NYT responds to Trump tweet about 'fake news' meeting with publisher A.G. Sulzberger

HuffPost US          HAYLEY MILLER      July  29th 2018 
The New York Times hit back at President Donald Trump’s tweet Sunday that described his recent meeting with the newspaper’s publisher A.G. Sulzberger.

Trump had tweeted that he had “a very good and interesting” meeting with Sulzberger, the sixth member of his family to serve as publisher since they purchased the Times in 1896.

“Spent much time talking about the vast amount of Fake News being put out by the media,” tweeted Trump, who has frequently ― and falsely ― accused the legacy paper of publishing what he calls “fake news.”
Donald J. Trump
 

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 Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, “Enemy of the People.” Sad!

Soon after, the Times weighed in with additional context about the exchange.
The White House asked Sulzberger to meet with Trump earlier this month, Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Times, told HuffPost in an email Sunday. 

“This was not unusual; there has been a long tradition of New York Times publishers holding such meetings with presidents and other public figures who have concerns about coverage,” Murphy wrote.

On July 20, Sulzberger and James Bennet, the editor of the Times’ editorial page, met with Trump at the White House, according to Murphy. Though Trump’s aides requested the meeting be off the record, Trump’s tweet Sunday put the meeting “on the record,” allowing for Sulzberger to respond, she said.

“My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric,” Sulzberger said in a statement to HuffPost. “I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”

“I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he he felt our coverage was unfair,” he added. “Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.”

Read the full statement below :            

My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.

I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.

I told him that although the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists “the enemy of the people.” I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.

I repeatedly stressed that this is particularly true abroad, where the president’s rhetoric is being used by some regimes to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalists. I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press.

Throughout the conversation I emphasized that if President Trump, like previous presidents, was upset with coverage of his administration he was of course free to tell the world. I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair. Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.

This is a developing story. 'AS The Stomach Turns'

Cartoon : The top secret , true story of the Trump - Putin meeting

 Rubin Bolling    Community   July 26 , 2018

Why is the Trumpet still in office?
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Witchy
From the  the desk of Witchy :

When are the morons that keep supporting the big Moron in the White House going to wake up to the facts that we have a Dictator wannabe as President. He is corrupt, a liar, has committed treason, called our government liars, he cheats, he only cares about putting money in his pocket. He hates the GOP, he hates anyone who isn’t wealthy, which is 98 per cent of us. He is not well educated, he has no clue to how to act or run our government or country.  He acts like a child when he thinks of something he wants to change, he has no clue as to how it will affect other people, our country, our economy. And when he says we are thanking him enough for what he has done, I truly want to get sick, just thinking about what a narcissistic moron he really is.

As Judge Judy says, “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and acts like a duck, it must be a duck”. Trump is a moron that, “ looks like a moron, walks like a moron and acts like a moron, he must be a moron”! Get rid of the moron!
Since Trump the  UN-AMERICN EXTRAORDINAIR, why has NO ONE demanded that Congress, in the interest of fairness, demands that the final report by the Special Prosecutor includes a COMPLETE MEDICAL REPORT on this failure of a President?

How much has the White House/President spent on hush-money as compared to medical expenses related to physical, mental, and genito-cerebral afflictions?
 I will tell you why  , because there is such a glutton of Wimpy Cowardly Bastards in Congress on both sides.  When confronted with documentation to the contrary people get very angry and hostile. They want to believe whatever fits into their comfort zone regardless of how absurd it is. Less challenging , mentally.

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen caught discussing Karen McDougal payment on tape

 HuffPost US          DOHA MADANI         July 24th 2018 
A tape of President Donald Trump and his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen discussing a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump, aired on CNN Tuesday night.

Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis appeared on CNN with Chris Cuomo to discuss the tape, recorded in September 2016. Davis claims Trump wanted to use cash to pay for McDougal’s story. Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor now part of the president’s legal team, told CNN that Trump said he did not want to pay with cash. 

“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David,” Cohen said in the recording, likely referring to American Media head David Pecker, who bought McDougal’s story. 

Cohen and Trump then discuss financing to set up the company to pay for McDougal’s story, and the audio recording becomes less clear. 

