Showing posts with label Oval Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oval Office. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 04, 2025

'Insulting and Rude': Anne Applebaum Reacts to Vance's 'Random Country' Remark

Mar 4, 2025 | Vice President Vance is facing criticism after declaring that an American economic deal in Ukraine was a “better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years.”

Victoria Derbyshire Challenges Reporter who Asked Zelenskyy Why He Doesn’t Wear a Suit

Mar 4, 2025 | Victoria Derbyshire speaks to Brian Glenn, Chief White House Correspondent for Real America's Voice and the man who asked President Zelenskyy why he doesn't wear a suit during the tense meeting with President Trump at the Oval Office. He tells Newsnight about the public response to his question and discusses the possible peace deals to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.

Monday, March 03, 2025

Oval Office Ambush: America's Response to Trump's Meeting with Zelenskyy | The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Mar 3, 2025 | After the disastrous Oval Office meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy, it's been made clear who wants to uphold America's values and who just wants to obey Trump. Steve Schmidt breaks down the reactions to the Zelenskyy meeting and looks at who is betraying our country's ideals.

Trump’s ‘Minion’ JD Vance Needs to Resign Now: Sir Bill Browder

Mar 3, 2025 | Sir Bill Browder tells Times Radio’s Maddie Hale that US Vice-President JD Vance needs to resign from his job for not only “‘attacking” and attempting to “humiliate” Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Oval Office, but for also making a “fool” out of the United States.

Trump Lacked ‘Dignity’ in Oval Office Meeting with Zelenskyy

Mar 3, 2025 | “If you’re the president of the greatest country, you should have dignity. You should treat other leaders with respect even when you disagree with that.”

Despite the fiery clash between Trump and Zelenskyy, Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Merezhko says he remains “hopeful” Ukraine can move forward and “let bygones be bygones.”


Sunday, March 05, 2017

Video Shows Heated Oval Office Meeting


President Donald Trump is extremely frustrated with his senior staff and communications team for allowing the firestorm surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions to steal his thunder in the wake of his address to Congress, sources tell CNN.

Monday, September 06, 2010

White House Blunder Over Oval Office Carpet Quote

THE TELEGRAPH: White House planners have mistakenly attributed a quotation to Martin Luther King in the new Oval Office carpet but the original author was in fact a now-forgotten 19th century activist.

Though President Barack Obama would no doubt admire the record of Theodore Parker, a Boston preacher and campaigner against slavery, his aides included the quote in the carpet to honour Dr King.

Among a series of quotes woven into the edge of the new beige carpet are the words: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." >>> | Sunday, September 05, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Oval Office Showdown: Gen. McChrystal to face President Obama amid firestorm



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Friday, May 01, 2009

Video: UAE Torture Recording Threatens to Derail Nuclear Deal with United States

UAE Sheikh Issa tortures an Afghan businessman in Abu Dhabi

TIMESONLINE: A videotape showing a member of the United Arab Emirates Royal Family torturing a man is threatening a multibillion-dollar nuclear power deal between the US and the Gulf kingdom.

The 45-minute tape shows a man that the Government of Abu Dhabi has acknowledged is Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan — one of 22 royal brothers of the UAE President and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince — mercilessly and repeatedly beating a man with a cattle prod and a nailed board, burning his genitals and driving his Mercedes over him several times. He is assisted by a uniformed policeman.

The fallout from the film — which was smuggled out of the UAE by a former business associate of the sheikh — has reached all the way to the Oval Office, where the civilian nuclear deal, awaiting the signature of President Obama, remains unsigned. A senior US official has said that the Administration is holding off certifying the treaty as a direct result of the film.

The deal was sealed on January 15 during President Bush’s last week in office, but needs to be recertified by the new Administration. Under its terms, the US agrees to provide technology and equipment to help the UAE to develop civilian nuclear power plants. In return, the UAE pledges to abide by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and not to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel.

Jim McGovern, the Democratic co-chairman of the congressional Human Rights Commission, viewed the tape last week and told The Times that it was “one of the most horrific things I have ever seen in my life”. In the tape the sheikh is seen torturing an Afghan grain salesman he claims has cheated him.

Mr McGovern has written to Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, expressing his “outrage, horror and revulsion” about the tape and demanding that all sales and transfers of technology to the UAE, “including nuclear”, be suspended. He calls on Mrs Clinton to take a lead role in the investigation. He also told The Times that he would hold congressional hearings into the issue. “If the UAE think this is going to blow over, they are wrong,” he said. The case will be a further test of the Obama Administration’s commitment to human rights. >>> Tim Reid in Washington | Friday, May 1, 2009