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Donald Trump confirmed that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun, making him available to play for the USA in their knockout match against Belgium tonight.<\/strong> Trump said he believed the dismissal was unfair but insisted he did not pressure football\u2019s governing body to overturn the suspension. \u201cAll I did was ask for a review because I didn\u2019t think it was a foul,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Referring to Infantino \u2013 who has repeatedly buttered him up \u2013 Trump added: \u201cI didn\u2019t tell him what to do. I can\u2019t tell him what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Trump repeatedly said Balogun\u2019s challenge should never have resulted in a dismissal \u2013 even as he admitted to not knowing what a red card was before this incident.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I saw the play \u2026 That wasn\u2019t a foul. That wasn\u2019t even an infraction.\u201d Invoking his lies about his 2020 election loss, Trump added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a full team, and Belgium is going to have a full team, and you know what? If they beat us, then they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us … I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.\u201d As our colleagues covering the World Cup note, despite Balogun\u2019s red card being considered excessively harsh, Fifa\u2019s disciplinary code does not permit appeals against straight red cards, with officials from the world governing body and US Soccer confirming after the game that the sanction could not be challenged.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Trump\u2019s allies have rallied around his intervention.<\/strong> Standing beside him in the Oval Office, senator Ted Cruz thanked the president \u201cfor getting rid of that ridiculous red card\u201d. And his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, also praised the move, telling reporters at the state department that the red card was a \u201cbad decision\u201d. He added: \u201cI think it was the right decision to reverse it.\u201d Echoing Trump\u2019s comments earlier, Rubio went on: \u201cEveryone will be at full strength, and the winner will be the winner. And if it\u2019s Belgium, they have a very good team, you know, they\u2019ll move on, and they can say they beat the US at full strength at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n For his part, Infantino insisted in a statement<\/a> today that he told Trump that Fifa\u2019s \u201cindependent judicial bodies\u201d would make their decision.<\/strong> \u201cThat is how Fifa\u2019s system works, and it is a principle that I will always uphold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fifa\u2019s willingness to bow to Trump\u2019s wishes has been strongly criticized, with European politicians, football associations and governing body Uefa condemning the decision.<\/strong> In an unprecedented intervention in the middle of a tournament, Uefa accused Fifa of crossing \u201ca red line\u201d by making an \u201cincomprehensible and unjustifiable\u201d decision to rescind Balogun\u2019s automatic one-match ban, which it claimed undermined \u201cthe integrity of the game and the credibility of the competition\u201d. Fifa also rejected an appeal by Belgian officials. You can read more on the reaction here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Share<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n At Tyler James Robinson\u2019s preliminary hearing in Provo, Utah, Donald Trump Jr and far-right influencer Jack Posobiec joined Erika Kirk and other members of Charlie Kirk\u2019s family in the courtroom, as prosecutors laid out the case against the accused 23-year-old gunman.<\/p>\n My colleague Dani Anguiano<\/strong> reports that the prosecution told the judge that they plan to show several videos of the shooting in court. Kirk\u2019s family members left the courtroom shortly after the first witness began speaking.<\/p>\n The hearing kicked off on Monday with testimony from Chris Bagley<\/strong>, a former Utah Valley University police officer. Bagley described the moments leading up to the shooting, and hearing a loud gunshot.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody kind of got up. A lot of people were screaming and starting to run in all different directions,\u201d<\/strong> Bagley told the courtroom.<\/p>\n The police officer searched for additional victims, but finding none, moved to contain the scene to preserve evidence, he said. Police initially believed they had the shooter in custody.<\/p>\n After observing that a nearby building had a direct line of sight to where Kirk was speaking at the time he was shot, Bagley said he went to the building\u2019s rooftop where he saw evidence that he believed indicated a sniper had been there, including a \u201cdisturbance\u201d in the gravel.<\/p>\n ShareRobert Mackey<\/span><\/p>\n On Elon Musk\u2019s social-media platform X, Trump supporters celebrated the apparent display of raw power from the US president in getting Fifa to suspend his red card by sharing an AI-generated video<\/a> of Balogun that has been viewed nearly 20m times.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the video, the AI version of Balogun responds to the referee who showed him the red card by holding up a photo of Trump with his middle finger extended. The AI Balogun tells the official: \u201cNah bro, I have the Trump card. I win!\u201d The AI version of Balogun speaks in an American accent, unlike the real person, who was born in New York by accident but raised in London and has a British accent.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s critics pointed to the hypocrisy of Trump, who has tried to deny birthright citizenship to children like Balogun, born in <\/strong>New York to non-citizens, demanding that the striker to be allowed to represent the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n But then again, Trump\u2019s own father was also an accidental American by birth, since he was born in New York to a non-citizen mother who had arrived in the US six months pregnant after being forced to leave her native Germany.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.35 EDT<\/p>\n Donald Trump confirmed that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun, making him available to play for the USA in their knockout match against Belgium tonight.