Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Unfortunately Trump seems to have taken him out of the dog house and listened to him re the DACA as well
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/us/president-trump-daca-dreamers.html
Mr. Trump’s frenzied weekend search for an alternative to abruptly ending the program was a fitting finale to his anguished deliberations over DACA since he took office. Aides have portrayed it as a difficult emotional decision for the president.
The main pressure to end the program is coming from Mr. Trump’s hard-line policy adviser, Stephen Miller, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and his still-influential former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who believe that nothing short of a complete and immediate shutdown of the program will fulfill the president’s campaign pledges.
They have warned the president that immediate action is required to head off the lawsuits against the program brought by a group of red state attorneys general.
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Donald Trump: America's Spoiled Grandchild. Whadda a Special Widdle Guy!
The Insane Gifts Saudi Arabia Gave President Trump
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insane-gifts-saudi-arabia-gave-president-trump
"During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for accepting money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, complaining during one of the debates, “These are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money.”
"Amusing as the gifts may be, they are emblematic of a more serious issue: Trump’s embrace of the Saudi regime, a stark reversal from his campaign rhetoric. During the campaign, Trump accused the regime of everything from being responsible for 9/11 to failing to “reimburse us the way we should be reimbursed,” going so far as to threaten to stop buying their oil if they didn’t shape up.
Trump’s decision to make his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia was a singular one, breaking with a long-standing presidential tradition of first visiting Mexico or Canada.
“Trump’s decision to visit Saudi first clearly signaled his top prioritization of America’s most profitable relationship with its number one weapons client in the world,” Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, told The Daily Beast.
No less noteworthy than the visit itself was the administration’s conduct during it. During the visit, the Trump administration announced a $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis, totaling $350 billion over 10 years. This represented a decisive reversal of the Obama administration’s 2016 policy of blocking certain arms sales to the regime because of civilian deaths in Yemen.
As Whitson put it, “The Trump administration has gone well beyond any prior U.S. administration in its embrace of Saudi Arabia, not only with its vastly expanded, unrestricted arms sales to Saudi, but in a deliberate refusal to criticize the country’s atrocious domestic rights record and reckless, catastrophic, military campaign in Yemen.”
Kristine Beckerle, a researcher at Human Rights Watch specializing in gulf countries, echoed Whitson’s concerns, telling The Daily Beast, “Since Trump has become president, you see this real escalation in terms of what the U.S. is doing in Yemen.”
Beckerlie cites the dramatic rise in drone strikes and U.S. ground operations in Yemen as evidence of the administration’s increased involvement in the conflict. Meanwhile, Yemen, the poorest country in the region, is being ravaged by a cholera epidemic that Oxfam recently called the “largest ever recorded.”
“There’s… no doubt that the Saudis feel they have total leeway to get away with whatever they want a recipe for further abuse, extremism and destabilization in the region,” Whitson said."
List of gifts to the W.H. received from Saudi Arabia on the occasion of POTUS Trip
May 2017
1. Four pairs of leather sandals
2. Box of Saudi traditional headgear including black wool headbands and accompanying scarves
3. Brown wool robe
4. Orange and gold wool robe lined with cheetah fur
5. Blue and silver wool robe lined with white tiger fur
6. Black and orange cotton shirt with leather ammo belt and holster
7. Green and orange cotton shirt with leather ammo belt and holster
8. Tan cotton shirt with pink and red floral embroidery with leather ammo belt and holster
9. Black and gold wool threaded head piece
10. White cotton Shimag or head scarf
11. Red and white cotton Shimag or head scarf
12. Book about traditional Saudi Arabian costume
13. White cotton Shimag or head scarf
14. White cotton Diglaj acket
15. Pair of brown and yellow leather sandals
16. Pair of red and green leather sandals
17. Pair of red and green leather sandals
18. One brown and one black jacket with gold detail
19. Book about traditional Saudi Arabian costume
20. Pair of brown and silver leather sandals
21. Pair of brown and green leather sandals
22. Two white silk cotton button-up shirt
23. Chiffon yellow and turquoise dress with gold beaded and embroidered detail
24. One sleeveless brown and one white silk cotton garment
25. Red and white cotton Shimag or headscarf
26. Box of five black wool headbands with accompanying head scarves of various color and design
27. One black and one white light wool jacket with gold detailing
