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Trump calls for drug dealers to be executed,

HE AIN'T TALKING ABOUT PERDUE

 says 'elderly women are being raped' and 'children are being knife stabbed' in somber campaign speech in Las Vegas

The former president is at Treasure Island Hotel and Casino to promote Adam Laxalt for Senate and Joe Lombardo for governor in Nevada

His rally appearance got off to an awkward start as his opening tribute to late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was drowned out by 'God Bless The USA'

 
Trump is immediately following his Las Vegas rally with an event in Alaska

There, he will campaign for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's House bid and Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka's effort to primary Lisa Murkowski

By ELIZABETH ELKIND, POLITICS REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 8 July 2022

Donald Trump suggested convicted drug dealers should get the death penalty during a somber-toned speech in Las Vegas on Friday night.

He also revealed his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital with a 'heart problem' just days after being subpoenaed in Georgia prosecutors' election fraud investigation in Fulton County.

The former New York City mayor is 'getting well,' Trump said, adding: 'Can you believe it? What they put Rudy through.'

Speaking with his hands clenched firming on the podium, the ex-president called the United States a 'failing nation,' citing rising crime rates in big cities and a surge of migrants at the southern border.

He also painted a dark picture of rising crime in US cities, claiming 'elderly women are being raped' and children are being wantonly slaughtered in an unusually grim tone.

'To put it simply, we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation,' Trump said.

'Our country has been knocked to its knees, humiliated before the world, yet we presume to lecture other people in other countries on their democracies.'

He followed with a statement that appeared at first to tease a 2024 bid.

'So this is a little controversial. And I will either get a standing ovation - and I don't care about the ovation, I care about the country - or people are going to walk out of the room for what I'm about to say. But it's time finally to say it,' the former president said.

'If you look at countries through all throughout the world...The only ones that don't have a drug problem are those that institute the death penalty for drug dealers.'

He added, 'They're the only ones they don't have any problem.'

The former president gave an unusually dark speech where he described 'blood' flowing in the streets of Democrat-run cities


Former President Trump is speaking at Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
Trump says 'the Republican party, we proudly back the Blue'

'We just want to have, it's very simple, a great country again. And we have to have a safe country.'

Describing what he believes is the toll of rising crime in unusually dark detail, Trump claimed Democrat-run cities were full of rape and murder crimes. He was also quick to blame President Joe Biden's policies for fueling the wave of violence.

'The blood of these victims is almost exclusively in these Democrat strongholds. Babies are being killed, elderly women are being shot in the face and being raped,' Trump said.

'Elderly women are being raped. Children are being knife stabbed and disfigured. As a candidate, Joe Biden helped led his party's vile campaign against our police officers ,and then he carried the rioters' agenda straight into the White House.'

Trump opened his rally with a video montage that began with clips that falsely suggested defunding the police is a goal for mainstream national Democrats.

It ends with hopeful, cinematic music and Trump promising: 'We will succeed.'

But his rally appearance got off to an awkward start as the former president began with a tribute to recently assassinated ex-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - but was drowned out by his intro song, Lee Greenwood's 'God Bless the USA.'

 


Trump said his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital with a 'heart problem' days after he was subpoenaed by Georgia prosecutors in their ongoing election fraud probe

DISINFORMATION; GIULIANI IS HEARTLESS

Republicans see Nevada as rife with vulnerable blue seats that they can flip in the upcoming midterms.

Trump is in Las Vegas to campaign for Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada Attorney General who’s now running to unseat Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto in November.

He’s also stumping for Nevada gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo. Lombardo, sheriff of Clark County, clinched the Republican nomination with Trump’s backing and is now set to face incumbent Democrat governor Steve Sisolak.

Both races are considered toss-ups. Lombardo is narrowly trailing Sisolak by just over two points in FiveThirtyEight’s polling average.

A Change Research poll from late June shows Cortez Masto holding onto a small three-percent lead.

Trump is immediately following his Las Vegas speech with a Save America rally in Alaska on Saturday.


It's the former president's first of two back-to-back rallies this weekend. He is speaking in Alaska on Saturday

Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt (3L) speaks on a panel discussion at a "America First Agenda" rally where former US President Donald Trump is slated to speak in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 8

There, the ex-president is whipping up support for Republican Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka and House candidate Sarah Palin, Alaska’s former governor and a one-time vice presidential nominee.

While Palin is running to fill the seat of late longtime Rep. Don Young, who died this year, Tshibaka is looking to take down incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski.

Murkowski is a fellow Republican who infuriated Trump by voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial.

The high-profile primary race will take place on August 16.