Trump can be heard asking “What financing?” followed by the phrase “pay with cash.” The recording is not high-quality, and it is unclear what Trump says before “pay with cash.” 
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 Full audio: Presidential candidate Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording " McDougal filed a lawsuit in March asking to be freed from a legal agreement she entered with AMI for the exclusive rights to her claims that she had a 2006 affair with Trump. The former Playboy model was unaware that Pecker had a relationship with Trump when she sold her story to AMI’s National Enquirer, which never ran the article. The practice of obtaining exclusive rights to tabloid stories without intent to publish is referred to as a “catch and kill.”

The recording that aired on CNN Tuesday seemingly refers to repaying Pecker for McDougal’s story through a company, though the recording is sometimes hard to understand.

Cohen’s recording was seized during an FBI raid of the lawyer’s New York office earlier this year. The agency has been investigating Cohen for a payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who also claimed to have had an affair with the president in 2006 and was paid for her silence during the presidential campaign. 

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

Witchy sez :
What a classy president we have.  The world is laughing at us.  Republicans who rebut this with anti Obama lingo, the world loves Obama;s class, intelligence and integrity.  Integrity is a big word for Republicans  and worse, his defender clowns keep on defending him
The 'ORANGEweak #45 has been low all of his life ........HeHe

Gunman dead after injuring 12, killing two, in Toronto

Thomson Reuters     
 DENNY THOMAS AND BRENDAN O'BRIEN
TORONTO, July 23 (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on a Toronto street filled with people in restaurants late on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 12 others, including a young girl, authorities said. The suspected shooter was later found dead.

The girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said.

"We are looking at all possible motives ... and not closing any doors," Saunders told reporters at the site of the shooting.

Paramedics, firefighters and police converged on the scene in Toronto's east end.

Police said the gunman used a handgun. Earlier reports said nine people had been shot.

The gunfire on Danforth Avenue in the city's Greektown neighborhood began at 10 p.m. local time (0200 GMT Monday), the Special Investigations Unit said, adding that the gunman walked down the busy avenue firing at groups of people.

Danforth is filled with restaurants and a family-friendly night life.

The gunman, a 29-year-old man, exchanged fire with police, fled and was later found dead, according to the Special Investigations Unit, which investigates deaths and injuries involving police.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter on Monday, "The people of Toronto are strong, resilient and brave - and we’ll be there to support you through this difficult time."

Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters the city has a gun problem, with weapons too readily available to too many people. Tory is expected to brief city councilors on Monday morning.

Toronto is grappling with a sharp rise in gun violence this year. Deaths from gun violence has jumped 53 percent to 26 so far in 2018 from the same period last year, police data last week showed, with the number of shootings rising 13 percent.

Toronto has deployed about 200 police officers since July 20 in response to the recent spate in shootings, which city officials have blamed on gang violence.

In April, a driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians.

 How about those stricter gun laws Canada? How is that working out for ya? At some point these nations will realize that law abiding citizens don't need gun control, it is the criminals and they are the ones that don't care about regulation. Canada can regulate all they want, like the US, but the criminals always find a way.
The Mayor said they have a "gun problem" ..... Got that right!  The criminals have guns and the decent, law abiding citizens are disarmed.  That's a problem.
Just saying 

Watch very closely

 

 

Our world,  international community, values and honor are  morphing along with them

PuPu and the puppet

 

 

By Sean Illing

 

Mikhail Fishman is the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Times, an English-language weekly newspaper published in Moscow. The paper is well-known for its criticisms of Russian President Vladimir Putin; indeed, it was targeted twice in 2015 by Russian hackers and has been attacked repeatedly by pro-Kremlin pundits.

A Russian citizen and an outspoken critic of Putin, Fishman has covered Russian politics for more than 15 years. For the last couple of years, he has monitored the increasingly bizarre relationship between Putin and Trump, with a particular focus on Putin’s strategic aims.

In this interview, originally conducted in February 2017, I ask Fishman how Trump is perceived in Russia, why Putin is actively undermining global democracy, and what Russia hopes to gain from the political disorder in America.

Sean Illing

From your perch in Moscow, how do you see this strange relationship between Putin and Trump?

Mikhail Fishman

It is strange. It looks a bit irrational on Trump's part to be sure. Why does he have this strange passion for Putin and Russia? I have to say, I don't believe in the conspiracy theories about "golden showers" and blackmailing. I don't believe it exists and I don't believe it's a factor. But this, admittedly, makes the whole thing that much stranger.

