Swiss-born liberal megadonor slapped with lawsuit for allegedly groping, sexually harassing winery employee
Swiss billionaire and liberal megadonor Hansjörg Wyss is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from a now-former female employee in California who claims Wyss groped her, shared unwanted information about his sexual past and then ultimately retaliated against her when she denied his advances. Former Wyss employee Madison Busby, in a suit filed in San Luis Obispo County last month, claims that the 89-year-old Wyss “deliberately placed his hand on Ms. Busby’s butt and groped her” the first time she was introduced to him in 2019 by her future husband, Bryce Mullins. “Mr. Wyss proceeded to tell Mr. Mullins in Ms. Busby’s presence about how ‘good’ Ms. Busby’s butt looked in the dress she was wearing,” the lawsuit states. Mullins was working for the Wyss-owned Halter Ranch winery in Paso Robles, and Busby ultimately began working there in 2021. The lawsuit states that Busby did not speak up at first due to concerns that Mullins would lose his employment or standing. GOP BILL CRACKS DOWN ON ‘LOOPHOLE’ ALLOWING FOREIGN DONORS TO PUMP DARK MONEY INTO US ELECTIONS Over the next few years, the lawsuit alleges other harassment from Wyss, including “making several sexual propositions” including telling her “how much he enjoyed having a threesome” and suggesting they engage in a “foursome.” “Throughout 2021 and 2022, Mr. Wyss frequently shared unwelcome stories about his sexual exploits and various affairs with other women,” the lawsuit states. “In 2021, Mr. Wyss told Ms. Busby and Mr. Mullins about his many sexual affairs outside of his marriage and stated there was nothing wrong with affairs. He further said that Americans were ‘too uptight’ around those having affairs.” Other allegations include Wyss telling Busby about going to a movie theater with a woman named “Lori” and meeting a man he did not know and “initiated oral sex with him” before going back to her apartment and having a threesome. SWISS BILLIONAIRE HANSJÖRG WYSS RECENTLY POURED OVER $60M INTO PROPPING UP LEFT-WING GROUPS AND CAUSES Wyss is also alleged to have “subjected Ms. Busby to a live video of Lori while Mr. Wyss was having phone sex with her” and at one point told Busby “he often had phone sex with Lori and that she could orgasm multiple times just from ‘dirty talk.’” “He went on to tell Ms. Busby that he usually had phone sex at Halter Ranch with Lori because his wife was not around,” the lawsuit said. “Mr. Wyss mentioned to Ms. Busby that he wanted them to ‘Facetime’ Lori with him.” A spokesperson for Halter Winery dismissed the allegations as “not true,” telling Fox News Digital that they “intend to vigorously advance the facts that surround Mr. Mullins’ and Ms. Busby’s time at the winery and their departure.” “For almost five years, starting in 2019, Mr. Mullins and his current wife voluntarily made themselves part of the Halter Winery community and took advantage of its owner’s generosity,” the spokesperson continued. “This included deciding to become employees of the winery, choosing to live at the winery rent free for years, frequently traveling with the owner to Europe, the Caribbean and elsewhere at the owner’s expense, asking the owner and his wife to host their wedding party and inviting the owner to serve as Best Man. Through all these years, they never complained about the owner’s conduct, or simply declined to spend so much time with him, until after they voluntarily left their employment at the winery in 2024.” Wyss, according to the lawsuit, knew his actions could be legally problematic for him, telling Busby at one point in 2022, “If you ever went after me for sexual harassment, you would win.” When Busby and Mullins began pulling away and decided to move to a smaller house on the property in order to ensure that Wyss would not be able to stay with them when he visited, the lawsuit alleges that Wyss retaliated against them by forcing her to take a pay cut and insisting the couple pay rent. Busby resigned from her position and sent a letter on the day she left to Wyss outlining her concerns about his “ongoing conduct and her own anxiety and distress as the result of that conduct.” The complaint filed in April accuses Wyss of sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, intentional infliction of emotional distress and sexual battery. Wyss is also facing a lawsuit from Mullins, who says the billionaire “abruptly terminated” his employment after Busby’s complaint, despite bringing him out from the East Coast to work at the ranch and once promising Mullins would “have full control of the Halter Companies upon Mr. Wyss’s death.” Fox News Digital reached out to Busby’s legal team for comment. “The Wyss Foundation and Berger Action Fund have no involvement with this matter. The organizations’ charitable activities are totally separate from those of the Halter Ranch,” a Wyss foundation spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Wyss, who is referred to by some as the “new George Soros,” is well-known in American politics as one of the most prominent liberal megadonors and has given hundreds of millions to Democratic causes through a network of left-wing nonprofits.