Trump’s back-to-back campaign appearances come on the heels of multiple reports that he’s looking to announce another presidential bid soon, as the House of Representatives’ January 6 committee investigation closes in on his current and former allies.

And in yet another hint that the former president wants to run for the White House in 2024, he announced on Wednesday night that his iconic ‘Trump Force One’ plane is back in service after being nearly unused since he took office in 2017.

The Boeing 757 jet was Trump’s favored method of transport during his 2016 presidential campaign.

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Elon Musk pulling out of $44 billion Twitter deal

Twitter says it will sue Musk to complete merger

Darren Lyn |09.07.2022


HOUSTON, Texas



Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Friday that he is pulling out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.

“Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement,” Musk’s attorney Mike Ringler said in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) letter dated July 8.

“(Twitter) appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect,” it said.

The termination cited a lack of information on bot accounts.

“For nearly two months, Mr. Musk has sought the data and information necessary to ‘make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform,’” the letter goes on to say. “This information is fundamental to Twitter’s business and financial performance and is necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.”

“Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information,” Ringler said in the SEC filing. “Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information.”

Twitter’s chairman Bret Taylor sent out a tweet following Musk’s announcement.

“The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement,” said Taylor. “We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”

Depending on what the court decides, technically, under an acquisition agreement with Twitter, Musk at the very least is on the hook for a $1 billion termination fee if the deal is not completed.

Leading up to his unsolicited April 14 offer to buy the social media platform for $54.20 per share, Musk was a sharp critic of Twitter’s message-posting practices and described the platform as an important forum for free speech.

Twitter Reportedly Tells Employees Not to Post About Deal With Elon Musk

Tesla's CEO is trying to put an end to his agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter tells employees not to say anything.


Ian Sherr
July 8, 2022

Elon Musk is trying to pull out of his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
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Elon Musk is known as the bombastic CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who constantly tweets seemingly everything on his mind. Twitter employees, though, are being asked to keep their hands off their own "tweet" buttons after he sent a letter informing the company he wanted to back out of his planned $44 billion takeover.

In a memo reportedly sent to employees Friday by Sean Edgett, Twitter's general counsel, the company said they should refrain from "Tweeting, Slacking or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement."

"We will continue to share information when we are able, but please know we are going to be very limited on what we can share in the meantime," he added, according to a copy of the memo published earlier by The Verge. "I know this is an uncertain time, and we appreciate your patience and ongoing commitment to the important work we have underway." A Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment.

Read more: Elon Musk Doesn't Want to Buy Twitter Anymore: What You Need to Know

In any normal time, this letter would be perfunctory, barely worth a mention. But in the age of social media, and specifically when it comes to Musk and Twitter, it takes on heightened significance. Twitter employees have increasingly been outspoken as Musk has attacked them, their work and their company over everything from content moderation to how it makes money.

Read more: Elon Musk Pulls Out of $44B Deal to Buy Twitter

Now that Twitter's board of directors has vowed to pursue legal action to enforce Musk's $44 billion offer, embarrassing company communications could become wrapped up in the suit.

Musk in the meantime hasn't tweeted since his letter backing out of the deal was published with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. His last tweet, on Thursday, was about his excitement over product development at Tesla.

'Don't let the door hit you': Elon Musk wants out of Twitter deal

Brett Wilkins,

 Common Dreams
July 08, 2022

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Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, the world's richest person, on Friday officially moved to pull out of his bid to buy Twitter, claiming he was bailing on the $44 billion deal because the social media giant made "false and misleading claims" during negotiations and was in "material breach of multiple provisions" of the agreement.

"For nearly two months, Mr. Musk has sought the data and information necessary to 'make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform,'" Musk's team explained in a court filing. "Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information."

Response to the breaking news included rebuke from progressives like Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) who tweeted, "Hey Elon Musk, don't let the door hit you on your way out."

Musk had secured about $25 billion in debt financing tied to his stock in Tesla, where he is CEO. His withdrawal from the deal sets the stage for a lengthy legal battle with the tech titan.

"Elon Musk lost $70 billion this year. The market tanked, his sexual misconduct cost him billions, and he had to sell 10 million shares in his company to afford Twitter," political and communications strategist Sawyer Hackett tweeted. "Now Twitter is going to take him to court for reneging on the deal and will take even more."

Digital rights campaigners, media critics, and even public health experts had warned that the purchase of Twitter by Musk posed a direct threat to democracy and the common good by placing the highly influential social media platform—which is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide—under the control of one man.

"From the outset, Elon Musk's attempt to take over Twitter was about advancing his own red-pilled ideological agenda. He was explicit about his intentions, which is why right-wing extremists celebrated the news," Angelo Carusone, president of the watchdog Media Matters for America, said in a statement. "If Musk was to acquire Twitter and follow through with even a fraction of what he had promised to do, Twitter would become a supercharged engine of radicalization."

