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President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. Photo: Patrick Semansky, AP Photo: Patrick Semansky, AP Image 1 of / 12 Caption Close Image 1 of 12 President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. Photo: Patrick Semansky, AP In Florida, Trump says he's Israel's best pal in White House 1  /  12 Back to Gallery … [Read more...] about In Florida, Trump says he’s Israel’s best pal in White House

Story highlights President Trump is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia later this week William Hartung: When Trump arrives, he should hold back sale of laser-guided bombs and call for cease-fire in Yemen William D. Hartung is the Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. (CNN)When President Donald Trump touches down in Saudi Arabia this week, he will be bearing gifts in the form of a massive arms package worth up to $100 billion, a senior White House official told Reuters. As with all things Trump, the figure is likely an exaggeration, because it reportedly includes major offers made during the Obama administration. But it is a huge deal nonetheless, said to include a THAAD missile defense system, armored personnel carriers, long-range artillery, combat ships and possibly a controversial sale of laser-guided bombs. While far from the most lucrative element of the package, the potential … [Read more...] about What Trump should not do when he meets Saudis

David A. Andelman, Executive Director of The RedLines Project, is a contributor to CNN where his columns won the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing. Author of "A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today," and translator of "An Impossible Dream: Reagan Gorbachev and a World Without the Bomb," he was formerly a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News in Europe and Asia. His next book, "A Line in the Sand: Red Lines Between Peace and War," will be published in 2020. Follow him on Twitter @DavidAndelman. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)Ukraine has again returned to center stage in a critical international pirouette involving Russia and the United States for the first time since Moscow annexed Crimea five years ago. With media reports suggesting that President Trump pressured Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son during a phone … [Read more...] about Zelensky could win big by gambling on Trump

While the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had no doubt degenerated into a vulgar mélange of media and celebrity—President Obama, as you may recall, took aim at Pepsi spokeswoman Kendall Jenner for being prominently displayed at the USA Today table last year—the 2011 edition nonetheless proved to be a history-defining event. That year, then-President Barack Obama and host Seth Meyers lit a fire under Donald Trump with a deliciously inventive panoply of insults, teeing off on everything from his New Yawk accent and elaborate coif to his time hosting The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump, a real estate tycoon who’d recently made a name for himself spearheading the racist birther movement against the first black president, was there as a guest of The Washington Post, and with each stinging barb, the camera trained on the stone-faced mogul, seething with anger. He later called Meyers’s remarks “nasty” and “out of order.” “I saw … [Read more...] about Hasan Minhaj Roasts President Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

New York (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence was not supposed to be in Poland. Nevertheless, on September 1, there he was, leaning over a vase of white flowers to listen as the Ukrainian President vowed to "beat corruption" and enact new reforms. Pence was filling in for his boss, President Donald Trump, who days earlier scrapped his trip to Warsaw -- and with it, his first planned meeting with the new Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky -- to monitor a hurricane bearing down on the southeastern coast. Now, Pence finds himself among the numerous administration officials thrust into the middle of another controversy involving the President and foreign political influence, a familiar but uncomfortable predicament for many of Trump's associates as they near the three-year-mark of a scandal-plagued presidency. Over the course of the past five months, US officials have raised corruption issues with Zelensky and his aides repeatedly as they took measure of a new leader in a country long plagued … [Read more...] about Inside the tangled web of Trump officials and Ukraine’s Zelensky