peteblue
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Indeed, but they blew it by referring to Ted Kennedy. Mary Jo Kopechne is not a fan.......
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Indeed, but they blew it by referring to Ted Kennedy. Mary Jo Kopechne is not a fan.......
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
This is how the Telegraph saw the Trump Juncker meeting....
“Jean-Claude Juncker returned from meeting Donald Trump waving a joint US-EU agreement and declaring “peace in our time” having averted, for now, a global trade war.
Donald Trump is known as a dealmaker but Mr Juncker is also a grizzled veteran of decades of Brussels backroom deals and politicking so who came out on top in the talks?
The president of the European Commission succeeded in his mission to protect the EU car industry from fresh US tariffs and prevent the trade dispute from escalating further.”
Which is basically what I said......it’s all about German cars.....
“Jean-Claude Juncker returned from meeting Donald Trump waving a joint US-EU agreement and declaring “peace in our time” having averted, for now, a global trade war.
Donald Trump is known as a dealmaker but Mr Juncker is also a grizzled veteran of decades of Brussels backroom deals and politicking so who came out on top in the talks?
The president of the European Commission succeeded in his mission to protect the EU car industry from fresh US tariffs and prevent the trade dispute from escalating further.”
Which is basically what I said......it’s all about German cars.....
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BMW makes more cars in the US than it sells in the US, it’s an exporter of cars from the US lol
Her only crime - illegal entry 20 years ago, How does this help anyone, especially as the family have to decide with which parent their 8 year old US citizen daugher stays with?
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Impressively Trumpian reframing of what you said Pete, have you considered a job beside Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Thought you might be interested in this analysis by that lefty rag the FT
https://www.ft.com/content/efc1bb08-90f1-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421
In a victory for Mr Juncker, it puts further tariffs — including Mr Trump’s threatened 20 per cent levy on auto imports— on hold while talks proceed. Yet it is unclear what the US president gets out of it other than a short-term political win at a time when he is under fire over his trade policies at home. Mr Trump and his aides have quickly begun selling the deal as a major breakthrough and a vindication of his tough approach to trade. “We just opened up Europe for you, farmers. You’re not going to be too angry with Trump,” he told an audience in Iowa on Thursday, glossing over the fact that this week’s EU deal avoided any promise of a broad discussion of agricultural products. Many analysts are less effusive. “At best this might get us back most of the way to where we were before [new US steel and aluminium] tariffs [went into effect on June 1],” said Philip Levy, a former trade adviser to President George W Bush now at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “That’s not a huge achievement.”
European officials went into Wednesday’s meetings at the White House with low expectations. People either involved or briefed on the discussions said Mr Trump’s aides had been sending mixed signals in the lead-up. Hawks such as Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, had adopted a predictably tough line even as free-traders like Larry Kudlow, head of the National Economic Council, raised the possibility of a deal.
But Mr Trump surprised the Europeans by quickly declaring that he wanted to hammer out an agreement. Within three hours there was a one-page joint statement laying out a vague plan for further discussions and a ceasefire on tariffs. Mr Trump seized on what he said were promises from the EU to buy more soyabeans and liquefied natural gas in his announcement. Yet European officials said on Thursday that the EU delegation had done little more than describe the reality of global markets to the president.
The EU itself is a buyer of neither soyabeans nor natural gas. With China having imposed a 25 per cent tariff on US soyabeans and opting to buy from Brazil instead, US soyabean prices have tumbled and European private-sector buyers have started to purchase more as a result. Likewise, with LNG, European companies have been building new terminals and infrastructure, and for years have been agitating to buy more US gas as a hedge against some member states’ energy dependence on Russia. The major impediment to more imports of US gas, EU officials argue, is US export restrictions.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/poli...-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html
Not a lawyer or anything but that looks like quite a problem for Trump and son.
Mind due, I have thought that many times before.
Not a lawyer or anything but that looks like quite a problem for Trump and son.
Mind due, I have thought that many times before.
Particularly interesting given that the lawyer Jnr met with had closer ties to Russian government than previously claimed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...5e8900-911e-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html
Weird line of defence from Guiliani
If Cohen has lied all his life why did Trump have him as his lawyer for so long?
This by itself would do it for most politicians let alone all the Russia stuff.
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I think you need to look at the first part of the sentence to find the answer to the question posed in the second half.
Trick question, right?
See also Guiliani, Rudy for requirements to be a Trump lawyer...
In an already bizarre period of American history, Giuliani's deranged tour of American television trying to explain it all away is especially bizarre
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