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pharmaceuticals? Of the €224 billion in estimated exports last year, €99.9 billion was for pharmaceutical and medical products. Of that €99.9 billion, €44 billion went directly to the United States. The aforementioned statistical graph from the Central Statistics Office shows the dominance of chemical products (mostly medicines) in the Irish export portfolio.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGHRHHZCLFE5DA7AUP4LJX2JIM","additional_properties":{"_id":"GXNHVSQDZBFG5GNSRX45BL5HLY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605533514},"id":"timestamp-59234","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JVSBCYILGVDH7CWLYVK73SK4AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100838},"content":"US president Donald Trump has hailed today as “Liberation Day” for the United States, but Wall Street is less than impressed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4UNBZCLN5ASTLBI45XLJ3L6SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100839},"content":"Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Wednesday as investors worried about the potential impact of his tariffs on the global economy, corporate earnings and inflation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPWEMYSBANGI3OTJR5SPTLTPMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100840},"content":"The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 156.51 points or 0.37 per cent after the opening bell; the S&P 500 lost 26.55 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 5,606.52; and the Nasdaq Composite lost 99.07 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 17,350.82.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AY7IWPJW5EO3IUO2AZOYBMH6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"G7W63QCEWZGN7CG22VLPUMFERA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605806489},"id":"timestamp-95391","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"32PZIT6BVRF4DFKQTRGH5AUZDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100842},"content":"UK chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves said the UK would not jeopardise the possibility of an economic deal with Donald Trump’s US by “posturing” in response to the president’s tariffs which are set to hit British exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GDHZ3T7QCVDXZIYGHSJ3ZMLRSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100843},"content":"The chancellor told MPs she had been speaking to exporters who did not want a rushed response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JI5AAIPRXBBU7MKK4ENDEVVHGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100844},"content":"She said: “We don’t want to be posturing here, the prize on offer is a good economic agreement between us and the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHFK2DGCMRCFBCM4F44GFXXM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100845},"content":"“We are not going to do anything to put that in jeopardy, we are not going to rush into action to get a quick headline.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"43F6HZIMEBC33AH4P2AKTIVH6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100846},"content":"She said she had discussed the situation with European Commission economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXBIVMUFZJAT5DVSY7KUOX2IDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100847},"content":"The European Union has threatened to push back against Trump’s tariffs; it retaliated against his trade taxes during his first term in the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU5H7GPZNRDPJFX657UJL44UT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100848},"content":"But Reeves told the UK’s Treasury Committee: “Let’s see how other countries and other trading blocs respond.” She added: “We are discussing with other countries and the EU about the appropriate response to whatever announcements are made later today.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUPT75PJ2BFS3HCENUTOXINUWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ATYWJA2ALRCRPNTM47PVOSGGOY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605941026},"id":"timestamp-72682","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DIE35WGH4JH6ZBIM5FYTHBB42U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100850},"content":"The European Union is preparing a package of potential emergency measures to support parts of its economy that could be hit the hardest by US president Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, according to a report on Bloomberg.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGGJRHDKAVAZRO5RTGUHLDSA7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100851},"content":"The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is working on short-term economic support proposals to go alongside plans to advance reforms and competitiveness in key sectors as well as to improve the functioning of the bloc’s single market, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SCULMYDRD5GTFO5YVRQAPGVSGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100852},"content":"Trump is set to announce so-called reciprocal tariffs later on Wednesday to strike out against what he considers to be unfair levies on US goods as well as non-tariff barriers, such as domestic regulations and how countries collect taxes, including the bloc’s value-added tax, digital taxes and regulations. The EU says its VAT is a fair, non-discriminatory tax that applies equally to domestic and imported goods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLXVNSUUENCJFJPM7VCM54LN2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100853},"content":"Any potential EU support measures will depend on what the US announces, one source told Bloomberg.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2NODXRPANBG3FW3WMXVJLTBUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100854},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743606840513},"id":"timestamp-5754","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C4LOOLH64FCOXMWBYWM6CX3XTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100855},"content":"Britain’s government will not rush into action to counter any import tariffs announced later on Wednesday by US president Donald Trump because it does not want to risk undermining a possible trade deal with Washington, minister for finance Rachel Reeves said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7ZH5APKFRATZMHZADGYSKGNVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100856},"content":"“The government has been really clear that we are going to approach this in a clear-headed way and always represent the national interest,” Reeves told lawmakers in parliament.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4WOWZSIVJFIBMUHKU7DJ6NRKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100857},"content":"“It’s why myself and the business and trade secretary met with big UK exporters this morning. They don’t want government to rush into any response because the prize on offer is an economic agreement. We don’t want to do anything that undermines that. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPDWSARMPNB6DHFSYDYQOLQTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100858},"content":"Reeves said London would see how other countries respond to Trump’s expected announcement of tariffs before deciding on any retaliatory moves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZLLM453NM5B33LXLKAFQADMFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH7LIDADTBD4ZIQSADJ3ELYNXU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608112743},"id":"timestamp-51941","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TG3NN6KG5ZALJGISF4CHULK2ZQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"SJDZFVNEGBG4TLXZDQFOOQH3HE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WGMHWZZHQVCHTJUF2R6KVOHO7U"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608319687},"id":"timestamp-59026","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ABGDS7BCOVDHVCUM3FZMZDCWOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"6A7J4GE7YBFWDEUNUHDVE5AKYM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608625530},"id":"timestamp-51423","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"WPKMCCG5HRHTFP7AES7XQ7TT5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651036},"content":"The US administration was excoriated last week for Signalgate. Most observers were astonished that the leading lights in the administration including the vice-president JD Vance, the secretary of defence Pete Hegseth and the CIA director John Ratcliffe added the Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group discussing imminent strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. No heads rolled as a result of that security debacle, but the Trump administration seems to have learned from it, as there have been no leaks to date of the much-anticipated tariff regime the US president is about to announce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAU3YJK36VEARPSZZW46U2NWNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651037},"content":"As Irish Times managing editor Cliff Taylor writes: “The remarkable thing so far is that the outline of Trump’s package has not leaked out. Not so far anyway. We know that in recent days reports suggest a simpler system than originally hinted at – possibly even the same tariff level of around 20 per cent on all imports in to the US, or most of them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXKYYFYI3VH43ONVSSTLIDYDEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651038},"content":"“But a few hours out the main US media outlets have nothing firm and other governments appear to be in the dark, too. Are the finishing touches still being put to the key decisions? Or has it been kept to a tight team and thus not leaked?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFONR3S37FAPHHDGTG62MRRC5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651039},"content":"“All the White House has said is that the tariffs will go into effect immediately, which will be hugely disruptive with some goods already in transit to the US. Whether the tariffs do in fact apply from tomorrow morning US time will be one key thing to watch out for tonight.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2XNOYD2MOVFKXL7XSML2GLJJDY","additional_properties":{"_id":"33SFINGDZRGSRKSNF7CLXMABDY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623220000},"id":"timestamp-70812","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6ZNSKFY3SVDUFOK7SP4SYS57FY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government mood ‘gloomy’ as details of tariffs set to be announced","type":"header"},{"_id":"5EWC44YPRVGMNEM7TFXZ7MQW34","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish Times political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones describes the mood in Irish Government circles as “gloomy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYMPXZUZDNEYNLNYGCLGZYNXTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651042},"content":"He writes: “The big thing is how broad tariffs may be – one Cabinet source said they will be watching to see if tariffs are ‘sectoral, country or blanket’ level, while a second senior minister characterised this as ‘scattergun, broad sweep or selective’ – will he tariff Irish whiskey, for example, but not dairy products?","type":"text"},{"_id":"MD56TLZV4BHAHOOUYAVM6DQ6HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651043},"content":"“One source involved in planning the Irish response said that tariffs that are ‘flat, broad, fat and simple’ is the best outcome for Ireland. So something like a 25 per cent across-the-board tariff. On the flip side, if this is a starting point, building up with specific tariffs on pharma, for example, some non-tariff barriers adding extra costs, and any moves on tax, that becomes more and more difficult for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMJOV52VSJE6FIUIZL4STCZ3LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651044},"content":"“Similarly, with the structure of the pharma sector split between tangible things like manufacturing and intangible assets, which have been the engine that drove much of the boom in corporate tax in recent years, how does that break down? ‘Can we book intellectual property through Ireland even if we can’t sell pharma products?’ questions this same minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D63DJMR77NBSVBJDXSWUNGW6XA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651045},"content":"“Any reference to the pharmaceutical sector will of course be unwelcome for Ireland. So, in addition to the tariffs, whether Trump announces or even flags sector-specific measures will be a key thing. ‘That’s where things will really hit,’ says one senior Minister. There are also nerves about mentions of Ireland specifically – ‘to know if we are actually on his mind’, in the words of one source.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UAOCOX6AIFGDNLJ76VKTXC7XDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651046},"content":"“Two senior Government sources said they will also be looking for indications of his willingness to negotiate; another Minister said they’ll be listening closely for any indication of timelines for tariffs coming in – Trump has a habit of announcing something, only for the implementation to lag behind.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZQYNTA7CZCYJNVAXVJWW2QKWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651047},"content":"“Another thing to watch will be what happens afterwards. Dublin expects a response at the EU level, and the EU’s trade council (a meeting of trade ministers, which Simon Harris will attend for Ireland) will be convened early next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YL76NKYATJGWDBKDG4TIJE7VOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651048},"content":"“Senior sources in Dublin are wary about next steps, knowing that a return of serve from Brussels will likely be matched by another round from Washington, and so forth – trying to figure out what happens three moves in advance is one of the many complex problems ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44WIWAWNONCFHPCYOKDVLLOIUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651049},"content":"“Meanwhile, the Government here is likely to bring a major focus on Irish competitiveness – domestic-level enterprise reforms, technical changes or new legislation to cut down on red tape and try to improve what they call the “offering”, in the world of foreign direct investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4BTR2ZRFNDUPFDL6V6OQGU3DU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651050},"content":"“The response, in terms of assistance to firms and households, is another thing to watch. Bloomberg reported today that the EU is working on short-term emergency measures – exactly what is meant by that remains to be seen, but Government sources pointed to the ‘short-term’ nature of that response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFEV5AY65NBMHO5NDLUUJ56GJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651051},"content":"“The Government here favours a Brexit-style response rather than a Covid-style one: ie, some balance sheet supports for affected sectors, maybe helping them find new markets – but a big bazooka of State money does not feature in Irish thinking at the moment. The thinking is that there could be a permanent change in the structure of Irish trade – and protecting firms from that may not be possible, or even desirable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQTBJJ5QHJHHDI6OUJX7ESVW3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651052},"content":"“There’s a similar approach for households, with Ministers anxious to pour cold water on the idea of a volley of once-off payments for families in the wake of tariff moves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENHOYTYDBBHHXKEM6ATTHHRKDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651053},"content":"“How quickly this will move is another question. With the EU committed to not hitting back for a fortnight, things won’t change for firms or voters in the morning. ‘It’ll be slow moving in terms of the macro(economic) impact,’ says one Cabinet Minister. There is a huge amount that is difficult to model or predict, according to people involved in planning the Irish response. You can figure out what the impact of a certain tariff might be on a certain sector, but so-called ‘second order’ effects – further down the food chain – are fiendishly complex to figure out, particularly before you know what you’re reacting to. So trying to figure out the precise impact on the tax take, for example, is a challenge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6H5EVC7OANDAHHZWTGDF53K454","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651054},"content":"“The government here will also be looking for indications of what Trump’s intentions are after ‘Liberation Day’ – specifically, whether he flags a “willingness or openness to negotiate and walk this back”, one senior Minister says.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2WUMQI7LHZDVDHH6K2PEZQ3CGU","additional_properties":{"_id":"OGF6RQEYTJEEZJJZB4AJPC55GE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743609442786},"id":"timestamp-40881","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JEJKBZQKOJFOJEVVPPEP7R4UXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651056},"content":"Politico is reporting that Trump has told his inner circle that Elon Musk will be leaving soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TH2N3NI5REQ5FNS2WNF57POQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651057},"content":"Musk has become arguably the most unpopular man in the US, at much detriment to his reputation, through his actions with the so-called Department of Government Efficency (Doge).","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QFCU5CDKVEEBLTKENJG5SUE6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651058},"content":"He spent $18 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, but Trump’s favoured candidate Brad Schimel was soundly beaten by liberal judge Susan Crawford.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILFP6QV5NFE6TIK6K64ITIC72E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651059},"content":"If Trump regards Musk as an electoral liability, the world’s richest man may leave the White House sooner rather than later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMEAPN3CZ5F7LPHHXCUCG577U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651060},"content":"Musk might see his ousting as a blessing in disguise. Tesla, the source of most of his wealth, reported its worst first quarter in three years and its stock price fell by 4 per cent in early trade. Tesla stock has fallen by half since December last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4U6KLQTM5BVXFRATZJEHMD77E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651061},"content":"The stock rallied with news that Musk might be leaving the White House to concentrate on Tesla again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QNFRXZQEZALJLNODWWBDRFYZE","additional_properties":{"_id":"5X2HRDZMMJC3FHCVZI7CYGFYUQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743610609581},"id":"timestamp-23967","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HYL4E66GONFDZCH2U43UWSXZFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651063},"content":"The New York Times is suggesting that Trump is mulling over a 20 per cent tariff on <i>all </i>imported goods in to the United States. It would at least have the virtue of clarity and simplicity, but such a blanket charge would cost US households between $3,400 (€3,100) and $4,200 (€3,900) a year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4Z26LSGUNJBHJKITXSA5IBMQFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651064},"content":"Trump’s tariffs to date are an average of 12 per cent – the highest level since the second World War, analysts at Deutsche Bank have estimated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQKJRLTRARDXVIBZLGQMC3ZAHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651065},"content":"Today’s tariffs could push that figure to 18 per cent or more. That would approach levels seen in the United States in the early 1930s, after the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed, which helped to deepen the Great Depression by hindering international trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BENNCL7WK5U66NREXPD7GJQ7TY","additional_properties":{"_id":"BY3A5ENM7VDL7MADEIOLFAJQEY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NS4G2E4SRFCBDJQI3LRB3D5ZLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"We have the first hint of what might be in the world’s most closely guarded secret: Trump’s forthcoming tariff regime. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FSDTGRAGRCG5JAESZM7JP2GOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sky News political editor Sam Coates is reporting via his colleague Ed Conway that Trump is planning 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent tariffs depending on country and by industry. More to follow, we expect. 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Bakkavor gained 7.9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L3KGUTAF6ZHVFLRU4CYEXKWCX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Grafton Group</b> was also in focus, rising 0.8 per cent, as it bought HSS Hire Ireland for almost €32 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNYLRIQSDNDA7KEIDFWXZ7U4YQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The FTSE 100 index fell 0.3 per cent. Gains in the pound weighed on the export-focused stock index, as the dollar lost ground in advance of the tariff announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THSLP37YSVB6ZCAOD6SS4QWHUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aerospace and defence stocks led the sectoral declines, down 2.1 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZOP32JF2FCVRGBUDKAUSOJW6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Rolls-Royce</b> and <b>BAE Systems</b> were among the top losers in the FTSE 100 index, down 3 per cent and nearly 1 per cent, respectively.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LMKEF42SIREYVHGVCPN25XFKVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heavyweight healthcare firms fell alongside European peers in advance of the tariffs announcement. The pharma and biotech index fell 1.4 per cent to its lowest close in nearly a month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZOBC52WD5EIRPBC3EDQN2RKXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>AstraZeneca</b> was the biggest drag on the blue-chip index, down 1.2 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBIY3SCGXRFCVDGRI3LX5ZHARE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743617071037},"id":"timestamp-6911","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"S5KSGFXK2ZAPPKHCJW2GIDXPIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"As we await Donald Trump’s White House rose garden address on reciprocal tariffs at 9pm GMT/4pm EST, here’s a reminder of what will happen later today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2W4UMPJLHBFT3ABYLRKLNRKIZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump has for weeks pegged April 2 as “Liberation Day”, when he plans to impose an array of duties that could upend the global trade system. Details of the tariff plans were still being formulated in advance of a White House Rose Garden announcement ceremony scheduled for 4pm EST.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJELIKRGIREJDOJHM5K7W2F3UY","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, Sky News reported on Wednesday afternoon that Trump is planning 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent tariffs depending on country and by industry. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3ROO2DITRCH5MMO3ENSGBIBYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new duties, which are due to take effect immediately after Trump announces them, rattled grain traders as the US exports more than 40% of its soybean production. A disruption in agricultural export sales would hit farmers as they are struggling with weak crop prices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BMA3SFLJFDUFDEB54AI5R4Y3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"China, the world’s biggest soybean importer, already imposed tariffs on US farm products last month in response to earlier Trump levies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG4Y7O53ABETLP2GWEUHIN5MDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But what does this all mean for Ireland? There are reports of a “gloomy” mood in Dáil Éireann with concerns around whether the tariffs will be ‘scattergun, broad sweep or selective’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHY5MOGN5FAGBAY5D62ATHT7VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"One source involved in planning the Irish response told Irish Times political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones that tariffs that are ‘flat, broad, fat and simple’ is the best outcome for Ireland. So something like a 25 per cent across the board tariff. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUESDTZRUJCPRELJQDGG7FFKGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Harris told the meeting that he will continue talks with EU counterparts and the commission in the days ahead as the full impact of Trump’s tariff agenda is probed. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGK5HDYAEJB2FBKMKWWXQ5VHZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He told the party that his priority will be to protect people, especially the most vulnerable, but also cited farmers, communities and workers, according to a briefing note of his comments circulated by the party. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2X5F7NAOFNHIPOHPXFDLHOU3KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fine Gael had been in Government during the financial crisis, the pandemic and Brexit, arguing there was a strategy for navigating economic turbulence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3LUTHRK4ZE23KVM5DJWZQ4VTY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743619303446},"id":"timestamp-15047","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"KALGFQ2WN5AO3FRTNFVCI43DDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>White House pushes back against reports that Musk is soon leaving administration </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"TJU47JR4I5FILAP6J4A27JD4JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has pushed back against reports that Donald Trump has told his inner circle that Elon Musk will be taking a step back from the Trump administration, according to a Guardian report ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWOZMYKKVJAIXONZLXTCIGKSN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Calling the Wednesday report from Politico a “‘scoop’ [that] is garbage”, Ms Leavitt said: “Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special Government employee when his incredible work at Doge is complete.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDXSOML6J5DAPDNHN4KO4KRVSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to three people familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico, Trump remains pleased with Musk’s unofficial “department of Government efficiency”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"76WNQL6K3NGVDCGVHASYHGKM54","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, both Musk and Trump have agreed in recent days “that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role”, Politico reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQFJHKHJFBHP3HLM4H5PRK43SE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743619613445},"id":"timestamp-45102","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ZNDWWX5F5JHIDPKP47S6KXNRZM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"EVKZT7NTFFCOTNDKH3L5Q56FVM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743620110275},"id":"timestamp-83021","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YY5RTTVTGZBXFHM57XRHGTVWRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Overarching ambition is to redefine US as manufacturing superpower, says White House</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"TW5MJ5CGTBE6PPSPQ3TPIFIIDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has told reporters that Donald Trump is spending today with his economic team fine-tuning his announcement on sweeping tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFYZXRQTKVG7HFNAM6F3KT5634","additional_properties":{},"content":"The scope and severity of these tariffs have been a closely guarded secret and the general mystification has led to lurching market prices and widespread foreboding among the United States’ trading partners, including Ireland, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">reports Irish Times Washington correspondent Keith Duggan</a>. 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But those days of US, beginning tomorrow, being ripped off, are over.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SV3IVY5OJ5B5RLBG7LFXUYBIOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said that while Mr Trump is always open to taking a phone call- “always up for a good negotiation”- from countries seeking to discuss their individual trade imbalance with the United States, the overarching ambition of the programme is to redefine US as a manufacturing superpower.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWM7E5OHPRADHLVPRKN6BUCR6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The president will be addressing the decades of unfair trade practices that have ripped our country off and American workers off. It has hollowed out our middle class, it has destroyed our heartland and the president is focused on reshaping our global economy to make sure that US is once again a manufacturing superpower.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLX35XGPVBGPNGNKOQO4EDRT5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">Read Keith Duggan’s full report of what we can expect from this evening’s announcement, here. </a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOX74Z7ZDNDBRPDVVMBUP465X4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743621128075},"id":"timestamp-81090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P37D6RPP4FCABIRKFXQD73OQ4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Trump considering revoking tariff exemptions for cheap shipments from China</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"LVCJCILMC5ATFA5GKZ5W7XFN2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Trump administration is considering revoking tariff exemptions for low-value shipments from China, known as “de minimis,” as part of Wednesday’s tariff announcement, a source familiar with the plans said, according to Reuters. 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The decision had been paused because of logistical issues complicating the inspection of millions of the low-value shipments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPYVAS77YVGWJMSLHPWNYDZVWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They figured it out,” the source said. “De minimis is being stripped from China.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYLKEOIICNHMZAG7JHVKTQMAQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump is expected to impose sweeping new tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, in a move that would escalate a trade war, increase prices and upend a decades-old trade order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AR22QW7VDZBFFM57OVBBEWLTJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump first took aim at cheap shipments from China in his February 1st executive order, imposing a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods and ending the trade rule that allows merchandise with a value totalling less than $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free and with minimal inspections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GL27XNEEKJCZVH76EL4QP6SWOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The number of shipments entering this way has exploded in recent years, reaching nearly 1.4 billion packages last year. More than 90 per cent of all packages coming into the US now enter via de minimis, and of those, about 60 per cent come from China, led by direct-to-consumer retailers such as Temu and Shein.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QZH5LDBRJBKTJDIINIS5QXZVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWSLPNG6NBFDJAGUKDYZ6672R4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623218437},"id":"timestamp-74546","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C3XT2Y6ZHNCLDHAEJDCUTDF3HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Expectation of 20% tariff for Ireland, says Taoiseach </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"OS6LMXOMXJCJHKOW7STSHF7ORM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones reports: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told his party’s TDs and Senators that the expectation is of 20 per cent tariffs across the board and possible sectoral tariffs too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Q7BG2TLLBBX5BFPVU54GAUPGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Uncertainty is the one certainty and that “the whole system is working flat out to respond,” he said. He told his parliamentary party that he senses the US tariffs are an issue that will hang over us for some time and “may have economic implications”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAQOG5V5DNAJXMTJWSYYTRTKEY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623597782},"id":"timestamp-75484","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IWOVFWSSANEVNOGX6J36PT5VUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s understood the European Union will not be responding to Donald Trump’s tariff plans until Thursday morning. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTJ7CMPIMZCYFKGNXC4HX6XXOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is expected to make a statement tomorrow morning but there will be no press conference with EU Commission for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič on Thursday, it’s understood. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"7O4WZCHSQBENZEXIVRVT4MMJQA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The US president holds up a chart in the rose garden which states tariffs of 20% for the European Union. He says the US is charging “discounted reciprocal rates” and that the EU should actually be charged 37%. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PX3HG3WKJRBEFP3PDIPCFE476Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"He says: “tariffs will be not a full reciprocal, I could have done that but it would have been tough.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLXTFARP7RG2VF6O7Y5GTXWF5Y","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743625859246},"id":"timestamp-93986","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"NBX32ZCL2JAE5ACEYUFBJINM2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Trump lists tariffs across the globe, including 20% for EU and 10% for UK </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"3MM7GCJGCJGNLCO2AC77SGZHGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Donald Trump is now listing tariffs from a chart, naming countries and regions across the globe. 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No mention yet of extra sectoral tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT7RZKYOMFD53CP3MDQ53JJTPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"This will be significantly disruptive to trade – food, drink and pharma are the three sectors worst hit. And the worry will be that an inevitable EU response could lead to a trade war and possibly higher tariffs. We will see. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEXWKHTEY5ER5GSK7TIM6PFNFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"An interesting point is the baseline tariff of 10 per cent being imposed – this is the lowest rate being imposed on any country. It may suggest that this is the tariff level which Trump wants to see in place in the long term to raise funds to allow lower taxes elsewhere. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"J55DFX3NJRGTRMKLDIGAWTAQHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Higher tariffs – such as the EU – might perhaps be negotiated down towards this level. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SQ3B25ZRZCRPLMT2ZZRSMHRK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We now urge the Irish Government and the European Commission, to act with urgency to find a negotiated solution with the US administration,” he said. “Government must also work with business to assess the potential consequences for the Irish economy resulting from the imposition of US tariffs and the likely EU response to these tariffs. The Government must advocate for a proportionate and measured EU response, informed by a detailed analysis of supply chains, strategic considerations, and the broader implications of any retaliatory measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IH4AY2TL6VCYDNXMHKO3GFIYPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“While this will present challenges for a number of sectors, we anticipate that the new tariffs will result in a net overall export impact of around 2–3% in the short-term. Thankfully, we are in a position of economic strength, which will provide the necessary cushion to absorb slower growth and invest in diversifying market opportunities. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"S34FJRAKNNEDVB3322ENST3AY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Open and free trade has been hugely beneficial to the global economy. Ireland, Europe, and the US have all gained significantly from this trading relationship. Ireland, in particular, has played a crucial role in providing substance and strategic positioning for US firms accessing the European single market and global markets. Our strong track record of delivery has not only benefited our own economy but has also contributed to the success of US firms and their shareholders. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"27FXN7RWF5ATXNSSUI3TWV2JR4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743626880000},"id":"timestamp-13143","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JR7XFP2WQNC7TPTTS34M3JTMJE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6YLR3IX7LZEFFOEJSRXMPBOWLQ","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743627738423},"id":"timestamp-74390","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ICLOUS7RTVHB5CBS7WDTHGFXTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House has posted the famous chart on its official X account","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHIDIQTC2NB5DMMD2TRXFJI7WI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"AONBA7CMZBHCTPRUKPMBTXWFBM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628276916},"id":"timestamp-78408","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OLVTOVPA4ZHM3EOXJJANUACPTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Reaction from Irish Government is already starting to filter through, says political Correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones has already spoke","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLB7IDP3LBFJXJJYTEH5QCH4NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"There was a degree of relief that Ireland was not among the countries named by the US President, with one senior minister of the view that it “could have been worse” - but there was overriding concern about the impact on the pharmaceutical and other exporting sectors, which now face tariffs of 20 per cent for exporting to the US. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXAO3ER7XZGTTGCJR4I3Q6D32E","additional_properties":{},"content":"One senior source cautioned that the 20 per cent could prove to be a starting point and could rise further in the face of EU retaliation. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"APWP2JD7AFABJLHMBQ3RYDKMFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 20 per cent is in line with expectations, but that is cold comfort to sources in Government here, with one minister drily offering: “Not exactly good news.” The mismatch between the tariff levied on the UK and the 20 per cent tariff on the EU would prove “tricky” with regard to Northern Ireland, one Cabinet source offered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZSWT5XQSZDY3BLXWPOP5L2AFE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628514274},"id":"timestamp-4851","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7GQG5OZ6FFDRTLY7HCKGRHOFNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said it is “important now that Europe considers our best response back”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLVPQT5OUNDQ5GXGSHWOCBUXT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The moves that President Trump has made will have a big effect on global trade but Europe and Ireland is approaching this from a position of some strength,” he told The Irish Times. “We will act to look after our jobs and our interests.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNUW7RYOEFAD7GZIUMDDEAHDSM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628657677},"id":"timestamp-13917","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PHA6RGZ2W5EH7O4MU5GZTG3IS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"News on Pharma coming through ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3ZNZ362QBDWDCVHNQBMRJAQ4U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"N6KG7MZLWNFZPCCOCBOCCNHJ2E","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629028898},"id":"timestamp-41497","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LFFMACZN6RHSBDAN6FGLU2LEJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>20% tariff could have “significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy” for “some time”, says Tánaiste </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"HJJFH24NQZCBZLE3WMCNRTXMIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has said Donald Trump’s 20 per cent blanket tariff on goods from all EU countries “could have a significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy” which is “likely to be felt for some time”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VL54S47SEZCBPEHYNXLFMNIDK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Harris said the Government has been “actively preparing for this possibility for some time” and “will seek to control what we can control and influence what we can influence while drawing on unity with our EU partners as our greatest strength”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVZBMLVKZZB5LPBIBWZREFER3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We know that the EU stands ready to find a negotiated solution with the US”, he added. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNWKDQHZZBD65PF4NGNUKY6BI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The EU will have to respond in a proportionate manner which protects our citizens, our workers and our businesses. The EU and Ireland stands ready to find a negotiated solution with the US. Negotiation and dialogue is always the best way forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2AU2BZPGBF3RM2TX772S2CZYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He noted that the latest tariffs were in addiction to tariffs on steel and aluminium (25%) and auto sector (25%) that the US announced last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVNL5QPHBBBVJKYQ6HQ3H267O4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It represents a huge challenge to Irish exporters to the US across all sectors. Work is already under way to mitigate this and we are already taking concrete steps to boost our domestic competitiveness and investing in our infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4VUKQEHCNHEXLJKFBNHVOHMTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The Government is accelerating preparations for an Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity with Minister Burke leading this work. This plan will focus on domestic policy measures which can make the Irish economy more competitive and resilient to economic shocks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRHKM3NGNRDGHNHRMBBNZY35GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Our relationship with the United States is long, deep and meaningful and I want to be clear that it will endure far beyond any difficulties we may encounter in the time ahead. We will continue to emphasise the fact that the US-EU relationship is a two-way street. Our economies are interdependent and an extended trade dispute is in no one’s interest. We will continue to seek to engage with the US administration in a constructive way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YK4BJIFKJALDARPPN7AUSX3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Next Monday, I will attend a meeting of Foreign Affairs Council on Trade in Luxembourg where I will be discussing today’s developments and our collective response with my EU counterparts and Commissioner Šefčovič.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSZ4V6NLSVETZHDA7CQU5376NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In advance of this I will hold a meeting of the Trade Forum this Friday. This will be an opportunity for me to engage with business representatives in response to tonight’s announcements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSRUGZYTTFE7ZGNLS7FM3PUPYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We must remain calm and measured in our response. Ultimately every disagreement has to end in agreement and we will be continuing to advocate and argue for negotiated solutions. This is how we will end this dispute and this will be my focus along with that of my colleagues in the time ahead.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARKDCORMCJFKDGJW3ALUB3EJ44","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629157022},"id":"timestamp-83894","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DHHM2HFPOZGKXKUUHWQUDKWG2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Important to note that Trump’s tariffs will leave Northern Ireland in a complicated position and will put the Windsor Framework, the post-Brexit trading rules agreed by the EU and UK for the North, to the test given the EU has been hit with a 20 per cent tariff and the UK a 10 per cent tariff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC2VH2E4ZRCNDB6SYF6K4RYSLI","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629289691},"id":"timestamp-27905","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FYNSZAJNRBBRPG3CX6AFMZVQ6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Europe correspondent Jack Power responds from Brussels: The fact European capitals had been expecting Trump to hit trade coming from EU states with tariffs of 20 per cent won’t do much to soften the economic blow. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAXRVXD6LREAZLL6PSB75VFG7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Senior figures in the European Commission, the EU executive arm that sets the bloc’s trade policy, had privately flagged several days ago that they were expecting tariffs of 20 per cent. Now that has come to pass the commission will come under pressure to hit back with significant retaliatory tariffs targeting US trade. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMFN5YJBXNBJPOT6D5GI5YTFRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In response to tariffs Trump already announced on steel and aluminium sold into the US last month, the EU’s executive body has been finalising its own package of import taxes on more than €20 billion worth of US products, such as soybeans and motorbikes. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"27Q6UPSMCVCLRJKO2UQT4MGYU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ursula von der Leyen’s commission is expected to pull together a further round of tariffs on top of those, to ramp up the pressure on the US administration. Senior EU officials have in recent days suggested that nothing is off the table, as the commission tries to force Trump to the negotiating table. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVYIQ34JFVBZTAHKYQ3E4TDV64","additional_properties":{},"content":"As one of the states most exposed to an EU-US trade war, Ireland will be encouraging caution in the coming days, other EU countries are less likely to want to tread so softly in how the bloc responds. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMJ4AFU3SJF7TAZFI3IT6DXIQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s understood the European Union will not be formally responding to Donald Trump’s tariff plans until Thursday morning. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is expected to make a statement tomorrow morning. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DT7PAZ5KOZE6NAXJAU7PSCSHQ4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629432654},"id":"timestamp-29462","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EHPPCOXPEVDHDILORZCMYLWHBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharma exempt for now","type":"header"},{"_id":"AK5DZ3MKX5ACHLC7GKU5V6ZJSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to a White House fact sheet, pharma products will not be covered by this initial round of tariffs, writes Cliff Taylor. If confirmed this is some relief to Ireland in the short term - though some products in the wider pharma/chemicals sector could still be covered. However pharma is expected to be hit by special tariffs due in coming weeks and a figure of 25 per cent has been mentioned. So it is likely to be a temporary reprieve.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NE7CXOAFVF4JPAXYQPSSKXD2M","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629498647},"id":"timestamp-63934","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Z3KFRTXXUBAS5CG7ACL4M33TRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF), the Government backed forum for employers, unions and its officials to engage on employment issues, is to meet on Friday, when the Government will also convene its Trade Forum, writes political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4MOICTXCVFB5HEI4MJSKYIJNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government sources said trade will be the number one item on the agenda for the meeting, which is the first since the Government was formed, although it had been in the diary for some time and is not a direct reaction to Wednesday’s announcement. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RH53UFSFURBDXP7NZ5TZROZTUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other issues on the agenda include collective bargaining action plan, blended working and the all-island labour market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYPQH3ZP6BAFFEGY43GTU2DZF4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629713338},"id":"timestamp-37","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EY333DTSKBDVFOGHOBQFTXVNCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>No justification for 20% tariff on EU imports, says Taoiseach </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"5Q2DD4IFIZB6ZB5EPZCAQEWEWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there is “no justification” for Donald Trump’s 20% tariffs on imports from across the European Union but that any response should be “proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PIFGGOJ6NBSDGPBFGS4MXZ5QM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“More than €4.2 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the EU and the US daily,” said the Taoiseach, following the US president’s tariff announcement. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBZHNK25HBHRNH6UWKLSXTURTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Disrupting this deeply integrated relationship benefits no one. Tariffs drive inflation, hurt people on both sides of the Atlantic, and put jobs at risk. We will now reflect with our EU partners on how best to proceed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFOPNGLTWJEYXAGDCYXKJL2F7I","additional_properties":{},"content":" “As I agreed with President von der Leyen in our recent phone call, EU unity is crucial, and our response should be considered and measured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIFCIEMPXVHWRMHXG6ZLA5AFLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Any action should be proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POL7LKHVANCRBD6QBBUIXVGKRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Now is a time for dialogue, and I believe that a negotiated way forward is the only sensible one. A confrontation is in no one’s interests. Ireland will be a strong advocate for an outcome which enhances the existing and strong transatlantic trading relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4I3IMYY37ZFK5PHOXJ722WUNSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" “As a small, open economy, and as a country that has built our prosperity on a policy of free and fair trade, there is no doubt that the imposition of tariffs by the US will have an adverse impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYRMQ6Q5GNG43OGOJ2XKML2VT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ireland’s priority is the protection of jobs and our economy. We are starting from a position of strength, and our economy is resilient. It is important that we focus on factors that we can control, including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53SGGLHFJBC2DHYC472KZEMBKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“By working with Irish-owned companies, multinationals, our EU partners and bilaterally with the US, we can and will weather this storm.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANTBR3MH6VCGNNYACJIBOKJHFE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630244497},"id":"timestamp-44494","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DOJ7YM3WQVCFXOQZK2N7EA7GSE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Pharmaceuticals not subject to tariffs, for now, says White House </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"F45U2LB4UFER7BQSSJZ2X6MNKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House ‘fact sheet’ on today’s tariff announcements, <a href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/\">recently published online</a>, has stated pharmaceuticals will not be subject to tariffs for now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS5USSEGHJGVPJLFSE6E6NPRJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It writes: Some goods will not be subject to the Reciprocal Tariff. These include: (1) articles subject to 50 USC 1702(b); (2) steel/aluminium articles and autos/auto parts already subject to Section 232 tariffs; (3) copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber articles; (4) all articles that may become subject to future Section 232 tariffs; (5) bullion; and (6) energy and other certain minerals that are not available in the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNVHBYJ6RVFMFBW6YEJJYIBPVY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630505729},"id":"timestamp-52231","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TMSTL2XB2FERXAVD76C5HFMX7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lower tariffs in UK and New Zealand leaves Irish dairy and drinks products at “competitive disadvantage”, says IFA</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"QNFLRU3QFVF5PMTGTXUWNDVBCA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In an initial reaction to the announcement of tariffs by US President Donald Trump, the Irish Farmers’ Association said the relative differences will impact the competitiveness of Irish products on the US market, including Kerrygold.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMLAPTKQ6FG37PVMCDM5JWKODQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that New Zealand only has a 10% tariff for dairy products and the UK only has a 10% tariff on drinks, while the EU will have 20% tariffs, will leave us at a competitive disadvantage against some of our biggest competitors in these two sectors, it said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6JP5FUGDFG5LLEKPQAQMGUTLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland exported circa €1.9bn worth of food and drink products across the Atlantic in 2024, said the IFA. The US market is an important outlet and accounts for circa 11% of our total food and drink exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHS4JM25S5AD3NAC7Q2DPBUAOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Within the €1.9bn figure, dairy at €830m and drinks, predominantly whiskey, at €900m account for 91% of what we export. We also export pig meat (€23m), beef (€8.8m) and seafood (€3.8m).","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWHWUWV2Y5F75NBLPZMMQ2OCXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kerrygold is now the second bestselling butter brand in the US, where we sent almost €500m worth of product in 2024. The market accounts for about 7.5% of our total dairy exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOU3TVYDRVH5LG7ZQBRF3CRUXU","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630861096},"id":"timestamp-35969","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AYRMXDBP3NG3PBPB7TW7574DDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"More from political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones on the Irish Government’s response to the US tariff announcements. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGTQOBP3A5GERI5KILBTMKNL3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government sources are guarded on the apparent carveout for the pharmaceutical sector. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JVGCHCASSFAGFMPDQPWLO6Z2KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"They note that there are sector-specific tariffs contained in Trump’s Wednesday night announcement - albeit on the automotive sector - suggesting it’s something that the administration sees as part of the toolkit, even if it’s holding off for now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOOLUEYEVZCHNNFYGHCBQZAPWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"So, they fear that a general tariff on pharmaceuticals could nonetheless come on to the table - perhaps if there is an ante-up from the EU in response to tonight’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKWY6X7STRHNDBOR2XBFR6YPZA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630949129},"id":"timestamp-34693","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7B4AGZN2K6JYLBAEIYAEXGGIBM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CKMU7K6UDJDSHKPES5FJ2VWNHA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631147562},"id":"timestamp-33077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PBPOE25QYNC3DJ73XPGYFVSSJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Australia will not place reciprocal tariffs against the US, says Albanese </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"XRORLT4CFBD3BPDDHOBUNKWZOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday the decision by US President Donald Trump to impose tariffs was not “the act of a friend,” but said his country would not place reciprocal tariffs against the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55NF7EKNOBBXVAZSB43AUIOEFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 10% baseline tariff on all imports and higher duties on some of his country’s biggest trading partners, in a move that ratchets up a trade war that Trump kicked off on his return to the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2GZ6ZVHYBFJXGDEXNECSFREZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBSH3LGIOJAZDJJVVZ5H4TL5S4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631313668},"id":"timestamp-42841","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RHEPNDOZZFE4DEQNF374W2NWJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A senior White House official has said Donald Trump will respond to retaliation by other countries to ensure that is emergency order is not undermined, Reuters reports","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4IDN7FFZZHLRLJHMW66FKTTVQ","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631734192},"id":"timestamp-8896","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GOAWYN5G6NEX7KBXXR44UGTOJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Northern Ireland responds</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"QV3O33KZ2BHVHLIQ3SSSNXLGQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have said they are focused on protecting Northern Ireland following the announcement of US tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RFJPRHYZJBDPF27JE7GU6GHWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president Donald Trump implemented a 10% tariff on the UK, but announced a 20% tariff on the European Union. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H57PP6SNQRBG7O2ZA54UVMLOH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a statement, First Minister Michelle O’Neill said: “Tonight the US president has announced tariffs for countries across the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSWCM7N3GVEMLPWEZGQE34DL3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In every engagement, both at home and internationally, my priority has always been to protect the best interests of workers, families, and businesses on the island. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NROCF5HRXZF2HP2NUQGP2O7TZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We must ensure that our all-island economy, which has grown substantially in recent years, continues to thrive to create better opportunities for all our people. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDBMYACNZRC5RBO676AI33J3KU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I will continue to speak with political and business leaders throughout this period of uncertainty, always prioritising the prosperity and future of everyone who calls our island home.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KBNDZEGPZD3XEJSU2C5FWXGIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms O’Neill announced a boycott of engagements in Washington DC to mark St Patrick’s Day last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSKT3YYUCZAUXAWKMBT3DDMNGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms Little Pengally, who met Mr Trump at the US Capitol, said the focus shifts to UK-USA negotiations and efforts to ensure the EU response does not impact Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCXETPSBM5DWVHDIFM5SUYRVMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said: “My focus will continue to be on doing all I can to champion Northern Ireland. This means pushing for all possible action to protect Northern Ireland, especially against any retaliatory tariffs by the EU. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIBXYXKAMJDP7KIP3ZOECJB64U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I have been vociferously raising our Northern Ireland issues to all involved and will continue to do so. Focus now moves to pushing forward the UK-USA arrangements, supporting UK Government to do so and ensuring Northern Ireland is central to these considerations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MU6CBLFP5NHVJOZY2LCFIFOQEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In addition, all efforts to ensure EU tariffs to USA and political decisions at EU level to US do not penalise Northern Ireland business or detrimentally impact on us. Much still to be done.” <i>Reporting from PA</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS7DZN5A2NHCTNR3ZGJ7JHR7RE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632017737},"id":"timestamp-55494","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QJUHJTVXYJALVM3IW23DVDZ3CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme, Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has said that the exemption for pharmaceutical goods is “probably not surprising”, but that Trump “may well still” include the products for tariffs at a future date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHZRZ3DOABEUDNSAJSSVVGRJIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“As of tonight... it doesn’t form part of (the tariffs),” Mr Heydon said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIOB6FYHRNG6DGBPIDDO55UWHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said putting the tariffs on drugs would have harmed US consumers but warned: “Sense has not stopped Trump so far... what we don’t know is there a volume 2,” he asked, adding that he could be holding back reciprocal measures in response to what the EU does. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DUVP25BWORCCPK3WAW3A4CBKUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked about food, agriculture and drinks exports, Mr Haydon said the tariffs were “problematic”. He said for the whiskey sector, Scotch whiskey would have a ten per cent advantage over Irish exports from tomorrow - he said all this would be worked through by negotiation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIVNI4ZBLBBVZLYU6V4CASVWMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said the EU is not distancing itself from negotiations but seeking to negotiate from a position of strength. He has flagged an announcement expected from Ursula von der Leyen at 4am Irish time. