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 Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty ImagesKHARKIV, Ukraine—After months of infighting on Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden has finally been able to sign off on a huge new $61 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Delays to the bill, which got bogged down in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, were widely blamed for impacting Kyiv's ability to defend itself from Russian advances.
After its passage last week, some members of the House waved Ukrainian flags while others cheered in celebration that Ukraine will soon receive new weapons ahead of Russia's expected counteroffensive. Signing it into law at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, Biden promised the arms shipments would begin immediately and hailed what he called "a good day for world peace."
The reaction here, near the front lines of the war, felt very different.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Yuki Iwamura/GettyDonald Trump on Wednesday described a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as a "peanut" compared with the current wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations unfolding on college campuses across America.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican noted that his successor, Joe Biden, had cited the Unite the Right rally in Virginia as among his motives for running for president. One woman was killed and almost 40 other people were hurt when a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the rally—an event that Trump claimed at the time had been attended by "very fine people on both sides."
"Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville," Trump wrote in his post Wednesday. "Well, if that's the case, he's done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut' compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our Country, RIGHT NOW."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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