🔵 Trump-Putin Meeting

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Citizen Frank
August 07, 2025

Good evening. It’s Wednesday, August 6.

Donald Trump told allies that he planned to meet Vladimir Putin next week, followed by a three-way meeting that would include Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.

The announcement has raised hopes that an end to the conflict could be in sight after more than three years of intense fighting.

After speaking by phone to the American president, Zelensky said he believed Russia was “now more inclined to a ceasefire”.

 
 

The soldier accused of shooting five of his co-workers at a US Army base has been identified as Army Sergeant Quornelius Radford.

Radford, 28, is in custody after he allegedly opened fire at his workplace at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia on Wednesday morning.

The shooting rampage started at the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area just before 11 am, prompting a brief lockdown at the base.

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the man who led the Russia investigation into President Donald Trump, has reportedly lived in a memory-care facility for years.

Muller, 80, served as the sixth director of the FBI from 2001 until 2013 and the special counsel overseeing the federal government’s multi-year investigation into Russia’s ties to the 2016 Trump campaign.

The probe found that neither Trump nor members of his campaign team coordinated with the Russians on their interference.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly told the Justice Department in a recent interview that she never observed President Donald Trump doing anything around her that “caused concern.”

Maxwell was recently interviewed by the DOJ about roughly 100 people who were associated with her and her accomplice, deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

“Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump,” ABC reported, citing anonymous sources.

Vice President JD Vance is hosting senior Trump administration officials at his residence in Washington, DC, on Wednesday evening for a strategy dinner to discuss how the administration should handle the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein fallout and move forward, Fox News has reported.

Vance has invited US Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to dinner at the sprawling, 12-acre vice presidential residence in Northwest Washington. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is also expected to be in attendance, according to sources familiar.

News of the dinner was first reported by CNN. It comes after weeks of unsuccessful attempts by senior Trump officials to quell mounting public pressure to release more information related to the Epstein investigation — underscoring the sticking power of the Epstein scandal despite a fast-moving news cycle. Trump supporters have been among the leading voices demanding the release of additional information.

The White House announced Wednesday that it is imposing an additional 25% tariff on India, bringing the total levies against the major United States trading partner to 50%.

“I find that the Government of India is currently directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil,” President Donald Trump said in an executive order.

“Accordingly, and as consistent with applicable law, articles of India imported into the customs territory of the United States shall be subject to an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25 percent,” the executive order reads.

President Trump announced plans Wednesday for a 100% tariff on “all chips and semiconductors” — insisting that there would be an orderly economic transition despite potential major impacts on US businesses.

“We’ll be putting a tariff, approximately 100%, on chips and semiconductors,” Trump said at an Oval Office event with Apple CEO Tim Cook, who arrived to announce plans for $600 billion in new investments in the US.

Trump said he would exempt companies that have plans to transition their manufacturing to the US — a hint that the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Taiwan’s TSMC, which is building massive manufacturing plants in Arizona, would be spared.

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