
Coup d’état case suspended
Meanwhile, federal judge Tanya Chutkan decided to temporarily suspend the case against the tycoon for attempted coup d’état after the result of the 2020 elections, in response to the request presented by the special prosecutor in the case, Jack Smith, who also accused the Republican of illegally storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. Smith said the case will have to be dropped because a sitting president cannot be prosecuted under his own administration’s Justice Department policy, so the prosecution needs time to determine what to doBloomberg reported.
On another topic, the virtual US president declared that there are possibilities of establishing a dialogue with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and stated that since his victory in the elections he has spoken with around 70 world leaders.
In this regard, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov stated that a possible improvement in relations between Russia and the United States is premature: There are certain declarations, but the time has not yet come for concrete steps.
The pro-republican tycoon Elon Musk joined a call on Wednesday in which Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky congratulated Trump on his victory in the elections, local media reported.
During the 25-minute call, Trump told Zelensky that he would support kyiv, without delving into details, while Musk indicated that he would continue to support the country with its Starlink satellites, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources.
In addition, on the eve of the beginning of the Trump administration, on January 20, the transition team is preparing decrees and proclamations on the withdrawal of the North American power from the Paris climate agreement, as well as the reduction of the size of some national monuments to allow more drilling and mining, reported The New York Times.
The Republican would also end a pause on permitting new natural gas export terminals, and repeal a waiver that allows California and other states to have strict anti-pollution rules.
Meanwhile, Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Defense Department would respond if the Republican issues orders to deploy active-duty troops to the country and lay off large swaths of personnel who do not belong to any political party, according to reports. Defense officials to CNN.
The above, given that Trump has suggested that he would be open to using active duty forces for national law enforcement and to carry out the mass deportations that he outlined in his campaign regarding what his immigration policy would be, and indicated that he wants loyalists in the federal government and clean up corrupt actors he establishment of American national security.
