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In response to a question on Wednesday morning about how long Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, will hold on before re-starting strikes on Iran, Trump said: “He’s fine. He’ll do whatever I want him to do.”

Trump also cited a poll that gave him 99% approval in Israel. Guardian US has not yet verified this poll.

Donald Trump wants a party in his own image and likeness. He does not tolerate dissent. The president of the United States enforces his will with an iron fist to control Republicans. He has gradually sidelined every rebellious congressman and senator who ignored his orders or opposed his wishes. This Tuesday he offered another example. Ed Gallrein, a nondescript 68-year-old farmer and former member of the Navy SEALs who ran a low-key campaign, defeated Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who had challenged Trump.

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Donald Trump displayed his supremacy over the Republican party on Tuesday when voters in northern Kentucky rejected the maverick congressman Thomas Massie in favour of the US president’s hand-picked challenger.

Ed Gallrein, a retired navy Seal and farmer who was recruited into the race by Trump, defeated the seven-term incumbent in a primary election in Kentucky’s fourth congressional district in what the president’s allies framed as a test of whether dissent could still exist inside today’s Republican party.

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Trump told reporters he is giving Iran until the weekend or early next week, to make a deal to end the war.

He said that yesterday he was within an hour of deciding to resume bombing Iran but that his negotiators had reported progress in talks.

I never tell anybody when. But they knew that we were very close. I would say we were. I was an hour away from making the decision to go today, and we would probably not be talking about a beautiful ballroom today. We’d be talking about that.

I had made the decision, so they called up. They had heard I made the decision. They said, sir, could you give us a couple of more days because we think they’re being reasonable.

Well, I mean, I’m saying 2 or 3 days, maybe Friday, Saturday, Sunday something. Maybe early next week, a limited period of time, because we can’t let them have a new nuclear weapon.

U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing for a crucial electoral battle this Tuesday in Kentucky, one that would guarantee him a firm grip on the Republican Party in Congress. After ousting Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy this weekend — one of the seven Republicans who tried to impeach him in 2021 — Trump hopes to eliminate Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman from Kentucky who is challenging him in Congress.

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