US politics live: Trump’s wild question: ‘Volodomyr, can you hit Moscow?’

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Donald Trump’s decision to allow more US weapons to be sent to Ukraine and his imposition of a 50-day deadline on Russia to come to a ceasefire continues to ricochet around Washington.

Ardent Trump backer but even more enthusiastic isolationist congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has slammed the support for Ukraine.

“Without a shadow of a doubt, our tax dollars are being used,” she said, despite the US president’s insistence other NATO members would pay for weapons systems.

It’s now been reported that Mr Trump asked Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky earlier this month if he could “hit Moscow” to make Russians “feel the pain”.

“Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons,” was the reply.

While Ukraine has hit Russia’s capital with drones, hitting it with US made weapons would be an escalation.

Disquiet continues within Republicans over the White House’s insistence there is nothing more to see from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Influential Republican and Mr Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump has said that the White House needs to show “more transparency” over its handling of the investigation into Epstein.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump has gone on a missive against one of his most prominent critics.

He said Democratic Senator Adam Schiff was being investigated for “possible mortgage fraud” and he “always suspected... he was a scam artist”.

Mr Schiff said it was a “baseless attempt at political retribution”.

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