Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

[wayneL]

Doctored?

Here is the source. Likely peoples opinion will depend on which side of politics they're on.

The deep irony is CNN complaing about fake news.

 

[wayneL]

But as a point, imagine if Trump had done the exact same thing, CNN would've lost their minds.

 

[Darc Knight]

CNN claims White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders shared 'doctored' video of Jim Acosta

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...cretary-sarah-sanders-shared-doctored-n933911

So Trump's abusing a Reporter .then an obviously morally challenged follower of Trump tries to rip the Microphone outta the Reporters hand. Most people who work for Trump seem to be morally challenged, the others quit.
Lucky she wasn't body slammed like Trump likes to see.

 

[basilio]

Donald Trump is ceratainly fracturing the US relationship with the EU. Just madness.

Trump’s Bromance With Macron Fizzles Spectacularly
A weekend of presidential drama in Paris culminated in the French president’s warning against an emerging global disorder.

PARIS—The ceremony was planned long in advance. A chance for French President Emmanuel Macron to welcome world leaders to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended the hostilities of World War I. A way to decry nationalism and reinforce his deep commitment to multilateralism, and to a European Union born out of past conflicts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...macron-bromance-fizzles-spectacularly/575572/

 

[luutzu]

But as a point, imagine if Trump had done the exact same thing, CNN would've lost their minds.

Looks like the Acosta Karate chopped her arm. Was that why Trump stepped away from the podium, planning to avenge the intern but the old injury that prevented him to go to Vietnam - a bone spur - also stopped him from going completely White Knight.

You heard Trump's horror at another reporter's question about him being proudly calling himself "a nationalist"? Oh! How dare you?! That's so racist (of you).

 

[basilio]

So how much of an authoritarian dictactor do you have to be to get this response from Fox News ? Well worth reading the full story.

Fox News host tells Trump world sees him as 'beacon for repression'
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Washington: Fox News host Chris Wallace went after President Donald Trump for his attacks on the news media in an interview that aired on Sunday, telling the President he is "seen around the world as a beacon for repression" because of his rhetoric.
The Fox News Sunday host told Trump that while other presidents expressed frustration with the news media, none had gone as far as Trump, who called them "the enemy of the American people".

"Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time but he never said we were the enemy of the people," Wallace said.

Trump said "nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do" and attempted to clarify that he did not believe all media is the "enemy", but only outlets that he considers "fake news".

"But a lot of times, sir, it's just news you don't like," Wallace replied. And he told the President that "leaders in authoritarian countries like Russia, China, Venezuela, now repress the media using your words".

"I can't talk for other people, I can only talk for me," Trump replied.

"But you're seen around the world as a beacon for repression," Wallace said.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/wo...as-beacon-for-repression-20181119-p50gua.html

 

[wayneL]

Laughable, bas.

 

[SirRumpole]

Trump said "nobody believes in the First Amendment more than I do" and attempted to clarify that he did not believe all media is the "enemy", but only outlets that he considers "fake news".

Like the place of Obama's birth perhaps ?

 

[basilio]

Looks like the "Beacon of Light" for authoritarian regimes has turned up to full dazzle.

Trump 'stands with' Saudi Arabia and defends crown prince over Khashoggi

President issues extraordinary statement of support and repeats Saudi claim that murdered journalist was ‘enemy of the state’

Donald Trump has expressed his unstinting support for Saudi Arabia and claimed there was “nothing definitive” linking Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

In the extraordinary statement issued on Tuesday – which begins with the words “The world is a very dangerous place!” – Trump quotes Saudi officials as describing Khashoggi as an “enemy of the state”.

The 649-word statement appears to be a presidential act of defiance against the CIA, which has reportedly concluded that the Saudi prince ordered the killing, and the Senate, which is considering bipartisan legislation that would suspend weapons sales to Saudi Arabia among other punitive measures.

He told reporters at the White House that the CIA “didn’t make a determination” on the murder, and that they had “nothing definitive” on its perpetrator. The claim is contradicted by multiple reports that the intelligence agency has concluded that Prince Mohammed ordered the hit on the former Saudi insider who had become a persistent critic.

.... His statement made a series of false or unsubstantiated claims, suggesting that Riyadh is buying $110bn in US weapons. The actual total of offers since Trump took office is less than $15bn, and the value of actual signed contracts is significantly lower than that.

A new independent report found that US arms sales to Saudi Arabia account for fewer than 20,000 US jobs a year – less than a 20th of the employment boost Donald Trump has claimed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/20/trump-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-crown-prince

 

[wayneL]

This is so boring bas

From the philosophical perpective:

Matthew 7:3-5
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Must I dredge up the plethora if totalitarians of the left?

 

[SirRumpole]

Trouble is that the US needs Saudi Arabia as a bulwark to Iran.

Also the trouble that is the same thing that the US said about Iraq.

Meddling in middle eastern politics usually blows up in the West's faces.

 

[basilio]

I can see a point there Wayne.

If "The President of the Free World" starts calling the press "The enemy of the State", runs a world wide business network through his administration , employs family members who tend to the family business while "working" for the government and sets up huge tent camps in the desert for undesirables - perhaps we should be concerned.

Or maybe that is what we should understand and accept in this era.