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6O5IHLAJZFG5IWMWFE4JJONR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Doherty said the Government needed to focus on investment in infrastructure, citing the electricity grid, but also to influence the European strategy and counter-tariffs. He said the EU should only countenance them if they will bring Donald Trump to the negotiating table and will lead to de-escalation, but should not follow the US president down a path of self-harm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2L7X63S4FAEJCGSSCMQZCEJEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked about supports for affected exporters, Mr Haydon deflected, saying the Government did not know where negotiations would end up and it was “far too early” to say where supports would land. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJZRQ67QWBA53MB2LRSVALI5EM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Doherty was also asked if there should be financial assistance for firms, and responded that Europe should look to supports for firms and households. He also mentioned the all island economy as a result of the different levels of tariffs in place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WP4XOQHMAVAVNN4YRSK4W4C2FU","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632218016},"id":"timestamp-72968","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CQKKDAKY4FEITJVKGEXKDWFC3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sign off from our political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones on what will be the next steps of the Irish Government. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXM3ET3BWJGAPBZKD2AWTMQMOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He writes: There is a very clear sense in Government that the focus is shifting in two directions: towards the EU response, where Ireland has influence. EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič goes to the United States soon to start negotiations, while at home, the Government plans to engage with unions and employers, as well as across all sectors, which will be fed across to Europe. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2FZZOUZDZFUZOL5FIHUM2Z4XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The other direction seems to be a big emphasis on Irish competitiveness, as evidenced by Simon Harris’s statement this evening. Exactly what this means for regulatory and legislative reform, and the political consequences of that, remains to be seen, but expect it to feature in a big way in the days and weeks ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MHKZTKDXBDW7KBCEDMLIBAUWE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632368301},"id":"timestamp-88417","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"KHDQO536LBH3PPHP7F5W62FAAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What about Russia?</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"AA7TA4FVEJCJDNAJO4E6E75C6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"There’s been plenty of mumblings since the Rose Garden tariff announcements that Russia did not appear on Trump’s chart. However, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has now said Russia was not on the tariff list “because we don’t trade with Russia, they’re sanctioned”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4CG7ENOXNHBVCPTQUCVBAXOXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3OQSL6YQVHKJI7CJV2XFJML2Y","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632648336},"id":"timestamp-44098","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L76MGFRRTVDJRBMKHVL3MVTOM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some more reaction from Europe correspondent Jack Power: Across the board tariffs on trade coming from the EU would only lead to a “downward economic spiral” for the United States, according to Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHSPCABMYFHTZCQPZUCOITOGHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The senior Germany MEP described Trump’s 20 per cent tariffs on imports as “unjustified, illegal and disproportionate”. Countries targeted by the protectionist trade measures should respond with a “united front”, in order to put pressure on the US “to end this tariff madness,” Lange said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOY5DNYGSZGSHHQF4G347RZ27Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a video statement, Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said he deeply regretted the path the US had gone down. “We don’t want a trade war, that would make our populations poorer and the world more dangerous in the long run,” he said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7IF7QFRZSBBX5AOFZXR3SKAIBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Paolo Gentiloni, the former EU economy commissioner, described the announcement of major US tariffs as a “dark day”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3FPNJ35JGB3O7GYPBBTU2C4Y","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743633235501},"id":"timestamp-94566","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IZO737J3JRBS5JF4L3RK76I2FM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Trump’s tariffs: what do they mean for Ireland?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"RASSGOJIWBFYFMQPJZKFBDAJAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs on Ireland – and the trade war that may well follow – will take some time to play out, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\">writes Cliff Taylor</a>. But there is no doubt that the sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday evening in the White House pose a significant economic threat to this State and particularly to investment, jobs and tax revenues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VB3UXZLYGJBS3BBU6XFCKNSD3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was a landmark moment in the Trump presidency, declaring the US’s “economic independence” – which is bad news for a country like Ireland that relies on US trade and inward investment. Trump made it crystal clear that he wants production for the US market to come back to the US and there is more to play out here in terms of how his policy evolves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZBVUVWREVBQ7ESKMYKDNXVY7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"What we know is that most imports from the EU will face a tariff of 20 per cent. This is roughly what was expected and at least Ireland was not picked out for special treatment. Importantly, according to a White House fact sheet last night, pharma products will not be covered by this initial round of tariffs. If confirmed, this is some relief to Ireland in the short term – though some products in the wider pharma/chemicals sector could still be covered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DIO76WV62BDQFF742HZU5YDRSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharma is, however, expected to be hit by special tariffs due in coming weeks, and a tariff figure of 25 per cent has been mentioned. So it may be a temporary reprieve, but reports suggest the sector was looking for tariffs to be phased in rather than introduced quickly. How this plays out will be vital for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WT3DXVRGZBB7HTHNAZ4S42LRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Read Cliff Taylor’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\">full analysis of Trump’s tariff plan here</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJJPKJE675ADXJGX7UXYBUEKGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"U34HL5QQCVAUTD3HWMGMLQN6RA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743633317357},"id":"timestamp-99634","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3PYSKVLQ5BCTHEL5SKEGLNWRF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"That’s it from The Irish Times on tonight’s coverage of Donald Trump’s so-called ‘liberation day’. For full coverage and analysis of the US’s tariff announcements, go to irishtimes.com. Our live coverage of the fallout from these announcements, and tomorrow’s response from the EU, will resume on Thursday morning. 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Shares of Mr Musk’s Tesla, which were down 2 per cent in early trading after a sharper-than-expected fall in first-quarter deliveries, reversed course and were up 3 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENQ63ZTYQ5ETZLIEBOZDNVDVIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump and Mr Musk have both recently indicated that Mr Musk would move on but have not said when.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPMAK5AF2VDSTKBJREEXQJYAUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked if he wanted Mr Musk to stay longer than his 130-day term, Mr Trump told reporters on Monday: “I think he’s amazing, but I also think he’s got a big company to run. At some point, he’s going to be going back. He wants to.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7QXC2FA2NEWVH6MWLWRNTGGOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Based on a 130-day term, Mr Musk’s time as a special government employee would be set to end as soon as the end of May. 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He was very gracious,” Crawford said in her victory speech, which was preoccupied by Musk’s parachuting into a campaign she had embarked on some 10 months ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGW2S4TENFF5BDHKQJ5PRVQSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487650},"content":"“But I gotta tell ya. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SM55CSRPAZGSHHWTGVVG24YLW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487651},"content":"“My promise to Wisconsin is clear: I will be a fair, impartial and common sense justice on the Wisconsin supreme court. So today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPDC4CZBG2ENHWRIUOQTUETHEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487652},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KRKLJZCQA5HBBEPGAIYU6RZDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487653},"content":"“And Wisconsinites stood up loudly and said justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale,” Crawford continued in what might have been, in its own understated Midwestern way, the most powerful Democratic speech heard in months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTRSPGAOPJFQVBDA3FV6QZLLOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487654},"content":"The result was the first obvious setback to Musk’s Republican agenda since the November election. In Washington DC, the collective frustration of the Democratic Party was channelled through an extraordinary turn in the Senate chamber by Cory Booker, who stood up to speak on Monday evening and continued for some 25 hours to deliver a speech which he labelled as a critique of this moment in America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4764ZAD6BRHY7AYXLINVRDEHRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487655},"content":"Shortly after 7pm on Tuesday in the chamber, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, asked Booker if he would yield for a question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELC366HNFC7DDH5HNX7BJHUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487656},"content":"“Chuck Schumer, this is the only time I can tell you no,” Booker replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFJS5MRM75EKFIG5AGF7Z44424","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487657},"content":"“I just want to tell you a question: do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?” Schumer said. “Do you know how proud America is of you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TULUZCYOXNHZ7GWNJ2YZR6QZEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487658},"content":"Booker wiped his brow as euphoric cheers from his party colleagues rolled through the chamber. He put his right hand to his breast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CI2NANECHNFRJHOD5CTWJENPCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487659},"content":"By then, he had been speaking for 24 hours and 19 minutes – and he wasn’t done. The record Schumer referenced belonged to Strom Thurmond, the South Carolinian who became one of the leading voices and faces of the pro-segregationist South of the late 1950s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COF3JSGCNV6TTZBWW2A2PBJMPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487660},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UXBEUXEXWBBZRP6OA3DXEZROFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487661},"content":"In August 1957, Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster or block the Civil Rights Bill, which was passed shortly after he yielded the floor. Thurmond died in 2003, aged 100, without seeing his record broken – although Ted Cruz came close in 2013, with a 21-hour speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIN6ECQAANBIJNUMWYAJADZ65E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487662},"content":"“Maybe I should pull a fire alarm,” Cruz quipped of Booker late on Tuesday afternoon in a social media post. “He is gonna break my record.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5LJN75R5PVEO3GWA4P7AKMYUKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487663},"content":"Booker’s speech was an exercise in stamina but he swung for the fences, relying on evangelical rhetoric and deeply researched references. He wasn’t attempting to thwart any legislative action but more to do something – anything – to shock the Democratic movement out of the sense of inertia or helplessness that has taken hold since their devastating presidential election campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NG3MQG5QORBA3HERT7NWMNGFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487664},"content":"It was heavily symbolic: here was a black American politician erasing Thurmond’s indelible shadow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUR76WIFTBAMNETICNDDY75YGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487665},"content":"“What you have done here today senator Booker couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957,” Connecticut senator Chris Murphy told him shortly before the record was broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M5U4P3N5BDUVBQRW7Z6M2SRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487666},"content":"Murphy had remained with Booker in the Senate chamber throughout Monday night, posting regular intervals from the corridors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXFCTVHTXRFU7KI6XV7MCPIM5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487667},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RICRBPXMNFBPPDS5TNINZ24T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487668},"content":"By Tuesday evening, both Booker and Murphy looked shattered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPR6PR5YGRC4TGXIDPIYIHTFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487669},"content":"“Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress towards equal political rights and economic rights for black Americans. It was inevitable only because the people of this nation were standing up at that moment,” Murphy told Booker. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"A4ELDDADWJCHBOQDUTF64M2QAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Today you are standing in the way not of progress but of retreat – from the rule of law, to our commitment to provide care to the most vulnerable, what used to be our common cause of zero tolerance of corruption in government.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LZYMYRH3YFCPLCYKYISSXO7R3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487670},"content":"The moment was sweet for Booker but it is difficult to assess its longer-term significance beyond the ledgers of congressional history. The national attention span has been redefined since the black-and-white age of Strom Thurmond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIZMCLCYXRASDPBEMF2OWFSTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487671},"content":"Murphy told Booker that 150 million clicks of his speech had been tabulated on a live stream on one social media platform alone. It was a start. And it coincided with two high-profile election races.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6C7DU3OA6FFT5OWALC4XBTBAJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487672},"content":"Even as Booker wound up his epic speech, Democrat hopes of a stunning reversal of party loyalty in the special House election in Florida’s District 6 were dimming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VS4IWMYWIAVVSCGJWN6UMAO5AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487673},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6GSOEZ7QBFCWJA5VQ4ZWV57ZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487674},"content":"By the time the polls closed at 8pm, Randy Fines had been elected to fill the seat vacated by Mike Waltz when he joined the Trump cabinet. Fines – who branded Ireland “anti-Semitic” in a social media post last year – had become a source of concern in the final weeks of an underwhelming election campaign in which he badly trailed the fundraising energies of his Democratic opponent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUKWAAKNLZDMFNLIYKVJ2SLHII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487675},"content":"Joshua Weil, a teacher and single father from Orlando, managed to outdo Fines, a sitting state senator, by 10 to one. 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Joel Schumacher, who directed him in Batman Forever, said: “I pray I don’t work with [Kilmer] again ... we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOPKPPR7YVF3LHMEMOSI7LVAW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marlon Brando, his co-star in The Island of Dr Moreau, reportedly told him: “You are confusing your talent with the size of your paycheck”, while that film’s director, John Frankenheimer, was quoted as saying: “I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic and I don’t want to be associated with him ever again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQD6GIBRQZCBVCLXNZXT2TOQH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, despite the feuds, his ability was respected. Even Schumacher later said he considered Kilmer to have been the best Batman, while Irwin Winkler – Kilmer’s director on At First Sight – described working with him as a “wonderful experience”. 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Total spending in the election, taking place on Tuesday, is expected to exceed $100 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNRK734RJ5GLRJUQFPYLARG3RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Seizing on the fact that Musk – who spent a quarter of a billion dollars getting <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> elected – is less popular in the state than the president, the Democrats have flooded the airwaves with an advertising campaign called “People vs Musk”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXEJN4TXNNCQTGKY6P3RIFIK4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"It features the Tesla boss wielding a chainsaw and celebrating cuts made by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), and a clip of him making a gesture at a Trump rally that critics claimed was a Nazi salute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K53IECFMFFGJRKXK6HZS7NIB6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is a tactic that is being watched closely by campaign strategists across the country, who expect Musk to use his nearly bottomless war chest to support pro-Trump candidates in big and small races in the lead-up to next year’s midterm elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHD6ONS6JBEWXMMOYRVZM3CJUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The whole world is watching what happens [in this election],” said Ben Wikler, the chair of the Wisconsin Democrats, who was recently a candidate to run the party’s national committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6VH2Z33YBFJJHYE2IKERNU7RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"If Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate in a technically non-partisan race, prevailed against Musk and “his Maga armada”, it would prove that “the flame of democracy is not extinguished”, Wikler told the crowd at a packed town hall in Outagamie County during the final stretch of the campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3MRBCSGNZJ6YP4LLNPC6C2TQU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZNOY6BW7YBB3JIJ4SFPZSRXPAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"A Crawford win would maintain a liberal majority on the state’s high court, which is likely to hear cases on abortion rights, election law and other hot-button issues – including one involving Musk’s company Tesla – in the coming years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRQAQFIALVED3JLAROH7MW7XHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Musk’s dollars, mostly donated via the same vehicles he used to back Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, have transformed what is usually a low-key, provincial election into a referendum on the current US administration’s policies and agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O62TYOSW4BFANAWKJVUPK6AZSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If the president’s supporters do not come out in this election,” conservative candidate Schimel, a former state attorney general, said in a virtual town hall on Thursday, “the movement that is restoring America to its greatness will bypass our state”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZE2O5UMYFBNVTWAQPUQDYQPUUU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"34KOND72AZCQVLEKREWDFEHQSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Phoning in to the event, Trump, who won Wisconsin by slightly less than a percentage point in 2024, echoed this warning: “If the radical Democrats win, they’re planning to abuse the law to unilaterally rewrite Wisconsin’s electoral map, creating a tremendous problem for our country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNEYJ77EFZAPRHOR4ANXEAWIEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk also appears to be focused on how Wisconsin’s electoral map could, in two years’ time, shape the balance of the US Congress, the body he hopes will solidify some of his Doge cuts by enshrining them into law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4CK257PDRASTLFFTX7YY3THOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In an interview broadcast on his social media platform X last week, the White House adviser said he had waded into the supreme court race because it “will decide how congressional districts are drawn in Wisconsin”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKK4FLDC2BDRVCN6XOBTW5PUVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It could cause the House to switch to Democrat if that redrawing takes place and then we wouldn’t be able to get through the changes that the American people want,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LSOSN54RZA3NIXVXH3KIKRDYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In recent days, Musk has revived a potentially illegal tactic first deployed in swing states during the presidential election last year, offering potential voters $100 each to sign a petition opposing “activist judges” and awarding $1 million to one of the signatories, Scott Ainsworth from Green Bay. Musk handed out two more such awards in person on Sunday, after the Wisconsin courts declined to stop him from doing so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3MWKKDTUSUFX6VSKUTZNIAZOQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZGYVHOGELNAKPMFV53EP6CMD7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk’s involvement has turned the race into a nailbiter, with Schimel, who was polling 13 points behind Crawford, moving to within the margin of error, according to research by Musk’s campaign vehicle. If the conservative candidate were to prevail, Ron Johnson, US senator from Wisconsin, said last week that his party would “have to thank Elon”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOL7HYFMHVE4PLJPVFFGPVOLQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some senior Democrats worry the election may have come too early to capitalise on dislike of Musk and Washington. A party campaigner conceded that Trump’s tariffs were “blinking in and out of existence” and had not yet hit Wisconsin – home to more than 58,000 farms. Doge’s personnel cuts also have had a limited effect on the state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRS3VZ4SDBFRPFQMFE42YYDKDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Still, Schimel, the Musk-backed candidate, faces an uphill battle. The billionaire has played down the chances of success, saying a win is “difficult, but not impossible”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU6QVXBE6AOZTXUIQX4H6G3PRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HGZEFFEERBDSXA4VHBISHA5YIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Dems have more recently had an advantage going into the spring elections – their electorate is just a little more engaged,” said an adviser to the Schimel campaign. The conservative candidate in the last judicial race, Dan Kelly, who reportedly refused direct cash transfers from the state Republican Party, “got smoked on the money and then he lost by 11 points because of it”, the adviser added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7X472MCDNJEFVH22QV633U3ZOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Thanks to Musk’s funds, Schimel could “level the playing field” and “was able to get on TV first ... so that he could start to remind the electorate of who he was”, the adviser said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWZMDRA3GBBNDFODVUM4XBJUKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Crawford’s campaign and its supporters in Wisconsin have had little trouble raising money of their own. Billionaire George Soros gave $1 million to the state’s Democratic Party ahead of the campaign, while Illinois governor JB Pritzker, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and a political action committee set up by Mike Bloomberg also contributed large sums.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMUBGFUIN5AMXGEAPN2TFT4GZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the injection of cash has not been fully celebrated by Wikler, the state party chair, who sees it as an unwelcome outcome of the US supreme court decision, known as Citizens United, that allowed corporations to donate unlimited amounts to campaigns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEXQRV2ULZFUNCVBXKDZPVCEB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This race is a reductio ad absurdum of Citizens United. It’s preposterous that a non-partisan judicial seat should be the subject of nine-figure political spending,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2NQRNEFBZBW3CKFJGJWD4HWEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But, you know, from the perspective of Democrats, it’s even worse if the world’s richest man can buy whatever judicial seat he wants to buy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TXKSBEUXBH27BXWFKV2U7LZWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Outagamie County, which Trump won by 10 percentage points in November, the Crawford campaign is hoping to focus minds on why Musk might want to buy a seat on the court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJOEZWW4TNDVZOOJJAHDO3P7AE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In January, Tesla filed a lawsuit against the state in a court in the county over Wisconsin’s refusal to let the carmaker bypass rules for local dealerships. Just days later, Musk’s political vehicles began donating to Wisconsin Republicans, records show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRLTNQ3C5FDBZODNQKTEZ747XI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk did not respond to a request for comment on the case, while Schimel has repeatedly said he would make an impartial decision on any cases that come to the supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEWU5SAHYUB7NREIPVFMYQMIWQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QO43VAELXBGC5EN2DMQWRUMECE","additional_properties":{},"content":"At a campaign event for Crawford in the Outagamie town of Appleton, where stickers reading “Impeach Elon” were being handed out, the idea of an outsider inserting himself in Wisconsin’s affairs enraged left-leaning voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBFM3DALERGWZHAHIM3QN3EBVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He has to mind his own business and get out of our state politics,” local retiree Nancy Hyman-Rabe said. “This is crazy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Z5LRC2VUBHBBGXOLXST45FPBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to Crawford, a victory on Tuesday for Musk, who has reportedly set his sights on an upcoming county commission race in Nevada, which is home to a Tesla factory, and two special congressional races in Florida, would be an ominous sign for electoral contests across the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUZRXS56XVBRPPXYJX2X5ERIBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If Elon Musk is successful here, if he can buy a seat on a state supreme court in Wisconsin ... he’s gonna try that in other places as well,” she told the crowd in Appleton.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISJPORBC5RGNDHGRX5EZWB2DYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is his test case.” − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Joe Miller in Outagamie County, Wisconsin"}]},"description":{"basic":"State election has become most expensive judicial race in US history as Tesla boss spends unprecedented amount"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T14:08:04.508Z","headlines":{"basic":"The people vs Elon Musk: billionaire transforms Wisconsin court contest","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"FV26DWFIP2UWXRLFYUMPLDPZWI","auth":{"1":"8bdc4c1b26269a745ac5a67d917066a279d4b862059441034b8e76490265ab56"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FV26DWFIP2UWXRLFYUMPLDPZWI.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/01/the-people-vs-elon-musk-billionaire-transforms-wisconsin-court-contest/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"VUPDFWLBJZGSTD5J7Z6WWCHLYE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":129,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/d5a57563-f699-49f2-9a66-30678f045d1f/versions/1743494618/media/fd850453257581ed8c7616460d7558fd_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2025/04/01/virginia-giuffre-epstein-prince-andrew-crash-bus/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IHCS4APIN5GP5M63BRKUUXQ73Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891587},"content":"The woman who settled a sexual assault lawsuit against the Prince Andrew is in hospital after a “serious accident”, said her spokeswoman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U56KBDZ2AZDJZP435IRKGW3UWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891588},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/virginia-giuffre/\" target=\"_self\">Virginia Giuffre</a>, who reportedly lives in Australia, <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DH0vvDKzDvu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_self\">said on Instagram</a> that doctors had given her “four days to live” after her car was hit by a schoolbus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILCRTDB5WFCAFN5VSQJKX4KQIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891589},"content":"Her spokeswoman Dini von Mueffling said: “Virginia has been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. 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Mr Araghchi said direct talks were not possible while the US continued to threaten and bully Iran.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFPZW4C7KZBNTJPSFLKSHQQXRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump sent his original letter proposing talks through the United Arab Emirates’ senior diplomatic envoy, Anwar Gargash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CEV22ZOX5CMPOGN7FPRLE5FVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The choice of Mr Gargash as an intermediary was seen as a sign that the letter was intended to give negotiations a genuine chance, rather than leave Iran no option but to reject the offer of talks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IV7PWCH6VFGS3OQONF2E6FCT2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump has set a deadline of mid-May for progress to be made, but a longer deadline also exists of mid-August, by which time the original 2015 nuclear agreement − under which Iran agreed to curbs to its nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of western sanctions − will largely expire and a European response will be required. Mr Trump took the US out of that agreement in 2018, a move widely seen as a mistake since it led Iran to speed up its uranium enrichment programme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CRWFBJUPJFCTLMBCMKZU45EXHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"That Iran sent its reply through Oman, its traditional chosen mediator, rather than the UAE may suggest Iran does not want the UAE – which has normalised relations with Israel – to act as intermediary. The US and Iran held indirect talks on reviving the nuclear agreement under the Biden administration in Vienna from 2021, but they fizzled out, and all sides agreed the indirect nature of the talks ate up time, something Mr Trump is reluctant to offer Iran.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L4FMC53SI5DP5NXFY3NTBW6Q6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some of the ground will have been covered in four rounds of parallel talks held between Iranian and European negotiators in Geneva.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOWMJPHRTREPBDMGSRM7GO6VLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tehran has not commented on how far Mr Trump’s letter went in demanding concessions from Iran. 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Meaning they will be kinder than those countries were to the United States of America over the decades. They’ve ripped us off like no country has ever been ripped off in history. And we are going to be much nicer than they were to us. 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He said on on video message that he didn’t want to let his wife “have all that fun by herself”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESRCOEY4LNCPDKNOPSMKMMOB5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940329},"content":"And at early stops, Vance kept things lighthearted — employing an expletive to complain about the below-freezing temperatures, eating lunch with service members and ribbing the base’s colonel about her participation in a polar bear plunge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AM3D6FFINBCFPBNVBJWXNV7H2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940330},"content":"And Trump himself sidestepped a question of how forcefully he would pursue the territory by underscoring the historic ties between the US, Greenland, and Denmark.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O4J6EBFGQZE5BPWVGMHXUCC5I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940331},"content":"“We get along well with Greenland we get along very well with Denmark,” he said. “We’ve always had Denmark. There’s a lot of business in the United States. 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The following day, a big crowd gathered at Powder Square Park, in Somerville, to support Ozturk and demand explanation. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marco-rubio/\">Marco Rubio</a>, the secretary of state, provided it during a media appearance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIULAV6KZJCFFFZYC7HNCYGZEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596381},"content":"“Oh, we revoked her visa. It’s an F-1 visa, I believe. 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Then, he laid out the pattern for the dictator, which, he said, is always a man: “A mythic past supposedly destroyed by liberals, feminists and immigrants; positioning as a patriarchal strongman, repeated warnings that without him, catastrophe would prevail, followed by division and propaganda.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZBY3P4LDXBC55DLCD46ED2AFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596392},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JK75EKXCUZCP3KHR324ZG3YZXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596393},"content":"He wrote in the New York Times in 2018: “I want you to be scared because if you are not worried about encroaching fascism in America, it will start to feel normal and if that happens we are all in trouble.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOVKYX3P5ZE4NGS65VE3LUM6QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596394},"content":"The pandemic arrived and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Joe Biden</a> was elected president two years later and all of that discourse vanished. 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Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBHCTAWQSNC5RIFHSZFRJ47QQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"*IC refers to the Intelligence Community. Army General Michael “Erik” Kurilla is the head of U.S. Central Command.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3N4QZQHK5GXRGJNJS2RDPTR6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vance replied, “What?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M63CTIE2ZBGMZM2VJ2ZGJDJXFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"At 2pm, Waltz responded, “Typing too fast. 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Under new prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-carney/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-carney/\">Mark Carney</a>, with the slogan “Canada strong”, the party is now narrow favourite to win a historic fourth straight term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGCTE2BHB5D7VLOCFCVBJHV6WM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The former Bank of England governor has become emblematic of global leaders enjoying a ratings bump after going head to head with Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCXFBR6LSBCMVCXC5ON5RBD5CI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Polling in several countries, from Mexico to Ukraine, shows even unpopular leaders like France’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> are enjoying some relief from voters as they seek to ward off menaces including tariffs, the withdrawal of military support and even the threat of US conquest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QFVUYDRERANTKA7UAQ55FXOWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You have this bully that is smashing the system,” said Nathalie Tocci, director of Rome’s Institute for International Affairs. “Rather than just kissing the ring, these leaders basically stand up and politely say ‘no’, and their voters appreciate the fact that they are not being colonised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AP3ZDQFOHFHIZK6YFEWEI3WHME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Canada","type":"header"},{"_id":"LTQDFHN6NVOAEKF2UGHINFYCAY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2TTUNZUNRNHF3EAQ2L34GC623I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney has followed his predecessor <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a> in taking a pugnacious approach to Trump’s threats. 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That has collapsed in the wake of Trump’s onslaught.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAQSREUKOREWXEVCHRUTYI7M3A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Career politician Poilievre is trying to reframe his narrative, turning his “Canada is Broken” slogan into “Canada First”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L54C5LNBJRAGPJVB3XFLJIZHIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Carney has the momentum: 43 per cent of Canadians think he is best placed to face Trump, against 34 per cent for Poilievre, an Angus Reid Institute poll found this month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RNCXDPSLNFEDGS7WDCCXNJ7EQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mexico","type":"header"},{"_id":"UP5IXMO2LIB7VECWIXYKRYTJWA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ICPYLJ4OJJGB7FCQ2366WOQMFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\">Mexico</a>’s leftwing president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/claudia-sheinbaum/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/claudia-sheinbaum/\">Claudia Sheinbaum</a> was expected to clash with Trump over his threats of military action against cartels and tariffs on Mexican exports to the US.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TV7BGNV6S5HOHEVMT6WYOERFAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the country’s first female leader has won plaudits for a cool-headed approach, delaying retaliatory measures and moving to crack down on migration and fentanyl trafficking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7DFYHAQ3FDKNNDT3USJ3GPWWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump himself has been effusive, calling Sheinbaum “a wonderful woman”, while her already-high approval ratings have soared to 85 per cent, according to El Financiero newspaper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJYP7U2XRNFC7PQOLFAMBSLLNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sheinbaum’s approach “strengthens her and gives her the image of someone with a strong personality”, said Francisco Abundis of pollster Parametria.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRAHN34L65DSHIWWN6YIMIWRHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even Sheinbaum’s critics praise her deft diplomacy, though many argue the US private sector was the main force convincing Trump to delay tariffs – while confrontational Canada got almost exactly the same deal as Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A53N6INFPRGSDCZZTWNWRFXN2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Analysts say the poll boost and threat of Trump could help Sheinbaum deflect bad economic news and wrangle her fractious party. “Trump is a godsend for justifying an underperforming economy,” said Carlos Ramírez, a consultant at Integralia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VYUNGEWH2NAIFG675Q455D6XXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"So far, no leader has paid a significant price domestically for standing up to Trump – even <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/colombia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/colombia/\">Colombia</a>’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gustavo-petro/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gustavo-petro/\">Gustavo Petro</a>, who was forced to receive a planeload of Colombians deported from the US hours after rejecting them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AV4K5ALSERHPHCBVTB73LJG23Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He spun it as: this is what dignity looks like, this is what Colombians look like when they’re standing up for themselves,” said Sergio Guzmán of consultancy Colombia Risk Analysis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKEYYTU7BFANJEISZ3QKEZAZJQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ukraine","type":"header"},{"_id":"4XYGKCD7JJ4DOCSEGVIGGWQUXI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"RMLOZC63WNATHKKBAYRZVCPG2Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ukrainians have rallied around President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> in the weeks since Trump assailed him in a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/28/trump-accuses-zelenskiy-of-lacking-gratitude-and-gambling-with-world-war-three/\">bruising Oval Office encounter</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQFJFDSI6VE3VIVONFFZZGKAOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We may hate him. We may be harsh on him. But he’s our president,” said Olena Halushka of the Kyiv-based non-profit International Centre for Ukrainian Victory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3CS7DMNTVGV3JOBKKQKYPNJFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Zelenskiy’s overall approval rating has shot to 67 per cent while his net approval is 38 per cent – the highest scores since December 2023 – even as he seeks to mend relations by accepting Trump’s proposed minerals deal and partial 30-day truce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEPJQL237FBTZJMP55XLVCZ2ZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump’s comments were seen as “unfair, a stab in the back” and “a wider attack on the country, rather than just criticism targeting the president”, said Anton Hrushevsky of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G6ZXLHNKJANFCN5DSY6RG6CVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fracas poses a dilemma for opposition groups looking to avoid siding with Trump. Even ex-president Petro Poroshenko, whom Zelenskiy sanctioned last month, stopped short of repeating Trump’s claim that Ukraine’s leader is a dictator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJ442L5VHZG3XAUWDIBIQEVXXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whether Zelenskiy’s popularity bump lasts could depend largely on the trajectory of the war and outcome of peace negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITHPE5OYBFEXLIYHEDRFDOBNNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When people see Zelenskiy resisting aggression, they trust him more; but when we have a more healthy relationship with partners, they start focusing more on internal issues,” Hrushevsky said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGZZFL7XZZBZ5FM3BRLIPRIBUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"France","type":"header"},{"_id":"GQNF55XUXHZGPU7UEI54COQV6M","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YT4VNNTJ45AHJA67573NIHHUX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Emmanuel Macron, president of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\">France</a>, showed his diplomatic nous in Washington last month as he combined flattery of Trump with gentle rebuttals of false claims that Europe is supporting Ukraine solely through loans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3NX3FETSNDP3LNB6OPAELA55U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although his work to shore up support for Kyiv was undone by the bust-up with Zelenskiy the following week, the visit won the French president plaudits across Europe. It also brought a surprise poll boost in France, where voters have long criticised Macron’s perceived arrogance and unpopular policies, such as pension reforms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WZUZZUS3VA3RPHN4TOKIPBFOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Confidence in Macron climbed six percentage points to 27 per cent in an Elabe survey this month, after rising three points in February. Although his overall popularity remains low, the boost returns Macron to similar levels following last summer’s Paris Olympics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4YJIYHBZNED5C2O7T77HOCBWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has tried to maintain distance from Trump, saw her approval slip one point to 35 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOFVZZVWTVF6PDH3SILBMVHK5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elsewhere in Europe, Trump’s arrival has played out differently – especially in countries geographically closer to Russia. “We haven’t seen the Trump bump in eastern Europe,” said a former Baltic foreign minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6KXSGMOFBD45BHIPEPK62NJKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I see more of a reluctance to criticise the US, as our security depends so much on them and on Nato solidarity. I hear a scared silence as our security guarantor realigns with our enemies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3P3DBHYCXJDLVKWB5M7RHOXP2Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"UK","type":"header"},{"_id":"RVMSRQM3LHLYF5P2HYG4BUTPQQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6OIMRQ32HJGQDHOHOJGHYKFQMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\">Keir Starmer</a>’s poll ratings had been on a relentless downhill path since he walked into 10 Downing Street last July. That suddenly changed when he travelled to Washington last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DN7WBXHWCRHTXKRBLMWOEMRGHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Starmer gave a masterclass in buttering up Trump, conveying a letter from King Charles that offered the president an “incredible” second state visit while delivering key messages and pushing back politely when challenged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7M7RB6RJ7RF2FBPV2BBA25XSNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump held open the possibility of sparing Britain from the worst of his tariffs and approved a controversial deal involving a shared military base in Mauritius.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PILDHJNB5E3DODIPPTPTM3PUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Days later, Starmer convened leaders of a “coalition of the willing” in London to help secure a future peace in Ukraine. After the self-imposed marginalisation of Brexit, Britain – and Starmer – seemed to be at the centre of the world stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXIRQIZMTZBVXKZPLLFKXOI3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Opinion polls showed a double-digit rise in support for Starmer and even the rightwing press said it had been the prime minister’s best week – though his approval ratings remain deep in negative territory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIFA2FSUUBEJ7PZNOQOGXOO77M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Though the British economy is mired in low growth and shaky public finances, Starmer will hope he has at least earned a fresh hearing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PASDXLGKTRG73J5VZVDYBWVLUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The leaders will be seeking to build on their growing popularity, but Trump could still hand out devastating tariffs or force Ukraine to accept Russia’s terms. The resulting damage to their economies and security could make any poll boost much harder to maintain. − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"From Canada to Ukraine, populations rally behind leaders seeking to fend off the US president’s threats"},"display_date":"2025-03-26T15:14:29.124Z","headlines":{"basic":"The global leaders rising in the polls as they battle Donald Trump","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"APYQLLW3E6GQNVGQKZ6T4CGTKQ","auth":{"1":"2848d3b5c1b2b6d7231d5991a7b1c908fc6918e94635dc15165d51e78ef30a07"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/APYQLLW3E6GQNVGQKZ6T4CGTKQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"World"},{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"UK"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Americas"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/2025/03/26/the-global-leaders-rising-in-the-polls-as-they-battle-donald-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"World"}}}},{"_id":"OPBABMDAYNEQRL7BEBVY7KJB3A","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":224,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1ccd3a06-aeb1-44fd-b2ac-e4f9cd036b19/versions/1742939787/media/df0ccc7c2063d93124ed23f57a66338d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/26/trump-downplays-unprecedented-self-inflicted-us-security-breach-as-the-only-glitch-in-two-months/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VVW3NJWJO5EERPFWLZPM6LMZ7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> has moved to downplay the gravity of the<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\"> unprecedented self-inflicted US security breach by senior cabinet members</a> as “the only glitch in two months and it turned out not to be a serious one”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEYDG4HEMJHKPL2N6VV6FHHB2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Washington political circles were on Tuesday struggling to absorb the staggering blunder that led to a story in the Atlantic political magazine, written by its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, revealing that he had been inadvertently invited to a confidential Signal group chat set up by and for key Trump officials, including secretary of defence <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a>, who shared advance details of the recent US bombing mission on Houthi rebels in Yemen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFFJDHOWWREHZLTUKHLDCJQQ3I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tulsi Gabbard, the national intelligence director, and John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, both endured <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/\">a deeply uncomfortable morning on Tuesday</a> when they appeared as witnesses at a scheduled Senate committee on intelligence on Capitol Hill. Both had been part of the Signal group chat and offered evasive responses to sustained questioning from Democratic members of the committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EU5IXIGC6JA3BB2PK32VWGUKL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Self-inflicted security breach by Trump officials opens up line of attack for Democrats","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"NME5G7BRRNFOVJ3E2NGNTJGJ7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a telephone interview with NBC, Mr Trump <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/trump-backs-waltz-over-yemen-security-breach/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/trump-backs-waltz-over-yemen-security-breach/\">defended his security adviser Michael Waltz</a>, who had sent the erroneous invitation. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4EQHAZOZVWUSNEIQ4JUX3MKPQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WKNNNA6N7NEIDLLK2FCCWOR7ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he’s a good man,” Mr Trump said, later stating that his adviser should not apologise. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XGDI6PAKGRAOLDAQXISITK7L2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although the president told NBC News an aide to Mr Waltz was responsible for putting Mr Goldberg’s number on the phone, Mr Waltz said no one on his staff was to blame. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJDFY4YX4FFV3EWFHVIBS7T7MQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Well, look, a staffer wasn’t responsible, and I take full responsibility, I built the group,” he said during a Fox interview. 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Terrorists were killed and that’s what matters most to president Trump.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NMWAIKTRV5E5RCQCP2TM2SWH7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Goldberg, however, has contradicted the White House denials – reiterated by Mr Hegseth in his only public comment on the controversy – that the thread contained no classified information. “They are wrong,” the journalist said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MLK2JKW5GJGFNHNDUQAOHLCO3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Signal content was one of the main points of contention at the Senate committee hearing. The tone of questioning conformed with party affiliation, with the Democratic members pressing both Ms Gabbard and Mr Ratcliffe on the issue. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLTMSKG4AVG2PFIYZNVNK32FCA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms Gabbard refused to even confirm she was part of the Signal group at the outset of the session. Both were evasive in their answers and claimed not to recall specific conversations. 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The performance of Jon Ossoff, a star in waiting, was the second.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P43QKHGQ4JGETAKU4FSZUZAWGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"There, at 10am in the Hart Senate Office Building, were Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, director of the CIA, both of whom had featured in the 18-strong Signal chat group that also, for reasons yet to be explained, included Jeffrey Goldberg, a veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAF3R5UWVNDSRITQM2Y3FRSM6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fallout in Washington from what was categorised by committee vice-chairman Mark Warner as a “mind-boggling” lapse looks set to continue. Although President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> offered a stout defence of Mike Waltz, the national security adviser who administered the group and invited a disbelieving Goldberg to join, on Tuesday morning many Republicans were acknowledging the gravity of the mess-up. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWDOKW7UGZADXIVBZ4KJN3VYJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is a gross error,” the Nebraska Republican Don Bacon told reporters on Capitol Hill. “I would have lost my security clearance in the Air Force for this – and for a lot less.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QE2LIF4WVGYDONLULKGXCNXTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Senate committee hearing lasted for two hours, during which the members questioned a panel that included Gabbard, Ratcliffe and FBI director Kash Patel. The tone of the questions alternated according to party affiliation, with Republican senators quizzing the attendees for national security updates while the Democrats focused solely on the Signal chat leak.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HARXRE6IKFHVHDQDWN43542XTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was a particularly gruelling morning for Gabbard, who, at the outset, refused to even confirm she was part of the group chat, on the grounds that the episode was under internal review. Her position was made to look absurd when Ratcliffe, sitting to her left, allowed that he was part of the Signal group. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6S5OAKF5J5DQNL5UX64BIRRJP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Under prolonged Democratic questioning, both witnesses repeatedly asserted that nothing in the messages fell under the category of classified information. At other times, when asked specifically about the messages sent by defence secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a> regarding imminent plans to execute a bombing mission on Houthi rebels in Yemen, they referred their answers to Hegseth’s department. But the attempts to stonewall the committee gradually backed both cabinet members into a corner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATTYSRZKNZFYXJACYC36WNJWCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You are the head of the intelligence community,” independent senator Angus King from Maine reminded Gabbard. “If it is not classified, then please release that whole text stream.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3DOWUVV4NZF3BB24HO2RZGC2MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ratcliffe’s repeated assertions that he couldn’t recall the specifics of the messages, given that the group chat existed between the dates of March 11th-15th, looked equally unconvincing. His admission, in answer to a question by Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, that he did not know that Trump’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow on the day of the message thread, was also damaging.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ATZRXUUGJHFPL2YU36BZD235U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The exchanges pivoted around an interjection by Tom Cotton, the Republican chair, to clarify the position of the witnesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OU2PGCDB4JG3XBKTNCL6CYRRD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They testified – correct me if I’m wrong – that there is no intelligence community classified information. Is that correct?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5SIRBW54VFDVFLUKBTAZRKGREU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s not correct,” called a Democratic senator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6S4SRO27NZDG7CUKLYTYOXWZUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“She [Gabbard] said repeatedly there was nothing classified. Period.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTYQLBAZNVGFVNQPB4DYPPR7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"All of this was a prelude to the final interrogation of the session, which fell to Ossoff, a 38-year-old Democrat from Georgia. His was a formidable exhibition of unimpeachable logic delivered with withering coldness. He began by inviting Ratcliffe to agree – yes or no – that the entire episode was a “huge mistake”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISGXUL7XBREF7OLBHZFQKLYRLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No,” came the reply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4A2JKMNWNB25BSIVJRP6M7EII","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No, no, director Ratcliffe,” Ossoff continued, arguing the CIA director into silence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HX5HK2ULHVA7NEQHNWJ2QZW5GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I asked you a yes-or-no question and now, you’ll hold on. A national political reporter was made privy to sensitive military operations against a foreign terrorist organisation. And that wasn’t a huge mistake? That wasn’t a huge mistake? This was an embarrassment. There has been no apology. There has been no recognition of the gravity of this error. And by the way, we will get the full testimony of this chain, and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPMFVQ6AF5FUPBAQWQYVGVCLBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The witnesses looked ashen. The session ended. The controversy will rumble on.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Claim by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made to look absurd during gruelling hearing"},"display_date":"2025-03-25T19:32:08.179Z","headlines":{"basic":"Self-inflicted security breach by Trump officials opens up line of attack for Democrats","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KGCJZBADWPPMTFYUBJBO7VWHG4","auth":{"1":"352f6095555d567115e083b86787ad24133b54b0c9d1e5c9726b4d2b512af7d4"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KGCJZBADWPPMTFYUBJBO7VWHG4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"NXQFNEJX3VDWZLUPZOCLYOJFUA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":261,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/06f1d883-e12a-4db5-adba-2d9744d5ba5e/versions/1742918157/media/0e653963326fb4bf1316a17c79e1a6e9_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/trump-backs-waltz-over-yemen-security-breach/","content_elements":[{"_id":"USMYEUMNANA7TLAO67HTFZMCGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> expressed support on Tuesday for his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, after a magazine journalist said on Monday that Mr Waltz had <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/24/atlantic-magazine-editor-says-he-was-added-to-trump-advisers-text-group-on-bombing-houthis/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/24/atlantic-magazine-editor-says-he-was-added-to-trump-advisers-text-group-on-bombing-houthis/\">accidentally included him in a discussion of highly sensitive war plans</a> on the messaging app Signal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOISBON4CBDNZP3JPNM2OUTTNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Mr Trump told NBC News in a phone interview.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7KOROJCGJANVOIWIVKINYSJAY","additional_properties":{},"content":"US senators were preparing to question Mr Trump’s top intelligence officials on Tuesday about the apparent breach, which triggered outrage and disbelief among Democrats and national security experts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6V2RAAHTOREIHDT23FYHYTLY5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, said in a report on Monday that Mr Waltz unexpectedly added him on March 13th to an encrypted chat group on the Signal messaging app co-ordinating US action against the Yemen rebel group over its attacks on Red Sea shipping.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G5MWCRXIVNHM7AC4R2FTC4V3PE","additional_properties":{},"content":"National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes said the chat group appeared to be authentic. The White House said it was looking into how Mr Goldberg’s number was added to the thread.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJGNSK2MGZCNFIPSOLKMFBZ7EA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Keith Duggan: It was either one of the most serious breaches of US national security in living memory or just another Monday at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XS3BODP5SBAC3PXG4TEV5Q2Y6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Democrats – and some of Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans – called for an investigation of what appeared to be a major security breach. Classified and sensitive information is not supposed to be shared on commercial mobile phone apps, and unknown numbers – such as Mr Goldberg’s – should not be included.