TRUMP ADMITS HIS “INCREDIBLE” DEAL WITH CHINA IS BULLSHIT
The president has pulled a complete 180 after even the White House wouldn’t defend his propaganda.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/...ina-is-bullshit

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #4475

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4473

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...Die Bildungsnachhilfe kam in der Twitter world ja dann auch prompt. Tausendfach. Ein Beispiel:
Marc Matthews@marcm9000
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Mr Trump, The price of equipment I need to buy to run my business has increased 30% from January. I am paying the tariff, not China.
4:05 AM - 5 Dec 2018
Nicht dass er das etwa lesen und beherzigen -oder gar begreifen wuerde. Es zeigt nur, was fuer eine laecherliche Witzfigur der Mann diesbezueglich ist.

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Das ist natürlich ganz schön populistisch. Wenn der Twitterer US-Equipment kauft, muss er keine Zölle zahlen. Und wenn zuviel an China in US-Waren steckt, dass auch diese teurer werden, dann muss sich das eben ändern (und wird es auch).

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Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up
The president thinks the balancing of the nation’s books is going to, ultimately, be a future president’s problem.

Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn’t have to worry about the money owed to America’s creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable.

The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office.
“Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-c...hen-it-blows-up

Jetzt endlich wissen wir, warum Michelle die nächste Präsidentin werden soll:

"Michelle Obama revealed that her fictional hero is Pippi Longstocking, the adventurous title character in Astrid Lundgren’s legendary series."

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in...-fictional-hero

International trade deficit surges to highest in a decade as imports rise, US exports drop
The Commerce Department said on Thursday the trade deficit increased 1.7 percent to $55.5 billion, the highest level since October 2008.
The trade gap has now widened for a five straight months. Data for September was revised to show the deficit rising to $54.6 billion instead of the previously reported $54.0 billion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/06/internat...U3j-BYFIeJcKoUk

Remember when Trump said he’d fix the trade deficit? It just rose again.
He promised he would negotiate, "fair trade, smart trade, I even like to say brilliant trade."
https://thinkprogress.org/trade-deficit-...x-2b4efcb591dd/

How Donald Trump Shifted $1.1M Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexande...10#6d743d5c4d34

Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein
Get Ready!

Tomorrow is going to be a big day.

Both Manafort and Cohen's sentencing memorandums will be released by the Mueller team.

Key details will likely come out, but Mueller may redact a lot like he did with Flynn's memo.

Trump likely won't sleep.

3:45 PM - 6 Dec 2018

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...161&oe=5C976805

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...2c4&oe=5C67B333

Tucker Carlson:
«Trump is not capable»
https://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2018-4...be-49-2018.html


Tucker Carlson: Trump Has Failed
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/...QsZpniSGPBPDGGA

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...021&oe=5C6B03E6

Rex Tillerson Says He Repeatedly Stopped Donald Trump From Breaking The Law
“I think he grew tired of me being the guy who told him, ‘You can’t do that,’” said the former secretary of state.

“What’s challenging for me ... is to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things,” he said. “We are starkly different in our styles, we did not have a common value system.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rex...y5M6NYeWbMwLhbY

Daraufhin Trumpsky dann heute per tweet:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!
12:02 PM - 7 Dec 2018

Vor zwei Jahren schrieb er noch:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Whether I choose him or not for “State” -Rex Tillerson, the Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobil is a world class player and deal maker. Stay tuned!
7:29 AM - 11 Dec 2016

und:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
I have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil to be Secretary of State.
6:43 13 Dec 2016

Tillerson selbst hatte sich bereits voriges Jahr ueber Trump geaeussert:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/56/86/d6/...6c087e1c8fb.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLUtxKAXcAA_a3Q.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYLPucAX4AEuONd.jpg

Trump nominates former Fox & Friends co-host as U.N. ambassador
Donald Trump confirmed Friday morning that he would nominate State Department spokeswoman and former Fox News personality Heather Nauert to be the ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Nikki Haley. Nauert was a Fox & Friends co-host, which makes her an ideal Trump candidate, but her time at the State Department has not made her a foreign relations or history expert:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1817629

Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger
Robert Mueller is closing in on the president and all his men.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...d-cohen/577681/

“They think the Bomb is coming this week”: In Trumpworld, they know someone is coming to town -and it is not Santa
Don Jr. is going hunting—“he doesn’t want to be anywhere near a microphone if the bomb drops.” His father is hunkered down, tweeting. “There’s a sense all of this could unwind quickly.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/...d-its-not-santa

Is Fraud Part of the Trump Organization’s Business Model?
A new investigation shows a pattern in different projects around the country and the world.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/swamp-chr...-business-model

If Trump Didn’t Collude, Why Does He Keep Obstructing Justice?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/t..._PNrajP2G3l6PWQ

Fragen ueber Fragen:
If Republicans like George H.W. Bush because he was an honest, decent man and war hero that didn't vote for Trump because he knew Trump was a con artist that was neither a Republican nor a Christian...so why do they support Trump?

