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Vladimir Putin had to keep explaining things to Donald Trump when Trump was US president, the former White House aide Fiona Hill said.

Putin doesnt like to do that, Hill told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

You could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump. Even though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that hes engaging with.

Under Trump, Hill was senior director for European and Russian affairs on the national security council. She is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

The British-born adviser come to prominence when she testified in Trumps first impeachment for withholding military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to extract political dirt on opponents including Joe Biden.

Putin ordered the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Bloody fighting continues. Biden has committed to supporting Ukraine.

At the Chicago event, Hill said Putin thought that somebody like Biden, whos a trans-Atlanticist, who knows all about Nato, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs, would be the right person to engage with as opposed to somebody that you have to explain everything to all the time, honestly.

The Russian president, Hill said, might still be waiting for us to sue for peace, [to] negotiate away Ukraine.

Trump and Republicans claim Putin would not have invaded if Trump was in power.

The Trump administration was dogged by investigations of Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.

Trump was seen to be too close to Putin. Flashpoints included a Helsinki summit in July 2018 when the two leaders met alone but for translators and Trump said he believed Putin over his own intelligence services regarding election interference.

Hill was a co-author of a well-received book on Putin. Last year, promoting a memoir, There Is Nothing for You Here, she told the BBC that in Helsinki she considered faking a medical emergency to interrupt Trumps remarks.

My initial thought was just How can I end this? she said.

Trump has attacked Hill publicly, calling her a deep state stiff with a nice accent. In April, after Hill compared him to Putin, Trump told the New York Times: She doesnt know the first thing shes talking about. If she didnt have the accent she would be nothing.

Regarding Putins view of Trump, in 2020 Hill told the Guardian: Trump just wants to sit down with the guy, whoever it is, and create personal chemistry and then everyone else works out the details. He wanted to treat Putin the way he treated Xi [Jinping of China] or [Benjamin] Netanyahu [of Israel]. He wanted to be able to pick up the phone and talk to them.

Putin doesnt operate like that. Putin takes translators with him for every occasion. The Russians are incredibly organised. They take advantage of every opportunity, every vulnerability, every open door they can walk through.

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The California Globe had the opportunity to meet with Former United States President Donald Trump Friday in Los Angeles in a one-on-one interview, while he was in the state on business. We discussed the state of the State of California. As expected, President Trump had plenty to say about the politics of our unique state.

This is Part 3 of the series; Here is Part 2; and Here is Part 1.

Water, wildfires, energy, crime, homelessness, education, labor unions, infrastructure this is just a short list of Californias critical issues, the Globe told President Donald Trump in our meeting.

Water we had water all done, the President said. He said Wilbur Ross, Trump Administration Secretary of Commerce, moved mountains and earth to get water to parched Californias Central Valley.

Ross, together with Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke, signed a Memorandum of Agreement in 2019 to ensure that President Trumps October 2018, memorandum onPromoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West was implemented as quickly and smoothly as possible, the Globe reported on in 2019.

The Memorandum of Agreement designated Mr. Paul Souza, Regional Director for the Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as the lead official in charge of managing the Klamath Irrigation and Central Valley Projects compliance with Presidential Memorandums requirements, as wereported.

This resulted in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service updating theEndangered Species Act, facilitating the delivery of much needed water to agriculture, farmers, ranchers and growers in Californias Central Valley. Under President Donald Trumps administration, radical Environmental Protection Act regulations were thoroughly reviewed, relaxed, and some overturned, the Globe reported.

Notably, as this process was underway, the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsomtook their own shot over Trumps bow with Senate Bill 1, theCalifornia Environmental, Public Health, and Workers Defense Act of 2019. This bill establishes specified minimum federal environmental, public health, and labor standards as state baselines in the event the Congress or President repeals or weakens corresponding federal standards, and prohibits the corresponding California standards from falling below those baselines. In the event that new federal standards fall below the baseline, this bill allows private citizens to enforce state standards,bill analysis said.