Sean Illing

You’re obviously referencing the explosive Trump dossier published by Buzzfeed in January. What makes you so skeptical of the claims in that dossier?

Mikhail Fishman

Two things. One, I've been a political journalist for 15 years working and dealing with sources in Russia and elsewhere. And frankly, a lot of this appears shallow to me. I'm sure Russia has plenty of dirt on Trump, but I can't accept without hard evidence much of the what I've heard or read.

Second, this still has the ring of a conspiracy theory, this idea that the Kremlin has blackmailed Trump into submission. I'm generally opposed, on principle, to conspiracy theorizing. So I'm just skeptical until there's concrete evidence.

Sean Illing

Let’s talk about Trump and Putin as individuals. How are they different? How are they similar?

Mikhail Fishman

I would prefer to talk about how they're different, because those differences are so obvious and extreme. They come from very different worlds. Putin is an ex-Soviet intelligence officer with all that that implies. Trump is a colorful American businessman and showman.

In their habits, they're radically different. Trump is a posturing performer, full of idiotic narcissism. He appears to be a disorganized fool, to be honest. Putin, on the other hand, is calculating, organized, and he plans everything. He also hides much of his personal life in a way that Trump does not.

Then there's also the fact that Putin is so much more experienced than Trump. He has more than 15 years of global political experience. He knows how to do things, how to work the system. He makes plenty of mistakes, but he knows how to think and act. Trump is a total neophyte. He has no experience and doesn't understand how global politics operates. He displays his ignorance every single day.

Sean Illing

What is the perception of Trump in Russia? Is he seen as an ally, a foe, a stooge?

Mikhail Fishman

The vision of Trump is basically shaped by the Kremlin and their propaganda machine — that's what they do. During the election campaign, Trump was depicted not as an underdog but as an honest representative of the American people who was being mistreated by the establishment elites and other evil forces in Washington.

Sean Illing

The Kremlin knew that to be bullshit, right? This was pure propaganda, not sincere reporting, and it was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.

Mikhail Fishman

Of course. All of it was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton. Putin expected Trump to lose, but the prospect of a Clinton victory terrified him, and he did everything possible to undermine her.

Sean Illing

Why was he so afraid of a Clinton victory?

Mikhail Fishman

Because he knew that would mean an extension of Obama's harsh orientation to Russia, perhaps even more aggressive than Obama. Putin has experienced some difficult years since his 2014 invasion of Crimea, but he didn't expect this level of isolation. He saw — and sees — Trump as an opportunity to change the dynamic.

Sean Illing

A lot of commentators here believe the most generous interpretation of Trump’s fawning orientation to Putin and Russia is that he’s hopelessly naïve. Do you buy that?

Mikhail Fishman

That's a good question. Why does he like Putin so much? I think Trump sees Putin as a kind of soulmate. Let's be honest: Trump is not a reflective person. He's quite simple in his thinking, and he's sort of attracted to Putin's brutal forcefulness. If anything, this is what Trump and Putin have in common.

Sean Illing

Has Putin made a puppet of Trump?

Mikhail Fishman

Of course. This is certainly what the Kremlin believes, and they’re acting accordingly. They're quite obviously playing Trump. They consider him a stupid, unstrategic politician. Putin is confident that he can manipulate Trump to his advantage, and he should be.

Sean Illing

In other words, Trump’s a useful idiot to them?

Mikhail Fishman

Exactly. The Kremlin is limited in their knowledge about what's going on in Washington, but they see the chaos and the confusion in Trump's administration. They see the clumsiness, the inexperience. Naturally, they're working to exploit that.

 Trump at the Smithsonian

 

Sean Illing

What’s the long geopolitical play for Putin? What does he hope to gain from the disorder in America?

Mikhail Fishman

The first thing he wants and needs is the symbolic legitimization of himself and Russia as a major superpower and world player that America has to do deal with as an equal. He wants to escape the isolation of Russia on the world stage, which was what the campaign in Syria was all about. Putin has grand ambitions for himself and for Russia, and nearly every move he makes is animated by this.

Sean Illing

How much of this, from Putin’s perspective, is about discrediting democracy as such?