Why support a person that is mean, evil and an asshole... a corrupt businessman?
A con-artist....Why?
How do they reconcile that in their head?
Why support this piece of garbage that all he has done successfully is cut the taxes of billionaires by a whopping 40% and divided Americans. Why?

Commentary: Is Mike Pence involved in the Russia scandal?
Vice President Mike Pence is hip-deep in the Russia scandal, his best defense being that he was inattentive or an easily manipulated dunce.

Pence has a trail of inaccurate statements concerning President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, nearly as many as the memory-challenged attorney general.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin...8moDZjvPHaDa2TI


Opinion: Mueller Hints That Mike Pence May Be Indicted Soon
Mike Pence thought he could avoid controversy, and stay far enough away from Trump’s criminal scandals to inherit the presidency after Trump’s ouster. He even thinks that is God’s will.

The problem with this thinking is that it would mean Pence had to avoid not just controversy, but also criminal behavior. But it seems it hasn’t worked out that way.

By associating himself with Donald Trump, Pence got his hands very dirty, and now many more people have figured that out, thanks to Robert Mueller.
Special Counsel Mueller released his heavily redacted 13-page sentencing memo for Michael Flynn on Tuesday night, he did NOT redact one key piece of information. The memo clearly states that the Trump transition team was heavily involved in Flynn’s illegal dealings with Russia.
And, as everyone now remembers, the person in charge of that transition team was none other than vice president-elect Mike Pence.

Earlier this year Mueller obtained all of the transition team’s emails, and that’s when the speculation started that both Pence and Jared Kushner — another transition team member — were in deep trouble.
Now that we know Flynn has sung like a canary to Mueller about all the dirty deeds of the transition team, things have gotten even worse for both Pence and Kushner.

Many people are now also remembering when the new vice president went on national television and declared to the world that Michael Flynn was clean as a whistle, and innocent of all charges.
However, before Pence did this, Congressman Elijah Cummings had notified Pence in writing that Flynn had committed perjury and lied about his contacts with foreign governments, especially Turkey.

Thanks to Mueller’s memo we know that Pence, while defending Flynn on TV, knew that the new National Security Adviser had also committed perjury and lied about his contacts with Russia.
In other words, the vice president has been caught in numerous lies, not only to the American people, but also to federal law enforcement authorities. It is very likely that the redacted portions of Mueller’s memo mention the name Mike Pence, and not in a good way.
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/06/...KZEIWtjN8sIRlZU


Ein funny Tweet dazu:
shauna@goldengateblond
You know, if Mueller takes out Trump and Pence, we won’t have to worry about the GOP anymore. All their heads will simultaneously implode the first time they have to say “President Pelosi.”
8:09 PM - 4 Dec 2018

Denn: The Speaker of the House is third (3.) in line to the presidency. Und das wird Pelosi ab 3. Januar 2019 sein -also in etwa drei Wochen.
It could get very interesting. "Could".

Maria Butina, accused Russian agent, reaches plea deal with prosecutors that includes cooperation
Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun rights activist who stands accused developing a covert influence operation in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with federal, state and local authorities in any ongoing investigations.

She admits, as part of the deal, according to a copy obtained by ABC News that is expected to be filed to the court, that she and an unnamed “U.S. Person 1,” which sources have identified as longtime Republican operative Paul Erickson, with whom she had a multiyear romantic relationship, “agreed and conspired, with a Russian government official (“Russian Official”) and at least one other person, for Butina to act in the United States under the direction of Russian Official without prior notification to the Attorney General.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/maria-bu...ory?id=59719083

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin Makes Bold Prediction About GOP’s Future Support Of Donald Trump
The legal analyst said Republican lawmakers have lashed themselves to Trump and are willing to go “down with the ship.”

CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explained Tuesday why he doesn’t believe GOP lawmakers will abandon their support of President Donald Trump anytime soon, despite his deepening legal woes.
“The Republican Party as a group, and certainly it’s true for members of the Senate,” have “made a collective decision” that “‘we’re not gonna change our minds about anything until all of these developments (such as special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation) are wrapped up,’” Toobin said.

“The Republican Party, as John Boehner said not long ago, is the Trump party today, and they are going down with the ship if the ship is going down,” Toobin added. “I think, if you look at Donald Trump’s popularity within the Republican Party, within the voters, it’s still very high. And the Republican politicians are following along.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jef...4b0edf5a3a8ce9b

Das hoffe ich auch. Die Gefolgschaft muss aushalten bis "alles in Scherben faellt".

