Trump says he was ‘still friends’ with Erdoğan while in US ‘exile’ and demands Turkey stop buying Russian oil – US politics live | US news

The president said that he “didn’t know what was going to happen” with regard to reports of the imminent indictment of former FBI director James Comey.

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“I can only say that Comey is a bad person. He’s a sick person. I think he’s a sick guy…he did terrible things at the FBI,” the president said, after praising Lindsey Halligan, the new US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia.

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Trump appointed Halligan, a former White House staffer, after firing her predecessor, Erik Siebert, when he said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Comey.

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In response to a question about the circulated memo by the OMB to federal agencies, telling them to prepare for significant layoffs in the event of a government shutdown, Trump blames Democrats for any reduction-in-force.

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“This is all caused by the Democrats. They asked us to do something that’s totally unreasonable. They never change,” the president said. “This is what Schumer wants. This is what the Democrats want.”

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When asked whether Trump and Erdoğan are aligned on the war in Gaza, and foreign policy in the region, the US president said he “doesn’t know” what the leader of Turkey’s stance is.

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However, he noted that his meeting with Arab leaders on Tuesday was successful, before repeating his insistence on the release of all Israeli hostages. “We want them all back, we want them back at one time,” Trump said.

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During his spray with reporters, Trump said “I’d like to have him [Erdoğan] stop buying any oil from Russia, while Russia continues this rampage against Ukraine.”

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The president repeated that the Russian economy is struggling due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. “It’s such a waste of human life, and so he ought to stop. Putin ought to stop,” Trump said.

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Speaking in front of reporters, Donald Trump describes his strong relationship with the president of Turkey.

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“When I was in exile, we were still friends,” Trump said, referring to the four years after he lost the 2020 election to former president Joe Biden.

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Trump said that Erdoğan has “built a tremendous military” and they buy a significant amount of weapons from the US.

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“They want to buy F-16s, F-35s and some other things, and we’re going to talk to them about that,” Trump said. “We’re just going to have, I think, a very interesting couple of hours.”

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Donald Trump just welcomed the president of Turkey to the White House. They’re due to start their meeting shortly.

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Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the move to fire workers was “nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government”.

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“Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one – not to govern, but to scare,” Schumer added.

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The president of a major union representing federal employees has called on both parties to resume negotiations and prevent a government shutdown from beginning next Wednesday.

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The appeal from American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley comes after the White House warned that it would use a shutdown to begin another round of layoffs of government workers and focus on agencies that would be closed if funding lapses.

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“The truth is simple: Republicans cannot fund the government without Democratic votes. That means the only path forward is compromise. The president and congressional leaders must sit down and negotiate in good faith to keep the lights on for the American people. Nothing less is acceptable,” Kelley said in a statement.

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“Federal employees are not bargaining chips. They are veterans, caregivers, law enforcement officers, and neighbors who serve their country and fellow Americans every day. They deserve stability and respect, not pink slips and political games.”

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Republicans have demanded that Democrats agree to extend government funding through 21 November. But the minority party has balked, and insisted that the GOP agree to undo cuts to Medicaid and public media funding approved earlier this year and extend subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans.

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The two sides do not appear to be negotiating. At the Capitol on Wednesday, Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he had last talked to Republican speaker Mike Johnson last week about “logistics around the government funding vote, but had no discussion about substance.”

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At 11am EST the president is due to welcome the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. We’ll bring you the latest lines as that happens.

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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that she won’t reinstate several inspectors general who were fired by Donald Trump earlier this year.

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But noted that the administration’s actions likely violated the Inspectors General Act, which requires the president to give Congress at least 30 days notice and provide detailed reasoning behind the termination of a government watchdog.

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When Trump took office he cleared house, firing 17 inspectors general – whose job is to monitor agencies for waste, fraud and abuse – with two-line emails.

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Eight of the fired inspectors general filed a lawsuit, asking to be reinstated to their positions.

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“President Trump violated the IGA. That much is obvious,” judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, wrote. However, she noted that the court cannot “provide the plaintiffs more”.

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“If the court reinstated plaintiffs, the president could refire each of them by providing the required notice and rationale. And that ‘rationale’ could well cause the very reputational harm they seek to avoid,” Reyes added. “They sacrificed much to take on the role of an IG and its many demands – no doubt including substantial time away from family and far larger paychecks available in the private sector. They deserved better from their government. They still do.”

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Regarding James Comey’s expected criminal charges, ABC news has reported that federal prosecutors in the eastern district of Virginia presented the newly minted US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, with a memo earlier this week that detailed why not to file criminal charges against the former FBI director.

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ABC cites sources familiar with the memo, who also noting that justice department lawyers would be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving the claims “beyond a reasonable doubt”, and they couldn’t reach a significantly lower standard to secure an indictment.

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A reminder, Donald Trump fired Halligan’s predecessor, Erik Siebert, after he said there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Comey, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general and longtime Trump adversary.

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), managed by Russell Vought, is instructing federal agencies to prepare “reduction-in-force” plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, according to a report by Politico.

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A reminder that government funding expires on 30 September, and congressional lawmakers have yet to pass any kind of funding extension.

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According to a memo shared with Politico, federal programs which did not benefit from “mandatory appropriations” will bear the brunt of the firings should a continuing resolution, to keep the government funded, fail to pass. Agencies have been instructed to submit plans for layoffs to OMB, and to issue notices to employees even if they would otherwise be excepted or furloughed during a lapse in funding, according to the report.

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The memo notes that reductions in force will be in addition to furloughs in the event of a government shutdown.

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According to an official granted anonymity to speak with Politico about plans not yet public, programs that will continue regardless of a shutdown include “Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and air traffic control”.