Mikhail Fishman

He didn't believe Trump would win, so he was preparing to sell Clinton's victory as a fraud. And this is part of his broader message across the board, which is that democracy itself is flawed, broken, unjust. Putin actually believes this. He doesn't believe in democracy, and this is the worldview that he basically shares with Trump: that the establishment is corrupt and that the liberal world order is unjust.

Sean Illing

But Putin’s interest in undermining democracies across the globe is about much more than his personal disdain for this form of government. He wants to point to the chaos in these countries and say to his domestic audience, “You see, democracy is a sham, and it doesn’t work anywhere.” That serves as a justification for his own anti-democratic policies. In the end, it’s about reinforcing his own power.

Mikhail Fishman

That's true. But again, this what Putin really believes. He does not believe a true and just democracy exists anywhere. This is the worldview they've been spinning for years and they've really internalized it.

For Putin, this is very much a zero-sum game. The West is the enemy. America is the enemy. Whatever you can do to damage the enemy, you do it. The more unrest there is in America, the better positioned Russia is to work its will on the world stage. He wants to divide democratic and European nations in order to then play those divisions to his advantage.

Sean Illing

A pervasive concern in this country is that Trump admires Putin’s strongman authoritarianism, and seeks to replicate it in America. Do you think this concern is well-founded?

Mikhail Fishman

I think it is. Again, it comes to back what Trump and Putin have in common. They're both male chauvinists. Trump probably admires the fact that Putin is the kind of guy who feels the need to ride horses shirtless; it appeals to his authoritarian instincts. But this is about much more than imagery.

They are both illiterate people in a way. They're not widely educated. They do not believe in institutions. They see democratic institutions as burdens, impediments to their will. They don't believe that social and political life should be sophisticated; they think it should be simple.

And this sort of thinking naturally concludes in one-man rule. I think Trump will fail, but there’s no doubt that he shares these authoritarian impulses with Putin.



Brother of Canada's Notorious Rob Ford becomes Ontario's Premier

 

Doug Ford is a Trump fan, but can he "make Ontario great again"?

 Doug Ford - the brother of late Toronto mayor Rob Ford - is the new premier of Ontario. Who is this populist politician taking the reins of Canada's most populous province?
In 2010,  his brother, Rob Ford rode a wave of support from the city's suburbs straight into the mayor's office of Toronto.
His vow to end government waste and the disrespect of taxpayers resonated with the so-called "Ford Nation", a coalition of voters who felt ignored by the decision-makers downtown.
Trailing along behind him came his older brother, Doug Ford, who was elected as city councillor and who championed his brother's proposals to cut city waste - to "stop the gravy train" to city hall.

Rob Ford's tenure as mayor of Canada's largest city was tumultuous, most notably marked by his admission to using crack cocaine while in office. He also got wasted drunk on many occasions in public. Toronto's citizens often turned a blind eye to Rob's excesses because he was a popular figure,
During those raucous four years, between 2010-14, Doug Ford proved more than willing to jump into the fray to defend his brother against the critics and speculation about the mayor's drug use and drinking.

 



Arguing with someone in city council

 

On Friday, Doug Ford was sworn-in as the premier of Ontario - one of the most powerful political positions in Canada - after running a successful campaign for the centre-right Progressive Conservative (PC) party. 

He won the election for Ontario, home to Canada's industrial heartland and its most populous province, with a very similar message to that of his late brother's: the party is over with the taxpayers' money.

His win leaves some who worked alongside the brothers in Toronto speculating what life might be like under a Doug Ford government.  City councillor John Filion sat behind Mr Ford in city council chambers for four years, and recalls the 53-year-old businessman as being funny and "very affable" when they would go for lunch together. That changed back in city council chambers.

"He can be friendly one minute in a social context and then want to knock your block off the next in a political context," says Mr Filion, who wrote a book about the Fords, 'The Only Average Guy'.

Mr Ford, who once described himself to Mr Filion as a "scrapper", is unlikely to back down from a brawl now that he's graduated from city hall to Ontario's legislature.

