Category: Politics

Pat Gelsinger, the Chief Executive Officer of Intel (INTC), has spent the past three years persuading Washington to make billions of dollars accessible to American chipmakers. On Wednesday, he received the news that his efforts had paid off, as his business would get up to $8.5 billion in grants from the United States in the years to come. It “will be the single biggest announcement of a grant to any chips recipient,” said Gina Raimondo, the Secretary of Commerce, when she made the announcement of the news.

Intel’s position as the focal point of President Joe Biden’s initiative to revive semiconductor production in the United States is strengthened by the preliminary agreement. Intel has stated that the funds will be utilized for a variety of new projects in the states of Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon, which together are receiving investments totaling more than one hundred billion dollars.

The agreement, which was announced on Wednesday, involves loans from the government of up to eleven billion dollars. While Intel is concentrating on increasing its manufacturing capacity in order to develop its most advanced chips, the chipmaker is also planning to submit a new tax credit claim for its capital expenses. This credit has the potential to add tens of billions of dollars to the company’s bottom line in the years to come.

According to statements made by Gelsinger to reporters prior to the announcement, “We’ve been the American champion for semiconductors… and as a result, we’ve really taken it upon ourselves to drive this legislation forward.” Gelsinger will accompany President Biden and Secretary Raimondo on a trip to the company’s campus in Chandler, Arizona, on Wednesday in order to spread the word about the significant news.

The expansion of that facility in Arizona will involve the construction of two manufacturing plants that are at the cutting edge of technology, as well as the modernization of an existing manufacturing facility. This investment, according to the White House, is the greatest private sector investment in the history of the state and will result in the creation of 3,000 permanent manufacturing jobs in the state over the next few years.

Senator Chuck Schumer took stock of the impact he had made a few days earlier while he was in the library at James Madison High School in Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon. He had referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a key obstacle to peace in the Middle East in a speech that he had delivered on the floor of the Senate. He had also urged for elections to be held in order to replace Netanyahu after the war was over. When he was sixteen years old, he was captivated to his transistor radio in order to listen to breaking news about the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. He recalled that this experience took place within this massive red brick school located deep within the south Brooklyn neighborhood.

It was there that he discovered that it was OK to be proud of his background and where he revered Sandy Koufax, the Jewish pitcher for the Dodgers who refused to play on Yom Kippur. And on Sunday, Mr. Schumer, the New York Democrat, majority leader, and highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, returned to explain how his upbringing in Jewish Brooklyn in the shadow of the Holocaust prompted him to deliver a politically risky speech that brought about a watershed moment in the politics of U.S.-Israeli relations.

He explained that his upbringing in Brooklyn helped him to understand the significance of the Holocaust. In an interview, Mr. Schumer expressed his sentiments by saying, “This is so much a part of my core, my soul, my neshama.” Neshama is the Hebrew term for soul. ‘This may hurt me politically; this may help me politically,’ I told myself. ‘This may even benefit me politically.’ If I didn’t do it, I really wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror.

Sam Mangel, the prison consultant that Navarro engaged to prepare for his incarceration, provided the following statement to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday night’s episode of “The Source”: “When I picked him up this morning, he was ready to go.” According to what he said, “I believe that he presented himself very well and very strong this morning.” However, it is only reasonable for anyone who is likely to be sent to a federal jail to be anxious. Any and all control is lost. No matter who you are, I don’t care. Whatever your profile is, I don’t care about it. You are nothing more than a number when you are inside.

Additionally, Mangel stated that he has conversed with a few of his other clients who are currently residing in the facility, and they have informed him that Navarro is “doing fine today.” As a result of federal provisions that permit the early release of certain prisoners, it is anticipated that Navarro will serve a sentence of ninety days in prison. According to what Mangel said earlier to CNN, he had the expectation of being placed in a dormitory that was air-conditioned and reserved for “elderly” male convicts.

According to him, there will be “no privacy in the dorm,” and the dormitory has bunk beds that can accommodate eighty solitary males. “It has the potential to be terrifying and threatening. On the other hand, he is going to be completely safe,” Mangel stated. Not only will Navarro be able to use email and make phone calls, but he will also have access to televisions that have been installed in the prison. These televisions will enable him to pay attention to the news. This particular prison is one of the oldest in the nation, and it is located right adjacent to the zoo that serves the city. According to Mangel, “Not only are you able to hear the lions, but you are also able to hear the roar of the lions every morning.”

