Hello, readers. Welcome back to On Politics. Zach Schermele here, USA TODAY's congressional correspondent. It's Tuesday, and a top Senate Republican wants to put Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian-funded island wedding bash into Congress' crosshairs. More on that later.
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Trump threatens Cuba, Iran on world stage |
My colleagues were on the ground today at the United Nations headquarters in New York City for President Donald Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly. In his at-times caustic remarks, he:
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Threatened to "annihilate" Iran |
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Predicted the demise of Cuba's government |
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Touted the "spoils" of oil won from assaulting Venezuela |
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And attacked international organizations for infringing on the United States |
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In one particularly eyebrow-raising moment, Trump predicted that Cuba's government would collapse, prompting the country's delegation to walk out of the assembly hall. "It's an absolutely failed state. It's failing like never before, and it will fall," the president said. "We'll not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep."
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A prominent Republican senator is demanding a congressional investigation into one of President Trump's sons, Don Jr., after a Russian oligarch bankrolled his private island wedding party in the Bahamas in May. The blistering criticism from Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, represented a striking departure from the GOP's general reluctance to wield its congressional oversight powers to meaningfully scrutinize the Trump family.
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Don't hold your breath, though, for the tight-scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee to swiftly subpoena Don Jr., as Curtis recommended. I was just outside the Senate chamber waiting for the panel's chairman, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, to address Curtis' request. He said he wouldn't comment on it before reading his GOP colleague's letter. Asked why he hadn't yet, Grassley grumpily said: "I just got to town."
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A USA TODAY exclusive interview |
Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the U.S.-led peace negotiations with Ukraine to buy more time on the battlefield, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said, issuing some of the sharpest European criticism of the White House's efforts to end the war. "Putin has just used Trump to win more time and put more pressure on Ukraine," Tsahkna said in an exclusive interview with my colleague Miles Herszenhorn, our Pentagon reporter. Read more here from Miles' conversation here.
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That's all from me today, folks. Questions? Comments? Tips? Reach me, as always, at zschermele@usatoday.com or on Signal @zachschermele.02.
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In a race key to control of the Senate, half of voters in a Suffolk poll are casting their ballot "to change the direction" of the president.
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President Trump said he supports a temporary ban on U.S. diesel exports, a proposal Republican midterm candidates are pushing to lower fuel prices.
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