The success of Trump’s peace deal was hobbled by the indictment of Letitia James

President Trump He makes a lot of threats.

Sometimes they get results, sometimes they don’t.

Sometimes it’s just a threat. Especially if it’s an online post, like saying that the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois should go to prison for resisting sending troops into the Windy City.

But his uncompromising personality – backed by the world’s most powerful army – can be overpowering.

Trump is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas

It is difficult to overstate the remarkable achievement Trump is seeking to achieve by convincing Israel and Hamas to end their brutal and bloody two-year war.

It is fair to say that no other president could have done this. Joe Biden I definitely can’t. In fact, not since Jimmy Carter organized the marathon Camp David talks with Anwar Sadr and Menachem Begin has a president brokered peace between the Israelis and one of their Arab enemies.

The Abraham Accords were designed by Trump himself, with the help of Jared Kushner, and were joined by the UAE and Bahrain, in his first term, and later by Sudan and Morocco. This gave him the experience to take on this much more difficult challenge and stimulated further speculation about the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now a few quick caveats. The president says he expects the remaining 20 hostages to be returned on Monday or Tuesday, but Hamas terrorists may present new interceptions that derail the train.

Journalists were asking about the second phase, which would include the return of the bodies of dead hostages, but the president wisely avoided these questions.

So the champagne corks haven’t been popped yet.

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These reservations are supposedly what prompted on-air broadcasters and reporters to appear sober as they covered the latest developments. But I think it was more than that.

Some of these journalists don’t exactly support Trump. Therefore, it is not easy for them to shower him with favor. They say the right words – huge accomplishment and so on – but their body language sends a different message.

Look, Israel has been at war, or a cold war, with the countries around it since its founding in 1948.

In a broader sense, Jews and Arabs had hostile relations for centuries. In the Bible, it is a call to Pharaoh to “let my people go.”

Now, crucial questions remain unanswered about who will rule Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble in the future. Israel was subjected to a brutal massacre on October 7, but also found itself increasingly isolated as more than 60,000 Palestinians were killed. Many Israelis and American Jews believe so Bibi Netanyahu He let the war drag on longer than necessary to protect his political standing.

Trump had to put pressure on Bibi to get him to accept the peace agreement he reached, by threatening to force the United States to withdraw.

Now Hamas is being asked to surrender its weapons. Trump says he will join other countries in a peace council to prevent the resumption of war. But these details remain vague, except for the fact that terrorists will no longer be responsible, as has been the case since Israel voluntarily withdrew from the Gaza Strip nearly two decades ago.

A grand jury indicts New York AG Letitia James for bank fraud in federal court in Virginia

So while the president was basking in some well-deserved praise for fundamentally reshaping the Middle East, there was a new development.

A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of mortgage fraud.

This, in short, highlights the duality of the Trump presidency.

It seems to be a frivolous move, and James said in a video clip, “We will fight these baseless accusations vigorously.”

As with the recent indictment against James Comey, the indictment was reinstated only because Trump replaced his US attorney in 2011. Eastern Virginia District With White House aide and loyalist Lindsey Halligan, who has no prosecution experience.

Trump told his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in a memo that James, like Comey, is “extremely culpable.” The Wall Street Journal says the PAM memo was intended to be confidential.

Prosecutors decided there was insufficient evidence to charge James, who filed a civil suit against candidate Trump over real estate inflation, resulting in a fine that increased to half a billion dollars — something so outrageous that it was overturned by an appeals court. James also won office by promising to go after Trump, calling him an “illegitimate” president.

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James has owned a home in Brooklyn for decades, and two years ago she bought a house in Norfolk, Virginia, with her niece.

Career prosecutors found little evidence that James was dishonest in completing the paperwork.

The media spotlight immediately shifted from Trump, the world peacemaker, to Trump, the crusader, who persistently continues a campaign of revenge against his enemies.

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At the same moment he was receiving praise from around the world, Trump touched on his own story.