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| Trump boasts of power over Fed chairman: 'I have the right to fire him' – live updates | Trump boasts of power over Fed chairman: 'I have the right to fire him' – live updates |
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| The Hill is reporting that Code Pink activists have been granted a permit to fly the “Baby Trump balloon” just blocks from the White House during Trump’s July 4 celebration. | |
| With news coming yesterday that special council Robert Mueller will be testifying before Congress next month, Trump took his televised interview as a chance to make unfounded broadsides at him – accusing him of illegally disposing of evidence during the investigation. | |
| Without any evidence, Trump is accusing Mueller of trying to erase evidence of Strzok and Page's messages."He terminated them. They're gone. It's illegal. It's a crime." | Without any evidence, Trump is accusing Mueller of trying to erase evidence of Strzok and Page's messages."He terminated them. They're gone. It's illegal. It's a crime." |
| Trump rules out replacing his vice-president, Mike Pence, with former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, as a Wall Street Journal op-ed suggested Trump ought to do earlier this week. | |
| I love Nikki, she’s endorsed me, she’s my friend, but Mike has been a great Vice President...I love Nikki...but you can’t break up a team like us, we get along together.” | I love Nikki, she’s endorsed me, she’s my friend, but Mike has been a great Vice President...I love Nikki...but you can’t break up a team like us, we get along together.” |
| -Donald Trump on running mate questions. | -Donald Trump on running mate questions. |
| Trump rules out Nikki Haley joining him on the 2020 ticket, says he's sticking with Pence: "I love Nikki, she's endorsed me, she's my friend, but Mike has been a great Vice President...I love Nikki...but you can't break up a team like us, we get along together." | Trump rules out Nikki Haley joining him on the 2020 ticket, says he's sticking with Pence: "I love Nikki, she's endorsed me, she's my friend, but Mike has been a great Vice President...I love Nikki...but you can't break up a team like us, we get along together." |
| On the escalating tensions between the US and Iran after a US drone was shot down last week Trump says he “hopes” the two countries don’t go to war, but “we are in a very strong position… it would not last long… I’m not talking boots on the ground… just saying if something happened it wouldn’t last long.” | On the escalating tensions between the US and Iran after a US drone was shot down last week Trump says he “hopes” the two countries don’t go to war, but “we are in a very strong position… it would not last long… I’m not talking boots on the ground… just saying if something happened it wouldn’t last long.” |
| .@realDonaldTrump on potential war with Iran War with Iran“I hope we dont but we are in a very strong position… it would not last long… Im not talking boots on the ground… just saying if something happened it wouldn’t last long.” | .@realDonaldTrump on potential war with Iran War with Iran“I hope we dont but we are in a very strong position… it would not last long… Im not talking boots on the ground… just saying if something happened it wouldn’t last long.” |
| Good morning and welcome to the politics live blog for Wednesday the 26th of June. We kick off this morning with Fox Business channel, where Donald Trump started off the morning by attacking his Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, on national television. | Good morning and welcome to the politics live blog for Wednesday the 26th of June. We kick off this morning with Fox Business channel, where Donald Trump started off the morning by attacking his Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, on national television. |
| Trump’s remarks came in the midst of a wide-ranging interview with host Maria Bartiromo. he president | Trump’s remarks came in the midst of a wide-ranging interview with host Maria Bartiromo. he president |
| “Here’s a guy, nobody ever heard of him before and I made him and now he wants to show how tough he is... I have the right to demote him. I have the right to fire him,” Trump says of Fed Chair Powell on Fox. | “Here’s a guy, nobody ever heard of him before and I made him and now he wants to show how tough he is... I have the right to demote him. I have the right to fire him,” Trump says of Fed Chair Powell on Fox. |
| Trump and Powell have been at loggerheads over the chairman’s raising of interest rates while Powell has made a public display of touting the bank’s independence from the president’s wishes. | Trump and Powell have been at loggerheads over the chairman’s raising of interest rates while Powell has made a public display of touting the bank’s independence from the president’s wishes. |
| Other recipients of Trump attacks this morning include Twitter, Trump’s preferred means of public communication, who he says is “biased” against him, Google, who Trump says is “trying to rig the election” and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who, without mentioning her by name, Trump claims “hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met.” | Other recipients of Trump attacks this morning include Twitter, Trump’s preferred means of public communication, who he says is “biased” against him, Google, who Trump says is “trying to rig the election” and German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who, without mentioning her by name, Trump claims “hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I’ve ever met.” |
| "Twitter is just terrible what they do," says @POTUS, claiming it has a bias against him and his supporters. | "Twitter is just terrible what they do," says @POTUS, claiming it has a bias against him and his supporters. |