45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)
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p1stonhead said:
What he actually tweeted was 138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help!
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Edited by B'stard Child on Sunday 21st April 14:07
B'stard Child said:
p1stonhead said:
What he actually tweeted was 138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help!
There may have been an edit or two
Edited by B'stard Child on Sunday 21st April 14:07
B'stard Child said:
p1stonhead said:
What he actually tweeted was 138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help!
There may have been an edit or two!
king idiot.
Rudy Giuliani went on State of the Nation and defended using information that was illegally hacked by a foreign power to sway a presidential election. "There's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1119960312382402560
Adam Schiff responds to Kellyanne Conway: "You heard another display of alternative facts from Kellyanne Conway today where she could not even acknowledge that the Russians tried to help the Trump campaign ... There is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight."
"The obstruction of justice in particular in this case is far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did ... I would say in every way this is more significant than Watergate."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1119960312382402560
Adam Schiff responds to Kellyanne Conway: "You heard another display of alternative facts from Kellyanne Conway today where she could not even acknowledge that the Russians tried to help the Trump campaign ... There is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight."
"The obstruction of justice in particular in this case is far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did ... I would say in every way this is more significant than Watergate."
Interview with Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to the USA who has just retired: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/19/how-trump-pra...
Interesting to see an inside view of how the unfilled positions and and constantly changing personnel affect people who are trying to work with America, such as the French are doing in Syria.
Interesting to see an inside view of how the unfilled positions and and constantly changing personnel affect people who are trying to work with America, such as the French are doing in Syria.
Tartan Pixie said:
Interview with Gérard Araud, the French ambassador to the USA who has just retired: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/19/how-trump-pra...
Interesting to see an inside view of how the unfilled positions and and constantly changing personnel affect people who are trying to work with America, such as the French are doing in Syria.
Also in the GuardianInteresting to see an inside view of how the unfilled positions and and constantly changing personnel affect people who are trying to work with America, such as the French are doing in Syria.
The outgoing French ambassador to the US has compared the Trump administration to the court of King Louis XIV, filled with courtiers trying to interpret the caprices of a “whimsical, unpredictable, uninformed” leader.
Gérard Araud, who retires on Friday after a 37-year career that included some of the top jobs in French diplomacy, said Donald Trump’s unpredictability and his single-minded transactional interpretation of US interests was leaving the administration isolated on the world stage.
“When they say ‘America first’, it’s America alone,” Araud said in an interview with the Guardian. “Basically, this president and this administration don’t have allies, don’t have friends. It’s really [about] bilateral relationships on the basis of the balance of power and the defence of narrow American interest.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/wh...
The republicans in Kansas are trying to hold onto power by taking away the governors power to make appointments
The appointment power would fall to the delegates of whichever party last held the executive office. For example, if Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, were to leave, it would be up to to the Republican party to choose a replacement.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-governmen...
The appointment power would fall to the delegates of whichever party last held the executive office. For example, if Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican, were to leave, it would be up to to the Republican party to choose a replacement.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-governmen...
Calling donald jnr to stupid to realise he was breaking the law may not be his saving. It's been pointed out that he knew all about campaign violations, because just four days after the Trump Tower meeting, Trump Jr. linked to a blog post (falsely) accusing Clinton campaign of violating the foreign contribution ban.
https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/74249093...
Slate have also picked this up, concluding that:
We now know the special counsel considered whether Trump Jr. and Manafort committed such a crime before ultimately declining to prosecute. We also now know that Mueller made some key errors during that decision-making process.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/donald...
https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/74249093...
Slate have also picked this up, concluding that:
We now know the special counsel considered whether Trump Jr. and Manafort committed such a crime before ultimately declining to prosecute. We also now know that Mueller made some key errors during that decision-making process.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/donald...
There's questions being asked if the Mueller report is what Mueller actually wrote, and if it's been altered.
Barr said in his summary and quoted the report "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
The full statement is:
“As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations.
First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents.
The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
So there were numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, the report states that team trump continuously lied, or didn't remember, or hid and destroyed documentation, yet that one statement let them off the hook. Was that changed?
Barr said in his summary and quoted the report "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
The full statement is:
“As set forth in detail in this report, the Special Counsel’s investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election principally through two operations.
First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign and then released stolen documents.
The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
So there were numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, the report states that team trump continuously lied, or didn't remember, or hid and destroyed documentation, yet that one statement let them off the hook. Was that changed?
Byker28i said:
The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
This is what I don't understand. There is evidence Russia meddled in the campaign and there is evidence the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians throughout the election campaign. What did Mueller think they were talking about, the weather?uknick said:
This is what I don't understand. There is evidence Russia meddled in the campaign and there is evidence the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians throughout the election campaign. What did Mueller think they were talking about, the weather?
Orphans - apparently.uknick said:
Byker28i said:
The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
This is what I don't understand. There is evidence Russia meddled in the campaign and there is evidence the Trump campaign were in contact with the Russians throughout the election campaign. What did Mueller think they were talking about, the weather?Republicans have spent a total of at least $4,700,000 at Trump's properties since he became president, according to the latest federal financial filings. That doesn't include millions taxpayers spend every time Trump travels to one of his own properties
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gop-spening...
The General Accounting Office estimated in a report early this year that four trips to Mar-a-Lago over a month in 2017 cost the government a total of $13.6 million — $3.4 million each. Costs on things like food and lodging for Trump, his family and his staff profit the operation.
Just a reminder that trump is at Mar-a-Lago, his 246th day at a Trump property as president.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/gop-spening...
The General Accounting Office estimated in a report early this year that four trips to Mar-a-Lago over a month in 2017 cost the government a total of $13.6 million — $3.4 million each. Costs on things like food and lodging for Trump, his family and his staff profit the operation.
Just a reminder that trump is at Mar-a-Lago, his 246th day at a Trump property as president.
Eric Mc said:
Nope - I've listened to many interviews on American TV news programmes and you can see that the type of people who are staunchly behind Trump are very different to your normal political supporter. This is a new phenomenon that we have never seen expressed in regard to a President of the US. Trump is much more akin to the Reverend Jimmy Jones than Barack Obama.
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