|
|
Neue Antwort erstellen
Trump’s undermining of efforts to fight Putin detailed in ex-CIA agent’s disturbing new column
A recently retired CIA agent reveals that President Donald Trump was a “wild card” that prevented a full-scale effort to combat Russian aggression against the U.S. and its allies.
Marc Polymeropoulos, who retired from the agency in June, said in column posted at Just Security that the CIA issued an informal “call to arms” in the wake of Kremlin interference in the 2016 election, but those efforts were hampered by Trump’s relationship with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trumps-...ing-new-column/
https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieRepo...93459581101867/
"... condemning one of our best diplomats to the mercy of the fat twitter thumbs of the 'day glow' narcissist in chief ..."
Noch ein Aufheber.:-)
For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis
Before issuing his own condolences, the president channeled the Saudi king’s, and avoided any discussion of the hard questions about why the U.S. is training Saudi officers.
When a Saudi Air Force officer opened fire on his classmates at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, he killed three, wounded eight and exposed anew the strange dynamic between President Trump and the Saudi leadership: The president’s first instinct was to tamp down any suggestion that the Saudi government needed to be held to account.
Hours later, Mr. Trump announced on Twitter that he had received a condolence call from King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who clearly sought to ensure that the episode did not further fracture their relationship. On Saturday, leaving the White House for a trip here for a Republican fund-raiser and a speech on Israeli-American relations, Mr. Trump told reporters that “they are devastated in Saudi Arabia,” noting that “the king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones.” He never used the word “terrorism.” ...
... But even stranger, said Mr. Riedel, was “the president’s parroting of the Saudi line” before learning the results of an investigation into whether the gunman acted alone, or had allegiances to Al Qaeda or terrorist groups....
Mr. Trump was so quick and so eager to assure the Saudis that the relationship would continue before anyone knew how to categorize the shooting that it raised questions about how the administration would have responded if the suspect had been an Iranian, or an immigrant from Mexico. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump often cited the killing of a young woman in California by an undocumented immigrant as a reason to crack down on immigration and build a wall along the southern border.
“Had an attack been carried out by any country on his Muslim ban, his reaction would have been very different,” said Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East negotiator and now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/po...udi-arabia.html
What's it like to stand stark naked on the world stage? Ask Donald Trump
Stripped of his usual protections inside the White House, Trump exposes himself on the world stage at every conceivable opportunity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...sk-donald-trump
Senate Democrats demand Trump fire Stephen Miller
Senate Democrats are demanding that President Trump fire Stephen Miller after a watchdog group released hundreds of controversial emails the White House adviser sent prior to his time in the administration.
Twenty-seven Democrats, led by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calf.), sent Trump a letter on Monday calling for Miller's "immediate removal."
"Recent reports confirm that he advanced white nationalist, anti-immigrant ideologies. Continuing to employ him as the senior architect of your immigration policies ensures that those policies discriminate against individuals of color to advance white nationalist ideals. He must be removed," the senators wrote.
The letter is the latest from Democrats and civil rights groups calling for Miller to be fired after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published summaries of emails the White House aide sent in 2015 and 2016 when he worked as an aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4736...-stephen-miller
What they're saying: Former FBI officials respond to inspector general report
Responding to a Justice Department inspector general report that found that political bias did not taint the 2016 Russia investigation, former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a Washington Post column Monday that "those who smeared the FBI are due for an accounting."
Why it matters: The report largely debunks conspiracy theories promoted by Trump and his allies that the Russia investigation was politically motivated and a product of the so-called "Deep State." However, the report also rebukes FBI officials in rather harsh terms for failing to meet agency standards, especially with respect to surveillance warrants.
"The president said the FBI’s actions were 'treason.' The current attorney general even slimed his own organization by supporting Trump’s claims, asserting there had been 'spying' on the campaign. Crimes had been committed, the Trump crowd said, and a whole bunch of former FBI leaders, including me, were likely going to jail.
On Monday, we learned from a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, that the allegation of a criminal conspiracy was nonsense. There was no illegal wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the campaign, there was no 'spying' on the Trump campaign.
