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Freeloading Rusty

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Trump says appointing Sessions was his biggest mistake
admitted in an interview aired Sunday that he views appointing Jeff Sessions as his attorney general was his “biggest mistake” as president and said if he had a do-over, he would have tapped someone else.

Trump was on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he made the comment. Sessions resigned last November—just after the midterms—after stark public criticism from the president. It was the height of the Mueller investigation and Trump was openly critical of Sessions decision to recuse himself from the probe in early 2017.

At one point, Trump said, “I don’t have an attorney general. It is very sad,” he said. Trump’s disappointment in Sessions was not limited to the Russia probe. He said he was not happy with “the border” and “numerous” other issues that Sessions’ office affected.
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Freeloading Rusty

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Trump questions why US protects oil shipping lanes for ‘zero compensation’
President Trump questioned why the United States is protecting oil shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz and suggested other countries should be picking up the tab for securing their vessels.

”China gets 91% of its Oil from the Straight, Japan 62%, & many other countries likewise. So why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries (many years) for zero compensation,” Trump said in two tweets about the matter on Monday, misspelling strait. “All of these countries should be protecting their own ships on what has always been a dangerous journey.”

In the other posting, he reiterated his demand that Iran not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

”We don’t even need to be there in that the U.S. has just become (by far) the largest producer of Energy anywhere in the world! The U.S. request for Iran is very simple – No Nuclear Weapons and No Further Sponsoring of Terror!” Trump said.
Trump calls on foreign countries to protect their own oil tankers
President Trump on Monday appeared to argue that the U.S. does not need to protect commerce in foreign waterways like the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting he's not concerned about Iranian activity there as long as Tehran does not develop a nuclear weapon.

The president, who has long expressed opposition to America's role as the world's police, tweeted that China and Japan are among the countries that get most of its oil via shipping through "the Straight," and called on them to protect their own vessels.

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"So why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries (many years) for zero compensation. All of these countries should be protecting their own ships on what has always been a dangerous journey," Trump tweeted.

"We don’t even need to be there in that the U.S. has just become (by far) the largest producer of Energy anywhere in the world!" Trump continued. "The U.S. request for Iran is very simple - No Nuclear Weapons and No Further Sponsoring of Terror!"

....a dangerous journey. We don’t even need to be there in that the U.S. has just become (by far) the largest producer of Energy anywhere in the world! The U.S. request for Iran is very simple - No Nuclear Weapons and No Further Sponsoring of Terror!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2019


Trump's tweet came as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to discuss how to counteract Iran's actions in the region.

In a since-deleted tweet, Pompeo said he had a "productive" meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia where they discussed "heightened tensions in the region and the need to promote maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz. Freedom of navigation is tantamount."

Saudi officials escort @SecPompeo to his plane after his talks with King Salman and Crown Prince MBS. Pompeo tweeted that they discussed "heightened tensions in the region and the need to promote maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz. Freedom of navigation is tantamount." pic.twitter.com/e9ZXgANNzE

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 24, 2019


The U.S. has blamed Iran for attacks last week on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, but Trump has downplayed the episode, calling it "very minor."

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have been rising since Trump pulled out of the Obama-era nuclear deal last year. The issue appeared to come to a head last week when Iran shot down a U.S. drone. The two sides have disputed whether it was flying in Iranian airspace.

The U.S. was prepared to launch a military strike in response, but Trump said he called it off after learning at the last minute that it would have killed approximately 150 Iranians.

The Trump administration is expected to announce additional sanctions on Iran on Monday.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Bernie Sanders Burns Trump on Iran Strike: ‘It’s Like Setting a Fire, Then Putting It Out’
During his appearance on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Sanders about Trump’s decision, saying, “Was President Trump’s decision this week to call of that strike the right one?”