                Doug Ford with wife and two of his four daughters

 

Mr Ford is known for his plain-speaking style and frequent attacks on media and the elites whom he once described as "drinking champagne with their pinkies in the air".
During his time as city councillor, he fought publicly with acclaimed author Margaret Atwood over proposed library cuts; accused the city's former police chief of leaking information about Rob Ford to journalists - later apologising under threat of a defamation suit; and told fellow councillors "Why don't you shut up and sit down?"
His campaign for Ontario was unapologetically populist. ( someone who appeals to working class people, who feels their needs are ignored  by elite politicians)

He vowed to end government waste, promised to fight for "the little guy", to cut energy cost, reduce the price of oil and gasoline, lower provincial income tax and slash the price of beer ( a real crowd pleaser.)

Ford Nation lives on

It's a message that resonated with the 40.5% of Ontario voters who cast ballots for PC candidates, giving them 76 of the 124 seats in the province.
"People  say 'populism' like it's some sort of awful thing," his campaign director Michael Diamond complained
"There's no shame in a government for the people and by the people. It's their money, it's their province and so it should work for them."
 His background ... coming from a well to do family … becoming president of his father's company, as well as his brand of politics and brash demeanor have invited comparisons to Donald Trump.  Mr Ford has indeed voiced his personal support for the American leader.

Mr Filion says he sees similarities between the two politicians in the "need for attention, the us versus them [mentality], the inability to see things from anyone else's perspective, the feeding of the [political] base, the antagonism towards anyone who says anything negative about them".
Others have pointed out he can be light on facts.
On the campaign trail, Mr Ford frequently touted that "we saved the taxpayers over $1.16bn"during his time at city hall - a figure widely disputed by fact checkers who suggested the former mayor and his team actually saved the city some $893million.
He was also dogged by family chaos during the campaign. His brother's widow, Renata, filed a lawsuit alleging Doug and another brother, Randy, had mismanaged the family business and mishandled her late husband Rob's estate. Both men have strongly denied the claims, which have not been tested in court.
Ford Nation, the dedicated political base that fuelled the rise of both Rob and Doug Ford, make up about 5% of the province's voters, says Mr Coletto.
"There is not a real clear demographic, or regional or even socio-economic profile of them," he says.
What unifies them is an affinity for the Ford family, a sense that politics and society have become too politically correct, and that there's a "condescending elite class that has lost touch with ordinary folks".
The PC campaign was given a boost outside its core support in the 7 June election by widespread voter fatigue with the Liberal Party, which had been in power in Ontario for 15 years.
"There was a great desire for change, a growing angst among a higher income segment of the electorate who felt life was getting way too expensive," says Mr Coletto.
"Ford appealed to voters who just wanted some relief."
The new premier will face hurdles in his promises of prosperity. The province's economy is most at risk in Canada if the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations with the US turn sour.
Mr Ford has said he stands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on trade matters and rising protectionism.
While some economists have praised some of his commitments, including a planned corporate tax reduction, others have raised concerns about the potential cost of his plans.

 Ford is against the carbon tax

 

Mr Ford's win riled up progressive activists in the province, who are already planning to fight against any public sector job losses, the premier-elect's promise to hold the minimum wage at $14 per hour, his plan to revise the province's sex-education curriculum, and his vow to challenge the federal government's planned carbon tax. He's already stirring the cauldron and upsetting people.

On election night, as it became clear Ford was headed to victory, one left-leaning Toronto city councillor exclaimed,
"He'll enjoy poking a stick at anything the lefties hold near and dear," 
"And he'll just love that we're out there marching and carrying placards against him.
"It'll be a sign that things are working as they should."

The Putin 'offer' to Trump is an effort to expose Russian leakers—and kill them

Hunter             Daily Kos Staff            Dartagnan          Community        Tuesday July 17, 2018
Yes, Republicans, Trump Is In Fact A Corrupt, Traitorous Russian Tool. But You Knew That.
The Puppet and his Master.
 David Remnick from the New Yorker on the remarkable events over the last 24 hours::

Trump’s penchant for bald deception and incoherence is not an aberration. It is his daily practice. The vague sense of torpor and gloom that so many Americans have shouldered these past two years derives precisely from the constancy of Trump’s galling statements and actions.

