🤭🏛Former US President Donald Trump famously challenged Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election, claiming that it was a massive "election fraud" that paved his Democrat rival's way to the Oval Office.

Former President Donald Trump appeared to make a confession that had eyebrows shooting up as he admitted that he did not win the 2020 presidential election.

This remark does not entirely accord with Trump's claims of "election fraud," even though the former president called the 2020 vote "rigged and lost" later in the interview. Last week, Trump reiterated that he was the 2020 victor during his rally in Michigan, saying that his team "won by a lot, not just a little."

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📱Google has removed dozens of apps from its Google Play platform after discovering data-harvesting elements therein allegedly developed by the Measurement Systems company linked to US national-security contractors, Wall Street Journal reports, citing related documents.

⚡️🇺🇸 Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will provide charter buses to send illegal immigrants to Washington DC "where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border."

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✝️Florida rapper YK Osiris will cover funeral costs for the Missouri teen who died after a horrific plunge from an Orlando amusement park ride, according to a report.

The rapper said he will help the family of Tyre Samson, 14, who fell from the now-closed Free Fall ride at ICON Park as it plummeted 430 feet at upwards of 75 mph earlier this month, TMZ reported.

“I know they were waiting on the amusement park to do their thing,” Osiris said. “But things have to happen quicker.”

The rapper told TMZ that he has been communicating with Samson’s gutted family. “It was just a devastating thing for his parents "so I had to make it happen,” Osiris said of his gesture.

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👀🔎House Judiciary Committee Republicans are demanding that 51 former intelligence operatives divulge information about their 2020 statement that documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian disinformation — with a senior GOP aide telling The Post that the ex-spies should expect subpoenas next year if they fail to comply.

Documents from the laptop were belatedly verified in the past month by the Washington Post and New York Times as a federal investigation into the first son over possible tax fraud, money laundering, and foreign lobbying crimes heats up.

“all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” a statement that helped the Biden campaign discourage pre-election coverage of emails linking Joe Biden to his son’s business ventures in China and Ukraine.

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🗯⚔️🧨Is he going to put on a helmet and fight himself?

🇺🇸 Ex-Trump administration spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany reacted to the footage of lost and lonely Joe Biden at a joint event with Barack Obama:

"It's almost as if you should replace ‘God Bless America’ with the song ‘All By Myself,’ which I believe many people did on social media," she said.

"It was sad to watch. I’d be sad for him if this man wasn’t destroying our country, in my view. It comes down to this: presidents have different policies, of course, Obama is very different than Trump but every president has the it factor, an X factor."

"President Biden was this person who in his national coming out … was sequestered in a basement. People got to make him whatever they wanted to make him. He was the acceptable alternative. When you watch him meandering around the East Room, you just have to wonder what he is like on the world stage in some of these high stake meetings like the G-7. It’s really sad. I don’t think this is the leadership we deserve. He lacks the qualities that every president before him in the last four decades had," McEnany concluded.

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⚡️⚡️Police are said to be responding to a gunman firing shots from a building in Philadelphia

A SWAT team is working at the scene

A SEPTA transit officer has been shot, according to media reports

The incident is taking place near Leiper and Arrott Streets.

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🔎💸Minutes of the Federal Reserve Board’s March meeting, released Thursday, show policymakers “generally agreed” to reduce the central bank’s $9 trillion balance sheet at a rate of $95 billion a month – an aggressive move to stem the upward creep of inflation threatening U.S. economic growth.

The amounts would be considerably more than the Fed reduced its holdings during the 2017 to 2019 period when it cut back at the rate of $50 billion a month.

Markets had anticipated the Fed would detail its plans to further pull back on the extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy it has followed since the coronavirus struck in March 2020. At its mid-March meeting, the Fed voted to cut interest rates by 25 basis points, although the minutes reveal some had argued for a larger cut.

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❗️❗️The gunman is reportedly down.

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian ambassador to the US called sanctions against Sberbank and Alfa Bank a direct blow to ordinary Russian citizens

⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇦 Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov was summoned to the Global Affairs Canada for political demarche over the situation in Ukraine and particularly in Bucha

“A whole range of accusations were laid out ... against our military, a demand was made to stop the military operation, withdraw troops and resolve this crisis through diplomatic negotiations,” he added.

“I told in detail the chronology of what happened in Bucha with reference to the video evidence presented massively on the Internet and social networks of the peaceful withdrawal of our troops, the solemn joyful entry of the mayor of Bucha, who did not find any civilian casualties, the subsequent entry of the Nazi, nationalist Botsman and Safari battalions, according to publications their own participants, who publicly promised on camera to clean up this city,” he explained. “I also noted that all photographs of civilian victims wear a white armband on their sleeves, which is the identification of Russian troops in terms of 'friend or foe.'"

Stepanov continued to say that he pointed out the staging nature, technical inconsistencies that are visible to the specialist.

“Our concern was immediately aroused by the fact that the plot with Bucha was thrown into the political and international discourse in a coordinated manner, media and social networks at the same time,” the envoy said.

“The blame was immediately placed on Russia, which demonstrates at least the unprofessionalism of Western governments. If they were really concerned about the human tragedy in Bucha, they could provide an opportunity for an impartial investigation involving qualified professionals.”


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⭕️ Biden administration scrambles to prepare for an expected surge in illegal immigration after the Title 42 health authority is lifted next month, the Pentagon has promised to provide “some” support — but will not go so far as to put forces on the southwestern border.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security requested help as border officials brace for record-high numbers of encounters.

Gen. Glen Vanherck, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Senate Armed Service Committee that the department was planning to “provide additional capability or capacity based on the potential for additional immigration, or folks coming to the southwest border.”

However, the support will be limited and will not include “additional personnel sent for the monitoring mission” or guarding the border.

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Netizens share other tweets posted by Scott Ritter just before his account was suspended

❗️🇺🇸The US Senate has passed a bipartisan legislation that authorizes President Joe Biden to reach lend-lease agreements with Ukraine

❗️❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸The lack of publicity in the US for The New York Times article about authenticity of the video, where Russian prisoners are killed, shows Washington's bias - ambassador