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17.01.26 - 23:01
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Supreme Court prepares to weigh Trump′s power over Federal Reserve (The Hill)
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President Trump's power over the Federal Reserve will be front and center at the Supreme Court next week. The justices on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether Trump can fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over accusations of mortgage fraud. Looming over it all is the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, the Fed's chair,......
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17.01.26 - 22:16
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Trump Admin Was In ′Discussions′ With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Admin Was In 'Discussions' With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid
The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela's hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Cabello, who was Maduro's right hand and seen as Venezuela's second most powerful figure (and close aide of the late former President Hugo Chavez), was key to a 'smooth' regime change - as the 62-year-old had (and has) the power to turn the country's security services or militant ruling-party supporters he oversees to target the country's opposition. That security apparatus he controls has remained largely intact since the Jan. 3 US raid.
Cabello is named in the same U.S. drug-trafficking indictment that the Trump administration used as justification to arrest Maduro, ...
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