Although it took two years, the truth is finally out."
— James Comey in a Wahington Post column
Of note: Comey also tweeted that Fox & Friends had booked him for an interview scheduled for Tuesday morning, but the network canceled after the report was released.
What they're saying:
President Trump claimed Monday that he had been briefed on the report, but nonetheless attacked the Russia investigation as "an attempted overthrow" — which is not supported by any evidence. “It’s a disgrace what’s happened with the things that were done to our country," Trump said in the Oval Office. "It’s incredible, far worse than what I ever thought possible. They fabricated evidence and they lied to the courts."
Current FBI Director Christopher Wray told ABC News that many of the FBI oversights detailed in the report are "unacceptable," but added that it's "important that the inspector general found that, in this particular instance, the investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization."
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's lawyer said in a statement: "Mr. McCabe did not know about any of these issues and the report makes clear that there is no way he could have known unless someone specifically brought them to his attention. The report makes clear that no one did."
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page tweeted: "The sum total of findings by IG Horowitz that my personal opinions had any bearing on the course of either the Clinton or Russia investigations? Zero and Zero. Cool, cool. /end"
Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok's lawyer said in a statement "This independent Department of Justice report confirms what everyone who has worked with Pete Strzok already knew — in 25 years of protecting our country, his personal opinions never impacted his work as an official of the FBI. Those who recklessly deny this truth for political gain do a grave disservice."
Former FBI general counsel James Baker told CNN, "I think the president should apologize to us [FBI officials]. The conclusions are quite clear that the President's statements over these past several years were all wrong — that there was no hoax, there was no conspiracy to overthrow anybody, there was no sedition, there was no treason, there was no evidence of any of that."
https://www.axios.com/ig-report-comey-fb...f337b0cf38.html
TRUMP GOES FULL ANTI-SEMITE IN ROOM FULL OF JEWISH PEOPLE
... Calling the comments “deeply offensive” and “unconscionable,” the Jewish Democratic Council of America said in a statement, “We strongly denounce these vile and bigoted remarks in which the president—once again—used anti-Semitic stereotypes to characterize Jews as driven by money and insufficiently loyal to Israel. He even had the audacity to suggest that Jews ‘have no choice’ but to support him. American Jews do have a choice, and they’re not choosing President Trump or the Republican Party, which has been complicit in enacting his hateful agenda.”
The group’s executive director added: “Jewish support for the GOP has been halved since Trump has been in office, from 33 percent in 2014 to 17 percent in 2018, because Trump’s policies and rhetoric are completely antithetical to Jewish values.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/...semitic-remarks
Part of trumski's base:
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...79a&oe=5E812544
Steele had 'personal' relationship with Ivanka Trump, DoJ report reveals
The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele had a “personal” relationship with Ivanka Trump and gifted her a “family tartan from Scotland” as a present, the long-awaited report by US Department of Justice inspector general, Michael Horowitz, revealed on Monday.
Horowitz’s review of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and its links with Russia includes fresh details of Steele’s interactions with the FBI, and startling claims about his relationship with the Trumps dating back to the period before he wrote a controversial dossier on Trump.
The report said that contrary to what Donald Trump has claimed on Twitter Steele was actually “favorably disposed” to the Trump family. It was “ridiculous” to suggest he was biased against the then Republican candidate or that his memos on collusion, written at the behest of the Washington-based research firm Fusion GPS, were in any way biased, Steele told federal investigators.
Steele said he had visited Ivanka Trump at Trump Tower and had been “friendly” with her for “some years”. He described their relationship as “personal”. The former British government spy had even given her a “family tartan from Scotland” as a present, the report quoted him as saying.
ABC also reported that Ivanka Trump even discussed work that Steele’s firm – Orbis Business Intelligence – might do for the Trump family business. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...j7WVwrn79hMf0bs
Trump’s children must undergo mandatory training to learn how to avoid defrauding charities
President Donald Trump’s three eldest children have agreed to undergo a mandatory training seminar to ensure they don’t fraudulently misuse charity funds in the future.