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Walz ripped for ‘sickening’ use of Nazi-era language describing Trump’s immigration policy: ‘Anti-American’
Former Democratic nominee for vice president, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, sparked a social media uproar over the weekend after he invoked Nazi-era language to criticize President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. “Some would say, ‘Boy, this is getting way too political for a commencement address,’” Walz told students at the University of Minnesota law school during a commencement address on Saturday. “But I would argue, I wouldn’t be honoring my oath if I didn’t address this head on.” “I’m gonna start with the flashing red light—Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons. No chance to mount a defense. Not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye. Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared.” Walz also described Trump as a “tyrant” and told students they “are graduating into a genuine emergency.” MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR, VOWS TO ‘FIX’ WHAT TIM WALZ ‘BROKE’ Walz’s comments drew strong pushback from conservatives online, including directly from the Trump administration, taking issue with comparing deportations of criminal illegal immigrants with the Nazi secret police force of the 1930s and 1940s. “This vile anti-American language can only be construed as inciting insurrection and violence,” White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller posted on X. “It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo,” the official account for the Department of Homeland Security posted on X. “Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults. Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.” WALZ ‘VERY PESSIMISTIC’ ON DEMOCRATS RETAKING THE SENATE “Disgraced loser @GovTimWalz thinks ICE agents are the ‘modern day Gestapo,’” the White House rapid response account posted on X, before listing examples of violent criminals apprehended by ICE in Minnesota in recent weeks. “The Department of Homeland Security has reported a more than 500% increase in attacks and assaults on ICE agents,” Republican communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X. “Tim Walz knows exactly what he’s doing here.” “Dude can never resist an opportunity to show off his TDS,” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. Some, including a Republican running for governor against Walz, took the opportunity to highlight Walz’s own record. “Don’t forget that it was Tim Walz who locked down our state for 15 months, established a tip line for people to report on their neighbors, closed our schools and sent small business owners to jail,” gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls posted on X. “Tim Walz is the real tyrant and modern-day Gestapo.” Last year, the Biden White House expressed outrage over a report claiming that Trump used the term “gestapo” in a closed-door meeting, FOX 59 reported, explaining that it was “despicable” and “insulting.” Fox News Digital reached out to Walz’s office for comment. Walz, who recently explained that he was chosen to run with Harris because of his ability to “code talk to White guys watching football,” drew similar criticism last month, when he likened Trump’s immigration agenda to communist Russian “gulags.”
Trump-pardoned real estate mogul Charles Kushner up for key diplomatic post
New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner will be considered by the U.S. Senate on Monday for the ambassadorship to France and Monaco. Kushner, the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump, was previously pardoned by President Donald Trump for federal tax evasion and Federal Election Commission violations from 2005, during the mogul’s first term. In 1985, he founded the Kushner Companies and has long been a philanthropist, particularly to Jewish causes and institutions like Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He has also donated to St. Barnabas Hospital in Essex County, New Jersey, which has a wing bearing his family name. TRUMP EXPRESSES ‘ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE’ AS STEVE WITKOFF IS SWORN IN AS SPECIAL MIDDLE EAST ENVOY During his May 1 confirmation hearing, Kushner acknowledged his past legal missteps, claiming they sharpened his judgment and better prepared him for both the ambassadorship and life. “I think that my past mistakes actually make me… better in my values to really make me more qualified to do this job,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kushner, who just celebrated his 71st birthday, was nominated in November after Trump called him a “tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our country & its interests.” TRUMP TAKES WELL-EARNED VICTORY LAP FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE TRIUMPHS CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, & served as a commissioner, & chairman, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, as well as on the boards of our top institutions, including NYU,” Trump said. “Congratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, & 14 grandchildren. His son, Jared, worked closely with me in the White House, in particular on Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, & the Abraham Accords.” Trump added that Kushner will help strengthen America’s partnership with “our oldest ally and one of our greatest.”
