Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Clint Planet
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The Right would have mobilised the militia and there'd have been calls for a lynching.
People still fall into this trap over and over and over again and Trump is playing you all for fools....
Keep talking about how he is trying to get the FBI to bury investigations against him instead of Spicey excluding a few journalists... that is the only way to deal with Trump
Keep talking about how he is trying to get the FBI to bury investigations against him instead of Spicey excluding a few journalists... that is the only way to deal with Trump
Clint Planet
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Pro-Trump brigade on here have gone a bit quiet.
neil999
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Thinking that...V strange
Ah, the poor wee thing won't go to the correspondents dinner. And they call us snowflakes!
Jib in lad
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Shithouse.
mmmmsnouts
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I figured there was no chance of that happening anytime in the next four years. I'd have been very upset with any news organization who decided to go. I bet we also won't have outside social events the President always attends, like the Kennedy Center Honors or Easter egg rolls on the White House lawn, because no one wants to be around that weapon and he doesn't want to go.
The whole correspondents dinner is a sham anyway. It's such a... can I say circle jerk on this forum? Let's find out. Anyway, that's exactly what it is.
TXBill proclaimed his retirement from this thread since he was 100% certain that things are and will continue to go just swimmingly in the USA**
**assuming you are a white male, and only care about some, but not all, of the Bill of Rights.
He tried in either 2009 or 2010 but the other media outlets supported Fox News and the WH relented
Clint Planet
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Fake news news......
Fox News's 'Swedish defence advisor' unknown to country's military officials
After Donald Trump’s infamous ‘what’s happening in Sweden’ comment, Nils Bildt was billed on The O’Reilly Factor as Swedish national security advisor
Nils Bildt appears on Fox News on Thursday 23 February billed as ‘national security advisor’. Photograph: Fox News
Sunday 26 February 2017
Swedish military and foreign-affairs officials have said they know nothing about a man who appeared on Fox News in the US billed as a “Swedish defence and national security advisor”.
Swedes, and some Americans, have been wondering about representations of the Scandinavian nation in the US since President Donald Trump invoked “what’s happening last night in Sweden” while alluding to past terror attacks in Europe during a rally on 18 February. There was no major incident in Sweden the previous night.
Following Trump’s comments, Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly convened an on-air discussion on Thursday over Swedish immigration and crime between a Swedish newspaper reporter and a man identified on screen and verbally as a “Swedish defence and national security advisor”, Nils Bildt.
Bildt linked immigration to crime and social problems in Sweden, lamented what he described as Swedish liberal close-mindedness about the downsides of welcoming newcomers and said: “We are unable in Sweden to socially integrate these people.”
But the Swedish defense ministry and foreign office told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter they knew nothing of Bildt. Calls to Swedish officials on Saturday were not immediately returned.
Bildt is a founding member of a corporate geopolitical strategy and security consulting business with offices in Washington, Brussels and Tokyo, according its website. His biography speaks to expertise on defence and national security issues, saying his experience includes serving as a naval officer, working for a Japanese official and writing books on issues ranging from investment and political climates to security issues with working in hostile environments.
But security experts in Sweden said he was not a familiar figure in their ranks in that country.
“He is in not in any way a known quantity in Sweden and has never been part of the Swedish debate,” Swedish Defence University leadership professor Robert Egnell said by email to The Associated Press on Saturday. He and Bildt — also known then as Nils Tolling — were in a master’s degree program in war studies together at King’s College London in 2002-2003, and Bildt moved to Japan soon after, he said.
The executive producer of The O’Reilly Factor said Bildt was recommended by people the show’s booker consulted while making numerous inquiries about potential guests.
“After pre-interviewing him and reviewing his bio, we agreed that he would make a good guest for the topic that evening,” executive producer David Tabacoff said in a statement.
The network said O’Reilly was expected to address the subject further on Monday’s show.
Bildt didn’t respond on Saturday to email inquiries; a person who answered the phone at his company agreed to relay one. He told Dagens Nyheter on Friday that he was a US-based independent analyst, and Fox News had chosen its description of him.
“Sorry for any confusion caused, but needless to say I think that is not really the issue. The issue is Swedish refusal to discuss their social problems and issues,” he added in a statement to the news website Mediaite, explaining his profession as being an independent political adviser.
Fox News's 'Swedish defence advisor' unknown to country's military officials
After Donald Trump’s infamous ‘what’s happening in Sweden’ comment, Nils Bildt was billed on The O’Reilly Factor as Swedish national security advisor
Nils Bildt appears on Fox News on Thursday 23 February billed as ‘national security advisor’. Photograph: Fox News
Sunday 26 February 2017
Swedish military and foreign-affairs officials have said they know nothing about a man who appeared on Fox News in the US billed as a “Swedish defence and national security advisor”.
Swedes, and some Americans, have been wondering about representations of the Scandinavian nation in the US since President Donald Trump invoked “what’s happening last night in Sweden” while alluding to past terror attacks in Europe during a rally on 18 February. There was no major incident in Sweden the previous night.
Following Trump’s comments, Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly convened an on-air discussion on Thursday over Swedish immigration and crime between a Swedish newspaper reporter and a man identified on screen and verbally as a “Swedish defence and national security advisor”, Nils Bildt.
Bildt linked immigration to crime and social problems in Sweden, lamented what he described as Swedish liberal close-mindedness about the downsides of welcoming newcomers and said: “We are unable in Sweden to socially integrate these people.”
