Donald Trump

How Currencies May Become Next Global Battleground

President Donald Trump's renewed focus on what he calls "unfair" exchange rates could presage a new global battlefield that has the potential to do great damage to the world economy.Trump has spent two years attacking the underpinnings o...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

US Sanctions on Khamenei Means End of Diplomacy, says Iran

New US sanctions against Iran's supreme leader and foreign minister have closed off diplomacy, Iran said on Tuesday, blaming the United States for abandoning the only route to peace just days after the two foes came within minutes of con...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Why Donald Trump is Backing the US into a Corner on Iran

 After Iran shot down a US drone that allegedly entered Iran’s airspace, Donald Trump signed new sanctions against Iran on June 24, including against its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The move came days after the US president took to Twi...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

G20: US-China Trade War Points to the Real Crisis that Global Leaders Must Confront

On June 28 and 29, the G20 summit will convene for the 14th time in Osaka, Japan. This gathering of leaders from the world’s leading economies, including the EU, plus invited guests and international organisations, ought to offer an impo...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

How Congress Lost Power Over Trade Deals – and Why Some Lawmakers Want It Back

Some in Congress want to wrest control of trade policy back from the president. It might surprise you to learn that lawmakers ever had it. Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countrie...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

US-China Trade War is Making China Stronger

The United States and China have reached a truce in their escalating trade war. Following a meeting between US president, Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping at the G20, the two leaders agreed to renew talks. Tariffs, wh...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

U.S. Envoys Assume Key Africa Posts – But Not South Africa

Career U.S. ambassadors are taking up key diplomatic assignments across Africa following confirmation by the Senate earlier this month. These include envoys to Nigeria, Egypt, Libya, Cote d'Ivoire and the African Union, as well as Malawi...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

What Is An Inverted Yield Curve? Why Is It Panicking Markets, and Why Is There Talk of Recession?

Since President Trump tweeted about imposing new tariffs on China, global equity markets have gone into a tailspin. Trump’s more recent announcement that the new tariffs would be delayed has not calmed the markets, with recent days seein...

Mark Crosby·over 4 years ago

Suspension of US aid to Ethiopia is yet another example of Trump’s disregard for Africa

America’s Department of State recently suspended $130 million worth of aid to Ethiopia because of “a lack of progress” on negotiations pertaining to the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the River Nile. According to ...

Yohannes Gedamu·over 3 years ago

Whats Trending ? US citizens go the polls

Election Day in the United States is officially under way. The spotlight is on the race for the White House between President Donald Trump, who is seeking a second term, and Democrat Joe Biden. The two candidates have dominated headlines...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

The Nelson Mandela Foundation is Thrilled to See Trump Descend The Throne.

The Nelson Mandela foundation has expressed it' s excitement with the election of the new United States President Joe Biden. In a statement they have congratulated the new President-elect Joe as well as Vice-President elect Kamala Ha...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

Trump’s legacy in Africa and what to expect from Biden

Donald Trump was propelled to the US presidency by promising to rewrite globalisation rules. This included restricting trade when it directly hurt the US, clamping down on immigration, and reducing commitments to the global order. His ad...

Francis Owusu & Padraig Carmody ·over 3 years ago

Was it a coup? No, but siege on US Capitol was the election violence of a fragile democracy

Did the United States just have a coup attempt? Supporters of President Donald Trump, following his encouragement, stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. Waving Tr...

Clayton Besaw and Matthew Frank ·over 3 years ago

Despite the end of Title 42, restrictions on asylum seekers are expected to continue under Biden administration

A Trump administration immigration order, Title 42, that allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants at the U.S. southern border – with no exceptions for asylum-seekers – expires May 11, 2023. But its legacy of restricting as...

Ernesto Castañeda Associate Professor of Sociology, American University·12 months ago

Trump’s free speech faces court-ordered limits, like any other defendants

A 90-minute court hearing on Aug. 11, 2023, that would have been routine in almost any other case was, in fact, historic. It was the first time lawyers prosecuting and defending former President Donald Trump on charges he attempted to ov...

Thomas A. Durkin Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago·9 months ago

Trump’s unprecedented call for protests is the latest sign of his aim to degrade America’s institutions

In a social media post on March 18, 2023, former President Donald Trump announced that he would be arrested on March 21 on charges stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg’s office is probing h...

Shelley Inglis Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton·about 1 year ago

Zuma and Trump: Half a World Apart, Yet Similarly Paranoid and Dangerous

Within the space of a few days, we have been subjected to bizarre but carefully staged performances by US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma. Trump has spewed racist hate-speech against four Democratic P...

