WASHINGTON (USA) (ITALPRESS) – During the usual press conference in the briefing room, White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt faced a series of central dossiers for the administration of President Donald Trump, ranging from the Venezuelan crisis to tensions with Iran, to internal protests in the United States and the introduction of the Insurrection Act in Minnesota.
Leavitt confirmed that the meeting between Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, winner of the Nobel Prize 2025, was in progress, explaining that the president “was looking forward to receiving it. Defining Machado “a remarkable and courageous voice” for the Venezuelan people, the spokesman reported that the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials are in “consistent communication” with Delcy Rodríguez and the interim government, which he described as “cooperative”.
According to Leavitt, the same government would confirm its intention to proceed with the release of political prisoners. At the same time, the spokesman pointed out that Trump’s assessment of Machado has not changed compared to the past and is “realistic, based on what the president reads and what reported by his advisers and the team for national security”. Trump, added Leavitt, continues to support the prospect of new elections in Venezuela “when it will be the right moment”, without indicating a timing. At the beginning of the month, a few hours after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Trump stated that it would be “very difficult” for Machado to lead the country, claiming it would not enjoy sufficient internal support.
On the Iranian front, Leavitt stated that the White House believes that about 800 executions planned in Iran were interrupted. The spokesman explained that the president and his team communicated to the officials of Tehran that there would be “gravi consequences” if the killing of protesters continued during the repression of protests. Trump, he recalled, threatened to act and assured the protesters that “help is coming”, while Wednesday would receive confirmations from “reliable sources” on stop to executions. “All options remain on the table for the president,” said Leavitt.
During the press conference, the spokesman also commented on the arrival of European troops in Greenland, clarifying that the military presence of allies will have no influence on the President’s decisions. “I don’t think European troops have an impact on the president’s decision-making process, or have any effect on his Greenland acquisition goal,” said Leavitt, stressing that Trump “has made his priority clear enough” and believes that the island’s acquisition “both in the best interest of US national security”.
The declarations come while military personnel from allied countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Sweden, arrived in Greenland in the context of the repeated statements of the President on the desire to take control of the territory, long under Danish sovereignty.
Leavitt also reported that U.S. officials intend to continue to maintain regular contacts with representatives of Denmark and Greenland, stating that the talks will continue “every two or three weeks”. After the meetings at the White House on Wednesday with Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a senior Danish official declared that a “fundamental disagreement” remains on the future of the semi-autonomous territory, while confirming the will of both parties to continue the dialogue.
The spokesman did not answer a question on why the Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry, appointed in December by Trump as the United States Special Envoy for Greenland, was not present at a recent meeting on the dossier to the White House. Landry did not visit Greenland and said he was not interested in having meetings with diplomats. Ample space has also been dedicated to the internal situation in the United States. Responding to questions about the possible use of the Insurrection Act of 1807, Leavitt pointed out that only Trump can decide what could lead him to invoke that law, defining it as “a tool available to the president” used “con parsimonia” by his predecessors. The statements come after that, on today’s day, Trump threatened to resort to the act to deploy federal troops and sedate persistent protests against federal agents sent to Minneapolis as part of the vast administrative immigration hold.
The threat came the day after the wounding of a man hit by an immigration agent who, according to the official reconstruction, had been attacked with a shovel and a broom handle. The episode further fueled fear and anger in the city, already shocked by the death of Renee Good, killed by a blow to the head exploded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. During the briefing, Leavitt finally accused the Democrats of “holding state and local law enforcement forces hostage” by preventing them from cooperating with the federal authorities, defining this “balanced attitude in their hatred for President Trump”.
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