What the bill really did is sends billions of gallons of water out to the Pacific Ocean ostensibly to save more fish, while farmers and ranchers were starved for water, even in maximum rainfall years.

I told the President that the first 50% of Californias water already goes out to the Pacific Ocean for fish and environmental purposes something the Public Policy Institute of California verified in 2019: Water in California is shared across three main sectors. Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban, although the percentage of water use by sector varies dramatically across regions and between wet and dry years.

Did you ever see the valve? the President asked. The valve is bigger than this room and they turn it and it pours into the ocean. But if you left that water in youd have more than youd know what to do with.

President Trump said he really focused on Californias perpetual water shortage when he visited then-Congressman Devin Nunes in his Central Valley district. I said how come those fields are all brown except for little tiny patches where they were wonderful green? He said its because were not allowed to have water because of a fish a certain fish.

I told him about the Delta Smelt, a tiny, non-indigenous fish that Fish and Game officials cant even locate anymore to count.

Dont forget, this is water thats been coming down here for years naturally, President Trump said. If that water was allowed to come down, California would have the money and farms. Its the most fertile ground in the country, and the farmers cant farm because they have no water.

And, you know, all I needed was one signature, said President Trump. And next time Ill get that signature, because if I dont get the signature from the governor, I wont give any money to the state, as President. One signature.

It was all done, except all we needed was a governors signature. If he [Gov. Newsom] signed that, youd have so much water you wouldnt know what to do with it.

As the Globe has reported, California environmental policy says the water flows from reservoirs are necessary to produce a rebound of endangered Delta smelt and Chinook salmon. The State of California directs about 50 percent of its developed water supply for the environment, including wild river flows, managed wetlands and wildlife preserves, habitat and water quality control for fish, and required Delta outflows, according to the Department of Water Resources, which also acknowledges that agriculture gets 40% and urban and manufacturing receive 10%.

This is why California cannot conserve its way out of a drought total urban water use is only 10%.

Californias largest reservoirs were full less than three years ago and held enough water for everyone who relies on them for their water supply, for 7 years, according to Central Valley farmer and water expert Kristi Diener.

In 2015, per capita urban water use fell to 146 gallons per day, from 180 gallons per day in 2010, in response to drought related conservation requirements, according to the PPIC.

The President said people in Beverly Hills tell him theyre going to be water restricted to 42 gallons a day. They tell me this is a very small amount of water, and their showers will turn off. Can you believe that?

The President added, I cant imagine that thats good politics.

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Conservative political consultant Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George Conway, have vastly contrasting opinions of former President Donald Trump and the differences made their way into the couple's marriage.

In her new memoir, "Here's the Deal," the former Trump advisor wrote about the strain of her husband's blatant disapproval of her boss, according to an excerpt published in People Magazine. The two have remained married despite the turmoil of their relationship andthe public attentionfrom statements their daughter, Claudia made about them on social media.

Kellyanne, 55, said in her book which is set to be released on May 24 that her husband, an attorney, spent long periods of time in New York for work while she and the kids were in DC.

"During this time, the frequency and ferocity of his tweets accelerated. Clearly, he was cheating by tweeting," she wrote. "I was having a hard time competing with his new fling."

George Conway, 58, frequently used his platform to criticize Trump, who he'd introduced to Kellyanne Conway before later disapproving of his political stances and actions.

"Don't assume that the things he says and does are part of a rational plan or strategy, because they seldom are," George Conwaytweeted once in 2019. "Consider them as a product of his pathologies, and they make perfect sense."

Trump, now banned from Twitter, responded: "George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife's success & angry that I, with her help, didn't give him the job he so desperately wanted."

Kellyanne Conway said Trump only mentioned George Conway to her a "handful" of times, three of which were in frustration.

