National News

Will sanction Russia ‘as soon as they very much deserve it’: Trump

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said that nobody had been tougher on Russia than him and that he’d slap new sanctions on Moscow “as soon as they very much deserve it”.

The mainstream media had failed to take notice of his actions against Russia, he said.

“Yes. We’ll do sanctions as soon as they very much deserve it. There’s been nobody tougher on Russia than President Donald Trump,” Mr. Trump told reporters at a joint Mar-a-Lago news conference with the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

“There has been nobody tougher than me. With the media, no matter what I did, its never tough enough because that’s their narrative. But Russia will tell you there has been nobody tougher than Donald Trump,” he said.

Mr. Trump was responding to a question on the remarks by the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, that US will impose sanctions on Russia on Monday. The White House later denied the claim.

State News

Raja stokes fresh controversy with remark against Kanimozhi

BJP national secretary H. Raja on Wednesday triggered a row by insinuating in a tweet that DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi was an “illegitimate child”. His tweet drew an angry response from DMK cadre, who set his effigy afire at some places. Other political leaders also condemned his remarks.

A day after Governor Banwarilal Purohit addressed a press conference, Mr. Raja tweeted asking whether the journalists who raised many questions at the press meet would come forward to pose similar questions “to a leader who had nominated his illegitimate child to Rajya Sabha.” Though he did not name Ms. Kanimozhi, the reference was too obvious. “They will not. The memories of Chidambaram Udayakumar, Anna Nagar Ramesh and Perambalur Sathik Batcha would intimidate them,” he said in his tweet, referring to the death of these persons under controversial circumstances.

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