Roger Southall·almost 5 years ago

Fulton County charges Donald Trump with racketeering, other felonies

An Atlanta, Georgia, grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on Aug. 14, 2023, charging him with racketeering and 12 other felonies related to his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state.

Anthony Michael Kreis Assistant professor of law, Georgia State University·9 months ago

Trump indictment: Here’s how prosecutors will try to prove he knowingly lied and intended to break the law

What was Donald Trump thinking when he set about trying to maintain the presidency after losing it to Joe Biden?

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard University·9 months ago

Trump’s political action committee wants a $60 million refund on paying his legal fees – 3 key things to know about PACs

Save America, one of former President Donald Trump’s political organizations, is seeking a US$60 million refund from Make America Great Again, Inc., another Trump political organization that is less strictly regulated by federal rules.

Richard Briffault Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation, Columbia University·9 months ago

America: No Longer A City on A Hill

On Tuesday Americans went to the polls to decide on who will lead them for the next four years. However, it was more than just a choice between President Donald Trump or Former Vice President Joe Biden. It is a choice between differen...

Musa Mdunge ·over 3 years ago

A public perp walk into a Manhattan courtroom could energize – not humiliate – Donald Trump

Manhattan may be the scene of the perp walk of the century on April 4, 2023, when former President Donald Trump answers to his recent indictment and turns himself in to authorities in court.

Mary Angela Bock Associate Professor of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin·about 1 year ago

Do federal or state prosecutors get to go first in trying Trump? A law professor untangles the conflict

A federal grand jury in Florida indicted former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, on multiple criminal charges related to classified documents he took from the White House to his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, according to multiple s...

Darryl K. Brown Professor of Law, University of Virginia·11 months ago

Targeting Trump for prosecution - 4 essential reads on how the Jan. 6 investigation laid the groundwork for the special counsel

With the news on July 18, 2023, that Special Counsel Jack Smith had informed former President Donald Trump that he was a target of the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and the related Jan. 6, ...

Naomi Schalit Democracy Editor, The Conversation US·9 months ago

Trump indictment won’t keep him from presidential race, but will make his reelection bid much harder

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The specific state charges, reports The New York Times, “remain a mystery” but will be related to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Trump for maki...

Stefanie Lindquist Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University·about 1 year ago

Prosecuting a former president is not an easy decision. A criminal law professor explains why

The question of whether to indict a former U.S. president is a difficult one. And yet, a state prosecutor has charged Donald Trump with violating New York business laws. And a federal prosecutor has charged Trump with violating national ...

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard University·11 months ago

Cameras in the court: Why most Trump trials won’t be televised

Americans will have few opportunities to binge-watch the Donald J. Trump trials. It is unlikely the four court proceedings facing the former president will be televised live, with the exception of the case in Georgia, which favors publi...

David Cuillier Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida·8 months ago

8 GOP candidates debate funding to Ukraine, Trump’s future and – covertly, with dog whistles – race

After weeks of speculation over who was going to participate, eight Republican candidates seeking their party’s presidential nomination appeared on stage together in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023, for the first debate of the 2024 election s...

Jordan Tama Associate Professor of international relations, American University School of International Service·8 months ago

‘Idiots,’ ‘criminals’ and ‘scum’ – nasty politics highest in US since the Civil War

Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.” This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mish...

Thomas Zeitzoff Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University·10 months ago

Trump faces additional charges – 4 essential reads to understand the case against him for hoarding classified documents

Former President Donald Trump was indicted yet again on July 27, 2023, by federal prosecutors. While many were anticipating an imminent indictment related to Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when a group of his followers violently storme...

Naomi Schalit Democracy Editor, The Conversation US·9 months ago

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

During his presidency, Donald Trump said, “We’re putting America first … we’re taking care of ourselves for a change,” and then declared, “I’m a nationalist.” In another speech, he stated that under his watch, the U.S. had “embraced the ...

Joshua Holzer Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College·10 months ago

Where will Trump go on trial first? How federal and state prosecutors and judges work out conflicts

If a person is charged by federal and state prosecutors – or prosecutors in different states – at the same time, which case goes first?

Darryl K. Brown Professor of Law, University of Virginia·8 months ago

Presidential pauses? What those ‘ums’ and ‘uhs’ really tell us about candidates for the White House

Nine. That is the number of “uhs” that former President Barack Obama uttered in a period of two minutes during a 2012 presidential debate. Other Obama “uh” counters, such as University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman, clocked him ...

Valerie M. Fridland Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno·8 months ago

Trump indictment: How South Africa set the precedent for the West

All eyes were on the United States of America (USA), as the country's former head of state had his day in court. Donald Trump, is facing over 30 counts of falsifying his business records, as well as the hush-money he allegedly paid to ad...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

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