But the Swedish defense ministry and foreign office told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter they knew nothing of Bildt. Calls to Swedish officials on Saturday were not immediately returned.
Bildt is a founding member of a corporate geopolitical strategy and security consulting business with offices in Washington, Brussels and Tokyo, according its website. His biography speaks to expertise on defence and national security issues, saying his experience includes serving as a naval officer, working for a Japanese official and writing books on issues ranging from investment and political climates to security issues with working in hostile environments.
But security experts in Sweden said he was not a familiar figure in their ranks in that country.
“He is in not in any way a known quantity in Sweden and has never been part of the Swedish debate,” Swedish Defence University leadership professor Robert Egnell said by email to The Associated Press on Saturday. He and Bildt — also known then as Nils Tolling — were in a master’s degree program in war studies together at King’s College London in 2002-2003, and Bildt moved to Japan soon after, he said.
The executive producer of The O’Reilly Factor said Bildt was recommended by people the show’s booker consulted while making numerous inquiries about potential guests.
“After pre-interviewing him and reviewing his bio, we agreed that he would make a good guest for the topic that evening,” executive producer David Tabacoff said in a statement.
The network said O’Reilly was expected to address the subject further on Monday’s show.
Bildt didn’t respond on Saturday to email inquiries; a person who answered the phone at his company agreed to relay one. He told Dagens Nyheter on Friday that he was a US-based independent analyst, and Fox News had chosen its description of him.
“Sorry for any confusion caused, but needless to say I think that is not really the issue. The issue is Swedish refusal to discuss their social problems and issues,” he added in a statement to the news website Mediaite, explaining his profession as being an independent political adviser.
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Fox News' Swedish adviser on violent immigrants was convicted of assault in the US
Nils Bildt, an immigrant in the US has convictions for assaulting a police officer, obstructing justice and public drunkenness
A Swedish "expert" who appeared on Fox News to discuss immigrant violence has a conviction for violent crime in the US.
Nils Bildt was described as a "Swedish defense and national security advisor" when he appeared as a guest on the TV station to speak about the perceived problems of his native country which Donald Trump referred to at a rally in Florida.
But it has emerged that Mr Bildt, himself an immigrant in the US, was arrested in June 2014 for assault and battery against a law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice and public inebriation after threatening an official.
He was charged under the name Tolling, which he later changed to Bildt.
Sweden's government also said he holds no official position with them.
On TV, the billionaire claimed the Scandinavian country recently experienced a terror attack, a claim which later turned out to be false.
Donald Trump later tweeted to say his statement was based on a news report on Fox News, who continued the debate around the Scandinavian country by hosting Mr Bildt.
The Swede described his homeland negatively, backing up Mr Trump’s own portrayal of the country.
But Marie Pisäter, of the Swedish Defense Ministry, said no one by the name Nils Bildt was employed by them.
“We have no spokesman by that name,” she said.
And the Foreign Office was similarly stumped, with a spokesman telling Dagens Nyhether (DN): “We do not know who he is.”
It emerged Mr Bildt – who spoke about crime in Sweden – is in fact a convict himself.
Documents from Arlington General District Court in Virginia, show Mr Bildt – under his former surname - was sentenced to a year behind bars, of which 11 months were suspended, in November 2014. He was also fined $111 (£89), which is recorded as paid.
Mr Bildt, who is said to have emigrated to the US in 1994, denied all knowledge of the convictions to DN.
Nils Bildt, an immigrant in the US has convictions for assaulting a police officer, obstructing justice and public drunkenness
A Swedish "expert" who appeared on Fox News to discuss immigrant violence has a conviction for violent crime in the US.
Nils Bildt was described as a "Swedish defense and national security advisor" when he appeared as a guest on the TV station to speak about the perceived problems of his native country which Donald Trump referred to at a rally in Florida.
But it has emerged that Mr Bildt, himself an immigrant in the US, was arrested in June 2014 for assault and battery against a law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice and public inebriation after threatening an official.
He was charged under the name Tolling, which he later changed to Bildt.
Sweden's government also said he holds no official position with them.
On TV, the billionaire claimed the Scandinavian country recently experienced a terror attack, a claim which later turned out to be false.
Donald Trump later tweeted to say his statement was based on a news report on Fox News, who continued the debate around the Scandinavian country by hosting Mr Bildt.
The Swede described his homeland negatively, backing up Mr Trump’s own portrayal of the country.
But Marie Pisäter, of the Swedish Defense Ministry, said no one by the name Nils Bildt was employed by them.
“We have no spokesman by that name,” she said.
And the Foreign Office was similarly stumped, with a spokesman telling Dagens Nyhether (DN): “We do not know who he is.”
It emerged Mr Bildt – who spoke about crime in Sweden – is in fact a convict himself.
Documents from Arlington General District Court in Virginia, show Mr Bildt – under his former surname - was sentenced to a year behind bars, of which 11 months were suspended, in November 2014. He was also fined $111 (£89), which is recorded as paid.
Mr Bildt, who is said to have emigrated to the US in 1994, denied all knowledge of the convictions to DN.
tsubaki
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TBH there are only so many times you can see the opposition (or is it "the resistance" now) step on rakes that go on to hit them in the face.
You think pro trump posters are not posting here because it's embarrassing watching anti trump posters make fools of themselves? Am I reading this right?
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