FBI director opens up files on Nashville school shooting to lawmaker for first time
A Tennessee congressman viewed documents relating to the 2023 Covenant school shooting for the first time, praising the Director Kash Patel-led FBI for upholding the Trump administration’s “radical transparency” promise. Rep. John Rose told Fox News Digital he was offered full access to the documents, including the writings of suspect Audrey Hale, a transgender woman who was a former student and killed three children and three adults on March 27 of that year. The GOP lawmaker said he sent a letter to the FBI the month after the shooting and received a response in November telling him to effectively seek what he was looking for from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. He contrasted that with Patel’s FBI’s quick turnaround in accessing the documents. COVENANT SCHOOL TRANS SHOOTER PLOTTED NASHVILLE ATTACK FOR YEARS, KEPT NOTEBOOKS AND PLANS: FINAL REPORT “They are primarily comprised of the writings and work of the perpetrator of the Covenant School shooting. But they do provide a great deal of insight and I think confirm some of the suspicions that I’ve had all along,” Rose said. “We really never received a response [regarding a document inquiry] from the Metro National Police Department (MNPD) one way or the other… We got a letter that was really non-responsive and basically indicated they would not release the information to us. So it’s remarkable that in just a little over 40 days that new FBI Director Kash Patel has made this information available for us to look at.” Many of the documents have been under seal and are the subject of legal battles in the Volunteer State. Nashville Chancery Court Chancellor I’ashea Myles ruled in 2024 that much of Hale’s writings are protected by copyright law, which trumps the state’s records statute. An official with the MNPD told Fox News Digital there was also concern in the courts and among law enforcement that the detailed writings could inspire copycat violence. “This investigation was meticulous and ran through this year and at the conclusion of the investigation we issued the 48-page summary,” the official told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “There exists to this day the Chancery Court, an order that restricts the shooter’s writing from being publicly released [but] through the 48-page summary, we’ve wanted all to know what our findings were in this mass shooting case; in the days after our officers responded so bravely into the building to stop the threat,” the official added. NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING MANIFESTO: WHY KILLERS WRITE ABOUT MOTIVES The MNPD said they were aware the FBI was contemplating releasing some of the material and echoed copycat-related concerns – and that the bureau understood those reservations and redacted parts of what has been witnessed by Rose. However, Rose said that after Patel allowed him to view the documents, he is “more assured than ever” that the information within should be made public so that people can better understand the tragedy. He disputed claims that the MNPD has been entirely forthright, saying, “I think they’ve just stonewalled… and frankly I think that makes it impossible for policymakers, legislators to take any action with respect to the incidents around this heinous act that happened back in March of 2023,” he said. “We simply can’t be expected to take action when we don’t understand the nature of this crime. And so the public is entitled to that information, but as policymakers, I feel like we simply cannot be expected to make a policy based on innuendo and supposition when the information is available.” Read the Nashville police report here. “And had this been any other significant crime of this nature, including a mass shooting, we know from historic precedent that virtually all of this information would have been released in the normal course for public inspection and consideration.” As for sensitivity, he said that there is “tough information” in what he has seen and that he has sympathy for the victims of the shooting, but that in order to protect society, the information currently being held should be accessible to better understand the perpetrator and more. MNPD denied any stonewalling allegation and cited the Chancery Court order in its response. Rose did, however, appear to support some of the redactions, suggesting that a careful review process could allow documents from and about the shooter to be used in understanding the “heinous crime,” identifying others who may be responsible and examining how society may have missed chances to prevent it. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Nashville police also released their final report on the shooting, first reported at the time by Fox News Digital. Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999. Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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White House says Trump ‘trusts his physicians’ following Biden’s cancer announcement
