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Trump says George Soros should face RICO investigation
The president said “we’re going to look into” the prominent liberal donor, suggesting his funds support rioting.
RICO, which refers to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, is usually used for organized crime.
Soros’ group, Open Society Foundations, has rejected these allegations before.
“We do not pay people to protest or directly train or coordinate protestors,” it said in August.
The president talked about learning the news of Kirk’s assassination
Near the end of his Fox interview, Trump said he’d been holding a meeting about building a new White House ballroom when his aides interrupted.
“They came in and they said, ‘Charlie Kirk is dead.’ I didn’t know what they meant. I said, ‘What do you mean, dead?’” Trump said.
”‘Charlie Kirk was shot.’ And they thought it was dead because it was so horrific.”
Trump said he swiftly ended his meeting. “I just told these people, “Get out, you gotta go.”
Trump on Zohran Mamdani: ‘My little communist’
The president once again treaded into the New York City mayoral race, saying he wanted to see a one-on-one race against Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.
“I call him my little communist,” Trump said in the interview on “Fox and Friends.” He acknowledged Mamdani’s strong chances of victory but mused that “maybe one-on-one, somebody could beat him.”
Trump noted that former Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, now running as a Democrat, was leading the other non-Mamdani candidates in the race.
And while Trump is a Republican, he said Curtis Sliwa, the eclectic GOP candidate in the race, was “not exactly primetime.”
“He wants cats to be in Gracie Mansion,” Trump said.
Trump criticizes Senate Democrats for holding up nominations
He said that if former Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln “came back from the dead and they wanted to go into the administration,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer wouldn’t approve them.
Senate Republicans, who control the chamber, are considering changing the rules to make it easier to get certain nominations to a confirmation vote in batches, instead of one by one.
Trump says inflation is ‘solved’ and he needs to win tariffs case before the Supreme Court
On the heels of a Thursday inflation report showing inflation increased to 2.9%, Trump is saying high prices aren’t a problem and that the biggest risk to the economy would be a Supreme Court ruling that his emergency tariffs are illegal.
“I’ve already solved inflation,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends” as he continued to verbally attack Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting the central bank’s benchmark interest rates.
Trump declared an emergency under a 1977 law to impose tariffs and courts have said he exceeded his legal authority by doing so, putting before the Supreme Court what Trump called “one of the most important cases in the history of our country.”
Trump said he didn’t want to discuss the consequences of losing the case, saying, “What we did is right. The president has the power to impose tariffs.”
Trump says ‘don’t even bother’ negotiating with Democrats
He said Republicans will likely put together a continuing resolution to keep funding the federal government.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told the AP he was willing to risk a shutdown to protect some healthcare programs.
Trump said it was no use working with Democrats “if you gave them every dream, they would not vote for it.”
Instead, he said, “we will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together.”
The president says his patience with Putin ‘is running out’
“It’s running out and running out fast,” Trump said.
However, Trump said, “it does take two to tango,” suggesting that it’s been hard to get Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the same page for ending the war in Ukraine.
When Fox hosts indicated Putin was to blame for prolonging the conflict, Trump attributed the problem to “tremendous hatred between him and Zelenskyy.”
Trump says it’s ‘dangerous’ being president
Trump said politics has always been a dangerous business and that being president is “the most dangerous career you can have.”
He named Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and other presidents who were assassinated and said he went into politics aware of the danger.
Trump was the target of two assassination attempts last year.
Trump says he didn’t want to watch the video of Charlie Kirk’s shooting
“I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.”
Graphic video of the shooting in Utah has circulated widely online.
Trump says ‘with a high degree of certainty’ that suspect in Charlie Kirk killing has been caught
The suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination has been captured, President Trump said Friday in an announcement that appeared to represent a significant breakthrough in an investigation that captivated public attention and spanned nearly two days.
“With a high degree of certainty, we have him,” Trump announced in a live interview on Fox News Chanel on Friday morning.
The FBI and Justice Department did not immediately comment, but a news conference in Utah, where the killing took place on a college campus Wednesday, planned a news conference for later in the morning.
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Trump says National Guard going into Memphis
The president said he’s sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime.
Saying “Memphis is deeply troubled,” Trump said “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”
Speculation had centered on Chicago as Trump’s next city to send in the National Guard and other federal authorities. But the administration has faced fierce resistance from Illinois J.B. Pritzker and other local authorities.