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sometime in the very near future,” Trump
said. Pressed on the issue, he insisted he
wasn’t “hinting anything,” before adding:
“Oh you’re going to be very disappointed
when you hear the answer, don’t worry.”
Trump slams Qatar for funding
terror as Tillerson urges calm
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an
extraordinary broadside against a key U.S.
partner, President Donald Trump lambasted
Qatar on Friday for funding terrorism “at a
very high level” and insisted that it stop. “No
more funding,” the president said.
Trump’s condemnation contradicted
the message delivered by his secretary of
state, Rex Tillerson, who had urged Qatar’s
neighbors to ease their blockade while
calling for “calm and thoughtful dialogue.”
Only an hour later, Tillerson sat in the
front row in the Rose Garden as Trump
enthusiastically embraced the move by Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and others to punish Qatar.
“The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has
historically been a funder of terrorism at a
very high level,” Trump said, echoing an
allegation the Saudi-led group has used to
justify cutting diplomatic ties to the tiny
gas-rich kingdom. “We have to stop the
funding of terrorism.”
Despite Tillerson’s call for there to be
“no further escalation,” Trump’s sharp
comments were likely to further embolden
Saudi Arabia and the others in their bid to
isolate Qatar. The State Department had said
the U.S. learned only at the last minute about
the Arab nations’ plan to cut ties. But Trump
said that he, Tillerson and military leaders
had decided during Trump’s trip to Saudi
Arabia last month that a public rebuke was
needed.
“The time had come to call on Qatar to
end its funding — they have to end that
funding — and its extremist ideology in
terms of funding,” Trump said. Though the
president said others, too, were guilty of
supporting terrorism, he said he would not
name them.
In a day of mixed messages and chaotic
diplomacy, Tillerson emphasized the
economic, humanitarian and military damage
he said the blockade was inflicting. He said
May soldiers on as election
shock complicates Brexit
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis,
speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House Friday.
families were being separated, children
removed from school and Qataris forced to
deal with food shortages.
Trump punches back, accuses
Comey of lying to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Punching back
a day after his fired FBI director’s damaging
testimony, President Donald Trump on Friday
accused James Comey of lying to Congress
and said he was “100 percent” willing to
testify under oath about their conversations.
Trump cryptically refused to say whether
those private exchanges were taped — a
matter at the heart of the conflicting accounts
of what passed between them at a time when
Comey was leading an FBI investigation
into Russia’s interference in the presidential
election and its ties to the Trump campaign.
He asserted that nothing in Comey’s
testimony to the Senate pointed to collusion
with Russia or obstruction of justice.
“Yesterday showed no collusion, no
obstruction,” Trump said.
He further denied ever asking Comey for
his “loyalty,” contradicting Comey’s detailed
sworn testimony about a private dinner the
two men had in the White House.
“No I didn’t say that,” Trump stated
abruptly, taking questions at a joint press
conference with Romanian President Klaus
Iohannis in the Rose Garden. Asked if he
would make that denial under oath, he said:
“100 percent.”
Trump’s aides have dodged questions
about whether conversations relevant to the
Russia investigation have been recorded, and
so did the president, in series of teases.
“Well, I’ll tell you about that maybe
LONDON (AP) — In a political drama
both brutal and surreal, British Prime
Minister Theresa May tried Friday to carry
on with the business of governing as usual,
while her Conservative Party reeled from
losing its parliamentary majority and her
opponents demanded she resign.
An election that May called to strengthen
her hand as Britain leaves the European
Union ended with her political authority
obliterated, her days in office likely
numbered and the path to Brexit more
muddied than ever.
Meanwhile the supposed loser, Labour
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, savored a
surprisingly strong result and basked in the
adulation of an energized, youthful base.
British newspapers summed it up in a
word: Mayhem.
The Conservatives built their election
campaign around May’s ostensible strengths
as a “strong and stable” leader, and the
outcome is a personal slap in the face. But
May soldiered on Friday, re-appointing
senior ministers to her Cabinet and holding
talks with a small Northern Irish party about
shoring up her minority government.
“I obviously wanted a different result last
night,” a grim-faced May acknowledged,
promising she would “reflect on what
happened.”
With results in from all 650 House of
Commons seats after Thursday’s vote, May’s
bruised Conservatives had 318 — short of
the 326 they needed for an outright majority
and well down from the 330 seats they had
before May’s roll of the electoral dice.
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