Her memoir continued: "I had already said publicly what I'd said privately to George: that his daily deluge of insults-by-tweet against my boss or, as he put it sometimes, 'the people in the White House' violated our marriage vows to 'love, honor, and cherish each other."

George Conway had even written a 3,500-word essay countering Trump's claim that Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation was unconstitutional in 2018.

"On one side was my marriage and my husband. On the other was my job and my boss," Kellyanne Conway wrote. "George was mixing the two of them in a highly combustible manner. I was able to keep these things separate and in perspective. George should have, too, but it seemed the flood of reaction and attention he was receiving was magnetic and irresistible."

She added that Ivanka, Trump's daughter, had a similar issue with her husband, Jared Kushner. Ivanka recommended that the Conway couple try therapy, though Kellyanne Conway said her husband wasn't a fan of the idea. They never went.

"I feel there's a part of him that thinks I chose Donald Trump over him," Kellyanne Conway told The Washington Post. "Which is ridiculous. One is my work and one is my marriage."

The Post went on to describe their marriage as "emblematic" of the controversy around Trump especially within the Republican party.

"Whoop-de-do, George!" Kellyanne Conway wrote that she told George Conway once, according to her book. "You are one of millions of people who don't like the president. Congrats."

Neither George nor Kellyanne immediately responded to Insider's request for comment.

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We are not saying Donald Trump will for sure become the Republican Party's nominee for the upcoming elections in 2024 but we are also pretty certain the former president is the party's absolute leader. Every time he gets on stage for his rallies, it's pretty evident that the American people truly love him. Elon Musk just hinted that he will definitely vote for Trump if he gets elected by the party to run for the next presidency.

If you take a look at his demeanor and his ideas, there is no doubt that Elon Musk is a liberal at heart. But over the last five years, the Democratic Party has suffered a massive shift that Elon Musk absolutely loaths. He's repeatedly said that extremists have hijacked the Democratic Party and he might be on to something.

Musk recently stated the intentions he has for the upcoming elections, he seems like he made up his mind less than two years before the next election. This is what he said via Twitter and the 'All-In Podcast': "In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.

"Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold. Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months. I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically. Like I'm not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election I will."

The Democratic Party must be doing something terribly wrong if the man who is trying to transform earth into a self-sustainable planet doesn't like their policies. Losing support from a person as influential as Elon Musk is definitely a major blow to all their aspirations.

Even though Elon has repeatedly stated he doesn't agree with most of Donald Trump's ideas, he is willing to vote for him over any Democrat. Let that sink in. The Republican Party also has a little time to see if they can squeeze in a different candidate who is not Donald Trump. However, beating the former president will be almost impossible for any fellow republican.

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Twitter has a policy of banning any account that attempts to "circumvent a Twitter suspension"

Donald Trump launched his new social media platform Truth Social to get his voice to his supporters, ever since he was banned from Twitter. The former United States President, however, recentlystarted posting all his posts from Truth Social onto Twitter through a username @PresTrumpTS . But this did not last long, and the account has now been banned from the micro-blogging website.

Prior to being banned the description of the account read President Donald J. Trump's Truth Social Posts on Twitter Making sure President Trump is heard on Twitter while he and Devin Nunes focus on Truth Social.

According to Huffpost, before the account was banned on Tuesday, there were 210 tweets available, copy-pasted by Mr Trump from Truth Social with a suffix Please Follow & Retweet.

The account had been active since April, according to a report inHuffpost, and was trying to subvert Mr Trump's lifetime ban from Twitter. His ban was declared in 2021 after the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. The platform's management had declared that the former President's tweets had incited the violence.

Twitter has a policy of banning any account that attempts to circumvent a Twitter suspension, enforcement action, or anti-spam challenge. This includes any behaviour intended to evade any Twitter remediation, such as creating a new account or repurposing an already-existing account.

It also adds that a banned user can't circumvent a Twitter suspension by operating, or having someone else operate on your behalf, an account which represents your identity, persona, brand or business persona for a different purpose.

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