The New York Times reports that, as part of a settlement the New York State Attorney General’s Office, three of Trump’s children “were ordered to undergo mandatory training to ensure they do not engage in similar misconduct” at future charities.
The three children in question — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump — were all officers at the Trump Foundation, which was accused by prosecutors of fraudulently misappropriating funds for the president’s personal expenses.
The Trump Foundation agreed to voluntarily disband as part of its settlement with the New York Attorney General, and Trump paid out $2 million in compensation to eight different charities to make up for the money that the foundation misused over the span of several years.
In addition to paying $2 million, the president also had to admit that he misused foundation funds to fund his own presidential campaign, pay off his businesses’ legal expenses, and to buy a $10,000 portrait of himself that wound up being displayed at one of his Florida hotels.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trumps-...ding-charities/
US retail sales rose less than expected 0.2% in November
U.S. retail sales increased less than expected in November as Americans cut back on discretionary spending, which could see economists dialing back economic growth forecasts for the fourth quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales rose 0.2% last month. Data for October was revised up to show retail sales increasing 0.4% instead of gaining 0.3% as previously reported.
The economy expanded at a 2.1% pace in the July-September period. Last month’s small increase in core retail sales could see economists lower their GDP growth estimates for the fourth quarter, which are currently converging around a rate of 1.8%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/us-retai...ember-2019.html
Trump told the same story about a ‘Jewish friend’ 4 times — and has used a different name each time
President Donald Trump can’t possibly be anti-Semitic because some of his best friends are Jewish. The problem, however, is that he can’t remember that friend’s name.
A Washington Post story Friday exposed Trump’s struggle to remember his Jewish friend’s name while telling anecdotes about the friend. ...
...It harkens back to the time Trump’s “friend Jim” said that he comes to Paris every year but lately he’s stopped because “Paris isn’t Paris.” Reporters were never able to find the “friend Jim”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-t...name-each-time/
Wer luegt der muss entweder ein gutes Gedaechnis haben, oder sich mit Leuten umgeben, denen es nichts ausmacht, angelogen zu werden. Bei trumski ist es ganz klar zweiteres.
Former Breitbart Editor: Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. I know, I was one too.
She was already a racist when she took a publishing job in Washington, DC. But when she became a reporter for Breitbart News, Katie McHugh says she was taken to new depths of hate with the help of Stephen Miller.
Emails show the two were in frequent contact between 2015 and 2016 while he was working for then Sen. Jeff Sessions and later on the Trump presidential campaign.
McHugh says on Miller's way to the White House, where he is now a senior adviser deeply involved in shaping immigration policy in consonance with his hardline views, he was constantly sending her far-right material, encouraging her to use their arguments in her articles.
"He was shaping news coverage of a far-right website that was rapidly growing ... and was controlling the narrative behind Donald Trump's candidacy and the tenor of the electorate, especially the Republican electorate," McHugh says. Breitbart supported Trump and as he rose while embracing the site's ideology, so did Breitbart's popularity with readers.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/...stephen-miller/
Judge stymies Trump's border wall by invoking GOP law targeting Obama
What goes around, Republicans are learning, comes around.
President Donald Trump’s border wall is facing a surprising new legal hurdle down in Texas: an obscure legislative provision crafted by House Republicans in 2014 when the GOP was targeting then-President Barack Obama’s budget powers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14...ll-obama-084540
😂😂😂
Republicans block bipartisan election security bill for third time, claiming that threats to Russia would hurt Trump
Bill would have imposed sanctions on Russia if American intelligence officials determined they were meddling
A bipartisan election security bill aimed at warning Russia not to meddle in the 2020 election has been blocked by Republicans in the Senate, the third time such a bill has been blocked this year.
