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Post by cliffs on Sept 19, 2019 13:23:42 GMT
Trump tells reporters border wall is ‘wired’, immediately after army general asks him not to discuss in public
Donald Trump touted the robust construction of his border fence on a visit to southern California, but risked the ire of one of his top generals by revealing the barrier would be “wired” to detect attempts to breach it.
Flanked by engineers and the border patrol commissioner, the president talked up the steel-and-concrete fence’s technological elements during a press conference in San Diego.
He said: “They’re wired, so that we will know if somebody is trying to break through.”
Turning to Lt Gen Todd Semonite, chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Mr Trump added: “You may want to discuss that a little bit, general.”
But he was told: “Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing it.”
To nervous laughter from officials, Mr Trump continued: “Ok. I like that. That was a great answer. I’ll just tell you they’re wired, ok? They’re wired. They’re technologically very advanced, all set up for cameras any place we want.
“They’re all wired out for drone technology. Anything you want, we have.”
The fence posts themselves are steel tubes, filled with concrete and rebar and topped with flat panels. ”It’s the Rolls-Royce version,” Mr Trump said.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 19, 2019 15:08:51 GMT
Trump news – live: Fox News poll suggests president to lose in 2020, amid impeachment struggle and revelations of secret ‘promise’ to foreign leader
A new Fox News poll sees Donald Trump lagging behind his 2020 challengers as news breaks that a promise the president made during a phone call to a mystery foreign leader so troubled one US intelligence official that they felt compelled to file a whistleblower complaint.
The precise nature of the pledge is currently unknown, according to The Washington Post, but, despite the matter being deemed of “urgent concern”, the president’s acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has so far refused to pass it on to House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, even after a subpoena was issued.
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Post by gregfordyce on Sept 20, 2019 13:44:09 GMT
Trump promised the leader of Ukraine that if he dug up dirt on Trump's political opponent, Joe Biden, he would reward Ukraine with $250 million in military aid. This is known as "Treason" and is a massively impeachable offense. Game Changer - Impeachable Offense by President TrumpBUT - we all know that the Rethuglican Congress, 99.9% of Rethuglican Americans, and of course Trump's base will give precisely zero fucks about it. We also know that the do-nothing Dims will not impeach, and will probably waste another month or two issuing subpoenas and holding pointless hearings that will simply be ignored and result in nada. I really think this is what finally proves that we're done. Finished. When the President can commit blatantly impeachable offenses again and again and again in broad daylight and nobody cares, you don't have a democracy. And in my opinion, you don't have a country that is even worth saving. Let the thing burn. The world will be better off in the long run. |
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Post by ErixonStone on Sept 20, 2019 14:46:01 GMT
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Post by joegolferg on Sept 20, 2019 15:14:46 GMT
A slightly nuanced scenario to be fair as the corruption seems to be worse on the Bidens family behalf. Personally I see no problem in the asking authority in another country about why a corruption case was dropped against a potential presidential candidate. But if it can be proved that Trump had some sort of deal sorted that he would increase aid in return for certain information, then he is just as liable as Biden. You don't solve corruption with more corruption. I doubt anything will come of this for either of these two clowns. What you can't do is punish one and not the other.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 20, 2019 15:23:59 GMT
Impeach PAB and tell Biden he needs to drop out of the race. But our chicken shit Congress has no balls.
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Post by gregfordyce on Sept 20, 2019 17:04:16 GMT
Totally agree. If Biden is guilty of manipulating things concerning his son over there, then by all means let's hear about it, drop out, prosecute, whatever. But that is a far cry from the President of the United States using a quarter of a billion $ as leverage to get a foreign power to get negative information on his 2020 election opponent. Does anyone REALLY think Trump would have done any of this if the person was a Republican, and not his Democratic election opponent? Quite the opposite, he probably would have used the $250 million as leverage to PREVENT any investigation into the person by the Ukraine. One thing the Rethugs do is stick together.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 21, 2019 1:34:02 GMT
Instead, Trump claimed the allegations against him were lodged by a "partisan" intelligence official — despite acknowledging that he did not know the official's identity — and asserted that his exchanges with world leaders are "always appropriate."
He told reporters in the Oval Office that "it doesn't matter what I discussed" with the foreign leader but went on to say that "someone ought to look into Joe Biden."
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Post by cliffs on Sept 23, 2019 10:50:02 GMT
I will be shocked if this happens and who would be a respected source?
Anyone remember this:
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Post by cliffs on Sept 23, 2019 20:15:34 GMT
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump aired one of his oldest grievances at the United Nations on Monday: that it's unfair he never got the Nobel peace prize.
"I would get a Nobel prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don't," he complained.
Trump went on to raise the surprise awarding of the one of the world's most prestigious accolades in 2009 to his predecessor in the White House Barack Obama.
Obama was given the peace prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people," even though he had only just become president.
"They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency and he had no idea why he got it. You know what? That was the only thing I agreed with him on," Trump said.
The US president was speaking at a bilateral meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
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Post by paulus on Sept 23, 2019 23:09:48 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Sept 24, 2019 0:21:45 GMT
President Donald Trump might have violated election law when he urged his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Joe Biden, according to complaints filed by a campaign finance watchdog group.
Common Cause said that Trump, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and other political operatives solicited foreign nationals for campaign help when they asked Ukrainian authorities to reopen an investigation into largely discredited allegations against the Democratic front-runner and his son Hunter Biden.
Federal law prohibits foreign citizens from contributing money or other things of value to campaigns. It also bars candidates and their representatives from asking foreigners for such assistance.
Even if Trump did not offer a quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the form of U.S., merely asking for the inquiry to be reopened could violate federal law, the group said.
Common Cause filed its complaints with U.S. the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission. In addition to Trump and Giuliani, the complaints name Victoria Toensing, who was once considered for Trump’s legal team, and GOP donors Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman as participants in the effort to persuade Ukraine to aid Trump by investigating the Bidens.
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Post by cliffs on Sept 24, 2019 0:24:21 GMT
Trump also met Monday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the driving force behind the initial diplomacy that led to the first Trump-Kim meeting last year and defused war talk in 2017.
Moon said the Trump-Kim meeting at the Korean border in June was a "historic moment." Moon said he expects that negotiations between the United States and North Korea will resume soon and there will be another summit.
"I always marvel at your imagination and bold decision-making," Moon told Trump.
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Post by LKeet6 on Sept 24, 2019 7:38:34 GMT
the "trump might have broken 'x' law" thing" is becoming old now. I don't mean i disapprove of it, I just mean yeah, tell me something I don't know; he's breaking laws constantly, it would seem. His supporters do not give a fuck, and everyone else doesn't quite have the power to punish him for it...
Personally, i am fairly surprised Trump has never won the Nobel physics prize....
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Post by cliffs on Sept 24, 2019 10:56:29 GMT
And now it seems Johnson of the UK is a law breaker. Are these people that dumb to realize you can push the voters and the rest of the gov. for only so long before they bite back?
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