<\/strong> Trump said he believed the dismissal was unfair but insisted he did not pressure football\u2019s governing body to overturn the suspension. \u201cAll I did was ask for a review because I didn\u2019t think it was a foul,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Referring to Infantino \u2013 who has repeatedly buttered him up \u2013 Trump added: \u201cI didn\u2019t tell him what to do. I can\u2019t tell him what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Trump repeatedly said Balogun\u2019s challenge should never have resulted in a dismissal \u2013 even as he admitted to not knowing what a red card was before this incident.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I saw the play \u2026 That wasn\u2019t a foul. That wasn\u2019t even an infraction.\u201d Invoking his lies about his 2020 election loss, Trump added: \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a full team, and Belgium is going to have a full team, and you know what? If they beat us, then they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us … I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.\u201d As our colleagues covering the World Cup note, despite Balogun\u2019s red card being considered excessively harsh, Fifa\u2019s disciplinary code does not permit appeals against straight red cards, with officials from the world governing body and US Soccer confirming after the game that the sanction could not be challenged.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Trump\u2019s allies have rallied around his intervention.<\/strong> Standing beside him in the Oval Office, senator Ted Cruz thanked the president \u201cfor getting rid of that ridiculous red card\u201d. And his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, also praised the move, telling reporters at the state department that the red card was a \u201cbad decision\u201d. He added: \u201cI think it was the right decision to reverse it.\u201d Echoing Trump\u2019s comments earlier, Rubio went on: \u201cEveryone will be at full strength, and the winner will be the winner. And if it\u2019s Belgium, they have a very good team, you know, they\u2019ll move on, and they can say they beat the US at full strength at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n For his part, Infantino insisted in a statement<\/a> today that he told Trump that Fifa\u2019s \u201cindependent judicial bodies\u201d would make their decision.<\/strong> \u201cThat is how Fifa\u2019s system works, and it is a principle that I will always uphold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Fifa\u2019s willingness to bow to Trump\u2019s wishes has been strongly criticized, with European politicians, football associations and governing body Uefa condemning the decision.<\/strong> In an unprecedented intervention in the middle of a tournament, Uefa accused Fifa of crossing \u201ca red line\u201d by making an \u201cincomprehensible and unjustifiable\u201d decision to rescind Balogun\u2019s automatic one-match ban, which it claimed undermined \u201cthe integrity of the game and the credibility of the competition\u201d. Fifa also rejected an appeal by Belgian officials. You can read more on the reaction here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Share<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the clip of Donald Trump<\/strong> confirming that he lobbied Fifa to intervene regarding Folarin Balogun<\/strong>\u2019s red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n <\/span>\u2018I\u2019m the one who got them to do it\u2019: Donald Trump says he was behind Fifa red card U-turn \u2013 video<\/span>Share<\/p>\n While taking a photo with the Chilean foreign minister Francisco P\u00e9rez Mackenna<\/strong>, US secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/strong> praised Fifa\u2019s decision to reverse Folarin Balogun<\/strong>\u2019s red card suspension.<\/p>\n In comments reported by NBC News, Rubio called the red card a \u201cbad decision\u201d and said the referees \u201cshouldn\u2019t even be reviewing these things on slow motion, right? They should be reviewing the live action. I think it was the right decision to reverse it.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Belgian officials have said they are appealing the decision ahead of tonight\u2019s knockout World Cup match between the US and Belgium.<\/p>\n Rubio said that he understood that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of drama\u201d surrounding the move but questioned: \u201cIf you\u2019re Belgian, why would you want to play a game and win a match, and then you win this match, and then everyone will argue you didn\u2019t really win it because their best player, the leading scorer, was not on the pitch during the match?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMaybe we\u2019ll bring it up at Nato tomorrow when we\u2019re there with the Belgians and everybody else,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n Echoing Trump\u2019s comments earlier, Rubio went on: \u201cBut I just hope the match will go on. Everyone will be at full strength, and the winner will be the winner.<\/strong> And if it\u2019s Belgium, they have a very good team, you know, they\u2019ll move on, and they can say they beat the US at full strength at home<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span>Marco Rubio and Francisco P\u00e9rez Mackenna speak to members of the press in the Treaty Room of the US state department.<\/span> Photograph: Kent Nishimura\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a013.34 EDT<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong> is currently taking part in a Rose Garden club lunch at the White House. I\u2019ll bring you all the key lines here.<\/p>\n <\/span>Donald Trump speaks at a lunch in the White House Rose Garden.<\/span> Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/APShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.27 EDT<\/p>\n Bryan Armen Graham<\/span><\/p>\n In a statement issued after Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s remarks, Fifa president Gianni Infantino<\/strong> confirmed that he had received a call from the US president but said he told Trump the matter was before Fifa\u2019s independent disciplinary bodies.