Sanders chuckled at the question, then responded, “See, it’s like somebody setting a fire to a basket full of paper and then putting it out. He helped create the crisis and then he stopped the attacks. The idea that we’re looking at the president of the United States who number one, thinks that a war with Iran is something that might be good for this country.”

Brennan then countered, “He was just doing a limited strike of just a limited strike.”

To this, Sanders went into full-on Brooklyn sarcasm mode: “Oh, just a limited strike—well, I’m sorry. I just didn’t know that it’s okay to simply attack another country with bombs just a limited strike—that’s an act of warfare,” drawing out the sorry with all the Brooklyn he could muster.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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White House official once appeared on podcast whose host touted race pseudoscience and interviewed white nationalists
A senior official on President Donald Trump's National Security Council appeared on a podcast whose host has promoted claims that some races were less intelligent than others.
William Happer, a prominent climate change denier, joined the Trump administration in September 2018 as a senior director for emerging technologies on the National Security Council. In that role, Happer, an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton University, counsels national security adviser John Bolton on climate change issues.
A KFile review of Happer's public appearances reveals that in December of 2016, he appeared on Freedomain Radio, hosted by far-right YouTube personality Stefan Molyneux, who in the past has said that blacks were less intelligent than whites because of what he claimed were their differences in IQ. Though racial issues were not discussed, Happer did promote his skepticism about climate change during his appearance with Molyneux.
In the same week, Happer appeared at a conference organized by the conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin and on a YouTube channel that has pushed 9/11 conspiracy theories, showing Happer's willingness to be associated with prominent figures on the fringe.
Happer has a history of making controversial comments attacking established climate science. In 2014, Happer compared the "demonization" of carbon dioxide to the treatment of Jews under Adolf Hitler during an appearance on CNBC.
On Molyneux's podcast in 2016, Happer criticized climate scientists by saying they tinkered with models to get the data to line up to prove their theory. Happer said the scientific community was motivated by tribalism and threatened by theories different from their own.
Happer also compared the science of the climate change to the consensus around the eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. Supporters of the movement believed people inherited things like criminality and mental illness and that these traits could be bred out of the population.
"When you keep hearing about scientific consensus it doesn't mean anything," he said. "There have been scientific consensuses many times in the past. Most of the time they were wrong. A good example of that was the consensus around eugenics. In the early 1900s when there were all these studies, every one of them show that the master race was good old white Anglo Saxon America."
"And so we had these restrictive immigration laws to keep out these low IQ Chinamen, and eastern Europeans, and Italians - that was all nonsense. It was fabricated data, but all the best and brightest people in America subscribed to it," he added. "The presidents of Ivy League universities, Alexander Graham Bell. You couldn't hold your head up if you didn't support eugenics in those days. That was, you know, 1900, 1910, 1920 and it was simply fraud and yet, no, nobody seemed to recognize it was fraud."
Molyneux's podcast has repeatedly hosted a number of far-right and white nationalist figures including Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow, the creator of the white nationalist website VDare. He has also hosted Faith Goldy, who has questioned if Canada faced a "white genocide" and who was fired from a far-right website after appearing on a neo-Nazi podcast. Lauren Southern, a far-right activist with a history of anti-Islam comments who was denied entry to the United Kingdom, has also appeared on the podcast.
CNN did not find Happer pushed those controversial views himself and in an email to CNN Happer said his appearances were not endorsement of the views of others at Griffin's conference or of Molyneux.
"Over the years I've been asked to discuss my views on climate at a number of venues," Happer told CNN in an email. "My appearances are in no way an endorsement of the host, or of other speakers, particularly on issues not related to climate science."
The December 2016 conference that Happer spoke at, "The Real Inconvenient Truth; More CO2 Benefits the Earth," was put on Freedom Force International, an organization founded in 2002 by Griffin, who has denied the existence of HIV by calling it "a fraud" and advocates conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Other speakers at the conference claimed that the government could control the weather and that the United Nations' Agenda 21 would usurp the American way of life and that scientists were trying to destroy capitalism and national sovereignty. Agenda 21 is a non-binding United Nations plan for sustainable development to combat climate change worldwide that has become the subject of conspiracy theories.
Happer argued in his speech that carbon emissions would be "beneficial" to the planet and help agriculture because plants struggled to grow with low carbon dioxide levels and greater amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere would help crops.
At the conference, Happer also spoke with World Alternative Media, a YouTube channel that has pushed conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and claimed the government was hiding the cure for cancer and leading a eugenics program to prevent people from staying healthy. In an interview about his talk, Happer said, "The world is made of carbon and to talk about reducing your carbon footprint, that means reducing the footprint of life."
"Why would we want to do reduce the footprint of life? Strikes me as very wrong-headed," Happer said.
 