President Donald Trump remains confident in White House doctors despite the possibility that they missed a prostate cancer diagnosis for former President Joe Biden while he was in office, the White House says. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made the statement during a press briefing on Monday morning, saying Trump remains in good health. Speculation has exploded in the days since Biden announced he has stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer this weekend, a diagnosis that typically takes years to develop. “White House doctors may have missed the early stages of his prostate cancer. So is President Trump worried about the quality of care that presidents get here?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked. “Not as far as President Trump is concerned. The White House physician we have here is phenomenal,” Leavitt responded. “The team of physicians that take care of the president, particularly at Walter Reed Medical Center, are great. The president had his physical recently, as you know, he had, perfect results. He’s in very good shape.” JOE BIDEN DIAGNOSED WITH ‘AGGRESSIVE FORM’ OF PROSTATE CANCER WITH METASTASIS TO THE BONE “I think those of you who traveled to the Middle East with us last week can attest to the president’s endurance. And by the way, I will add, we returned home from a very long and tiring trip last week, and on Saturday, where was the president? In the Oval Office, working all day. He doesn’t stop. He doesn’t quit. He’s in great health and he trusts his physicians,” she added. Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump were “saddened” to learn of Biden’s diagnosis and wished him a “fast and successful recovery” in a post on social media this weekend. “Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.” POLITICAL WORLD REACTS TO FORMER PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ‘AGGRESSIVE’ CANCER DIAGNOSIS: ‘INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT’ Leavitt told reporters that she does not believe Trump has spoken with Biden since the announcement, but she said he would be open to speaking with him. Biden’s office confirmed on Sunday that he was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer. “Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,” Biden’s team shared in a statement. “On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.” “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management. The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” the statement said. Biden, 82, remains the oldest U.S. president. Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report
Dems face a litmus test over Biden’s cognitive abilities
Sen. Chris Murphy says “it was a mistake” for his party to allow then-81-year-old President Joe Biden to remain on the 2024 ballot as long as he did. The Democrat from Connecticut, who is viewed as a possible contender for his party’s 2028 presidential nomination, during an appearance on the Sunday morning talk shows was the latest Democrat to face questions about the former president’s cognitive abilities. “I saw a president who was in control,” Murphy said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” as he pointed to his experience working closely with Biden on legislation in 2023. “That’s my experience.” However, the senator added “that by 2024 the American public had made up their mind, right, that they wanted the Democratic Party to nominate somebody new, and it was absolutely a mistake for the party to not listen to those voters.” NEW BOOK PLACES BLAME ON BIDEN FOR HARRIS 2024 LOSS TO TRUMP He also noted that Democrats “all bear responsibility” for President Donald Trump‘s White House victory last November. However, longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a longtime Biden ally and confidant, said on the Sunday talk shows that he never doubted the then-president’s ability to lead the nation. “I never saw anything that allowed me to think that Joe Biden was not able to do the job,” Clyburn argued in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Top Democrats like Murphy and Clyburn are facing a litmus test over Biden’s mental acuity during his final years in office and whether Democrats should have been more strident earlier in the 2024 election cycle in calling on Biden to abandon his bid for a second term in the White House. The grilling comes as Biden’s condition is once again making headlines, courtesy of excerpts from a new book being released this week, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which offers claims of a White House cover-up of the then-president’s apparent cognitive decline. BIDEN STRUGGLES WITH WORDS, KEY MEMORIES IN LEAKED AUDIO FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL HUR INTERVIEW Additionally, last week’s leaked audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, in which the then-president