Charmant finde ich auch, dass die Trump-Administration wegen der Airbus Sanktionen mit Vergeltung (sic) droht...
Wir jetzt Toulouse und Hamburg bombardiert oder wie?

Kann man sich an den "Skandal", als Trump dies behauptete?
Und jetzt schreibt die New York Times :


"The F.B.I. investigated four unidentified Trump campaign aides in those early months, congressional investigators revealed in February. The four men were Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former officials said…
The F.B.I. obtained phone records and other documents using national security letters — a secret type of subpoena — officials said. And at least one government informant met several times with Mr. Page and Mr. Papadopoulos, current and former officials said."

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3225

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3224

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3223

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Zitat von Corto im Beitrag #3222

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@nahal: mein Sarkasmus muss ihnen entgangen sein :)

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Nee, im Gegenteil ! :-))

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Die Amerikaner können ja Iran mit Sanktionen belegen, sollte es aber Strafen geben gegen europäische Unternehmen, die den Handel mit Iran fortsetzen, so sollten die Europäer mit gleicher Münze heimzahlen. Dasselbe gilt für amerikanische Strafen in Zusammenhang mit North Stream 2.

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Man sollte nicht den Fehler machen, mit einem Messer zu einer Schießerei kommen.

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3228

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3225

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3224

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3223

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Zitat von Corto im Beitrag #3222

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@nahal: mein Sarkasmus muss ihnen entgangen sein :)

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Nee, im Gegenteil ! :-))

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Die Amerikaner können ja Iran mit Sanktionen belegen, sollte es aber Strafen geben gegen europäische Unternehmen, die den Handel mit Iran fortsetzen, so sollten die Europäer mit gleicher Münze heimzahlen. Dasselbe gilt für amerikanische Strafen in Zusammenhang mit North Stream 2.

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Man sollte nicht den Fehler machen, mit einem Messer zu einer Schießerei kommen.

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Als Wirtschaftsmacht sind die Europäer den Amerikanern ebenbürtig.

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Poll: Just 13 percent of Americans consider Trump honest and trustworthy
Only thirteen percent of Americans said they would consider President Trump to be honest and trustworthy, according to a new Survey Monkey tracking poll.

Trump's honesty and trustworthiness score is down 3 points from when Survey Monkey started conducting the tracking polls in February of 2017.

Trump's honesty and trustworthiness scores are lowest in the poll, which also measures the president's ability to get things done, whether he is tough enough for the job and if he stands up for his beliefs.
Thirty-five percent of Americans polled said they believed Trump has the ability to get things done, while 33 percent of those polled said he was tough enough for the job.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrati...rump-honest-and

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: IG Horowitz has found "reasonable grounds" for believing there has been a violation of federal criminal law in the FBI/DOJ's handling of the Clinton investigation/s and has referred his findings of potential criminal misconduct to Huber for possible criminal prosecution

How the Trump family sold U.S. foreign policy to the highest bidder | Will Bunch
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/...r-20180520.html

Meaning: Fuer die USA kommt nichts Gutes dabei heraus. Und irgendwann kommen auch die duemmsten der Moechtegern Nazis und der GOP Gefolgschaft dahinter.

Paul Ryan's House is collapsing
https://www.axios.com/paul-ryan-house-re...18725be1f8.html

Meaning: Es wird interessant werden mit dem steuerlosen Treiben. Nicht nur fuer den kommenden Wahlkampf.

White House walks back Chinese tariff plans
https://www.axios.com/steve-mnuchin-trum...4499949c94.html

Meaning: Der Mango Mussolini hat beim aufmucken gegen China verloren.

China lands nuclear-capable bombers in the South China Sea
China's air force announced in a statement on Saturday that it conducted take-off and landing training for nuclear-strike capable bombers on unidentified islands in the South China Sea, per The Guardian.

Why it matters: The South China Sea — and who exactly controls it — is one of the most hotly contested issues between the United States and China, and the U.S. has threatened consequences for increased activity in the area.

Meaning: The Chinese give a shit. Der Mango Mussolini auch. Die US Kontrolle ueber die South China Sea wird unopposed an die Chinesen abgetreten.

Mortgage rates hit 7-year high as ultra-cheap era ends
"Mortgage rates this week jumped to their highest level since 2011, signaling a shift from a period of ultracheap loans to a higher-rate environment that could slow home price appreciation and squeeze first-time buyers," The Wall Street Journal's Laura Kusisto and Christina Rexrode write (subscription):

Be smart: "A one percentage point increase in [mortgage] rates can lead to a reduction in home sales of 7% to 8%."
https://www.axios.com/mortgage-rates-hit...85460c6cf7.html

Meaning: Die Phase der erwarteten kommenden Inflation beginnt. Und moeglicherweise damit auch die das Ende des wirtschaftlichen booms.