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAYUK2JO2JGP5E5MVALLTN65U4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were preparing to question two of the administration officials on the chat – director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe – on Tuesday during the panel’s annual hearing on worldwide threats to US security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGNEJ2DL2VFYFFWYYH3MAKQFIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his opening statement, senator Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chairman of the intelligence committee, said a military or intelligence officer who took similar action would be fired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3TYOYTLBFHTLCIF4UYJNLDNXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yesterday, we stunningly learned that senior members of this administration, and according to reports, two of our witnesses here today, were members of a group chat that discussed highly sensitive and likely classified information that supposedly even included weapons packages, targets and timing and included the name of an active CIA agent,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBHD7HKXUZD5FMDCSTG2HFSRXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Mr Goldberg of sensationalising the story in a post on X and asserted that no war plans were discussed and no classified material was sent to the thread.#","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5CYAG5KDVFEFJXYSP7WCCVAYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"What we learned from the security leak","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6ZAIJJ7MWZGSPDVUYKPNYXBN4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his article, Mr Goldberg wrote that hours before the US launched strikes against Yemen’s Houthis on March 15th, defence secretary Pete Hegseth posted operational details about the plan in the messaging group, “including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMSPSVW5DBBWJN4L2GMDSGVUPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"His report omitted the details out of national security concerns, but Mr Goldberg termed it a “shockingly reckless” use of a Signal chat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EBJVEOTVNE6BDBC2HKIV425SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It remained unclear why the officials chose to chat via Signal rather than the secure government channels typically used for sensitive discussions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7IEWKZVWS5DNJETM4AFS22M3NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Signal has a “stellar reputation and is widely used and trusted in the security community,” said Rocky Cole, whose cybersecurity firm iVerify helps protect smartphone users from hackers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHQSRCMNTZDN3F6YTOPC2ZF24M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The risk of discussing highly sensitive national security information on Signal isn’t so much that Signal itself is insecure,” Mr Cole added. “It’s the fact that nation states threat actors have a demonstrated ability to remotely compromise the entire mobile phone itself. If the phone itself isn’t secure, all the Signal messages on that device can be read.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"X67BH5ZGVZDW7IZPNQO2MPWSOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Accounts that appeared to represent vice president JD Vance, US secretary of state Marco Rubio, Mr Ratcliffe, Ms Gabbard, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and senior National Security Council officials were assembled in the chat group, Mr Goldberg wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIX2MC6TEZDDZPER4TSGONMJMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"While some Democrats called for officials on the chat to lose their security clearances or resign, there was no immediate word on whether any official would face consequences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USN45PLWG5GKNLKGDALYZ543JI","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House officials and some fellow Republicans instead stressed that the attack on the Houthis had gone off without a hitch. – Reuters","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg says he was accidentally included in war plan discussion"},"display_date":"2025-03-25T15:50:46.554Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump backs Waltz over Yemen security breach","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"64K3O2U7VDRLZFOLBDD6TQ6HAA","auth":{"1":"3808ad7c77d282adcc49f05a0b1c1f749e67756452dfe0cec03b465c1559ccd5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/64K3O2U7VDRLZFOLBDD6TQ6HAA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/trump-backs-waltz-over-yemen-security-breach/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"EMW2AMI22FD7VNAOR4IFOCZSGU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/character-of-trumps-administration-exposed-what-we-learned-from-us-security-leak-to-goldberg/","content_elements":[{"_id":"XLEU7HEK3ZGRVA2KU6JTCBCZAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/houthi/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/houthi/\">Houthis</a> in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yemen/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yemen/\">Yemen</a> – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\">revealed by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg</a> who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVGNBLWURVBM7NYOYLECPNFZX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The human factor","type":"header"},{"_id":"MQ64JMBGDVHKZJUBVOPO7QHSNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Organisations that rely on security protocols being enforced also rely by their nature on a shared sense of common responsibility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"75WNSGU3DZDYBLN5HEUKASGQM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that 18 of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s most senior officials and advisers, including several with a military background who have served overseas and should have been aware of operational security requirements, used an app not approved by the US government for sharing sensitive information will be seen as descriptive of their character and the nature of Washington’s current administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTBTLUMLH5A73G7ZEAQYTLAKIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The displays of arrogance, recklessness and a belief that the normal rules do not apply will contribute to profiles of senior US decision-makers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTUQ2I3YZBCJXGU4JRCGI224AA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Intelligence agencies will also be thinking about the security culture around such figures as the defence secretary, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a> – who has faced allegations of sexual assault and heavy drinking – and what opportunities that presents. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENHQ7FZQYRGG3D37IGR3YGJVIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hegseth’s assurances in the chat group about guaranteeing “100% Opsec – operations security” and subsequent assertions of no wrongdoing will be seen as further evidence of exploitable flaws.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGLW2NEQHBCLDDMHC2ZBFZM5F4","additional_properties":{},"content":"US magazine editor says he was added to Trump advisers' text group on bombing Houthis","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"HPNWSUGSTRE5TAQN5GZFQO4F5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"The medium is a message","type":"header"},{"_id":"LI2KC2GCWJCLVBUCLFWPGC5VVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that a commercial chat service was used will not have gone unnoticed. While Signal is end-to-end encrypted, if it is used on insecure devices, those devices can be targeted by malware, for instance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2CJSWUYGRGR7K7O3DSS3FIY2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Conversations of this kind should be conducted in a secure, compartmentalised information facility (SCIF) or via a similar system designed for conversations where high security is required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZZU5F2J6ZFTVP5QF33VQAXX7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"If critical information is being exchanged outside formal channels, it suggests that numerous technical vulnerabilities exist that can be targeted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWGFKTIA6BDPJPPFAL3YHBEDDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hostile actors – not least China, which is viewed as particularly aggressive in its hacking efforts – will be looking for what other unauthorised and unsecured methods of communication are being used.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6QK4Z4KTRFXNCXVPGPIX4XKRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The known unknown","type":"header"},{"_id":"LEMSUR3EWBDV7F3YJYOZ5KBDOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"We know from the Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting of his presence in the group that there were decision-makers his publication did not identify and information about the attack plans that he believed was too sensitive to disclose.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BIRSC346VREMDCEGKXGITBXJUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that this unreported information was shared insecurely means that it will also need to be treated as having been compromised, regardless of whether it has been accessed beyond Goldberg and the Atlantic’s staff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XN44NK2ZGJELXMJSB3QOWBGGJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"How the Trump administration works","type":"header"},{"_id":"IKLS3BGJABGRJMGW55QEFV45NQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Perhaps one of the most significant elements in the leak is that we now have a detailed insight into the organisational chart for the Trump administration’s most sensitive military deliberations. While the identities of many of those in the chat group are unsurprising given their roles, their individual interactions with each other give clues to the hierarchy that exists. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7JP6TD5HUNEMVP4J7X7OPNUYTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Foreign governments will also be interested in what the chat indicates about disagreements within the group, not least the somewhat surprising revelation of dissent by the vice-president, JD Vance, over the timing of the attack, and his view that Trump may not be aware of inconsistencies in his own policies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5PSENMDDFB4HGKTH5FPZPP6RY","additional_properties":{},"content":"What you see is what you get","type":"header"},{"_id":"FCEATVCOAVH2HKHJBKUPDERTTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Friendly and hostile governments alike will also have learned that what Vance, Hegseth and others say in public – in disparaging Europe, for example – they say in private, too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7L374BUNIREZPDAAXTG7P7HJLU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Any notion that the Trump administration’s bark is worse than its bite should be thoroughly disabused by the contempt expressed by Vance for Europe and by the transactional nature of the conversation. 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Stein said it was also funny “how objectively bad the portrait is”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5B57XZUSFAXLNNRXPTS6MRXW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Former Republican attorney Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of the liberal news website MeidasTouch Network, wrote on X that Trump was “the most fragile, sensitive snowflake in history” while sharing a screenshot of the president’s Truth Social post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJTKXRTKXZB2NINWTPDJ2MEO5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Another social media account named Republicans Against Trump also shared the president’s post while calling him “a petty, insecure baby”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XE2M36LBBZEBXMR3QYIVYY5QQA","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"QCAYRWUBZVDOJG6R2OMQSUAGDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump alleged without evidence that his portrait had been “purposefully distorted”. The president then complained that his Democratic presidential predecessor Barack Obama “looks wonderful” in his portrait at the Colorado capitol.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5GYNFDOKVFRJCFZD5QYGHPN2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite Mr Trump’s criticism of Polis for the painting, it was unveiled by a Republican group in 2019. A former Republican state senator had crowdfunded nearly $10,000 to commission the painting, according to Colorado news station KUSA.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56J3XZPTC5EKPKQQAUPGHHTK5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump did not have a portrait hanging in the Colorado state capitol for his first presidency, which began in 2017. In 2018, a liberal political activist placed a large portrait of Vladimir Putin – whom Mr Trump openly admires – in the empty space, but it was quickly removed by capitol staff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLLUFDNNFNCNXJQH2Q4UAU2S5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"That prompted then Republican state senator Kevin Grantham to raise money through a GoFundMe campaign to hang Mr Trump’s portrait in the state capitol.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6E74NRAKOFBVREGNRSRJK47HWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"A Polis spokesperson told KUSA that the governor was “surprised to learn the president of the United States is an aficionado of our Colorado state capitol and its artwork”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTOUMOG2F5DGFAGVTFEO6HZ37I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We appreciate the president and everyone’s interest in our capitol building and are always looking for any opportunity to improve our visitor experience,” the Polis spokesperson added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVFCHAQ7TRAPXDEGJUGNA7FKJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump’s Sunday night comments had prompted a steady stream of visitors to pose for photos with the painting before the announcement that it would be taken down. – Guardian, AP","type":"text"},{"_id":"RC43LQWY4BA2ZKNN3HSIYPHBPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNKH7VK2QBBVZDHHYT32FZJEHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPXM2GHVUJFOLFH3STYD54EJPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"ONSQ7CW2LJGLXBP4RHZYBGWGVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCGXCFJ6F5GNDD26RJXIBBXZTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"TNSVGPXORBD6NC5G5E2GMKNJKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKEMIC2H7NE5JNT4SVUR7IXIYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"H7SYS6GHDZANNHGEEERJNLHWVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOR2BNTZX5D6FP2JGU5WITJFKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM2WPSDDWFCJXHRNNNLOUVPIGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6RPXUAQEJB2BJWJCVIEQHJ7PU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"José Olivares"}]},"description":{"basic":"Oil painting is taken down at the request of Republican leaders after Trump complained about painting on social media"},"display_date":"2025-03-25T08:32:28.459Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Insecure baby’: Trump’s Colorado capitol portrait removed after presidential tantrum","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IBNBZRZKW5HQDLEEMM5D4XJ75E","auth":{"1":"a9c71923c09bd6916c4a37ff83d57ceef32312f47c5d701269323db56c41fd32"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IBNBZRZKW5HQDLEEMM5D4XJ75E.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/insecure-baby-trumps-colorado-capitol-portrait-removed-after-presidential-tantrum/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"524ZQMJO6JFE3PCTZZ4QHTWQM4","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":439,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/371b4777-8683-4600-b647-e5d61fa2a131/versions/1742888551/media/2ca931bb086742eb6e3324eb0d9be28d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6GBTUFCOCBHRRNX46IZWHSG44Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was, depending on perspective, either one of the most serious breaches of US national security in living memory or just another Monday at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trump-presidency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trump-presidency/\">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CK3RZVJAKZBX3IC4TMJL5OHYZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"As Washington DC faced another rush-hour commute, secretary of defence <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a> alighted a military plane in sunny lunchtime Hawaii, where he stopped to speak to reporters and talked up the merits of the trip. But he knew the question was coming. What did he have to say about an Atlantic magazine story that he had shared US war plans on an internal messaging group in which the same magazine’s editor had been accidentally included?","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5OWDFNGJ5CVDL5W3DNGHKR4ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or the ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy who peddles in garbage,” Hegseth replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQQ7J5ELT5DRJHD7IVQQSP652A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s what he does. I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYGNI4AUWJBGJKJITK76RPCANM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hegseth gave a sardonic laugh as he spoke but denied any war plans had been shared and did not hang around for further questions. His answer explained nothing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJQMZLQU6JB67BBNQE5GTWU6MI","additional_properties":{},"content":"On X, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a> decided laughter was also the best response to an internal administrative crisis. “Best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic magazine, because no one ever goes there,” he quipped, a post that was later reposted by president Trump. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSSL2WNZRBHWXG2WJ3U5RMNKOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Republican representatives, when asked to account for Musk’s disproportionate influence in the administration, habitually point out his dazzling brilliance. But Musk’s post begs an obvious question. If it’s true that nobody reads the Atlantic, and if that magazine is carrying a story which is gravely consequential and enormously damaging to the reputation of secretary Hegseth and the behaviour of Trump cabinet members responsible for national security, then why draw attention to it by posting about it to your 219 million followers?","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DBBRAS3XFALDLEZ4437R3FE2Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"It would be interesting to know whether Atlantic magazine traffic spiked after Musk flagged the story written by its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"F74QQ23QTZBR7DQH3DEE7QM3M4","additional_properties":{},"content":"For reasons yet unclear, Goldberg was, he explained in the story published on Monday, erroneously invited and then included in a group chat on Signal, the heavily encrypted messaging service. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NL5VCCUCFHUHJULMPZ4ZIB234","additional_properties":{},"content":"Over the course of four days, Goldberg was privy to the private messaged conversations of the inner sanctum of the Trump cabinet, including vice-president Vance, Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA director John Ratcliffe and chief of staff Susie Wiles. The invitation came from national security adviser Mike Waltz. For several days, Goldberg was highly sceptical about the authenticity of the group. So, he silently observed the messages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"557UZRYIEVBENJLNHDXJJMUB2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans,” he wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJNJEH3PORFANAV3IHZ336XG5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Yemen strike plans on Houthi rebels were shared in the group on March 15th. It was not until the bombings were internationally reported two hours later that Goldberg was finally convinced that he had, somehow, been included in this group. Nobody seemed to notice that “JG” did not join in any of the conversations. Nor was there any apparent reaction when he dropped off the group – when he began to write the story which contained at least one sentence which justifies the tag of bombshell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XI4RXVQFCRHINI6XYMOC2SL3HM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11.44am. The plan included precise information about the weapons, packages, targets, and timing,” he wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7ZRNEY42ZHWDOC6RBJZ5JCTVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"That Goldberg, of all people, was the journalist mistakenly invited to join the group will pain Trump as he belongs to the (not-inconsiderable) number of American media establishment figures for whom the president reserves a special animus. Hegseth leaned into this with his early defence-by-reputational-attack. But he will face more stringent questions in the days ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIK6JBZL3BHORB3RKSGEUS6MCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The lapse presents a perfect snapshot of the fears and warnings about defence secretary Hegseth’s lack of qualifications and suitability for the enormous role of defence secretary. The response in Washington and nationally to the leak was one of stunned disbelief on the part of the Democrats and former military officials, and muted reactions from the Republicans. President Trump said, when asked about Goldberg’s article just before noon, he had heard nothing about the story.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIASMFE2ERETPGYFG5J6CIWMVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine. But you are saying they had what? Having to do with what? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn’t have been very effective because the attack on the Houthis was very effective, I can tell you that. I don’t know anything about it. You are telling me about it for the first time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLE73GMU5RCENMVXNSDE4ZZVU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Less than two years have passed since Hegseth, in his previous life as a Fox News analyst, opined in relation to Joe Biden’s classified documents inquiry, with heavy criticisms for the-then president. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"67IFE6KEKZB7HMAJL22QWBZXSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"New York Democratic congressman Pat Ryan posted on Monday night: “I served two combat tours in Iraq as an Army Intelligence Officer. If I did what Sec.Def. did, I’d be in prison,” arguing that it is incumbent on FBI director Kash Patel to launch an investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FNUQZKVTREMRL2ZN4UHXTDWYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The questions will go beyond Hegseth, however. That none in the group raised an issue with the use of Signal – where conversations can be set to delete – drew instant alarm. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABYBIIQSGJFXXDY6UUAQX6OMJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It was shocking and all the things I have seen in the last few weeks it has taken a lot to feel genuinely shocked but this is genuinely shocking,” said Pete Buttigieg, former transport secretary during the Biden administration, before describing the considered administration response as a test of integrity for both the FBI and Congress. “This is incredibly serious stuff.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EM7MNRWWT5HVXBJYFIWDYE7SQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Republican senator from Maine, Susan Collins, stated that the idea of sharing such sensitive information on a nonsecure platform is “extremely troubling and serious”. 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The interview spread quickly around social media as soon as it was published on Thursday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEXMOCQPQZHFXIED3V2I6XWOFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the interview, Wilson, who is a trans woman, discussed a wide variety of topics, including whether she is famous (“I don’t like saying that I’m famous because I want to do something more to deserve that fame”), her relationship with social media (“I am the Queen of Threads”), her family (“I do not actually know how many siblings I have”) and her politics (“I am constantly shifting and evolving”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPPKTEGFQJADTK6CCW4LGXN26U","additional_properties":{},"content":"But it was her in-depth discussion of her father that had the internet buzzing as soon as the piece was published. She addressed the debate over his <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/25/teslas-rising-stock-versus-falling-brand-how-far-can-musk-push-it/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2025/01/25/teslas-rising-stock-versus-falling-brand-how-far-can-musk-push-it/\">hand gestures</a> at an inaugural event for president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> in January, saying, “Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was.” She emphasised that she is financially independent and said she had had no relationship with Musk since 2020. She said he was “not as supportive as my mom” when she transitioned and began taking testosterone blockers. And she said she is not afraid to speak out against him despite his wealth and influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"STA4FCZR7ZGMFKCYIQNGRPT54Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People thrive off of fear,” she said. “I’m not giving anyone that space in my mind.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBJFI2KWI5C3NDBSHHBDG7KALM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk, who did not respond to a request for comment, has not publicly addressed the interview.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQ33M47SEZCEJMKC57FUCVVDK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sharma said her editorial team was aware of the potential problems of publishing a story that is critical of the richest man in the world and that “we expected there could be some reaction, but we really wanted this story to be guided by Vivian, and also to focus on who she is, beyond just his daughter”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CBUPXR3FHJFBXE6LXB4RV2STEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The interview was conducted via Zoom, with Wilson speaking from Japan, and it involved Yurman and the Teen Vogue team speaking to Wilson several times over a period of months. To illustrate the interview, Teen Vogue arranged a photo shoot in Tokyo with photographer Andy Jackson, who took inspiration from the film Lost in Translation and various coming-of-age themes around girlhood.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ATU7LBTLBF6VBSGNWOZ22TX64","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"J4PZT6HLT5H5PJEF2I37XR26TM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It is always very much part of Teen Vogue shoots to be bold and colourful and also capture our subjects in motion, and try as much as possible to show what life is actually like for teenagers and young people today,” Sharma said. “Vivian, of course, is a very unique 20-year-old, but she is a 20-year-old, and so we were also happy to capture her and her environment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C3TAQ2VYZNOQERSEWMJN7YMU3U","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZCJXXU2QJZHBTMK22PTHYTNHFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The interview is both casual, with Wilson discussing her interests and future ambitions, and serious when it comes to discussion of Musk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MQUUN5L25EWJNUBH56PNRCG6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the centre of the heated debates about transgender issues are people who just want to live their lives","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"W6AS33NF5FBHLLITEX77TV7FNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wilson, who did not respond to a request for further comment, is not alone among members of Musk’s family who have publicly discussed what he is like behind the scenes as a person and as a parent. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/grimes/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/grimes/\">Grimes</a>, the pop star with whom he has three children, has routinely taken to the social platform X to raise issues, including a recent request that he get in touch with her to deal with an unspecified medical condition with one of their children. And Musk’s father, Errol, publicly questioned Musk’s parenting ability in a podcast interview before telling The New York Times that “the press takes things out of context” and that he and his son have an excellent relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSNCRUXXKVE43INYIVYZEM3HZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Wilson, in what Teen Vogue said was only her second interview – her first was with NBC last year – offered a unique perspective on Musk’s political activity, which has included attacks on the trans community. In an interview with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jordan-peterson/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jordan-peterson/\">Jordan Peterson</a> last year, Musk said Wilson, whom he referred to as his son, was “dead – killed by the woke mind virus”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNSMMLZHZNF7BJW3J6K7IVEPSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wilson said in the Teen Vogue interview that Musk’s politics had shifted to the right, but she emphasised that she felt it was not a major departure from his previous beliefs and that she believed her being trans was not a part of that shift.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EJKMIKAK5CFRBWGHNQQALXYHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elon Musk says: ‘My Irish friends are awesome’ – but who are they?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IGMCFODW3VDPFFPSWVA3JJ22QM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Him going further on the right, and I’m going to use the word ‘further’ – make sure you put ‘further’ in there – is not because of me,” she said. “That’s insane.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFG3JP3XKZDZPIO455LIZ6UCMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Addressing trans issues was a priority for Sharma.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2HWBAPZF3JCUVEZHZIDPIUFWV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We want to be a resource for trans youth and any other marginalised youth who feel targeted in any way,” she said. “We’re seeing escalating attacks on their access to health care, other basic rights – just their basic identities.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFURFUGDXNDUHJJZQFX763MVDI","additional_properties":{},"content":"But both she and Yurman said they hoped to show Wilson in a much broader light.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DVUWC22FRDD5CFR7M4IWOKZPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The interview is light in the way that it makes you laugh, and it’s an entertaining read, because that’s the kind of person that she is,” Sharma said of Wilson. “And she is an extremely online 20-year-old, regardless of who her parents are. 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At the end of the day, trans people are less than 1 per cent of the population, and trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs. We’re not the reason that you can’t afford healthcare. We’re not the reason that you can’t buy a house or your rent is too high. I think they’re focusedon the wrong 1 per cent. I think the other 1 per cent is the reason for all those things.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OHD37AY2FFMRF2NLRJBKTSSTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817855},"content":"That statement frames anti-trans propaganda as a distraction tactic, which is part of it. But why trans people? To know how and why certain levers are being pulled, we need to understand them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5PQU72TWNFI7JOH5MFOXRMZHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466410},"content":"It is 20 years since the social and political scientist Karen Stenner published The Authoritarian Dynamic, which analysed why authoritarian personality types become politically activated. Reading her research, it helps to understand the work of the psychologist Bob Altemeyer, who developed the RWA (right-wing authoritarianism) Scale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"0a97b003-b4f4-447f-b28b-fecf1ea04c4c","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"U7UTILP42NBR3MTI4SZDBWNAPE","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-16622","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YHZPZT7QR5AD3E3RIH2RSRB3IM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466411},"content":"While we tend to look to political beliefs and ideologies as indicators of a political “type”, the social science on authoritarianism focuses not on politics, but personality. Authoritarian personality indicators include an aversion to difference in all forms; a desire for “oneness and sameness”, as Stenner puts it; cognitive incapacity regarding one’s ability to deal with complexity and diversity, and a lack of openness to experience.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJXTERNECZD5FCY6ZZRLFM5CA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817858},"content":"Distinguishing between traditional right-wing conservatism and authoritarianism is key. Conservatism does not like novelty. Authoritarianism embraces radical change. As Stenner said on the Larger Us podcast, “you think of authoritarianism as an aversion to difference across space – complexity, diversity, variety, disorder – and conservatism as an aversion to difference over time, which is change”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63QJM7DQIFHT7G2T65CTTVHND4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466412},"content":"Taken together, this sheds light on the types of people and conditions that trigger authoritarian movements. It is the followers, not necessarily the leaders, who propel the movements. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNTAUR3EHNBS3CZGOXSOAB77TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817860},"content":"Stenner writes, “what authoritarianism actually does is inclines one toward attitudes and behaviours variously concerned with structuring society and social interactions in ways that enhance sameness and minimise diversity of people, beliefs, and behaviours. It tends to produce a characteristic array of stances, all of which have the effect of glorifying, encouraging, and rewarding uniformity and of disparaging, suppressing, and punishing difference ... ultimately these stances involve actual coercion of others.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3HYQHHRAZEM5PVPY66DFTDANE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466413},"content":" ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIELLXWREFBHXPNSYGHC7KWQO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742573042597},"content":"A mindset that enhances sameness and minimises diversity fetishises rigid gender roles; macho and virile masculinity, and subservient femininity. It is no coincidence that US federal protection for abortion ended just as anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ Bills surged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SICIPPOBDBA55MG7IJNTUWRBYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466414},"content":"Anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ policies are characteristic of the global authoritarian playbook. In the recent past, this includes Russia banning gender-affirming healthcare and representations of LGBTQ+ people in public. Last week, Hungary banned Pride marches. But similar moves were also characteristic of 20th-century authoritarianism and its extreme form, totalitarianism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAAY3DKJD5DI5GVEDOZ5G5RKLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466415},"content":"There is no need to reach for historical analogies; we can simply look at what the Nazis did to trans and queer people. They revoked the “transvestite pass” (the terminology is of its time), an early form of gender recognition documentation; they shut down queer clubs in Schönenberg in Berlin, then the global epicentre of queer nightlife. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZB52AJGDTNGC7DL2OG6277ZU5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Magnus Hirschfeld (after whom the landmark LGBTQ+ rights centre in Dublin was named) was assaulted and his citizenship revoked, his Institute for Sexual Science was raided. Thousands of books, journals, and documents were burned on what is now Bebelplatz, as Goebbels speechified to a backdrop of flames.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPXQECER4JCHPHQ4S2SVXBHTUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466417},"content":"Last November at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, it was depressing – but not surprising – to witness some of the loudest cheers reserved for transphobia talking points. Anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ drives are a key indicator that authoritarianism, at the leader and follower level, is gaining traction. That was the case in the 20th century and it is the case now.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Una Mullally"}},"name":"Una Mullally"}]},"description":{"basic":"A mindset that enhances sameness and minimises diversity is one that fetishises rigid gender roles"},"display_date":"2025-03-24T07:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Authoritarian America is rewarding sameness and punishing difference","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HRPUV4LOHRFZ3JTS3LRDKMJ3MM","auth":{"1":"1863112d4546538e4a33bf80223adf7198033e33f2f8eace90080f31d1c792ac"},"focal_point":{"x":756,"y":500},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HRPUV4LOHRFZ3JTS3LRDKMJ3MM.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"B45XXKZD4F5R553JHDPFFT74PY","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/24/una-mullally-authoritarian-america-is-rewarding-sameness-and-punishing-difference/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"37NBU5NJJRCG7OX5HZITIDCK7Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":426,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/0bd7c5f3-a576-4793-89a8-7b9717cabf47/versions/1742743573/media/66c7396dcc5033484f5fc0be1fd974cc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/24/trumps-big-boss-peace-for-ukraine-wont-work/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4KVDYBGJDRGABIWH5BOL7SQUNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443666},"content":"The bosses are considering a deal. Last week <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin</a> talked <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia-latest/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia-latest/\">privately by phone</a> about the fate of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\">Ukraine</a>. Trump had indicated beforehand they would chat about “dividing up certain assets” in that country. Then <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> was told how the bosses planned to manage the violence, to rein it in a bit. The underbosses worked on the details this weekend in Saudi Arabia. Peace is promised but slow walked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEBXH5AH2BHNVAUIREQEQZJPFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443667},"content":"Anger at Trump’s deference towards Putin runs deep in Ukraine and across Europe. Amid this understandable reaction, it can be difficult to see the many sources of Trump’s conduct towards Ukraine. It all seems very patronal and personalistic. But Trump’s disposition emerges from a movement and coalition that explains his actions in much larger ways.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBC6PX4ICRDBBH7GC5LOZB7DIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443668},"content":"The first set of explanations is geopolitical. Trump’s stance towards the Ukraine war is a disinhibited expression of America First. Ukraine’s fate is not a vital interest of the United States. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special adviser on Ukraine, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNEX52kkgs\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNEX52kkgs\">articulated</a> this indirectly to the Washington DC foreign policy establishment recently. “President Trump has committed to the American people that he will put the interests and security of our citizens first, and he will keep our nation out of endless wars.” US involvement in Ukraine, he implied, was a case of “<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_overstretch\" title=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_overstretch\">imperial overreach</a>”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G4CDSBK5ZB4XPZE7A4N2WNFFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"This sentiment is not new, but it resonates in today’s America, and, to his supporters, justifies Trump cutting Ukraine off from US aid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIFFWKPPNRD63JEMIFSJ5UWGSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443669},"content":"There are other geopolitical rationales. Trump’s loud complaint to Zelenskiy in the Oval Office – “You’re gambling with World War three” – voiced his anxiety about the heightened risk of nuclear war from the Biden administration empowering Ukraine to attack deep into Russia. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7HJ744PDZB4JIUP6VUZC47TT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s true that Russia almost <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/is-trump-setting-us-foreign-policy-on-an-irreversible-course/\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/is-trump-setting-us-foreign-policy-on-an-irreversible-course/\">used a nuclear weapon in October 2022</a>. In the Trump camp and beyond <a href=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4882868-negotiate-with-moscow-to-end-the-ukraine-war-and-prevent-nuclear-devastation/\" title=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4882868-negotiate-with-moscow-to-end-the-ukraine-war-and-prevent-nuclear-devastation/\">there was genuine fear</a> that a US-Russia proxy war over Ukraine could trigger nuclear devastation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FG3HHHLMIJHRJH3HLS7QI3OPUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443670},"content":"Some Trump foreign policy officials have long argued that the US needs to aggressively pivot from containing Russia to confronting China. Indeed, China hawks in the Trump administration, such as Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, believe that Russia could be <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-putin-russia-china-policy-e73aeea6\">a potential partner in the US effort to contain China</a>. Trump likes this “reverse Nixon” idea, of a bold leader (guess who) uncoupling Russia and China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJ6DQVNHT5AUHMTVYIF34FYX3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443671},"content":"A second explanation for Trump’s Ukraine policy is ideological. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/golden-rule-of-munich-security-conference-goes-out-the-window-as-vance-lectures-on-the-enemy-within/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/golden-rule-of-munich-security-conference-goes-out-the-window-as-vance-lectures-on-the-enemy-within/\">JD Vance’s Munich security conference speech</a> articulated the new ruling ideology, a populist conservative backlash against contemporary liberalism. Combining deeply conservative Catholic thinkers such as Patrick Deneen, from Notre Dame University, and techno-futurist libertarianism, from Silicon Valley, this creed sees “liberal elites” everywhere, suppressing free speech, mocking people of faith and plotting to replace rooted ethno-nations with “parasitic migrants”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"55FUY4RK3RAQ7PPZKYGCFHJHPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Liberalism, Deneen argues, has morphed into a radical leftism of “gender ideology” and “wokeness”, or DEI for short. Put differently, traditional white patriarchal privilege must be reasserted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22EX7CXMNNC5PA3IW7X7Q36KZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443672},"content":"This new ruling party ideology justifies the disturbing attacks on US government and non-government agencies in Washington DC by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). The dramatic firing of employees from USAid, the US government’s development aid agency, not <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/13/ireland-should-reimagine-its-relationship-with-africa/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/13/ireland-should-reimagine-its-relationship-with-africa/\">only endangered millions dependent upon its medical programmes</a> in Africa and elsewhere but stopped life-saving projects in Ukraine, the largest recipient of USAid funding. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVS3PIU7DBGPXG5DHZXOYQMOXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The push to dismantle the US’s foreign media network, the Voice of America, is justified by the claim that it promotes “radical leftist” propaganda. The US Institute of Peace, a non-profit organisation, has been forcefully occupied by Doge. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ULECJ6C6VGRPG5NLDCRNFBNSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This self-sabotage of US soft power is stunning, a gift to authoritarian states everywhere. Caught up in the ideological war between “woke liberalism” and “populist conservatism”, Ukraine is a bystander victim, opposed out of spite because it is seen as a cause of Biden and liberals. Many populist conversatives go further and ideologically identify with Putin’s Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUD5R7INVRA5DL6UFO4Q72AP3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443673},"content":"The third driver of Trump’s Ukraine’s policy, though, is personalistic. In pursuing peace in Ukraine, Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise. But he is also seeking vindication and revenge. He believes Putin would never have invaded if he were president. His view is that Biden’s weakness, especially the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, invited Putin’s action – and only he can make peace because he has Putin’s respect. That he is doing so by forcing Ukraine to accept a Russian-dictated peace is the price Zelenskiy has to pay for favouring Biden down the years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAUETLLAUFC65MMGZN4V5GVDVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Trump being Trump, he is also working transactional angles, with opportunities for enrichment. The minerals deal allows him to present himself as getting something for the United States for all its aid to Ukraine. This plays into his favourite narrative: he is putting an end to the rest of the world ripping off the United States. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWMUQXAT4NDDHLZHUN2V4LQRHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"But there is also talk about American ownership of Ukrainian energy plants and <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/dc9c51ab-03cb-47ba-ad0a-09c4deed9b50\">rumours of sweetheart deals for well-placed Americans</a>, should the US and Russia normalise their relations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUFOKS3E3BFTBFSR6YDULX6MHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Finally, it is well known that Trump covets the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got it for nothing, he thinks: he should get it for a great peace deal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CAMU344M5GP5EQC4JRXG7K7OI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443674},"content":"Trump’s embrace of Putin, and abandonment of Ukraine, are not particularly popular with the American public. People, though, are preoccupied with the economic precarity brought on by Trump’s tariff policies and slashing of public sector jobs, and an unfolding constitutional crisis. Thus, the Trump administration is likely to enjoy considerable latitude in its dealings with Russia and Ukraine for the immediate future. But the European Union and Ukraine have lots of agency too. One consequence of the US’s <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33586?login=false\" title=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33586?login=false\">exit from hegemony</a> under Trump is that any dictated big boss peace will not work. No more Yaltas. Geopolitics is different now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITMC6X3MGJAH3KGBODVJHHL63I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443675},"content":"<i>Gerard Toal, a </i><a href=\"https://spia.vt.edu/people/Faculty/bios/toal.html\"><i>professor at Virginia Tech</i></a><i>, is the author of </i><a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/56412\"><i>Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe</i></a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Gerard Toal"}]},"description":{"basic":"Trump covets the Nobel Peace Prize. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTMLKVICCZBZPNMHE5TCTPBBMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407537},"content":"The actor has begun a stage run of Good Night, and Good Luck at the Winter Garden Theatre, near Times Square, a play recalling how CBS journalist Edward R Murrow took on senator Joe McCarthy over his charges of communist infiltration in the 1950s. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SCL23IPHMZGSFAG3QAFNSBNAQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407538},"content":"“It’s fear. It’s abject fear. That’s what I have, the wave of emotion,” Clooney told Eyewitness News. “Yeah, I’m terrified, but I mean that’s not such a bad thing to be; it’s kind of good thing in life to constantly be doing stuff that you don’t feel comfortable with and you don’t feel confident in.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJ4NELQ6VJDYRODYEO2XLRBTEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407539},"content":"Few men in life have become a noun, but McCarthy did when “McCarthyite” entered the lexicon after he claimed in 1950 in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he had a list of 205 “known communists” inside the US state department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7XB2WEM6JEDDJ7ZHN2MKAYRAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407540},"content":"Usually he had little or no evidence, but facts did not matter. Always, his charge came at a great cost to the individual targeted, especially those who sought to defend themselves against unprovable charges of disloyalty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36JL4XGM5ZCLFOZKZ7DQZLDBCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407541},"content":"Clooney has been close to the story of Murrow for more than 20 years. He remortgaged his house in Los Angeles to make the film Good Night, and Good Luck in 2005; it went on to earn six Oscar nominations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLPQ7N2YPBAQTATKHFCA2IDYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Today, the Collins English Dictionary defines a “McCarthyite” as someone “who makes unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty or communist leanings”, but the phrase is returning into usage in the era of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GPD24WXFVT4IXWWFHP2BYON6E","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YD77L2SC4NFZJNUO4DTJ7IWZ4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407543},"content":"The play highlights Murrow’s belief that McCarthy was a stain on American society. “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty ... We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason,” the journalist said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FVXNEQ4HNRFS3JLV7LHATRBMYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407544},"content":"McCarthy’s power was founded on fear, with many terrified that they would be condemned and blacklisted if they spoke out. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who became US president in 1953, was reluctant to do so. Such feelings exist today in Trump’s America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5XHVQEVSTNDSHFXE55CTDAX33M","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"SZMNBSGYEZERVBW2O7INKB2ZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407545},"content":"On March 9th, 1954, Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly, however, put out a half-hour CBS documentary, as part of their See It Now series, titled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy, in which they used McCarthy’s own words to condemn him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHGFA3AKO5GNJB4EARNM7FDTVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407546},"content":"McCarthy soon after overreached, launching attacks upon Eisenhower and the United States Army, which led to a nationally televised, 36-day hearing at which McCarthy charged that one of the army’s lawyers had ties to a communist organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DIE4LG3X5CVJJH5MDKE4T75LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407547},"content":"His unsupported allegation prompted another military lawyer, Joseph Nye Welch, to condemn the Wisconsin Republican senator face-to-face: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UUS2EGJC5ELPMO7XNJ66ZT2X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407548},"content":"Soon, everyone agreed that McCarthy had been wrong, but they had not done so before, not until Murrow – the man who had nightly brought the story of the Blitz in London in 1940 to the ears of a still neutral United States – had stood against him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGJN3XVOQJH2VONUJ54K7XHJFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407549},"content":"In 2005, Clooney’s film finished with a collage of images telling the changing story of television and its increasing trivialisation, finishing with a shot of Jerry Springer’s show with people throwing chairs and chanting the host’s name. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6ELSHDTTNEZBINPBV76FEHD7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407550},"content":"In 2025, however, the Broadway play goes further, using a clip of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a>’s supposed “Nazi salute” – one that, on the night I attended, brought a gasp from the audience who had paid up to $800 (€730) to see the play – along with clips of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection and more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQBPBGMYJJAI3E3SKUYOHXVP5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407551},"content":"The play and film begin and end with Murrow’s July 1958 speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, in which he condemned television’s focus on entertainment and advertising dollars. “Look now, pay later,” he warned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SURI3TFYORBZZD6NKH5A4STJ4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407552},"content":"Murrow’s career was ultimately ended by the very trends he had highlighted; his See It Now programme had aired for the last time just weeks before, a victim of CBS’s demand for ratings and cheaply made quizshows.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DI3YR6BXHVGYPKTRWTAZL7EVEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407553},"content":"Twenty years ago, Clooney was called a traitor for condemning <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-w-bush/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-w-bush/\">George W Bush</a>’s invasion of Iraqi as a “misbegotten war”, but he says now that his 2005 film was a rallying cry in support of an independent free press.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLRFB25BO5HZNKSWCZMQBXWGTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407554},"content":"Today, the problem is worse, with Trump now back in the White House, and Clooney believing that Murrow’s “look now, pay later” warning must be heeded by a generation of Americans unprepared to challenge authoritarianism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QIGCU22U5HBLEPW2KROF642IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407555},"content":"Speaking of Trump, Clooney says the US president is telling lies: “Don’t worry about facts, don’t worry about repercussions.” The Broadway play, he told Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, “feels more like it’s about truth, not just the press. Facts matter”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRVUCIH25NE75B46QMZ3TAYFBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407556},"content":"Insisting that those who can speak out must do so, Clooney remembers Kentucky childhood dinners, where his father, Nick, a TV anchorman, would call out anyone if they belittled someone or made a bigoted remark. 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The platform has also paid $40 million for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/07/amazon-prime-videos-latest-star-is-melania-trump/\" target=\"_self\">Melania Trump documentary</a> – nearly tripling the bid from rival studio Disney, though Amazon’s offer was for a limited series rather than a one-off programme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QYX46LY3FG4ZPKPZWALK47NDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615803},"content":"Roughly $28 million of that sum will go directly in the first lady’s pocket, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4CCDZ2SNZGCNIL4QC4XJFASJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615804},"content":"Amazon recently paid to air old episodes of The Apprentice, Trump’s 2004-2017 reality TV show, on Prime Video – another way to send both money and flattery to the president. At the Washington Post, Bezos killed an editorial board endorsement of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" target=\"_self\">Kamala Harris</a> and ordered the Post’s opinion section to run <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/03/01/jeff-bezos-has-made-a-sacrificial-offering-of-the-washington-post-a-once-great-newspaper-is-dying-in-darkness/\" target=\"_self\">only articles about “personal liberties and free markets”</a>, pledging never to publish views contrary to these principles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSE7ZW3X5BFXTEBWYJ5ISIS6UY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615805},"content":"Bezos’s empire includes a stake in the world’s largest ecommerce platform and cloud computing provider, and ownership of rocket maker Blue Origin, as well as one of the US’s most influential newspapers","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3CDQ3FNE5GALA777GST5QG6CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615806},"content":"According to six people who have worked closely with him across Amazon, Blue Origin and the Washington Post, the decisions are part of a marked shift in Bezos’s strategy towards Trump. These people painted a picture of a shrewd capitalist, making practical calculations to protect his businesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KN75WZXF4ZGL7E65YL7YXOPZNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615807},"content":"But they also believe Bezos is operating with a dose of fear about Trump, as well as resentment towards what he considers to be the Democrats’ “vilification” of Big Tech during the Biden administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4CTPEHQNNA3LLI5VILN6B2DBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615808},"content":"Several of these people pointed to Amazon’s loss of that $10 billion contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project (Jedi) – the knockout punch of Bezos’s ugly battle with Trump during his first term – as a watershed moment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT7CRZDKMJR6YUAGRYKKTE7JM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615809},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E65JTEXIRFFILIUEBMPSNZE2H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615810},"content":"“There was a joke at the time that it didn’t cost Jeff Bezos $250 million to buy the Post, it cost him $10 billion,” the newspaper’s former editor Marty Baron tells the Financial Times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CERJ6ERRRE4DKQ5CQ7W5IYJDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615811},"content":"A person who met Bezos days after the Pentagon blow says he was “deeply hurt” by the ordeal. “He sat there going: ‘This is not right.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUTWGPB7TNB73BMTNBLJYRUAA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615812},"content":"For Bezos there are enormous financial risks to Trump 2.0. His business interests are vulnerable to the tax and tariff debates in Washington, and hold tens of billions of dollars in government contracts spanning national security and space. They are also subject to significant oversight and pressure from regulators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GF7ZRVIZHVC6ZOLLHQ5VT4BGGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615813},"content":"Perhaps most important to Bezos is the future of Blue Origin, his passion project that aims to make space travel accessible, as the company vies to win US government contracts – often in competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3W27VWA6JA63FR6F24OEYD7HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615814},"content":"Blue Origin is gaining momentum, successfully launching a heavy rocket into orbit in January and winning a contract to help send humans to the moon in 2029. 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His chance of being the player he wants to become in space could be destroyed” if the world’s richest man and most powerful politician united against him. “The growth trajectory for the entire enterprise depends on the federal contract ... otherwise Blue is dead in the water.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7NRWIUL4BK75EEQBPPGVY24UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615817},"type":"image"},{"_id":"K3Y3OSBWXRGJ5MOO3P7ZCHFHGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615818},"content":"People close to Bezos dispute the idea that he is trying to get in the Trump’s administration’s good books to protect his business interests. “Jeff doesn’t make decisions out of fear or shape his actions to appease anyone,” says one. “The idea that any move he makes is some calculated attempt to gain favour is not only false, it misunderstands who he is entirely.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CRF3UYXHLVGOLEEBJURXLI4LSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615819},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RS2BJSFY5H4NGLYXNZJVSUJZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615820},"content":"In the first two decades of Amazon’s life, Bezos distinguished himself by being largely detached from politics, even as the ecommerce company expanded to become one of the largest in the country – and transformed whole areas of the economy in the process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMN42BQ4VZHZ5EDVUAO3TLC4ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615821},"content":"“You want to know why Jeff has changed? It is part practicality driven by fear, mixed with a little opportunism,” says the adviser. “Jeff got frustrated with what he felt was demonisation of tech by Democrats. It bugged him. Jeff felt like Biden went out of his way to get him and Amazon.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LAOUWP5RKFGP3MIFKHTMRLFTPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615822},"content":"Bezos has long been sympathetic to libertarian political views, according to people close to him, the result of having spent a lot of time as a child with his grandfather in Texas. “He likes tough Texas ranchers ... he wants people to be independent and fix their own problems,” says a former Blue Origin executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TS7PYQ5MRFC5PEFNTCYT6AKLDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615823},"content":"But the close associate pushes back on the notion that Bezos has genuinely shifted politically towards Trump. “I don’t think he is showing his true colours, [this is] not the Jeff I know. I just don’t believe he suddenly thinks Trump is the answer.