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Second Miami bank severs ties with Donald Trump -- 4 banks are now shunning him: report
Former president Donald Trump continues to be publicly shunned by banks even after leaving office on Wednesday.
"On Friday, Miami Lakes-based BankUnited announced it was ending its relationship with the former president. New financial records show Trump maintained two money-market accounts there that held a total of more than $5.1 million," Rob Wile of the Miami Herald reports.
The GOP’s ‘budget hawks’ suddenly reappear – and get slammed for hypocrisy by a fellow conservative
After former Vice President Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, countless liberal pundits — including the New York Times' Paul Krugman — predicted that the GOP "budget hawks" who couldn't have cared less about the federal deficit under Trump's presidency would suddenly rediscover fiscal conservatism. And Washington Post opinion writer Catherine Rampell, in a January 21 column, stresses that sure enough, Republican "budget hawks" are back with a vengeance now that Biden is president.
"It's almost like clockwork," the liberal columnist explains. "As soon as a Democrat enters the White House, Republicans pretend to care about deficits again."Rampell cites Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as a perfect example. At a confirmation hearing for President Biden's nominee for treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, Thune said, "The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up as a nation. For me, that is a huge warning sign on the horizon —
Joe Biden vows to confront domestic violent extremism – orders DNI, FBI, DHS to conduct comprehensive threat assessment
On its second full day in office the Biden administration is vowing to confront the "serious and growing national security threat" of domestic violent extremism, in the wake of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, incited by President Donald Trump and his allies.
President Joe Biden has ordered the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to task the FBI and Dept. of Homeland Security with conducting a joint comprehensive threat assessment on domestic violence extremism (DV), White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Friday afternoon.
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