appears to suffer memory lapses, is also fueling the conversation. Hur, who investigated whether Biden years earlier had improperly stored classified documents, made major headlines early last year when he decided not to charge Biden but described the then-president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” The first question thrown at former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as he briefly met with reporters following a town hall with veterans and military families in Iowa last week was,”Did President Joe Biden experience cognitive decline while in office?” Buttigieg was asked. “Every time I needed something from him from the West Wing, I got it,” answered Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who served four years in Biden’s cabinet. He, like Murphy, may have national ambitions in 2028. After a second reporter followed up, asking, “Would the party have been better off if he had just not run for re-election?” Buttigieg answered, “Maybe. Right now, with the benefit of hindsight, I think most people would agree that that’s the case.” Longtime New Hampshire-based radio host Chris Ryan pointed to his listeners on his popular morning news/talk program as he told Fox News, “I think that is one of the top things that they do want to know about.” “The Democratic voters are still trying to sort through what happened and why,” said Ryan, who has interviewed scores of White House hopefuls over the years. How the Democratic presidential hopefuls answer these questions will be an early test of their truthfulness in the eyes of voters who had serious concerns over whether Biden was mentally and physically up for another four years handling the world’s most grueling job. However, Ryan noted that “it’s different for each potential candidate based on their level of proximity to President Biden.” BIDEN’S DIAGNOSIS: CANCER DESCRIBED AS AGGRESSIVE It is doubtful the questions will be going away in the coming days, even after Sunday’s blockbuster announcement that Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones. Biden dropped out of the White House race last July, one month after a disastrous debate performance with Trump that sparked a chorus of calls from fellow Democrats for the then-president to end his re-election bid. He was replaced at the top of the ticket by then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who ended up losing November’s presidential election to Trump. Democrats also suffered down ballot, losing control of the Senate and failing to win back the House majority from the Republicans. During an appearance on ABC’s “The View” two weeks ago, Biden pushed back against accusations that he had suffered significant cognitive decline during the final year of his presidency. Rep. Ro Khanna of California was a leading supporter and surrogate on the campaign trail for Biden during the 2024 election cycle. After last June’s debate, as a trickle of Democrats urging Biden to step aside turned into a steady stream, Khanna likened the embattled president to Rocky Balboa—the underdog boxer of big-screen legend. TARGETED BY TRUMP, THIS WELL KNOWN DEMOCRAT SPARKS 2028 SPECULATION “To rebuild trust, Democrats must be honest. In light of the facts that have come out, Joe Biden should not have run for reelection, and we should have had an open primary,” Khanna wrote in a social media post. Khanna, in a statement, said, “I have always admired Biden’s resilience and the grit he has shown after the loss of his son — and often compared that strength to Rocky. I was a surrogate for the president of my own party whose policies I backed. “But obviously we did not have the full picture, and in hindsight it is painfully obvious that President Biden should have made the patriotic decision not to run,” Khanna added. LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS INTO TRUMP’S SECOND TERM, DEMOCRATS
Trump kicks off 18th week in office with high-stakes bid to broker Ukraine, Russia peace
President Donald Trump has returned from his four-day trip to the Middle East, and plans to kick off his week back on U.S. soil with phone calls to help negotiate a potential ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Trump spent the weekend in Washington, D.C., after returning from visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. He received a warm welcome in each country, and came home with a bevy of deals, including a purchasing agreement by Qatar for Boeing aircraft, as well as a “strategic economic partnership” with Saudi Arabia for energy, defense, mining and space-based agreements that amount to $600 billion. This week, political eyes are locked on Eastern Europe as Trump lines up phone conversations with Russia and Ukraine slated for Monday morning. Trump announced over the weekend that he would personally hold a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to help broker a deal to end the bloodshed and secure long-term peace. “I WILL BE SPEAKING, BY TELEPHONE, TO PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OF RUSSIA ON MONDAY, AT 10:00 A.M. THE SUBJECTS OF THE CALL WILL BE, STOPPING THE ‘BLOODBATH’ THAT IS KILLING, ON AVERAGE, MORE THAN 5000 RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS A WEEK, AND TRADE,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday. Trump added that he will then hold talks with Zelenskyy, followed by another call with Zelenskyy and NATO leaders, queuing up a busy Monday schedule. ZELENSKYY SHEDS DETAILS ON MEETING WITH VANCE, RUBIO IN ROME AFTER RUSSIA PEACE TALKS STALL Russian and Ukrainian officials held their first direct peace talks in years last week in Istanbul. The two sides, however, failed to agree to a ceasefire in a war that has raged since February 2022. Russia and Ukraine did agree to a large prisoner swap during the meeting. Hours after the meeting, a Russian drone strike hit a passenger bus in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday. World leaders traveled to Rome on Sunday for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass at the Vatican, including Zelenskyy, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The U.S. leaders met with Zelenskyy for a separate meeting, where they discussed efforts to end the war, according to the vice president’s office. GOP LAWMAKERS PRAISE TRUMP CALL WITH PUTIN AFTER BIDEN ‘REFUSED TO EVEN PICK UP THE PHONE’ “The leaders discussed their shared goal of ending the bloodshed in Ukraine and provided updates on the current state of negotiations for a ceasefire and lasting peace,” Vance’s office said in a statement on Sunday afternoon. Zelenskyy posted his own message regarding the meeting on social media on Sunday, slamming Russia for sending “non-decision-makers” to the meeting in Istanbul last week, while also thanking “all American people for the support and leadership in saving lives.” “During our talks we discussed negotiations in Istanbul to where the Russians sent a low level delegation of non-decision-makers. I reaffirmed that Ukraine is ready to be engaged in real diplomacy and underscored the importance of a full and unconditional ceasefire as soon as possible,” Zelenskyy posted. “We have also touched upon the need for sanctions against Russia, bilateral trade, defense cooperation, battlefield situation and upcoming prisoners exchange. Pressure is needed against Russia until they are eager to stop the war. And, of course, we talked about our joint steps to achieve a just and durable peace.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to local media that Monday’s “conversation is in the works,” the BBC reported on Saturday. “HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A PRODUCTIVE DAY, A CEASEFIRE WILL TAKE PLACE, AND THIS VERY VIOLENT WAR, A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, WILL END. GOD BLESS US ALL!!!” Trump added of the highly-anticipated rounds of phone calls on Monday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said that nations that have bucked negotiating trade deals with the U.S. in “good faith” could see tariff hikes. “President Trump has put them on notice that if you do not negotiate in good faith, that you will ratchet back up to your April 2 level,” Bessent said on CNN. Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” trade announcement unveiled his reciprocal tariff plan on dozens of nations as he worked to bring parity to the U.S.’ trade deficit. The president issued a 90-day pause to the reciprocal tariffs, except on China, in April as countries requested to make trade deals. Trump administration leaders have since been involved in hashing out trade negotiations before the 90-day pause is lifted in July. TRUMP AND CHINA CLOSE IN ON TRADE DEAL AFTER PRODUCTIVE TALKS, BESSENT SAYS Bessent’s comments come after Trump slammed Walmart on Saturday for raising prices on consumers amid the tariff rollout. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!” Congressional Republicans are in the midst of pushing to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which has been touted as significant fiscal reform that would fund the president’s agenda. REPUBLICANS READY LATE-NIGHT SESSION ON TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ AFTER GOP MUTINY Republicans are working to pass it through the budget reconciliation process, and have set a Memorial Day deadline for its passage. With just one working week left before the summer holiday weekend, House Budget Committee members were summoned to Congress on Sunday night to begin their work to pass the bill. The bill was thrown into turmoil last week when four members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, alongside Democrats, voted against advancing the legislation. The four conservatives took issue with the legislation’s crackdown on Medicaid, and also worked to repeal Biden-era green-energy tax subsidies. Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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