Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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BirkenheadBlue
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I must have missed the bit where the constitution limits black Presidents to only having 2 1/2 years in their second term.
It's so blatantly obvious that Trump is tasked by Putin with upsetting western democracy.
He's out to unsettle NATO and the EU.
What ever your view on Brexit, this kind of meddling is really worrying.
He's out to unsettle NATO and the EU.
What ever your view on Brexit, this kind of meddling is really worrying.
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Putin was up to his elbows in Brexit meddling
Do more than just mope.
Obama peppered his 45-minute appearance with subtle knocks for despondent Democrats, warning that it is not enough to lament Donald Trump's presidency or complain about the impact he is having on the country. Instead, a tie-less and visibly relaxed Obama urged Democrats to back up those concerns with action and avoid the belief that the party is bound to defeat Republicans in November.
Obama's message to Dems
Obama peppered his 45-minute appearance with subtle knocks for despondent Democrats, warning that it is not enough to lament Donald Trump's presidency or complain about the impact he is having on the country. Instead, a tie-less and visibly relaxed Obama urged Democrats to back up those concerns with action and avoid the belief that the party is bound to defeat Republicans in November.
Obama's message to Dems
The lead is buried in that story. I'm guessing that's a district that usually goes uncontested by republicans. This guy has no chance of winning, can only cause embarrassment. I'm sure the party wasn't paying attention to the district at all.
Not giving a pass on his horrific views, but things like this can happen. Why would they dump funds into a primary they know they'll lose just to avoid this guy.
They'll distance themselves from him.
North Korea has increased its production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons at secret sites in recent months, contrary to Donald Trump’s claims that it was “no longer a nuclear threat”, according to a new report.
NBC News quoted more than a dozen US officials familiar with the intelligence assessments. Coming soon after satellite images showed rapid improvements being made to a North Korean nuclear research facility at Yongbyon, the developments will make it harder for Trump to claim that his summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore this month was a success.
Neither of the concessions the US president claimed Kim had delivered – the destruction of a missile engine testing site, and the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean war – has materialised so far.
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Meanwhile Trump has already made a significant US concession: suspending joint exercises with South Korea that had been due to start in August.
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is reported to be planning a trip to Pyongyang in early July to continue negotiations with the North Korean government, in the hope of persuading the regime to make specific commitments on nuclear disarmament.
Over the past seven months the North Koreans have conducted no new missile or nuclear tests. But NBC quoted a US official briefed on the latest intelligence as saying that uranium enrichment had been stepped up.
“There’s no evidence that they are decreasing stockpiles, or that they have stopped their production,” the official said. “There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the US.”
It has long been suspected that the North Koreans have established a uranium enrichment plant in at least one secret site apart from Yongbyon complex.
“There are lots of things that we know that North Korea has tried to hide from us for a long time,” a US intelligence official told NBC.
The joint statement signed by Trump and Kim in Singapore was vaguely worded. Kim promised “complete denuclearisation” but that has been Pyongyang’s theoretical policy since 1992, and the regime interprets it to mean a long-term mutual process in which the US would also disarm.
Pompeo was due to start follow-on negotiations with the North Korean leadership within a week of the 12 June Singapore summit. But Pyongyang appears to have dragged its heels. The secretary of state is now hoping to visit Pyongyang during a trip to the far east in the second week of July, as first reported by the Financial Times.
“There was a delay but I think he has now got the agreement to go,” said Victor Cha, a former director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council.
“They have to put meat on the bones of the Singapore statement. Pompeo is under pressure to get something before August, when the exercises were going to start,” said Cha, now at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
It the visit goes ahead it is possible Kim would order the repatriation of the remains of between 100 and 200 US service personnel killed in the 1950-53 war, to coincide with Pompeo’s arrival. It is a gesture that US officials had been predicting would take place last week. Trump told a rally in Minnesota last week that the repatriation had already happened.
“Pompeo needs to get the remains of the POWs and MIAs [missing in action] but it’s not enough,” Cha said, arguing the secretary of state would have to extract a concrete commitment on disarmament to live up to the administration’s claims for the Singapore summit.
Firstly it’s incredible but secondly it’s not surprising at all is it ? How it manages to be both I’m not sure but that’s where we are .
Every time I see a story about remains being brought home I’m reminded of this quote
—-“The soldiers that died in Korea, their remains are going to be coming back home,” he told Fox News aboard Air Force One.
“And we have thousands of people that have asked for that, thousands and thousands of people. So many people asked when I was on the campaign, I’d say ‘Wait a minute, I don’t have any relationship…’, but they said, ‘When you can President, we’d love our son to be brought back home’. You know the remains.——
That’s how much he lies and how little it matters, the war ended in 1965 so how old are these many people ? In their hundreds Surely maybe 120 ish , it’s a small pathetic point but zero repercussion to another obvious lie . Scary times .
Didn’t the war end in 1953?
It is worse than that, Harry.
The Korean War ended in 1953.......65 years ago.
There can be very, very few living parents of soldiers who died there.
Sorry my error , don’t know where that came from .
Well I do , long day in the sun and late night after the rugby
Mad thing is a lot of the 90000 soldiers that went in to Korea at the start of the war in 1950 would have been in the military since the end of world war 2.
It would be after that the rest would have been brought in.
Here are the numbers
Korean War (1950-1953)
U.S. servicemembers: 5,720,000
Deaths: 54,246 (36,574 in theater)
Wounded: 103,284
Estimated living veterans: 2,275,000
36000 died in theater and according to a report from 5 years ago i read they think its about 5000 men left behind.
The living servicemen would probably all be in their 80's so if their parents were to be alive they would have to be at least 11 or 12 years older and been young teens if teens at all at the time of conception for them to have a chance. the oldest living person in the US is 113 by the way.
Is he claiming that of 36000 dead there are many parents who had kids out of wedlock and before there 18th birthday theyd still be over 100 years of age.
it is possible he met that group of siblings who have been campaigning to see their brothers be brought home and because the siblings are themselves in their 80's he probably thought they were the parents. haha!!
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