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A Special Counsel is now investigating the any links between the Trump campaign and the Russian Government and Trump has publicly belittled Mr Sessions, calling him “beleaguered” and “very weak.”
He was accused of dictating a ‘misleading statement’ about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer...
The Trump family are under intensifying pressure as investigators and the press continue to probe links with Russia.
The biggest revelation of the summer came when it was reported that Donald Trump Jr attended a meeting with a Russian figure who had information that “would incriminate Hillary” and was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump”.
The then-candidate’s son replied, saying that if “it’s what you say I love it”.
Now the Washington Post has reported that “Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr said that he and the Russian lawyer had ‘primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children’”.
The Post stated that Trump’s “advisers worry that the president’s direct involvement leaves him needlessly vulnerable to allegations of a cover-up”. He accused the New York Times of a ‘sick agenda’ on national security... Trump often finds time to attack North America’s most celebrated newspaper but on July 22 he went so far as to accuse it of foiling an attempt to kill socalled Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
It is thought this Tweet was in response to a Fox News report broadcast about 25mins earlier in which a general said that a lead about where al-Baghdadi might be hiding out “was leaked in a prominent national newspaper” and then went dead.
The Times reported that the information had been “made public in a Pentagon news release more than three weeks before the Times article”.
He attacked fellow Republicans – and risked alienating Alaska – over healthcare...
Trump’s failure to scrap Obamacare is a source of boiling frustration for the President. The Senate’s refusal to repeal the Bill is the latest blow to his authority in his own party.
He singled out Alaskan Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski after she opposed the dismantling of the healthcare provisions.
On Twitter he accused her of letting down her party and her country and the Alaska Dispatch News then reported that by the afternoon “each of Alaska’s two Republican senators had received a phone call from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke letting them know the vote had put Alaska’s future with the administration in jeopardy.”
Mr Zinke says it is “laughable” to think he threatened the lawmakers, but Trump can expect even greater scepticism and resistance from fellow Republicans if they feel bullied.
Trump insulted China... Stopping World War III breaking out in southeast Asia is a key challenge for the Trump presidency. North Korea is trying to build a nuclear missile that is capable of reaching the United States and China’s efforts to dominate the South China Sea are driving up tensions with its neighbours.
Trump had tried to charm Chinese President Xi Jinping, even hosting him at his Mar-a-Lago “Winter White House” in Florida.
But on July 30 Trump tired of trying to coax China into reiningin the nuclear ambitions of North Korea, claiming on Twitter that “they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk”. In a clear rattle of a sabre, he added: “We will no longer allow this to continue.”