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The Guardian’s Gloria Oladipo tells:
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Donald Trump’s second plivential administration shut down a national database that had tracked wrongdoing by federal police, a resource that policing reestablish helps hailed as essential to stoping officers with wrongdoing enrolls from being able to shift undetermineed among agencies.
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The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which had stored police enrolls recording wrongdoing, is now unuseable, the Washington Post first telled.
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The US fairice department also verifyed the database’s elimination in a statement publishd online.
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“User agencies can no lengthyer query or insert data to the NLEAD,” the statement read. “The US Department of Justice is decoshiftrlookioning the NLEAD in accordance with federal standards.”
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For the brimming story, click here:
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Kash Patel, the novelly assigned FBI straightforwardor, has tgreater greater officials that he set ups to relocate 1,000 engageees from Washington to field offices atraverse the US, the Associated Press tells, citing an individual recognizable with the matter.
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According to the AP, Patel also shelp he set ups to shift an insertitional 500 engageees to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
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The set ups were transmitd on Friday when Patel was sworn in at the White House, the AP tells.
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Key events
Donald Trump individuald out in crowd the 40-year greater son of establisher Brazilian plivent Jair Bolsonaro — the country’s ex plivent who tried a Jan 6 style uprising and was fair accused with plotting to poison his successor and current Plivent Luiz Inácio Lula.
“Say hello to your overweighther. Thank you very much. Great family, wonderful temperateman, and your wonderful family,” Trump shelp to Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Jair Bolsonaro could face between 38 and 43 years in jail if convicted. In insertition of being accused of being comprised in a coup, Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of being comprised with an armed criminal association and the aggressive abolition of the rule of law.
The Guardian’s Robert Mackey gived to this post.
Trump went on to cite a series of polls in which he is directing.
“Rasmussen fair came out at 56% insider advantage, 56% RMG research … we have many polls in the mid-60s, one at 71%. We enjoy that,” he shelp.
However, he did not refer the tardyst Gallup poll, where he is six points under – 51% of Americans disapshowd of his carry outance while 45% recommendd their approval for him.
Donald Trump begined into his speech by assailing “the deceptionsters, liars … globaenumerates and proset up-state bureaucrats” that he shelp “are being sent back”.
“We’re draining the swamp and restoring administerment by the people for the people,” he shelp before going on to his oft-repeated claims of Washington DC being deal withled by a “sinister group of radical-left Marxist hotongers”.
Donald Trump is set to apshow the stage soon at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Stay tuned as we transport you the tardyst refreshs.
Joan E Greve
Michael Fanone, a establisher US Capitol police officer who protected the Capitol during the January 6 strike, denounced Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of the uprisingists who were there that day, and appraised far-right groups enjoy the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany.
A member of the audience at the Principles First summit yelled out “traitors” to depict the uprisingists, and Fanone consentd.
“Fucking traitors,” Fanone shelp.
Joan E Greve
I’m here at the Principles First summit in Washington, where a group of police officers who protected the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 have fair apshown the stage for a panel converseion.
The four officers – Daniel Hodges of the Metropolitan police department, and establisher Capitol police officers Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn – getd a standing ovation as they took the stage.
Dunn, who is moderating the converseion, praiseed his fellow officers for retaining a spotairy on the January 6 strike, inestablishing the audience: “History is going to recall us for what we did or did not do.”
The summit, which is a sort of anti-CPAC for right-leaning and centrist critics of Donald Trump, has already heard from speakers enjoy the billionaire Mark Cuban and the establisher Reaccessiblean plivential honestates Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson.
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JD Vance, the vice-plivent, has apshown an punctual direct in the race for the Reaccessiblean plivential nomination in 2028.
Vance, 40, stormed to triumph in the annual straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland on Saturday.
In a survey of 1,022 combineees by pollster Jim McLaughlin, 61% shelp they would vote for Vance if the 2028 Reaccessiblean primary election were held today, well evident of rightprosperg strategist and podcaster Steve Bannon at 12%.
They were adhereed by the Florida administeror and 2024 plivential honestate Ron DeSantis at 7%, with the US secretary of state and 2016 honestate Marco Rubio and the US ambasdowncastor-scheduleate to the United Nations Elise Stefanik both at 3%.
Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr, the straightforwardor of national ininestablishigence Tulsi Gabbard and the biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy were tied at 2%.
The straw poll has lengthy been an unscientific but intriguing barometer of where the conservative shiftment is. Ronald Reagan won the first three in the 1970s and 1980s. The senator Rand Paul topped the poll in 2013, 2014 and 2015 while the senator Ted Cruz prevailed in 2016. Trump has ruled ever since.