China is the greatest, growing threat to America
China has outlined strategies for 2018, 2025 and 2050 all designed to displace the United States as the dominant global economic and national security superpower.

Why it matters:

While America dawdles and bickers, China is thinking long-term — and acting now, everywhere. There is no U.S. equivalent of a plan for 2025 or 2050 — or really for next year.
China is pouring time, money, infrastructure and trade into every continent, after promising to fill the global void created by Trump’s America First.
China also has the authoritarian ability to experiment at scale, steal our tech secrets and mobilize capital that no democracy can match.

How it's happening:

China has tightened ties with Europe and Japan, with Trump in retreat on global trade.
China often forces U.S. companies to create joint ventures to do business there. American business do just that, handing half their company to often-state-controlled Chinese partners.
China is spending nearly 9% of GDP on infrastructure — three times what America spends.
China has so much capacity to build that it's exporting its materials and labor to other countries to build their infrastructure.
China is building the largest global infrastructure project in history, the Belt and Road Initiative, as antiquated U.S. airports, bridges, roads and electricity systems crumble.
China is growing 3x as fast as the U.S. economy. At current projections, China's GDP will be larger than America's by 2028, Bloomberg reports.

https://www.axios.com/china-united-state...6477e9cfe6.html

Noch viel interessanter ist, dass Halper bis März 2018 weiter $411,575 bezahlt wurde:

https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/23674475

Trump is scrambling to justify his trade concessions to China
Critics say the president may have given up too much too quickly to the Chinese in negotiations.

“China is winning the negotiations. Their concessions are things they planned to do anyways,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted Monday morning. “In exchange they get no tariffs, can keep stealing intellectual property & can keep blocking our companies while they invest in the U.S. without limits.”

Trump is in an awkward spot. On one hand, it appears that he may have at least temporarily warded off the possibility of a trade war with the world’s second-largest economy. On the other hand, the vague terms of the agreement that are publicly known seem to suggest that Trump hasn’t managed to deliver big wins for the US despite his much-touted dealmaking prowess.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/5/21/1737...china-trade-war

3 factors behind Trump's cave on his China trade war
Who knows how the chest-bumping over China ends. But for now, President Trump’s anti-China advisers are right: The president is buckling on his threats to punish China with fundamental, lasting changes to trade tariffs and rules.

https://www.axios.com/trump-trade-war-ch...601e1851d0.html

New Report Undermines Erik Prince’s Sworn Testimony On Ties To Campaign
Erik Prince appears to have withheld critical information in his sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.

The private security contractor and Blackwater founder told Congress that he was barely involved with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election cycle, and that most of his interaction with the team came during the presidential transition.

Reports that have since surfaced gravely undermine that version of events.
Most recently, a blockbuster New York Times report published Saturday detailed how Prince personally arranged and attended an August 2016 meeting between foreign emissaries and Donald Trump’s eldest son. At the meeting, Prince told Donald Trump Jr. that “we are working hard for your father.”

The Times report provides new evidence that Prince may have knowingly perjured himself in his congressional testimony. Lying to Congress is a crime punishable by up to five years in prison, but it is rarely enforced. ....

George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who serves as a top adviser to the UAE, has told Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the Seychelles meeting was actually a planned effort to set up a secret communications backchannel between the Trump transition team and Russian government, according to reports.
In sworn statements, Nader, who is now a cooperating witness, said that he helped orchestrate the meeting specifically so that Prince and Dmitriev could discuss relations between the two countries.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/...-trump-meetings

Meaning: Dem blueht wohl auch eines der naechsten indictments. Und die die Aufdeckung von foreign conspiracy zieht immer weitere Kreise. Ein gigantischer Sumpf. Ein krimineller Sumpf.

The American Republic Is Fighting for Its Life
Trump has set in motion a constitutional crisis, having sold American foreign policy to the highest bidder.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/po...utional-crisis/


The Memo: Trump flirts with constitutional crisis
A president instructing the DOJ to open a criminal probe at his behest would be a startling break with precedent, calling into question the independence of law enforcement from partisan politics.
“It is, in fact, one of his moves that are kind of characteristic of banana republic regimes, where he just sees the apparatus of the DOJ as something to use in a tit-for-tat way to get back at enemies,” said Harry Litman, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general during the Clinton administration.
http://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/388...tutional-crisis


'State of Constitutional Crisis' as DOJ Bows to Trump Demand for Probe into Alleged Surveillance of His Campaign
Legal analysts argued the Justice Department "shouldn't be pursuing political charges made by the president based on zero evidence."