And yet what happened in Helsinki on Monday will not be so easily forgotten. Just as the President’s comments following the torchlit white-supremacist march last year in Charlottesville made it clear that racism was at the core of his character and his political strategy, the contemptible remarks he delivered alongside of Vladimir Putin seemed to mark a turning point, even for some of his most ardent defenders. In the course of a single European journey, Trump set out to humiliate the leaders of Western Europe and declare them “foes”; to fracture long-standing military, economic, and political alliances; and to absolve Russia of its attempts to undermine the 2016 election. He did so clearly, repeatedly, and with conviction. Republicans in Congress (but not enough of them) and a selection of commentators on Fox News declared that Trump’s performance in Helsinki had been disgraceful.

One of the hardest things for any human being to admit is that he/she was wrong. It’s a kick in the stomach. It basically amounts to admitting you’re a fool. You’ve been snookered. You’ve been taken.

If any Republican voter could validly claim that excuse, I’d be happy to listen. But I probably wouldn’t believe it.

Republicans—and by that I mean every single person who voted for this person-- knew what they were buying into already. They winked at the racism, chortled at the misogyny, and pulled that lever anyway because they wanted to stick it to the rest of Americans who were forced to watch in silent horror at this abomination to our Democracy. When Hillary Clinton brought up the fact that Trump was a Russian puppet, they laughed and laughed.

Some of them were acting out on their worst impulses. Some of them were all about “shaking things up.”  Some of them were all about “abortion” or that some brown or black person was going to be allowed to get a big-screen TV and maybe raise a family just like them. Maybe some of them thought that the American experiment was just a means of “entertainment.” And for some of them, maybe it still is.

They just didn’t care. Didn’t give a damn about the rest of the country. Didn’t care about their own children’s futures, for that matter. All they cared about was themselves.

They just never dreamed their chosen Leader’s utter betrayal of all things American would be so nakedly obvious that he’d sell his own country out in front of a billion sets of eyes across the world.

But here we are. We’re stuck with a traitor in the White House.  One beholden to a man whom historians believe came to power by blowing up an apartment complex full of people.

Because you put him there.

You own this, Republicans, whatever your “reasons” were.  Maybe this is the “new normal” for you. I just hope you can justify that to your children.

Those of us who actually care about the country will see you on November 6.

Bye

Helsinki will never be the same

 



Putin's poodle: Trump sells out U.S. intelligence agencies with the world watching

By DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD
Before the entire world Monday, the self-styled tough-guy, America-First President revealed himself to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s poodle.

Putin flatly denied what every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded, what new indictments by Special Counsel Robert Mueller now underline: That agents of the GRU, the intelligence agency Putin used to work for and still leads, spearheaded 2016 presidential election interference.

The Russian president counters the mountain of evidence with an empty and robotic assertion: “the Russian State has not interfered and will never interfere in internal American affairs.”

Associated Press reporter — and Daily News alum — Jonathan Lemire gave Trump a binary choice: “who do you believe?”

At first, the man it pains us to say is our President refused to answer the question. He attacked Democrats for losing the election and dissembled, weaving together bits of conspiracy theories. Then he got down to brass tacks: He believes Putin.

Trump gets chance to stand firm against Putin — and completely blows it »
“Coats said they think it’s Russia,” Trump said, referring to his director of national intelligence. “Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be” Russia.

That sound you hear is the head of the U.S. executive branch stabbing his intelligence agencies in the back in order to side, against all evidence, alongside the leader of a country that meddled in an American election and wants to do it again.

Trump, in fact, blessed Putin as “extremely strong and powerful” in his denial — words he would never assign to the reams of proof compiled by the top four American intelligence agencies — and talked up the Russian president’s “incredible offer” to have his own agents review what U.S. officials have found.

He derides reports with which he disagrees as “fake news,” then buys the Russian narrative hook, line, sinker, pole and boat.

Ignorant about decades of Moscow meddling, from the Korean and Vietnam Wars, to Cuba and Eastern Europe, Trump says relations have “NEVER been worse.” Worse than the ignorance is the finger-pointing: He blames “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt.”

Reporter forcibly removed for waving sign at Trump, Putin press conference in Helsinki »
Nothing about Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Or its complicity in the shooting down of a civilian airliner. Or its meddling in the 2016 elections.

“We’re all to blame,” said the American President Monday, the foreign-policy equivalent of his “both sides” drivel after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.


It would be high comedy if it were not a national tragedy. And a national emergency.

