Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War
The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost.

That would be an additional bill for U.S. taxpayers already shouldering the cost of increased tariffs in the form of higher costs for products and parts from China.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tra...4b054da4e8b5593

The U.S. Debt Ceiling Expired On March 1 And Nobody Cared -- But They Will
The federal debt limit expired on March 1. Why does it matter? Markets didn’t move and the holders of the $22 trillion in national debt didn’t utter a peep of worry that the U.S. government wouldn’t pay its interest or redeem its bonds. The government is now taking temporary measures to pay its bills—delaying intragovernmental transfers and probably looking for coins in the couch cushions. The U.S. loses its legal authority to pay out cash in fall 2019. ...

Unlike virtually all other countries, the U.S. needs congressional approval to raise the debt limit, a self-imposed brake on spending imposed in 1917 during the rapid spending under World War 1. The mechanics of lifting it will become, again, a pitched political battle between President Trump and a passive Republican Senate versus House Democrats in the fall.

Interest rates, already one of the fastest rising costs in the federal budget, will rise as the political crisis builds, because foreign borrowers will demand an additional risk premium. And rising interest rates will impact U.S. Treasuries, mortgages, credit cards, car loans, student debt, and corporate debt. If workers, households, students, and corporations can’t pay their bills because of the interest rate shocks, the economy could go into recession. ...

September is the end of the federal fiscal year so we face a potential shutdown and the expiration of the federal budget. Some Democrat and Republicans want to raise the debt limit sooner than the fall, but if the recent past is any guide, that won’t happen. There is little, if any, trust between congressional Democrats and the Trump Administration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghila...l/#37c953cd6b3f

Congress fears Trump could stumble over next fiscal cliff
Lawmakers will try to ink a deal, but Trump could blow up their plans.

A looming battle between President Donald Trump and Democrats over government spending and the debt limit could make the 35-day government shutdown look like a blip.
A series of budget deadlines converge in the coming months that could leave Washington on the precipice of another shutdown, $100 billion in automatic spending cuts and a full-scale credit crisis. And lawmakers are openly worried about stumbling over the edge.
“It could all go terribly wrong,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said.

Some top Democrats have begun quietly pushing for a grand bargain to simultaneously raise the debt ceiling and Congress’ stiff budget caps — avoiding market turmoil and staving off harsh cuts to domestic and defense programs, according to multiple lawmakers and aides.
But the White House, focused on Trump’s reelection bid, is resisting talk of another massive deal that could cost as much as $350 billion over two years. Administration officials, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are instead pushing for a “clean” debt ceiling hike that extends the federal borrowing limit without making any other policy changes.

The fiscal fights will reach a boiling point this fall — around the same time that Congress must pass its annual funding bills, which is guaranteed to dredge up the same border wall fight between Trump and Democrats that sent the government sputtering into a five-week shutdown.
By September, lawmakers could be faced with a fiscal cliff rivaling that of 2011, when another divided government nearly defaulted on its debt.

And with an erratic Trump still demanding money for his southern border wall and angry about accepting a previous deal to boost spending, some lawmakers fear how the White House will handle such a fraught moment.
“My biggest concern is that there are irrational people who are willing to risk the country’s financial status for hyperbolic gain and that there are folks out there who’ve forgotten compromise.” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), an Appropriations Committee member, said in an interview.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/0...hutdown-1244283

Washington is flirting with a debt crisis. No one has a plan to stop it
The US government is hurtling toward a potential financial crisis, and no one in Washington seems to know how to stop it.

As lawmakers trade fire over contempt votes and impeachment, there's been no progress toward reaching a budget agreement or extending the federal government's ability to borrow before September, when the money runs out. That's raising the ugly prospect of more than $100 billion in mandatory cuts as well as an unprecedented default on US debt -- a situation that could trigger a worldwide economic catastrophe.
It's a mess everyone knows is coming, and yet no one seems to have a plan -- at least at the moment -- for averting disaster.
"It's one of those cartoonish anvil-over-head moments," one senior GOP congressional aide told CNN. "We all look around knowingly like 'Man, we're about to get crushed by this,' but nobody's really sure how to get out from underneath it right now."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/11/politics/...ling/index.html


Republicans brace for debt ceiling and budget fights with Trump at the helm: ‘Man, we’re about to get crushed by this’
The most predictable political crises of every year — debt ceiling and budget — are heating up again in Washington, with everyone very well aware that they have to be figured out by the end of the summer, and no one feeling confident that that can happen with Donald Trump in the White House. Without a budget agreement by then, the automatic cuts of more than $100 billion from 2011’s Budget Control Act will kick in. That’s child’s play compared to the global economic catastrophe threatened by a potential default on U.S. debt if the ceiling isn’t raised by this fall.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/republi...rushed-by-this/

https://www.rt.com/usa/459107-mandatory-...paign=Miximedia

Immer, wenn man glaubt, Hollywood sei auf dem Tiefstpunkt angelangt, wird man eines Besseren (oder Schlechteren) belehrt.

