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MNI POLITICAL RISK - Trump Hit With Second Federal Indictment

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  • Former President Donald Trump was yesterday indicted by Department of Justice Special Council Jack Smith on four new criminal charges related to alleged efforts to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election. We have a full roundup of analysis inside.
  • The White House has panned a decision by Fitch Ratings to downgrade the US economy.
  • Democrat and Republican lawmakers have respectively highlighted the Fitch downgrade as evidence of the dangers of Republican brinksmanship with the debt ceiling and profligate Democrat spending.
  • US and EU negotiators appear unlikely to finalise a deal on steel and aluminium tariffs before an October deadline.
  • US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters yesterday that the US has invited newly reappointed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit the US.
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken deliver remarks on famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity at the UN Security Council on Thursday as the US assumes the rotating presidency of the UNSC for August.
  • Poll of the Day: The financing windfall from Trump's indictments may be ebbing.
Full article: US Daily Brief

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