Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 - Trump in Davos; Minnesota troop preparations; Epstein update

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

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Today’s Headlines: President Donald Trump remains in Davos, where he delivered an 80-minute speech packed with familiar grievances, questionable claims — including that “Canada lives because of the United States” — and repeatedly mixed up Iceland and Greenland. For now, he’s pulled back threats of military action and additional tariffs on Europe, claiming instead that he’s reached a vague “framework” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte over Greenland, which he described as an “infinite deal,” without offering details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to meet with Trump to discuss U.S. security guarantees and post-ceasefire reconstruction, while Trump’s unofficial envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with a Putin-linked negotiator in Davos and are headed to Moscow for more talks. Back in the U.S., tensions are escalating in Minnesota. Alongside 1,500 troops already on standby, the Pentagon has placed roughly 300 additional soldiers at Fort Bragg on notice in case Trump invokes the Insurrection Act amid ongoing Minneapolis protests. In Congress, the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt over their refusal to testify about Jeffrey Epstein, while declining to hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt for failing to release the Epstein files. Ghislaine Maxwell is scheduled to give a virtual deposition on February 9. Meanwhile, the administration admitted in court that Elon Musk’s DOGE-linked team improperly accessed and shared Americans’ Social Security data, and a federal judge ordered the FBI to temporarily stop searching devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson and return them pending further review. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: Reuters: Trump backs down on Greenland tariffs, says deal framework reached Politico: Trump and Zelenskyy to meet Thursday at Davos MSNOW: Pentagon orders more active-duty soldiers to ready for possible Minneapolis deployment PBS News: WATCH: House Oversight advances resolution on holding Clintons in contempt The Guardian: Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals | Trump administration WaPo: Judge blocks government from searching data seized from Post reporter Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	Today is Thursday, January 22nd, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Betches Media.
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0:59.5	in your feed. Now on to the news. Donald Trump is still in Davos, where he gave a very boring,
1:07.8	delusional 80-minute speech yesterday, in which he claimed that, quote,
1:11.6	Canada lives because of the United States, among a bunch of other slurry typical talking
1:16.1	points in which he confused Iceland and Greenland.
1:18.9	Come on, Donald, I thought we all practiced the saying.
1:22.5	He did, however, take military action in Greenland off the table for now, and pulled back on
1:27.2	the threat of composing
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