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKMQJGH2BRF4PGERBZ4VD2OO4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615824},"content":"“He may not be all in [on Trump], but he’s not stupid,” says another former senior executive at Blue Origin. “It’s a matter of preservation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QB64FWTYC5DNNMGU64NKZ3MO3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615825},"content":"Baron views the heel-turn as largely a business matter. “Am I to believe that the company that is the source of his wealth, and [the one that] is the focus of his passion, are totally irrelevant to him in all of this? Honestly I’m just not that naive,” says Baron, who steered the Post through the first Trump administration and the Bezos acquisition as editor from 2012 to 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SULSD3YZAVH47JW6ZLKKTS3HNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615826},"content":"Now aged 61, Bezos has changed physically too, Baron and others note, having bulked up to the physique of a bodybuilder. His personal life also transformed when he became tabloid fodder in 2019, divorcing his wife of 25 years after an affair was exposed in the National Enquirer. He is due to remarry this summer to former television anchor Lauren Sanchez.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOV4X36FJRRRCMCOPLQGLJXNEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615827},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LRUFBZA5UJA53GOZUDJRDOVWDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615828},"content":"Bezos’s stark turn towards Trump might be in the best interests of the companies he founded. 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Maraniss says the mood at the paper is “dire, anxious, uncertain, angry, bereft”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHNEQMNXBFGSHLM3LTNRJ3Q4BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615830},"content":"“I’m almost at the point where I just wish they could change the name of the paper, because it’s not The Washington Post any more.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJI27QD7MRC4LKD3SJ23KAAHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615831},"content":"Trump, meanwhile, approves. “I’ve gotten to know him, and I think he’s trying to do a real job ... with The Washington Post, and that wasn’t happening before,” Trump said in a television interview last Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FHCFTCOJVGCDD55SBN77PKWHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615832},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTECWRKGGJFFDNTXYYTK33OSYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615833},"content":"As Bezos’s business empire has grown, so have its links with the US government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJEGTUEQWRFIZNETADFO2EXARU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615834},"content":"Amazon and Blue Origin hold more than $20 billion in outstanding federal contracts, including the lunar mission and a $10 billion contract between the National Security Agency and its cloud arm, Amazon Web Services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCRLD5TH55H3LFKLJ2BOCFOEPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615835},"content":"In the aftermath of the 2019 Jedi decision, Amazon filed its lawsuit alleging that the contract award to Microsoft had taken place due to “improper pressure” from Trump. The Post’s coverage had placed Bezos in Trump’s “crosshairs”, the lawsuit alleged, and cited an article that claimed the president had discussed ways to “f**k with him [Bezos]”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPIR5IHOCJDHTAXINZ2TXEHSEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615836},"content":"“The lawsuit was hyperbolic, but it was grounded in Jeff’s thoughts,” says a person familiar with the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6ZYZ2M7LZF6NHTDBMZMBS2FFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615837},"content":"Although the government reopened bidding, it later axed the project under Biden. A subsequent multibillion-dollar cloud contract was split between Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXL7ATT62RBZPLXOTACEPBCDXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615838},"content":"“In the first administration Jeff was battling with Trump because Trump was coming after him, not because he was some super-progressive,” says a person familiar with Bezos’s decision making. “At the time he believed in the mission of the Post and said the damage to Amazon was worth the cost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJUVTXGQR5FU5EMXZRRRK3HLFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615839},"content":"“But now Trump is back, that attitude is a casualty of the danger presented,” the person adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FYJ47BLOJRCDDPS2EIKY7XIVIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615840},"content":"Bezos and his Big Tech peers are also seeking a de-escalation of the Biden-era regulatory crackdown led by their bête noire Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission. In 2017, when studying at Yale Law School, Khan wrote an article titled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” criticising “predatory pricing” and calling for the ecommerce giant to be broken up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBOASW6AGF6ENNY5VRXC37JNVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615841},"type":"image"},{"_id":"L6SO2RLKONAJZNEJLTFHALLH5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615842},"content":"Six years later, as head of the FTC, she sued the company for running a monopoly that seeks to “inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation”. The landmark case is scheduled for trial in October 2026.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEEOQEIUANFDPLZF4AMOAQK6LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615843},"content":"“What Bezos and other tech titans have at stake is the FTC, and whether the [new] government is going after them for being monopolies,” says Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think-tank. “The deference to Trump is about preventing direct legal action.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGGLYYNVBBCPNO4QYG6ZG6E3JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615844},"content":"Bezos fears that the government might seek to make an example of Amazon rather than its tech rivals such as Google and Microsoft, according to two people familiar with the matter. However, Khan’s replacement as FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, has so far shown no sign of easing scrutiny of Big Tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNIWXFGSDZDGLLFRU6YKODR2XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615845},"content":"“With Trump it’s less about what he can take away so much as where he might apply the pressure,” says one former Blue Origin executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IT4K6BK7RHQ7PEQLSUQ7ZKMSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615846},"content":"Another close associate says that any move by Trump to deprioritise lunar missions in favour of Musk’s aspirations to reach Mars would have a significant impact on the company’s viability and success.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PK7ZU45BKZBTHJ4QYVTT3ELLMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615847},"content":"“It is what he has always dreamt of,” the associate says. “Nothing will hurt Jeff financially – Blue is a money loser. 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He would praise Trump’s “savvy” and tell aides that “he is smarter than you think”, dismissing much of his behaviour as “bombastic theatre”, one associate remembers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCG2GA2GPJCWZDWN3OSDU6S5QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615849},"content":"In a December interview after Trump’s victory Bezos described him as a changed man: “calmer than he was the first time – more confident, more settled”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOUVSB7GB5GBPGTJY52LIREKSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615850},"content":"Bezos has also been careful to cultivate social and financial ties with his family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TRXL3EMKRBUPF3OSX52SJ6E7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615851},"content":"In January 2020, he hosted an inauguration after-party of the exclusive Alfalfa Club at his mansion in DC’s Kalorama neighbourhood, inviting non-members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as well as Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. Ivanka Trump and Kushner also attended Bezos’s holiday party at a sushi restaurant in Aspen late last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDIRUW43S5EMRPNYVGNLHWZMHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615852},"content":"A person close to Bezos admits that the deal for the Melania Trump documentary “is patently ridiculous, but is very pragmatic”. The person adds: “He is doing a deal, offering money to buy the Trump family’s affection and flattering the president. If you think about it in terms of costs versus benefit, it is pretty low. It’s a smart investment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYXN36HIIVD5FGNIRBH56SCNGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615853},"content":"Amazon says it signed the deal for the Melania Trump documentary “for one reason and one reason only – because we think customers are going to love it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVGDUNKI6JB5RIQNFEA7YUHD5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615854},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYJSHVYWVRCRVPU5NWPHJRXJHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615855},"content":"Inside The Washington Post newsroom, Bezos’s political transformation has been nothing short of traumatic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIRLR34I35B2PL5CI7OG4JAPQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615856},"content":"Bezos acquired the Post in 2013 for $250 million after he was approached by the Grahams, a wealthy family that had controlled the paper for eight decades. At the time, the Post was in a commercial downward spiral, having been hit hard by the industry-wide disruption from the internet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY3VUAZ6M5E7VCGUJLW4DUT26A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615857},"content":"“From the moment he bought the paper, my sense was that Bezos is a killer, but at least he’s killing for us right now,” says Maraniss. “So there was always a little bit of concern about what might happen in the future.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"763ER24C2IRGFDYTG5PHXKFZE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615858},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NC7N6MSXEFG5XLAPP6CMJQ7EA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615859},"content":"Under Bezos’s ownership, the paper initially enjoyed a renaissance. The Post picked up millions of subscribers, as Bezos had predicted it would, by reporting deeply on the rise of Donald Trump and his presidency. In the face of personal attacks from Trump, Bezos stood by the paper, authorising a doubling of its political staff. He was intimately involved in a rebrand of the Post during the Trump years, even choosing the paper’s new marketing slogan in 2016: “Democracy Dies In Darkness”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSD6U6C7DJHCDOUGCLAD6TEIVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615860},"content":"“He actually was great during the first Trump administration. He was very, very arm’s length. He was engaged at a high strategic level ... He didn’t at all get involved in the day to day, he just said: ‘Try to not lose a lot of money,’” says a former executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PM5HGYUBABEH5A3MQZLBAKJUMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615861},"content":"But the Post has struggled to hold on to the commercial success it reached during the first Trump administration, falling far behind its biggest competitor, the New York Times. Its audience has shrunk and financial losses have ballooned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N4ETVK7W25EEPMOWLPY3ACA4MI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615862},"content":"“He’s a highly rational person. I think he was comfortable losing $20 million a year. When it gets to $100 million a year, I don’t know what his appetite is for that,” says a former executive who worked closely with Bezos. “I don’t think for him it’s like a mission business in the same way it would be for [the Graham family] or for the Sulzbergers [who own the New York Times].”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDYQDUB2SJEQJKA2KZKIHB7NQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615863},"content":"This commercial struggle occurred at the same time that Bezos cozied up to Trump and began intervening on the Opinion section, further sinking morale across the newspaper. At least a dozen seasoned journalists have left to work for competitors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FVAW7ZIPCNAH7IWBQJ5HRKWZ64","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615864},"content":"Many saw a direct link between his muzzling of the newspaper and rewards for his other enterprises. Hours after Bezos spiked the paper’s endorsement of Harris, Blue Origin chief executive David Limp met Trump at a rally in Texas. Former Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan criticised the meeting as a “quid pro quo”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYFTYF2A4BA4BNRMNLCK57V54Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615865},"content":"In the latest fracas, veteran journalist Ruth Marcus resigned last week, claiming that chief executive Will Lewis had axed a column she had written criticising Bezos’s overhaul of the Opinion section. “The Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not The Washington Post I left,” Marcus said of the decision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAFCOZ6A7JDNZDLKFAINV47NBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615866},"content":"Yet for all the drama in the newsroom, public grievances lodged by senior journalists and relentless media coverage depicting the Post in crisis, there is little indication that Bezos is fazed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNDPQO7DVFBVBKK5DN6CZJTSPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615867},"content":"“He’s a really tough guy. 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The comes the international dramas – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs\">tariffs</a>, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/02/16/donald-clarke-the-irish-sea-is-to-be-renamed-the-british-sea-and-from-now-on-underwear-will-be-worn-on-the-outside/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/02/16/donald-clarke-the-irish-sea-is-to-be-renamed-the-british-sea-and-from-now-on-underwear-will-be-worn-on-the-outside/\">Gulf</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/13/greenland-takeover-by-united-states-will-happen-trump-predicts/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/13/greenland-takeover-by-united-states-will-happen-trump-predicts/\">Greenland</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WNHNJQ4VZAHBBEBNN4KO4VH34","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277336},"content":"The Trump argument is that all of this is a plausible and necessary implementation of measures required to undo the manifold disasters of the Biden era. Nobody in the United States speaks Joe Biden’s name as frequently as Donald Trump, as though to remind the voters of the alternative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6I22MSHLVAKTJKBJ6VPNPDI4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277337},"content":"So, the political arguments rage in the background of life while on the television screens, the college hoops extravaganza offers the familiar rhythms and sounds of arriving spring, of longer evenings. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3TPEKXUL5AGJKLZRNV5SMW3UE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Thursday, McNeese produced the first shock of the tournament by defeating Clemson. The result wrecked 85 per cent of all brackets, including that of former president Obama. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UTZL62VJBHGPH3WND53XABAPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"She and President Trump have a long history of enmity stretching back almost 20 years when she described him as like a “snake-oil salesman on Little House on the Prairie”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4XRQKPYY5BETJHRBSYGQPK67E","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said: “I mentioned that he was not in fact the businessman that he thinks that he was on The Apprentice. He was very angry to say the least and he hasn’t let it go. He uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need. He’s been doing it for two decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPGGLF72QBCOPCTHXPXPU5MO5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I felt very troubled that the Taoiseach was put in that position. He [Trump] is out to get me in ways that are startling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZPHOPA7VVBMRPWWWRBUYAWKKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I wrote a little note to the Taoiseach and I got a note back thanking me. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLCMFCG5BNHOLDMQT4X35T5QTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This ruling, she stated, had given him the “powers of a king or a monarch and that’s a terrifying prospect. What has happened since he has taken office is terrifying for the world and for the United States of America”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVPXAOOLSRBANJAIMIRRXGBUBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She appeared to cast doubt on the American election result stating that a president had never won all swing states before. Kamala Harris appeared to packed stadiums; President Trump did not. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SF7XBJE6JCF5MBMZRCYOBJKDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She also said that Elon Musk now “owns and runs the internet. I hope that will be investigated.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"POE6OKYVGNHBTCBGKRKVW3AQQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Trump’s policies will ultimately not just affect “the left-wing liberal set that they despise”, she predicted. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5J5H566RSJEEBCWUBHT6O5TFPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said the presence of Conor McGregor in the White House on St Patrick’s Day was depressing. “It seems strange to me that the President has so many friends who are sexual abusers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"25SR5TREPJDG7EYGXRJMJ7ICVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It says we are in trouble. To think that cruelty and lack of empathy is a value that is spouted from the highest office in the land is overwhelmingly sad to me personally and too much for me to take”. 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While taking in what had happened from her <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">Detroit</a>-area home, she saw a photo of a child maimed by the violence – a girl who seemed to be nearly the same age as her daughter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SANUJDQXHBD3VAJS2UNOUFEMIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I immediately prayed in prostration to God to end this madness,” she said. “So many in my community feel abandoned and let down. The human rights organisations have let them down. The politicians have let them down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELWN3WLY2BD5NNJRCHPAZJGOTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Where do we turn?” she wondered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLDPPLDP3VGZDJJ7R4O6OB2UXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mahbuba’s reaction highlighted the anger, anxiety and betrayal felt by many Arab Americans in the Detroit suburbs in the wake of US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s first months in office, and particularly after the latest round of Israeli missile strikes in Gaza on what Israel said were Hamas targets. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJLAKZTQ2NE6NNFPRYLPW6VACQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In nearly two dozen interviews across the region over the past three weeks, a common theme emerged: a sense among Arab Americans that their political concerns, especially about Gaza, have been largely shunted aside by both major political parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IF3EGMUHLNF67OYBUVE2KNAEKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In this flat pocket of southeastern Michigan near the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\">Canadian</a> border, the Arab and Muslim presence dates back over a century. It is now among the most concentrated and influential of its kind in the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUI7HHANOTN6DI4LGTST2XELJM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LICEYBKV7RHSFIUG4J6DOONEFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many Arab Americans here were angered by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Biden</a> administration’s actions during the war in Gaza. That played out in November: majority Arab American voting districts in the area, which had long supported Democratic presidential candidates, shifted significantly toward Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCCKJWOWWZBSTDEYNX64X246QY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Keith Duggan: Why a small Democratic stronghold in Detroit is deserting Harris for Trump","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6TQKJORID5A33EIUZVKOF7I5XE","additional_properties":{},"content":"While it was a small part of the statewide wave favouring Trump, the overall Arab American shift was significant. Consider Dearborn, home to the Ford Motor Company, where about half of the roughly 110,000 residents are of Arab descent. Trump beat <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\">Kamala Harris</a> by more than 2,500 votes, becoming the first Republican to win the city since George W Bush in 2000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I46LW4LENBDKTJT4TYNA26ZEN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, who pushed for an end to hostilities in Gaza, received about 18 per cent of the Dearborn vote, higher than anywhere else in Michigan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBG4NWQDNVAF2ZJWSO5JFVP4EI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SPRYT4EJHFDUFORYRCWIFIJ3HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This week’s Israeli bombings – which shattered a roughly two-month ceasefire and reportedly killed hundreds of Palestinians, many of them women and children – sent a chill not only to detractors of Trump but also to some of his fiercest Arab supporters in the Detroit area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TE5NFM4T5BBFVASO3TY73R3FMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"His foreign policy seems wildly unpopular, and those who endorsed Trump find themselves under an uncomfortable microscope.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEFUKC3AE5GSFLUA5UBIOANABM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m receiving a lot of hate mail,” said one supporter, Faye Nemer, head of the local Middle Eastern and North African Chamber of Commerce. She still supports Trump’s domestic policies but is aghast at his handling of the Middle East – and smarting from the backlash she and other Trump supporters are receiving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ4DMZ6C4YXUQF5EB3B4AQCFPA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Z4LQXOHO75CCRA3BN4SHEV4CZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Anyone who demonstrated any support for President Trump,” she said, “is completely ostracised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6YVYYVKCRJA5RFQRDBAP75TEMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump and his fellow Republicans spent much of last year courting Michigan’s roughly 300,000 citizens of Middle Eastern and North African descent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPFU26ANYJFFPEWCJSN643GXSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Months before the presidential election, Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and former Trump adviser who had denigrated Islam, showed up to forge new connections with local leaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DRHSXMF65FBDK4XQKL2USAIVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish-based surgeon loses four family members in Israeli air strike on Gaza","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WOPGY3PFCREZBMKDIGXY5XC5WM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He found many who were willing to give him a chance. And just days before the election, Trump was feted at the Great Commoner, a brick-clad corner cafe and restaurant in the heart of Dearborn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTFGROSY5ZHSROXB4IWOYBTPHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The event caused a stir. Dearborn’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, and one of the area’s most prominent religious leaders, Imam Hassan Qazwini, steered clear of the occasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMNS7W5MBNDRLK6BZ7K5B7QCEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Nemer stood at Trump’s side, as did other notable local Arab Americans, including the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, Amer Ghalib. Trump reiterated a vow that he would bring an end to the bloodshed in Gaza and the Middle East.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37LD6YERF33ZABJMZAJ43YB42A","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"53S5MEGUVVCELPPL3T5IJJ4IFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump recently nominated Ghalib to be ambassador to Kuwait. The mayor of Dearborn Heights, Bill Bazzi, who also endorsed Trump, was named to be ambassador to Tunisia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AAAIJIQZZENHADZCUA2F2SINQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr Sam Fawaz, a staunch Trump supporter, was among the attendees at the Dearborn event. Even after the conflict resumed this week, he said he was taking the long view and sticking by the president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIZ5PLBNVBCBVKSCRJWHJRQ4AI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I fully understand why a lot of people would be disappointed, angry and feeling betrayed,” he said. But the president “knows his entire legacy will be shattered if the Middle East blows up even further and we get engaged in another war,” he added. “So I give him some slack and say, ‘Let’s wait and see what comes out of this.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZ4CFO6GWNF6HDEKGAUEZ4J7BI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other Detroit Arabs are not as patient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2IAUK4UWJH4FIYX4LZ4OGT4LM","additional_properties":{},"content":"While many congregants at the Islamic Institute of America mosque in Dearborn Heights voiced no nostalgia for the Biden administration, Trump, they said, has added new layers of worry about tariffs and deportations, the targeting of pro-Palestinian protesters and recent American missile strikes on Yemen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5GWQ5QGMVHFBH6Q2FVUBYNQ4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We are totally fed up,” said Mo Baydoun, chair of the non-partisan Dearborn Heights City Council, as he met with friends at a hookah shop near his home. “And by that, I mean we are fed up with all sides.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7GP4I6CHBDI3H3CZSIAT3W6UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"He and his friends listed some of the offenders: Democrats. Republicans. Trump supporters. The media. Critics of the Arab community, which they say has been unfairly blamed for Trump’s victory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TJXDL4JYBCL5PC5Y2GMHEYMLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s like nobody is really listening to us as our people are being killed,” Baydoun said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JTYLWHGUKBF4RP2Z45J227BNPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A loud chorus of agreement from his friends followed. They had their reasons: Baydoun’s cousin and her family had been killed by a 2024 Israeli air strike in Lebanon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5AQ4WVL6ZDUNSZMXGYVD7WE74","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YLHORCPP3ZFTHH4LNL7VLTA4GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"They noted that Trump had shared a cartoonish, artificial intelligence-rendered video of Gaza reimagined as an opulent, Trump-branded tourist resort, in keeping with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\">his proposal that America take over</a> the seaside stretch of land. The plan would permanently displace many, if not all, of Gaza’s current residents, an unthinkable notion to most Palestinians, whose forced displacement from the land that became Israel is known to Arabs as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMUNF25JIFALNPHMVWOBQCKMXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRY2EIINUVFRNDWANJ23VLLH34","additional_properties":{},"content":"Baydoun and his friends mocked the clip. “This is the president of the United States we’re talking about, putting out something like this,” one of them said. “The president of the United States.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UH43VNLJFC27JKWQWEGWZ7BS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Then they briefly paused, their faces looking doleful and chagrined.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CJCIXRZET5FHNAUVLLIPF34QF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2BS5LUFORA57PWLYTJPU27JCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Late last week, despite it being the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when conversations turned to politics, the mood in Dearborn and other Arab enclaves felt even more dour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLBYMDYQZJBXTNJFZR76BYM32Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mahmoud Khalil, an immigrant of Palestinian descent who led student protests of Israel at Columbia University, was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/11/arrest-of-columbia-palestine-activist-is-first-of-many-donald-trump-says/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/11/arrest-of-columbia-palestine-activist-is-first-of-many-donald-trump-says/\">put in federal detention March 8th</a>. His seizure led to a spreading worry that even green card holders could be deported – and it tamped down free discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2ES3J4OCVHS7HZLEB4J72DT74","additional_properties":{},"content":"At Wayne State University in Detroit, student after student refused to speak about the current atmosphere. There was too much fear in the air, several of them explained. It felt safer to keep quiet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFRIYAEQFJFSRP4VYMYAAN5JNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"One student willing to comment was Izhan Ibadat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5J54MATVBDQNCVVACMDCQ4O2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ibadat (19), voted for Trump, partly because he believed the president would help stop the war in the Middle East and “that there would not be any more killings”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZJJPADCFJHA3JOQD6T73Y2MPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But, disappointed by Trump’s foreign policy and his seemingly haphazard approach to domestic affairs, Ibadat said he would approach the ballot box differently today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HO4KM6C74REAZGZVDSZ3WF5XTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“After all these things going on,” he said, “honestly, I would probably vote undecided.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAF46QEWSFCG5DBB43ZNSGHY2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"- This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/trump-arab-americans-gaza-israel.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Kurt Streeter"}]},"description":{"basic":"In Detroit and its suburbs, where support shifted towards Trump during the election, anger is deep over Israeli airstrikes in Gaza"},"display_date":"2025-03-21T14:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump won over many Arab Americans in November. How do they feel about him now? 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The Warren Commission found that the gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone, yet two-thirds of Americans remain sceptical about the commission’s conclusions and not all of them are conspiracy theorists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5S6FC7K3NEYRAUS6HUMSSELRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Why now?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"WOOMDQBCXFGSPAKGOD6D3JGDKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961674},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> promised that, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trump-presidency/\" target=\"_blank\">if re-elected</a>, he would release all the files to the public. He wanted to release all the files in 2017, but was persuaded by the intelligence services to hold back some for national security reasons. He has decided that now is the time for them all to be released.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V72GRE6ALNB2FPHGSNSLSGSV3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961675},"content":"As often with Trump, there was chaos. On Monday, he gave the US National Archives 24 hours to open the files.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDN5GVZVPVG55BFMGXDQXHCUSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961676},"content":"Unredacted JFK assassination files released as history buffs hunt for clues","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"HYW653MFLJHSHBQKNQZPGO32HA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been released?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"623S2P22LBABHARSTVDFOQTZX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961678},"content":"The files relate not only to the assassination of Kennedy but also to that of his brother Robert F Kennedy in 1968, the father of Trump’s health secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-f-kennedy-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F Kennedy jnr</a>, and the assassination of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/martin-luther-king/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Martin Luther King jnr</a> – also in 1968.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7VSJXCGFFGIXNF6K3DPE7N57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961679},"content":"On Tuesday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\">1,123 documents containing some 64,000 pages were released</a>. The papers are not sorted or catalogued, so researches and casual readers have to click on each one to see if they are of interest to them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUVSSC433ZENNHP4NWVNWK7CEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961680},"content":"The New York Times’ national political reporter, Adam Nagourney, who is leading the paper’s coverage, says the manner the files were released may be a deliberate ploy on the part of the CIA to make it as difficult as possible for researchers to find out how the agency really operates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O664FX5OJVGSLIQQRAIQ3L3TXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been discovered to date?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"OVYP2BHJXFHYFL27LPU6ZMCZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961682},"content":"There’s an intriguing finding in one state department paper: a CIA agent, Gary Underhill, left Washington a day after the Kennedy assassination in a “very agitated” state, claiming to a friend that a CIA clique was behind the murder. Fewer than six months later Underhill was found dead in his Washington apartment, apparently having died by suicide. The confidential memo states that Underhill alleged the CIA clique was carrying on a “lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPESENKPEFHCZEDYG5OR7W3QDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961683},"content":"Another document reveals the KGB had investigated Oswald and found that at no time was he one of its agents. Oswald lived in the USSR between 1959 and 1961, when he tried unsuccessfully to become a Russian citizen. But he got bored with the grimness of living in a communist state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJUANEEO2NA5TOW54UDM7HH3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961685},"content":"The KGB official noted that Oswald was a “poor shot when he tried firing in the USSR”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2IJVAW32NEKZDSKMH6F53FXXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961686},"content":"Given the incredible accuracy of the shots that killed Kennedy, this is likely to strengthen the belief that there was more than one shooter on that fateful day in Dallas.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ronan McGreevy"}},"name":"Ronan McGreevy"}]},"description":{"basic":"JFK files: Papers cover not just JFK’s assassination but also the 1968 killings of his brother Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King jnr"},"display_date":"2025-03-21T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"JFK files: What do they reveal about John F Kennedy’s assassination?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM","auth":{"1":"520e08d38fa2b7d940b8c3483f63ec0dec7a0961c730e87ba1b175068682ebbb"},"focal_point":{"x":1825,"y":837},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"History"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2025/03/22/jfk-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-john-f-kennedys-assassination/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"EXXTUSNJCVFXLPIP34OMNSQURU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/20/trump-signs-executive-order-to-dismantle-us-department-of-education/","content_elements":[{"_id":"TKWUQVOLRNCAZLT2YI6NJPBRCQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that directs the federal Department of Education to come up with a plan for its own demise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IWCLOWUCVADFEZ4UAQKN2DRTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” secretary of education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr Trump signed the order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IPASBI6A5HO7FBVOOV6RJDDEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Only Congress can abolish a Cabinet-level agency, and it is not clear whether Mr Trump has the votes in Congress to do so. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT3MIMJKRFCA7KNN5J6D3CCJ4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"It lends tens of billions of dollars to students and parents each year and oversees the collection of roughly $1.6 trillion in outstanding loans for more than 40 million borrowers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIPBRC7RN5EDHPZ5KO7AL5DILU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It also sends federal money to support kindergarten to 12th grade (known as K-12) schools, targeted toward low-income and disabled students, and enforces anti-discrimination laws.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWWWOMIV6ZGVZPA4BNWMABDU7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The money for schools has been set aside by Congress and is unlikely to be affected by Mr Trump’s executive order. But oversight of the funds could be reduced and moved to other federal agencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NVGIOLI5NE5PDI3IWISRMXJAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those federal dollars account for only about 10 per cent of K-12 school funding nationwide. While Mr Trump has said he wants to return power over education to the states, states and school districts already control K-12 education, which is mostly paid for with state and local tax dollars. The federal department does not control local learning standards or reading lists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4WSEMYE2VHMBNDC5DGQ4LCFL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The agency does play a big role in funding and disseminating research on education, but those efforts have been significantly scaled back by the Trump administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWOBTITAY5HZJCSMCPWPJPZHII","additional_properties":{},"content":"It also administers tests that track whether American students are learning and how they compare with their peers in other states and countries. It is unclear whether those tests will continue to be delivered, given drastic reductions in the staff and funding necessary to manage them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDOH67IT6ZFRLPYOMZBIVCHVBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Closing the department would not likely have much of an immediate effect on how schools and colleges operate. The Trump administration has discussed tapping the treasury department to disburse student loans and grants. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISW57J73XZCUBMRJCPILCM7B2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Any effort to fully eliminate the department would have to go through Congress. Republican members would most likely hear opposition from superintendents, college presidents and other education leaders in their districts; schools in Republican regions rely on federal aid from the agency, just as schools in Democratic regions do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB426PV3ONADJNAHDSCQIMDRH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The attempt to abolish the agency is part of a larger conservative agenda to roll back the federal role in education and direct more money toward private-school vouchers and home-schooling. 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In a far-off past called 2024, when Britain <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/07/04/uk-election-starmer-set-to-become-next-pm-as-labour-take-majority-of-seats-in-westminster-exit-poll-shows/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/07/04/uk-election-starmer-set-to-become-next-pm-as-labour-take-majority-of-seats-in-westminster-exit-poll-shows/\">elected a Labour government</a>, optimists made the bull case for the country. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> had budget troubles in France and Germany a recession, so the UK struck them as a relative haven. (As though there were three countries on Earth to invest in.) ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FKPATG7GFBBVFL5BABYK5Z7H24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Instead of constant Tory paranoia about a bond market revolt, there would be people in charge willing at last to borrow to spend. (There soon followed a bond market revolt.) “Britain is back, and the world wants a piece” is one of the headlines that have aged like milk. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YABWSZHAANANDG2DVAO6KAFHNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bull, indeed. We now know that British output shrank in January. This is before the government’s tax increases and regulations on employers become law. As ever, smart people let well-founded distaste for the Conservatives tip over into astounding naivety about their opponents. It wouldn’t matter, except Britain’s problems are Europe’s in miniature: not enough growth, so not enough fiscal revenue, so not enough defence spending, at least without sacrifices elsewhere, for which there is not enough public support.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3YCNF66B5HWPKBG5XOM3AOUEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Perhaps, then, we should hold off on the idea that, as one un-prescient official said during the 1990s Balkan crises: “This is the hour of Europe.” A triumphal note has crept in of late, which posits that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s betrayal of the continent is proving to be the making of it. This is based on – what?","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGA4PXX62NB6HEWOGUBK35MOP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Germany is serious. The Bundestag <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/bundestag-backs-record-borrowing-package/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/bundestag-backs-record-borrowing-package/\">voted this week</a> for theoretically unlimited borrowing to re-arm. But defence commitments elsewhere are hazily funded. The Spanish prime minister won’t cut a “single cent” of social spending. Labour is suffering internal strife over benefit reforms that won’t save £5 billioin a year until the end of the decade. The willingness of citizens to forgo private consumption or welfare for defence is untested, at best. A historic turning point is only a historic turning point if the public agrees it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLGDTSGYAVFMHC36KZ7ITPR3SI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The financial question isn’t even the hardest facing Europe. A consensus for more defence spending is worth only so much without a consensus for actually deploying force. Nothing of the kind exists. Downing Street alludes to a “significant number” of countries willing to send <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\">troops to Ukraine</a>. Which countries? How many soldiers each? Under what rules of engagement?","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAXZD65N6VC75HC5DDDXDQST7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"If <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\">Russia</a> won’t accept troops from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato/\">Nato</a> states in Ukraine, whether or not in a Nato capacity, will Europe insist? Next to these questions, which the continent doesn’t have years to answer, the matter of funding is a picnic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGRSVIP5IJBEVJAT6CLIQ2RJZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"I wonder if these months will be remembered not as the moment Europe united, but as the moment its north-south split became the central fact of continental politics. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\">Giorgia Meloni</a>, who is pro-Ukraine for an Italian populist, dismisses the idea of sending her nation’s soldiers there. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"375Y4QAWDVB23E7XC42UXRRTJU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Spain wants defence spending to include its investments in cyber and climate, because Russia will hardly “bring its troops across the Pyrenees”. (Or across the Channel, I wager, but Britain still takes European hard power seriously. It is strange which nations are <i>communautaire</i> nowadays, and which aren’t.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WCOCNSDS5AHZE27HEUT3HGIUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is fine to talk about Europe as an underachieving military power, able to call on more people than America’s 340 million, but southern Europe is no small share of that population. Bar Poland, the countries on the continent that spend most on defence as a share of income, such as Latvia, are among the smallest. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4XO5XAFJFF7XDNRDXRMZQTYDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even if Germany joins them in time, Europe’s potential manpower starts looking less awesome without the Mediterranean. And this doesn’t reckon with the prospect of Berlin deciding that fielding troops in the east carries too much historical freight to bear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGDXV2MTDJH47NPV2RLVMKGL6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"This month, a graph from analysts at S&P Global Ratings came my way, and vindicated the cynic in me. The x-axis is a capital’s distance from Moscow in kilometres. The y-axis is its defence spending as a share of national output. With some exceptions — well done Greece — there is an inverse relationship between the two, with the well-protected south of Europe skimping, and the exposed northeast spending well above the Nato mark of 2 per cent of GDP. What compounds this problem are the respective populations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VV37LFUHPJGKPEKOAL5R6E6SCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Portugal, one of the lowest spenders, has more people than all three Baltic states combined. Spain is bigger than Poland. If threat perceptions and defence contributions diverge either side of (roughly) the 45th parallel, it will matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UM76TLS5H5EVBEVVUZ7OULDBMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is no shame in looking for hope, even false hope. Optimism is so vital a trait for survival that whole yards of literature exist on whether it was evolutionarily selected for. But there is optimism, and then there is twisting oneself into hideous contortions to deny reality. The American version of this is the constant attribution of strategic thought to Trump’s every reflex and mumble (“he’s doing a reverse Nixon”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSJYH4I3KZE4NFZYEMBCJAQQEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The European version? Premature talk of a unified and serious continent: all the better for being the inadvertent creation of a US president who loathes it. We don’t know what European citizens are willing to give up for rearmament. We know even less which ones will bear those arms, where. Until that changes, the metaphor of a giant stirring after all too long a sleep is imperfect. The continent is half-awake, with rheum in its eyes, perhaps still hoping to ignore the alarm. − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Janan Ganesh"}},"name":"Janan Ganesh"}]},"description":{"basic":"Talk of Donald Trump bringing the continent together is absurdly premature"},"display_date":"2025-03-20T13:07:36.022Z","headlines":{"basic":"Janan Ganesh: Europe is only half-awake from its long 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target=\"_blank\">here.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7ORGSVG35HQXM5RGIKCYANQ7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"INFHBFGSBBGY5D6EIIV6HO54UM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743603337625},"id":"timestamp-30010","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JMGVDTB6QJEAXMJAO2ZPMWXCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100828},"content":"The Government’s strategy in response to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs/\">US trade tariffs</a> is “to optimise the protection of Irish jobs”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNIGCAFY7RETTFFYEVKHQ6ZTFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100829},"content":"It was a “fundamental objective”, he said, adding: “It’s clear that the scale of these tariffs will be very, very significant in European terms.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKSU5BVWSNBTDJ62FBDFP3RCBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100830},"content":"Part of the approach in any countermeasures will be, “Can we get this to a negotiating table to get a reasonable settlement pattern?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLPPMAXMEFFOVKHRTGUQYSCVWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100831},"content":"The “bottom line” is “to get this into a sustainable landing zone ... negotiations are key”, he <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/04/02/us-tariffs-protection-of-irish-jobs-is-fundamental-objective-of-response-says-taoiseach\" target=\"_blank\">said. </a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRWH2FQYAVDCRLNJJ7YKRBYCZQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"OSTK3WKPAFB63HPX2S6EP5J6UE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"TE3SY5JCGVBWBPFU5JAJ54JC3M","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"HMGCXNG37JEFNLQ3UV3QRIB3HU","additional_properties":{"_id":"2OCB2Y5KWVC45DGTS7KXORSVRQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WBJ3WVWDAFEEDIBRQ2YAWZMQQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100836},"content":"Why is the Government so fearful about a 25 per cent tariff on pharmaceuticals? Of the €224 billion in estimated exports last year, €99.9 billion was for pharmaceutical and medical products. Of that €99.9 billion, €44 billion went directly to the United States. The aforementioned statistical graph from the Central Statistics Office shows the dominance of chemical products (mostly medicines) in the Irish export portfolio.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGHRHHZCLFE5DA7AUP4LJX2JIM","additional_properties":{"_id":"GXNHVSQDZBFG5GNSRX45BL5HLY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605533514},"id":"timestamp-59234","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JVSBCYILGVDH7CWLYVK73SK4AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100838},"content":"US president Donald Trump has hailed today as “Liberation Day” for the United States, but Wall Street is less than impressed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4UNBZCLN5ASTLBI45XLJ3L6SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100839},"content":"Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Wednesday as investors worried about the potential impact of his tariffs on the global economy, corporate earnings and inflation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPWEMYSBANGI3OTJR5SPTLTPMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100840},"content":"The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 156.51 points or 0.37 per cent after the opening bell; the S&P 500 lost 26.55 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 5,606.52; and the Nasdaq Composite lost 99.07 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 17,350.82.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AY7IWPJW5EO3IUO2AZOYBMH6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"G7W63QCEWZGN7CG22VLPUMFERA"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605806489},"id":"timestamp-95391","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"32PZIT6BVRF4DFKQTRGH5AUZDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100842},"content":"UK chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves said the UK would not jeopardise the possibility of an economic deal with Donald Trump’s US by “posturing” in response to the president’s tariffs which are set to hit British exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GDHZ3T7QCVDXZIYGHSJ3ZMLRSQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100843},"content":"The chancellor told MPs she had been speaking to exporters who did not want a rushed response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JI5AAIPRXBBU7MKK4ENDEVVHGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100844},"content":"She said: “We don’t want to be posturing here, the prize on offer is a good economic agreement between us and the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHFK2DGCMRCFBCM4F44GFXXM2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100845},"content":"“We are not going to do anything to put that in jeopardy, we are not going to rush into action to get a quick headline.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"43F6HZIMEBC33AH4P2AKTIVH6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100846},"content":"She said she had discussed the situation with European Commission economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXBIVMUFZJAT5DVSY7KUOX2IDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100847},"content":"The European Union has threatened to push back against Trump’s tariffs; it retaliated against his trade taxes during his first term in the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU5H7GPZNRDPJFX657UJL44UT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100848},"content":"But Reeves told the UK’s Treasury Committee: “Let’s see how other countries and other trading blocs respond.” She added: “We are discussing with other countries and the EU about the appropriate response to whatever announcements are made later today.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUPT75PJ2BFS3HCENUTOXINUWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ATYWJA2ALRCRPNTM47PVOSGGOY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743605941026},"id":"timestamp-72682","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DIE35WGH4JH6ZBIM5FYTHBB42U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100850},"content":"The European Union is preparing a package of potential emergency measures to support parts of its economy that could be hit the hardest by US president Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, according to a report on Bloomberg.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGGJRHDKAVAZRO5RTGUHLDSA7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100851},"content":"The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is working on short-term economic support proposals to go alongside plans to advance reforms and competitiveness in key sectors as well as to improve the functioning of the bloc’s single market, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SCULMYDRD5GTFO5YVRQAPGVSGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100852},"content":"Trump is set to announce so-called reciprocal tariffs later on Wednesday to strike out against what he considers to be unfair levies on US goods as well as non-tariff barriers, such as domestic regulations and how countries collect taxes, including the bloc’s value-added tax, digital taxes and regulations. The EU says its VAT is a fair, non-discriminatory tax that applies equally to domestic and imported goods.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLXVNSUUENCJFJPM7VCM54LN2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100853},"content":"Any potential EU support measures will depend on what the US announces, one source told Bloomberg.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2NODXRPANBG3FW3WMXVJLTBUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100854},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743606840513},"id":"timestamp-5754","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C4LOOLH64FCOXMWBYWM6CX3XTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100855},"content":"Britain’s government will not rush into action to counter any import tariffs announced later on Wednesday by US president Donald Trump because it does not want to risk undermining a possible trade deal with Washington, minister for finance Rachel Reeves said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7ZH5APKFRATZMHZADGYSKGNVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100856},"content":"“The government has been really clear that we are going to approach this in a clear-headed way and always represent the national interest,” Reeves told lawmakers in parliament.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4WOWZSIVJFIBMUHKU7DJ6NRKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100857},"content":"“It’s why myself and the business and trade secretary met with big UK exporters this morning. They don’t want government to rush into any response because the prize on offer is an economic agreement. We don’t want to do anything that undermines that. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPDWSARMPNB6DHFSYDYQOLQTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743608100858},"content":"Reeves said London would see how other countries respond to Trump’s expected announcement of tariffs before deciding on any retaliatory moves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZLLM453NM5B33LXLKAFQADMFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":"HH7LIDADTBD4ZIQSADJ3ELYNXU"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608112743},"id":"timestamp-51941","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TG3NN6KG5ZALJGISF4CHULK2ZQ","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"SJDZFVNEGBG4TLXZDQFOOQH3HE","additional_properties":{"_id":"WGMHWZZHQVCHTJUF2R6KVOHO7U"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608319687},"id":"timestamp-59026","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ABGDS7BCOVDHVCUM3FZMZDCWOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"6A7J4GE7YBFWDEUNUHDVE5AKYM"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743608625530},"id":"timestamp-51423","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"WPKMCCG5HRHTFP7AES7XQ7TT5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651036},"content":"The US administration was excoriated last week for Signalgate. Most observers were astonished that the leading lights in the administration including the vice-president JD Vance, the secretary of defence Pete Hegseth and the CIA director John Ratcliffe added the Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group discussing imminent strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. No heads rolled as a result of that security debacle, but the Trump administration seems to have learned from it, as there have been no leaks to date of the much-anticipated tariff regime the US president is about to announce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAU3YJK36VEARPSZZW46U2NWNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651037},"content":"As Irish Times managing editor Cliff Taylor writes: “The remarkable thing so far is that the outline of Trump’s package has not leaked out. Not so far anyway. We know that in recent days reports suggest a simpler system than originally hinted at – possibly even the same tariff level of around 20 per cent on all imports in to the US, or most of them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXKYYFYI3VH43ONVSSTLIDYDEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651038},"content":"“But a few hours out the main US media outlets have nothing firm and other governments appear to be in the dark, too. Are the finishing touches still being put to the key decisions? Or has it been kept to a tight team and thus not leaked?","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFONR3S37FAPHHDGTG62MRRC5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651039},"content":"“All the White House has said is that the tariffs will go into effect immediately, which will be hugely disruptive with some goods already in transit to the US. Whether the tariffs do in fact apply from tomorrow morning US time will be one key thing to watch out for tonight.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2XNOYD2MOVFKXL7XSML2GLJJDY","additional_properties":{"_id":"33SFINGDZRGSRKSNF7CLXMABDY"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623220000},"id":"timestamp-70812","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6ZNSKFY3SVDUFOK7SP4SYS57FY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government mood ‘gloomy’ as details of tariffs set to be announced","type":"header"},{"_id":"5EWC44YPRVGMNEM7TFXZ7MQW34","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish Times political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones describes the mood in Irish Government circles as “gloomy”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYMPXZUZDNEYNLNYGCLGZYNXTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651042},"content":"He writes: “The big thing is how broad tariffs may be – one Cabinet source said they will be watching to see if tariffs are ‘sectoral, country or blanket’ level, while a second senior minister characterised this as ‘scattergun, broad sweep or selective’ – will he tariff Irish whiskey, for example, but not dairy products?","type":"text"},{"_id":"MD56TLZV4BHAHOOUYAVM6DQ6HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651043},"content":"“One source involved in planning the Irish response said that tariffs that are ‘flat, broad, fat and simple’ is the best outcome for Ireland. So something like a 25 per cent across-the-board tariff. On the flip side, if this is a starting point, building up with specific tariffs on pharma, for example, some non-tariff barriers adding extra costs, and any moves on tax, that becomes more and more difficult for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMJOV52VSJE6FIUIZL4STCZ3LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651044},"content":"“Similarly, with the structure of the pharma sector split between tangible things like manufacturing and intangible assets, which have been the engine that drove much of the boom in corporate tax in recent years, how does that break down? ‘Can we book intellectual property through Ireland even if we can’t sell pharma products?’ questions this same minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D63DJMR77NBSVBJDXSWUNGW6XA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651045},"content":"“Any reference to the pharmaceutical sector will of course be unwelcome for Ireland. So, in addition to the tariffs, whether Trump announces or even flags sector-specific measures will be a key thing. ‘That’s where things will really hit,’ says one senior Minister. There are also nerves about mentions of Ireland specifically – ‘to know if we are actually on his mind’, in the words of one source.