Mikel Jollett@Mikel_Jollett
When impeachment hearings began, Nixon's approval rating was 48%. Only 19% thought he should be removed.

AFTER the impeachment proceedings on TV, Nixon's approval dropped to 24%. 57% thought he should be removed.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6EE7k5UYAAAHHS.png

Jeff Tiedrich@itsJeffTiedrich
pretty unfair of us to expect the guy who doesn't understand how science works
or how campaign finance law works
or how not cheating on your wife works
or how running a casino works
or how closing a fucking umbrella for fuck's sake works
to suddenly understand how tariffs work
10:22 AM - 13 May 2019

"...There will be nobody left in China to do business with. Very bad for China, very good for USA! "
-Don trumski-

Trump's China grudge match may be spinning out of control
A president torn between his love of tariffs and booming markets faces the risk of uncontainable escalation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/1...p-trade-1318866

Republicans surrender to Trump’s China tariffs
GOP senators have no plans to even try to stop a trade war they oppose.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/1...blicans-1319024


GOP’s farm belt Senators back Trump as China takes aim at U.S. agriculture
Republican lawmakers from across the farm belt stood with President Donald Trump as the trade war with China escalated on Monday with China set to implement higher tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods.

Farmers will see the most pain from the tariff increases that target a wide range of agricultural products.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/gops-far...griculture.html

The Fox "News" Lie
Fox's "news" side pushed misinformation every day for four months straight
Fox News likes to tout the "hard news" side of its operation, setting up a false distinction between its right-wing prime-time hosts and the members of its news team as a defense against those who flag the propaganda, lies, conspiracy theories, and bigotry that pervade the network. But a Media Matters investigation found that the "news side" isn't as inoculated as the network claims. We looked at Fox News and Fox Business programming for the first four months of 2019, and we documented examples of the "news" division spreading misinformation on air every single day between January 1 and April 30.
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/20...news-lie/223683

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #6511

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The Fox "News" Lie
Fox's "news" side pushed misinformation every day for four months straight
Fox News likes to tout the "hard news" side of its operation, setting up a false distinction between its right-wing prime-time hosts and the members of its news team as a defense against those who flag the propaganda, lies, conspiracy theories, and bigotry that pervade the network. But a Media Matters investigation found that the "news side" isn't as inoculated as the network claims. We looked at Fox News and Fox Business programming for the first four months of 2019, and we documented examples of the "news" division spreading misinformation on air every single day between January 1 and April 30.
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/20...news-lie/223683

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Es geht darum, dass ein US-Gericht belogen wurde.
Das Außenministerium wurde vorab informiert, dass Steele und sein Dossier nicht nur falsch, sondern politisch motiviert war.
Diese Info war dem FBI und dem Justizministerium bekannt.
Diese Info wurde dem Gericht vorenthalten, als die Abhörung von Carter Page beantragt wurde.
Das ist ein Verbrechen, das untersucht werden muss.


"The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016."

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/...ts-were-flagged

Not to forget this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMpGKTK7nCs

As one blogger wrote:
"I could provide more proof of bigfoot than this guy did of collusion." And I could provide more proof of Nessie... Donald Trump must be the first secret agent in history who publicly admits to be a secret agent. :-)

Those Dems must be really desperate if they stick to such absurd CT.

Trump's long trade war
Senior administration officials tell Axios that a trade deal with China isn't close and that the U.S. could be in for a long trade war.

The state of play: A senior administration official said the differences between the two sides are so profound that, based on his read of the situation, he can't see the fight getting resolved before the end of the year.

The bottom line: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow was right when he said on Sunday that "both sides will suffer" in a U.S.-China trade war.
The Chinese economy will be harmed. But so, too, will America's. And so will American consumers, who will pay higher prices, and American farmers, who will be targeted for retaliation by China.
The question remains: Can Trump, facing a re-election race in 2020, outlast China's "president for life"?
Both Trump and Xi have to contend with hardliners in their parties. But only one of them can harness all the tools of authoritarianism.
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-us-ch...9a6f370238.html

America is suffering for its trade war
Why it matters: A lack of money is not America's problem, given its $21 trillion economy. But President Trump has yet to explain how a trade war victory benefits working people in places like Louisiana, Michigan and South Carolina who will suffer higher prices on account of his conflict.

Instead, the White House looks to be taking a different track: praising the virtue of sacrifice.
https://www.axios.com/trump-trade-war-am...f79a3ecee0.html

More than 6,200 stores are closing in 2019 as the retail apocalypse drags on — here's the full list
The staggering rate of store closures that has rocked the retail industry over the past couple of years is expected to continue in 2019, with roughly the same level of closures expected this year.

