Trump news: State Department ‘has no words’ after ex-president praised Putin’s attack on Ukraine

The White House confirmed that Joe Biden will address the nation on Ukraine in just two hours.

The White House confirmed that Joe Biden will address the nation on Ukraine in just two hours.

Reports say that instead of outright refusing to cooperate as some of her father’s allies did, Ivanka Trump is working with the select committee investigating the January 6 attack. Depending on what information she chooses to share and under what circumstances, sharing it would be a major hack for the committee as many of Trump’s allies are essentially trying to freeze it.

As much of the pro-Trump right either downplays or almost approves of the Ukrainian invasion, journalist and historian Garrett M. Graf wrote that the Republican Party’s reorganization away from orthodox American internationalism began several years ago…

Here’s an in-depth look for the Associated Press at how the new generation of the Republican Party has taken its movement in a different direction.

George W. Bush, the last Republican to serve as president before Donald Trump, issued a statement regarding what Russia is doing to its neighboring country. It is quite different from the line taken by the 45th president, to put it mildly:

Speaking yesterday about former President Vladimir Putin’s tribute to when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price briefly conveyed the mood in Foggy Bottom…

Donald Trump’s affinity for Vladimir Putin has been so evident that other world leaders have made explicit reference to it while doing their own domestic business. Here is an example from Israel:

Donald Trump received rare legal good news yesterday when two attorneys general resigned from a long-running investigation into his business dealings by the Manhattan Attorney General’s Office.

It is reported that there are doubts about the feasibility of suing Mr. Trump himself. The investigation (which differs from the investigation led by New York Attorney General Letitia James) led to a grand jury meeting to evaluate the evidence, but he did not present any evidence to them for some time. The investigation appears to have been hampered by the failure to “turn” the Trump Organization’s top staff against their boss.

Nathan Bliss story:

While commentators, politicians, and the State Department express shock at Donald Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin even as the Russian president attacks Ukraine, John Bowden has this summary of key moments in which the former president sided with Putin.

Donald Trump called Fox News reporter Laura Ingraham while on air last night to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conversation that followed was strange even by the standards of the two people involved: