Brazen about-face by Trump in TPP policy rethink
 

A sensible decision if Trump is serious about standing up to China. Obama designed TTP as an economic defence against a rising China. The cent seems to finally have dropped with Trump, against a background of his failure to deliver a bilateral deal with countries like Japan and growing anger from the agricultural community that they have both been denied major new markets and that they will be in the firing line for reciprocal tariffs from China.

https://www.ft.com/content/bc65dd72-...0-52972418fec4

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Trump can only pardon people for Federal crimes, not State crimes - Cohen is being investigated as part an ongoing grand jury investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorneys' Office in the Southern District of New York

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Agreed. For the avoidance of doubt, Cohen has been under criminal investigation for months, largely in relation to his personal business dealings and not to his work as an attorney. It is believed that these business dealings refer to the $130k payment made to Stephanie Clifford/Stormy Daniels.

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You keep telling me things I already know, I am well aware of the justice system in the U.S and other internal workings of the government.

However, as for the crime, he has not been charged with anything yet so we don't actually know if he has committed a Federal crime or State crime.

At the end of the day, the witch hunt started by biased and corrupt individuals to attempt a coup against the duly elected President of the United States, is being slowly unpicked and the perpetrators weeded out. (Comey, McCabe, certainly appearing to look like bent cops, appearing to be propped up by Crooked Hillary and DNC, who paid for the dossier with information said to be from Russians, that's the real collusion).

What is it Mueller is actually investigating now, huh?

No evidence of Russian collusion, collusion itself is not actually a crime...

It needs to be shut down, it's a rogue investigation with the lead prosecutor (Mueller) on a fishing expedition.

We're learning this weekend, from Comey's new book, about making a judgement on the Crooked Hillary investigation weeks before the election and deciding on whether to hold back on making an announcement.

Because he felt she was going to win (Thank heavens she didn't), he decided to announce just weeks before November 8th that the FBI was re-opening the Clinton email investigation, he said he couldn't wait on it after this date, because if she would have been elected, he said she would have been illegitimate. IMO that's abuse of power, if a crime investigation is being re-opened, you don't ponder to sit on something. Of course we know what happened and he decided not to wait, but the fact he was pondering on it depending on the polls, suggests is reasoning is very questionable being responsible for the FBI.

In his new book he has also thrown former Attorney General, Loretta Lynch under the bus, by suggesting there is yet, an undisclosed, still classified piece of information on Lynch that suggests it is quite the scandal, that the American people are not yet aware of. Wonder if it is something to do with meeting Bill Clinton on the back of a plane, while it sat on the tarmac in Phoenix just days before the FBI were due to announce the end of the Clinton email investigation..... the so called official reasoning being....that they are discussing the grandkids for 40 minutes. Yeah sure. BOLLOCKS, I say! :rolleyes:

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It’s amazing that all these Republicans who were nominated by Trump, or by people nominated by people Trump gave positions to, are all conspiring against Trump...

Re Trump’s assertion that "collusion isn’t a crime" - Rosenstein’s brief to Mueller begs to differ, when he wrote that Mueller had the authority to investigate: Also, another part of his brief makes clear that he has the authority to investigate obstruction of justice—including obstruction of his own investigation. You know, saying things in the May 10th meeting with the Russians like

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And yet Paul Manafort has been indicted on charges totally unrelated to any collusion. Same with General Flynn.

Mueller has nothing on collusion, this is why he is now "squeezing' Cohen to get him to cooperate and dish the dirt on Trump. If there is any to dish. The entire witch hunt needs to be shut down, it is a fraudulent investigation, set up by bent officials in the DoJ and FBI, who clearly think they are above the law, think they can mislead a FISA court to spy on Americans, mainly Carter Page, but more crucially, Trump and his transition team. Totally ILLEGAL!!

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Mueller was appointed in part because of the amount of leaks from the FBI making their investigation untenable. Now that Mueller’s investigation is isn’t telling everyone what is happening it must be because he isn’t doing anything?

If he has nothing then there is no risk to Trump. We know stuff is happening because from time to time he pops up with charges for someone such as the Russians that were implicated .
Mueller also is investigating Russian interference and anything relating to it.

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Agreed. Mueller's investigation has been remarkably low profile. The only person who seems to be highlighting it is Trump.

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Mueller has been anything but low profile. Plenty of leaks have come out about his investigation, information that got out to the New York Times, no doubt by bent cops.

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What has leaked? There was been very little. The only thing really is that he wants to interview Trump.

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Exactly. By nature he is someone who steers away from the spotlight helping make him an ideal choice for this investigation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ion/101811990/

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Very little?

Loads of stuff has leaked, plenty of stuff about Gates was leaked, as the media like to say “A person familiar with the matter.”

Or “two confirmed who were party to the conversation”.

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Those, of course, could have been from the interviewees or their lawyers...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43779359

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Looks like the fired employee has an axe to grind, fellow law enforcement, particulary on CNN of all places said Comey was a "Feckless leader."

Comey didn't hold back on President Obama as well, said he acted inappropriately on two occasions when he spoke publicly and took it upon himself to exonerate Hillary Clinton, saying there was nothing to the allegations, Comey said it was inappropriate because there was an active criminal investigation on Hillary that had not yet been concluded, he was concerned that FBI investigators could be "shaped" in to holding out on the Presidents words.

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Here is the clip.... CNN Throw Down: Gagliano Torches Stelter’s Lionization of ‘Feckless Leader’ Comey

https://www.cnsnews.com/video/cnn-th...s-leader-comey

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.14f73c49bfad

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On a (slightly related) note -

Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, represented just three people in the last few years.

1) Trump - for whom Cohen paid $130,000 (without Trump knowing, apparently) to porn star Stormy Daniels, to keep her silent.

2) Elliott Broidy - Former Republican National Committee official who resigned after it became public that he'd gotten a Playboy model pregnant while have an extramarital affair - Cohen worked out a deal with the model for $1.6 million for her silence.

3) Cohen tried to keep the 3rd one secret - today U.S. District Court judge Kimba Wood (appointed by Reagan) forced Cohen to reveal the name of that client.

Sean Hannity.

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Are we sure this not an attempt by Russia to misinform.

No other outlet is reporting this, in fact one outlet updated less than an hour ago says the U.S is still considering sanctions ???

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And?

What is illegal about representing Sean Hannity in this total witch hunt of a non-story ?

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The most recommended comment in today's FT makes an incisive point.
https://www.ft.com/content/3d8cd2c6-...a-295c97e6fd0b

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Not illegal. Just interesting.

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One point I can see is whether Sean Hannity would have had to declare a conflict of interest when reporting/commenting on matters in which his lawyer was involved. I don't know the legalities of this.

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It's not illegal for reporters to hide conflicts of interests. Not that Sean Hannity is a reporter as such.

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Clearly Fake News.... An actual Trump tweet last week.... criticising Putin, in name, propping up Assad... he's done more than what Corbyn has for sure.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1523909242

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A comment is such a comment, not fake news.

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http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...-sanctions-for

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...nctions-526856

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/16/p...sia/index.html

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...ions-on-russia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...previewed.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ssia-sanctions

https://nypost.com/2018/04/16/trump-...rruling-haley/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.3937160

Haley said on Sunday Haley that sanctions against Moscow will "be coming down" on Monday; today Sarah Huckabee Sanders said "We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future".

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None of those showed up on my google search. Either way, perhaps Nikki spoke out of step. Not her role to decide on Sanctions. That’s up to the U.S government. We will see what happens down the line. Not that Sanctions really work.

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Haley is in a Cabinet-level position and is on the NSC, so she is a member of the US Government.

Putin thinks sanctions are worthless, that must be why he complains about them so much...

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Still, it’s not stopped his countries behaviour.

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Don't forget "Mr. Comey" is presently promoting his book.

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Interesting piece about James Comey by the BBC's North American editor Jon Soppel who has read the book and watched the interviews. He concludes that Comey is still a threat as Trump has been unable to prove him a liar. And Trump's poor record on the truth front won't make this task easy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43718532

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Comey has his signature on a dodgy FISA Application. He leaked his Classified memos to the press. Comey should have a lot to worry about, legally, so is not walking tall, IMO and even more so as fellow law enforcement officials come out against his stance and book writing.

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Sanctions may not have stopped all of Russia's games but they have severely limited them and nearly month on month the defence budget is revised downward with some new equipment orders placed on hold. Further sanctions will tighten the economic noose even further possibly to the point that Putin won't be able to hide them from the Russian people and may start to cut into his budget for nuclear rearmament which is about the only thing keeping him at most serious tables.

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Putin has already amassed a sizeable wealth. Further sanctions won’t do a thing. I guarantee it. Past Sanctions have not stopped any if their games, in fact they are increasing their hostilities, increased cyber attacks. The attempted murder on British soil, using Nerve Agent. Flying warplanes near to or approaching British airspace....

Russia already has a sizeable military hardware and stockpiles. Let’s not pretend that just because their economy is suffering, they won’t be able to suddenly defend themselves.

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Yes it is, it’s inaccurate. It calls out Trump, says he’s never called out Putin/Russia, yet there is tweets and speeches where he has. It’s Fake News.

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The sanctions aren't designed to hurt Putin's personal wealth but to put domestic pressure on him, especially amongst the oligarchs, to stop provoking the West. Putin is only granted his power by the various factions within the Kremlin and other Russian elites. In the end he is only one man.

So the hope is sanctions cause him enough trouble with some of these people that for his own self-preservation he has cede some compromise. There is a good, quick, BBC overview of the factions that make up Russia's ruling elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXQ3O9urYMc

At the very least the sanctions mean he has to annoy some people domestically, they offer some resistance and political cost to him. At the end of the day it's really the only tool we have since we're not going to invade.

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Mick continued sanctions are hurting Russia's military yes they have vast stockpiles of obselete equipment and of their current ground forces only flagship Putin supporting formations have anywhere near full combat capability much of their military equipment is rotting away from a lack of spare parts and trained personnel to install them. This is being repeated within their air force and navy and the longer sanctions go on the less money there is to remedy the situation as much as 50% of Russia's nuclear arsenal is not oprationally capable of course the remaining 50% is sufficient but the degradation is ongoing and as that situation worsens so we see more aggressive rhetoric and increased cyber attacks as that's relatively cheap to continue.

Sanctions are working and if they are further tightened Putin's position becomes weaker not only with the wealthy Russian's Damien mentioned but the military who were promised a resurgence by Putin that he no longer has the budget to fulfill.

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He didn’t say Putin/Russia, he said Putin...

Trump has criticised Putin once - he’s criticised serving members of his own staff and Cabinet more.

The closest Trump has come to criticising Putin before was more than a year ago, in an interview, when Trump said “And frankly, Putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person." (talking about Assad after a previous chemical weapons attack).

Of course, if you have links to where Trump has personally criticised Trump (other than the two instances I’ve mentioned), more than happy to admit I’m wrong.

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Why would Trump call himself ? :confused:

I think I got your point.

You go on about him not criticising Putin because of your very obvious hate for the man, and that's fine to hate him - I hate Crooked Hillary for the potential crimes she has committed and it appears she has appeared so far to get away with them. That said, I see no criticisms on Corbyn by you, who has not even once called out Putin by name and still refuses to do so. You say Trump has called out on Putin once, it's bloody more times than the leader of the opposition IN this Country has.

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I don't hate Trump, I hate what he's doing to a country that I admire very much, and how he is abusing his power and the office of the President - he acts like a spoilt 10 year old when he is the leader of the free world and the most powerful nation on earth. I dislike him because he hasn't criticised Putin, the leader of the country which has been trying to undermine democracy in the USA (and other places), as unanimously confirmed by all his Intelligence Community agencies, but criticises everyone else.

I think Corbyn is great - he's the main reason the Tories stayed in power; if Labour had a decent leader, they may have won the last election (so I am hoping he stays Leader); also, Corbyn is completely in the wrong not condeming Putin.

As for the statement "I see no criticisms of Corbyn by you", here you go...

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35942417 Here I am defending the BBC against the Corbynistas.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35941333 Here's one where I mock Corbyn.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35940823 Here's one where I criticise Momentum, Corbyn's most rabid supporters.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35938564

Here's one where I praise him with faint damns...
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35937988 Here's one where I jokingly suggest he might be a sleeper agent.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35937651 Here's one where I state I am not a Corbyn fan.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35937179 https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35915483 https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...n#post35902614

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He has criticised Putin, to say he hasn’t is an outright lie.

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Once outright, and another half-hearted one (as I have repeatedly posted).

I will amend my statement - he has hardly ever criticised Putin, the leader of the country which has been trying to undermine democracy in the USA (and other places), as unanimously confirmed by all his Intelligence Community agencies, but criticises everyone else.

Hope that's better.

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Compared to how often Trump hits out at other people Mick it's a valid point he seems to only hit out at Putin when he really has too rather then as much as Putin deserves given what is happening on his orders. I was happy when Trump won i honestly thought it would be the start of a rebalance badly needed in western politics and that he would grow into the position of president. While he hasn't been a total disaster as a president yet he hasn't been what many hoped he would be and the way he acts on social media is not presidential.

The media in the U.S is clearly running a campaign against Trump and has been since he was elected but that shouldn't exempt Trump from deserved criticism personally I'm hoping he will still surprise us and adapt better but as time goes on that hope is hard to maintain.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...t-get-confused

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Trump needs to get a grip on things this has done nothing but cause embarrassment and reflects poorly on the U.S and its credibility this sort of thing should not be happening and i think Haley is entitled to know who changed the policy.

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Hilary has committed potential crimes ... not quite sure how someone, even the Blessed Hilary, can commit future crime :)

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Potential doesn’t necessarily equate to a future aspect.

Except if IG finds that her prior criminal investigation was flawed. She will hopefully be re-investigated.

Re: President Trump & U.S Election 2016 Investigation
 

What would be the point of re-investigating if it was already proved there was nothing crooked or criminal going on? Or any evidence that the investigation was flawed?

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Works for me ..

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So a potential crime committed can potentially result in a future conviction.

Works for me.

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and for me if *actually* convicted in a court of law in the present :)

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Have you been sleeping? ;)

There is a massive big investigation in to "Inconsiderations", that took place during that investigation of Secretary Clinton and the investigator, investigating the investigators is the U.S Office of Inspector General, who started his investigation in January 2017.

BREAKING: 11 members of Congress have MADE criminal referrals to AG Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Chris Wray, and US Attorney John Huber to conduct a criminal investigation of the following individuals:

-James Comey (Former Director of the FBI)

-Hillary Clinton (Former Secretary of State)

-Loretta Lynch (Former U.S Attorney General)

-Andrew McCabe (Former Deputy Director FBI)

-Peter Strzok (FBI CounterIntelligence Agent)

-Lisa Page (FBI Counsel)

Criminal Referral Page 1

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524082924

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Criminal Referral Page 2

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524083057

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Criminal Referral Page 3

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524083166

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Criminal Referral Page 4

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524083314

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Criminal Referral Page 5

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524083388

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Criminal Referral Page 6 and Last page.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1524083488

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What ever happened to the criminal referral for Christopher Steel?

It's a bizarre system that let's politicians refer people for investigation especially when they may be politically motivated. The whole point should be that these systems are separate. At the moment there seems to be a move from a minority of Republican congressmen to fire and shut down investigations into Trump, including the New York one, and start an investigation into Clinton and other Trump critics.

It's bordering on tin-pot dictator stuff when politicians dictate who gets investigated and whose doesn't. If there is evidence then hand it over to the proper authorities and let them do it. It's vital these things are separate.

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11 Republican members of Congress - quelle surprise?

I wonder if they will have 33 hearings, like they did with Benghazi at a cost of $7.8 million over two and a half years with no criminal charges at the end?

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I really think the best thing would be to let all the multitude of investigations complete without politicians weighing in all the time. It's mental.

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No it is not a bizarre system, Congressman are lawmakers, not law enforcers and they have the evidence. They have every right to make referrals when clear violations have been committed and it is not tin pot stuff at all, this stuff in the referral is real, those people have potentially committed violations of those Federal Statutes, you cannot just target Donald Trump with dodgy investigations that have so far led to nothing and no evidence, because you and Hugh don't like the guy.

You claim these Congressman are being political, well you and Hugh are doing the exact same thing, Trump must be investigated but never Hillary, she is not above the law and needs to be held to account and properly investigated, not investigated in a shoddy way like prior investigations clearly have been.

Alas, the only justification that I take with great pleasure is Hillary's monumental loss, especially where there is strong indicators of cheating and yet she cannot win an election, even after all the cheating....

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Might have something to do with them not being done properly, you keep spinning that same useless line Hugh, it's utter rubbish. Remove the Hillary tinted specs, people have clearly been biased in her favour in the justice department, turning blind eyes at very obvious criminal violations, what appears for a long time. Not any more. :rolleyes:

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Talking about Bengazi.

Defense, State Department Documents Reveal Obama Administration Knew that al Qaeda Terrorists Had Planned Benghazi Attack 10 Days in Advance.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...ys-in-advance/

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Other than those though, when have you ever criticised him... :D

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Me and Hugh don’t get to decide who gets investigated in another country. My point was that politicians shouldn’t be connected to who gets investigated. I have said many times now that there should be an investigation if there is evidence to start it off. The only person who said there should not be an investigation isnyou when calling for the Russian investigation to be shut down.

Just like saying Hugh doesn’t criticise Corbyn you’re accusing me of things I never said. I don’t see the point in me continuing this thread if you’re not going to be honest.

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There are a lot of questions that should have been asked and answered and weren't regarding Benghazi and hillary clinton has some of those but given the cheating she was a part of during the last presidential election I don't understand how an investigation into Trump is ongoing but not one into her conduct. Both the department of justice and the F.B.I need a thorough examination and if need be restructuring to prevent the level of bias there has been in the past happening again.

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I have been as honest as can be. I do not recall accusing you of something you never said....

I have never said there should not be an investigation of Trump, I have said the investigation that has been ongoing for a long time has turned up nothing and now needs to be shut down, there is that difference. Robert Mueller clearly has nothing on Trump, he revealed two weeks ago Trump was not under any criminal investigation. He is now on a fishing expedition, going after Cohen, to squeeze him, to flip him.

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Spot on. ;)

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Have you ever been to the US Mick ?

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Yes.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.22919fe89f05 I wonder if this has anything to do with the speculation that the current Cohen criminal investigation provides supporting evidence that he did, in fact, visit Prague?

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I think the last few years have shown that there are deep disturbing aspects to the U.S political system and it doesn't matter whose running for president those aspects come into play as a matter of course. The same could be said about many western political systems there is a completely hidden layer that has far too much influence on something it shouldn't. Democracy is a wonderful ideal but more and more i wonder if it truly exists anymore as so many forces work to alter the perception of voters and seem to dictate to our elected representatives what they will do.

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Imperfect yes but superior to alternative systems like those in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China. The increasing interference in the US judiciary is of genuine concern, it sets a bad example to other countries.

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Sounds like Fusion's dossier is more accurate than Trump's friends and followers care to admit.

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It's best that the judiciary is kept as independent as possible and is not allowed to turn into a branch of Fox News, as alluring as that prospect might be to Trump and his followers.

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BREAKING: Justice Dept. watchdog sends Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe findings to federal prosecutors for possible charges

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/19/p...ral0155PMStory

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Rizzy hasn't mentioned the judiciary.

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It's not accurate.

Well, if Hillary had have won, it would deffo have turned in to a CNN or WaPo or NYT branch for sure, it's half that already given the leaks they keep managing to obtain from "some" FBI/Obama holdovers and bent officials, illegally leaking stuff to the press.

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Either something's up in the litigation-obsessed USA when people are allowed to get away with an inaccurate document or the document's more accurate than Trump and pals care to acknowledge.

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This business of Michael Cohen being in Prague came up before Trump was inaugurated. President-Elect Trump did that infamous Press conference where he attacked CNN for being Fake news (Jan 11, 2017), but it is what he said before that, saying the Michael Cohen they were on about being in Prague, was a different Michael Cohen, for reference he's a clip of that press conference...



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Latest and developing Story: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has apparently told President Trump he is not a target in Mueller Probe...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ntent=politics

https://www.axios.com/rod-rosenstein...91ec546c1.html

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I've talked in quite general terms about the document being more accurate than Trump and pals would care to admit as they don't have a credible reason for ceasing their legal challenges. I don't know the ins and outs of every allegation in the document but presumably, it's about more than just a visit to Prague.

In terms of the investigation into Russian links, I've always been under the impression that it was Jared Kushner who was under the most suspicion.

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BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice have released the former FBI Director James Comey Memos of alleged conversations that he said he had with President Trump to Congress.

Classified Stuff is redacted.

https://www.scribd.com/document/3768...een&from_embed

Shortly after releasing the Memos Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte from various congressional oversight committees release the following statement:

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You fired him for lying to your Vice-President and the FBI...

Does this make Comey the Real Jim Shadey?

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Democrats are hilarious. News coming out from the U.S this afternoon that the Democratic Party have filed a lawsuit against Russia, Wikileaks and Trump Campaign because they say they all colluded to help Trump win the election.

This is good news because in the ‘Discovery’ process they will likely have to turn over the DNC servers they say were hacked, they were never examined by the FBI. It also shows they are showing signs of desperation. Bring it on you clowns.

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It wasn’t the firing that ruined his life, it was the subsequent legal wranglings that followed and expensive legal bills. Btw.. These Comey Memos vindicate Trump.

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Perhaps he shouldn’t have lied to the Vice-President and the FBI, then he wouldn’t have had any legal bills.

btw, they don’t - they confirm everything Comey said previously, about Trump’s obsession with personal loyalty and the pressure put in him to drop the Flynn investigation. The so-called ‘vindication’ is that Comey never stated in the memos that he felt obstructed or threatened, or that he felt obstructed in his investigation.

The obstruction question turns on what happened after this, which is that Trump fired Comey. These memos confirm the level of acquiescence that Trump wanted but did not get from Comey before firing him, and go further than before in supplying Trump’s likely motive for the firing. In Trump’s own words “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

The memos confirm that Trump did try to exert a level of control over his FBI director, and over an ongoing investigation into his and his circles’ conduct, that is completely at odds with normal behaviours dictating that law enforcement should be free of presidential interference.

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Yes they do.

There is no obstruction of justice, in the memos themselves, Trump asks for the Russia investigation to continue around his associates, that is not obstructing justice, Comey testified last year that he did not take the words Trump said as a direct order to let Flynn go, that's if Trump said that and as Devin Nunes points out, Comey never mentioned once he felt pressured or felt justice was being obstructed.

There is plenty of things Comey should have done, but didn't because he had poor judgement, he said McCabe was an honourable guy, we know this is bollocks, given the IG report just out that he lied, several times under Oath and lacked Candor, how the hell can that be traits of an honourable guy, what utter BS.

As fellow Law enforcement employees have suggested, the minute Comey felt pressured he should have resigned his post immediately, like Senators asked Comey, during his testimony last year, why didn't he approach White House Counsel, or Chief of Staff and say, it's not appropriate for me to be alone with the President?

He didn't, he also kept the information from the Trump that the fake Russian dossier was funded by his loser opponent and her campaign team and the DNC. He also would not reveal Trump himself was not under investigation and that this was the cloud Trump wanted clearing, Comey refused, so Trump Fired him and he had the Constitutional Authority to do so. It is NOT obstruction of justice, so I repeat the memos vindicate Trump.

Here is a recent interview with Comey on CNN with Jake Tapper, it's one of the better interviews out there to say this was CNN, Comey was asked if he hated Trump, Comey said he definitely doesn't hate him. Comey says in his view Trump is the legitimate President of the United States but does not rate his values and up to his firing, had not seen any evidence Russians had compromising material on Trump...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43897212

Good to see at least the French president is confronting the Donald over his crazy isolationist, climate warming, world destroying policies. Unlike our sycophantic Government, who are too scared to say anything.

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I didn't realise you were so high up in government circles that you knew everything that is communicated between the UK and the U.S MrK, oh that's right your not.

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So much for Macron's 'special relationship' with The Donald. I think Britain remains unassailable in that department at present!
I'm really looking forward to Merkel's meeting with Trumpy. That should be a good scrap!

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...-a3823431.html

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Golf??

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Unlike the UK, Macron took Trump seriously and it's paid off. We should have listened to Mick. :)
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/c...-a3823201.html

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Breaking: Michael Cohen will be asserting his 5th amendment rights in Stormy Daniels case.

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Until he slagged him off after the lovey dovey bit, you mean?

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Trump, September 2016

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Trumpers is coming to the UK on the 13th July

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No word if it's a State visit or not. If it was it would cause a bit of hassle.

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Confirmed not a state visit.

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Probably deserves it if any lasting peace can be agreed, imo it should probably be shared between the three of them and will need more substance to it.

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I got a better idea, let’s take the Nobel Peace prize off President Obama and give it to Trump, he was given one in 2009, less than a year in office, what the hell did he do to deserve that?

Even a former Nobel peace chief regrets Obama been given one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34277960

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No, he doesn't - nothing in the article supports the headline; the word regret is not used in the article, just in the headline as a paraphrase.

He actually states In fact, Lundestad states he never said it was a mistake.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...idea/72396794/

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Nothing in in the headline supports the view...Stop taking the piss Hugh. You are wrong yet again.

In other words, he was saying, Obama did not live up to the expectations of him getting the award, therefore, giving it to him was a mistake, thanks for confirming what I already said. :rolleyes:

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Please show me in the linked article where Lundestad says he regrets Obama getting the Nobel prize - the article does not use the word "regret", only the headline.

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You appear to have missed the quote

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43970908
Well who'd have 'thunk' a non-medical person could have dictated a letter describing a patient's condition as 'astonishingly excellent' and ' healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency' :D :D

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The Doctor signed the letter and only now says it’s not his words. Another pathetic smear attempt. Plus....Reported on Fake News CNN. :zzz:

Meanwhile Trump achieving Peace in the Korean Peninsula. Fantastic achievement, but the liberal press want to discuss other things. Evil set of one sided pricks. They are really upset Crooked Hillary lost still.

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He may well have form for that already

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...ald-trump.html

Have they found her yet or can we assume that was Donald getting busy with the messy pen again

https://m.mysanantonio.com/business/...x-12878649.php

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It was very wrong for the Nobel Peace prize to begiven to Obama in the first place. The prize should be given only for achievement, not the expectation of achievement.

I hope they've learned their lesson. This fiasco has completely devalued the award.

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Exactly. If anything, Obama did the opposite, just look at Libya. The removal of Gaddafi, caused a massive vacuum in which ISIS was able to enter.