Peter Navarro, a former adviser to Donald Trump who was found guilty of contempt of Congress in the previous year, is scheduled to surrender on Tuesday at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami in order to begin serving his sentence of four months. A press conference was staged by Navarro in the parking lot of a strip mall, which is located directly across the street from the institution, before he turned himself in. In the vicinity of a Papa John’s, Navarro delivered a lengthy speech in which he vented his frustrations against the government and his trial, portraying himself as a victim of political persecution.

The statement that Navarro made was, “I will walk proudly in there to do my time.” “This will serve as a source of inspiration for me: Donald John Trump is the leading candidate.” Navarro, who was actively involved in Trump’s attempts to overturn his loss in the presidential election of 2020 in the lead-up to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, was found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating the attack on January 6. He had been given the instruction to turn himself in to the Bureau of Prisons by Tuesday at two o’clock Eastern Time.

In response to the question of whether or not he had communicated with Trump prior to his arrest, Navarro asserted that he had “executive privilege” regarding his communications with Trump, who is not the president of the United States at the present time. “I’m going to claim executive privilege on the Donald Trump conversations,” Navarro told reporters, alluding to conversations he had with Trump, who stepped down as the head of the executive branch on January 20, 2021, more than three years ago. Navarro’s statement was made in reference to conversations about Trump.

The Supreme Court denied his bid for a reprieve at the eleventh hour, and his surrender comes just hours after that decision. Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., determined that Navarro had successfully “not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment or a reduced sentence of imprisonment that is less than the amount of time already served plus the expected duration of the appeal process.”

Peter Navarro, a former White House staffer to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami. He is the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction. This represents a significant milestone in the history of the United States. In response to his refusal to cooperate with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee that was conducting an investigation into the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Navarro was given a sentence of four months in jail.

After speaking for thirty minutes at a gas station, Navarro referred to the case against him as a “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.” This conversation took place before Navarro reported to jail. He asserted that the legal strategies that were employed against him would be utilized against Trump as well with the following: “Right now, I am feeling angry, and that is exactly how I am feeling.”

“God bless you all, and I will see you on the other side,” Navarro said as he came to a point. His conviction was an exceptional instance of a member of Trump’s closest circle being held accountable by the criminal court system for their resistance to investigation. His conviction marked a breakthrough in the case. The sentence that Navarro was sentenced to serve in jail comes at a time when Trump himself has not yet been held accountable for the myriad offenses that he is accused of committing.

“It’s historic, and it will be to future White House aides who get subpoenaed by Congress,” said Stanley Brand, a former House general counsel who now represents Navarro as one of his defense lawyers. Brand made this statement on Monday. In the event that Navarro is punished for dodging a House investigation, the leverage that lawmakers will have to secure cooperation in their investigations would be increased. This will be the case under administrations of both parties.

The two branches of government have been playing a game of chicken for decades over the protections that surround the presidency and how Congress can enforce its subpoena. There have been incentives on both sides to negotiate towards a deal rather than test the monumental questions of executive privilege and immunity in court. This game of chicken has been going on for decades.

Following the detention of Navarro in criminal contempt and the referral of him to the Department of Justice, the Justice Department took the unusual step of prosecuting a former White House adviser for blowing off a congressional subpoena. This action was taken in response to the prodding of Congress. The prosecution stated that Navarro’s complete refusal to comply with the demands made by the parliamentarians placed him in a position that was very different from the customary back-and-forth that other former officials have had with lawmakers on their participation in congressional investigations.

A last-ditch effort was made by Navarro to seek assistance from the Supreme Court in the hopes that it would delay his decision to self-surrender to prison. “The prosecution of a senior presidential advisor asserting executive privilege conflicts with the constitutional independence required by the doctrine of separation of powers,” his attorneys stated in a letter to the Supreme Court of the United States. This is the first time that the Department of Justice has ever reached the conclusion that a senior presidential advisor might be punished for contempt of congress following an assertion of executive privilege. This was not the case prior to the prosecution of Dr. Navarro.

His counsel also brought up Anne Gorsuch, the mother of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who, during her time as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1980s, was held in contempt by the United States House of Representatives but was never prosecuted for her actions. On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts denied Navarro’s plea to have the case evaluated. In spite of his best efforts, Navarro has never been able to demonstrate that the knowledge he possesses concerning the 2020 election would have been protected by presidential privilege.

Elizabeth Prelogar, the Solicitor General of the United States, responded to the justices by stating that even if the applicant were to successfully assert their right to privilege, it would not justify their complete failure to comply with the subpoena.

Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Majority, expressed his disapproval of former President Donald Trump’s reaction to the New York Democrat’s address on Israel. Schumer stated that the remarks made by the presumed nominee of the Republican Party for president were “sick,” “hateful,” and featured antisemitic stereotypical expressions. According to Schumer, who made the statement on Tuesday, “The former president’s comments were utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of antisemitism facing Jews, pushing the dangerous antisemitism trope of dual loyalty.”

The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States proceeded by saying, “It is sick to say that you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other.” Antisemitism in its purest form, it is a form of hatred, and it serves the purpose of using Israel as a political wedge, which further deteriorates the relationship between the United States and Israel. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Majority, expressed his disapproval of former President Donald Trump’s reaction to the New York Democrat’s address on Israel. Schumer stated that the remarks made by the presumed nominee of the Republican Party for president were “sick,” “hateful,” and featured antisemitic stereotypical expressions.

According to Schumer, who made the statement on Tuesday, “The former president’s comments were utterly disgusting and a textbook example of the kind of antisemitism facing Jews, pushing the dangerous antisemitism trope of dual loyalty.” The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States proceeded by saying, “It is sick to say that you hate Israel or your religion because you have one political view over the other.” Antisemitism in its purest form, it is a form of hatred, and it serves the purpose of using Israel as a political wedge, which further deteriorates the relationship between the United States and Israel.

There were a number of different reactions that Senate Republicans provided on Tuesday in response to the statement made by their party’s presumed presidential nominee earlier this week that Jewish voters who support Democrats are anti-Israel. At least two senators stated that they had not seen the statements, which referenced a stereotype that American Jews had dual loyalties between the United States and Israel. A few senators voiced their disapproval of the words made by former President Donald Trump, while others appeared to agree with him.

During the time that Trump was in power, other senators responded with what became a regular refrain: they stated that it was a terrible choice of words without outright denouncing him. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, responded to Trump’s remarks by saying, “I wouldn’t say any of that.” Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota, stated, “It’s not what I would say.”

Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, made a similar suggestion, stating that Trump might use “more artful language.” However, he argued that he is “not wrong about, I think, Democratic leaders’ failing the Israeli state and, and second-guessing them.” John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota who serves as the Senate Minority Whip, stated that he had not closely followed Trump’s remarks but added that he “speaks his mind.”

When asked if Trump need to tone down the vitriol he has been using this week, Thune responded that he would “prefer to keep people’s religious faith out of these discussions.” During an interview with Sebastian Gorka, a former official in the Trump administration, President Trump made the statement that “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” This statement was the spark that went off the firestorm.

Trump continued by saying, “They despise everything about Israel, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves, because Israel will be destroyed,” before moving on to discuss Iran’s aspirations to develop nuclear weapons capabilities. Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah and a frequent critic of President Trump, provided some of the most severe criticism of the remarks made by Trump.

In a fiercely contested primary on Tuesday, Bernie Moreno, a wealthy former car dealer and political newcomer, rode the endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump to victory. The primary was held to determine which Ohio Republican would face incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown, the last Democrat to hold elective statewide office in the state that is becoming increasingly Republican. Moreno’s victory was accomplished by riding the endorsement of Trump. In a victory that once again demonstrated the power of Mr. Trump’s support among Republican primary voters, Mr. Moreno defeated State Senator Matt Dolan, whose family is a majority owner of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, as well as Frank LaRose, the Secretary of State of Ohio.

It is not often that a race has been so clearly divided between the traditional Republican establishment and the new Trump wing of the party, and once again, the movement represented by the former president emerged victorious. In the event that he were to be elected in November, Mr. Moreno, who would be one of the wealthiest members of the Senate and the only member of the Senate to be born in South America, claimed, “We are the party of the future.” Our party is the one that is going to be responsible for reestablishing the middle class in this country.

The response that Mr. Brown provided was, “The choice that Ohio faces is crystal clear: Bernie Moreno has spent his entire career and campaign putting himself first, and he would continue to do the same if he were elected.” It all comes down to whatever side you’re on when it comes to elections, and I’ll always be working for Ohio. According to Mr. Trump, this was yet another victory. For Mr. Dolan, this was his second defeat at the hands of a political novice who was supported by Trump. In 2022, the novelist and investor J.D. Vance defeated him in the primary election for the seat that Senator Rob Portman was scheduled to retire from. Vance went on to win the general election that subsequent fall.

In stumping for Mr. Dolan, Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican governor, tried to make the case that Mr. Dolan was the best candidate to take on Mr. Brown, whose blue-collar appeal and well-established political persona could be tough to beat, even in a state where Mr. Trump won the last two presidential elections by more than eight percentage points each time.

