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US federal judges convict former US President Donald Trump
It’s a historic step: For the first time, a federal court has indicted a former US president. Trump is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
It’s the first federal indictment against a former US president: Donald Trump must answer in a Florida court over his hoarding of government documents. And the former US president confirmed in the “Truth Social” network that he founded that his lawyers had been informed of the charges against them. Trump said he must appear in court on Tuesday. CNN and The New York Times also reported on the indictment.
Trump’s lawyer outlined the possible charges. „We haven’t received an indictment yet,” Jim Trosetti told CNN Thursday night (local time). Instead, Trump and his team received a subpoena containing wording indicating possible charges. „The subpoena is not exactly an indictment, but it does contain some language that refers to the seven counts,” Trosti said.
Trusty said he expects Trump to be charged with, among other things, the collection, transmission or loss of defense information. This point falls under the US Espionage Act and can be punishable by up to ten years in prison. Another wording referred to charges of obstruction of justice and perjury. The letter is a kind of abstract, the fees are not listed individually. So he is not 100% sure what points it will lead to.
“The corrupt Biden administration has informed my attorneys that I am charged, what appears to be the Fake Classified Documents Case,” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post on Thursday. He called the allegations a „box trick”. „I am an innocent man,” he continued.
The FBI seized documents
The Federal Police’s Federal Bureau of Investigation had searched Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago, Florida home in August and seized various classified information, some of the highest classification level. Because the Republican kept the documents in his private home long after he left office, he could have committed a criminal offense. For months, the National Archives has been trying to obtain papers from the Trump administration. Trump’s lawyers finally delivered the documents — but by no means all of them, as it turned out during the FBI’s search of the Mar-a-Lago property.
The US Justice Department appointed Smith, the independent special counsel, in November to outsource the politically sensitive investigation into Trump. On the one hand, Smith takes care of investigations of classified government documents. Second, it deals with Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol and his efforts to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. A commission of inquiry had recommended criminal investigations to the Department of Justice. Among other things, Trump is accused of rioting, obstructing a public process, and conspiring against the US government. However, the committee’s recommendation is not binding.
American Republicans condemn the charges against Trump
US Republicans have strongly criticized the charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. „Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,” Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday night (local time) on Twitter. It is „disgraceful” for a president – meaning Joe Biden – to impeach the „leading candidate” he is running against.
Trump has long criticized that his opponents are only trying to prevent him from returning to the White House in 2024. He officially announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential election in November. So far, he is leading in the polls among the party’s supporters – but a lot could still happen before a final decision is made.
Secret government documents from his time as Vice President under Barack Obama under US President Joe Biden have also been found in places they should not be kept. Here, too, an independent private investigator becomes active. However, in the case of Biden, there are far fewer documents. According to the White House, Biden also did not refuse to turn over the documents. Trump claimed in his last post that incumbent President Joe Biden kept 1,850 boxes of documents.
More investigations are underway against Trump. He had already been charged in New York in connection with payments to a porn star and was brought before a judge in early April. In Georgia, the attorney general’s office is also investigating Trump for possible election fraud. In another case, Trump has already been prosecuted — at least indirectly. His New York real estate group was fined for tax fraud, among other things. The former president has not been charged personally.
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He presses
China is angry: The US destroyer USS Halsey entered Chinese territorial waters „without permission.” The US Navy waves it off.
BEIJING – Against the backdrop of increasing tensions in the South China Sea China On Friday, the United States responded with sharp words to the passage of a US Navy ship near a group of disputed islands. Military spokesman Tian Junli said on Friday that “the US actions seriously violate China’s sovereignty and security.” Thus, the United States creates “security risks in the South China Sea” and is “the greatest destroyer of peace and stability in the region.”
According to military spokesman Tian, the missile destroyer USS Halsey entered Chinese territorial waters near the Xisha Islands “illegally and without permission from the Chinese authorities.” „Xisha Islands” is the Chinese term for the Paracel Islands. China sent naval and air forces to „track and monitor” the ship „in accordance with laws and regulations” and „issued an alert to redirect it away.”
Tensions in the South China Sea: US confirms passage of USS Halsey
The US Navy confirmed the ship’s passage, saying it „asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands.” “Unlawful and extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea pose a serious threat to freedom of the seas,” she said.