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“We remain hopeful that Democrats in Congress will not trigger a shutdown and the steps outlined above will not be necessary,” the memo reads. As of now, leaders on Capitol Hill are continuing the blame game if a shutdown comes to pass.

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Donald Trump’s budget would cut funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 53%, eliminating 61 programs and laying off another 16% of health agency staff, according to a new report – moves that would drastically reduce disease prevention and fuel more chronic illness, public health leaders say.

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“We cannot lose this,” said Joseph Kanter, CEO of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). “This is crucial to the health of every person in every community across this country, whether they realize it or not.”

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Federal cuts are already reverberating throughout the US. The Trump administration has clawed back more than $12bn from public health budgets.

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There have been delays in releasing funds already appropriated by Congress, which means local programs have had to shutter even when they were supposed to be funded. More than 20,000 employees have left health agencies in the past eight months because of layoffs, firings and resignations.

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“We’re facing really significant threats to our ability to invest in chronic disease prevention with what’s been happening these last few months,” said Lori Tremmel Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (Naccho).

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The public health system in the US is fragmented by state, but it is underpinned by funding and support from the CDC. Some 80% of the CDC’s funding flows to state, local, territorial and tribal health departments.

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Donald Trump has added a “Presidential Walk of Fame” to the exterior of the White House, featuring portraits of each of the previous commanders-in-chief – except for one.

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Instead of a headshot of Joe Biden, the Republican incumbent instead placed a photo of an autopen signing the Democrat’s name – a reference to Trump’s frequent allegation that the former president was addled by the end of his term in office and not really the one making decisions.

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The snub is the latest attempt by Trump to delegitimise a predecessor he routinely belittles, including in front of more than 100 world leaders on Tuesday at the UN general assembly gathering. Trump has never acknowledged his own defeat to Biden in the 2020 election, instead falsely chalking up the outcome to voter fraud.

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Trump had previously signalled he would represent Biden with an autopen on the walkway. Trump has alleged without evidence that Biden administration officials may have forged their boss’s signature by using the autopen and taken broad actions he was not aware of.

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He has also cast doubt on the validity of pardons and other documents that Biden signed with an autopen, even though other presidents before him have also relied on the device to sign key papers. A Republican-led House committee is investigating the Biden administration’s autopen use.

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A gunman, who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop on Wednesday, killing a detainee and badly wounding two others before taking his own life, officials said.

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Donald Trump and members of his administration seized on the attack as the latest instance of what they characterized as an escalation of politically motivated violence incited by the left.

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They accused California governor Gavin Newsom and other Democrats of stirring hate by unfairly vilifying law enforcement and conservative political figures, Reuters reported.

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FBI director Kash Patel posted a photo on X showing what he said was the suspect’s unused ammunition. The shell casing of one round was inscribed with “ANTI-ICE”.

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“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack,” Patel wrote. US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem later said in a Fox News interview that the gunman “was targeting Ice,” based on “evidence so far in this case”.

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On his Truth Social platform, Trump accused “Radical Left Democrats” of stoking anti-ICE violence by “constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to Nazis”.

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Invoking the recent assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, Trump said that “radical left terrorists” pose a “grave threat” to law enforcement and “must be stopped”.

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Trump said he would sign an executive order this week to “dismantle these domestic terrorism networks”. He offered no evidence to support the notion that “networks”, rather than individuals, were behind recent acts of political violence, or that left-wing perpetrators were any more prevalent than those on the right in recent years.

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In a statement about the Texas shooting, the Department of Homeland Security said the suspect fired “indiscriminately” at the Ice facility, including at a van in the building’s secured entryway where the victims were shot. DHS said one detainee was killed and two others were in critical condition.

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Officials have not disclosed the identities of the victims.

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Read more on the story here:

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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James Comey, the former director of the FBI, is reportedly facing imminent criminal charges, which are expected to be filed in federal court in Virginia, according to a report by MSNBC on Wednesday.

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Comey has long been a focus of criticism from Donald Trump, who dismissed him from his role as FBI chief during the early months of his first term.

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The news of a possible indictment surfaced just days after Erik Siebert, who had been serving as the acting US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, resigned under political pressure from Trump. Siebert had reportedly opposed pursuing charges against Comey in that jurisdiction.

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On Monday, Lindsey Halligan, an attorney who has previously represented Trump in personal legal matters, was appointed as Siebert’s replacement.

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In a social media post over the weekend, Trump expressed his outrage over the lack of charges against Comey, labelling him “guilty as hell”.

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MSNBC journalist Ken Dilanian posted on X on Wednesday, stating that “the full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear”.

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In other developments:

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  Donald Trump demanded an investigation of what he called “triple sabotage” of his UN address on Tuesday: a malfunctioning escalator, a faulty teleprompter and an apparent sound problem in the hall. UN officials said the US delegation was responsible for the first two, and the third was less dramatic than Trump claimed.

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  JD Vance, the vice-president, claimed without evidence that a gunman who opened fire at an Ice facility in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two more before taking his own life, was a “violent leftwing extremist”.

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  The White House used a wall of the presidential residence to stage an elaborate prank, creating a “walk of fame” featuring framed portraits of 44 of the 45 men to have served as president, all except for Joe Biden, who was represented by an image of an autopen, to suggest that he did not actually run his administration.

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  House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, said that Democrats “have drawn a line in the sand” when it comes to the Republican-written short term spending bill, that extends government funding until 21 November.

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  The state superintendent in Oklahoma announced plans to put rightwing Turning Point USA chapters in every high school in the state, saying it would counter “radical leftist teachers’ unions” and their “woke indoctrination”.

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