Responding to President Donald Trump's demand on Sunday that the Justice Department launch a probe into whether his 2016 campaign was unlawfully surveilled by the FBI for "political purposes"—a claim the president has made repeatedly without offering any evidence—Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he has asked the inspector general (IG) to look into Trump's allegations.

"We are in a state of constitutional crisis when we have a DOJ acting at the behest of the president."
—Kristen Clarke, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

When you add it all up, today Trump demanded a counter-investigation into the legitimate, lawfully-predicated DOJ probe of his campaign, based on no evidence of wrongdoing, solely to undermine the special counsel - and he got it. The system is failing.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 21, 2018
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/0...urveillance-his


Trump’s Latest FBI Attack Stuns Justice Dept. Officials: ‘We’re in Venezuela’
‘You can’t overstate how critical it is that people who have information trust us to protect them,’ said a federal prosecutor, adding that Trump is working to break that trust.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-in-ve...stice-officials


America Is Heading for an Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis
The Republican Party is ready to serve as an accomplice to obstruction of justice.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/11/amer...utional-crisis/

Trump's Russia cover-up by the Numbers: 75 Contacts with Russia linked Operatives.
Former Trump campaign policy director John K. Mashburn stated during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he received an email from George Papadopoulos in the first half of 2016 “alerting the Trump campaign that Russia had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.” Mashburn stated that he remembered the email coming “well before WikiLeaks began publishing messages stolen in hackings from Democrats.” Investigators for the Senate Judiciary Committee and representatives from the Trump campaign have reportedly been unable to locate this message. Mashburn stated that he believed other campaign officials “almost certainly would have been copied” on the email, although he could not name these officials and did not remember when he received it. Mashburn stated that he did not act on the message, although he may have forwarded it to Rick Dearborn (Dearborn’s lawyer has denied that he received it.) After the election, Mashburn served on the Trump transition team and as a deputy cabinet secretary at the White House until mid-April; he is currently a senior adviser to Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

This brings the number of high-level campaign officials and Trump advisors were aware of contacts between the Trump team and Russia to 23. None of these 23 individuals ever revealed to federal law enforcement that the Russians were seeking to interfere with the election by aiding the campaign. ...

On January 6, 2017, the U.S. intelligence community issued a report that showed there were two campaigns to elect Donald Trump: one run by Trump and one run by the Russian government. Trump and many of his senior advisors and close associates have repeatedly denied any connections between the two campaigns, despite the fact that they were working towards the same goal, at the same time, and utilizing the same tactics. ...

- The Trump campaign issued at least 15 blanket denials of contacts with Russia, all of which have been proven false.

- Extensive reporting, subsequent admissions, and Special Counsel Mueller’s indictments have revealed at least 75 contacts between the Trump team and Russia-linked operatives, despite repeated denials.

- At least 22 high-level campaign officials and Trump advisors were aware of contacts between the Trump team and Russia, including the three successive people who ran Trump’s campaign.

https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/...ked-operatives/

'The U.S. President Is Destroying the American World Order'
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer talks about the danger of war against Iran, the deterioration of trans-Atlantic relations under U.S. President Donald Trump and the serious need for Germany to invest massively in the European Union's future.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...-a-1208549.html

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #3245

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Ich kann einfach nicht beurteilen, was von Trumps diversen Handlungen gut, schlecht oder kriminell ist.
Ich weiß nur eines: ich kann diesen primtiven Fatzke einfach nicht mehr sehen. Damit unterschätze ich sicherlich seine Gefährlichkeit für die Welt.
Immerhin, dank Pompeo ist die Kriegserklärung der USA an die Welt, die seit jeher bestand, jetzt endlich auch offiziell ausgesprochen.

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Wir sollten die Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu den USA einfrieren
(Wer kauft schon freiwillig deren Schrott?) und uns auch beim Handel
auf demokratische Länder wie China konzentrieren.

Art of the Fail
In calling off his summit with Kim Jong-un, Trump has again shown his lack of skill as a negotiator.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018...sh_all_dt_tw_ru

North Korea calls Pence 'stupid,' threatens 'nuclear showdown' amid summit jitters
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-ko...ory?id=55402292

Trump’s Reckoning Arrives
The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.

“Gradually and then suddenly.” That was how one of Ernest Hemingway’s characters described the process of going bankrupt. The phrase applies vividly to the accumulating failures of President Trump’s foreign-policy initiatives.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internationa...arrives/561209/

Ich hätte allzu gern den Challenge Coin "Peace talks" gekauft, der trotz Absage, verkauft wird.
Gibt es eigentlich in den Staaten auch schon die "Trump Nobel Prize*" Medaille?

*Welche ist egal, Trump steht für mich in mehreren Kategorien als Favorit da.
Wirtschaft, Frieden und die Twitter Botschaften weisen auf den Literatur Nobelpreis hin.