Citing the deficit caused by #GOPTaxScam, senators have promised to gut SS & MC if Trump gets 4 more years
Trump sides with NK re their ballistic tests over Abe’s objections
Insane mixed signals, reversals cloud 2nd day of G-7 summit-Trump petulant.
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Trump sides with NK re ballistic test over Abe’s objections
Trump said that it is "certainly possible" he would invite Putin to next year's G-7.
"We had a very good discussion on Russia & Putin, and a lively discussion, but, really, a good one," Trump added
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EC President Tusk said the day b/4 "under no condition" would Moscow be granted a new invitation
Iran’s Zarif makes surprise trip to G-7, catching Trump off-guard
Dina Powell has helped put Goldman Sachs in contention for a role in Saudi Aramco's IPO.
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GOP donor John Childs donated $330,000 since prostitution sting
Dow futures drop 300 points as US-China trade war escalates
Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to WH
One Handgun, 9 Murders: How American Firearms Cause Carnage Abroad
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100s of 1000s of guns sold in the US vanish because of loose US gun laws.
Many reappear in Jamaica, turning its streets into battlefields.
Will Us’ ‘Least Sustainable City’ [Phoenix] vote to kill rail transit?
US tech industry becomes hotbed for EE activism
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Trump Inflating Scottish Golf Resorts' Value By $165 Million, Per UK Filings
Trump told British authorities the properties are a combined $65M in the red.
His U.S. disclosures say they're worth at least $100M.
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Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting US
Premiums for ACA are going down in some places, & barely rising in others.
P Andrew has defended his fmr friendship w/Epstein, saying "at no stage" did he "see or suspect" any criminal behavior.
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Prince Andrew flew on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ with jailed Miss Russia
US court records claim the prince took the late billionaire’s jet with a beauty queen who was later imprisoned for drug offenses
North Korea tests new ‘super-large’ rocket launcher
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RU’s DefMin releases vid of sub-launched ballistic missile test in the Barents Sea
9 jobs in 1 of SC’s poorest counties became the latest casualty in a ongoing trade war with China, fueling concerns negotiations will hamper U.S. economic growth & job gains.
Trump said argued that the North Korean leader was “not in violation” of international law & received a “nice letter” from Kim
Abe shot back: “Our position is very clear ... ballistic tests violates the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions.” politico.eu/article/japan-…
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Donald J. Trump is a longtime money-launderer who remains beholden to the Russian mob’s “boss of bosses” Semion Mogilevich.
A summit of world leaders devolved into a confusing spectacle on Sunday when President Trump signaled regret for his trade war with China only to have the White House reverse his position hours later. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Trump won’t say it, but Republicans in the Senate will: Social Security and Medicare would be on the chopping block in a 2nd Trump term.
Pointing to rising deficits re TaxCut4Wealthy, senators have promised to gut SS & MC if Trump gets 4 more years forbes.com/sites/teresagh…
Trump Inflating Scottish Golf Resorts' Value By $165 Million, Per UK Filings
The president told British authorities the properties are a combined $65 million in the red. His U.S. disclosures say they're worth at least $100 million. huffpost.com/entry/trump-sc…
Former Trump official Dina Powell has helped put Goldman Sachs in contention for a role in Saudi Aramco's IPO, according to the Financial Times. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/di…
A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to Trump by publicizing damaging info about journalists.
Nine jobs in one of South Carolina’s poorest counties this week became the latest casualty in a ongoing trade war with China, fueling concerns that stalled negotiations will hamper U.S. economic growth and job gains. thestate.com/news/politics-…
One Handgun, 9 Murders: How American Firearms Cause Carnage Abroad
Hundreds of thousands of guns sold in the United States vanish because of loose American gun laws. Many reappear in Jamaica, turning its streets into battlefields. nytimes.com/2019/08/25/wor… via @NYTimes
Prince Andrew has defended his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, saying "at no stage" did he "see or suspect" any criminal behaviour. bbc.com/news/uk-494602…
Prince Andrew flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ with jailed Miss Russia
US court records claim the prince took the late billionaire’s jet with a beauty queen who was later imprisoned for drug offenses thetimes.co.uk/article/prince…
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Buyers connected to RU or former Soviet republics made 86 all-cash sales — totaling nearly $109 million — at 10 Trump-branded properties in S F L & NYC.
The Balkan mafias were the first major crime syndicates to come to Slovakia, following people from the region who had been invited to work and study there during the communist era. occrp.org/en/unfinishedl…
Trump found himself at odds with his counterparts on Sunday over issues like trade, climate change, North Korea, Russia and Iran. nytimes.com/2019/08/25/wor…
On the campaign trail this past week, Democratic candidates blasted Mr. Trump for his economic stewardship, criticizing his gyrating trade policy and accusing him of hurting American workers and farmers and stoking a possible recession nytimes.com/2019/08/24/us/…
Joe Walsh Confirms He Will Challenge Trump for Republican Nomination
Calling Mr. Trump ‘completely unfit,’ Mr. Walsh, a conservative radio host, will adopt a television-centric strategy to try to rattle a media-obsessed president. nytimes.com/2019/08/25/us/…
Australian share market drops sharply amid US-Chinese trade tensions
ASX200 index down 108.5 points as energy and tech shares lead losses theguardian.com/australia-news…
@WSJ of course paints the organization behind the Palestinian protests as “left wing” when it is actually a well know propaganda organization in support of Hammas currently being sued by survivors of the Oct 7th massacre. wsj.com/us-news/educat…
Survivors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks filed a Fed lawsuit citing the nationwide college protests, arguing that Nat’l Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent org are working in the US "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."
Through NSJP, AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly "uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, & recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond.”
Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr. Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he had been working on the deals with dirty trickster and Trump sycophant Richard Grenell.
These first two projects both involve land now controlled by the governments of Albania and Serbia, meaning a deal would have to be finalized with these foreign governments.
The elite British society magazine Tatler describes Zhukova as being "at the centre of a sprawling web of power that encompasses the art world, Russian oligarchs and one of the world's most influential Greek shipping dynasties." tatler.com/article/rupert…
All news outlets who pushed the Burisma smear campaign against Hunter & Joe Biden are guilty of aiding & abetting Putin & his Russian Intel Services disinfo & owe a huge apology not only to the Biden’s, but to the American people. @CBSPolitics @ABCPolitics @CNN @NBCNews @ABC
Three apartments in the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium, which Trump owned jointly with the real estate companies Bayrock and Sapir Org. LLC, were sold in April 2013 for a total of $3.1 million to shell companies ultimately controlled by Elvira Kudryashova
The Trump administration’s slapdash efforts to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan hurt the prospects of a negotiated settlement between Kabul and the Taliban, according to secret congressional testimony. politico.com/newsletters/na…
Afghanistan-focused officials were kept out of the loop by senior Trump aides. That ultimately put personnel at risk, endangered a fragile diplomatic effort and left a new administration in the dark about their inheritance, they said in previously unreported comments.
The Trump administration struck a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that set the conditions for a U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.