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      John Kelly advierte que Trump gobernaría como un dictador

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      El ex jefe de gabinete que estuvo más tiempo en la Casa Blanca de Donald Trump, dijo que creía que el candidato republicano se ajusta a la definición de un fascista.Pocos altos funcionarios pasaron más tiempo a puerta cerrada en la Casa Blanca con el presidente Donald Trump que John Kelly, el general retirado del Cuerpo de Marines que fue su jefe de gabinete durante más tiempo.Con el día de las elecciones cerca, Kelly —muy molesto por los comentarios recientes de Trump sobre el uso del ejército contra sus oponentes nacionales— accedió a mantener tres conversaciones grabadas con un periodista de The New York Times sobre el expresidente, en las que hizo algunos de sus comentarios más amplios hasta la fecha sobre la idoneidad y el carácter de Trump.Kelly fue secretario de Seguridad Nacional bajo el mandato de Trump antes de trasladarse a la Casa Blanca en julio de 2017. Trabajó para cumplir la agenda de Trump durante casi un año y medio. Fue un periodo tumultuoso en el que recibió críticas internas debido a su propio desempeño y se sintió desencantado y angustiado por la conducta del presidente, que en ocasiones consideró que era inapropiada y que reflejaba que no comprendía la Constitución.En las entrevistas, Kelly habló de las preocupaciones que ha expresado anteriormente y subrayó que, en su opinión, los votantes deberían tener en cuenta la aptitud y el carácter a la hora de elegir a un presidente, incluso más que las posturas de un candidato sobre los diferentes temas.“En muchos casos, estaría de acuerdo con algunas de sus políticas”, dijo, haciendo hincapié en que, como exmilitar, no respaldaba oficialmente a ningún candidato. “Pero, insisto, es muy peligroso que se elija a la persona equivocada para un alto cargo”.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      G7 Finalizes $50 Billion Ukraine Loan Backed by Russian Assets

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      The economic lifeline is expected to be disbursed by the end of the year.The Group of 7 nations will announce on Wednesday that it has finalized plans to give Ukraine a $50 billion loan using Russia’s frozen central bank assets, according to a White House official.The loan represents an extraordinary maneuver by Western nations to essentially force Russia to pay for the damage it is inflicting on Ukraine through a war that shows no sign of ending.“Never before has a multilateral coalition frozen the assets of an aggressor country and then harnessed the value of those assets to fund the defense of the aggrieved party,” Daleep Singh, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for international economics, said on Wednesday.The announcement comes after months of debate and negotiation among policymakers in the United States and Europe over how they could use $300 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to support Ukraine.The United States and the European Union enacted sanctions to freeze Russia’s central bank assets, most of which are held in Europe, after its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. As the war dragged on, officials in the United States pushed for the funds to be seized and given directly to Ukraine to aid in its economic recovery.European officials had concerns about the lawfulness of such a move, however, and both sides eventually agreed over the summer that they would use the interest that the assets were earning to back a $50 billion loan.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      5 Takeaways From Harris’s Interview With NBC News

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      Vice President Kamala Harris continued her busy schedule of news media interviews on Tuesday, sitting down with Hallie Jackson of NBC News to discuss how she would distinguish herself from President Biden and whether she thought race and gender were shaping the public’s response to her.Ms. Harris largely stuck to safe territory, declining to engage with questions about whether she would pardon former President Donald J. Trump or how her administration would operate if Republicans controlled both chambers in Congress.But she did try to push back when Ms. Jackson noted that her defense of transgender rights — an issue that Mr. Trump has tried to use as a wedge — has been less than full-throated.Here are five takeaways from the interview.No matter the electoral risk, she’s staying loyal to Biden.Ms. Harris was again given an opportunity to break from Mr. Biden, the unpopular incumbent.Again, she did not take it.When Ms. Jackson asked if the Biden administration was “an obstacle to you in this race,” Ms. Harris responded by addressing the cost of living and expressing her loyalty to Mr. Biden. She did not provide substantive policy differences.“Let me be very clear: Mine will not be a continuation of the Biden administration,” Ms. Harris said. “I bring my own experiences, my own ideas to it, and it has informed a number of my areas of focus.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Biden Quickly Backtracks After Saying Trump Should Be Locked Up

