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| President Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid to Palestinians | |
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| WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority was taking “hundreds of millions of dollars” in assistance from the United States while showing no “appreciation or respect,” a blunt criticism likely to escalate tensions in the Middle East. | |
| He also chided the Palestinians for not trying to strike a peace agreement with Israel. “But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them,” Mr. Trump said in Twitter messages posted Tuesday evening. | |
| By offering such direct criticism, the president again broke with the practice of his predecessors by conducting foreign policy in a one-way conversation on social media. Earlier in the day, he had again mocked North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, as “Rocket man” and added that United States sanctions and “other” pressure was beginning to hurt that isolated nation. | |
| He also used Twitter to threaten to withhold financial assistance to Pakistan and to weigh in on the unrest in Iran. “The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime,” he said. “All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their ‘pockets.’” | |
| Mr. Trump also began the new year by focusing on an old target, trying to revive interest in investigating Hillary Clinton and members of her presidential campaign. | |
| He wrote his first “Crooked Hillary” post on Tuesday morning, accusing a former Clinton aide of “disregarding basic security protocols,” and calling his own Justice Department a “deep state.” | |
| Attacking his former Democratic opponent from the 2016 presidential election and taking aim at his own Justice Department struck familiar tones for the new year. Almost 14 months after the 2016 presidential election, Mr. Trump has kept up a regular drumbeat of attacks on Mrs. Clinton. Last year, Mr. Trump also criticized the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not pursuing investigations of his political opponents. | |
| Tuesday morning’s Twitter post followed an article in The Daily Caller, a conservative publication that Mr. Trump closely monitors. The article said the aide, Huma Abedin, forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all three billion of its accounts. After the breach, the data was offered for sale by a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe. Mr. Trump also implored his administration to investigate Ms. Abedin. | Tuesday morning’s Twitter post followed an article in The Daily Caller, a conservative publication that Mr. Trump closely monitors. The article said the aide, Huma Abedin, forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all three billion of its accounts. After the breach, the data was offered for sale by a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe. Mr. Trump also implored his administration to investigate Ms. Abedin. |
| The term “deep state” typically refers to a shadow government of agency officials who secretly plot to influence policy. It is usually associated with countries that have authoritarian elements that undercut democratically elected leaders. | |
| On Friday, the State Department released about 3,000 of Ms. Abedin’s work-related emails. The emails were found on the laptop of Ms. Abedin’s now estranged husband, Anthony D. Weiner, and were released as part of a public records request. | On Friday, the State Department released about 3,000 of Ms. Abedin’s work-related emails. The emails were found on the laptop of Ms. Abedin’s now estranged husband, Anthony D. Weiner, and were released as part of a public records request. |
| The emails found on Mr. Weiner’s computer are a sore spot for Mrs. Clinton. James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, had notified Congress shortly before the 2016 election about the existence of newly discovered emails that could be relevant to the closed investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. | The emails found on Mr. Weiner’s computer are a sore spot for Mrs. Clinton. James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, had notified Congress shortly before the 2016 election about the existence of newly discovered emails that could be relevant to the closed investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. |
| Mrs. Clinton, in a book released last year, said Mr. Comey’s October 2016 disclosure hurt her campaign’s momentum and helped Mr. Trump win the election. | Mrs. Clinton, in a book released last year, said Mr. Comey’s October 2016 disclosure hurt her campaign’s momentum and helped Mr. Trump win the election. |
| In his Twitter post, Mr. Trump also referred to the case of a Navy sailor who was jailed for taking pictures inside a military submarine. According to a report in Fox News, the sailor had hoped to receive a pardon from the president, but has not. | In his Twitter post, Mr. Trump also referred to the case of a Navy sailor who was jailed for taking pictures inside a military submarine. According to a report in Fox News, the sailor had hoped to receive a pardon from the president, but has not. |