The bill would have established a trip wire should US intelligence agencies determine that Russia was attempting to meddle in the election, with targeted sanctions of the country’s finance, defence and energy sectors within 30 days.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...g-a9244606.html
Trump surpasses 15,000 false and misleading claims in office after lying more than ever in 2019
President Trump is trying to “undermine” facts “in order to try to gaslight the country," CNN's Jake Tapper says
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/16/trump-s...n-ever-in-2019/
Trump Says He Passed On Being 'Person Of The Year.' 'Time' Says He's 'Incorrect'
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/...oEztCAz8sSuHvNM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPsJ2BJVoAAL-lt.jpg
😂
He will be back on soon enough:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP_mJ26UEAALR4b.jpg
RE: Trump
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 17.12.2019 22:04von Hans Bergman •
| 23.327 Beiträge
Der Feind sind die USA, nicht Russland. Wann kapiert man das hier endlich?
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/u...-a-1301790.html
Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #8971
Der Feind sind die USA.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/u...-a-1301790.html
Heute vor 75 Jahren: der 2. Tag der Ardennen Offensive. :-)
RE: Trump
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 17.12.2019 22:57von Hans Bergman •
| 23.327 Beiträge
Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8972Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #8971
Der Feind sind die USA.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/u...-a-1301790.html
Heute vor 75 Jahren: der 2. Tag der Ardennen Offensive. :-)
Ich lebe im Heute.
Die Ardenennoffensive wird hier jedenfalls nicht gefeiert, so wie das blutige Gemetzel des Bürgerkriegs in den USA.
Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #8973Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8972Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #8971
Der Feind sind die USA.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/u...-a-1301790.html
Heute vor 75 Jahren: der 2. Tag der Ardennen Offensive. :-)
Ich lebe im Heute.
Die Ardenennoffensive wird hier jedenfalls nicht gefeiert, so wie das blutige Gemetzel des Bürgerkriegs in den USA.
Man koennte schnippisch sagen "aus gutem Grunde". Man koennte.
Aber vorstehendes ist ja auch nur ihrer Unwissenheit, sowohl ueber die Vergangenheit wie auch ueber das heute, geschuldet.
Nicht nur wurde, bevor Deutschland den Frack das letzte mal vollkriegte, jede grosse gewonnene Schacht in Deutschland sehr wohl gefeiert, sondern es wird auch das blutige Gemetzel des Buergerkriegs in den USA heute nicht gefeiert. Zwei Argumentationsfehler gleich da.
Anderseits wurde aber zum Wiederholungsdatum des Beginns der Ardennenoffensive sehr wohl unter Mitwirkung aller damals beteiligten Nationen vor Ort eine Gedenkstunde abgehalten und selbst der deutschen Bundespraesident war dort einer der Redner.
Und er sprach sogar in Englisch:
“On this day, we Germans would like to thank the United States of America. The American armed forces, together with their allies, liberated Europe and they also liberated Germany. We thank you,” Steinmeier said.
“Those who died were victims of hatred, delusion, and a destructive fury that originated from my country,” he said.
So, und nun koennen Sie sich auch darueber gleich wieder aufregen. :-)
RE: Trump
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 18.12.2019 11:10von Hans Bergman •
| 23.327 Beiträge
Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #8974Ich sagte doch, ich lebe im Heute. Ich reg mich ja auch nicht auf darüber - ich stelle nur fest.
...So, und nun koennen Sie sich auch darueber gleich wieder aufregen. :-)
Wo die USA nach WKII waren, da wächst heute jedenfalls kein Gras mehr (als Wortspiel für Vietnam bestens geeignet, aber auch Chile, Mittel- und Südamerika, der ganze Nahe Osten können ein Lied davon singen).
Überall haben die USA nach Anrichten des Unheils feige ihren Schwanz eingezogen. Und es nimmt ja auch kein Ende. Der Verrat an den Kurden oder jetzt in Afghanistan - der Feind sind die USA, sowie sie es von Anbeginn gegen die Nativen waren.
Bitte geben Sie einen Grund für die Verwarnung an
Der Grund erscheint unter dem Beitrag.Bei einer weiteren Verwarnung wird das Mitglied automatisch gesperrt.
 Forum Statistiken
Das Forum hat 1450
Themen
und
323599
Beiträge.
Heute waren 3 Mitglieder Online: Landegaard, Leto_II., nahal |
Besucher
 | Einfach ein eigenes Forum erstellen |