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Trump’s chief of staff suggests real goal of US boat strikes is to topple Venezuela’s Maduro – live

Susie Wiles says Trump wants to keep ‘blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle’ in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair

Wiles also said she had told Donald Trump that his second term was not supposed to be a retribution tour.

We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” she said in an interview in March.

I mean, people could think it does look vindictive. I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that.

I don’t think he [Trump] wakes up thinking about retribution. But when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.

Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.

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Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities

15 December 2025 at 14:21

President’s statement blaming acclaimed director’s death on his dislike of him described as ‘disgusting’ and ‘vile’

Celebrities and lawmakers from both of the US’s major political parties are condemning Donald Trump after the president blamed the death of Rob Reiner on what he described as the acclaimed Hollywood director’s dislike of him.

After the apparent killings of Reiner, 78, and his 68-year-old wife, Michele, who were found dead at their home Sunday in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, Trump took to social media to call the director “tortured and struggling”. Trump also claimed Reiner died “due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”.

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Brown University shooting: authorities releasing sole person of interest

15 December 2025 at 00:31

At least two people were killed and nine others injured in Saturday attack that occurred in engineering building on Providence, Rhode Island campus

A person of interest detained after a mass shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine is being released after the investigation took law enforcement authorities in a “different direction,” officials said Sunday night.

The disclosure, made at a hastily convened late night news conference, represents a stunning turn of events in an investigation into killings that rattled the Ivy League campus, and came more than 12 hours after officials had announced that they had taken a person into custody.

The Rhode Island attorney general, Peter Neronha, said of the man who was detained earlier, there is “no basis to consider him a person of interest.”

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