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UAOCOX6AIFGDNLJ76VKTXC7XDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651046},"content":"“Two senior Government sources said they will also be looking for indications of his willingness to negotiate; another Minister said they’ll be listening closely for any indication of timelines for tariffs coming in – Trump has a habit of announcing something, only for the implementation to lag behind.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZQYNTA7CZCYJNVAXVJWW2QKWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651047},"content":"“Another thing to watch will be what happens afterwards. Dublin expects a response at the EU level, and the EU’s trade council (a meeting of trade ministers, which Simon Harris will attend for Ireland) will be convened early next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YL76NKYATJGWDBKDG4TIJE7VOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651048},"content":"“Senior sources in Dublin are wary about next steps, knowing that a return of serve from Brussels will likely be matched by another round from Washington, and so forth – trying to figure out what happens three moves in advance is one of the many complex problems ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44WIWAWNONCFHPCYOKDVLLOIUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651049},"content":"“Meanwhile, the Government here is likely to bring a major focus on Irish competitiveness – domestic-level enterprise reforms, technical changes or new legislation to cut down on red tape and try to improve what they call the “offering”, in the world of foreign direct investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4BTR2ZRFNDUPFDL6V6OQGU3DU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651050},"content":"“The response, in terms of assistance to firms and households, is another thing to watch. Bloomberg reported today that the EU is working on short-term emergency measures – exactly what is meant by that remains to be seen, but Government sources pointed to the ‘short-term’ nature of that response.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFEV5AY65NBMHO5NDLUUJ56GJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651051},"content":"“The Government here favours a Brexit-style response rather than a Covid-style one: ie, some balance sheet supports for affected sectors, maybe helping them find new markets – but a big bazooka of State money does not feature in Irish thinking at the moment. The thinking is that there could be a permanent change in the structure of Irish trade – and protecting firms from that may not be possible, or even desirable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQTBJJ5QHJHHDI6OUJX7ESVW3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651052},"content":"“There’s a similar approach for households, with Ministers anxious to pour cold water on the idea of a volley of once-off payments for families in the wake of tariff moves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENHOYTYDBBHHXKEM6ATTHHRKDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651053},"content":"“How quickly this will move is another question. With the EU committed to not hitting back for a fortnight, things won’t change for firms or voters in the morning. ‘It’ll be slow moving in terms of the macro(economic) impact,’ says one Cabinet Minister. There is a huge amount that is difficult to model or predict, according to people involved in planning the Irish response. You can figure out what the impact of a certain tariff might be on a certain sector, but so-called ‘second order’ effects – further down the food chain – are fiendishly complex to figure out, particularly before you know what you’re reacting to. So trying to figure out the precise impact on the tax take, for example, is a challenge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6H5EVC7OANDAHHZWTGDF53K454","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651054},"content":"“The government here will also be looking for indications of what Trump’s intentions are after ‘Liberation Day’ – specifically, whether he flags a “willingness or openness to negotiate and walk this back”, one senior Minister says.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2WUMQI7LHZDVDHH6K2PEZQ3CGU","additional_properties":{"_id":"OGF6RQEYTJEEZJJZB4AJPC55GE"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743609442786},"id":"timestamp-40881","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JEJKBZQKOJFOJEVVPPEP7R4UXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651056},"content":"Politico is reporting that Trump has told his inner circle that Elon Musk will be leaving soon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TH2N3NI5REQ5FNS2WNF57POQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651057},"content":"Musk has become arguably the most unpopular man in the US, at much detriment to his reputation, through his actions with the so-called Department of Government Efficency (Doge).","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QFCU5CDKVEEBLTKENJG5SUE6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651058},"content":"He spent $18 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, but Trump’s favoured candidate Brad Schimel was soundly beaten by liberal judge Susan Crawford.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILFP6QV5NFE6TIK6K64ITIC72E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651059},"content":"If Trump regards Musk as an electoral liability, the world’s richest man may leave the White House sooner rather than later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UMEAPN3CZ5F7LPHHXCUCG577U4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651060},"content":"Musk might see his ousting as a blessing in disguise. Tesla, the source of most of his wealth, reported its worst first quarter in three years and its stock price fell by 4 per cent in early trade. Tesla stock has fallen by half since December last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y4U6KLQTM5BVXFRATZJEHMD77E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651061},"content":"The stock rallied with news that Musk might be leaving the White House to concentrate on Tesla again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QNFRXZQEZALJLNODWWBDRFYZE","additional_properties":{"_id":"5X2HRDZMMJC3FHCVZI7CYGFYUQ"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743610609581},"id":"timestamp-23967","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"HYL4E66GONFDZCH2U43UWSXZFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651063},"content":"The New York Times is suggesting that Trump is mulling over a 20 per cent tariff on <i>all </i>imported goods in to the United States. It would at least have the virtue of clarity and simplicity, but such a blanket charge would cost US households between $3,400 (€3,100) and $4,200 (€3,900) a year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4Z26LSGUNJBHJKITXSA5IBMQFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651064},"content":"Trump’s tariffs to date are an average of 12 per cent – the highest level since the second World War, analysts at Deutsche Bank have estimated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SQKJRLTRARDXVIBZLGQMC3ZAHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743612651065},"content":"Today’s tariffs could push that figure to 18 per cent or more. That would approach levels seen in the United States in the early 1930s, after the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed, which helped to deepen the Great Depression by hindering international trade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BENNCL7WK5U66NREXPD7GJQ7TY","additional_properties":{"_id":"BY3A5ENM7VDL7MADEIOLFAJQEY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NS4G2E4SRFCBDJQI3LRB3D5ZLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"We have the first hint of what might be in the world’s most closely guarded secret: Trump’s forthcoming tariff regime. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FSDTGRAGRCG5JAESZM7JP2GOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sky News political editor Sam Coates is reporting via his colleague Ed Conway that Trump is planning 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent tariffs depending on country and by industry. More to follow, we expect. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GS4MBXV2TZDWJNYXP6K27LVAQU","additional_properties":{"_id":"Z4SI72VZLBF3FFFJPZ5TIHDHV4"},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743613645494},"id":"timestamp-89703","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DY2U4UYFR5GK5H5BV3QSZV5PEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fox Biz senior columnist Charles Gasparino says the tariffs are really a negotiating ploy by Trump to get trading partners to lower their tariffs. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KI6FYK3UMZBV5NAYQSYE7DQLR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"He is particularly hoping to use the threat of tariffs to get Chinese president Xi Jinping to agree to a US takeover of two Chinese-owned ports in the Panama Canal and also is seeking Xi’s approval of an Amazon takeover of the Chinese social media giant TikTok in the United States. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZW6RTCZQJAFLHTRRZBBNOLTBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House advisers have been spooked, he suggests, by business response to the tariffs. “Business spending is grinding to a halt and price elevation on goods is already happening as markets price in how trade partners react and before deals can be cut,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJPOGUL7MFCFZAY6356JA2EZIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They are warning about stagflation and that markets will remain extremely volatile. That said, if these trade deals can be reached and both sides begin lowering not just tariffs but trade barriers, the effect will be a long-term positive for markets and the economy.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHMNSRULIREVPHWP6T3R7P2QFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The realisation is growing too that the tariffs will hurt Trump’s base most, ie farmers and those who use natural gas. US consumers could end up being further hammered by inflation. 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Bakkavor gained 7.9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L3KGUTAF6ZHVFLRU4CYEXKWCX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Grafton Group</b> was also in focus, rising 0.8 per cent, as it bought HSS Hire Ireland for almost €32 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNYLRIQSDNDA7KEIDFWXZ7U4YQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The FTSE 100 index fell 0.3 per cent. Gains in the pound weighed on the export-focused stock index, as the dollar lost ground in advance of the tariff announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THSLP37YSVB6ZCAOD6SS4QWHUY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aerospace and defence stocks led the sectoral declines, down 2.1 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZOP32JF2FCVRGBUDKAUSOJW6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Rolls-Royce</b> and <b>BAE Systems</b> were among the top losers in the FTSE 100 index, down 3 per cent and nearly 1 per cent, respectively.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LMKEF42SIREYVHGVCPN25XFKVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heavyweight healthcare firms fell alongside European peers in advance of the tariffs announcement. The pharma and biotech index fell 1.4 per cent to its lowest close in nearly a month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZOBC52WD5EIRPBC3EDQN2RKXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>AstraZeneca</b> was the biggest drag on the blue-chip index, down 1.2 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WBIY3SCGXRFCVDGRI3LX5ZHARE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743617071037},"id":"timestamp-6911","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"S5KSGFXK2ZAPPKHCJW2GIDXPIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"As we await Donald Trump’s White House rose garden address on reciprocal tariffs at 9pm GMT/4pm EST, here’s a reminder of what will happen later today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2W4UMPJLHBFT3ABYLRKLNRKIZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump has for weeks pegged April 2 as “Liberation Day”, when he plans to impose an array of duties that could upend the global trade system. Details of the tariff plans were still being formulated in advance of a White House Rose Garden announcement ceremony scheduled for 4pm EST.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJELIKRGIREJDOJHM5K7W2F3UY","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, Sky News reported on Wednesday afternoon that Trump is planning 10 per cent, 15 per cent and 20 per cent tariffs depending on country and by industry. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3ROO2DITRCH5MMO3ENSGBIBYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The new duties, which are due to take effect immediately after Trump announces them, rattled grain traders as the US exports more than 40% of its soybean production. A disruption in agricultural export sales would hit farmers as they are struggling with weak crop prices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3BMA3SFLJFDUFDEB54AI5R4Y3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"China, the world’s biggest soybean importer, already imposed tariffs on US farm products last month in response to earlier Trump levies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BG4Y7O53ABETLP2GWEUHIN5MDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But what does this all mean for Ireland? There are reports of a “gloomy” mood in Dáil Éireann with concerns around whether the tariffs will be ‘scattergun, broad sweep or selective’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHY5MOGN5FAGBAY5D62ATHT7VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"One source involved in planning the Irish response told Irish Times political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones that tariffs that are ‘flat, broad, fat and simple’ is the best outcome for Ireland. So something like a 25 per cent across the board tariff. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUESDTZRUJCPRELJQDGG7FFKGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Harris told the meeting that he will continue talks with EU counterparts and the commission in the days ahead as the full impact of Trump’s tariff agenda is probed. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGK5HDYAEJB2FBKMKWWXQ5VHZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He told the party that his priority will be to protect people, especially the most vulnerable, but also cited farmers, communities and workers, according to a briefing note of his comments circulated by the party. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2X5F7NAOFNHIPOHPXFDLHOU3KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fine Gael had been in Government during the financial crisis, the pandemic and Brexit, arguing there was a strategy for navigating economic turbulence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3LUTHRK4ZE23KVM5DJWZQ4VTY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743619303446},"id":"timestamp-15047","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"KALGFQ2WN5AO3FRTNFVCI43DDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>White House pushes back against reports that Musk is soon leaving administration </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"TJU47JR4I5FILAP6J4A27JD4JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has pushed back against reports that Donald Trump has told his inner circle that Elon Musk will be taking a step back from the Trump administration, according to a Guardian report ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SWOZMYKKVJAIXONZLXTCIGKSN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Calling the Wednesday report from Politico a “‘scoop’ [that] is garbage”, Ms Leavitt said: “Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special Government employee when his incredible work at Doge is complete.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDXSOML6J5DAPDNHN4KO4KRVSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to three people familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico, Trump remains pleased with Musk’s unofficial “department of Government efficiency”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"76WNQL6K3NGVDCGVHASYHGKM54","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, both Musk and Trump have agreed in recent days “that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role”, Politico reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AQFJHKHJFBHP3HLM4H5PRK43SE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743619613445},"id":"timestamp-45102","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ZNDWWX5F5JHIDPKP47S6KXNRZM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"EVKZT7NTFFCOTNDKH3L5Q56FVM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743620110275},"id":"timestamp-83021","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YY5RTTVTGZBXFHM57XRHGTVWRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Overarching ambition is to redefine US as manufacturing superpower, says White House</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"TW5MJ5CGTBE6PPSPQ3TPIFIIDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has told reporters that Donald Trump is spending today with his economic team fine-tuning his announcement on sweeping tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WFYZXRQTKVG7HFNAM6F3KT5634","additional_properties":{},"content":"The scope and severity of these tariffs have been a closely guarded secret and the general mystification has led to lurching market prices and widespread foreboding among the United States’ trading partners, including Ireland, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">reports Irish Times Washington correspondent Keith Duggan</a>. 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But those days of US, beginning tomorrow, being ripped off, are over.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SV3IVY5OJ5B5RLBG7LFXUYBIOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said that while Mr Trump is always open to taking a phone call- “always up for a good negotiation”- from countries seeking to discuss their individual trade imbalance with the United States, the overarching ambition of the programme is to redefine US as a manufacturing superpower.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWM7E5OHPRADHLVPRKN6BUCR6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The president will be addressing the decades of unfair trade practices that have ripped our country off and American workers off. It has hollowed out our middle class, it has destroyed our heartland and the president is focused on reshaping our global economy to make sure that US is once again a manufacturing superpower.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLX35XGPVBGPNGNKOQO4EDRT5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/04/01/trump-set-to-go-ahead-with-tariffs-announcement-on-wednesday/\">Read Keith Duggan’s full report of what we can expect from this evening’s announcement, here. </a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOX74Z7ZDNDBRPDVVMBUP465X4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743621128075},"id":"timestamp-81090","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"P37D6RPP4FCABIRKFXQD73OQ4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Trump considering revoking tariff exemptions for cheap shipments from China</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"LVCJCILMC5ATFA5GKZ5W7XFN2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Trump administration is considering revoking tariff exemptions for low-value shipments from China, known as “de minimis,” as part of Wednesday’s tariff announcement, a source familiar with the plans said, according to Reuters. 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The decision had been paused because of logistical issues complicating the inspection of millions of the low-value shipments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPYVAS77YVGWJMSLHPWNYDZVWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They figured it out,” the source said. “De minimis is being stripped from China.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYLKEOIICNHMZAG7JHVKTQMAQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump is expected to impose sweeping new tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, in a move that would escalate a trade war, increase prices and upend a decades-old trade order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AR22QW7VDZBFFM57OVBBEWLTJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump first took aim at cheap shipments from China in his February 1st executive order, imposing a 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods and ending the trade rule that allows merchandise with a value totalling less than $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free and with minimal inspections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GL27XNEEKJCZVH76EL4QP6SWOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The number of shipments entering this way has exploded in recent years, reaching nearly 1.4 billion packages last year. More than 90 per cent of all packages coming into the US now enter via de minimis, and of those, about 60 per cent come from China, led by direct-to-consumer retailers such as Temu and Shein.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QZH5LDBRJBKTJDIINIS5QXZVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWSLPNG6NBFDJAGUKDYZ6672R4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623218437},"id":"timestamp-74546","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"C3XT2Y6ZHNCLDHAEJDCUTDF3HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Expectation of 20% tariff for Ireland, says Taoiseach </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"OS6LMXOMXJCJHKOW7STSHF7ORM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones reports: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told his party’s TDs and Senators that the expectation is of 20 per cent tariffs across the board and possible sectoral tariffs too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6Q7BG2TLLBBX5BFPVU54GAUPGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Uncertainty is the one certainty and that “the whole system is working flat out to respond,” he said. He told his parliamentary party that he senses the US tariffs are an issue that will hang over us for some time and “may have economic implications”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAQOG5V5DNAJXMTJWSYYTRTKEY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743623597782},"id":"timestamp-75484","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IWOVFWSSANEVNOGX6J36PT5VUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s understood the European Union will not be responding to Donald Trump’s tariff plans until Thursday morning. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTJ7CMPIMZCYFKGNXC4HX6XXOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is expected to make a statement tomorrow morning but there will be no press conference with EU Commission for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič on Thursday, it’s understood. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"7O4WZCHSQBENZEXIVRVT4MMJQA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The US president holds up a chart in the rose garden which states tariffs of 20% for the European Union. He says the US is charging “discounted reciprocal rates” and that the EU should actually be charged 37%. 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No mention yet of extra sectoral tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT7RZKYOMFD53CP3MDQ53JJTPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"This will be significantly disruptive to trade – food, drink and pharma are the three sectors worst hit. And the worry will be that an inevitable EU response could lead to a trade war and possibly higher tariffs. We will see. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BEXWKHTEY5ER5GSK7TIM6PFNFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"An interesting point is the baseline tariff of 10 per cent being imposed – this is the lowest rate being imposed on any country. It may suggest that this is the tariff level which Trump wants to see in place in the long term to raise funds to allow lower taxes elsewhere. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"J55DFX3NJRGTRMKLDIGAWTAQHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Higher tariffs – such as the EU – might perhaps be negotiated down towards this level. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SQ3B25ZRZCRPLMT2ZZRSMHRK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We now urge the Irish Government and the European Commission, to act with urgency to find a negotiated solution with the US administration,” he said. “Government must also work with business to assess the potential consequences for the Irish economy resulting from the imposition of US tariffs and the likely EU response to these tariffs. The Government must advocate for a proportionate and measured EU response, informed by a detailed analysis of supply chains, strategic considerations, and the broader implications of any retaliatory measures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IH4AY2TL6VCYDNXMHKO3GFIYPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“While this will present challenges for a number of sectors, we anticipate that the new tariffs will result in a net overall export impact of around 2–3% in the short-term. Thankfully, we are in a position of economic strength, which will provide the necessary cushion to absorb slower growth and invest in diversifying market opportunities. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"S34FJRAKNNEDVB3322ENST3AY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Open and free trade has been hugely beneficial to the global economy. Ireland, Europe, and the US have all gained significantly from this trading relationship. Ireland, in particular, has played a crucial role in providing substance and strategic positioning for US firms accessing the European single market and global markets. Our strong track record of delivery has not only benefited our own economy but has also contributed to the success of US firms and their shareholders. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"27FXN7RWF5ATXNSSUI3TWV2JR4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743626880000},"id":"timestamp-13143","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"JR7XFP2WQNC7TPTTS34M3JTMJE","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"6YLR3IX7LZEFFOEJSRXMPBOWLQ","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743627738423},"id":"timestamp-74390","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"ICLOUS7RTVHB5CBS7WDTHGFXTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House has posted the famous chart on its official X account","type":"text"},{"_id":"SHIDIQTC2NB5DMMD2TRXFJI7WI","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"AONBA7CMZBHCTPRUKPMBTXWFBM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628276916},"id":"timestamp-78408","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"OLVTOVPA4ZHM3EOXJJANUACPTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Reaction from Irish Government is already starting to filter through, says political Correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones has already spoke","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLB7IDP3LBFJXJJYTEH5QCH4NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"There was a degree of relief that Ireland was not among the countries named by the US President, with one senior minister of the view that it “could have been worse” - but there was overriding concern about the impact on the pharmaceutical and other exporting sectors, which now face tariffs of 20 per cent for exporting to the US. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXAO3ER7XZGTTGCJR4I3Q6D32E","additional_properties":{},"content":"One senior source cautioned that the 20 per cent could prove to be a starting point and could rise further in the face of EU retaliation. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"APWP2JD7AFABJLHMBQ3RYDKMFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 20 per cent is in line with expectations, but that is cold comfort to sources in Government here, with one minister drily offering: “Not exactly good news.” The mismatch between the tariff levied on the UK and the 20 per cent tariff on the EU would prove “tricky” with regard to Northern Ireland, one Cabinet source offered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZSWT5XQSZDY3BLXWPOP5L2AFE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628514274},"id":"timestamp-4851","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7GQG5OZ6FFDRTLY7HCKGRHOFNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said it is “important now that Europe considers our best response back”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLVPQT5OUNDQ5GXGSHWOCBUXT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The moves that President Trump has made will have a big effect on global trade but Europe and Ireland is approaching this from a position of some strength,” he told The Irish Times. “We will act to look after our jobs and our interests.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNUW7RYOEFAD7GZIUMDDEAHDSM","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743628657677},"id":"timestamp-13917","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PHA6RGZ2W5EH7O4MU5GZTG3IS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"News on Pharma coming through ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3ZNZ362QBDWDCVHNQBMRJAQ4U","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"N6KG7MZLWNFZPCCOCBOCCNHJ2E","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629028898},"id":"timestamp-41497","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LFFMACZN6RHSBDAN6FGLU2LEJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>20% tariff could have “significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy” for “some time”, says Tánaiste </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"HJJFH24NQZCBZLE3WMCNRTXMIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris has said Donald Trump’s 20 per cent blanket tariff on goods from all EU countries “could have a significant effect on Irish investment and the wider economy” which is “likely to be felt for some time”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VL54S47SEZCBPEHYNXLFMNIDK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Harris said the Government has been “actively preparing for this possibility for some time” and “will seek to control what we can control and influence what we can influence while drawing on unity with our EU partners as our greatest strength”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVZBMLVKZZB5LPBIBWZREFER3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We know that the EU stands ready to find a negotiated solution with the US”, he added. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNWKDQHZZBD65PF4NGNUKY6BI4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The EU will have to respond in a proportionate manner which protects our citizens, our workers and our businesses. The EU and Ireland stands ready to find a negotiated solution with the US. Negotiation and dialogue is always the best way forward.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2AU2BZPGBF3RM2TX772S2CZYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He noted that the latest tariffs were in addiction to tariffs on steel and aluminium (25%) and auto sector (25%) that the US announced last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVNL5QPHBBBVJKYQ6HQ3H267O4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It represents a huge challenge to Irish exporters to the US across all sectors. Work is already under way to mitigate this and we are already taking concrete steps to boost our domestic competitiveness and investing in our infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z4VUKQEHCNHEXLJKFBNHVOHMTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The Government is accelerating preparations for an Action Plan on Competitiveness and Productivity with Minister Burke leading this work. This plan will focus on domestic policy measures which can make the Irish economy more competitive and resilient to economic shocks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XRHKM3NGNRDGHNHRMBBNZY35GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Our relationship with the United States is long, deep and meaningful and I want to be clear that it will endure far beyond any difficulties we may encounter in the time ahead. We will continue to emphasise the fact that the US-EU relationship is a two-way street. Our economies are interdependent and an extended trade dispute is in no one’s interest. We will continue to seek to engage with the US administration in a constructive way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YK4BJIFKJALDARPPN7AUSX3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Next Monday, I will attend a meeting of Foreign Affairs Council on Trade in Luxembourg where I will be discussing today’s developments and our collective response with my EU counterparts and Commissioner Šefčovič.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSZ4V6NLSVETZHDA7CQU5376NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In advance of this I will hold a meeting of the Trade Forum this Friday. This will be an opportunity for me to engage with business representatives in response to tonight’s announcements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSRUGZYTTFE7ZGNLS7FM3PUPYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We must remain calm and measured in our response. Ultimately every disagreement has to end in agreement and we will be continuing to advocate and argue for negotiated solutions. This is how we will end this dispute and this will be my focus along with that of my colleagues in the time ahead.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARKDCORMCJFKDGJW3ALUB3EJ44","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629157022},"id":"timestamp-83894","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DHHM2HFPOZGKXKUUHWQUDKWG2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Important to note that Trump’s tariffs will leave Northern Ireland in a complicated position and will put the Windsor Framework, the post-Brexit trading rules agreed by the EU and UK for the North, to the test given the EU has been hit with a 20 per cent tariff and the UK a 10 per cent tariff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC2VH2E4ZRCNDB6SYF6K4RYSLI","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629289691},"id":"timestamp-27905","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"FYNSZAJNRBBRPG3CX6AFMZVQ6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Europe correspondent Jack Power responds from Brussels: The fact European capitals had been expecting Trump to hit trade coming from EU states with tariffs of 20 per cent won’t do much to soften the economic blow. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAXRVXD6LREAZLL6PSB75VFG7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Senior figures in the European Commission, the EU executive arm that sets the bloc’s trade policy, had privately flagged several days ago that they were expecting tariffs of 20 per cent. Now that has come to pass the commission will come under pressure to hit back with significant retaliatory tariffs targeting US trade. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMFN5YJBXNBJPOT6D5GI5YTFRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In response to tariffs Trump already announced on steel and aluminium sold into the US last month, the EU’s executive body has been finalising its own package of import taxes on more than €20 billion worth of US products, such as soybeans and motorbikes. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"27Q6UPSMCVCLRJKO2UQT4MGYU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ursula von der Leyen’s commission is expected to pull together a further round of tariffs on top of those, to ramp up the pressure on the US administration. Senior EU officials have in recent days suggested that nothing is off the table, as the commission tries to force Trump to the negotiating table. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVYIQ34JFVBZTAHKYQ3E4TDV64","additional_properties":{},"content":"As one of the states most exposed to an EU-US trade war, Ireland will be encouraging caution in the coming days, other EU countries are less likely to want to tread so softly in how the bloc responds. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMJ4AFU3SJF7TAZFI3IT6DXIQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s understood the European Union will not be formally responding to Donald Trump’s tariff plans until Thursday morning. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is expected to make a statement tomorrow morning. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DT7PAZ5KOZE6NAXJAU7PSCSHQ4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629432654},"id":"timestamp-29462","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EHPPCOXPEVDHDILORZCMYLWHBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharma exempt for now","type":"header"},{"_id":"AK5DZ3MKX5ACHLC7GKU5V6ZJSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to a White House fact sheet, pharma products will not be covered by this initial round of tariffs, writes Cliff Taylor. If confirmed this is some relief to Ireland in the short term - though some products in the wider pharma/chemicals sector could still be covered. However pharma is expected to be hit by special tariffs due in coming weeks and a figure of 25 per cent has been mentioned. So it is likely to be a temporary reprieve.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NE7CXOAFVF4JPAXYQPSSKXD2M","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629498647},"id":"timestamp-63934","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"Z3KFRTXXUBAS5CG7ACL4M33TRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Labour Employer Economic Forum (LEEF), the Government backed forum for employers, unions and its officials to engage on employment issues, is to meet on Friday, when the Government will also convene its Trade Forum, writes political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R4MOICTXCVFB5HEI4MJSKYIJNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government sources said trade will be the number one item on the agenda for the meeting, which is the first since the Government was formed, although it had been in the diary for some time and is not a direct reaction to Wednesday’s announcement. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RH53UFSFURBDXP7NZ5TZROZTUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other issues on the agenda include collective bargaining action plan, blended working and the all-island labour market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYPQH3ZP6BAFFEGY43GTU2DZF4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743629713338},"id":"timestamp-37","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"EY333DTSKBDVFOGHOBQFTXVNCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>No justification for 20% tariff on EU imports, says Taoiseach </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"5Q2DD4IFIZB6ZB5EPZCAQEWEWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said there is “no justification” for Donald Trump’s 20% tariffs on imports from across the European Union but that any response should be “proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4PIFGGOJ6NBSDGPBFGS4MXZ5QM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“More than €4.2 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the EU and the US daily,” said the Taoiseach, following the US president’s tariff announcement. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBZHNK25HBHRNH6UWKLSXTURTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Disrupting this deeply integrated relationship benefits no one. Tariffs drive inflation, hurt people on both sides of the Atlantic, and put jobs at risk. We will now reflect with our EU partners on how best to proceed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFOPNGLTWJEYXAGDCYXKJL2F7I","additional_properties":{},"content":" “As I agreed with President von der Leyen in our recent phone call, EU unity is crucial, and our response should be considered and measured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIFCIEMPXVHWRMHXG6ZLA5AFLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Any action should be proportionate, aimed at defending the interests of our businesses, workers and citizens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POL7LKHVANCRBD6QBBUIXVGKRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Now is a time for dialogue, and I believe that a negotiated way forward is the only sensible one. A confrontation is in no one’s interests. Ireland will be a strong advocate for an outcome which enhances the existing and strong transatlantic trading relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4I3IMYY37ZFK5PHOXJ722WUNSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" “As a small, open economy, and as a country that has built our prosperity on a policy of free and fair trade, there is no doubt that the imposition of tariffs by the US will have an adverse impact.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYRMQ6Q5GNG43OGOJ2XKML2VT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ireland’s priority is the protection of jobs and our economy. We are starting from a position of strength, and our economy is resilient. It is important that we focus on factors that we can control, including improving our competitiveness and investing in infrastructure.","type":"text"},{"_id":"53SGGLHFJBC2DHYC472KZEMBKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“By working with Irish-owned companies, multinationals, our EU partners and bilaterally with the US, we can and will weather this storm.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANTBR3MH6VCGNNYACJIBOKJHFE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630244497},"id":"timestamp-44494","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"DOJ7YM3WQVCFXOQZK2N7EA7GSE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Pharmaceuticals not subject to tariffs, for now, says White House </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"F45U2LB4UFER7BQSSJZ2X6MNKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House ‘fact sheet’ on today’s tariff announcements, <a href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/\">recently published online</a>, has stated pharmaceuticals will not be subject to tariffs for now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS5USSEGHJGVPJLFSE6E6NPRJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It writes: Some goods will not be subject to the Reciprocal Tariff. These include: (1) articles subject to 50 USC 1702(b); (2) steel/aluminium articles and autos/auto parts already subject to Section 232 tariffs; (3) copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber articles; (4) all articles that may become subject to future Section 232 tariffs; (5) bullion; and (6) energy and other certain minerals that are not available in the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FNVHBYJ6RVFMFBW6YEJJYIBPVY","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630505729},"id":"timestamp-52231","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"TMSTL2XB2FERXAVD76C5HFMX7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lower tariffs in UK and New Zealand leaves Irish dairy and drinks products at “competitive disadvantage”, says IFA</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"QNFLRU3QFVF5PMTGTXUWNDVBCA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In an initial reaction to the announcement of tariffs by US President Donald Trump, the Irish Farmers’ Association said the relative differences will impact the competitiveness of Irish products on the US market, including Kerrygold.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMLAPTKQ6FG37PVMCDM5JWKODQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that New Zealand only has a 10% tariff for dairy products and the UK only has a 10% tariff on drinks, while the EU will have 20% tariffs, will leave us at a competitive disadvantage against some of our biggest competitors in these two sectors, it said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6JP5FUGDFG5LLEKPQAQMGUTLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ireland exported circa €1.9bn worth of food and drink products across the Atlantic in 2024, said the IFA. The US market is an important outlet and accounts for circa 11% of our total food and drink exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHS4JM25S5AD3NAC7Q2DPBUAOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Within the €1.9bn figure, dairy at €830m and drinks, predominantly whiskey, at €900m account for 91% of what we export. We also export pig meat (€23m), beef (€8.8m) and seafood (€3.8m).","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWHWUWV2Y5F75NBLPZMMQ2OCXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kerrygold is now the second bestselling butter brand in the US, where we sent almost €500m worth of product in 2024. The market accounts for about 7.5% of our total dairy exports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOU3TVYDRVH5LG7ZQBRF3CRUXU","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630861096},"id":"timestamp-35969","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"AYRMXDBP3NG3PBPB7TW7574DDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"More from political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones on the Irish Government’s response to the US tariff announcements. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGTQOBP3A5GERI5KILBTMKNL3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Government sources are guarded on the apparent carveout for the pharmaceutical sector. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JVGCHCASSFAGFMPDQPWLO6Z2KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"They note that there are sector-specific tariffs contained in Trump’s Wednesday night announcement - albeit on the automotive sector - suggesting it’s something that the administration sees as part of the toolkit, even if it’s holding off for now. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOOLUEYEVZCHNNFYGHCBQZAPWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"So, they fear that a general tariff on pharmaceuticals could nonetheless come on to the table - perhaps if there is an ante-up from the EU in response to tonight’s announcement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKWY6X7STRHNDBOR2XBFR6YPZA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743630949129},"id":"timestamp-34693","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"7B4AGZN2K6JYLBAEIYAEXGGIBM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CKMU7K6UDJDSHKPES5FJ2VWNHA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631147562},"id":"timestamp-33077","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"PBPOE25QYNC3DJ73XPGYFVSSJM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Australia will not place reciprocal tariffs against the US, says Albanese </b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"XRORLT4CFBD3BPDDHOBUNKWZOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday the decision by US President Donald Trump to impose tariffs was not “the act of a friend,” but said his country would not place reciprocal tariffs against the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55NF7EKNOBBXVAZSB43AUIOEFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose a 10% baseline tariff on all imports and higher duties on some of his country’s biggest trading partners, in a move that ratchets up a trade war that Trump kicked off on his return to the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2GZ6ZVHYBFJXGDEXNECSFREZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FBSH3LGIOJAZDJJVVZ5H4TL5S4","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631313668},"id":"timestamp-42841","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"RHEPNDOZZFE4DEQNF374W2NWJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A senior White House official has said Donald Trump will respond to retaliation by other countries to ensure that is emergency order is not undermined, Reuters reports","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4IDN7FFZZHLRLJHMW66FKTTVQ","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743631734192},"id":"timestamp-8896","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GOAWYN5G6NEX7KBXXR44UGTOJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Northern Ireland responds</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"QV3O33KZ2BHVHLIQ3SSSNXLGQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have said they are focused on protecting Northern Ireland following the announcement of US tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4RFJPRHYZJBDPF27JE7GU6GHWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president Donald Trump implemented a 10% tariff on the UK, but announced a 20% tariff on the European Union. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"H57PP6SNQRBG7O2ZA54UVMLOH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a statement, First Minister Michelle O’Neill said: “Tonight the US president has announced tariffs for countries across the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FSWCM7N3GVEMLPWEZGQE34DL3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In every engagement, both at home and internationally, my priority has always been to protect the best interests of workers, families, and businesses on the island. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NROCF5HRXZF2HP2NUQGP2O7TZI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We must ensure that our all-island economy, which has grown substantially in recent years, continues to thrive to create better opportunities for all our people. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LDBMYACNZRC5RBO676AI33J3KU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I will continue to speak with political and business leaders throughout this period of uncertainty, always prioritising the prosperity and future of everyone who calls our island home.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5KBNDZEGPZD3XEJSU2C5FWXGIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms O’Neill announced a boycott of engagements in Washington DC to mark St Patrick’s Day last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSKT3YYUCZAUXAWKMBT3DDMNGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms Little Pengally, who met Mr Trump at the US Capitol, said the focus shifts to UK-USA negotiations and efforts to ensure the EU response does not impact Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UCXETPSBM5DWVHDIFM5SUYRVMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said: “My focus will continue to be on doing all I can to champion Northern Ireland. This means pushing for all possible action to protect Northern Ireland, especially against any retaliatory tariffs by the EU. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIBXYXKAMJDP7KIP3ZOECJB64U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I have been vociferously raising our Northern Ireland issues to all involved and will continue to do so. Focus now moves to pushing forward the UK-USA arrangements, supporting UK Government to do so and ensuring Northern Ireland is central to these considerations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MU6CBLFP5NHVJOZY2LCFIFOQEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In addition, all efforts to ensure EU tariffs to USA and political decisions at EU level to US do not penalise Northern Ireland business or detrimentally impact on us. Much still to be done.” <i>Reporting from PA</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS7DZN5A2NHCTNR3ZGJ7JHR7RE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632017737},"id":"timestamp-55494","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"QJUHJTVXYJALVM3IW23DVDZ3CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme, Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has said that the exemption for pharmaceutical goods is “probably not surprising”, but that Trump “may well still” include the products for tariffs at a future date.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHZRZ3DOABEUDNSAJSSVVGRJIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“As of tonight... it doesn’t form part of (the tariffs),” Mr Heydon said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIOB6FYHRNG6DGBPIDDO55UWHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sinn Féin finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said putting the tariffs on drugs would have harmed US consumers but warned: “Sense has not stopped Trump so far... what we don’t know is there a volume 2,” he asked, adding that he could be holding back reciprocal measures in response to what the EU does. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DUVP25BWORCCPK3WAW3A4CBKUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked about food, agriculture and drinks exports, Mr Haydon said the tariffs were “problematic”. He said for the whiskey sector, Scotch whiskey would have a ten per cent advantage over Irish exports from tomorrow - he said all this would be worked through by negotiation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIVNI4ZBLBBVZLYU6V4CASVWMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said the EU is not distancing itself from negotiations but seeking to negotiate from a position of strength. He has flagged an announcement expected from Ursula von der Leyen at 4am Irish time. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6O5IHLAJZFG5IWMWFE4JJONR4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Doherty said the Government needed to focus on investment in infrastructure, citing the electricity grid, but also to influence the European strategy and counter-tariffs. He said the EU should only countenance them if they will bring Donald Trump to the negotiating table and will lead to de-escalation, but should not follow the US president down a path of self-harm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2L7X63S4FAEJCGSSCMQZCEJEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked about supports for affected exporters, Mr Haydon deflected, saying the Government did not know where negotiations would end up and it was “far too early” to say where supports would land. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJZRQ67QWBA53MB2LRSVALI5EM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Doherty was also asked if there should be financial assistance for firms, and responded that Europe should look to supports for firms and households. He also mentioned the all island economy as a result of the different levels of tariffs in place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WP4XOQHMAVAVNN4YRSK4W4C2FU","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632218016},"id":"timestamp-72968","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"CQKKDAKY4FEITJVKGEXKDWFC3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sign off from our political correspondent Jack Horgan-Jones on what will be the next steps of the Irish Government. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXM3ET3BWJGAPBZKD2AWTMQMOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He writes: There is a very clear sense in Government that the focus is shifting in two directions: towards the EU response, where Ireland has influence. EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič goes to the United States soon to start negotiations, while at home, the Government plans to engage with unions and employers, as well as across all sectors, which will be fed across to Europe. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2FZZOUZDZFUZOL5FIHUM2Z4XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The other direction seems to be a big emphasis on Irish competitiveness, as evidenced by Simon Harris’s statement this evening. Exactly what this means for regulatory and legislative reform, and the political consequences of that, remains to be seen, but expect it to feature in a big way in the days and weeks ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MHKZTKDXBDW7KBCEDMLIBAUWE","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632368301},"id":"timestamp-88417","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"KHDQO536LBH3PPHP7F5W62FAAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What about Russia?</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"AA7TA4FVEJCJDNAJO4E6E75C6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"There’s been plenty of mumblings since the Rose Garden tariff announcements that Russia did not appear on Trump’s chart. However, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has now said Russia was not on the tariff list “because we don’t trade with Russia, they’re sanctioned”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4CG7ENOXNHBVCPTQUCVBAXOXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>Reuters </i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3OQSL6YQVHKJI7CJV2XFJML2Y","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743632648336},"id":"timestamp-44098","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"L76MGFRRTVDJRBMKHVL3MVTOM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some more reaction from Europe correspondent Jack Power: Across the board tariffs on trade coming from the EU would only lead to a “downward economic spiral” for the United States, according to Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHSPCABMYFHTZCQPZUCOITOGHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The senior Germany MEP described Trump’s 20 per cent tariffs on imports as “unjustified, illegal and disproportionate”. Countries targeted by the protectionist trade measures should respond with a “united front”, in order to put pressure on the US “to end this tariff madness,” Lange said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GOY5DNYGSZGSHHQF4G347RZ27Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a video statement, Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said he deeply regretted the path the US had gone down. “We don’t want a trade war, that would make our populations poorer and the world more dangerous in the long run,” he said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7IF7QFRZSBBX5AOFZXR3SKAIBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Paolo Gentiloni, the former EU economy commissioner, described the announcement of major US tariffs as a “dark day”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JG3FPNJ35JGB3O7GYPBBTU2C4Y","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743633235501},"id":"timestamp-94566","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"IZO737J3JRBS5JF4L3RK76I2FM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Trump’s tariffs: what do they mean for Ireland?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"RASSGOJIWBFYFMQPJZKFBDAJAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs on Ireland – and the trade war that may well follow – will take some time to play out, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\">writes Cliff Taylor</a>. But there is no doubt that the sweeping tariffs announced on Wednesday evening in the White House pose a significant economic threat to this State and particularly to investment, jobs and tax revenues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VB3UXZLYGJBS3BBU6XFCKNSD3U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was a landmark moment in the Trump presidency, declaring the US’s “economic independence” – which is bad news for a country like Ireland that relies on US trade and inward investment. Trump made it crystal clear that he wants production for the US market to come back to the US and there is more to play out here in terms of how his policy evolves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZBVUVWREVBQ7ESKMYKDNXVY7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"What we know is that most imports from the EU will face a tariff of 20 per cent. This is roughly what was expected and at least Ireland was not picked out for special treatment. Importantly, according to a White House fact sheet last night, pharma products will not be covered by this initial round of tariffs. If confirmed, this is some relief to Ireland in the short term – though some products in the wider pharma/chemicals sector could still be covered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DIO76WV62BDQFF742HZU5YDRSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pharma is, however, expected to be hit by special tariffs due in coming weeks, and a tariff figure of 25 per cent has been mentioned. So it may be a temporary reprieve, but reports suggest the sector was looking for tariffs to be phased in rather than introduced quickly. How this plays out will be vital for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WT3DXVRGZBB7HTHNAZ4S42LRA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Read Cliff Taylor’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/02/trumps-tariffs-what-do-they-mean-for-ireland/\">full analysis of Trump’s tariff plan here</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJJPKJE675ADXJGX7UXYBUEKGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"U34HL5QQCVAUTD3HWMGMLQN6RA","additional_properties":{},"embed":{"config":{"dateTimeField":1743633317357},"id":"timestamp-99634","url":"/"},"subtype":"timestamp_powerup","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"3PYSKVLQ5BCTHEL5SKEGLNWRF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"That’s it from The Irish Times on tonight’s coverage of Donald Trump’s so-called ‘liberation day’. For full coverage and analysis of the US’s tariff announcements, go to irishtimes.com. Our live coverage of the fallout from these announcements, and tomorrow’s response from the EU, will resume on Thursday morning. 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Shares of Mr Musk’s Tesla, which were down 2 per cent in early trading after a sharper-than-expected fall in first-quarter deliveries, reversed course and were up 3 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENQ63ZTYQ5ETZLIEBOZDNVDVIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump and Mr Musk have both recently indicated that Mr Musk would move on but have not said when.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPMAK5AF2VDSTKBJREEXQJYAUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Asked if he wanted Mr Musk to stay longer than his 130-day term, Mr Trump told reporters on Monday: “I think he’s amazing, but I also think he’s got a big company to run. At some point, he’s going to be going back. He wants to.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7QXC2FA2NEWVH6MWLWRNTGGOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Based on a 130-day term, Mr Musk’s time as a special government employee would be set to end as soon as the end of May. 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He was very gracious,” Crawford said in her victory speech, which was preoccupied by Musk’s parachuting into a campaign she had embarked on some 10 months ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGW2S4TENFF5BDHKQJ5PRVQSQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487650},"content":"“But I gotta tell ya. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SM55CSRPAZGSHHWTGVVG24YLW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487651},"content":"“My promise to Wisconsin is clear: I will be a fair, impartial and common sense justice on the Wisconsin supreme court. So today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPDC4CZBG2ENHWRIUOQTUETHEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487652},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KRKLJZCQA5HBBEPGAIYU6RZDHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487653},"content":"“And Wisconsinites stood up loudly and said justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale,” Crawford continued in what might have been, in its own understated Midwestern way, the most powerful Democratic speech heard in months.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTRSPGAOPJFQVBDA3FV6QZLLOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487654},"content":"The result was the first obvious setback to Musk’s Republican agenda since the November election. In Washington DC, the collective frustration of the Democratic Party was channelled through an extraordinary turn in the Senate chamber by Cory Booker, who stood up to speak on Monday evening and continued for some 25 hours to deliver a speech which he labelled as a critique of this moment in America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4764ZAD6BRHY7AYXLINVRDEHRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487655},"content":"Shortly after 7pm on Tuesday in the chamber, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, asked Booker if he would yield for a question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELC366HNFC7DDH5HNX7BJHUHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487656},"content":"“Chuck Schumer, this is the only time I can tell you no,” Booker replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFJS5MRM75EKFIG5AGF7Z44424","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487657},"content":"“I just want to tell you a question: do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud this caucus is of you?” Schumer said. “Do you know how proud America is of you?