Thuglife13

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yeah she just failed to mention it when the other fake bitches were claiming they got raped right before the 2016 election. now she has a book to sell and the next election is kicking off .sounds like some gloria allred bullshit to me
Yee and she can't keep her story straight about pressing charges. First she said it was disrespectful to immigrants being raped and now on CNN she's saying it's due to the statue of limitations. Even after being told she can still do so in New York she's basically like "well I'll think about it"...

YIKES: CNN Interview With Trump Rape Accuser Goes Off The Rails
 

jason73

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so trump just walks in to bergdorf goodman department store and whips his dick out and 2 pumps this chick in the change room and goes on his merry way? sounds legit lol
 

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so trump just walks in to bergdorf goodman department store and whips his dick out and 2 pumps this chick in the change room and goes on his merry way? sounds legit lol
You know what I found the most odd? A 50 something year old back in the 90’s wearing tights. She’s a crazy cat lady with her filter long gone. We have these types down here. They tend to live by the beach.
 

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran, targets supreme leader
US President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that targets Iran's supreme leader and associates with additional financial sanctions.

Trump said the action follows a series of aggressions by Iran, including last week's downing of an unmanned US surveillance drone.

Tensions between the United States and Iran that have grown since May, when Washington ordered all countries to halt imports of Iranian oil.

The targets of the new sanctions include senior military figures in Iran, blocking their access to any financial assets under US jurisdiction. They also work to deny Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's and his close aides' access to money and support.

Trump said the supreme leader and his associates were ultimately responsible for what the US president called "the hostile conduct of the regime".

"Sanctions imposed through the executive order ... will deny the supreme leader and the supreme leader's office, and those closely affiliated with him and the office, access to key financial resources and support," Trump said.

Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Tehran, said the decision to sanction the supreme leader would likely not have much effect.

"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not left Iran in over 30 years since he was president in 1989. The last time he left Iran was on a state visit to China in April 1989," she said.

The Al Jazeera correspondent said the announcement that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would be sanctioned by the end of this week has come as a surprise here in Iran.

"Zarif is a career diplomat who lived in the US. He was at the UN for many years. He is known as the face of the Islamic Republic on the international stage."

Zarif: US 'B-Team' wants war, not diplomacy
Responding to the sanctions announcement, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif tweeted that hawkish politicians close to Trump were thirsty for war rather than diplomacy.

"@realDonaldTrump is 100% right that the US military has no business in the Persian Gulf. Removal of its forces is fully in line with interests of US and the world. But it's now clear that the #B_Team is not concerned with US interests - they despise diplomacy, and thirst for war," he tweeted.

Zarif has in the past said that a so-called "B-team" including Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton - an ardent Iran hawk, and conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could goad Trump into a conflict with Tehran.

Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said the latest US sanctions against Iran showed that Washington did not respect international law.

Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said Monday that conditions were not ripe for a dialogue with the new US sanctions.

The US decision to impose more sanctions is another indication that the United States "has no respect for international law and order," Ravanchi told reporters at the UN.

Iran said earlier on Monday US cyberattacks on its military had failed, as Washington sought to rally support in the Middle East and Europe for a hardline stance that has brought it to the verge of conflict with its longtime foe.

