{"id":309460,"date":"2025-11-26T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309460\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:37:12","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-pete-hegseth-increases-administrations-attacks-on-senator-mark-kelly-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309460\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Pete Hegseth increases administration\u2019s attacks on senator Mark Kelly | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth<\/a>, escalated attacks by Trump administration chiefs on Arizona senator Mark Kelly on Tuesday by ordering the secretary of the US navy to investigate \u201cpotentially unlawful comments\u201d made by Kelly in a social media video<\/a> with other lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Hegseth\u2019s order came in the form of a memorandum<\/a> to John Phelan asking the Navy secretary to review Kelly and a group of fellow Democrats\u2019 comments in the video last week that sought<\/a> to remind serving soldiers and intelligence officers that they have the right to refuse unlawful orders.<\/p>\n

Hegseth said in the memo that he wanted a brief from Phelan that he could review by 10 December.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon had issued a statement<\/a> on Monday that it was investigating Kelly for possible breaches of military law.<\/p>\n

Kelly and the other Democrats have been accused by Donald Trump<\/a> of \u201cseditious behavior\u201d, to which Kelly has responded that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against them as a \u201ctool to intimidate and harass members of Congress\u201d.<\/p>\n

The latest statement<\/a> from the group, released by congressional lawmakers Jason Crow of Colorado, Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, confirmed that the FBI had contacted the House and Senate sergeants at arms requesting interviews with them.<\/p>\n

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Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> may have inadvertently pardoned any citizen who committed voter fraud in 2020 when he granted a pardon to Rudy Giuliani<\/a> and other allies for their efforts to overturn the election, legal experts say.<\/p>\n

The pardons of Giuliani and others who participated in the fake elector scheme earlier this month were largely symbolic since the federal government dismissed its criminal cases once Trump was elected. Many of those pardoned have faced criminal charges at the state level.<\/p>\n

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US to send envoy to Moscow to discuss proposals to end Ukraine war<\/p>\n

Donald Trump said he would send special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss developing proposals to end the Ukraine<\/a> war, but despite White House optimism there was little sign of progress on core sticking points.<\/p>\n

The US president said negotiations had left \u201conly a few remaining points of disagreement\u201d but there was no breakthrough on the issues of territorial control and security guarantees and he dampened expectations of immediate peace summits.<\/p>\n

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Anti-fascist groups named as US terror threats \u2018barely exist\u2019, experts say<\/p>\n

Experts have told the Guardian the same anti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations and accused<\/a> of \u201cconspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization\u201d barely qualify as groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing is a bit ridiculous,\u201d said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism<\/a>, which tracks extremist movements worldwide, \u201cbecause the groups designated by the administration barely exist and certainly aren\u2019t terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

Majority of Latino voters disapprove of Trump, Pew study finds<\/p>\n

After receiving support from nearly half of Latino voters in the 2024 election, Trump had lost the backing of a majority surveyed in October. Pew found that 70% of Latinos \u201cdisapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president\u201d, while 65% disapprove of his administration\u2019s approach to immigration and 61% believe his economic policies have worsened economic conditions.<\/p>\n

Trump won 48% of the Latino vote in 2024, up from 28% in 2016. Latinos, one of the fastest-growing demographics in the United States, account for one in five Americans.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n

What else happened today:<\/p>\n

Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 24 November 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, escalated attacks by Trump administration chiefs on Arizona senator Mark Kelly on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-309460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}