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TULUZCYOXNHZ7GWNJ2YZR6QZEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487658},"content":"Booker wiped his brow as euphoric cheers from his party colleagues rolled through the chamber. He put his right hand to his breast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CI2NANECHNFRJHOD5CTWJENPCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487659},"content":"By then, he had been speaking for 24 hours and 19 minutes – and he wasn’t done. The record Schumer referenced belonged to Strom Thurmond, the South Carolinian who became one of the leading voices and faces of the pro-segregationist South of the late 1950s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"COF3JSGCNV6TTZBWW2A2PBJMPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487660},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UXBEUXEXWBBZRP6OA3DXEZROFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487661},"content":"In August 1957, Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to filibuster or block the Civil Rights Bill, which was passed shortly after he yielded the floor. 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He wasn’t attempting to thwart any legislative action but more to do something – anything – to shock the Democratic movement out of the sense of inertia or helplessness that has taken hold since their devastating presidential election campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NG3MQG5QORBA3HERT7NWMNGFKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487664},"content":"It was heavily symbolic: here was a black American politician erasing Thurmond’s indelible shadow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUR76WIFTBAMNETICNDDY75YGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487665},"content":"“What you have done here today senator Booker couldn’t be more different than what occurred on this floor in 1957,” Connecticut senator Chris Murphy told him shortly before the record was broken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M5U4P3N5BDUVBQRW7Z6M2SRBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487666},"content":"Murphy had remained with Booker in the Senate chamber throughout Monday night, posting regular intervals from the corridors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXFCTVHTXRFU7KI6XV7MCPIM5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487667},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RICRBPXMNFBPPDS5TNINZ24T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487668},"content":"By Tuesday evening, both Booker and Murphy looked shattered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QPR6PR5YGRC4TGXIDPIYIHTFJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487669},"content":"“Strom Thurmond was standing in the way of inevitable progress towards equal political rights and economic rights for black Americans. 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The national attention span has been redefined since the black-and-white age of Strom Thurmond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UIZMCLCYXRASDPBEMF2OWFSTDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487671},"content":"Murphy told Booker that 150 million clicks of his speech had been tabulated on a live stream on one social media platform alone. It was a start. 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Fines – who branded Ireland “anti-Semitic” in a social media post last year – had become a source of concern in the final weeks of an underwhelming election campaign in which he badly trailed the fundraising energies of his Democratic opponent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUKWAAKNLZDMFNLIYKVJ2SLHII","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487675},"content":"Joshua Weil, a teacher and single father from Orlando, managed to outdo Fines, a sitting state senator, by 10 to one. But in an overwhelmingly Red district – Trump won by 30 percentage points in the November election – Fines rallied on a comfortable 15 per cent points to preserve the narrow Republican House majority on Capitol Hill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSVFE5HQZ5C4BEJYCZW6F6OAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487676},"content":"After that, all eyes moved west to Wisconsin, where the polls closed on what is the most expensive state supreme court election in history.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFKMGAW7A5HCJOHVNCTNJL5SZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487677},"content":"Almost $100 million (€92 million) had gone into the race between Crawford and Schimel, whose campaign has been buoyed by a $22 million contribution from Elon Musk, who also flew in to give a Sunday night election town hall in Green Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVWPNCN4MFESPE7655WHCDQ7MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487678},"content":"The financial and personal investment by the billionaire – the richest person on the planet and, since November, the “special government employee” tasked with gutting federal spending – became the focal point of the state election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X65GIK552JCOFFYJPMVOO6H26Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487679},"content":"It was pointed out that Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle company, is currently challenging a Wisconsin law barring car manufacturers from directly owning dealerships in its state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFEHF7AP7NBCNOIGURPHNNUODA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487680},"content":"More generally, the election would swing the balance of power between the enactment of more liberal and conservative legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJ7QPLOGYVHETKQUL7KGBJ76QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487681},"content":"But Crawford repeatedly referenced Musk’s antics – including wearing a costume cheesehead cap on Sunday evening and handing out two $1 million cheques to random voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSVI654DHVBQFIS4NNFAOTM7SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487682},"content":"It was Musk’s first campaign stage exposure without the guidance of Trump and the guaranteed devotion of his Maga rally support base.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GTCUUGJJCJFUPHR3Y7H4SKHD5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487683},"content":"The result is unlikely to spoil Trump’s mood as he gathers his economic wizards for the Rose Garden ceremony, in which he will explain his vision for tariffs to America and the world.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6U57MOFQVA65HJTA6X243BY3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743572487684},"content":"The forecast in Washington for Wednesday reads pleasantly, but with warnings of an April wind that may make the afternoon feel cold, and sharp.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Party emerges from relentlessly dark winter with poll win and voter snub of Elon Musk’s interference"},"display_date":"2025-04-02T05:36:28.238Z","headlines":{"basic":"Wisconsin election gives Democrats glimmer of hope as Trump tariff decision looms","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA","auth":{"1":"47677016315347ec9683eb94cb6a8ad3f03c186b4c5016d54de53f0c8ec0c7b2"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YKYXOLQBRHXGST3ON4IRZTHFLA.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/02/wisconsin-election-gives-democrats-glimmer-of-hope-as-trump-tariff-decision-looms/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"KMZ3LORLKRC5DPBZPU2ZGPNMCY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":246,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/7bac5fcf-ca15-4860-827f-b763d13ef257/versions/1743570791/media/5fdb81b7b1b738ef105969cb650acf36_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/culture/film/2025/04/02/val-kilmer-top-gun-and-batman-star-dies-aged-65/","content_elements":[{"_id":"H2IANQTMS5DAPJK726OVPHUEHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/val-kilmer/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/val-kilmer/\">Val Kilmer</a>, the actor best known for his roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, has died at the age of 65.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIHOTNSKRBGCFJW4UEVPWW4F5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"His daughter Mercedes told the New York Times that the cause of death was pneumonia. 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The pair divorced in 1996.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZFXDU3M6NFK3FRB2PQI6GSUSI","additional_properties":{},"content":" Film Val Kilmer: Avatar of American swagger who only occasionally got the roles he deserved","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YXH4KJNKXBHWBIOZ4KRTUS62EA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Oliver Stone cast him as Jim Morrison in his biopic The Doors, and Kilmer also landed roles as Elvis Presley in True Romance and Doc Holliday in the western Tombstone. It was this performance that landed Kilmer the biggest role of his career, that of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7MQLH7LEVAJ7M52SMSDVVH5D4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The film received mixed reviews but was a box office hit, and Kilmer became a huge star, able to demand millions of dollars for his roles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PTQOEWRJNVDSTEGTOHLITHUVMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He did not return as the caped crusader for the next film in the series, Batman and Robin, and instead took roles as Simon Templar in a reboot of The Saint and opposite Marlon Brando in the poorly received The Island of Dr Moreau.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZP5SUB2GBFQ3HUNQI7JFQKLMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"After another box office disaster in 2000, Red Planet, Kilmer took roles in smaller films with a lower profile. In 2005 he was cast opposite Robert Downey Jr in Shane Black’s directorial debut, the crime comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; in 2012 he starred in a one-man show Citizen Twain, in which he played the writer Mark Twain; and in 2017 he appeared briefly in Terrence Malick’s music-industry drama Song to Song. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GYP6OOGJJHC5LZEWFCLVSFJLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was part of a robbery gang in Heat (1995), a contemporary urban High Noon-ish tale that was a vehicle for Robert De Niro as the mastermind of a heist and Al Pacino as the cop who chases him down. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEJOWQLJFJE5ZAVH2XXSIMHALE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was a co-star, billed beneath Michael Douglas, in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), a period piece about lion hunting set in late 19th-century Africa. In Pollock (2000), starring Ed Harris as painter Jackson Pollock, he was a fellow artist, Willem de Kooning. He played Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell), in Oliver Stone’s grandiose epic Alexander (2004).","type":"text"},{"_id":"AUOGXB2ZUNA4LPTJYZDRWH6QEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"He returned to the Iceman role in 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, in which his character has become the commander of the US Pacific fleet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S53UGTQUEVGLBFMH5MJJWPLA6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kilmer was well known for falling out with his directors and castmates on set. Joel Schumacher, who directed him in Batman Forever, said: “I pray I don’t work with [Kilmer] again ... we had two weeks where he did not speak to me, but it was bliss.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KOPKPPR7YVF3LHMEMOSI7LVAW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marlon Brando, his co-star in The Island of Dr Moreau, reportedly told him: “You are confusing your talent with the size of your paycheck”, while that film’s director, John Frankenheimer, was quoted as saying: “I don’t like Val Kilmer, I don’t like his work ethic and I don’t want to be associated with him ever again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQD6GIBRQZCBVCLXNZXT2TOQH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, despite the feuds, his ability was respected. Even Schumacher later said he considered Kilmer to have been the best Batman, while Irwin Winkler – Kilmer’s director on At First Sight – described working with him as a “wonderful experience”. 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Police officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, found Mr Mangione on December 9th with a 9-millimeter pistol and silencer, clothing that matched the apparel worn by Mr Thompson’s assailant in surveillance footage, and a notebook describing an intent to “wack” an insurance company chief executive, according to a court filing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5GI5BW57C5BOFJCXL6QM76MUVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"While public officials condemned the killing, some Americans who decry steep healthcare costs and the power of health insurers to refuse to pay for some treatments have feted Mr Mangione as a folk hero.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FN3REA54ZFG6PIE55UUUHVBBNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On February 5th, Ms Bondi lifted a moratorium on federal executions imposed in 2021 by her predecessor Merrick Garland, the attorney general under Democratic president Joe Biden.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4A6CNGE2BHVNFMN2ZFTS344WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<i>– Reuters</i>","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXRFBP7WKBASDP47HM4TY4IF7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Luc Cohen"}]},"description":{"basic":"Mangione charged with murder of Brian Thompson, head of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance division, in New York in December"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T17:57:26.06Z","headlines":{"basic":"US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione","native":""},"label":{},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"4VVYOU6Z67ALQF4QGFWHTPCCMI","auth":{"1":"c75548726c0ccde01b002d5b57c4224f77592ad2879a2d25131b70d912abc757"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4VVYOU6Z67ALQF4QGFWHTPCCMI.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/01/us-prosecutors-to-seek-death-penalty-for-luigi-mangione/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"PU7JBL7H6VBTHHMLP6NVOE6AOE","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/04/01/the-people-vs-elon-musk-billionaire-transforms-wisconsin-court-contest/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JR4CTX6IVREUNDPCDE57Q5IPEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"If it were not for <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>, Scott, a Republican-leaning IT worker in Appleton, Wisconsin, might never have voted in this week’s state supreme court election. 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Total spending in the election, taking place on Tuesday, is expected to exceed $100 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SNRK734RJ5GLRJUQFPYLARG3RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Seizing on the fact that Musk – who spent a quarter of a billion dollars getting <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> elected – is less popular in the state than the president, the Democrats have flooded the airwaves with an advertising campaign called “People vs Musk”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXEJN4TXNNCQTGKY6P3RIFIK4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"It features the Tesla boss wielding a chainsaw and celebrating cuts made by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), and a clip of him making a gesture at a Trump rally that critics claimed was a Nazi salute.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K53IECFMFFGJRKXK6HZS7NIB6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is a tactic that is being watched closely by campaign strategists across the country, who expect Musk to use his nearly bottomless war chest to support pro-Trump candidates in big and small races in the lead-up to next year’s midterm elections.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHD6ONS6JBEWXMMOYRVZM3CJUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The whole world is watching what happens [in this election],” said Ben Wikler, the chair of the Wisconsin Democrats, who was recently a candidate to run the party’s national committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6VH2Z33YBFJJHYE2IKERNU7RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"If Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate in a technically non-partisan race, prevailed against Musk and “his Maga armada”, it would prove that “the flame of democracy is not extinguished”, Wikler told the crowd at a packed town hall in Outagamie County during the final stretch of the campaign.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3MRBCSGNZJ6YP4LLNPC6C2TQU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZNOY6BW7YBB3JIJ4SFPZSRXPAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"A Crawford win would maintain a liberal majority on the state’s high court, which is likely to hear cases on abortion rights, election law and other hot-button issues – including one involving Musk’s company Tesla – in the coming years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRQAQFIALVED3JLAROH7MW7XHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Musk’s dollars, mostly donated via the same vehicles he used to back Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, have transformed what is usually a low-key, provincial election into a referendum on the current US administration’s policies and agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O62TYOSW4BFANAWKJVUPK6AZSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If the president’s supporters do not come out in this election,” conservative candidate Schimel, a former state attorney general, said in a virtual town hall on Thursday, “the movement that is restoring America to its greatness will bypass our state”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZE2O5UMYFBNVTWAQPUQDYQPUUU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"34KOND72AZCQVLEKREWDFEHQSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Phoning in to the event, Trump, who won Wisconsin by slightly less than a percentage point in 2024, echoed this warning: “If the radical Democrats win, they’re planning to abuse the law to unilaterally rewrite Wisconsin’s electoral map, creating a tremendous problem for our country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNEYJ77EFZAPRHOR4ANXEAWIEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk also appears to be focused on how Wisconsin’s electoral map could, in two years’ time, shape the balance of the US Congress, the body he hopes will solidify some of his Doge cuts by enshrining them into law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4CK257PDRASTLFFTX7YY3THOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In an interview broadcast on his social media platform X last week, the White House adviser said he had waded into the supreme court race because it “will decide how congressional districts are drawn in Wisconsin”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKK4FLDC2BDRVCN6XOBTW5PUVQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It could cause the House to switch to Democrat if that redrawing takes place and then we wouldn’t be able to get through the changes that the American people want,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6LSOSN54RZA3NIXVXH3KIKRDYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In recent days, Musk has revived a potentially illegal tactic first deployed in swing states during the presidential election last year, offering potential voters $100 each to sign a petition opposing “activist judges” and awarding $1 million to one of the signatories, Scott Ainsworth from Green Bay. Musk handed out two more such awards in person on Sunday, after the Wisconsin courts declined to stop him from doing so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3MWKKDTUSUFX6VSKUTZNIAZOQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"ZGYVHOGELNAKPMFV53EP6CMD7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk’s involvement has turned the race into a nailbiter, with Schimel, who was polling 13 points behind Crawford, moving to within the margin of error, according to research by Musk’s campaign vehicle. If the conservative candidate were to prevail, Ron Johnson, US senator from Wisconsin, said last week that his party would “have to thank Elon”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOL7HYFMHVE4PLJPVFFGPVOLQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some senior Democrats worry the election may have come too early to capitalise on dislike of Musk and Washington. A party campaigner conceded that Trump’s tariffs were “blinking in and out of existence” and had not yet hit Wisconsin – home to more than 58,000 farms. Doge’s personnel cuts also have had a limited effect on the state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KRS3VZ4SDBFRPFQMFE42YYDKDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Still, Schimel, the Musk-backed candidate, faces an uphill battle. The billionaire has played down the chances of success, saying a win is “difficult, but not impossible”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SU6QVXBE6AOZTXUIQX4H6G3PRE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HGZEFFEERBDSXA4VHBISHA5YIU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Dems have more recently had an advantage going into the spring elections – their electorate is just a little more engaged,” said an adviser to the Schimel campaign. The conservative candidate in the last judicial race, Dan Kelly, who reportedly refused direct cash transfers from the state Republican Party, “got smoked on the money and then he lost by 11 points because of it”, the adviser added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7X472MCDNJEFVH22QV633U3ZOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Thanks to Musk’s funds, Schimel could “level the playing field” and “was able to get on TV first ... so that he could start to remind the electorate of who he was”, the adviser said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EWZMDRA3GBBNDFODVUM4XBJUKA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Crawford’s campaign and its supporters in Wisconsin have had little trouble raising money of their own. Billionaire George Soros gave $1 million to the state’s Democratic Party ahead of the campaign, while Illinois governor JB Pritzker, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and a political action committee set up by Mike Bloomberg also contributed large sums.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMUBGFUIN5AMXGEAPN2TFT4GZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the injection of cash has not been fully celebrated by Wikler, the state party chair, who sees it as an unwelcome outcome of the US supreme court decision, known as Citizens United, that allowed corporations to donate unlimited amounts to campaigns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEXQRV2ULZFUNCVBXKDZPVCEB4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This race is a reductio ad absurdum of Citizens United. It’s preposterous that a non-partisan judicial seat should be the subject of nine-figure political spending,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2NQRNEFBZBW3CKFJGJWD4HWEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But, you know, from the perspective of Democrats, it’s even worse if the world’s richest man can buy whatever judicial seat he wants to buy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TXKSBEUXBH27BXWFKV2U7LZWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Outagamie County, which Trump won by 10 percentage points in November, the Crawford campaign is hoping to focus minds on why Musk might want to buy a seat on the court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJOEZWW4TNDVZOOJJAHDO3P7AE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In January, Tesla filed a lawsuit against the state in a court in the county over Wisconsin’s refusal to let the carmaker bypass rules for local dealerships. Just days later, Musk’s political vehicles began donating to Wisconsin Republicans, records show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRLTNQ3C5FDBZODNQKTEZ747XI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk did not respond to a request for comment on the case, while Schimel has repeatedly said he would make an impartial decision on any cases that come to the supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEWU5SAHYUB7NREIPVFMYQMIWQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QO43VAELXBGC5EN2DMQWRUMECE","additional_properties":{},"content":"At a campaign event for Crawford in the Outagamie town of Appleton, where stickers reading “Impeach Elon” were being handed out, the idea of an outsider inserting himself in Wisconsin’s affairs enraged left-leaning voters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBFM3DALERGWZHAHIM3QN3EBVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He has to mind his own business and get out of our state politics,” local retiree Nancy Hyman-Rabe said. “This is crazy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Z5LRC2VUBHBBGXOLXST45FPBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to Crawford, a victory on Tuesday for Musk, who has reportedly set his sights on an upcoming county commission race in Nevada, which is home to a Tesla factory, and two special congressional races in Florida, would be an ominous sign for electoral contests across the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUZRXS56XVBRPPXYJX2X5ERIBU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“If Elon Musk is successful here, if he can buy a seat on a state supreme court in Wisconsin ... he’s gonna try that in other places as well,” she told the crowd in Appleton.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISJPORBC5RGNDHGRX5EZWB2DYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is his test case.” − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Joe Miller in Outagamie County, Wisconsin"}]},"description":{"basic":"State election has become most expensive judicial race in US history as Tesla boss spends unprecedented amount"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T14:08:04.508Z","headlines":{"basic":"The people vs Elon Musk: billionaire transforms Wisconsin court contest","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"FV26DWFIP2UWXRLFYUMPLDPZWI","auth":{"1":"8bdc4c1b26269a745ac5a67d917066a279d4b862059441034b8e76490265ab56"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FV26DWFIP2UWXRLFYUMPLDPZWI.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/04/01/the-people-vs-elon-musk-billionaire-transforms-wisconsin-court-contest/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"VUPDFWLBJZGSTD5J7Z6WWCHLYE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":129,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/d5a57563-f699-49f2-9a66-30678f045d1f/versions/1743494618/media/fd850453257581ed8c7616460d7558fd_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2025/04/01/virginia-giuffre-epstein-prince-andrew-crash-bus/","content_elements":[{"_id":"IHCS4APIN5GP5M63BRKUUXQ73Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891587},"content":"The woman who settled a sexual assault lawsuit against the Prince Andrew is in hospital after a “serious accident”, said her spokeswoman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U56KBDZ2AZDJZP435IRKGW3UWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891588},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/virginia-giuffre/\" target=\"_self\">Virginia Giuffre</a>, who reportedly lives in Australia, <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DH0vvDKzDvu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_self\">said on Instagram</a> that doctors had given her “four days to live” after her car was hit by a schoolbus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILCRTDB5WFCAFN5VSQJKX4KQIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891589},"content":"Her spokeswoman Dini von Mueffling said: “Virginia has been in a serious accident and is receiving medical care in the hospital. She greatly appreciates the support and well wishes people are sending.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2SE567TJVDLZDZ2ZGVHIW55AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891590},"content":"Neither woman has given any details about where or when the collision took place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ME236XS6AVHG5FSPYWHZ575QCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891591},"content":"Ms Giuffre has been living near Perth in Western Australia and posted a picture on Instagram from the city on March 2nd.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WXKTGGKMNBTFHFS4EYAMZNRPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891592},"content":"Western Australia Police said they received one report of a “minor crash” between a schoolbus and a car in Neergabby, about 19km (12 miles) north of Perth, on March 24th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSMM2G6UJRA7XL5PKFR35HVESY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891593},"content":"“The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day,” said a police spokeswoman. “There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFUDXCJARFEI3O3F2SRB6WN6AM","subtype":"instagram","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"WQSWVFMMWFD7TFL7NEB65K2RA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891595},"content":"A representative for the East Metropolitan Health Service, which runs Royal Perth Hospital, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that Ms Giuffre was not at any of their facilities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3UYI5MWFFENPP3UGNFZV5PQ6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891596},"content":"A Western Australia Public Transport Authority official also told the ABC they were unaware of any such bus crashes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63WWASXR6JFKLL3L3S6JPZSYME","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891597},"content":"Ms Giuffre (41) is reported to have separated from her husband and posted pictures of her children on Instagram on March 22nd, saying she was missing them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPEAX2GDQFHCNJJ7RATYROGVPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891598},"content":"In Monday’s post about the crash, she said it had been “the worst start to a new year”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVVWA26YEBCJJHVYWDFG7KQ5W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891599},"content":"“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3M235Z7JNAR3PKR4LPQ3UENHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891600},"content":"Prince Andrew paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre who he claimed never to have met.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRL55M6EVES3M6EXMV7C65HXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891601},"content":"She sued him for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17 after she was trafficked by paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBNJ3JRZ3RFCXMZTXG2FWB5NXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743493891602},"content":"Andrew denied the claims. – PA","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Virginia Giuffre said on Instagram that doctors had given her ‘four days to live’ after her car was hit by a school bus"},"display_date":"2025-04-01T07:58:24.694Z","headlines":{"basic":"Virginia Giuffre, Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser, in hospital after ‘serious’ road crash","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7CG56QP6MZDA7IYWGKNEIPSUIA","auth":{"1":"8d91dac1433f04085b428a8876591c31ad65ae92b8af44f379fe12a80cc02aba"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7CG56QP6MZDA7IYWGKNEIPSUIA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2025/04/01/virginia-giuffre-epstein-prince-andrew-crash-bus/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"WLNPV4XBUVENVJPAGSDJ45LHCI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/middle-east/2025/03/31/trumps-bombing-threat-over-iran-nuclear-programme-prompts-backlash/","content_elements":[{"_id":"D27YS7K3PBGW3DNWJ4OV2ZQETA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/iran/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/iran/\">Iran</a> has reacted with outrage after <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> said the country will be bombed if it does not accept US demands to constrain its nuclear programme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BSCCPGRJN5ERZLOSON6FWM2LIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The US president said on Sunday that if Iran “[doesn’t] make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GCPRMJBUBEOXEERHJGLQ36BYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump’s latest threat – more explicit and violent than any made before – came after he sent a letter to Iran, as yet undisclosed, offering to hold talks on its nuclear programme. Iran had sent a reply to the US stating it was willing to hold indirect talks, officials confirmed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5R3JPWHS5FI3I2ADRNZTSUBEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Esmail Baghaei, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, said of Mr Trump’s threat: “The explicit threat of bombing Iran by the head of a country is clear contradiction to the essence of international peace and security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZYEJIT6GNF6XGC46ZSXVY3XDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Such a threat is a gross violation of the United Nations charter and a violation of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards regime. Violence brings violence and peace creates peace, America can choose.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4GOK64SGFF4FPWDSEISN6Q5YY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The supreme leader, Ayatollah <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ali-khamenei/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/ali-khamenei/\">Ali Khamenei</a>, a sceptic about talks with the US, said Iran was “not overly concerned” by Mr Trump’s words. “We consider it unlikely that such harm would come from outside. However, if any malicious act does occur, it will certainly be met with a firm and decisive response,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZMSORLTRQVAXDB2TAKUFZNETJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Brig Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace force, said: “Someone in glass houses does not throw stones at anyone,” adding: “The Americans have at least 10 bases with 50,000 troops in the region, meaning they are sitting in a glass house.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R36RB2FMKNCZJHFDWNYDNBA5VQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, clearly had authority to keep the prospect of talks alive, saying Iran had already replied to Mr Trump’s letter through intermediaries in Oman and adding he knew the Iranian letter had now reached the US. Mr Araghchi said direct talks were not possible while the US continued to threaten and bully Iran.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZFPZW4C7KZBNTJPSFLKSHQQXRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump sent his original letter proposing talks through the United Arab Emirates’ senior diplomatic envoy, Anwar Gargash.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CEV22ZOX5CMPOGN7FPRLE5FVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The choice of Mr Gargash as an intermediary was seen as a sign that the letter was intended to give negotiations a genuine chance, rather than leave Iran no option but to reject the offer of talks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IV7PWCH6VFGS3OQONF2E6FCT2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump has set a deadline of mid-May for progress to be made, but a longer deadline also exists of mid-August, by which time the original 2015 nuclear agreement − under which Iran agreed to curbs to its nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of western sanctions − will largely expire and a European response will be required. Mr Trump took the US out of that agreement in 2018, a move widely seen as a mistake since it led Iran to speed up its uranium enrichment programme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CRWFBJUPJFCTLMBCMKZU45EXHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"That Iran sent its reply through Oman, its traditional chosen mediator, rather than the UAE may suggest Iran does not want the UAE – which has normalised relations with Israel – to act as intermediary. 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At the Pituffik Space Base, Vance said the president believed “this island is not safe”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJCXUZDB5NBMDC7WOBRXUBY7R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940317},"content":"“Denmark has not kept pace in devoting the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops and in my view to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and from other nations,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTAZHYMPHFGNHEFNCCQCWZCHVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940318},"content":"The campaign has left the 33-year-old Nielsen in an uncomfortable position at the center of a geopolitical battle for possession of mineral wealth as melting ice caps open up shipping routes in a remote and once inaccessible region.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZSA4LK53JBRFGF5NTLE7KYTT4","additional_properties":{"_id":"NWSDY4K7CNGQNCDS3PN3QCEEQE"},"content":"Greenland leaders lambast US delegation trip as Trump talks of takeover","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XLNCXAKM7ZEYVMXQNMDWYSGUEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940319},"content":"The stakes were made clear by Russian president Vladimir Putin, who weighed in on the eve of the visit from the Arctic port of Murmansk to say he was watching the situation very closely — and that Trump’s claim was “serious”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDFFOTPTNBACDOHN3ABM2XAF6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940320},"content":"Russia and US are engaged directly in negotiations over Ukraine and Putin’s decision to opine on Greenland, given all the sensitivities around it, signposted his own strategic interest in the Arctic as the one-time Cold War foes take stock of their own spheres of influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROVAASS5MRHYFNKM7R4VLWPI3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940321},"content":"Mr Trump himself underscored the strategic importance of the island as he spoke to reporters on Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLSGLTNJHJDTDO42DCA4UAT4R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940322},"content":"“If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place, and we’re not going to be able to do that,” he said. “We’re not really not relying on Denmark, or anybody else to take care of that situation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RAVZ44NAYNATFMIUUBOS7DAOAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940323},"content":"This is the charged political climate that Mr Vance flew into. He was joined by his wife, Usha Vance, and national security advisor Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright — who were originally on the trip, then off, then put back on.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q3CVGRBNQBCILKVZ7MONG55GHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940324},"content":"European officials are inherently suspicious of Mr Trump’s second in command and his antipathy for Europe. At the Munich Security Conference, he eviscerated the continent and told them they were afraid of their own voters. This trip makes him the highest-ranking US official to visit Greenland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJTPEIDPABBCFGF3BJC5GZH2DI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940325},"content":"The way he joined the Greenland tour was unusual.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAZGNF2ZNFAZJJW2I6F6V7JOTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940326},"content":"It was originally envisaged as a delegation led by his wife, along with Mr Waltz and Mr Wright. It was also marketed as a friendly-family excursion to take in the sights, including a national dog sled race.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QV6M3ILP7REABAIDULGRFBGWXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940327},"content":"But Danish and local officials were triggered both by the size of the party and the real intentions of the trip. The backlash led to the group and itinerary being reduced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGYROCLKLJFRFIAYM2H4HAVFLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940328},"content":"The end result was an actual upgrade to the scope of the visit — one that Vance sought to downplay. He said on on video message that he didn’t want to let his wife “have all that fun by herself”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESRCOEY4LNCPDKNOPSMKMMOB5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940329},"content":"And at early stops, Vance kept things lighthearted — employing an expletive to complain about the below-freezing temperatures, eating lunch with service members and ribbing the base’s colonel about her participation in a polar bear plunge.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AM3D6FFINBCFPBNVBJWXNV7H2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940330},"content":"And Trump himself sidestepped a question of how forcefully he would pursue the territory by underscoring the historic ties between the US, Greenland, and Denmark.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O4J6EBFGQZE5BPWVGMHXUCC5I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940331},"content":"“We get along well with Greenland we get along very well with Denmark,” he said. “We’ve always had Denmark. There’s a lot of business in the United States. We don’t do so much there, but they do a lot of business in the United States, and I think they want to see, I think everybody wants to see that work out.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7Q6BKICUDZBETFTFDLLHJAHKWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940332},"content":"But that approach had curdled by a press conference later in the afternoon. While Vance said there were no immediate plans to expand the US military presence on the island, he also discounted allied outrage over Trump’s intentions and suggestions that administration officials had disrespected European contributions to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63ULFCV3PNCYLLJZS2E6SUL7MQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940333},"content":"“Recognizing that there are important security partnerships in the past does not mean that we can’t have disagreements with allies in the present about how to preserve our shared security for the future,” Mr Vance said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ACW5TFXETVHO3E3UZV7WX5ZEW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940334},"content":"It’s not clear there’s support within Greenland for the US to seize the island. A poll found that 85 per cent don’t support the initiative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCK37GZHVFCSDEMSG5EFIXQSJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940335},"content":"But Mr Trump remains unconvinced.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C7HTKKXGURALBE7WBL3ZWX2I6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1743248940336},"content":"“I don’t know,” Mr Trump said in interview on Wednesday with conservative talk show host Vince Coglianese. “I don’t think they’re un-eager, but I think that we have to do it, and we have to convince them.” - Bloomberg","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Kate Sullivan and Stephanie Lai"}]},"description":{"basic":"Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen urged end to Washington’s hostile messaging"},"display_date":"2025-03-29T12:48:00.625Z","headlines":{"basic":"Denmark rebukes US for hostile tone after Vance’s Greenland trip","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"RAQXEQIIBUSKH7VB5MZHNVWZKE","auth":{"1":"b4c24902c92dcdcca4fccab9922b678fd688489a2fcf89b367624ac2671992dc"},"focal_point":{"x":3930,"y":1550},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/RAQXEQIIBUSKH7VB5MZHNVWZKE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/europe/2025/03/29/greeland-united-states-denmark-jd-vance-donald-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/europe","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Europe"}}}},{"_id":"ZPNFUC6IANFGXMVEAVLUJRB53E","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/29/top-vaccine-official-resigns-from-us-fda-citing-robert-f-kennedys-misinformation-and-lies/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VMYI264MUNESVE2DKQHXM6JP3M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fda/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fda/\">Food and Drug Administration</a>’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned on Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-f-kennedy/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-f-kennedy/\">Robert F Kennedy Jr</a>.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.","type":"text"},{"_id":"43WY5YO655F7ZOYFW25Y7LXEJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the agency’s acting commissioner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OU6WXQEUOJECFKHWZX4O3ZKGRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marks resigned under pressure, according to a person familiar with the matter who said an official with the Department of Health and Human Services told Marks on Friday that he could either resign or be fired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"42VCUAC6PREXNL6DX74DYYX7YE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Adolescence in teenagers’ own words: ‘Parents have absolutely no idea’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MDEVZPN4N5GELG74NVNPNREJLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hours earlier in West Virginia, Kennedy asserted that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/covid\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/covid\">Covid</a> did not kill healthy people, contrary to research showing that 30 per cent of those who died early in the pandemic did not have underlying conditions. Kennedy has also extolled the value of vitamin A as a treatment during a major measles outbreak in Texas, while downplaying the value of vaccines. On Thursday, he announced that he was creating a new office to study vaccine injuries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXSB75X3S5B7TK67KOVIFTL6SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marks noted in his letter that measles, “which killed more than 100,000 unvaccinated children last year in Africa and Asia,” because of complications, “had been eliminated from our shores.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT7KZ4G2GJCNBPAJNLUTNS5MCQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"He added that he had been willing to address Kennedy’s concerns about vaccine safety and transparency with a series of public meetings and by working with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, but was rebuffed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JFHOQUV4JDQVM5TW5BHNFFPXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety and security,” Marks wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPYAOOZADFHLDK5Y4O3FJYHUWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"David McWilliams: Use the tariff crisis to fix the Irish economy","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QSNBAEZRDNEFXM7CTZPLPEXO5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"He went on to express his desire for the current administration’s damage to be limited.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q57ABOUOCNE33LGOJPGBMT4DGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end so that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from the breadth of advances in medical science,” Marks wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G67R7CEIHBAQ7KJSGH5PJAD2KM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marks did not respond to a request for comment. Andrew Nixon, the HHS spokesperson, issued a statement Friday night saying, “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3KGQCD4VZCARNGLXODQWXJHGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Marks steered the FDA’s vaccine program during the tumultuous years of the coronavirus pandemic, guiding the agency and its outside advisers through multiple decisions about the kind of evidence that was necessary to grant emergency authorisation for the vaccines produced under the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VMPBPLVMJBIRGYGKLOGSMSPFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"In June 2022, he pleaded with a committee of outside experts to consider the danger the virus posed to children younger than 5; the panel voted later that day to recommend vaccines for that age group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PN7LFZDD2FBMZCNLXYTHK7ENZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We have to be careful that we don’t become numb to the number of paediatric deaths because of the overwhelming number of older deaths here,” Marks said at the time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KZDPQUHSU5FYTP5PNZFMBO7GLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert from Baylor University, said he spoke with Marks regularly during the pandemic. “He was extraordinarily committed to using science to help the American people,” he said. “He was one of the heroes of the pandemic, so I’m sorry to see him go.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNV7Q5AF6BG2ZEG6J44DI6HQBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr. Peter Lurie, a former FDA associate commissioner, called it “a real tragedy” when someone like Marks runs afoul of “these alleged distortions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DCXYV2LAFVB5ZMI7MTERNIYK44","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He’s quite concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise,” Lurie said, “and I share his concern that the secretary is making truth subservient to his own personal beliefs, which appear not to be grounded in science.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIJYHATPKJBBDA2QOH3PGDEJGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate after a tense two days of hearings that included his repeated pledges to uphold the importance of vaccinations. But he has already begun to show signs that he is continuing the type of activities he engaged in for 20 years to deeply undermine vaccine confidence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEYSSZRHJJA33FRV6JUTC3Z5CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"During the measles outbreak in Texas, he has promoted the value of alternative medicines and issued tepid advice for people to get vaccinations. Despite a federal hiring freeze, his agency recently hired a prominent researcher in the anti-vaccine movement to study the long-discredited link between vaccines and autism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5M63DH5QANBFTFM3SBYBOO7ZU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"And Thursday, Kennedy said on NewsNation that he planned to create a vaccine injury agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the effort was a priority for him and would help bring “gold-standard science” to the federal government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JQJEDQSOJHQXNV26FKFG2BFQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said the study of vaccine injuries has been a priority for decades. “I fear this is a way to emphasise vaccine injuries in a way that’s completely disproportionate to what the real risk is,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VM43DOJE6NA7BJLXRHTZKLNN6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/health/fda-vaccines-rfk-jr-peter-marks.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Dr Peter Marks steered the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine program during the coronavirus pandemic"},"display_date":"2025-03-29T09:33:37.479Z","headlines":{"basic":"Top vaccine official resigns from US FDA, citing Robert F Kennedy’s ‘misinformation and lies’","native":""},"label":{},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2633EP5TJ6NIXVE52KVLDIJQEM","auth":{"1":"cff713eb6b704990e931bccb819bbd649eb6894571e4fac723b29052e9d6a55b"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2633EP5TJ6NIXVE52KVLDIJQEM.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/29/top-vaccine-official-resigns-from-us-fda-citing-robert-f-kennedys-misinformation-and-lies/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"T6DYZ2UYHRDLTI2H2NYN3UNUJU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":320,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/8ea271f1-1b21-472c-8336-27050f4e27f6/versions/1743180035/media/7cbad7891f672feca26eb25730405b52_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/29/banal-and-chilling-it-took-about-40-seconds-to-lift-rumeysa-ozturk-off-the-streets/","content_elements":[{"_id":"WIF6MMPUOZBTDBHLITTYC5EVKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596374},"content":"The scene was as banal as it was chilling. A sedate street in suburban Boston, with the city’s blanched spring light. A woman walking alone wearing a backpack, quickly surrounded by a converging group whose faces are obscured by scarves or hats. A brief shriek, and then wrist restraints, followed by a calm, almost relaxed, escort to awaiting cars.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QLI5F5KPPRCFLMDN7W2EDM26DE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596375},"content":"It took about 40 seconds to lift Rumeysa Ozturk off the streets. 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The following day, a big crowd gathered at Powder Square Park, in Somerville, to support Ozturk and demand explanation. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/marco-rubio/\">Marco Rubio</a>, the secretary of state, provided it during a media appearance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIULAV6KZJCFFFZYC7HNCYGZEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596381},"content":"“Oh, we revoked her visa. It’s an F-1 visa, I believe. 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The official explanation is that they wish to avoid their units being targeted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKY5GVX4LRBOPDBAYQCJZ3ELD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596388},"content":"But being targeted by whom? The campuses across the US have fallen silent now. It appears likely they will remain that way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSMETWXTGJBEVHZXV6CEQIGNSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596389},"content":"Jason Stanley, the Yale philosophy professor, announced this week that he is leaving the US to live and work in Toronto because he fears a fascist dictatorship here. Renowned history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, are also leaving Yale for Toronto.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N64XTBOTRRFQBITFGCHW5AAW74","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596390},"content":"Sceptics will dismiss Stanley as alarmist – he was warning about fascism in the US as far back as 2018, midway through the first term of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>. Then, he laid out the pattern for the dictator, which, he said, is always a man: “A mythic past supposedly destroyed by liberals, feminists and immigrants; positioning as a patriarchal strongman, repeated warnings that without him, catastrophe would prevail, followed by division and propaganda.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZBY3P4LDXBC55DLCD46ED2AFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596392},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JK75EKXCUZCP3KHR324ZG3YZXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596393},"content":"He wrote in the New York Times in 2018: “I want you to be scared because if you are not worried about encroaching fascism in America, it will start to feel normal and if that happens we are all in trouble.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOVKYX3P5ZE4NGS65VE3LUM6QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743196596394},"content":"The pandemic arrived and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Joe Biden</a> was elected president two years later and all of that discourse vanished. 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He concluded that Mr Hegseth should be “fired immediately”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYBEBJYMZJBJFLJPNEN7O4GTYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ultimately the buck stops with the president of the United States of America,” Mr Jeffries explained on Wednesday, “which is why I made clear to President Trump yesterday in my correspondence that the secretary of defence should be fired immediately if he is not man enough to own up to his mistakes and resign in disgrace.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQE57QLCTVHZNEOHZVAYQR7ESE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The White House responded to Wednesday’s publication by the Atlantic magazine of the remainder of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/26/signal-controversy-texted-messages-on-yemen-attack/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/26/signal-controversy-texted-messages-on-yemen-attack/\">Signal text chain</a> involving Mr Hegseth and the other senior-most defence and security directors in the administration by arguing that they proved that nothing classified had been shared. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMNI32B235FDTCVVW33GWSB5BA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, had been inadvertently included in the Signal chat group for a four-day period which culminated in Mr Hegseth’s sharing of a planned bombardment on Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D2Q3GYE7CZEBJGJFR5ZB5XNHFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No locations. No sources and methods, NO WAR PLANS,” national security adviser Mike Waltz, who had unwittingly invited Mr Goldberg into the group, asserted in a social media post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5EEDNFQJA3DVLNLIL3IBTAZ65I","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TAJELY6XUJDJZCW3AHTUFHTXSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Foreign partners had already been notified that strikes were imminent.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SOUAEG3TVANVFMAKNVU53Y6RM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Hegseth also sought to dismiss the idea that the information he shared fell under the term “war plans” by stating on X: “Those are some really shitty war plans.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6347B3JQLJGKZJP2ZWNRJPSFZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a brief statement with reporters prior to departing on an official visit to Hawaii on Wednesday morning, Mr Hegseth said of the criticisms: “They know it’s not war plans. There are no units. No locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources. No methods. You know who sees war plans? I see ‘em. Every single day.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VKL7FVSIAJCT3CP67A2NRW7XBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, reacting to the Atlantic headline which referred to “attack plans”, asserted on X that it was a concession that the leaked messages were “NOT ‘war plans’”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQGF55VMMRFU3G2DGV6T6VFAA4","content":"The Irish Times view on the US government’s Signal leak: an absurd and startling blunder","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TKP5DEKUBVAFNNH2B5HOO3APYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"U42FUEMBCNA2THI43T3S3VN73Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’ This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin,” Ms Leavitt wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5V2LFDJHBFGNMO6TDJ6A44X5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We have said all along no war plans were discussed,” she maintained at the Wednesday lunchtime briefing in which she reiterated that Mr Trump has expressed full faith in his senior defence officials.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPAG6GRNMFDZRFS42KPESKBA2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I would characterise this messaging thread as a policy discussion.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JHDF5F6PPJFVXNWE6P2GZYHEAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Capitol Hill, the gravity of the Signal chat leak dominated proceedings at the House Intelligence Committee’s open hearing on Wednesday morning, where director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe were in attendance. Both were also part of the Signal group chat. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAGT6OP4RJDEFBAAJMUGVT2CXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a tempestuous morning that ran along partisan lines, both senior Trump officials faced demanding questions, with Ms Gabbard acknowledging that while the inclusion of a journalist on a confidential group was “a mistake”, the message thread was “a standard update to the national security cabinet”. She also confirmed that the Signal message app comes pre-installed on government devices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYTDOCW7EVGBJK7KG7M3ZMEGYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elsewhere in the Capitol, House Republicans did acknowledge the seriousness of the error.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BDXSJFYHSJGMTPRNFFGUCCH5XM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It was a mistake,” said Georgia representative Rich McCormick.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIJWKSCH6VEPVPGIUWPLBKBV6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Nobody has denied that. Of course it’s embarrassing. Of course we did something wrong. I don’t think it will happen again, I sure hope not. It does jeopardise people’s lives: luckily it didn’t in this case.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"27YM266R5ZCZBP3BLUTTXHBE3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2LMPC3BTFF7JGPWVEHGHKVQDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Nobody is willing to come to us and say: this was wrong,” congressman Jason Crow said at the morning hearing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LB43DCSXNEGVKUS2AK73SEZFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That this was a breach of security, and we won’t do it again. 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Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBHCTAWQSNC5RIFHSZFRJ47QQQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"*IC refers to the Intelligence Community. Army General Michael “Erik” Kurilla is the head of U.S. Central Command.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T3N4QZQHK5GXRGJNJS2RDPTR6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vance replied, “What?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"M63CTIE2ZBGMZM2VJ2ZGJDJXFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"At 2pm, Waltz responded, “Typing too fast. 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Under new prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-carney/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-carney/\">Mark Carney</a>, with the slogan “Canada strong”, the party is now narrow favourite to win a historic fourth straight term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGCTE2BHB5D7VLOCFCVBJHV6WM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The former Bank of England governor has become emblematic of global leaders enjoying a ratings bump after going head to head with Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZCXFBR6LSBCMVCXC5ON5RBD5CI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Polling in several countries, from Mexico to Ukraine, shows even unpopular leaders like France’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> are enjoying some relief from voters as they seek to ward off menaces including tariffs, the withdrawal of military support and even the threat of US conquest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QFVUYDRERANTKA7UAQ55FXOWE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You have this bully that is smashing the system,” said Nathalie Tocci, director of Rome’s Institute for International Affairs. “Rather than just kissing the ring, these leaders basically stand up and politely say ‘no’, and their voters appreciate the fact that they are not being colonised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AP3ZDQFOHFHIZK6YFEWEI3WHME","additional_properties":{},"content":"Canada","type":"header"},{"_id":"LTQDFHN6NVOAEKF2UGHINFYCAY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2TTUNZUNRNHF3EAQ2L34GC623I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney has followed his predecessor <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a> in taking a pugnacious approach to Trump’s threats. Trump “wants to break us so America can own us. We will not let that happen”, the prime minister said on Sunday as he called the upcoming election for April 28th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMHMDVOJEBHCXHIQN4BDDKLJTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Carney (60), who ran the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, is touting his technocratic experience and status as a political outsider while riding a wave of anger and patriotism to edge ahead of Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative opposition leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UC7S4L3GDFE67IEX2AZ44WWX6Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Poilievre, a Trump-aligned darling of the Maga right, had channelled discontent over the cost of living under Trudeau into a 24-point poll lead by the start of January. 