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'Everybody has a heart. Except some people,' Trump thread 90.

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lionheart · 19/01/2019 01:08

From Bette Davis, who was too canny to name names. Smile

Here is the old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3458456-Shutdowns-military-pullouts-and-resignations-it-s-Christmas-and-Trump-thread-89?watched=1&msgid=84240445#84240445

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TheClaws · 16/02/2019 04:10

Indeed (and make sure you click on the image for a sobering wake-up call).

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Chuck Schumer
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When @realDonaldTrump wanted his wall in December, he threw a temper tantrum and shut the government down, hurting 800,000 federal workers.

Now that the President is still not getting his wall, he thinks his temper tantrum should be a national emergency.

#FakeTrumpEmergency

'Everybody has a heart. Except some people,' Trump thread 90.
borntobequiet · 16/02/2019 07:01

Popping on to post this, one of many apparently along the border
www.cnbc.com/2019/02/16/texas-landowners-lawsuit-to-block-trump-national-emergency-declaration.html

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lionheart · 16/02/2019 09:28

[[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/15/white-house-sarah-sanders-interview-special-counsel]

'The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.'

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lionheart · 16/02/2019 09:35

Stone again.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/15/roger-stone-judge-issues-gag-order-on-trump-confidant-in-criminal-case

'“The government obtained and executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate the transfer of stolen documents for release, as well as to discuss the timing and promotion of their release,” Mueller’s team wrote in a filing to the US district court in Washington DC.

“Several of those search warrants were executed on accounts that contained Stone’s communications with Guccifer 2.0 and with Organization 1.”

Organization 1 is a reference to WikiLeaks, while Guccifer 2.0 is a hacker persona US intelligence agencies say was a cover name used by Russian military intelligence.'

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AcrossthePond55 · 16/02/2019 14:45

A gag order is going to kill Stone. He absolutely lives for the publicity and attention he's getting.

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lionheart · 16/02/2019 15:13

I think he's still using his Instagram account to bleat on ...

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 16/02/2019 18:41

Why is @IvankaTrump, a failed handbag salesperson, representing the United States on the issues of international treaties and nuclear science?

German Chancellor Merkel received a standing ovation after a speech rejecting U.S. demands that European allies pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Russia's foreign minister, a high-ranking Chinese official and Ivanka Trump pointedly stayed in their seats.
twitter.com/nytimes/status/1096816492694433792?s=21

Roussette · 16/02/2019 19:10

God alone knows NorthWest

Lweji · 16/02/2019 19:40

Ooh, I had missed the little thing about Mueller asking for 24 years for Manafort.

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lionheart · 16/02/2019 19:51

www.thefix.com/paul-manafort-depressed-jail-lawyers-say

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borntobequiet · 16/02/2019 20:00

I posted this on the Westminstenders thread but it is relevant here. Steve Bannon interfering in Italian politics, Christianity vs Darwinism. Ed Stourton reporting for From Our Own Correspondent BBC R4.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002kzj

PerkingFaintly · 16/02/2019 20:28

Thanks for that post born.

I think.

PerkingFaintly · 16/02/2019 20:29

I mean, I do really mean thanks.

But I'm going to have to listen to this now, aren't I?

I'll put throwables and breakables out of reach...

borntobequiet · 16/02/2019 20:49

Leave it until tomorrow and the light of day!

PerkingFaintly · 16/02/2019 20:53

You are a wise woman.Smile

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 16/02/2019 22:05

Did he actually have anything to say apart from

"I think there is a danger from people who live to the south of this country, so I am declaring a state of emergency"

??

TheNorthWestPawsage · 16/02/2019 22:43

Tit for tat.

Addressing U.S. allies at the Munich Security Conference, Mike Pence is met with silence as he tells the audience: "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump."
Video:
twitter.com/axios/status/1096783318799056897?s=21

And this photo gem is all over Twitter - people are concerned that Trump's good genes for orange skin seem to have gone awol whilst at the breakfast buffet.

'Everybody has a heart. Except some people,' Trump thread 90.
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 16/02/2019 23:08

He wears a hat to breakfast. Truly there is no limit to the awfulness of the fart.

TheClaws · 16/02/2019 23:17

‘Trump Claims Japanese Prime Minister Nominated Him For A Nobel Peace Prize - ‘He was also nominated in 2017 and 2018, but officials determined that both nominations were forged.‘

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Obama was in the White House for "about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize," Trump grumbled.

www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/trump-abe-nobel-peace-prize_n_5c67b7a3e4b033a79942d86d

TheClaws · 17/02/2019 01:08

The only people that believe this nonsense now are is deluded base. Tariffs are taxes on US companies. China does not pay anything. This tweet is meaningless. (Besides, he’s golfing at Mar-a-Lago, as shown by the omelette image a few posts above. NATIONAL EMERGENCY AT THE THIRD HOLE!)

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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Trade negotiators have just returned from China where the meetings on Trade were very productive. Now at meetings with me at Mar-a-Lago giving the details. In the meantime, Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!

Roussette · 17/02/2019 07:39

NorthWest I saw the Pence speech at Munich and can't stop watching that bit. Grin

“I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, (pause)....PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.”

Total silence. It seemed interminable. You could've heard a pin drop!

TheNorthWestPawsage · 17/02/2019 08:18

Trump's UN ambassador pick, Heather Nauert, withdraws from consideration
Former Fox News host says she is not going ahead with appointment for family reasons.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/17/trumps-next-un-ambassador-heather-nauert-withdraws-nomination?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

...Nauert said she was grateful to Trump and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, for “the trust they have placed in me for considering me for the position of US ambassador”.

“However, the past two months have been gruelling for my family and therefore it is in the best interest of my family that I withdraw my name from consideration,” Nauert said.

...With no policymaking or negotiating experience, and after 20 months as a spokeswoman for the state department, Nauert would have taken her seat on the UN security council alongside counterparts with decades of experience.

During Nauert’s tenure at the state department, press briefings went from being daily events to being held once or twice weekly. Nauert was mostly a polished and unflappable defender of administration policy, smoothing over frequent rifts between Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and the White House.

But her inexperience sometimes shone through: in June she cited the D-day landings as evidence of the longstanding relationship between Washington and Berlin.