Trump-backed candidate wins primary to face Jon Ossoff in Georgia midterms – US politics live

Republican primary runoff voters chose US representative Mike Collins to face Ossoff in November Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump’s pick to face rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s midterm election for senator later this year swept to victory last night. Donald Trump laid into Benjamin Netanyahu , telling a news conference at the G7 summit in France that the Israeli prime minister “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”. The Republican-led US S
As he left Versailles on Wednesday night, after a dinner in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Donald Trump told reporters for French TV waiting outside that he had signed the memorandum of understanding with Iran in the former palace of French kings.
“Did you sign the deal? Did you sign the MOU?” reporters asked.
“It’s signed, yeah,” Trump cupped his hands and shouted to reporters. “I signed it in Versailles,” the president added, making a gesture of signature and pointing back to the palace.

On social media, the historian Kevin Kruse reacted with disbelief to the president signing the agreement to end his war in the same location where Germany was forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Versailles in 1919, accepting its loss in the first world war.
“He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles?” Kruse wrote . “Come the fuck on.”
The White House then released video of Trump adding his signature to the 14-point agreement at the dinner table in the palace.
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