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      President Biden said on Tuesday that former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be locked up, before quickly amending his comment to say he meant locked up “politically.”Mr. Biden was speaking at a local Democratic campaign office in Concord, N.H., when he appeared to slip by suggesting he wanted his predecessor put behind bars. While Mr. Trump as a candidate and president has regularly used such language about his opponents, Mr. Biden typically refrains from that kind of talk to avoid fueling Republicans’ claims that he is prosecuting his adversary.“We got to lock him up,” Mr. Biden said at the campaign office, where he dropped by after a speech on health care elsewhere in Concord.Seeming to catch himself, he quickly added: “Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That’s what we have to do.”Mr. Biden was making an argument he has for years about Mr. Trump’s lack of commitment to the Constitution. “Our democracy is at stake,” he said. “Think about it. Think about what would happen if Donald Trump wins this election.”Mr. Trump’s campaign quickly seized on the comment as proof of his contention that the various prosecutions against him were simply partisan persecution.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Walz Rallies Supporters on Wisconsin’s First Day of Voting, Alongside Obama

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      Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota raced across battleground Wisconsin on Tuesday, exhorting voters to get to the polls on the state’s first day of early voting and just two weeks before Election Day.At a rally in Madison, Mr. Walz appeared alongside former President Barack Obama for the first time on the campaign trail, giving Mr. Obama a bro hug onstage. The two took turns, in successive speeches, laying into former President Donald J. Trump and stressing the urgency of the moment to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, who leads the Democratic presidential ticket with Mr. Walz.“Our team is running like everything is on the line, because everything’s on the line,” Mr. Walz told the crowd of thousands at an event center. He urged voters to avoid complacency, suggesting that a second term for Mr. Trump would be even more chaotic than the first and that he was “far more dangerous” now.“He is not the 2016 Donald Trump — this is a brand-new version,” Mr. Walz said. “The consequences of putting him back into office are deadly serious.”In Racine on Tuesday night, he addressed comments from John Kelly, a former Trump chief of staff, who said recently that Mr. Trump had told him during his presidency that he wished he had generals like Adolf Hitler’s. “As a 24-year veteran of our military, that makes me sick as hell,” Mr. Walz said. “The guardrails are gone. Trump is descending into this madness.”In Madison, Mr. Obama was lighthearted as he began, making jokes and telling the audience that Mr. Walz was “the kind of person who should be in politics.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Exploring the Failures in the Mideast

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      More from our inbox:Disgusted by Trump’s Lewd Comments at RallyLessons From BaseballQueen Esther’s Legacy Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesTo the Editor:Re “Biden’s Moral Failure on Israel,” by Peter Beinart (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 11):There is much about Israel’s behavior toward Arabs to be condemned, but the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, cannot be ignored. Israel had a right to retaliate, and the fact that Hamas refuses to stop fighting gives Israel the right to continue fighting.Hamas could have just stopped sending missiles toward Israel but it has not. Hamas killed 1,200 people on Oct. 7. The nightmare of Gaza was started by Hamas and can be finished by Hamas.The nightmare of the West Bank is another story, and there is much blame to be placed on Israel. Until the Israeli government is changed there will be no solution.The politics of the United States is in the middle of this problem, and there is no easy way to deal with it. I believe that if Kamala Harris wins she will be able to be more forceful with the Israelis, but unfortunately, she will have no ability to force Hamas to come to the table.President Biden has not been able to take Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, out of the picture. Only the Israelis can do that, and perhaps once our election is over, they might be able to effect a solution.Leonard ZivitzFullerton, Calif.To the Editor:I am so grateful to Peter Beinart for calling out President Biden’s failure to stand in the way of the sprawling, ethnocentric ambitions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Passed Up for the Ticket, Josh Shapiro Tries to Deliver Pennsylvania for Harris

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      Pennsylvania’s governor may not be on the verge of the vice presidency, but he says he has everything — including his “heart and soul” — riding on a Kamala Harris victory.Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania bounded off a big blue bus on Saturday afternoon with the other two governors of the critical “blue wall” states — Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Tony Evers of Wisconsin — and headed down a steep hill to greet a gathering of Democratic canvassers in a park outside Pittsburgh.It was the third of four stops that unseasonably warm, clear day for their Blue Wall bus tour. Though all three governors lead political battlegrounds critical to Vice President Kamala Harris’s chance at winning the presidency, only Mr. Shapiro came within a whisper of being on the ticket that they are now trying to elect.But if there were any lingering resentments, or even disappointment, it was not obvious that day, nor is it evident in his punishing schedule of campaign appearances, interviews, advertising shoots, fund-raisers and behind-the-scenes outreach efforts for Ms. Harris and fellow Democrats.Mr. Shapiro, his voice straining for emphasis, stressed what he sees as at stake in the election, for the nation, for his state and for him personally.“I want to be really clear about something: This is not just about the politics of winning a race,” Mr. Shapiro said in an interview in Baldwin Township, a suburb nestled in the wooded hills just south of Pittsburgh.Speaking of his own experience repeatedly suing the Trump administration as the commonwealth’s attorney general and then battling the Trump campaign as it tried to overturn the 2020 election, Mr. Shapiro called former President Donald J. Trump “a dangerous guy.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More