New York Daily News Scorches ‘Treason’ Trump With Brutal New Cover

The president sparked outrage when he refused to publicly condemn Russian leader Vladimir Putin for Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
By Rebecca Shapiro
The New York Daily News hammered President Donald Trump with its Tuesday cover, suggesting that his refusal to publicly condemn Russian leader Vladimir Putin was treason.

During a news conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland, Trump would not blame Russia or Putin for interference in the 2016 U.S. election, saying “we’re all to blame” for poor relations between the two countries. U.S. intelligence and government officials have concluded that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

So the New York Daily News reacted to Trump’s remarks with a brutal illustration and headline, accusing the president of siding with an enemy over his own country. The illustration alluded to a statement Trump made during his presidential campaign that he could shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Avenue and not lose voters.

.@realdonaldtrump derides reports with which he disagrees as “fake news,” then buys the Russian narrative hook, line, sinker, pole and boat. 
An early look at Tuesday's front...

Trump’s comments after his meeting with Putin sparked outrage Monday, with even Republican leaders and Fox News hosts slamming the president. 

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.” Fox Business host Neil Cavuto called Trump’s behavior “disgusting.”

Putin dismisses, but doesn’t quite deny, rumors Russia has compromised Trump

Yahoo News           MICHAEL WALSH          July 16th 2018 
Asked about widespread suspicions that the Russian government possesses compromising intelligence on President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged hearing those “rumors” and urged journalists to ignore them. But he did not explicitly deny it.

Putin was asked about the allegations, which originally surfaced in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, in a highly anticipated joint press conference with Trump after the two leaders met privately in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. The dossier contained uncorroborated reports that the Kremlin had taped Trump with prostitutes in his hotel room in Moscow during a 2013 visit.

Jonathan Lemire, a White House reporter for the Associated Press, asked, “Can you tell me what President Trump may have indicated to you about officially recognizing Crimea as part of Russia? And secondly, sir, does the Russian government have any compromising material on President Trump or on his family?”

The audience laughed briefly before Putin responded that Trump’s position is well-known and that he still thinks Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 was illegal. Putin, as expected, defended the action and said that Russia had acted in accordance with international law.

“And now to the compromising material,” Putin said. “Yeah, I did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on Trump when he was visiting Moscow. Our distinguished colleague, let me tell you this: When President Trump was in Moscow back then, I didn’t even know he was in Moscow.”

In November 2013, Trump was in the Russian capital for the Miss Universe pageant. Putin said he wasn’t even aware that Trump was visiting at the time. But, as Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn reveal in their book “Russian Roulette,” Trump and Putin were very much aware of each other’s presence:
"Once in Moscow, Trump received a private message from the Kremlin, delivered by Aras Agalarov, an oligarch close to Putin and Trump’s partner in hosting the Miss Universe event there: ‘Mr. Putin would like to meet Mr. Trump.’ That excited Trump. The American developer thought there was a strong chance the Russian leader would attend the pageant. But as his time in Russia wore on, Trump heard nothing else. He became uneasy.”

At the Finnish press conference, Putin did not actually expliAt the Finnish press conference, Putin did not actually explicitly deny the allegation that Russian operatives collected information on Trump, raising the possibility that Putin wants Trump to think he has compromising information — whether he does or not.

Putin suggested he would have had no interest in surveilling Trump back when he was a “private person” — despite the fact that he was among the most famous businessmen and television personalities in the world. To demonstrate this supposed absurdity, Putin pointed to the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

“There were over 500 American businessmen, high-ranking ones — I didn’t even remember the last names of each and every one of them,” Putin said. “Do you think that we tried to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them? Well, it’s difficult to imagine.”

Putin finished his response by encouraging Lemire and other concerned listeners to simply stop thinking about it: “Well, please just disregard these issues and don’t think about this anymore.”

Trump said that if Russia had collected anything, “it would’ve been out long ago” — before changing the subject to former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s testimony before Congress, which he called a “disgrace to the FBI,” “disgrace to our country” and “a total witch hunt.”

