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TURKEY: The Country

The U.S. House finally passed the   $95 billion war/humanitarian needs aid bill   for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific (mainly Taiwan).  The Senate will act on this package Tuesday and President Joe Biden will sign it.  Speaker Mike Johnson (right) is using something novel, bipartisanship,  fiercely condemned by Republican loyalists.  More Republicans opposed the legislation, 112, with 101 in support, plus 210 Democrats.  Who gains?  Defense contractors, those countries and Joe Biden.  Who loses?  Donald Trump.   This budget victory is a sign that the Trump effect is weakening. About Trump and his hush money criminal trial in New York, various  viral trails of interest .  Keep in mind that the media attention is about a sex scandal, but the  real matter has to do with hiding information, keeping an issue hidden from voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election .  This illegal ploy worked, for Trump's narrow victory over Hillary Clinton would probably have been reversed if this bit o