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We may be harsh on him. But he’s our president,” said Olena Halushka of the Kyiv-based non-profit International Centre for Ukrainian Victory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3CS7DMNTVGV3JOBKKQKYPNJFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Zelenskiy’s overall approval rating has shot to 67 per cent while his net approval is 38 per cent – the highest scores since December 2023 – even as he seeks to mend relations by accepting Trump’s proposed minerals deal and partial 30-day truce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEPJQL237FBTZJMP55XLVCZ2ZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump’s comments were seen as “unfair, a stab in the back” and “a wider attack on the country, rather than just criticism targeting the president”, said Anton Hrushevsky of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G6ZXLHNKJANFCN5DSY6RG6CVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fracas poses a dilemma for opposition groups looking to avoid siding with Trump. Even ex-president Petro Poroshenko, whom Zelenskiy sanctioned last month, stopped short of repeating Trump’s claim that Ukraine’s leader is a dictator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJ442L5VHZG3XAUWDIBIQEVXXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Whether Zelenskiy’s popularity bump lasts could depend largely on the trajectory of the war and outcome of peace negotiations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITHPE5OYBFEXLIYHEDRFDOBNNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When people see Zelenskiy resisting aggression, they trust him more; but when we have a more healthy relationship with partners, they start focusing more on internal issues,” Hrushevsky said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGZZFL7XZZBZ5FM3BRLIPRIBUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"France","type":"header"},{"_id":"GQNF55XUXHZGPU7UEI54COQV6M","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YT4VNNTJ45AHJA67573NIHHUX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Emmanuel Macron, president of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/france/\">France</a>, showed his diplomatic nous in Washington last month as he combined flattery of Trump with gentle rebuttals of false claims that Europe is supporting Ukraine solely through loans.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3NX3FETSNDP3LNB6OPAELA55U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Although his work to shore up support for Kyiv was undone by the bust-up with Zelenskiy the following week, the visit won the French president plaudits across Europe. It also brought a surprise poll boost in France, where voters have long criticised Macron’s perceived arrogance and unpopular policies, such as pension reforms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WZUZZUS3VA3RPHN4TOKIPBFOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Confidence in Macron climbed six percentage points to 27 per cent in an Elabe survey this month, after rising three points in February. Although his overall popularity remains low, the boost returns Macron to similar levels following last summer’s Paris Olympics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4YJIYHBZNED5C2O7T77HOCBWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has tried to maintain distance from Trump, saw her approval slip one point to 35 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOFVZZVWTVF6PDH3SILBMVHK5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elsewhere in Europe, Trump’s arrival has played out differently – especially in countries geographically closer to Russia. “We haven’t seen the Trump bump in eastern Europe,” said a former Baltic foreign minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6KXSGMOFBD45BHIPEPK62NJKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I see more of a reluctance to criticise the US, as our security depends so much on them and on Nato solidarity. I hear a scared silence as our security guarantor realigns with our enemies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3P3DBHYCXJDLVKWB5M7RHOXP2Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"UK","type":"header"},{"_id":"RVMSRQM3LHLYF5P2HYG4BUTPQQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6OIMRQ32HJGQDHOHOJGHYKFQMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\">Keir Starmer</a>’s poll ratings had been on a relentless downhill path since he walked into 10 Downing Street last July. That suddenly changed when he travelled to Washington last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DN7WBXHWCRHTXKRBLMWOEMRGHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Starmer gave a masterclass in buttering up Trump, conveying a letter from King Charles that offered the president an “incredible” second state visit while delivering key messages and pushing back politely when challenged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7M7RB6RJ7RF2FBPV2BBA25XSNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump held open the possibility of sparing Britain from the worst of his tariffs and approved a controversial deal involving a shared military base in Mauritius.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7PILDHJNB5E3DODIPPTPTM3PUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Days later, Starmer convened leaders of a “coalition of the willing” in London to help secure a future peace in Ukraine. After the self-imposed marginalisation of Brexit, Britain – and Starmer – seemed to be at the centre of the world stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GXIRQIZMTZBVXKZPLLFKXOI3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Opinion polls showed a double-digit rise in support for Starmer and even the rightwing press said it had been the prime minister’s best week – though his approval ratings remain deep in negative territory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIFA2FSUUBEJ7PZNOQOGXOO77M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Though the British economy is mired in low growth and shaky public finances, Starmer will hope he has at least earned a fresh hearing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PASDXLGKTRG73J5VZVDYBWVLUA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The leaders will be seeking to build on their growing popularity, but Trump could still hand out devastating tariffs or force Ukraine to accept Russia’s terms. The resulting damage to their economies and security could make any poll boost much harder to maintain. − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"From Canada to Ukraine, populations rally behind leaders seeking to fend off the US president’s threats"},"display_date":"2025-03-26T15:14:29.124Z","headlines":{"basic":"The global leaders rising in the polls as they battle Donald Trump","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"APYQLLW3E6GQNVGQKZ6T4CGTKQ","auth":{"1":"2848d3b5c1b2b6d7231d5991a7b1c908fc6918e94635dc15165d51e78ef30a07"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/APYQLLW3E6GQNVGQKZ6T4CGTKQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"World"},{"name":"Europe"},{"name":"Canada"},{"name":"UK"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Americas"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/2025/03/26/the-global-leaders-rising-in-the-polls-as-they-battle-donald-trump/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"World"}}}},{"_id":"OPBABMDAYNEQRL7BEBVY7KJB3A","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":224,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/1ccd3a06-aeb1-44fd-b2ac-e4f9cd036b19/versions/1742939787/media/df0ccc7c2063d93124ed23f57a66338d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/26/trump-downplays-unprecedented-self-inflicted-us-security-breach-as-the-only-glitch-in-two-months/","content_elements":[{"_id":"VVW3NJWJO5EERPFWLZPM6LMZ7I","additional_properties":{},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> has moved to downplay the gravity of the<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\"> unprecedented self-inflicted US security breach by senior cabinet members</a> as “the only glitch in two months and it turned out not to be a serious one”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CEYDG4HEMJHKPL2N6VV6FHHB2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Washington political circles were on Tuesday struggling to absorb the staggering blunder that led to a story in the Atlantic political magazine, written by its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, revealing that he had been inadvertently invited to a confidential Signal group chat set up by and for key Trump officials, including secretary of defence <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a>, who shared advance details of the recent US bombing mission on Houthi rebels in Yemen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFFJDHOWWREHZLTUKHLDCJQQ3I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tulsi Gabbard, the national intelligence director, and John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, both endured <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/\">a deeply uncomfortable morning on Tuesday</a> when they appeared as witnesses at a scheduled Senate committee on intelligence on Capitol Hill. 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There has been no recognition of the gravity of this error,” he said. “And by the way, we will get the full testimony of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZR3ZJ4BZRBYVKX3DELH5RJM7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Self-inflicted security breach by Trump officials opens up line of attack for Democrats","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TGCAWCZPO5GNBFZQJWKUDG5VS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Character of Trump’s administration exposed: What we learned from US security leak to Jeffrey Goldberg","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"LLSO5WCN55FLZLXK4RIOCHTB2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Keith Duggan"}},"name":"Keith Duggan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Washington political circles struggle to absorb staggering blunder by senior cabinet members"},"display_date":"2025-03-26T06:00:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump downplays unprecedented self-inflicted US security breach as ‘the only glitch in two months’ ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"4HIGWYKKDBEQQ2CWJUU6D7EC3Y","auth":{"1":"7c685d81ce035199318be7d39c20455892aad9854fbf3d676551b356f670178b"},"focal_point":{"x":2922,"y":1512},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4HIGWYKKDBEQQ2CWJUU6D7EC3Y.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/26/trump-downplays-unprecedented-self-inflicted-us-security-breach-as-the-only-glitch-in-two-months/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"R6UN74IOABES3L6OQMXI42CPBI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":297,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/707bf9b6-3c95-49a5-b13b-0409de52351a/versions/1742931432/media/08dd9e725a661fa1edee8358cb4e7075_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/self-inflicted-security-breach-by-trump-officials-opens-up-line-of-attack-for-democrats/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JFIVIEGQ7VAZ5LDNF5FUVGBZ5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"It so happened that the annual meeting of the Senate committee on intelligence was scheduled for the morning after <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\">the monumental, self-inflicted security breach by senior cabinet members</a> of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/republican-party/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/republican-party/\">Republican</a> administration – and that could be categorised as the first break the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-party/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-party/\">Democrats</a> have had in months. The performance of Jon Ossoff, a star in waiting, was the second.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P43QKHGQ4JGETAKU4FSZUZAWGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"There, at 10am in the Hart Senate Office Building, were Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, director of the CIA, both of whom had featured in the 18-strong Signal chat group that also, for reasons yet to be explained, included Jeffrey Goldberg, a veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAF3R5UWVNDSRITQM2Y3FRSM6A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fallout in Washington from what was categorised by committee vice-chairman Mark Warner as a “mind-boggling” lapse looks set to continue. Although President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a> offered a stout defence of Mike Waltz, the national security adviser who administered the group and invited a disbelieving Goldberg to join, on Tuesday morning many Republicans were acknowledging the gravity of the mess-up. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWDOKW7UGZADXIVBZ4KJN3VYJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“This is a gross error,” the Nebraska Republican Don Bacon told reporters on Capitol Hill. “I would have lost my security clearance in the Air Force for this – and for a lot less.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4QE2LIF4WVGYDONLULKGXCNXTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Senate committee hearing lasted for two hours, during which the members questioned a panel that included Gabbard, Ratcliffe and FBI director Kash Patel. The tone of the questions alternated according to party affiliation, with Republican senators quizzing the attendees for national security updates while the Democrats focused solely on the Signal chat leak.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HARXRE6IKFHVHDQDWN43542XTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was a particularly gruelling morning for Gabbard, who, at the outset, refused to even confirm she was part of the group chat, on the grounds that the episode was under internal review. Her position was made to look absurd when Ratcliffe, sitting to her left, allowed that he was part of the Signal group. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6S5OAKF5J5DQNL5UX64BIRRJP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Under prolonged Democratic questioning, both witnesses repeatedly asserted that nothing in the messages fell under the category of classified information. At other times, when asked specifically about the messages sent by defence secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a> regarding imminent plans to execute a bombing mission on Houthi rebels in Yemen, they referred their answers to Hegseth’s department. But the attempts to stonewall the committee gradually backed both cabinet members into a corner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATTYSRZKNZFYXJACYC36WNJWCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You are the head of the intelligence community,” independent senator Angus King from Maine reminded Gabbard. “If it is not classified, then please release that whole text stream.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3DOWUVV4NZF3BB24HO2RZGC2MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ratcliffe’s repeated assertions that he couldn’t recall the specifics of the messages, given that the group chat existed between the dates of March 11th-15th, looked equally unconvincing. His admission, in answer to a question by Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly, that he did not know that Trump’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow on the day of the message thread, was also damaging.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ATZRXUUGJHFPL2YU36BZD235U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The exchanges pivoted around an interjection by Tom Cotton, the Republican chair, to clarify the position of the witnesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OU2PGCDB4JG3XBKTNCL6CYRRD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They testified – correct me if I’m wrong – that there is no intelligence community classified information. Is that correct?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5SIRBW54VFDVFLUKBTAZRKGREU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“That’s not correct,” called a Democratic senator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6S4SRO27NZDG7CUKLYTYOXWZUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“She [Gabbard] said repeatedly there was nothing classified. Period.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTYQLBAZNVGFVNQPB4DYPPR7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"All of this was a prelude to the final interrogation of the session, which fell to Ossoff, a 38-year-old Democrat from Georgia. His was a formidable exhibition of unimpeachable logic delivered with withering coldness. He began by inviting Ratcliffe to agree – yes or no – that the entire episode was a “huge mistake”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISGXUL7XBREF7OLBHZFQKLYRLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No,” came the reply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4A2JKMNWNB25BSIVJRP6M7EII","additional_properties":{},"content":"“No, no, director Ratcliffe,” Ossoff continued, arguing the CIA director into silence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HX5HK2ULHVA7NEQHNWJ2QZW5GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I asked you a yes-or-no question and now, you’ll hold on. A national political reporter was made privy to sensitive military operations against a foreign terrorist organisation. And that wasn’t a huge mistake? That wasn’t a huge mistake? This was an embarrassment. There has been no apology. There has been no recognition of the gravity of this error. And by the way, we will get the full testimony of this chain, and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPMFVQ6AF5FUPBAQWQYVGVCLBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The witnesses looked ashen. The session ended. 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The White House said it was looking into how Mr Goldberg’s number was added to the thread.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJGNSK2MGZCNFIPSOLKMFBZ7EA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Keith Duggan: It was either one of the most serious breaches of US national security in living memory or just another Monday at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XS3BODP5SBAC3PXG4TEV5Q2Y6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Democrats – and some of Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans – called for an investigation of what appeared to be a major security breach. Classified and sensitive information is not supposed to be shared on commercial mobile phone apps, and unknown numbers – such as Mr Goldberg’s – should not be included.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WAYUK2JO2JGP5E5MVALLTN65U4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were preparing to question two of the administration officials on the chat – director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe – on Tuesday during the panel’s annual hearing on worldwide threats to US security.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGNEJ2DL2VFYFFWYYH3MAKQFIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his opening statement, senator Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chairman of the intelligence committee, said a military or intelligence officer who took similar action would be fired.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z3TYOYTLBFHTLCIF4UYJNLDNXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Yesterday, we stunningly learned that senior members of this administration, and according to reports, two of our witnesses here today, were members of a group chat that discussed highly sensitive and likely classified information that supposedly even included weapons packages, targets and timing and included the name of an active CIA agent,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBHD7HKXUZD5FMDCSTG2HFSRXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Mr Goldberg of sensationalising the story in a post on X and asserted that no war plans were discussed and no classified material was sent to the thread.#","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5CYAG5KDVFEFJXYSP7WCCVAYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"What we learned from the security leak","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6ZAIJJ7MWZGSPDVUYKPNYXBN4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his article, Mr Goldberg wrote that hours before the US launched strikes against Yemen’s Houthis on March 15th, defence secretary Pete Hegseth posted operational details about the plan in the messaging group, “including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMSPSVW5DBBWJN4L2GMDSGVUPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"His report omitted the details out of national security concerns, but Mr Goldberg termed it a “shockingly reckless” use of a Signal chat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2EBJVEOTVNE6BDBC2HKIV425SU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It remained unclear why the officials chose to chat via Signal rather than the secure government channels typically used for sensitive discussions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7IEWKZVWS5DNJETM4AFS22M3NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Signal has a “stellar reputation and is widely used and trusted in the security community,” said Rocky Cole, whose cybersecurity firm iVerify helps protect smartphone users from hackers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHQSRCMNTZDN3F6YTOPC2ZF24M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The risk of discussing highly sensitive national security information on Signal isn’t so much that Signal itself is insecure,” Mr Cole added. “It’s the fact that nation states threat actors have a demonstrated ability to remotely compromise the entire mobile phone itself. If the phone itself isn’t secure, all the Signal messages on that device can be read.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"X67BH5ZGVZDW7IZPNQO2MPWSOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Accounts that appeared to represent vice president JD Vance, US secretary of state Marco Rubio, Mr Ratcliffe, Ms Gabbard, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and senior National Security Council officials were assembled in the chat group, Mr Goldberg wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FIX2MC6TEZDDZPER4TSGONMJMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"While some Democrats called for officials on the chat to lose their security clearances or resign, there was no immediate word on whether any official would face consequences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USN45PLWG5GKNLKGDALYZ543JI","additional_properties":{},"content":"White House officials and some fellow Republicans instead stressed that the attack on the Houthis had gone off without a hitch. – Reuters","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg says he was accidentally included in war plan discussion"},"display_date":"2025-03-25T15:50:46.554Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump backs Waltz over Yemen security breach","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"64K3O2U7VDRLZFOLBDD6TQ6HAA","auth":{"1":"3808ad7c77d282adcc49f05a0b1c1f749e67756452dfe0cec03b465c1559ccd5"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/64K3O2U7VDRLZFOLBDD6TQ6HAA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/trump-backs-waltz-over-yemen-security-breach/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"EMW2AMI22FD7VNAOR4IFOCZSGU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/25/character-of-trumps-administration-exposed-what-we-learned-from-us-security-leak-to-goldberg/","content_elements":[{"_id":"XLEU7HEK3ZGRVA2KU6JTCBCZAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/houthi/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/houthi/\">Houthis</a> in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yemen/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/yemen/\">Yemen</a> – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/25/pete-hegseth-texted-me-the-war-plan-how-top-us-officials-shared-military-strike-details-in-group-chat-with-journalist/\">revealed by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg</a> who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVGNBLWURVBM7NYOYLECPNFZX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The human factor","type":"header"},{"_id":"MQ64JMBGDVHKZJUBVOPO7QHSNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Organisations that rely on security protocols being enforced also rely by their nature on a shared sense of common responsibility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"75WNSGU3DZDYBLN5HEUKASGQM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that 18 of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s most senior officials and advisers, including several with a military background who have served overseas and should have been aware of operational security requirements, used an app not approved by the US government for sharing sensitive information will be seen as descriptive of their character and the nature of Washington’s current administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTBTLUMLH5A73G7ZEAQYTLAKIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The displays of arrogance, recklessness and a belief that the normal rules do not apply will contribute to profiles of senior US decision-makers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OTUQ2I3YZBCJXGU4JRCGI224AA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Intelligence agencies will also be thinking about the security culture around such figures as the defence secretary, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/pete-hegseth/\">Pete Hegseth</a> – who has faced allegations of sexual assault and heavy drinking – and what opportunities that presents. 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While Signal is end-to-end encrypted, if it is used on insecure devices, those devices can be targeted by malware, for instance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2CJSWUYGRGR7K7O3DSS3FIY2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Conversations of this kind should be conducted in a secure, compartmentalised information facility (SCIF) or via a similar system designed for conversations where high security is required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZZU5F2J6ZFTVP5QF33VQAXX7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"If critical information is being exchanged outside formal channels, it suggests that numerous technical vulnerabilities exist that can be targeted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWGFKTIA6BDPJPPFAL3YHBEDDM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hostile actors – not least China, which is viewed as particularly aggressive in its hacking efforts – will be looking for what other unauthorised and unsecured methods of communication are being used.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6QK4Z4KTRFXNCXVPGPIX4XKRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The known unknown","type":"header"},{"_id":"LEMSUR3EWBDV7F3YJYOZ5KBDOU","additional_properties":{},"content":"We know from the Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting of his presence in the group that there were decision-makers his publication did not identify and information about the attack plans that he believed was too sensitive to disclose.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BIRSC346VREMDCEGKXGITBXJUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The fact that this unreported information was shared insecurely means that it will also need to be treated as having been compromised, regardless of whether it has been accessed beyond Goldberg and the Atlantic’s staff.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XN44NK2ZGJELXMJSB3QOWBGGJ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"How the Trump administration works","type":"header"},{"_id":"IKLS3BGJABGRJMGW55QEFV45NQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Perhaps one of the most significant elements in the leak is that we now have a detailed insight into the organisational chart for the Trump administration’s most sensitive military deliberations. While the identities of many of those in the chat group are unsurprising given their roles, their individual interactions with each other give clues to the hierarchy that exists. 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The president then complained that his Democratic presidential predecessor Barack Obama “looks wonderful” in his portrait at the Colorado capitol.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5GYNFDOKVFRJCFZD5QYGHPN2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite Mr Trump’s criticism of Polis for the painting, it was unveiled by a Republican group in 2019. A former Republican state senator had crowdfunded nearly $10,000 to commission the painting, according to Colorado news station KUSA.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56J3XZPTC5EKPKQQAUPGHHTK5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Trump did not have a portrait hanging in the Colorado state capitol for his first presidency, which began in 2017. 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What did he have to say about an Atlantic magazine story that he had shared US war plans on an internal messaging group in which the same magazine’s editor had been accidentally included?","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5OWDFNGJ5CVDL5W3DNGHKR4ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or the ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy who peddles in garbage,” Hegseth replied.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQQ7J5ELT5DRJHD7IVQQSP652A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s what he does. I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYGNI4AUWJBGJKJITK76RPCANM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hegseth gave a sardonic laugh as he spoke but denied any war plans had been shared and did not hang around for further questions. His answer explained nothing. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJQMZLQU6JB67BBNQE5GTWU6MI","additional_properties":{},"content":"On X, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a> decided laughter was also the best response to an internal administrative crisis. “Best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic magazine, because no one ever goes there,” he quipped, a post that was later reposted by president Trump. 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So, he silently observed the messages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"557UZRYIEVBENJLNHDXJJMUB2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans,” he wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EJNJEH3PORFANAV3IHZ336XG5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Yemen strike plans on Houthi rebels were shared in the group on March 15th. It was not until the bombings were internationally reported two hours later that Goldberg was finally convinced that he had, somehow, been included in this group. Nobody seemed to notice that “JG” did not join in any of the conversations. Nor was there any apparent reaction when he dropped off the group – when he began to write the story which contained at least one sentence which justifies the tag of bombshell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XI4RXVQFCRHINI6XYMOC2SL3HM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11.44am. The plan included precise information about the weapons, packages, targets, and timing,” he wrote.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A7ZRNEY42ZHWDOC6RBJZ5JCTVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"That Goldberg, of all people, was the journalist mistakenly invited to join the group will pain Trump as he belongs to the (not-inconsiderable) number of American media establishment figures for whom the president reserves a special animus. Hegseth leaned into this with his early defence-by-reputational-attack. But he will face more stringent questions in the days ahead.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIK6JBZL3BHORB3RKSGEUS6MCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The lapse presents a perfect snapshot of the fears and warnings about defence secretary Hegseth’s lack of qualifications and suitability for the enormous role of defence secretary. The response in Washington and nationally to the leak was one of stunned disbelief on the part of the Democrats and former military officials, and muted reactions from the Republicans. President Trump said, when asked about Goldberg’s article just before noon, he had heard nothing about the story.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIASMFE2ERETPGYFG5J6CIWMVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine. But you are saying they had what? Having to do with what? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn’t have been very effective because the attack on the Houthis was very effective, I can tell you that. I don’t know anything about it. You are telling me about it for the first time.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLE73GMU5RCENMVXNSDE4ZZVU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Less than two years have passed since Hegseth, in his previous life as a Fox News analyst, opined in relation to Joe Biden’s classified documents inquiry, with heavy criticisms for the-then president. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"67IFE6KEKZB7HMAJL22QWBZXSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"New York Democratic congressman Pat Ryan posted on Monday night: “I served two combat tours in Iraq as an Army Intelligence Officer. If I did what Sec.Def. did, I’d be in prison,” arguing that it is incumbent on FBI director Kash Patel to launch an investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FNUQZKVTREMRL2ZN4UHXTDWYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The questions will go beyond Hegseth, however. That none in the group raised an issue with the use of Signal – where conversations can be set to delete – drew instant alarm. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABYBIIQSGJFXXDY6UUAQX6OMJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It was shocking and all the things I have seen in the last few weeks it has taken a lot to feel genuinely shocked but this is genuinely shocking,” said Pete Buttigieg, former transport secretary during the Biden administration, before describing the considered administration response as a test of integrity for both the FBI and Congress. “This is incredibly serious stuff.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EM7MNRWWT5HVXBJYFIWDYE7SQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Republican senator from Maine, Susan Collins, stated that the idea of sharing such sensitive information on a nonsecure platform is “extremely troubling and serious”. 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And she said she is not afraid to speak out against him despite his wealth and influence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"STA4FCZR7ZGMFKCYIQNGRPT54Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“People thrive off of fear,” she said. “I’m not giving anyone that space in my mind.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBJFI2KWI5C3NDBSHHBDG7KALM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Musk, who did not respond to a request for comment, has not publicly addressed the interview.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQ33M47SEZCEJMKC57FUCVVDK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sharma said her editorial team was aware of the potential problems of publishing a story that is critical of the richest man in the world and that “we expected there could be some reaction, but we really wanted this story to be guided by Vivian, and also to focus on who she is, beyond just his daughter”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CBUPXR3FHJFBXE6LXB4RV2STEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The interview was conducted via Zoom, with Wilson speaking from Japan, and it involved Yurman and the Teen Vogue team speaking to Wilson several times over a period of months. 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name Dan Bishop probably won’t stand out for many in the current rogues’ gallery of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\">American politics</a>. But as the sponsor of North Carolina’s infamous 2016 HB2 Bill, he is influential.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKFI2BCDZNDNNGTGOKIUIRER4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817851},"content":"This so-called “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/bathrooms-a-new-battleground-in-us-transgender-rights-debate-1.2927807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/bathrooms-a-new-battleground-in-us-transgender-rights-debate-1.2927807\">bathroom Bill</a>”, sought to compel government and state facilities to allow people to access bathrooms only based on the sex listed on their birth certificate. It was the catalyst for a new wave of discrimination against trans people in America, and is now a key tenet of make-America-great-again (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/18/theres-a-lot-of-pain-a-lot-of-desperation-being-exploited-by-the-maga-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/03/18/theres-a-lot-of-pain-a-lot-of-desperation-being-exploited-by-the-maga-movement/\">Maga</a>) authoritarianism. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXFPLTUYCJFYXDNQXQBETMTX7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466408},"content":"Given the onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ Bills since, it feels almost quaint to recall that back in 2016, HB2 generated substantial opposition across civil society. In subsequent years, the trickle of anti-trans Bills became a flood of anti-LGBTQ Bills.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D2MSQQAK7JHUZKWVHXKC2KAB6Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2VU62KTLJB25P3ELO4UKTI4ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817853},"content":"In 2024, the American Civil Liberties Union tracked 533 <a href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2025\" target=\"_blank\">anti-LGBTQ Bills</a> across America. Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and those who orbit Maga authoritarianism have made attacking trans people both ideology and policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMUOOU6UYRDXBHWG4VDY7QFVXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466409},"content":"In a television interview last month, the actor <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1173894074398709\" target=\"_blank\">Laverne Cox cut to the chase</a>: “This has been happening on a state level for many years ... Now it’s happening on a federal level ... At the end of the day, trans people are less than 1 per cent of the population, and trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs. We’re not the reason that you can’t afford healthcare. We’re not the reason that you can’t buy a house or your rent is too high. I think they’re focusedon the wrong 1 per cent. I think the other 1 per cent is the reason for all those things.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OHD37AY2FFMRF2NLRJBKTSSTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817855},"content":"That statement frames anti-trans propaganda as a distraction tactic, which is part of it. But why trans people? To know how and why certain levers are being pulled, we need to understand them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5PQU72TWNFI7JOH5MFOXRMZHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466410},"content":"It is 20 years since the social and political scientist Karen Stenner published The Authoritarian Dynamic, which analysed why authoritarian personality types become politically activated. Reading her research, it helps to understand the work of the psychologist Bob Altemeyer, who developed the RWA (right-wing authoritarianism) Scale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"0a97b003-b4f4-447f-b28b-fecf1ea04c4c","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"U7UTILP42NBR3MTI4SZDBWNAPE","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-16622","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"YHZPZT7QR5AD3E3RIH2RSRB3IM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466411},"content":"While we tend to look to political beliefs and ideologies as indicators of a political “type”, the social science on authoritarianism focuses not on politics, but personality. Authoritarian personality indicators include an aversion to difference in all forms; a desire for “oneness and sameness”, as Stenner puts it; cognitive incapacity regarding one’s ability to deal with complexity and diversity, and a lack of openness to experience.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJXTERNECZD5FCY6ZZRLFM5CA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817858},"content":"Distinguishing between traditional right-wing conservatism and authoritarianism is key. Conservatism does not like novelty. Authoritarianism embraces radical change. As Stenner said on the Larger Us podcast, “you think of authoritarianism as an aversion to difference across space – complexity, diversity, variety, disorder – and conservatism as an aversion to difference over time, which is change”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63QJM7DQIFHT7G2T65CTTVHND4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466412},"content":"Taken together, this sheds light on the types of people and conditions that trigger authoritarian movements. It is the followers, not necessarily the leaders, who propel the movements. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNTAUR3EHNBS3CZGOXSOAB77TM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742589817860},"content":"Stenner writes, “what authoritarianism actually does is inclines one toward attitudes and behaviours variously concerned with structuring society and social interactions in ways that enhance sameness and minimise diversity of people, beliefs, and behaviours. It tends to produce a characteristic array of stances, all of which have the effect of glorifying, encouraging, and rewarding uniformity and of disparaging, suppressing, and punishing difference ... ultimately these stances involve actual coercion of others.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3HYQHHRAZEM5PVPY66DFTDANE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466413},"content":" ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIELLXWREFBHXPNSYGHC7KWQO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742573042597},"content":"A mindset that enhances sameness and minimises diversity fetishises rigid gender roles; macho and virile masculinity, and subservient femininity. It is no coincidence that US federal protection for abortion ended just as anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ Bills surged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SICIPPOBDBA55MG7IJNTUWRBYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466414},"content":"Anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ policies are characteristic of the global authoritarian playbook. In the recent past, this includes Russia banning gender-affirming healthcare and representations of LGBTQ+ people in public. Last week, Hungary banned Pride marches. But similar moves were also characteristic of 20th-century authoritarianism and its extreme form, totalitarianism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HAAY3DKJD5DI5GVEDOZ5G5RKLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466415},"content":"There is no need to reach for historical analogies; we can simply look at what the Nazis did to trans and queer people. They revoked the “transvestite pass” (the terminology is of its time), an early form of gender recognition documentation; they shut down queer clubs in Schönenberg in Berlin, then the global epicentre of queer nightlife. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZB52AJGDTNGC7DL2OG6277ZU5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Magnus Hirschfeld (after whom the landmark LGBTQ+ rights centre in Dublin was named) was assaulted and his citizenship revoked, his Institute for Sexual Science was raided. Thousands of books, journals, and documents were burned on what is now Bebelplatz, as Goebbels speechified to a backdrop of flames.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DPXQECER4JCHPHQ4S2SVXBHTUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742571466417},"content":"Last November at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, it was depressing – but not surprising – to witness some of the loudest cheers reserved for transphobia talking points. Anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ drives are a key indicator that authoritarianism, at the leader and follower level, is gaining traction. That was the case in the 20th century and it is the case now.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Una Mullally"}},"name":"Una Mullally"}]},"description":{"basic":"A mindset that enhances sameness and minimises diversity is one that fetishises rigid gender roles"},"display_date":"2025-03-24T07:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Authoritarian America is rewarding sameness and punishing difference","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HRPUV4LOHRFZ3JTS3LRDKMJ3MM","auth":{"1":"1863112d4546538e4a33bf80223adf7198033e33f2f8eace90080f31d1c792ac"},"focal_point":{"x":756,"y":500},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HRPUV4LOHRFZ3JTS3LRDKMJ3MM.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"B45XXKZD4F5R553JHDPFFT74PY","type":"image"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/24/una-mullally-authoritarian-america-is-rewarding-sameness-and-punishing-difference/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"37NBU5NJJRCG7OX5HZITIDCK7Q","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":426,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/0bd7c5f3-a576-4793-89a8-7b9717cabf47/versions/1742743573/media/66c7396dcc5033484f5fc0be1fd974cc_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/opinion/2025/03/24/trumps-big-boss-peace-for-ukraine-wont-work/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4KVDYBGJDRGABIWH5BOL7SQUNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443666},"content":"The bosses are considering a deal. Last week <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/vladimir-putin/\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin</a> talked <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia-latest/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-russia-latest/\">privately by phone</a> about the fate of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\">Ukraine</a>. Trump had indicated beforehand they would chat about “dividing up certain assets” in that country. Then <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/volodymyr-zelenskiy/\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> was told how the bosses planned to manage the violence, to rein it in a bit. The underbosses worked on the details this weekend in Saudi Arabia. Peace is promised but slow walked.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEBXH5AH2BHNVAUIREQEQZJPFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443667},"content":"Anger at Trump’s deference towards Putin runs deep in Ukraine and across Europe. Amid this understandable reaction, it can be difficult to see the many sources of Trump’s conduct towards Ukraine. It all seems very patronal and personalistic. But Trump’s disposition emerges from a movement and coalition that explains his actions in much larger ways.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBC6PX4ICRDBBH7GC5LOZB7DIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443668},"content":"The first set of explanations is geopolitical. Trump’s stance towards the Ukraine war is a disinhibited expression of America First. Ukraine’s fate is not a vital interest of the United States. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special adviser on Ukraine, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNEX52kkgs\" title=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNEX52kkgs\">articulated</a> this indirectly to the Washington DC foreign policy establishment recently. “President Trump has committed to the American people that he will put the interests and security of our citizens first, and he will keep our nation out of endless wars.” US involvement in Ukraine, he implied, was a case of “<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_overstretch\" title=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_overstretch\">imperial overreach</a>”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4G4CDSBK5ZB4XPZE7A4N2WNFFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"This sentiment is not new, but it resonates in today’s America, and, to his supporters, justifies Trump cutting Ukraine off from US aid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIFFWKPPNRD63JEMIFSJ5UWGSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443669},"content":"There are other geopolitical rationales. Trump’s loud complaint to Zelenskiy in the Oval Office – “You’re gambling with World War three” – voiced his anxiety about the heightened risk of nuclear war from the Biden administration empowering Ukraine to attack deep into Russia. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7HJ744PDZB4JIUP6VUZC47TT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s true that Russia almost <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/is-trump-setting-us-foreign-policy-on-an-irreversible-course/\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/inside-politics/is-trump-setting-us-foreign-policy-on-an-irreversible-course/\">used a nuclear weapon in October 2022</a>. In the Trump camp and beyond <a href=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4882868-negotiate-with-moscow-to-end-the-ukraine-war-and-prevent-nuclear-devastation/\" title=\"https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4882868-negotiate-with-moscow-to-end-the-ukraine-war-and-prevent-nuclear-devastation/\">there was genuine fear</a> that a US-Russia proxy war over Ukraine could trigger nuclear devastation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FG3HHHLMIJHRJH3HLS7QI3OPUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443670},"content":"Some Trump foreign policy officials have long argued that the US needs to aggressively pivot from containing Russia to confronting China. Indeed, China hawks in the Trump administration, such as Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, believe that Russia could be <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-putin-russia-china-policy-e73aeea6\">a potential partner in the US effort to contain China</a>. Trump likes this “reverse Nixon” idea, of a bold leader (guess who) uncoupling Russia and China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJ6DQVNHT5AUHMTVYIF34FYX3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443671},"content":"A second explanation for Trump’s Ukraine policy is ideological. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/golden-rule-of-munich-security-conference-goes-out-the-window-as-vance-lectures-on-the-enemy-within/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/02/15/golden-rule-of-munich-security-conference-goes-out-the-window-as-vance-lectures-on-the-enemy-within/\">JD Vance’s Munich security conference speech</a> articulated the new ruling ideology, a populist conservative backlash against contemporary liberalism. Combining deeply conservative Catholic thinkers such as Patrick Deneen, from Notre Dame University, and techno-futurist libertarianism, from Silicon Valley, this creed sees “liberal elites” everywhere, suppressing free speech, mocking people of faith and plotting to replace rooted ethno-nations with “parasitic migrants”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"55FUY4RK3RAQ7PPZKYGCFHJHPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Liberalism, Deneen argues, has morphed into a radical leftism of “gender ideology” and “wokeness”, or DEI for short. Put differently, traditional white patriarchal privilege must be reasserted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"22EX7CXMNNC5PA3IW7X7Q36KZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443672},"content":"This new ruling party ideology justifies the disturbing attacks on US government and non-government agencies in Washington DC by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). The dramatic firing of employees from USAid, the US government’s development aid agency, not <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/13/ireland-should-reimagine-its-relationship-with-africa/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/02/13/ireland-should-reimagine-its-relationship-with-africa/\">only endangered millions dependent upon its medical programmes</a> in Africa and elsewhere but stopped life-saving projects in Ukraine, the largest recipient of USAid funding. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RVS3PIU7DBGPXG5DHZXOYQMOXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The push to dismantle the US’s foreign media network, the Voice of America, is justified by the claim that it promotes “radical leftist” propaganda. The US Institute of Peace, a non-profit organisation, has been forcefully occupied by Doge. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ULECJ6C6VGRPG5NLDCRNFBNSA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This self-sabotage of US soft power is stunning, a gift to authoritarian states everywhere. Caught up in the ideological war between “woke liberalism” and “populist conservatism”, Ukraine is a bystander victim, opposed out of spite because it is seen as a cause of Biden and liberals. Many populist conversatives go further and ideologically identify with Putin’s Russia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUD5R7INVRA5DL6UFO4Q72AP3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443673},"content":"The third driver of Trump’s Ukraine’s policy, though, is personalistic. In pursuing peace in Ukraine, Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise. But he is also seeking vindication and revenge. He believes Putin would never have invaded if he were president. His view is that Biden’s weakness, especially the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, invited Putin’s action – and only he can make peace because he has Putin’s respect. That he is doing so by forcing Ukraine to accept a Russian-dictated peace is the price Zelenskiy has to pay for favouring Biden down the years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAUETLLAUFC65MMGZN4V5GVDVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Trump being Trump, he is also working transactional angles, with opportunities for enrichment. The minerals deal allows him to present himself as getting something for the United States for all its aid to Ukraine. This plays into his favourite narrative: he is putting an end to the rest of the world ripping off the United States. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWMUQXAT4NDDHLZHUN2V4LQRHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"But there is also talk about American ownership of Ukrainian energy plants and <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/dc9c51ab-03cb-47ba-ad0a-09c4deed9b50\">rumours of sweetheart deals for well-placed Americans</a>, should the US and Russia normalise their relations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUFOKS3E3BFTBFSR6YDULX6MHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Finally, it is well known that Trump covets the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got it for nothing, he thinks: he should get it for a great peace deal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CAMU344M5GP5EQC4JRXG7K7OI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443674},"content":"Trump’s embrace of Putin, and abandonment of Ukraine, are not particularly popular with the American public. People, though, are preoccupied with the economic precarity brought on by Trump’s tariff policies and slashing of public sector jobs, and an unfolding constitutional crisis. Thus, the Trump administration is likely to enjoy considerable latitude in its dealings with Russia and Ukraine for the immediate future. But the European Union and Ukraine have lots of agency too. One consequence of the US’s <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33586?login=false\" title=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33586?login=false\">exit from hegemony</a> under Trump is that any dictated big boss peace will not work. No more Yaltas. Geopolitics is different now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITMC6X3MGJAH3KGBODVJHHL63I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742576443675},"content":"<i>Gerard Toal, a </i><a href=\"https://spia.vt.edu/people/Faculty/bios/toal.html\"><i>professor at Virginia Tech</i></a><i>, is the author of </i><a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/56412\"><i>Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe</i></a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Gerard Toal"}]},"description":{"basic":"Trump covets the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got it for nothing, he thinks: he should get it for a great peace deal"},"display_date":"2025-03-24T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump’s big-boss peace for Ukraine won’t work","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"7475WC343AB72QIKBPXHZBOC64","auth":{"1":"eb9d0cdbf2e3cd7326eb671d000639399e8a68195107fa1a2285ee4ea3c4d99e"},"focal_point":{"x":1892,"y":974},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7475WC343AB72QIKBPXHZBOC64.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"Europe"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/03/24/trumps-big-boss-peace-for-ukraine-wont-work/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"3LUPVAMEZZCEJCJKJ3QN2LPRNU","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":335,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/0436ba2d-fb02-4e97-a856-0b54852609e4/versions/1742745067/media/5e7d73ef47e15a7b8635913eaff9c69f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/24/george-clooneys-good-night-and-good-luck-the-broadway-audience-gasps-at-musks-nazi-salute/","content_elements":[{"_id":"S5XMRLOXMZHK7MG5ABPVAFP74U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407536},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-clooney/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-clooney/\">George Clooney</a> is one of Hollywood’s most successful actors, whose name on the credits of any film guarantees financial success, but for any actor the Broadway stage offers a terror that can be found nowhere else. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTMLKVICCZBZPNMHE5TCTPBBMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407537},"content":"The actor has begun a stage run of Good Night, and Good Luck at the Winter Garden Theatre, near Times Square, a play recalling how CBS journalist Edward R Murrow took on senator Joe McCarthy over his charges of communist infiltration in the 1950s. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SCL23IPHMZGSFAG3QAFNSBNAQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407538},"content":"“It’s fear. It’s abject fear. That’s what I have, the wave of emotion,” Clooney told Eyewitness News. “Yeah, I’m terrified, but I mean that’s not such a bad thing to be; it’s kind of good thing in life to constantly be doing stuff that you don’t feel comfortable with and you don’t feel confident in.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJ4NELQ6VJDYRODYEO2XLRBTEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407539},"content":"Few men in life have become a noun, but McCarthy did when “McCarthyite” entered the lexicon after he claimed in 1950 in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he had a list of 205 “known communists” inside the US state department.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7XB2WEM6JEDDJ7ZHN2MKAYRAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407540},"content":"Usually he had little or no evidence, but facts did not matter. Always, his charge came at a great cost to the individual targeted, especially those who sought to defend themselves against unprovable charges of disloyalty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36JL4XGM5ZCLFOZKZ7DQZLDBCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407541},"content":"Clooney has been close to the story of Murrow for more than 20 years. He remortgaged his house in Los Angeles to make the film Good Night, and Good Luck in 2005; it went on to earn six Oscar nominations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLPQ7N2YPBAQTATKHFCA2IDYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Today, the Collins English Dictionary defines a “McCarthyite” as someone “who makes unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty or communist leanings”, but the phrase is returning into usage in the era of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GPD24WXFVT4IXWWFHP2BYON6E","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YD77L2SC4NFZJNUO4DTJ7IWZ4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407543},"content":"The play highlights Murrow’s belief that McCarthy was a stain on American society. “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty ... We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason,” the journalist said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FVXNEQ4HNRFS3JLV7LHATRBMYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407544},"content":"McCarthy’s power was founded on fear, with many terrified that they would be condemned and blacklisted if they spoke out. Even Dwight Eisenhower, who became US president in 1953, was reluctant to do so. Such feelings exist today in Trump’s America.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5XHVQEVSTNDSHFXE55CTDAX33M","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"SZMNBSGYEZERVBW2O7INKB2ZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407545},"content":"On March 9th, 1954, Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly, however, put out a half-hour CBS documentary, as part of their See It Now series, titled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy, in which they used McCarthy’s own words to condemn him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHGFA3AKO5GNJB4EARNM7FDTVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407546},"content":"McCarthy soon after overreached, launching attacks upon Eisenhower and the United States Army, which led to a nationally televised, 36-day hearing at which McCarthy charged that one of the army’s lawyers had ties to a communist organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DIE4LG3X5CVJJH5MDKE4T75LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407547},"content":"His unsupported allegation prompted another military lawyer, Joseph Nye Welch, to condemn the Wisconsin Republican senator face-to-face: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UUS2EGJC5ELPMO7XNJ66ZT2X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407548},"content":"Soon, everyone agreed that McCarthy had been wrong, but they had not done so before, not until Murrow – the man who had nightly brought the story of the Blitz in London in 1940 to the ears of a still neutral United States – had stood against him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGJN3XVOQJH2VONUJ54K7XHJFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407549},"content":"In 2005, Clooney’s film finished with a collage of images telling the changing story of television and its increasing trivialisation, finishing with a shot of Jerry Springer’s show with people throwing chairs and chanting the host’s name. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6ELSHDTTNEZBINPBV76FEHD7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407550},"content":"In 2025, however, the Broadway play goes further, using a clip of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk\">Elon Musk</a>’s supposed “Nazi salute” – one that, on the night I attended, brought a gasp from the audience who had paid up to $800 (€730) to see the play – along with clips of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection and more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQBPBGMYJJAI3E3SKUYOHXVP5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407551},"content":"The play and film begin and end with Murrow’s July 1958 speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, in which he condemned television’s focus on entertainment and advertising dollars. “Look now, pay later,” he warned.