China has established a number of military bases on the Paracel Islands, although Vietnam and Taiwan also claim sovereignty over the island chain. The United States and its allies frequently send warships to the region to bolster their claim to freedom of passage.
Meanwhile, Taiwan’s air force conducted a military exercise in the Penghu Islands, which are located a few kilometers from the Chinese coast and are administered by Taiwan. Several fighter jets fired live ammunition, including missiles and US-made laser-guided bombs, according to video footage distributed by Taiwan’s military news agency. These were „routine training” for fighter pilots in which they practiced their „skills in precision strikes in air combat.”
The exercises come ten days before the inauguration of Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, who won the elections last January and whom Beijing describes as a „dangerous separatist.”
China increases its pressure on Taiwan
China views Taiwan as a breakaway province that should be reunited with the mainland – by military force if necessary. In recent years, China has increased its pressure on Taiwan, regularly sending fighter jets and warships near the island.
Meanwhile, the Philippines and the United States concluded joint military exercises in areas near disputed maritime areas. Exercises Balikatan („Shoulder to Shoulder” in the language widely spoken in the Philippines, Tagalog) began on 22 April and also involved one hundred Australian soldiers. (AFP)
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Hundreds of bodies found: The United Nations calls for clarification regarding mass graves in Gaza
Hundreds of bodies found
The United Nations calls for clarification regarding mass graves in Gaza
May 10, 2024 at 11:41 pm
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Graves containing hundreds of bodies were found near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis and Al-Shifa Hospital in recent weeks. The UN Security Council is now demanding that investigators be given unfettered access to conduct an investigation.
The UN Security Council in New York demands clarifications about the mass graves discovered in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations said, „Members of the Security Council stressed the need for accountability for violations of international law and called for allowing investigators unhindered access to all mass grave sites in Gaza.”
The UN’s most powerful body has been deeply concerned about the discoveries since the end of April. Graves containing several hundred bodies have been found near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in recent weeks.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, was horrified at the time and called for an independent investigation into the deaths. Hospitals enjoy very special protection under international humanitarian law. According to Türk’s office, which cited information from Civil Defense, which is controlled by the armed Hamas movement, some of the bodies had their hands bound.
Israel denies these accusations
The European Union also called for an independent investigation. Peter Stano, spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, said: “This is something that prompts us to demand an independent investigation into all suspicions and all circumstances.” The impression was created that “violations of international human rights may have occurred.”
The Israeli side said that the allegations that Israeli forces buried the bodies of Palestinians there were baseless. Israeli soldiers only examined the bodies in the grave, looking for Israeli hostages.
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Delay due to breakdown
The Bushman government plane returns to the parking lot
May 10, 2024 at 3:44 pm
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German government aircraft are notoriously prone to breakdowns. Now a technical problem spoils the Federal Minister of Justice’s return flight from Venice shortly before the weekend. Its mechanism must return to the parking position. An hour delay is expected.
Federal Minister of Justice Marco Bushmann and his accompanying delegation were initially unable to leave Venice after the conclusion of the G7 Justice Ministers’ meeting. The reason for this was a technical problem with a government plane. The Minister and his accompanying delegation learned that a delay of several hours was expected after the Global 5000 aircraft was forced to return to the parking lot shortly before its scheduled takeoff at noon. The return flight to Germany was scheduled for early evening with a replacement plane that was supposed to come from Cologne. The exact cause of the collapse is not yet known.
At a meeting in Venice, justice ministers from G7 countries discussed how judicial authorities can use artificial intelligence in a legally safe way. According to the participants, the topic of the two-day meeting in Italy was also the question of where the boundaries for the use of machine learning and robotics should be formulated.
Collapses, collapses, collapses…
Malfunctions on government aircraft are not uncommon. Last year, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had to cancel a government trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji over one.
At the end of 2018, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was involved in a serious accident when she was on her way to the G20 summit in Argentina on the Konrad Adenauer government plane. A faulty component – a central switching unit in the plane’s onboard electronics – paralyzed two radio systems that are supposed to replace each other in emergency situations. The plane that took off from Berlin had to turn back.
After a general repair of the government plane for four months, another malfunction occurred on the first official flight in April 2019. After a nine-hour flight from Berlin to New York with Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on board, a tire exploded during landing so that the Airbus A340 was unable to reach Parking on its own. It is now known that the Konrad Adenauer government plane, which has become known as the Breakdown Plane, will be scrapped.
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