Washington has blamed Tehran for attacks on tankers in the Gulf in recent weeks, which Iran denies. On Monday, the US said it was building a coalition with allies to protect Gulf shipping lanes.

Iran-US tensions: All the latest updates
A coalition of nations would provide both material and financial contributions to the programme, a senior US State Department official said, without identifying the countries.

"It's about proactive deterrence, because the Iranians just want to go out and do what they want to do and say hey we didn't do it. We know what they've done," the official told reporters, adding that the deterrents would include cameras, binoculars and ships.

The US accuses Iran of encouraging allies in Yemen to attack Saudi targets.

'Destabilising peace'
In a joint statement on Monday, the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Britain expressed concern over Middle East tensions and the dangers posed by Iranian "destabilising activity" to peace and security in Yemen and the region.

The confrontation between Iran and the US heated up last Thursday when Iran shot down a US military drone, saying it had flown over its airspace.

Washington, which said the drone was in international skies, appeared to come close to attacking Iranian military targets, with Trump saying that he aborted a retaliatory air attack 10 minutes before it was to go ahead.

Trump said he decided the attack could have possibly killed too many people.

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Iran denies being hit by US cyberattack
US media have reported that Washington launched cyberattacks last week even as Trump called off his air raid. The Washington Post said on Saturday that the cyberstrikes, which had been planned previously, had disabled Iranian rocket launch systems. US officials have declined to comment.

Iran dismissed the cyberattacks as a failure.

"They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack," Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran's minister for information and communications technology, said on Twitter.

"Media asked if the claimed cyberattacks against Iran are true," he said. "Last year we neutralised 33 million attacks with the [national] firewall."

Fears of war
US allies have been calling for steps to defuse the crisis, saying they fear a small mistake by either side could trigger war.

"We are very concerned. We don't think either side wants a war, but we are very concerned that we could get into an accidental war and we are doing everything we can to ratchet things down," British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo jetted to the Middle East to discuss Iran with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Pompeo met King Salman as well as the king's son, de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Trump says he is not 'looking for war' as he prods Iran for talks
The US special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, visited Oman and was headed to Europe to explain US policy to allies. He told European reporters on a phone call before his arrival that Trump was willing to sit down with Iran, but that Iran must do a deal before sanctions could be lifted.

US-Iran relations have deteriorated over the past year since the US abandoned a 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers designed to curb Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions.

US allies in Europe and Asia view Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear deal as a mistake.

France, Britain and Germany have sent an official diplomatic warning to Iran if Tehran reduces its compliance with the accord, two European diplomats said on Monday.

It was not immediately clear what consequences Iran might face for non-compliance.

Washington argues that the agreement known as the JCPOA, negotiated under Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, did not go far enough, and new sanctions are needed to force Iran back to the table to make more concessions.

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View from Tehran's streets: US, Iran playing 'childish dare game'
Both sides have suggested they are willing to hold talks while demanding the other side move first. In the latest comment from Tehran, an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeated a long-standing demand that Washington lift sanctions before any talks.

But the adviser, Hesameddin Ashena, also tweeted a rare suggestion that Iran could be willing to discuss new concessions, if Washington were willing to put new incentives on the table that go beyond those in the deal.

"If they want something beyond the JCPOA, they should offer something beyond the JCPOA; with international guarantees," he said.

Trump believes he doesn't need congressional approval to strike Iran
President Donald Trump doesn't believe he needs congressional approval to make a military strike against Iran, but he likes "the idea of keeping Congress abreast.""I do like keeping them -- they have ideas, they're intelligent people, they'll have some thoughts. I actually learned a couple of things the other day when we had our meeting with Congress, but I do like keeping them abreast, but I don't have to do it legally," the President said Monday in an interview with The Hill
 
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lol US on the brink of unleashing a new WAR with another country, and this is what the MSM focuses on

I'm telling you this is a scripted soap opera sideshow circus