28. Black jacket made of light wool with gold detailing
29. Three wool button up shirts- one black, one brown, and one blue
30. White silk cotton Taqyah headwear embroidered with silver and gold
3 i. Iqal black headband made of wool thread
32. lqal black headband made of wool thread
33. Iqal black headband made of wool thread
34. Iqal black headband made of wool thread
35. Traditional Saudi Arabian chiffon yellow dress with gold beading
36. Purple wool robe with white tiger fur lining
37. White light wool jacket with gold detailing
38. Five cashmere headscarves with varying patterns
39. Sleeveless white silk cotton garment
40. Pale pink chiffon dress with silver and gold embroidered flowers in wooden box
41 . Dagger made of pure silver with mother of pearl sheath and various designs
42. White silk cotton button-up shirt with pocket
43. Box of various leather sandals
44. Two blue cotton Digla jackets
45. Blue wool button-up shirt
46. Two cashmere Shimag headscarves
47. Black robe made of sheep's wool
48. Black rabbit fur and wool robe with red pattern
49. Black traditional shirt with floral embroidery and leather ammo holder and holster
50. Orange traditional shirt with silver floral embroidery and Leather ammo holder and holster
51. Green traditional shirt with floral embroidery and leather ammo holder and holster
52. Green traditional shirt with floral embroidery and leather ammo holder and holster
53. Three light wool jackets in brown, black, and white with gold detail
54. One large sword, a dagger, a leather ammo holder and holster
55. Two large wool blankets, one black and one with design
56. Four cotton button-up robes (three white and one blue)
57. Three cotton robes, two with embroidered floral pattern and one white
58. Three.boxes of 6 set Roja perfume
59. Two tee-shirts, one hooded sweatshirt, one baseball hat
60. Two pieces of calligraphy artwork
61. Two sets of three piece oil rose perfume in custom carved wooden boxes
62. Large wooden box with gold designs filled with cologne bottles
63. Large wooden box with various color designs filled with cologne bottles
64. Red leather box with one large Bassem Al Qassem perfume
65. Black traditional female Saudi outfit with gold threaded detail
66. Three handwoven dresses with beaded detail
67. Gold honor medal with certificate
68. Silver incense holder
69. Copy of Kuwaiti constitution
70. Chopard pen
71: Chopard desk clock
72. Four boxes of gold-plated coin from bank of Kuwait
73. Silver oil well sculpture
74. Enamel briefcase
75- Bronze dugong model
76. Two large wool blankets
77. Large box containing dagger, sword, ammo holder, and holster
78. Sword
79. Three traditional Saudi garments
80. Large canvas artwork depicting Saudi woman
81. Three painted boxes filled with various small trinkets and children's books
82. Artwork featuring picture of President Trump
83. Large artwork depicting Arabic calligraphy
Q: Conservatives, do you see anything wrong about this? Is this how the United States should be conducting itself? Is this draining the swamp?
A: We need to focus on what's really important here. Trump promised to defend my right to refer to blacks as "you people" without my grandchildren rolling their eyes at me.
Just upended the lives of 800,000 young people and won't even take questions to clarify details the miserable little worm
Rarely seen Sessions look so happy
Trump is fine with creating and defending in court an executive order banning Muslim green card holders and kicking transgender troops out the military on a whim but an e.o. reducing the deportation chances of those kids who know no other home than US is "constitutionally wrong".
If rule of law is so important how about the ones against nepotism/emoluments and why the hell pardon Arpiao who flagrantly broke it multiple times.
This has huge impact not just on the DACA kids but also going to mean any immigrants without papers isn't going to trust any government including things like moving to emergency shelters in disasters, reporting crimes to police etc
Will probably reduce those that pay tax as many do - why give information when it can be used to track you down and deported?
Will probably reduce those that pay tax as many do - why give information when it can be used to track you down and deported?
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Undoing everything the last President did because he was a black man.
DanEFC92
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See that's what i don't get. The people who brought the DACA users/kids here are guilty of being illegal immigrants and committing a crime. A 4 year old or even a 10 year old can hardly be complicit in a crime they don't even understand. Courts protect the mentally ill and well kids who do not understand their actions.
Its not as if the kids could say no or refuse or leave when they were of an educated mind as a child they are hardly complicit. Even if they were older why would they leave their family? and after been allowed go to school and get an education. Most of them probably don't remember a life out of the US.
There is a right way and a wrong way and this is not the right way.
You'd think that with the volatile situation with North Korea they would know where the Secretary of Stare was...
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