Retailers closed a record 102 million square feet of store space in 2017, then smashed that record in 2018 by closing another 155 million square feet, according to estimates by the commercial real-estate firm CoStar Group.
https://www.businessinsider.com/stores-c...MErlS2ffyzbAtKE

The liar with his first lie of the day:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
In one year Tariffs have rebuilt our Steel Industry - it is booming! We placed a 25% Tariff on “dumped” steel from China & other countries, and we now have a big and growing industry. We had to save Steel for our defense and auto industries, both of which are coming back strong!
3:15 AM - 14 May 2019

The reality:
Ed Krassenstein‏ @EdKrassen
Employment of Steel workers is down 4% since 4 years ago. And here is Steel production.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6hUT4kW0AAF2Gz.jpg

Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen
The Steel tariffs are costing American consumers $900,000 for every job created in the steel industry.
3:27 AM - 14 May 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6hiwxNWAAE1Vqz.jpg

The liar with his second lie for today:
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Our great Patriot Farmers will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of what is happening now. Hopefully China will do us the honor of continuing to buy our great farm product, the best, but if not your Country will be making up the difference based on a very high China buy......
....This money will come from the massive Tariffs being paid to the United States for allowing China, and others, to do business with us. The Farmers have been “forgotten” for many years. Their time is now!
4:29 AM - 14 May 2019

The reality:
Pete Buttigieg‏@PeteButtigieg
Quick reminder: a tariff is a tax. On Americans.
7:04 PM - 13 May 2019

Shawn A. Diamond@diamondsa29
Replying to @TomMorrisEsq @realDonaldTrump
Tom, the tariffs are being paid by US companies. My company is paying $150,000 per month in tariffs at the 10% level, the 25% will strangle our biz.
48 yr old family owned biz on the brink due to these tariffs. Massive layoffs are our only way to survive.
5:59 AM - 14 May 2019

Howard Walls@RichmondWalls1
Replying to @diamondsa29 @JoanieReb and 2 others
Trump destroys every business he touched; now he is destroying the American economy.
Get ready for another great depression, courtesy of Trump and the spinless GOP.
6:10 AM - 14 May 2019

Chen Weihua@chenweihua
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Are you really from Wharton? If yes, why don’t you know how tariffs work?
The tariffs you imposed on Chinese exports to US are paid by US importers and then passed on to US consumers, hurting low income folks most.
This is again Econ 101 or something a fifth-grader can understand
5:42 AM - 14 May 2019

Eric Winer@TheWeeklyWiner
Trump's grasp of tariffs shows how mesmerized he was
in Econ at Wharton. Not by the subject matter, but by
how much two curves on a graph looked like boobies.
8:00 PM - 13 May 2019

More proof that Fred just bought Donny a degree from Wharton. 😂😂😂

LeoKapakos@LeoKapakosNY
Michael Bloomberg, former billionaire mayor of NYC, described Trump better than anyone I've heard, who really knows him.
He said "Everybody, in NYC, knows that Donald Trump is a lying morally bankrupt con man, he always has been "!
5:44 AM - 14 May 2019

What total abdication of the Oath of Office and descend into lawlessness looks like:
Sen. Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to ignore Senate subpoena
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says Donald Trump Jr. should ignore the subpoena issued to him by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“If I were Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer, I would tell him, ‘You don’t need to go back into this environment anymore,’” Graham said in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “‘You’ve been there for hours and hours and nothing being alleged here changes the outcome of the Mueller investigation.’ I would call it a day.”
https://news.yahoo.com/lindsey-graham-se...wst_sjwumo1bpf4


Robert Reich@RBReich
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urging a key witness to ignore a subpoena issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Excuse me? He is essentially telling the president's son to break the law in defiance of a lawful order submitted by the Senate.
12:53 PM - 13 May 2019

The BS Filter@TheBSFilter01
Just let that sink in for a minute. The ranking GOP Senator just told a suspect to ignore a subpoena from a GOP run committee of the US Senate whose laws and rules he swore to uphold.
9:04 AM - 13 May 2019

PenguinMayhem@zuwmbalguru
Interfering with a Congressional investigation.
Obstruction of justice.
Attempted witness tampering.
3:16 PM - 13 May 2019

That makes Graham basically a criminal. My guess is that Putin has some really severe juicy shit on him. Or even trumski himself.

Ron ☘@kellr2010
Graham, a lawyer, who is providing advice for Trump Jr. to break the law and ignore the a subpoena could face disbarment.
8:40 AM - 13 May 2019

How Trump Thinks Tariffs Work (And How They Actually Work)
To make the case for his trade war with China, the president is relying on blatant falsehoods and misconceptions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...e-works/589351/

Why are America’s farmers killing themselves?
The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...-record-numbers

Seite 379 der FISA

"The FBI has reviewed this verified application for asccurracy....."

https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-jus...isa-application

Comey sagte aber 2017:

"Describing his first meeting with then-President-Elect Trump, Comey says the Intelligence Community (IC) was aware that media possessed unverified material they would imminently report – even though it was “salacious and unverified.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-banni...media-was-about

DeSantis: Russians accessed 2 Florida voting databases
Russian hackers gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference Tuesday.

DeSantis said the hackers didn’t manipulate any data and the election results weren’t compromised. He and officials from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were briefed by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on Friday.

The governor said he signed an agreement with the FBI not to disclose the names of the counties, but elections officials in those counties are aware of the intrusions.
https://apnews.com/a2af9039533b42bba0e4e04af11ecd67