When the past president has been involved in a situation, however, electability has rarely been able to triumph over loyalty in the Trump era. Mr. Moreno bombarded the airwaves of Ohio with advertising that attacked Mr. Dolan for what he referred to as an inadequate degree of support for Mr. Trump’s border policy. While Mr. Trump was rallying voters for Mr. Moreno over the weekend outside of Dayton, he made headlines for declaring that certain migrants were “not people” and for predicting that there would be “a blood bath” if he lost in November. Both of these statements occurred with regard to the automotive industry.

As a result of a highly ugly primary campaign that culminated with a super PAC supporting Mr. Dolan and airing charges from an Associated Press investigation that he had once advertised on an adult website for male dates, Mr. Moreno will approach the general election with a reduced cash supply and a battered reputation. According to the campaign of Mr. Moreno, the profile on the pornographic website was intentionally made by an intern in 2008 as a joke. According to data on campaign finance, Mr. Moreno had raised a total of $9.7 million for his campaign, but there was less than $2.4 million left over at the end of February.

In the hours leading up to the conclusion of the primary election on Tuesday, the campaign for Derek Myers, a Republican candidate who is running for the seat representing Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District, made a number of humiliating errors, one of which was sending out an email containing a concession by accident. An email from the campaign headquarters of Myers, which was sent to several media outlets on Tuesday at approximately three o’clock in the afternoon Eastern Time, expressed regret that “tonight did not go as we had hoped.”

It was “from a private watch party in Chillicothe” that Myers expressed his excitement about the prospect of working together with the “Congressman-Elect” to ensure that President Trump is reelected to the White House by defeating President Biden. Ohio’s polls close at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).

“Listen, I’m in my thirties, and as I’ve told everyone around me during this campaign trial, ‘if I don’t win this race, that’s okay!'” The email had a statement from him that stated, “I have thirty to fifty more years left, and that’s if I live a good life.” “I’m looking forward to staying in the arena of Ohio politics and working with all Republicans to make Ohio great again!” A follow-up email was sent out by the campaign office of Myers less than ten minutes later, in which they admitted that the earlier email had been sent “in error, due to a technical issue.”

The email should be ignored, thank you. “I am grateful to you,” the second email states. A little over half an hour later, Myers sent out yet another email, this time providing a more in-depth explanation of what had transpired. The self-effacing headline that was included in the email that was sent was as follows: “So you wanna know what happened, eh?” Myers claimed that his campaign team had prepared two emails for the evening, saying “one declaring victory and one conceding the race.” Both of these emails were designed to be sent out.

Former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance on Tuesday, accompanied by her husband, Donald Trump, in order to cast her ballot in the Florida presidential primary. She also hinted at the possibility of returning to the campaign trail in the course of her visit. When Melania Trump was asked by a reporter if she was going to return on the campaign trail, she responded with a smile and said, “Stay tuned.” This comes at a time when the former president is attempting to return to the White House. After leaving a polling place in Palm Beach jointly, the Trumps had just reached their destination.

Since she attended the event that marked the launch of her husband’s campaign in November 2022, Melania Trump has not been seen engaging in political activity in favor of her husband’s third quest for the presidency. She even made the decision to skip the election night watch party that the former president had earlier this month on Super Tuesday at their Mar-a-Lago club, which is where the pair decides to make their home. Despite the fact that her husband is facing 88 accusations in four different cases, she has not been present in any of his several court appearances. She has also not appeared beside her husband. A question was posed to Donald Trump in the previous year regarding the possibility of his wife accompanying him on the campaign trail in the near future. He responded by saying that she would “pretty soon.”

Trump made these remarks during an appearance on Meet the Press on NBC in September. “She is a private person, a great person, a very confident person, and she loves our country very much,” Trump remarked. Because, to tell you the truth, I prefer to keep her away from it. “It is so vile and so contemptuous.” Since leaving Washington in January 2021, the former first lady has, for the most part, shunned the public eye; nevertheless, she has made a few appearances in public. In November, she was present at a memorial service held in Georgia for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. She joined current First Lady Jill Biden, as well as past First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, and Hillary Clinton, in paying tribute to Carter.

In addition, she delivered a speech during a naturalization ceremony that took place in December at the National Archives in Washington. During her statement, Melania Trump spoke in a manner that was unusually personal about the hurdles she faced in navigating the complex legal system and the tough process of becoming a citizen of the United States of America. She did not make any mention of her husband, who has committed to expand hard-line policies on a widespread scale if he is elected again. These policies would restrict immigration in both the legal and illegal categories.