Trump belittles Trudeau and Canada; Musk joins Mar-a-Lago meeting with Orbán: Live

Rudy Giuliani could face hefty fines “as well as imprisonment” if he is held in contempt for repeatedly falsely accusing a pair of election workers of manipulating election results in 2020, a federal judge cautioned Donald Trump’s former attorney on Monday.

A mother-daughter pair of election workers last month accused the former New York City mayor of violating a court order that blocks him from repeating anything that resembles his defamatory remarks about them.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Nigel Farage will be in the USA on Sunday for an astonishing sixth time since he was elected as the MP for on 4 July after he was unveiled as one of the headline acts at the biggest MAGA gala since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.

The Reform UK leader, who has been dubbed “the MP for MAGA”, by some political opponents in Westminster and comes amid questions over how much time he is spending in his Clacton constituency.

CNN national correspondent Kristen Holmes first reported the development on Monday citing an unnamed source, which appeared to explain a cryptic post by Gaetz’s wife Ginger on X on Sunday that read simply: “Big news coming next week!”

Joe Sommerlad has the details.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the prospect of Trump ending this right.

Balázs Orbán, political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has hailed a meeting between his boss, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Michael Waltz, national security adviser to the president-elect.

He wrote on X: “Great leaders and an even brighter future ahead! @realDonaldTrump, @elonmusk, and @michaelgwaltz welcomed @PM_ViktorOrban to Mar-a-Lago to discuss common goals and values. National #conservatives are making a strong comeback!”

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to examine the potential consequences of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

In a late-night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump appeared to belittle Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada as a governor and the country as a state.

A week ago, the president-elect joked that Canada could avoid tariffs he plans to impost by becoming the 51st US state, according to a report.

On Monday, Trudeau said Americans “are beginning to wake up to the reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life a lot more expensive”.

Speaking at an event put on by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, the prime minister also said dealing with Donald Trump on trade will be “a little more challenging” than the last time.

Trudeau said that’s because Trump’s team is coming in with a much clearer set of ideas of what they want to do right away than after his first election win in 2016.

The Republican president-elect has threatened to impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico unless they stem the flow of migrants and drugs.

Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, has said she is “in full support” of the president-elect’s position on developments in Syria.

As a reminder, here’s what Trump had to say on Truth Social on Sunday morning:

Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever. Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success. Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!

The veteran and former Democrat is often criticized over a 2017 visit to Syria in which she met now-ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Following the visit, Gabbard denied crimes were committed by the Syrian regime and said Assad “is not the enemy of the United States”.

In late November, Nikki Haley launched a scathing attack on Gabbard calling her “a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer”.