Former US President Donald Trump hosted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, for a five-hour meeting. The meeting, which took place days before Meloni welcomes President Joe Biden to Rome, covered a range of topics including the case of imprisoned Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, the war in Ukraine, energy supplies, and potential US tariffs on EU goods.
Trump and Meloni, flanked by Michael Waltz (left) and Marco Rubio, the nominees for US national security adviser and secretary of state, made a flying visit to Donald Trump ’s Florida golf club on Saturday, during which the US president-elect praised the far-right leader for “really taking Europe by storm”.The five-hour visit comes a few days before Meloni is due to welcome Joe Biden to Rome in what is expected to be the last foreign trip of his presidency.
“This is very exciting,” Trump told a group gathered at Mar-a-Lago, according to a media pool report. “I’m here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy. She’s really takenwere present, including Marco Rubio, the nominee for secretary of state, who welcomed Meloni to Florida and described her as a “great ally, strong leader”, according to the Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Leary. The group then watched the premiere of The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice, a documentary on the efforts of Trump’s former lawyer John Eastman to keep him in power after the 2020 US presidential elections. No official agenda was announced, but the New York Times reported that Meloni pressed hard on the case of Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist. Sala’s arrest in December on charges of breaching Islamic law was allegedly a reprisal for the arrest, at the request of the US, of a Swiss-Iranian businessman and alleged arms trafficker with ties to the Iranian regime at Milan’s Malpensa airport. Italy is aggressively pressing for the immediate release of Sala from Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Other topics reportedly included the war in Ukraine, gas supplies and possible new US tariffs on EU goods. It is the second time Meloni has met Trump since he won the US elections in Novembe
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