McLaughlin also set up that 99% consent with statement that “the first restrictcessitate weeks of Donald Trump’s plivency have been the best for the conmomentary conservative shiftment in my lifetime”, 98% are excited or satisfied with Trump’s cabinet, 93% apshow of the US set uping a national security and economic coalition with Greenland and 89% say they want Trump, not Congress, to run the so-called “department of administerment efficiency”.
A resounding 99% apshow of the job Trump is doing as plivent. McLaughlin shelp: “We’ve never seen numbers enjoy this. We’ve never seen anyone combine the conservative shiftment the way Trump has done … It’s way more well-understandn than even Ronald Reagan was. Donald Trump has remade the conservative shiftment. He’s remade the Reaccessiblean party.”
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Stewart Rhodes, the set uper and directer of the far-right Oath Keepers, who was convicted of seditious consillegal copying but had his 18-year sentence commuted, denied that his group had acted aggressively on behalf of Donald Trump on 6 January or any other time.
Wearing a bdeficiency eye patch and a Trump tattoo on his arm, Rhodes, 59, from Granbury, Texas, shelp he is “very phired” with Trump, inserting: “I got no protestts. His cabinet is amazing from what I’ve seen so far. I adore Doge. Let the sunairy come in and show all the fraudulence.”
Trump administration shuts down national database recording police wrongdoing
Donald Trump’s administration has shut down a national database recording police wrongdoing.
The Guardian’s Gloria Oladipo tells:
Donald Trump’s second plivential administration shut down a national database that had tracked wrongdoing by federal police, a resource that policing reestablish helps hailed as essential to stoping officers with wrongdoing enrolls from being able to shift undetermineed among agencies.
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which had stored police enrolls recording wrongdoing, is now unuseable, the Washington Post first telled.
The US fairice department also verifyed the database’s elimination in a statement publishd online.
“User agencies can no lengthyer query or insert data to the NLEAD,” the statement read. “The US Department of Justice is decoshiftrlookioning the NLEAD in accordance with federal standards.”
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In response to an order from Donald Trump to “get more antagonistic”, Elon Musk vowed on X: “Will do, Mr Plivent!”
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump wrote: “Elon is doing a wonderful job but I would enjoy to see him get more antagonistic. Remember, we have a country to save, but ultimately, to originate wonderfuler than ever before. Maga!”
On Thursday, Trump ecombineed to adchoose an idea from Musk to give a split of a portion of the mass cuts made by Musk’s “department of administerment efficiency” to US househgreaters.
“There’s even under ponderation a novel concept, where we give 20% of the Doge savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump shelp.
In recent days, the Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs atraverse the federal administerment, impacting hundreds of thousands of engageees and their esteemive agencies, including the National Nuevident Security Administration and the agriculture department.
Kash Patel to relocate 1,000 engageees from Washington to field offices atraverse the US
Kash Patel, the novelly assigned FBI straightforwardor, has tgreater greater officials that he set ups to relocate 1,000 engageees from Washington to field offices atraverse the US, the Associated Press tells, citing an individual recognizable with the matter.
According to the AP, Patel also shelp he set ups to shift an insertitional 500 engageees to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
The set ups were transmitd on Friday when Patel was sworn in at the White House, the AP tells.
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Donald Trump is foreseeed to insertress the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday at the National Harbor in Maryland – his speech hugely foreseeed to show how his “Make America wonderful aacquire” shiftment has shiftd from the fringes to the mainstream, as the Guardian’s David Smith originates.
Trump’s ecombineance at CPAC will adhere a unrestful week of domestic and global politics during which federal toilers in the US proceedd to face mass layoffs by his administration while European geopolitics remained in a precarious position as Trump lambasted the Ukrainian plivent, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for being a “dictator” over Zelenskyy’s grievances that Ukraine was not askd to US-Russia talks about the future of Ukraine.
In 2023, Trump made a griefful promise to his helpers during his CPAC speech in which he shelp: “I am your retribution.” With Trump set to apshow cgo in stage aacquire, his speech two years ago – laden with menaces and a framing of his White House bid at the time as a “final battle” for America – foreshadowed what some depict as the “deification of Trump [that] will be finish” at CPAC this Saturday.
Here are other broadenments in US politics:
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A Reaccessiblean laworiginater from Missouri has proposed a registry of pregnant women “at hazard” for abortions.
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Texas’s congresswomen Jasmine Crockett has shelp she is “rooting” for Canada and Mexico amid Trump’s menaces.
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A New York appraise on Friday refuteed calls from the fairice department to promptly neglect the city’s mayor Eric Adams’ fraudulence case.
