Washington – Faced with viral rumors about his imminent death, President Trump emerged in the Oval Office Tuesday alive and boginant. The basic principles of its economic policies were under pressure. Flashy diplomatic openings in Moscow seemed to turn against. And a scandal on a notorious sexual abuser who fixed his base roared in life in Washington.
It was a difficult week for the president, whose aggressive approach of his second term began to strike important roadblocks with the public and the courts, and abroad, with the longtime American opponents that Trump hoped once cajoler on his will.
The president called for an accelerated examination of the Supreme Court of a decision of the Court of Appeal according to which he had exceeded his authority by issuing radical world prices last spring – a decision which, if it had remained standing, could upset the foundations of its economic program. Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published employment numbers showing a labor market contraction in July, a first from the depths of the pandemic in 2020.
The new art that doubles a corridor in the West wing presents photographs from the Trump summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where Trump said that the Russian president had agreed to meet the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to discuss the end of the war. However, three weeks later, Russia had launched its most intense bombing in kyiv over the years, and Putin went to Beijing for a military parade organized by Xi Jinping, which the Russian state media used to make fun of the American president.
Friday afternoon, during an appearance at the Oval Office, Trump said that the end of the agreement to end the war between Russia and Ukraine turned out to be “a little more difficult” than he initially thought.
And a rare tour of Bipartisanship broke out on Capitol Hill – in opposition to the causes of Trump.
A hearing tense to the Senate finance committee with the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worried about the orientation of federal vaccination policy and public health recommendations under his leadership through the party’s parties.
Trump refused to hold behind him all the heart after the hearing. “He has little different ideas,” Trump told journalists, adding: “It’s not your standard speech.”
On Wednesday, a few moments after a group of more than 100 women pleaded for the help of Trump by the Capitol stages asking for transparency about the investigation into their alleged aggressor, Jeffrey Epstein, Trump rejected the issue as a “hoax” perpetrated by the Democrats.
“The Ministry of Justice has done its job, they gave everything they are asked,” Trump said on Truth Social on Friday. “It’s time to put an end to the Epstein Democrat hoax.”
Trump was friends close to Epstein for more than a decade. But his base has repeatedly called upon the release of thousands of files in his case – and some of Trump’s most common allies in the congress should vote against his wishes for a discharge petition ordering the Ministry of Justice to do so in the coming days.
A far -right political activist has published hidden hidden images this week of an official of the Ministry of Justice stating that the agency would expel the names of the Republicans, but not from the Democrats, identified in the files. In the video, the DOJ official also suggested that Epstein Partner Ghislaine Maxwell was recently transferred to a low -security prison in the context of an agreement to keep it silent.
Public support for Trump has appeared stable since July, with around 42% of Americans approving its performance at work in a series of high quality surveys. But the end of the August the recess in Washington – and the season coming from the flu and the COVVI -19 season – could give the public attention to the subjects who proved to be politically perilous for the president this week.
Surveys show that a majority of the president’s republican voters support vaccines. They oppose Putin and support Ukraine more and more. And through the political spectrum, the Americans want the Epstein files to be released, not expelled and in whole.
A series of justice losses
The president’s agenda has undergone several setbacks this week, while federal judges across the country have judged that its administration had violated the law in various cases.
In San Francisco, a federal judge ruled that the deployment by Trump of military troops in Los Angeles was illegal and prevented the soldiers from helping immigration arrests in California in an order which should come into force next week.
In Boston, a federal judge said that the Trump administration had violated the law when it frozen billions of dollars in research funds allocated to Harvard University. In another court decision, a judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from deporting dozens of unaccompanied migrant children in Guatemala.
Friday afternoon, a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from withdrawing deportation protections under temporary protection status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians living in the United States.
Although the court’s decisions represent a hook for key parties on the agenda of the administration, business continues to take place in court – and could finally turn to Trump.
Legal experts closely watch these decisions. In the case of deployments of military troops, for example, some fear that a reversal on appeal could ultimately give the wider president the power to send troops to American cities.
Trump has launched additional federal deployments – in Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans – in recent days.
Trump reacts to a bad week
Trump praised the waves of bad news with a characteristic mixture of deviation, fingers and anger.
He warned that the loss of his call for pricing policy at the Supreme Court would give back to the United States a “Third World Country”, saying to journalists: “If we do not win this affair, our country will suffer so much.” And he said he was “very disappointed” from Putin.
After the Beijing parade – which was also assisted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, a long -standing American ally now ostracized by Trump’s prices – drew general media attention, Trump wrote on social networks that countries conspired together against the United States.
“We have lost India and Russia against the deepest and darkest China,” he wrote.
On Friday, in another long position of social media, Trump accused Democrats of having fueled Epstein’s “hoax” as a means of “distracting the great success of a republican president”.
A few days earlier, the survivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse publicly put pressure on the legislators to support a legislative measure to force the release of the survey on sexual trafficking in the deceased financial.
“It is a question of putting an end to the secret wherever the abuse of power takes root,” said Anouska de Georgiou, who was one of the victims of Epstein who held a press conference on Capitol Hill.
Some high -level Republicans have also broken with Trump on Epstein’s issue, calling for greater transparency on the survey. Trump representative Ally Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia said she was ready to exhibit those linked to the Epstein sex traffic case.
During a phone call with Trump on Wednesday morning, Greene suggested that he meet the Epstein victims at the White House when they were gathered in town. He was not engaged, the member of the Congress told journalists.
The survivors left the city without a meeting. In the direction of the White House, Republican leaders continue to press Republican members to oppose efforts to publish the files.