 

[Miner]

Interesting that we are worried for Trump and supporting his every move when he gives a damn to Australia.
I would have been much happier to see that we spend time on us : Where our leaders will take Australia? How long we would survive with single parent allowances and helping the family to split, Youth allowance at a minor age allowing kids to leave home, unstable PM chair, No strategic investment on rail or water transport instead clearing of lands (destabilising environment) with big roads but no local infrastructure, too soft angle to criminals, giving doles to criminals and ex prisoners, no 4 or 5 years planning model. Time has come for us to look into our own backyard than getting worried for Trump or French President.

 

[luutzu]

Interesting that we are worried for Trump and supporting his every move when he gives a damn to Australia.
I would have been much happier to see that we spend time on us : Where our leaders will take Australia? How long we would survive with single parent allowances and helping the family to split, Youth allowance at a minor age allowing kids to leave home, unstable PM chair, No strategic investment on rail or water transport instead clearing of lands (destabilising environment) with big roads but no local infrastructure, too soft angle to criminals, giving doles to criminals and ex prisoners, no 4 or 5 years planning model. Time has come for us to look into our own backyard than getting worried for Trump or French President.

Aussie PMs and politicians take Australia where Washington told them to. With maybe a couple minor improvisation around the edges.

 

[luutzu]

I can see a point there Wayne.

If "The President of the Free World" starts calling the press "The enemy of the State", runs a world wide business network through his administration , employs family members who tend to the family business while "working" for the government and sets up huge tent camps in the desert for undesirables - perhaps we should be concerned.

Or maybe that is what we should understand and accept in this era.

If we ever wonder how did the world allow the Holocaust to happen... don't need to wonder too far off.

Some 10 million Yeminis are literally starving to death. The greatest democracy in the world have been fuelling, providing target, ammo, logistics... and oh, recently stopped re-fueling the SA and "coalition"... but only stopped because the Saudis can now do the refuelling themselves.

So did the crown prince, the new shining light bringing modernity and women-driver to SA... did he order the butchering of an undesirable? "maybe he did, maybe he didn't (just look at how much money we can make)" (US president Trump).

Having the CIA playing the bad guy while the president stood by a crown prince in trouble... that's a lot of favour to be paid back. To both Uncle Sam and Trump Inc.

 

[basilio]

Looking like end days for the Thief-in-Chief. This story does a good job of cataloging the lies and corruption that are the hallmarks of this administration. Well worth a read

The Mueller investigation is closing in on Trump
Jill Abramson
What a catalogue of rogues – and what a tantalizing pile of clues. Surely we will soon know where all this leads
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/03/trump-mueller-investigation-manafort-cohen

 

[basilio]

There is another analysis which also pulls together the elements of Mueller investigation and makes it clear that, yeah, they were all lying.

This Was the Week the Mueller Probe Switched From “What If” to “What Else”
Real-world conspiracies don’t unravel neatly. But this is a week we’ll look back on.
By Dahlia Lithwick

Dec 01, 20185:45 PM

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Donald Trump.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
At some point in the future, we will perhaps look back at this week as the week that brought a time switch in the Mueller probe. This was the week in which we learned that a lot of what had been reported as speculative, or reported but not taken seriously, or reported but forgotten, now maps onto real facts. This was the week that Trump confederates were shown to be liars or admitted to being liars. The president’s former lawyer has now established that he was lying to Congress to protect the president. The president, or “Individual 1” as he’s now described in legal filings, himself is now certainly a subject of great interest to federal investigators.

There are many things we do not know. But it is worth recognizing that we have gone from a state of being in which Trump and his campaign were lying about Russia if certain things were shown to be true, to a state of being in which the president and his campaign were simply lying about Russia. Is that in and of itself illegal? No. But whatever it is, this is not a witch hunt.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...probe-switched-from-what-if-to-what-else.html

 

[basilio]

Just how many scams has the Thief-in-Chief been running ? How many people has he stiffed, lied to, lied, about, assaulted ? How many law suits are there both historical and current around his personal and financial affairs ?

Trump's countless scams are finally catching up to him
Rebecca Solnit
The daily news drip can make it difficult to recognize the immense scale of the president’s legal troubles

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ald-trump-russia-robert-mueller-legal-trouble

 

[basilio]

Could Donald Trump declare a State of Emergency ? What could he do ?

What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency
From seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things.

The Voorhes

• Elizabeth Goitein

In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump reached deep into his arsenal to try to deliver votes to Republicans.

Most of his weapons were rhetorical, featuring a mix of lies and false inducements—claims that every congressional Democrat had signed on to an “open borders” bill (none had), that liberals were fomenting violent “mobs” (they weren’t), that a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class would somehow pass while Congress was out of session (it didn’t). But a few involved the aggressive use—and threatened misuse—of presidential authority: He sent thousands of active-duty soldiers to the southern border to terrorize a distant caravan of desperate Central American migrants, announced plans to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship by executive order, and tweeted that law enforcement had been “strongly notified” to be on the lookout for “ILLEGAL VOTING.”

These measures failed to carry the day, and Trump will likely conclude that they were too timid. How much further might he go in 2020, when his own name is on the ballot—or sooner than that, if he’s facing impeachment by a House under Democratic control?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

 

[wayneL]

The Atlantic is a joke