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As Joe Biden prepared to announce a ban on the importation of Russian oil, Donald Trump contributed an angry statement about rising gas prices.
“BREAKING NEWS,” he wrote in an email to supporters: “HIGHEST GAS PRICES IN HISTORY! DO YOU MISS ME YET?
Meanwhile, the chair of the panel investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol has described newly obtained White House visitor logs as “very fruitful”.
According to chair Bennie Thompson, the records, which the committee has obtained over the fierce objections of Donald Trump, have been sent to the committee from the National Archives in the last few days. The hope is that they will yield crucial information about who the ex-president may have been in direct contact with on the day of the riot, when he appears to have spent several hours largely isolated from many of his aides and family members.
Meanwhile, Minority Whip Steve Scalise has drawn flack for comments he made in response to a question regarding former President Trump’s threat to withhold military aid from Ukraine.
He was accused of trying to rewrite history regarding the episode that led to Mr Trump’s first impeachment.
Stephanie Grisham, who served as Mr Trump’s fourth press secretary, said she believed Mr Trump’s approach to the situation in Ukraine would be “completely hands off” and he would tell Vladimir Putin to “go on in there”, she said on ABC’s The View.