"With the announcement today that Musk is bailing on the deal, this dark future is now one step closer to being prevented," Carusone added. "Despite what Musk may claim, this deal isn't ending because of Twitter bots or spam accounts. This deal is collapsing because of Elon Musk's own erratic behavior, embrace of extremists, and bad business decisions."

The Verge reports:
Twitter has gone to great lengths to show compliance with Musk's requests. In early June, the company opened up 'firehose' access to its service so that Musk could receive and analyze every tweet as it's posted. The company has also continuously tried to reassure the public that it has spam and bots under control. On Thursday, it told press that it was blocking over a million spam accounts per day, and in May its CEO wrote a long thread about how Twitter determines how many of its users are bots.
It's incumbent that Musk prove that Twitter has breached their agreement, as he can't just pull out the signed agreement because he feels like it. The deal was a potentially lucrative one for Twitter shareholders, offering $54.20 per share, up from the $36.81 it closed at today. There's also $1 billion on the line as a breakup fee that will be paid by the party at fault.


Reaction by Twitter employees was mixed, with one worker telling NBC News: "I guess it feels like we won. But it feels like the end of the movie, where the characters are bloodied and bedraggled with a Michael Bay explosion behind them. We could see this was coming, but in the meantime, he's fucking destroyed the company."

Elon Musk mocked for Twitter takeover flop: ‘literally the funniest thing in the history of corporate law’

Bob Brigham
July 08, 2022

The world's richest man was widely ridiculed on Friday after he attempted to end his attempt to take over Twitter.

"Elon Musk is terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a filing the billionaire made with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday," The Washington Post reported. "But legal experts say Musk can’t just walk away from the deal. His April agreement to buy the company included a commitment to go through with the acquisition unless there’s a major change to the business, and legal experts say nothing has happened to meet that threshold."

The situation immediately generated a great deal of commentary on the social networking platform.

"Billionaire puts money first, and it was never actually about 'free speech.' Who could have seen this coming?" asked MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber.

Attorney Dean Obeidallah wrote, "That sobbing is all the white supremacists, Neo-Nazis and other bigots who were counting on Elon to let them back on so they could help their beloved Donald Trump. Bye Bye Nazis!"

But Bret Taylor, the chairman of Twitter's board of directors, says the company will stick to the deal struck with Musk

"The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery," he wrote.

Here's what others were saying:

 

 

Trump touts Elon Musk's Twitter takeover tumult: 'LONG LIVE THE 'TRUTH''

Bob Brigham
July 08, 2022

Donald Trump celebrated the chaos as billionaire Elon Musk attempts to pull out of his deal to buy Twitter, the social media platform that the former president loved until his account was permanently suspended two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."

"Elon Musk announced Friday that he will abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal," The Washington Post reported. "The likely unraveling of the acquisition was just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms, and it may portend a titanic legal battle ahead."

Trump seemed to think it would be good news for his Truth Social clone of Twitter.

"THE TWITTER DEAL IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE 'TRUTH,'” Trump posted.

While the deal may help Trump financially, it may harm his expected 2024 comeback attempt.

"Musk not buying Twitter is big for the 2024 election. He surely would have reinstated Trump's Twitter. Trump not having Twitter deprives him of a critical megaphone that was really important for him," Touré noted.

On the day of the Jan. 6 attack, Trump had 88.6 million followers on Twitter, he currently has 3.4 million followers on Truth Social.

US, UK Veto Russian UN Resolution To Extend Cross-Border Aid Mechanism For Syria

 Sehar Sial  

UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th July, 2022) The United States, France and the United Kingdom on Friday vetoed the Russian resolution submitted to the UN Security Council to extend the cross-border mechanism for delivering aid into Syria through Turkey.

Russia's resolution proposed a shorter time frame for the cross-border mechanism to function from 12 to six months, but the Western states said they believed it would worsen the situation for the Syrian people.

"A renewal for only six months would not be enough. It would not allow for sufficient planning of operations. These need predictability and stability. A six-month renewal would be all the more problematic given the fact that it would plunge Syrians into uncertainty in the midst of winter," French Ambassador to the United Nations Nicolas de Riviere said.

Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy said the Western countries always said they you wanted the situation to improve, but, in fact, showed their stance was false.

"Today, that's what's been demonstrated about the situation with the cross-border mechanism," Polyanskiy said.

Before the vote on the Russian draft resolution, Norway and Ireland tabled their resolution that Russia vetoed.