Florida Mar-A-Lago- 2025 Juanuary 6th by Benny Start The Washington News
We will never know if Elon Musk's absence was intentional or a twist of fate about Giorgia Meloni's American blitz. The fact is that the feeling or perhaps the flirtation between the Italian Prime Minister and Elon Musk had no effect. Giorgia Meloni, as they say in Italy, went in white, no flirtation with Elon, nothing behind the scenes for the sensual Italian Prime Minister who after four hours left empty-handed went home. We wonder if she concluded something and if the trip was exclusively dedicated to greeting the next US President or to convince him to desist on Abedini's extradition request, the Iranian counterpart to release our beautiful journalist Cecilia Sala. A thorny issue for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as the affair has gripped the Italian people, becoming one of the main political factors on the stage of Italian priorities.
That's how long the American trip of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni lasted, who, surprisingly, flew to the United States. Destination: Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump's private residence in West Palm Beach. No official comment, except for a photo shared on social media showing the Prime Minister smiling with The Donald and the caption: "Beautiful evening, I thank him for the welcome.
Ready to work together". A post that sounds like a response to the words of praise that Trump had used, calling her - according to the Wall Street Journal - "a fantastic woman" who "has truly taken Europe by storm".
It was well known that a meeting between the prime minister and the president-elect was in the air. The official date circled in red was, however, January 20, the day of Trump's swearing-in in Washington. A ceremony to which the prime minister had been personally invited by the US president. The decision by the judges of the Court of Appeal of Milan to set the hearing for the decision on house arrest for Najafabadi as early as January 15 could have had an impact on Meloni's agenda (but here too we are in the realm of hypotheses given the confidentiality with which the visit to American soil is shielded).
Added to this is the fact that Joe Biden will arrive in Rome next week to meet the Pope. In addition to the Pontiff, the outgoing US president will meet with Mattarella and Meloni herself. And even with Biden, the Sala 'case' will certainly be one of the topics on the agenda, but it is clear that the outgoing tenant of the White House no longer considers himself the main interlocutor with whom to address the dossier.
Hence the need to tighten the times that led to the blitz in Florida. The unwelcome guest of the trip to Mar-A-Lago is Elon Musk. The Tesla boss never appears with Meloni and Trump in official photos and videos, but from the posts on X it is clear the key role he had in organizing the face-to-face. With the US president and the Italian prime minister (accompanied by the ambassador to the US, Mariangela Zappia) were instead seen several representatives of the future US administration: the future secretary of state Marco Rubio (who called Meloni "a great ally and a strong leader") and the future secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, the next national security advisor Mike Waltz and the new US ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta. A line-up that captures the importance reserved for the Italian guest and that - as reported by the New York Times - marks the desire to "strengthen the hopes of Meloni's supporters that the conservative Italian prime minister will become Trump's key ally in Europe". Mediating, the American newspaper explains, "tensions between other European leaders and Trump".
At the residence of Biden's successor there were also numerous supporters (such as the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani) invited to the screening of a documentary ("The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice") focused on the appeals in the 2020 elections (when Trump denounced mass fraud), with a focus on the efforts of lawyer John Eastman. .
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