Schauen wir uns mal die Zustimmungswerte für den Gottseibeiuns und das "Wunderkind" an:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c...rez_track_dec11

France, YouGov poll: President Macron Approval Rating Approve: 18% (-3) Disapprove: 76% (+7)
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1070602399461597184

Trump Can’t Stop Confessing
Proving white-collar crimes is an exceedingly difficult task for prosecutors. Trump is doing his best to make it easier.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...fessing/577837/


Conservatives and liberals agree Trump at risk of indictment
His prosecution almost certainly would not happen however, until after he leaves office.

Friday’s document dump from the Mueller investigation and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has brought conservatives and liberals together in a surprising way. They all agree that President Trump — “Individual 1” — could be indicted for federal crimes.
https://thinkprogress.org/mueller-invest...y-9cdb6718803f/

Und schon geht der naechste in den Knast:
Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in prison
President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen has been sentenced in a New York federal court to 3 years in prison on Wednesday on charges involving campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. He will report to federal prison on March 6.
https://www.axios.com/michael-cohen-pris...d1Ei8vIhU58tXHE


Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison
U.S. Attorney’s Office Also Announces Non-Prosecution Agreement with American Media, Inc., Related to Its Payment of $150,000 to a Woman to Influence 2016 Presidential Election ...

Im unteren Teil dann die naechste bombshell:
... The Office also announced today that it has previously reached a non-prosecution agreement with AMI, in connection with AMI’s role in making the above-described $150,000 payment before the 2016 presidential election. As a part of the agreement, AMI admitted that it made the $150,000 payment in concert with a candidate’s presidential campaign, and in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election. AMI further admitted that its principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the woman’s story so as to prevent it from influencing the election......

Assuming AMI’s continued compliance with the agreement, the Office has agreed not to prosecute AMI for its role in that payment.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/mic...-3-years-prison

Da oeffnet sich die naechste Tuere fuer Mueller.

Judge sentencing ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn orders special counsel to hand over all interview documents after General claimed FBI pressured him NOT to take a lawyer

A U.S. District Judge has demanded that Special Counsel Robert Mueller turn over all the secret documents related to the questioning of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Flynn alleged in a court filling on Tuesday that the FBI pushed him toward having no lawyer present for his January 2017 interview. Flynn he later admitted lying to federal authorities investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 election during the conversation.

Flynn's attorneys point the finger at then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe - claiming he pushed Flynn not to have an attorney present for the questioning.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...laims-FBI-press

Zwei Tweets an das Trump Team -von einem der weiss, wovon er redet:

Richard W. Painter@RWPUSA
The Art of the Plea Bargain.
Move fast. Holdouts get worse deals.
@realdonaldtrump: negotiate with Bob Mueller and the NY AG while you still have keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and perhaps the Old Post Office hotel, to throw into the bargain.
6:30 PM - 12 Dec 2018


Richard W. Painter@RWPUSA
There are many cases where the client got time but the lawyer who helped him do it got no time.
There are some cases where the lawyer and the client both got time.
There are very very few cases where only the lawyer got time.
Deal time @realDonaldTrump?
6:50 PM - 12 Dec 2018

Richard W. Painter, Law Professor, University of Minnesota; former chief White House ethics lawyer 2005-07

"got time" heisst eine Gefaengnisstrafe aufgebrummt zu bekommen."doing time" heisst im Gefaengnis sitzen."Deal time" heisst eine Loesung auszuhandeln. "plea bargain" heisst Verhandlung zwischen Anklage und Verteidigung für eine mildere Strafe.

Incoming New York attorney general plans wide-ranging investigations of Trump and family
Just-elected Letitia James, who takes office next month, tells NBC she will probe real estate deals, Trump Tower meeting, emoluments, Trump Foundation and more.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-...tDel3yKsTzmxxbE

A ‘loud gong’: National Enquirer’s surprise deal could imperil Trump
The National Enquirer’s parent company has agreed to tell prosecutors everything it knows about Donald Trump — and it might know a lot.

In the document released Wednesday, AMI confirmed that it paid a woman $150,000 in “cooperation, consultation and concert” with Trump’s campaign to ensure she “did not publicize damaging allegations about that candidate before the 2016 presidential election and thereby influence the election.”

The admission marked a dramatic about-face for the company, which had previously denied making that exact same payment to Karen McDougal, the 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, when The Wall Street Journal first disclosed the payoff in a story published four days before the 2016 election.
“AMI has not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump,” the company said in a statement at the time.

The nonprosecution agreement, according to several legal experts, strongly suggests there is additional corroboration of the crimes Cohen has already pleaded guilty to involving the president. It also suggests Pecker and others at AMI “may provide support for the allegation that the president willfully and knowingly joined a conspiracy to violate the campaign laws as well as possible tax crimes committed by AMI,” Rossi said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/1...l-trump-1061792