đŸ”” Hillary Framed Trump

Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 31.

Hillary Clinton approved a plan hatched by a top campaign adviser to “smear” then-candidate Donald Trump with false claims of Russian collusion and distract from her own mounting email scandal during the 2016 campaign, according to explosive intelligence files declassified Thursday.

The intelligence came from two memos obtained by the Obama administration in the lead-up to the Clinton-Trump contest and laid out “confidential conversations” between members of the Democratic National Committee and liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The plan included “raising the theme of ‘Putin’s support for Trump’” and “subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate” the Russian leader’s political influence campaign with actual hacking of election infrastructure.

 
 

Gruesome photos show the severely bruised and battered face of the woman who was knocked out during a horrifying now-viral Cincinnati brawl.

“This is Holly,” wrote Ohio Senator Bernardo Moreno as he shared the harrowing images of the victim who was filmed being beaten so badly he “thought she had been killed.”

“She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this,” Moreno wrote of the gruesome injuries from the vicious beatdown on a Cincinnati street last Saturday.

An orange shape was spotted on surveillance footage near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on the final night of his life — and forensic experts are questioning the federal government’s explanation of the mysterious object.

The shadowy object, seen in video obtained and reviewed by CBS News, moves up the stairs to Epstein’s cell block at the Metropolitan Correctional Center around 10:40 p.m. the night before the 66-year-old convicted sex trafficker was found hanged.

Federal investigators previously concluded the pixelated blob was a corrections officer “carrying linen or inmate clothing,” but forensic experts who spoke to the network as part of an investigation into the jail video now suspect it may have actually been a jumpsuit-clad inmate.

Trump signed executive actions on Wednesday imposing a 50% tariff on Brazil, a 50% tariff on certain copper products and suspending a tax perk for all countries that allowed cheap packages to fly into the US duty-free.

He also announced in a Truth Social post that his administration has a trade framework in place with Pakistan, although details were thin. Trump said the agreement, if completed, would include developing Pakistan’s oil reserves with a yet-to-be-named oil company.

Brazil tariffs

Trump had previously threatened to impose the 50% tariff on Brazil effective August 1 in a letter he sent earlier this month to the country’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In that letter, Trump threatened the hefty tariff if Brazil did not end its trial against right-wing former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it would be “very hard” to reach a trade agreement with Canada after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

Trump’s remarks come one day ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline for a new tariff agreement between the two nations. Canada is the second-largest U.S. trading partner, buying $349.4 billion of American goods last year and exporting $412.7 billion to the United States.

If no deal is reached, the U.S. is set to impose a 35 percent tariff on all Canadian goods not covered by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that Washington had reached a “Full and Complete” trade deal with Seoul, setting blanket tariffs on the country’s exports to U.S. at 15%.

This deal means that duties will be lowered from the 25% that Trump had threatened in his “tariff letter” to Seoul earlier this month. Tariffs on the country’s auto exports set at 25% will also be cut to 15%.

Trump also said in his post on social media platform Truth Social that South Korea “will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as President.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would not raise U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods beyond their current levels for 90 days, in order to give the neighboring countries time to strike a trade deal.

Trump recently threatened to raise the blanket tariff rate on Mexican imports to 30%, up from the 25% duty he had previously imposed to address alleged cross-border crime and drug trafficking. Mexico is also exposed to a 25% tariff on auto imports and 50% tariffs on metals commodities.

The new rate for Mexico was set to take effect Friday, when Trump’s paused “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries are set to snap back into place.

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