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SURI3TFYORBZZD6NKH5A4STJ4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407552},"content":"Murrow’s career was ultimately ended by the very trends he had highlighted; his See It Now programme had aired for the last time just weeks before, a victim of CBS’s demand for ratings and cheaply made quizshows.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DI3YR6BXHVGYPKTRWTAZL7EVEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407553},"content":"Twenty years ago, Clooney was called a traitor for condemning <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-w-bush/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/george-w-bush/\">George W Bush</a>’s invasion of Iraqi as a “misbegotten war”, but he says now that his 2005 film was a rallying cry in support of an independent free press.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLRFB25BO5HZNKSWCZMQBXWGTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407554},"content":"Today, the problem is worse, with Trump now back in the White House, and Clooney believing that Murrow’s “look now, pay later” warning must be heeded by a generation of Americans unprepared to challenge authoritarianism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QIGCU22U5HBLEPW2KROF642IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407555},"content":"Speaking of Trump, Clooney says the US president is telling lies: “Don’t worry about facts, don’t worry about repercussions.” The Broadway play, he told Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, “feels more like it’s about truth, not just the press. 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He would then always leave the table.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLLUETYGNFGQPHLVBZDHYSK53Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742180407557},"content":"Back then, Clooney the boy often wished that his father – now in his 90s – would “just not hear”, so that dinner would not be interrupted. “The truth is, of course, he was right,” he told Dowd. “He and my Mom taught us, ‘You’ve got to do it when it’s uncomfortable’.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Hennessy"}},"name":"Mark Hennessy"}]},"description":{"basic":"New York Letter: The actor was called a traitor 20 years ago for condemning George W Bush. 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But the episode left an enduring mark on Bezos, the Amazon founder and the world’s second-richest person.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYY6TBOCGBF3DJU7PD3ENPVXNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615801},"content":"Over the past year, Bezos has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with Trump – whom he previously criticised as a “threat to democracy” – that has surprised even longtime associates and has stunned the Post’s newsroom.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIHNFCA4AFDFFMYJUS2VBPHNFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615802},"content":"On inauguration day, Bezos stood dutifully beside other tech billionaires as Trump was sworn in. The ceremony, which was supported by a $1 million (€920,000) donation from Amazon, was streamed live on Prime Video. The platform has also paid $40 million for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/01/07/amazon-prime-videos-latest-star-is-melania-trump/\" target=\"_self\">Melania Trump documentary</a> – nearly tripling the bid from rival studio Disney, though Amazon’s offer was for a limited series rather than a one-off programme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5QYX46LY3FG4ZPKPZWALK47NDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615803},"content":"Roughly $28 million of that sum will go directly in the first lady’s pocket, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4CCDZ2SNZGCNIL4QC4XJFASJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615804},"content":"Amazon recently paid to air old episodes of The Apprentice, Trump’s 2004-2017 reality TV show, on Prime Video – another way to send both money and flattery to the president. At the Washington Post, Bezos killed an editorial board endorsement of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" target=\"_self\">Kamala Harris</a> and ordered the Post’s opinion section to run <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/03/01/jeff-bezos-has-made-a-sacrificial-offering-of-the-washington-post-a-once-great-newspaper-is-dying-in-darkness/\" target=\"_self\">only articles about “personal liberties and free markets”</a>, pledging never to publish views contrary to these principles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LSE7ZW3X5BFXTEBWYJ5ISIS6UY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615805},"content":"Bezos’s empire includes a stake in the world’s largest ecommerce platform and cloud computing provider, and ownership of rocket maker Blue Origin, as well as one of the US’s most influential newspapers","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3CDQ3FNE5GALA777GST5QG6CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615806},"content":"According to six people who have worked closely with him across Amazon, Blue Origin and the Washington Post, the decisions are part of a marked shift in Bezos’s strategy towards Trump. These people painted a picture of a shrewd capitalist, making practical calculations to protect his businesses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KN75WZXF4ZGL7E65YL7YXOPZNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615807},"content":"But they also believe Bezos is operating with a dose of fear about Trump, as well as resentment towards what he considers to be the Democrats’ “vilification” of Big Tech during the Biden administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U4CTPEHQNNA3LLI5VILN6B2DBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615808},"content":"Several of these people pointed to Amazon’s loss of that $10 billion contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project (Jedi) – the knockout punch of Bezos’s ugly battle with Trump during his first term – as a watershed moment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT7CRZDKMJR6YUAGRYKKTE7JM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615809},"type":"image"},{"_id":"E65JTEXIRFFILIUEBMPSNZE2H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615810},"content":"“There was a joke at the time that it didn’t cost Jeff Bezos $250 million to buy the Post, it cost him $10 billion,” the newspaper’s former editor Marty Baron tells the Financial Times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CERJ6ERRRE4DKQ5CQ7W5IYJDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615811},"content":"A person who met Bezos days after the Pentagon blow says he was “deeply hurt” by the ordeal. “He sat there going: ‘This is not right.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUTWGPB7TNB73BMTNBLJYRUAA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615812},"content":"For Bezos there are enormous financial risks to Trump 2.0. His business interests are vulnerable to the tax and tariff debates in Washington, and hold tens of billions of dollars in government contracts spanning national security and space. They are also subject to significant oversight and pressure from regulators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GF7ZRVIZHVC6ZOLLHQ5VT4BGGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615813},"content":"Perhaps most important to Bezos is the future of Blue Origin, his passion project that aims to make space travel accessible, as the company vies to win US government contracts – often in competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3W27VWA6JA63FR6F24OEYD7HI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615814},"content":"Blue Origin is gaining momentum, successfully launching a heavy rocket into orbit in January and winning a contract to help send humans to the moon in 2029. But Bezos is still a distant second to Musk – whose company SpaceX has 450 orbital launches under its belt – and his rival’s proximity to Trump presents another danger considering the two billionaires’ frosty relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7YXHLBO4FCLVKOR765PBQXBGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615815},"content":"A couple of weeks after November’s election, Musk posted on X that Bezos was “telling everyone that [Trump] would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock”, forcing Bezos to reply “100% not true”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5HY7DHGANCQNIRQH7E2Z7TKYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615816},"content":"One long-time adviser cautions: “He cares most about Blue Origin. His chance of being the player he wants to become in space could be destroyed” if the world’s richest man and most powerful politician united against him. “The growth trajectory for the entire enterprise depends on the federal contract ... otherwise Blue is dead in the water.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"W7NRWIUL4BK75EEQBPPGVY24UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615817},"type":"image"},{"_id":"K3Y3OSBWXRGJ5MOO3P7ZCHFHGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615818},"content":"People close to Bezos dispute the idea that he is trying to get in the Trump’s administration’s good books to protect his business interests. “Jeff doesn’t make decisions out of fear or shape his actions to appease anyone,” says one. “The idea that any move he makes is some calculated attempt to gain favour is not only false, it misunderstands who he is entirely.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CRF3UYXHLVGOLEEBJURXLI4LSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615819},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RS2BJSFY5H4NGLYXNZJVSUJZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615820},"content":"In the first two decades of Amazon’s life, Bezos distinguished himself by being largely detached from politics, even as the ecommerce company expanded to become one of the largest in the country – and transformed whole areas of the economy in the process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMN42BQ4VZHZ5EDVUAO3TLC4ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615821},"content":"“You want to know why Jeff has changed? It is part practicality driven by fear, mixed with a little opportunism,” says the adviser. “Jeff got frustrated with what he felt was demonisation of tech by Democrats. It bugged him. Jeff felt like Biden went out of his way to get him and Amazon.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LAOUWP5RKFGP3MIFKHTMRLFTPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615822},"content":"Bezos has long been sympathetic to libertarian political views, according to people close to him, the result of having spent a lot of time as a child with his grandfather in Texas. “He likes tough Texas ranchers ... he wants people to be independent and fix their own problems,” says a former Blue Origin executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TS7PYQ5MRFC5PEFNTCYT6AKLDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615823},"content":"But the close associate pushes back on the notion that Bezos has genuinely shifted politically towards Trump. “I don’t think he is showing his true colours, [this is] not the Jeff I know. I just don’t believe he suddenly thinks Trump is the answer.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKMQJGH2BRF4PGERBZ4VD2OO4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615824},"content":"“He may not be all in [on Trump], but he’s not stupid,” says another former senior executive at Blue Origin. “It’s a matter of preservation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QB64FWTYC5DNNMGU64NKZ3MO3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615825},"content":"Baron views the heel-turn as largely a business matter. “Am I to believe that the company that is the source of his wealth, and [the one that] is the focus of his passion, are totally irrelevant to him in all of this? Honestly I’m just not that naive,” says Baron, who steered the Post through the first Trump administration and the Bezos acquisition as editor from 2012 to 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SULSD3YZAVH47JW6ZLKKTS3HNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615826},"content":"Now aged 61, Bezos has changed physically too, Baron and others note, having bulked up to the physique of a bodybuilder. His personal life also transformed when he became tabloid fodder in 2019, divorcing his wife of 25 years after an affair was exposed in the National Enquirer. He is due to remarry this summer to former television anchor Lauren Sanchez.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZOV4X36FJRRRCMCOPLQGLJXNEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615827},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LRUFBZA5UJA53GOZUDJRDOVWDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615828},"content":"Bezos’s stark turn towards Trump might be in the best interests of the companies he founded. But it has alarmed the editorial staff at The Washington Post, fuelling an exodus of talent and reportedly hundreds of thousands of subscribers from the newspaper that famously broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FHHJ5KEJRELVA33JLI2VGXU64","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615829},"content":"David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor who has worked at the Post for 50 years, recently pledged to “never” write for the newspaper while Bezos is owner. Maraniss says the mood at the paper is “dire, anxious, uncertain, angry, bereft”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHNEQMNXBFGSHLM3LTNRJ3Q4BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615830},"content":"“I’m almost at the point where I just wish they could change the name of the paper, because it’s not The Washington Post any more.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJI27QD7MRC4LKD3SJ23KAAHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615831},"content":"Trump, meanwhile, approves. “I’ve gotten to know him, and I think he’s trying to do a real job ... with The Washington Post, and that wasn’t happening before,” Trump said in a television interview last Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3FHCFTCOJVGCDD55SBN77PKWHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615832},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTECWRKGGJFFDNTXYYTK33OSYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615833},"content":"As Bezos’s business empire has grown, so have its links with the US government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YJEGTUEQWRFIZNETADFO2EXARU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615834},"content":"Amazon and Blue Origin hold more than $20 billion in outstanding federal contracts, including the lunar mission and a $10 billion contract between the National Security Agency and its cloud arm, Amazon Web Services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCRLD5TH55H3LFKLJ2BOCFOEPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615835},"content":"In the aftermath of the 2019 Jedi decision, Amazon filed its lawsuit alleging that the contract award to Microsoft had taken place due to “improper pressure” from Trump. The Post’s coverage had placed Bezos in Trump’s “crosshairs”, the lawsuit alleged, and cited an article that claimed the president had discussed ways to “f**k with him [Bezos]”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPIR5IHOCJDHTAXINZ2TXEHSEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615836},"content":"“The lawsuit was hyperbolic, but it was grounded in Jeff’s thoughts,” says a person familiar with the matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6ZYZ2M7LZF6NHTDBMZMBS2FFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615837},"content":"Although the government reopened bidding, it later axed the project under Biden. A subsequent multibillion-dollar cloud contract was split between Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PXL7ATT62RBZPLXOTACEPBCDXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615838},"content":"“In the first administration Jeff was battling with Trump because Trump was coming after him, not because he was some super-progressive,” says a person familiar with Bezos’s decision making. “At the time he believed in the mission of the Post and said the damage to Amazon was worth the cost.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJUVTXGQR5FU5EMXZRRRK3HLFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615839},"content":"“But now Trump is back, that attitude is a casualty of the danger presented,” the person adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FYJ47BLOJRCDDPS2EIKY7XIVIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615840},"content":"Bezos and his Big Tech peers are also seeking a de-escalation of the Biden-era regulatory crackdown led by their bête noire Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission. In 2017, when studying at Yale Law School, Khan wrote an article titled “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” criticising “predatory pricing” and calling for the ecommerce giant to be broken up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBOASW6AGF6ENNY5VRXC37JNVA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615841},"type":"image"},{"_id":"L6SO2RLKONAJZNEJLTFHALLH5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615842},"content":"Six years later, as head of the FTC, she sued the company for running a monopoly that seeks to “inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation”. The landmark case is scheduled for trial in October 2026.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEEOQEIUANFDPLZF4AMOAQK6LE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615843},"content":"“What Bezos and other tech titans have at stake is the FTC, and whether the [new] government is going after them for being monopolies,” says Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think-tank. “The deference to Trump is about preventing direct legal action.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGGLYYNVBBCPNO4QYG6ZG6E3JQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615844},"content":"Bezos fears that the government might seek to make an example of Amazon rather than its tech rivals such as Google and Microsoft, according to two people familiar with the matter. However, Khan’s replacement as FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, has so far shown no sign of easing scrutiny of Big Tech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNIWXFGSDZDGLLFRU6YKODR2XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615845},"content":"“With Trump it’s less about what he can take away so much as where he might apply the pressure,” says one former Blue Origin executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IT4K6BK7RHQ7PEQLSUQ7ZKMSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615846},"content":"Another close associate says that any move by Trump to deprioritise lunar missions in favour of Musk’s aspirations to reach Mars would have a significant impact on the company’s viability and success.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PK7ZU45BKZBTHJ4QYVTT3ELLMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615847},"content":"“It is what he has always dreamt of,” the associate says. “Nothing will hurt Jeff financially – Blue is a money loser. It is more the opportunity to be involved.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKRQUQWRQRE3BP6CKCALKSF3XE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615848},"content":"Even during the periods when he has been sparring with Trump, Bezos was careful to meet the president whenever requested and found redeeming qualities. He would praise Trump’s “savvy” and tell aides that “he is smarter than you think”, dismissing much of his behaviour as “bombastic theatre”, one associate remembers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCG2GA2GPJCWZDWN3OSDU6S5QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615849},"content":"In a December interview after Trump’s victory Bezos described him as a changed man: “calmer than he was the first time – more confident, more settled”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOUVSB7GB5GBPGTJY52LIREKSU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615850},"content":"Bezos has also been careful to cultivate social and financial ties with his family.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TRXL3EMKRBUPF3OSX52SJ6E7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615851},"content":"In January 2020, he hosted an inauguration after-party of the exclusive Alfalfa Club at his mansion in DC’s Kalorama neighbourhood, inviting non-members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as well as Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. Ivanka Trump and Kushner also attended Bezos’s holiday party at a sushi restaurant in Aspen late last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KDIRUW43S5EMRPNYVGNLHWZMHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615852},"content":"A person close to Bezos admits that the deal for the Melania Trump documentary “is patently ridiculous, but is very pragmatic”. The person adds: “He is doing a deal, offering money to buy the Trump family’s affection and flattering the president. If you think about it in terms of costs versus benefit, it is pretty low. It’s a smart investment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OYXN36HIIVD5FGNIRBH56SCNGE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615853},"content":"Amazon says it signed the deal for the Melania Trump documentary “for one reason and one reason only – because we think customers are going to love it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVGDUNKI6JB5RIQNFEA7YUHD5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615854},"content":"****","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYJSHVYWVRCRVPU5NWPHJRXJHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615855},"content":"Inside The Washington Post newsroom, Bezos’s political transformation has been nothing short of traumatic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIRLR34I35B2PL5CI7OG4JAPQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615856},"content":"Bezos acquired the Post in 2013 for $250 million after he was approached by the Grahams, a wealthy family that had controlled the paper for eight decades. At the time, the Post was in a commercial downward spiral, having been hit hard by the industry-wide disruption from the internet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KY3VUAZ6M5E7VCGUJLW4DUT26A","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615857},"content":"“From the moment he bought the paper, my sense was that Bezos is a killer, but at least he’s killing for us right now,” says Maraniss. “So there was always a little bit of concern about what might happen in the future.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"763ER24C2IRGFDYTG5PHXKFZE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615858},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NC7N6MSXEFG5XLAPP6CMJQ7EA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615859},"content":"Under Bezos’s ownership, the paper initially enjoyed a renaissance. The Post picked up millions of subscribers, as Bezos had predicted it would, by reporting deeply on the rise of Donald Trump and his presidency. In the face of personal attacks from Trump, Bezos stood by the paper, authorising a doubling of its political staff. He was intimately involved in a rebrand of the Post during the Trump years, even choosing the paper’s new marketing slogan in 2016: “Democracy Dies In Darkness”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSD6U6C7DJHCDOUGCLAD6TEIVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615860},"content":"“He actually was great during the first Trump administration. He was very, very arm’s length. He was engaged at a high strategic level ... He didn’t at all get involved in the day to day, he just said: ‘Try to not lose a lot of money,’” says a former executive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PM5HGYUBABEH5A3MQZLBAKJUMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1742726615861},"content":"But the Post has struggled to hold on to the commercial success it reached during the first Trump administration, falling far behind its biggest competitor, the New York Times. 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As they strolled past the Rose Garden, which leads to the Oval, Ingraham asked him about a rumour that is circulating.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHYUK7QZKFFCDMXMQ4RBSIRXUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277325},"content":"“Are you paving over the grass here?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3C7DEMJMXRDX5H3LSRR3QDWQ3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277326},"content":"Trump’s response was a perfect example of his ability to trade in both specific detail and general evasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TYOCGV5OGFFGBETR34ZMSP67YE","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277327},"content":"“Every event you have – it’s soaking wet ... and people can’t ... and the women with the high heels, its just too much .. it doesn’t work and we have the gorgeous stone and everything else .. but you know we use it for press conferences and people fall into the ...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNLIKIAZENB7PLIUCSSTSIP7M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277328},"content":"“The roses stay? 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The Oval walls now look as though they are packing more art works than Trafalgar Square’s National Portrait Gallery. He’d also rescued another gem: the actual Declaration of Independence, hidden by drapes to protect it from the sunlight – and possibly the reflection of the Trumpian peroxide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YE45JX2TZJFVHGRSLMWYLDGR5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277331},"content":"“We have to do something like drapes or something. And ... it’s very cool.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3WGXY4VXFAAXJDRH7NW3C2NVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277332},"content":"It’s hardly a secret that Donald Trump is entering his second term with one eye on posterity. Hardly a week goes by without him invoking the name of George Washington. He is gunning to snag the Nobel Peace Prize. But the blizzard-like breadth of activity and conflicting ideology has left his opponents and the intelligentsia grasping as to what that posterity will look like. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"AI7QPGYA25DBHIFYBINDBYDT5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elsewhere, The Voice of America, a staple on global airwaves since 1942, fell silent after the Trump administration put some 1,300 members staff on leave.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TIY7R2HFFBB2RO4IVEP5AEMG4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277333},"content":"“Adolf Hitler couldn’t silence it,” observed the Washington Post.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D5X75RXD65EXNM3NZU7CKONL3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277334},"content":"“Joseph Stalin and his successors, right up through Vladimir Putin, couldn’t silence it. Mao Zedong and his successors, through Xi Jinping, couldn’t silence it. Ruhollah Khomeini and the ayatollahs couldn’t silence it. But Donald Trump has just silenced the voice of freedom.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQM2JICHXNCUFHACCOXZIJQWHY","additional_properties":{},"content":"How Donald Trump is using fear, obscure laws and immigration agents to crack down on dissent","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"M4SBERSDSZFUJOYMZACY6QFC6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277335},"content":"The Post itself has been used by many commentators as an example of the way in which the media voice in this country is under assault and is slowly being cowed and muted. The recent arrests of pro-Palestinian Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil and others will almost certainly ensure that the lawns of the Ivy League quadrangles remain protest-free this spring. As the week comes to an end, plans to gut the department of education and return the responsibility of educating the US’s young people to the states, have gathered force. The comes the international dramas – <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/us-tariffs\">tariffs</a>, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/02/16/donald-clarke-the-irish-sea-is-to-be-renamed-the-british-sea-and-from-now-on-underwear-will-be-worn-on-the-outside/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/02/16/donald-clarke-the-irish-sea-is-to-be-renamed-the-british-sea-and-from-now-on-underwear-will-be-worn-on-the-outside/\">Gulf</a>, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/13/greenland-takeover-by-united-states-will-happen-trump-predicts/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/13/greenland-takeover-by-united-states-will-happen-trump-predicts/\">Greenland</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WNHNJQ4VZAHBBEBNN4KO4VH34","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277336},"content":"The Trump argument is that all of this is a plausible and necessary implementation of measures required to undo the manifold disasters of the Biden era. Nobody in the United States speaks Joe Biden’s name as frequently as Donald Trump, as though to remind the voters of the alternative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6I22MSHLVAKTJKBJ6VPNPDI4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1742526277337},"content":"So, the political arguments rage in the background of life while on the television screens, the college hoops extravaganza offers the familiar rhythms and sounds of arriving spring, of longer evenings. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3TPEKXUL5AGJKLZRNV5SMW3UE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Thursday, McNeese produced the first shock of the tournament by defeating Clemson. The result wrecked 85 per cent of all brackets, including that of former president Obama. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UTZL62VJBHGPH3WND53XABAPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"She and President Trump have a long history of enmity stretching back almost 20 years when she described him as like a “snake-oil salesman on Little House on the Prairie”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4XRQKPYY5BETJHRBSYGQPK67E","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said: “I mentioned that he was not in fact the businessman that he thinks that he was on The Apprentice. He was very angry to say the least and he hasn’t let it go. He uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need. He’s been doing it for two decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPGGLF72QBCOPCTHXPXPU5MO5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I felt very troubled that the Taoiseach was put in that position. He [Trump] is out to get me in ways that are startling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NZPHOPA7VVBMRPWWWRBUYAWKKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I wrote a little note to the Taoiseach and I got a note back thanking me. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLCMFCG5BNHOLDMQT4X35T5QTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This ruling, she stated, had given him the “powers of a king or a monarch and that’s a terrifying prospect. What has happened since he has taken office is terrifying for the world and for the United States of America”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SVPXAOOLSRBANJAIMIRRXGBUBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She appeared to cast doubt on the American election result stating that a president had never won all swing states before. Kamala Harris appeared to packed stadiums; President Trump did not. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SF7XBJE6JCF5MBMZRCYOBJKDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"She also said that Elon Musk now “owns and runs the internet. I hope that will be investigated.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"POE6OKYVGNHBTCBGKRKVW3AQQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Trump’s policies will ultimately not just affect “the left-wing liberal set that they despise”, she predicted. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5J5H566RSJEEBCWUBHT6O5TFPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said the presence of Conor McGregor in the White House on St Patrick’s Day was depressing. “It seems strange to me that the President has so many friends who are sexual abusers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"25SR5TREPJDG7EYGXRJMJ7ICVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It says we are in trouble. To think that cruelty and lack of empathy is a value that is spouted from the highest office in the land is overwhelmingly sad to me personally and too much for me to take”. 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While taking in what had happened from her <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">Detroit</a>-area home, she saw a photo of a child maimed by the violence – a girl who seemed to be nearly the same age as her daughter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SANUJDQXHBD3VAJS2UNOUFEMIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I immediately prayed in prostration to God to end this madness,” she said. “So many in my community feel abandoned and let down. The human rights organisations have let them down. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJLAKZTQ2NE6NNFPRYLPW6VACQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In nearly two dozen interviews across the region over the past three weeks, a common theme emerged: a sense among Arab Americans that their political concerns, especially about Gaza, have been largely shunted aside by both major political parties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IF3EGMUHLNF67OYBUVE2KNAEKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In this flat pocket of southeastern Michigan near the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/canada/\">Canadian</a> border, the Arab and Muslim presence dates back over a century. It is now among the most concentrated and influential of its kind in the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUI7HHANOTN6DI4LGTST2XELJM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LICEYBKV7RHSFIUG4J6DOONEFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many Arab Americans here were angered by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/joe-biden/\">Biden</a> administration’s actions during the war in Gaza. That played out in November: majority Arab American voting districts in the area, which had long supported Democratic presidential candidates, shifted significantly toward Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCCKJWOWWZBSTDEYNX64X246QY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Keith Duggan: Why a small Democratic stronghold in Detroit is deserting Harris for Trump","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6TQKJORID5A33EIUZVKOF7I5XE","additional_properties":{},"content":"While it was a small part of the statewide wave favouring Trump, the overall Arab American shift was significant. Consider Dearborn, home to the Ford Motor Company, where about half of the roughly 110,000 residents are of Arab descent. Trump beat <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kamala-harris/\">Kamala Harris</a> by more than 2,500 votes, becoming the first Republican to win the city since George W Bush in 2000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I46LW4LENBDKTJT4TYNA26ZEN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, who pushed for an end to hostilities in Gaza, received about 18 per cent of the Dearborn vote, higher than anywhere else in Michigan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBG4NWQDNVAF2ZJWSO5JFVP4EI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SPRYT4EJHFDUFORYRCWIFIJ3HE","additional_properties":{},"content":"This week’s Israeli bombings – which shattered a roughly two-month ceasefire and reportedly killed hundreds of Palestinians, many of them women and children – sent a chill not only to detractors of Trump but also to some of his fiercest Arab supporters in the Detroit area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TE5NFM4T5BBFVASO3TY73R3FMI","additional_properties":{},"content":"His foreign policy seems wildly unpopular, and those who endorsed Trump find themselves under an uncomfortable microscope.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEFUKC3AE5GSFLUA5UBIOANABM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I’m receiving a lot of hate mail,” said one supporter, Faye Nemer, head of the local Middle Eastern and North African Chamber of Commerce. She still supports Trump’s domestic policies but is aghast at his handling of the Middle East – and smarting from the backlash she and other Trump supporters are receiving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ4DMZ6C4YXUQF5EB3B4AQCFPA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Z4LQXOHO75CCRA3BN4SHEV4CZQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Anyone who demonstrated any support for President Trump,” she said, “is completely ostracised.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6YVYYVKCRJA5RFQRDBAP75TEMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump and his fellow Republicans spent much of last year courting Michigan’s roughly 300,000 citizens of Middle Eastern and North African descent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPFU26ANYJFFPEWCJSN643GXSI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Months before the presidential election, Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and former Trump adviser who had denigrated Islam, showed up to forge new connections with local leaders.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DRHSXMF65FBDK4XQKL2USAIVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish-based surgeon loses four family members in Israeli air strike on Gaza","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WOPGY3PFCREZBMKDIGXY5XC5WM","additional_properties":{},"content":"He found many who were willing to give him a chance. And just days before the election, Trump was feted at the Great Commoner, a brick-clad corner cafe and restaurant in the heart of Dearborn.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTFGROSY5ZHSROXB4IWOYBTPHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The event caused a stir. Dearborn’s mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, and one of the area’s most prominent religious leaders, Imam Hassan Qazwini, steered clear of the occasion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMNS7W5MBNDRLK6BZ7K5B7QCEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Nemer stood at Trump’s side, as did other notable local Arab Americans, including the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, Amer Ghalib. Trump reiterated a vow that he would bring an end to the bloodshed in Gaza and the Middle East.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37LD6YERF33ZABJMZAJ43YB42A","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"53S5MEGUVVCELPPL3T5IJJ4IFM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump recently nominated Ghalib to be ambassador to Kuwait. The mayor of Dearborn Heights, Bill Bazzi, who also endorsed Trump, was named to be ambassador to Tunisia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AAAIJIQZZENHADZCUA2F2SINQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dr Sam Fawaz, a staunch Trump supporter, was among the attendees at the Dearborn event. Even after the conflict resumed this week, he said he was taking the long view and sticking by the president.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CIZ5PLBNVBCBVKSCRJWHJRQ4AI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I fully understand why a lot of people would be disappointed, angry and feeling betrayed,” he said. But the president “knows his entire legacy will be shattered if the Middle East blows up even further and we get engaged in another war,” he added. “So I give him some slack and say, ‘Let’s wait and see what comes out of this.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZ4CFO6GWNF6HDEKGAUEZ4J7BI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Other Detroit Arabs are not as patient.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2IAUK4UWJH4FIYX4LZ4OGT4LM","additional_properties":{},"content":"While many congregants at the Islamic Institute of America mosque in Dearborn Heights voiced no nostalgia for the Biden administration, Trump, they said, has added new layers of worry about tariffs and deportations, the targeting of pro-Palestinian protesters and recent American missile strikes on Yemen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5GWQ5QGMVHFBH6Q2FVUBYNQ4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We are totally fed up,” said Mo Baydoun, chair of the non-partisan Dearborn Heights City Council, as he met with friends at a hookah shop near his home. “And by that, I mean we are fed up with all sides.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7GP4I6CHBDI3H3CZSIAT3W6UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"He and his friends listed some of the offenders: Democrats. Republicans. Trump supporters. The media. Critics of the Arab community, which they say has been unfairly blamed for Trump’s victory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TJXDL4JYBCL5PC5Y2GMHEYMLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s like nobody is really listening to us as our people are being killed,” Baydoun said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JTYLWHGUKBF4RP2Z45J227BNPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A loud chorus of agreement from his friends followed. They had their reasons: Baydoun’s cousin and her family had been killed by a 2024 Israeli air strike in Lebanon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5AQ4WVL6ZDUNSZMXGYVD7WE74","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YLHORCPP3ZFTHH4LNL7VLTA4GY","additional_properties":{},"content":"They noted that Trump had shared a cartoonish, artificial intelligence-rendered video of Gaza reimagined as an opulent, Trump-branded tourist resort, in keeping with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/05/trump-stuns-world-delights-netanyahu-with-proposal-for-us-to-take-over-gaza-to-build-riviera-of-the-middle-east/\">his proposal that America take over</a> the seaside stretch of land. The plan would permanently displace many, if not all, of Gaza’s current residents, an unthinkable notion to most Palestinians, whose forced displacement from the land that became Israel is known to Arabs as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMUNF25JIFALNPHMVWOBQCKMXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRY2EIINUVFRNDWANJ23VLLH34","additional_properties":{},"content":"Baydoun and his friends mocked the clip. “This is the president of the United States we’re talking about, putting out something like this,” one of them said. “The president of the United States.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UH43VNLJFC27JKWQWEGWZ7BS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Then they briefly paused, their faces looking doleful and chagrined.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CJCIXRZET5FHNAUVLLIPF34QF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2BS5LUFORA57PWLYTJPU27JCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Late last week, despite it being the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when conversations turned to politics, the mood in Dearborn and other Arab enclaves felt even more dour.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLBYMDYQZJBXTNJFZR76BYM32Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mahmoud Khalil, an immigrant of Palestinian descent who led student protests of Israel at Columbia University, was <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/11/arrest-of-columbia-palestine-activist-is-first-of-many-donald-trump-says/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/11/arrest-of-columbia-palestine-activist-is-first-of-many-donald-trump-says/\">put in federal detention March 8th</a>. His seizure led to a spreading worry that even green card holders could be deported – and it tamped down free discussion.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2ES3J4OCVHS7HZLEB4J72DT74","additional_properties":{},"content":"At Wayne State University in Detroit, student after student refused to speak about the current atmosphere. There was too much fear in the air, several of them explained. It felt safer to keep quiet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NFRIYAEQFJFSRP4VYMYAAN5JNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"One student willing to comment was Izhan Ibadat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5J54MATVBDQNCVVACMDCQ4O2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ibadat (19), voted for Trump, partly because he believed the president would help stop the war in the Middle East and “that there would not be any more killings”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZJJPADCFJHA3JOQD6T73Y2MPY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But, disappointed by Trump’s foreign policy and his seemingly haphazard approach to domestic affairs, Ibadat said he would approach the ballot box differently today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HO4KM6C74REAZGZVDSZ3WF5XTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“After all these things going on,” he said, “honestly, I would probably vote undecided.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAF46QEWSFCG5DBB43ZNSGHY2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"- This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/trump-arab-americans-gaza-israel.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Kurt Streeter"}]},"description":{"basic":"In Detroit and its suburbs, where support shifted towards Trump during the election, anger is deep over Israeli airstrikes in Gaza"},"display_date":"2025-03-21T14:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump won over many Arab Americans in November. How do they feel about him now? ","native":""},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"HF3DHH74G6BBYWUFJSKSQJ42DE","auth":{"1":"6afdbaecf1916d53519dad8339c0312e48c2d3559aaccfd34b4892f5930a9006"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HF3DHH74G6BBYWUFJSKSQJ42DE.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/03/21/trump-won-over-many-arab-americans-in-november-how-do-they-feel-about-him-now/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"IUKFBFFLF5GERBMNQOHMPVLACI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":191,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/932130b4-739a-458a-bbd5-4746c630b7d8/versions/1742483781/media/474518ad7de289ee0c3f4fc816c2c2fe_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2025/03/22/jfk-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-john-f-kennedys-assassination/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QAQFDTI4NFFAFEZCGFL73URBKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What are the John F Kennedy assassination files?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"DWQL6ASPMNHNXGHGMEMN3JATFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961672},"content":"These are previously classified files relating to the assassination of former <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/\" target=\"_blank\">US</a> president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/john-f-kennedy/\" target=\"_blank\">John F Kennedy</a> in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. The Warren Commission found that the gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone, yet two-thirds of Americans remain sceptical about the commission’s conclusions and not all of them are conspiracy theorists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5S6FC7K3NEYRAUS6HUMSSELRU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Why now?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"WOOMDQBCXFGSPAKGOD6D3JGDKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961674},"content":"US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump</a> promised that, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/trump-presidency/\" target=\"_blank\">if re-elected</a>, he would release all the files to the public. He wanted to release all the files in 2017, but was persuaded by the intelligence services to hold back some for national security reasons. He has decided that now is the time for them all to be released.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V72GRE6ALNB2FPHGSNSLSGSV3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961675},"content":"As often with Trump, there was chaos. On Monday, he gave the US National Archives 24 hours to open the files.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDN5GVZVPVG55BFMGXDQXHCUSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961676},"content":"Unredacted JFK assassination files released as history buffs hunt for clues","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"HYW653MFLJHSHBQKNQZPGO32HA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been released?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"623S2P22LBABHARSTVDFOQTZX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961678},"content":"The files relate not only to the assassination of Kennedy but also to that of his brother Robert F Kennedy in 1968, the father of Trump’s health secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/robert-f-kennedy-jr/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F Kennedy jnr</a>, and the assassination of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/martin-luther-king/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Martin Luther King jnr</a> – also in 1968.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M7VSJXCGFFGIXNF6K3DPE7N57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961679},"content":"On Tuesday, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/03/19/unredacted-jfk-assassination-files-released-as-history-buffs-hunt-for-clues/\">1,123 documents containing some 64,000 pages were released</a>. The papers are not sorted or catalogued, so researches and casual readers have to click on each one to see if they are of interest to them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUVSSC433ZENNHP4NWVNWK7CEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961680},"content":"The New York Times’ national political reporter, Adam Nagourney, who is leading the paper’s coverage, says the manner the files were released may be a deliberate ploy on the part of the CIA to make it as difficult as possible for researchers to find out how the agency really operates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O664FX5OJVGSLIQQRAIQ3L3TXA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>What has been discovered to date?</b>","type":"header"},{"_id":"OVYP2BHJXFHYFL27LPU6ZMCZAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961682},"content":"There’s an intriguing finding in one state department paper: a CIA agent, Gary Underhill, left Washington a day after the Kennedy assassination in a “very agitated” state, claiming to a friend that a CIA clique was behind the murder. Fewer than six months later Underhill was found dead in his Washington apartment, apparently having died by suicide. The confidential memo states that Underhill alleged the CIA clique was carrying on a “lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics, and other contraband”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPESENKPEFHCZEDYG5OR7W3QDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961683},"content":"Another document reveals the KGB had investigated Oswald and found that at no time was he one of its agents. Oswald lived in the USSR between 1959 and 1961, when he tried unsuccessfully to become a Russian citizen. But he got bored with the grimness of living in a communist state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJUANEEO2NA5TOW54UDM7HH3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961685},"content":"The KGB official noted that Oswald was a “poor shot when he tried firing in the USSR”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2IJVAW32NEKZDSKMH6F53FXXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1742483961686},"content":"Given the incredible accuracy of the shots that killed Kennedy, this is likely to strengthen the belief that there was more than one shooter on that fateful day in Dallas.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Ronan McGreevy"}},"name":"Ronan McGreevy"}]},"description":{"basic":"JFK files: Papers cover not just JFK’s assassination but also the 1968 killings of his brother Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King jnr"},"display_date":"2025-03-21T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"JFK files: What do they reveal about John F Kennedy’s assassination?","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM","auth":{"1":"520e08d38fa2b7d940b8c3483f63ec0dec7a0961c730e87ba1b175068682ebbb"},"focal_point":{"x":1825,"y":837},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/244X7FSSCRZI5VB6B64CLUG3HM.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"People"},{"name":"History"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"Life & Style"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/life-style/people/2025/03/22/jfk-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-john-f-kennedys-assassination/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/life-style/people","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"People"}}}},{"_id":"EXXTUSNJCVFXLPIP34OMNSQURU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/03/20/trump-signs-executive-order-to-dismantle-us-department-of-education/","content_elements":[{"_id":"TKWUQVOLRNCAZLT2YI6NJPBRCQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that directs the federal Department of Education to come up with a plan for its own demise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3IWCLOWUCVADFEZ4UAQKN2DRTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We are sending education back to the states, where it so rightly belongs,” secretary of education Linda McMahon said in a statement after Mr Trump signed the order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IPASBI6A5HO7FBVOOV6RJDDEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Only Congress can abolish a Cabinet-level agency, and it is not clear whether Mr Trump has the votes in Congress to do so. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT3MIMJKRFCA7KNN5J6D3CCJ4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"It lends tens of billions of dollars to students and parents each year and oversees the collection of roughly $1.6 trillion in outstanding loans for more than 40 million borrowers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IIPBRC7RN5EDHPZ5KO7AL5DILU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It also sends federal money to support kindergarten to 12th grade (known as K-12) schools, targeted toward low-income and disabled students, and enforces anti-discrimination laws.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VWWWOMIV6ZGVZPA4BNWMABDU7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The money for schools has been set aside by Congress and is unlikely to be affected by Mr Trump’s executive order. But oversight of the funds could be reduced and moved to other federal agencies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NVGIOLI5NE5PDI3IWISRMXJAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those federal dollars account for only about 10 per cent of K-12 school funding nationwide. While Mr Trump has said he wants to return power over education to the states, states and school districts already control K-12 education, which is mostly paid for with state and local tax dollars. The federal department does not control local learning standards or reading lists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4WSEMYE2VHMBNDC5DGQ4LCFL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The agency does play a big role in funding and disseminating research on education, but those efforts have been significantly scaled back by the Trump administration.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NWOBTITAY5HZJCSMCPWPJPZHII","additional_properties":{},"content":"It also administers tests that track whether American students are learning and how they compare with their peers in other states and countries. It is unclear whether those tests will continue to be delivered, given drastic reductions in the staff and funding necessary to manage them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDOH67IT6ZFRLPYOMZBIVCHVBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Closing the department would not likely have much of an immediate effect on how schools and colleges operate. The Trump administration has discussed tapping the treasury department to disburse student loans and grants. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISW57J73XZCUBMRJCPILCM7B2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Any effort to fully eliminate the department would have to go through Congress. Republican members would most likely hear opposition from superintendents, college presidents and other education leaders in their districts; schools in Republican regions rely on federal aid from the agency, just as schools in Democratic regions do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OB426PV3ONADJNAHDSCQIMDRH4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The attempt to abolish the agency is part of a larger conservative agenda to roll back the federal role in education and direct more money toward private-school vouchers and home-schooling. 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In a far-off past called 2024, when Britain <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/07/04/uk-election-starmer-set-to-become-next-pm-as-labour-take-majority-of-seats-in-westminster-exit-poll-shows/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/07/04/uk-election-starmer-set-to-become-next-pm-as-labour-take-majority-of-seats-in-westminster-exit-poll-shows/\">elected a Labour government</a>, optimists made the bull case for the country. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/emmanuel-macron/\">Emmanuel Macron</a> had budget troubles in France and Germany a recession, so the UK struck them as a relative haven. (As though there were three countries on Earth to invest in.) ","type":"text"},{"_id":"FKPATG7GFBBVFL5BABYK5Z7H24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Instead of constant Tory paranoia about a bond market revolt, there would be people in charge willing at last to borrow to spend. (There soon followed a bond market revolt.) “Britain is back, and the world wants a piece” is one of the headlines that have aged like milk. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YABWSZHAANANDG2DVAO6KAFHNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bull, indeed. We now know that British output shrank in January. This is before the government’s tax increases and regulations on employers become law. As ever, smart people let well-founded distaste for the Conservatives tip over into astounding naivety about their opponents. It wouldn’t matter, except Britain’s problems are Europe’s in miniature: not enough growth, so not enough fiscal revenue, so not enough defence spending, at least without sacrifices elsewhere, for which there is not enough public support.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3YCNF66B5HWPKBG5XOM3AOUEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Perhaps, then, we should hold off on the idea that, as one un-prescient official said during the 1990s Balkan crises: “This is the hour of Europe.” A triumphal note has crept in of late, which posits that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s betrayal of the continent is proving to be the making of it. This is based on – what?","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGA4PXX62NB6HEWOGUBK35MOP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Germany is serious. The Bundestag <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/bundestag-backs-record-borrowing-package/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/03/18/bundestag-backs-record-borrowing-package/\">voted this week</a> for theoretically unlimited borrowing to re-arm. But defence commitments elsewhere are hazily funded. The Spanish prime minister won’t cut a “single cent” of social spending. Labour is suffering internal strife over benefit reforms that won’t save £5 billioin a year until the end of the decade. The willingness of citizens to forgo private consumption or welfare for defence is untested, at best. A historic turning point is only a historic turning point if the public agrees it is.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLGDTSGYAVFMHC36KZ7ITPR3SI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The financial question isn’t even the hardest facing Europe. A consensus for more defence spending is worth only so much without a consensus for actually deploying force. Nothing of the kind exists. Downing Street alludes to a “significant number” of countries willing to send <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-war/\">troops to Ukraine</a>. Which countries? How many soldiers each? Under what rules of engagement?","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAXZD65N6VC75HC5DDDXDQST7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"If <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/russia/\">Russia</a> won’t accept troops from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato/\">Nato</a> states in Ukraine, whether or not in a Nato capacity, will Europe insist? Next to these questions, which the continent doesn’t have years to answer, the matter of funding is a picnic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VGRSVIP5IJBEVJAT6CLIQ2RJZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"I wonder if these months will be remembered not as the moment Europe united, but as the moment its north-south split became the central fact of continental politics. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/giorgia-meloni/\">Giorgia Meloni</a>, who is pro-Ukraine for an Italian populist, dismisses the idea of sending her nation’s soldiers there. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"375Y4QAWDVB23E7XC42UXRRTJU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Spain wants defence spending to include its investments in cyber and climate, because Russia will hardly “bring its troops across the Pyrenees”. (Or across the Channel, I wager, but Britain still takes European hard power seriously. It is strange which nations are <i>communautaire</i> nowadays, and which aren’t.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WCOCNSDS5AHZE27HEUT3HGIUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is fine to talk about Europe as an underachieving military power, able to call on more people than America’s 340 million, but southern Europe is no small share of that population. Bar Poland, the countries on the continent that spend most on defence as a share of income, such as Latvia, are among the smallest. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4XO5XAFJFF7XDNRDXRMZQTYDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Even if Germany joins them in time, Europe’s potential manpower starts looking less awesome without the Mediterranean. And this doesn’t reckon with the prospect of Berlin deciding that fielding troops in the east carries too much historical freight to bear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGDXV2MTDJH47NPV2RLVMKGL6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"This month, a graph from analysts at S&P Global Ratings came my way, and vindicated the cynic in me. The x-axis is a capital’s distance from Moscow in kilometres. The y-axis is its defence spending as a share of national output. With some exceptions — well done Greece — there is an inverse relationship between the two, with the well-protected south of Europe skimping, and the exposed northeast spending well above the Nato mark of 2 per cent of GDP. What compounds this problem are the respective populations. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VV37LFUHPJGKPEKOAL5R6E6SCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Portugal, one of the lowest spenders, has more people than all three Baltic states combined. Spain is bigger than Poland. If threat perceptions and defence contributions diverge either side of (roughly) the 45th parallel, it will matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UM76TLS5H5EVBEVVUZ7OULDBMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is no shame in looking for hope, even false hope. Optimism is so vital a trait for survival that whole yards of literature exist on whether it was evolutionarily selected for. But there is optimism, and then there is twisting oneself into hideous contortions to deny reality. The American version of this is the constant attribution of strategic thought to Trump’s every reflex and mumble (“he’s doing a reverse Nixon”).","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSJYH4I3KZE4NFZYEMBCJAQQEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The European version? Premature talk of a unified and serious continent: all the better for being the inadvertent creation of a US president who loathes it. We don’t know what European citizens are willing to give up for rearmament. We know even less which ones will bear those arms, where. Until that changes, the metaphor of a giant stirring after all too long a sleep is imperfect. 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