“Our message to #Denmark is very simple,” #JDVance said. “You have not done a good job by the people of #Greenland.”
[file that under #NunyaBidness]
Earlier, Denmark's king issued a statement on social media. "We live in an altered reality. There should be no doubt that my love for Greenland & my connectedness to the people of Greenland are intact," King Frederik said.
With #JDVance in #Greenland, #Trump reiterated his desire to take control of the territory.
“We have to have Greenland,” he said in the Oval Office. “It’s not a question of ‘Do you think we can do without it.’ We can’t.”
In Greenland, Vance claimed #Denmark has ‘underinvested’ in Greenland’s security & demands change. In fact Denmark announced 14.6-billion kroner ($2.05-billion) investment to strengthen security in Greenland & the Arctic.
#FactCheck #geopolitics
https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-military-two-billion-boost-donald-trump-greenland-threat-2022685
Josh Levs: ‘Red’ America needs the truth on tRump’s #fentanyl failures: With some voters seeing the light, it's time to focus on an issue that hits home
#TheContrarian #maga #gop #immigration #factcheck
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/red-america-needs-the-truth-on-trumps
Fact-check: It's unlikely that Conor McGregor can run for the Irish presidency.
He may be in favour with the Trump administration, but Conor McGregor's chances of making the ballot paper in Ireland's presidential poll are close to zero, experts tell Euroverify.
Story in @washingtonpost calls itself "most complete account to date of how the Islamic State was able to regroup [in #Somalia] over the past decade". Yet all but the most recent of such info had already been covered several times over by reports from UN, Intl Crisis Group, etc
#geography #ISIS #ISIL #geopolitics #security #Puntland #IslamicState #HornOfAfrica #security #journalism #factcheck @geography @geopolitics @unitednations
Investigative journalism in #Somalia is welcome, and @washingtonpost report from Feb made valuable contributions to story of #ISIS foreign recruitment in #Puntland state. But the story vastly exaggerates its own importance, among other issues...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/09/somalia-islamic-state-puntland-terrorism/
#geography #security #ISIL #HornOfAfrica #Africa #journalist #factcheck @geography @geopolitics #MiddleEast
Can’t cite my sources, but this was shared with me on #Signal this morning! #FactCheck #USPol #Security
It’s good to see Peters being fact checked.
If he wants to be a [cry] baby trump, then treat him like trump.
Fact checking Winston Peters on climate accord https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545845/fact-checking-winston-peters-on-climate-accord
Asked on Fri if he would authorize flights that night despite the court order to halt them, #Trump deflected & suggested that it would be up to #MarcoRubio.
“…I’d have the Secy of #State handle it, because I’m not really involved in that,” [bullshit] he said. “But the concept of getting bad people — murderers, rapists, drug dealers, all of the — these are really some bad people — out of our country — I ran on that. I won on that.”
…#Trump’s comment Fri night was in response to questions about a hearing earlier that day on the legality of the #deportations, during which US District Judge #Boasberg asked why the proclamation was “essentially signed in the dark” so that #deportation flights could begin immediately. The WH had announced the proclamation’s signing AFTER preparations to deport 137 Venezuelan migrants had already begun.
The confusion over #Trump’s signature prompted some speculation that perhaps the document was signed using an #autopen, a machine that uses real ink to duplicate a human signature. The #DOJ has said the autopen is a legal way to sign official presidential documents, but Trump has ridiculed the practice as inauthentic [& Trump proclaimed Biden’s pardons were invalid for its use].
#Trump claimed Fri evening that he did not sign the controversial proclamation invoking the #AlienEnemiesAct to quickly deport migrants his admin says are gang members from #Venezuela.
…“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said as he was leaving the WH his golf club in NJ. “Other people handled it. But #MarcoRubio’s done a great job. And he wanted them out, & *we* go along with that.“
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #immigration #DueProcess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/22/trump-deportations-autopen/
…Most of the #intelligence community, including the #CIA & the #NSA, agreed w/that assessment.
Only one agency, the #FBI [#KashPatel], partly dissented. It maintained the gang has a connection to the admin of #Venezuela’s #authoritarian president, Nicolás #Maduro, based on information the other agencies did not find credible.
The disclosure calls into question the credibility of #Trump’s basis for invoking a rarely used wartime #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798, to transfer a group of #Venezuelans to a high-security prison in #ElSalvador last weekend, with no #DueProcess.
The #intelligence community assessment concluded that the gang, #TrenDeAragua, was not directed by #Venezuela’s govt or committing crimes in the #US on its orders….
#Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict #Trump on #Venezuelan Gang
To invoke wartime #deportation powers, Trump asserted that #Venezuela’s government controls a gang. #US intelligence analysts think that is not true.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/intelligence-trump-venezuelan-gang-alien-enemies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=21DD7CD1-6F5B-45F9-BC48-4DAA303CD5DD
Fact check: Can Canada apply to join the EU?
Questions have been raised over whether Canada could hypothetically apply to join the European Union amid its crumbling relations with the US, but experts say its geographical and cultural distance to the continent poses a problem.
Dutton wrong to claim interest rates 'always' lower under Coalition #AusPol #FactCheck #DuttonLies
"Tory leader provides no evidence to support position that flies in face of expert reports and her own words."
#Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050 | Kemi Badenoch | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/19/factcheck-kemi-badenoch-conservative-leader-claim-that-net-zero-is-impossible-by-2050
#NetZero (#NotZero) #UKPol