<\/p>\n \u201cFifa\u2019s judicial bodies are independent<\/strong>,\u201d Infantino said. \u201cThey operate autonomously, apply the Fifa Disciplinary Code, and decide cases based on the applicable regulations and the specific facts before them<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that while he sometimes agreed and sometimes disagreed with disciplinary decisions, he \u201calways\u201d respected the autonomy of the bodies that made them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As my colleagues on our World Cup live blog report, Infantino\u2019s statement appears to be his \u201cattempt to squirm his way out from under the bus Trump threw him under earlier\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump earlier confirmed that he had personally asked Infantino to review the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun<\/strong>, saying he believed the dismissal was unfair but insisting he did not pressure football\u2019s governing body to overturn the suspension.<\/p>\n \u201cAll I did was ask for a review because I didn\u2019t think it was a foul<\/strong>,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cI didn\u2019t tell him what to do. I can\u2019t tell him what to do<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.31 EDT<\/p>\n A five-day preliminary hearing in the murder case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is set to begin today.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tyler James Robinson, 23, has been charged with aggravated murder related to Kirk\u2019s death, after allegedly shooting the conservative political activist in the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event in September.<\/p>\n Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika, and members of family will attend the hearing, and it will mark the first time they are in the same room as the man accused of killing the Turning Point USA founder.<\/p>\n Utah prosecutors are aiming to prove at the multi-day hearing that there is sufficient evidence for Robinson\u2019s case should proceed to trial.<\/p>\n Ahead of the hearing, Erika Kirk and her family issued a statement, expressing thanks for the \u201coutpouring\u201d of support \u201cduring the darkest days of our lives\u201d, but said that \u201cout of respect for the judicial process, we will not be commenting further at this time\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Richard Luscombe<\/span><\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s latest attempt to delay payment of a $5.8m judgment for defaming a magazine columnist whom a jury determined he sexually abused has been emphatically rejected by a federal court judge.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a single-sentence 4 July order, US district Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the president\u2019s request for more time to pay the civil judgment owed to E Jean Carroll, who was awarded the damages after a New York jury concluded that Trump sexually abused her in 1996 \u2013 then defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s move came days after the US supreme court, without explanation or reasoning, turned down his demand to review the jury\u2019s 2023 verdict.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a subsequent filing<\/a> to Kaplan, the judge overseeing the case, Trump\u2019s attorneys referred to how his former lead counsel, Justin Smith, had been confirmed to a federal judgeship in June on the president\u2019s nomination. New lead counsel Josh Halpern therefore needed more time \u201cto become completely familiar with the facts and procedural circumstances\u201d, Trump\u2019s attorneys contended.<\/p>\n Carroll\u2019s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, who is no relation to the judge, responded<\/a> that the request for an extension \u201cappears to be little more than yet another play for time\u201d \u2013 noting Trump nominated Smith for the court of appeals more than five months previously, and that he had \u201cample time to retain new counsel\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n Trump just confirmed to reported in the Oval Office that he did, in fact, call Fifa president Gianni Infantino<\/strong> about the straight red card decision against Folarin Balogun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the play, and I\u2019m a person that loves sports and was a good athlete, and I understand sports really well, really well,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat wasn\u2019t a foul \u2026 There was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other<\/strong>,\u201d Trump added. \u201cThese are two great athletes that got tangled up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The president claimed, without providing evidence, that Raphael Claus<\/strong>, the referee who issued the inraction, \u201cis a little bit suspect if you check his past\u201d before going on to say that he asked Fifa for a review on the decision<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Trump added that if the US didn\u2019t have the team\u2019s \u201cbest player\u201d to take part in subsequent matches, it would have \u201creally stained\u201d the competition. The president didn\u2019t seem to quite understand the policy around straight red cards that resulted in a one-match ban for Balogun.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know what the hell a red card was. When I found out, I said, \u2018you got to be kidding,\u2019\u201d<\/strong> Trump said.<\/p>\n <\/span>Donald Trump speaks at the launch of Trump investment accounts in the Oval Office.<\/span> Photograph: Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.16 EDT<\/p>\n When asked about the latest Russian strikes on Kyiv, that have killed 19 people and heavily damaged apartment blocks and other buildings, Donald Trump repeated claims that \u201cwe\u2019re getting close\u201d on reaching a deal on the conflict in Ukraine, despite the attacks happening just days after speaking with Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n \u201c[Putin] wants to end it, and Ukraine wants to end it, and we\u2019re in talks, and we\u2019ll see if we can get it ended. It\u2019s a terrible thing,\u201d<\/strong> Trump added.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day so far: Trump-Fifa drama overshadows World Cup Donald Trump confirmed that he personally asked Fifa president Gianni Infantino to review the red card given to US striker Folarin Balogun, making him available to play for the USA in their knockout match against Belgium tonight. 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