Donald Trump slams ‘SOB’ Joe Biden during tour of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant camp
President Trump let loose on Joe Biden’s attempts to have him jailed during a tour of Florida’s immigration detention centre.
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Donald Trump said that “son of a bitch” former President Joe Biden “wanted me in here” during a tour of the newly built ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant camp in the Everglades, Florida.
“Biden wanted me in here, OK?” the 45th and 47th president told reporters inside a large white tent lined with dog kennel-style chain-link-fence pens for prisoners.
“It didn’t work out that way, but he wanted me in here, that son of a bitch,” Mr Trump exclaimed alongside Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Mr Trump, 79, faced four criminal cases as he campaigned against Mr Biden last year for a second non-consecutive term.
He would have faced a de facto life sentence if convicted of the most serious counts related to allegedly mishandling national security documents and attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
The Republican is the first former president to face criminal charges and consistently claimed the four cases were the result of “weaponisation” of the Biden Justice Department.
Mr Trump unveiled the El Salvadoran-style migrant camp, which is surrounded by a reptile-infested swamp that is the latest in the Trump administration‘s deportation program.
Footage of the new centre shows a series of cages housing bunk beds lined up inside a military style tent, where migrants are expected to sleep.
It’s located at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades about 72km from downtown Miami.
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US SENATE PASSES TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’
Senate Republicans narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Tuesday, local time sending it to the House for final approval following a 27-hour blitz of amendments.
The 51-50 vote — with Vice President JD Vance breaking the deadlock — puts Republicans on track to have the bill on President Trump’s desk by the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline, if enough House politicians stay on board.
Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined all 47 Democrats in voting “nay.”
The megabill, which clocks in at 940 pages in length, extends most of Mr Trump’s 2017 tax cuts; reduces taxes on tips and overtime pay; and increases spending on defence, border security, and energy exploration while slashing entitlement outlays.
The legislative bundle had inched through Congress, overcoming criticism from all parts of the Republican Party.
After more than a month of deliberation, the Senate modified the House version of the legislation to extend business tax reductions, deepen cuts to Medicaid, increase the debt limit by $US5 trillion, and eliminate a moratorium on state restrictions against artificial intelligence.
On the Senate side, fiscal hawks like Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) grumbled over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the deficit, even threatening to derail its passage.
Eventually, leadership agreed to deepen cuts to Medicaid from the House version that passed the lower chamber last month, assuaging Johnson’s concerns.
“I’m convinced they’re committed to returning to reasonable pre-pandemic spending, and I’ll be highly involved in a process to achieve and maintain it,” Johnson told Fox & Friends on Monday morning.
Overall, the Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would increase the deficit by at least $US3.3 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That figure doesn’t account for interest on the debt, which would likely push its deficit impact closer to $US3.9 trillion.
JFK MAKES STUNNING INFANT AUTISM CLAIM
Anti-vaxxer US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has claimed that health officials covered up a study that found a connection between vaccinating newborns and autism.
Mr Kennedy made the stunning allegation during an interview with Tucker Carlson, after promising to re-evaluate standard vaccines for children and teenagers, such as for measles and hepatitis B.
Mr Kennedy claimed that babies who received hepatitis vaccines during their first 30 days of life had an elevated risk of autism over one thousand per cent compared to those who received the vaccine later or not at all.
He said the study was conducted in 1999 by the CDC but the results were manipulated and buried.
He added that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee found in 2001 that a link between popular vaccine ingredient thimerosal and increased rates of autism was biologically plausible.
The CDC maintains no links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and autism spectrum disorders.
RAP DUO BANNED FROM US AFTER ANTI-ISRAEL CHANT
The Trump administration has cancelled the visas of UK rap group Bob Vylan after the band’s frontman led an anti-Israel chant during their Glastonbury performance.
The London-based duo, known for confronting racism and social injustice in their lyrics, drew backlash from British and international politicians after encouraging the crowd to chant “Death to the IDF” — a reference to the Israeli military.
The incident has sparked a police investigation and intensified diplomatic tensions surrounding political speech at major public events.
In a post on X, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced the US would revoke visas for both of Bob Vylan’s members, ahead of its American tour dates later this year.
“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors in our country,” he wrote.
TRUMP STEPS UP HARVARD ‘ANTI-SEMITISM’ ATTACKS
The Trump administration has formally accused Harvard University of violating civil rights laws by not doing enough to combat campus anti-Semitism, and is threatening to pull all federal funding from the prestige school.
The stark warning came by way of a letter from the federal Task Force to Combat anti-Semitism, claiming Harvard has been “in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others has been a wilful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff” since Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” officials wrote in a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber.
The notice of violation follows an investigation led by the Department of Health and Human Services, which the administration says has given Harvard nearly US$800 million in federal funds since fiscal year 2023.
CANADA SCRAPS DIGITAL TAX ON US FIRMS
Canada has abruptly scrapped its plan to enforce a new digital service tax on American tech firms, days after President Trump blasted the “foolish” move as a “direct and blatant attack” on the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney caved just hours before the new levy was slated to come into effect on Monday, as the country now scrambles to revive stalled trade negotiations ahead of a looming July 21 deadline.
A fuming Mr Trump had nixed the trade talks on Friday after Canada said it was sticking with its plan to slap companies including Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb with a 3 per cent levy on revenue from Canadian users.
The tax would have been applied retroactively, leaving the companies with a $2 billion bill due in the US at the end of the month.
Mr Trump ripped the tax and quickly vowed to set a new tariff rate on Canadian goods within the next week, threatening to up-end US-Canada relations once again.
Carney’s office has since revealed he spoke with President Trump on Sunday night and agreed to halt the tax in a bid to resume talks.
TRUMP ‘NOT OFFERING IRAN ANYTHING’
President Trump said he was not offering Iran anything nor talking to it “since we totally obliterated” the country’s nuclear facilities.
“I am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike Obama,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“Nor am I even talking to them since we totally OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities.” The statement comes as Iran’s deputy foreign minister told the BBC that talks between Washington and Tehran cannot resume unless the US rules out further strikes on Iran.
Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the British broadcaster that the US had signalled it wants to return to the negotiating table, a week after it struck three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“We have not agreed to any date, we have not agreed to the modality,” said Takht-Ravanchi.
“Right now we are seeking an answer to this question. Are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression while we are engaging in dialogue?”
The US needs to be “quite clear on this very important question”, he said.
It is not clear yet how much damage the strikes inflicted on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which Mr Trump has said were “totally obliterated”.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Iran would probably be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months”.
Takht-Ravanchi said he did not know how long it would take.
– with The New York Post and AFP
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