Quallcom is one of the very important USA suppliers of chips to ZTE. Trump does not care about chinese jobs being lost. He cares only about the big US businesses getting pissed off .

I would rephrase that as "The North Koreans are a lot more astute than their opponents"!

Trump has boasted so much about this
so it will be difficult for him to declare failure and walk away!

Trump's first mistake was to agree to a meeting without any preconditions. Now N. Korea have a good case that it is dirty dealing to try to add preconditions now.

Interesting strategy by N. Korea to attack John Bolton "We do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him" and so increase dissension in an already fractured White House!

Usually in this sort of situation the President would offer some sort of secret sweetener to N. Korea but in such a leaky White House it would become public very soon.

Nevertheless I hope they do manage to get it together with N. Korea.

Felix Ehrat, the senior lawyer for the Switzerland-based company Novartis , said Wednesday that he will leave next month, according to multiple reports.

Ehrat said that the $1.2 million payment to Cohen’s firm, which he co-signed, was an “error,” even though it was legal.

Ehrat’s departure comes just days after a top AT&T executive also stepped down. It was revealed that the telecommunications giant made $600,000 in payments to Cohen's firm, Essential Consultants.

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Wrong heads rolling....

Edit: Ehrat's job will be taken over by Shannon Thyme Klinge. This American lady was formerly the Novartis ethics chief so people are already asking how much was she involved with the deal with Cohen and what was her position on this?

Another nightmare week for Trump

First the N. Korea Kim plays hard to get

and now

Senate Intelligence panel investigating Trump Russian collusion breaks with House, says Russia sought to help Trump win in 2016!

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Meanwhile President Trump officially acknowledged for the first time that he paid his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, more than $100,000 in order to reimburse him for expenses he “incurred” in 2016.

Trump’s financial disclosure for 2017, released Wednesday by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), did not list the specific reason for the payment.

But Cohen has said he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about her accusations she had a sexual encounter with Trump.

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The Office of Government Ethics said the payment should have been included on the disclosure form Trump filed last year (2016) and flagged the omission in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (DOJ), in case he "may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry" the Justice Department is pursuing.


"more than $100,000" is quite a vague number and did not list the specific reason for the payment, if you were a conspiracy theorist you might think more ladies got some gravy

The Trump administration’s proposal to allow insurers to sell more limited, short-term plans would cost the federal government more money and impact more people than the administration previously estimated, according to a new federal report.

A report dated April 6 but released this week by Medicare's chief actuary found that due to the the short-term plans federal spending would increase by $1.2 billion in 2019, and $38.7 billion over the next 10 years.
The Trump administration estimated an increase of $96 million to $168 million a year.

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Donald Tusk slams Donald J. Trump by saying 'with friends like that who needs enemies'.

"He's made us realise if you need a helping hand you'll find one on the end of your arm"



Bravo!!!

Lot's of crazy stuff coming out today. But for a lighter moment, if you like Seth Meyers here is a "skit" he does as a reporter at the White House with SHS as press secretary.

And more shit from this criminal Trump. He calls emigrants " these animals ". The USA was built by emigrants. Someone should " take care " of Trump!


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/u...s-animals.html

immigrants not emigrants!

Some facts about Trump;
3 wives, all immigrants
Mother Scottish
Grandfather German

He is just rabble rousing!

That's funny. My mother is also Scottish and my great grandfather in German. What a coincidence. Where did he go wrong?

Lol, awesome decontextualization. It is amusing.

Before you, guys, get excited about next possible outrage, read the article. He was refering to criminals that yanks keep weeding out. MS-13. I do not think his grampa was in it.

It is almost Friday

Giuliani says FBI may have placed spy in Trump campaign
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SNL cast member: Trump faked a phone call about book sales. The claim is that during a meeting Trump pretended to get a phone call saying his book "Art of the Deal" was No. 1!

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Comically it seems at least two books about Trump (Authors Comey, Wolff) have far outsold Trump's book.

How is Marla Maples an immigrant? She was born in Georgia (the USA one) and I think her parents were both American-born, too.

Maybe that's where Trump went wrong. He thought he was marrying another Eastern bloc woman.

Unfortunately, USA has become just another country. We've seen that in Europe too but we're (sort of) expecting that. Even though USA was built by immigrants, apparently is not an immigration country anymore.

Well better to do what Israel does. Shoot them at the border. No questions asked!

So now it is OK to call criminals animals?
Don't forget all illegal immigrants are criminals because they are illegal immigrants and broke the immigration laws.

Some facts
MS-13 is well established in the U.S. and has many U.S. citizens in its ranks — people who can’t be denied entry based on their nationality, or deported.
In notable raids on MS-13 in 2015 and 2016, most of the people caught were found to be U.S. citizens.

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When Trump says "we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before" this is typical Trump rhetoric

According to the official US Govt. ICE statistics in 2017, 226,119 illegal aliens were removed; this is a lower number of removals than in any year during the Obama administration.

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There are no statistics about how many of the removals were MS-13 but since many of the gang members are US citizens it is not likely to be many.

Ooops, I will go and stand in the corner.
Anyway two out of three is not bad!

Did he?
It seems to lead to "headline talking".

The latest is he wants to change the name of State penitentiary to Zoo

And outside of the US.

Let me quote myself again, just for you, marton, context: Headline misinterpretting, rather.

Aren't we a creative bunch.