President Trump calls media ‘the enemy of the people’

 Geobeats          July 15th 2018 
President Trump on Sunday again launched a blistering Twitter attack on the media, a day before his highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Heading to Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to meeting with President Putin tomorrow,” Trump tweeted. “Unfortunately, no matter how well I do at the Summit, if I was given the great city of Moscow as retribution for all of the sins and evils committed by Russia over the years, I would return to criticism that it wasn’t good enough – that I should have gotten Saint Petersburg in addition!”

“Much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people and all the Dems know how to do is resist and obstruct!” Trump added. “This is why there is such hatred and dissension in our country – but at some point, it will heal!”

Trump also slammed the media over its reporting on North Korea.

“There hasn’t been a missile or rocket fired in 9 months in North Korea, there have been no nuclear tests and we got back our hostages. Who knows how it will all turn out in the end, but why isn’t the Fake News talking about these wonderful facts? Because it is FAKE NEWS!” Trump tweeted.

Prince Charles and Prince William “snubbed” Trump

New York Daily News                  CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN         July 15th 2018 
Britain’s princes were not interested in charming President Trump, according to a report.
Prince Charles and Prince William could have attended the President’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, but “snubbed” the American in favor of other engagements, according to The Times of London.

“They simply refused to attend. It’s a very, very unusual thing for the Queen to be there on her own. Usually she is accompanied by somebody. Prince Charles has been substituting for Philip a lot recently,” a source told the newspaper.

Charles had a meeting with his company and attended a police event, while William played in a charity polo match.

Trump met briefly with the reigning monarch at Windsor Castle and made a mild etiquette error by turning his back to the Queen.

He later told British television personality Piers Morgan that the longtime world leader had discussed the “very complex problem” of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.

It was not clear whether the decision to miss out by the Prince of Wales was impacted by a blubbering balloon of Trump’s likeness and 100,000 people taking the streets of central London in opposition to the President’s visit.

Trump said as he was leaving the NATO summit in Brussels that “I think they like me there” in the U.K., though a YouGov poll found that only 17% have a favorable view as opposed to 77% unfavorable.

It is unclear how his visit and public criticism of the British Prime Minister Theresa May impacted those numbers for Trump, who also stayed at his golf course in Scotland ahead of a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
Hahahaha!!!! Baby Blimp is his own nightmare living in his fantasy  world on the golf course .  With a poll count of 17% for ...77% against  , the man / child is totally a fool.
Nuff sez ...HeHe

Mueller Charges 12 Russians on Hacking Before Trump-Putin Summit

 By Tom Schoenberg  and Greg Farrell
July 13, 2018, 11:08 AM CDT Updated on July 13, 2018, 2:29 PM CDT
 Allegations involve Clinton campaign, Democratic emails
 Mueller offers deep look at Russian intelligenThe U.S. special counsel brought election meddling directly to Vladimir Putin’s doorstep just days before the Russian leader plans to meet with President Donald Trump, charging 12 Russian military intelligence officers with computer attacks meant to undermine the Democratic Party.

The indictment, announced on Friday, fleshes out U.S. intelligence agencies’ longstanding conclusion that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential race. The case provides powerful evidence to rebut skeptics -- including Trump himself at times -- who say Russia may not have had a role.

In a news conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein described how units of Russia’s GRU intelligence agency stole emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, then released them in ways meant to dominate headlines as Americans prepared to vote. In a second operation, the officers targeted election infrastructure and local election officials. They set up servers in the U.S. and Malaysia under fake names to run their operations, paying for their work with cryptocurrency that had been “mined” under their direction.

The fine details of Russian intelligence operations -- the names of officers, the buildings where they worked and the computers they used to run phishing operations and make payments -- suggest that prosecutors had an inside view aided by their own or another government’s intelligence apparatus.

Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian election meddling, concluded his succinct announcement of the indictment with what amounted to a sermon on the importance of adhering to facts and the rule of law as partisan tempers flare. The Justice Department works independently of politics, he said, adding that he had informed the president earlier this week of its findings.

“When we confront foreign interference in American elections, it is important for us to avoid thinking politically as Republicans or Democrats and instead to think patriotically as Americans,” Rosenstein said, adding that the fevered political climate doesn’t reflect the "grace and dignity of the American people.”

With the latest charges, Mueller has secured indictments against three entities and 32 individuals, including more than two dozen Russians, and secured five guilty pleas. Mueller’s prosecutors have also marked out other Internet pathways they say Russia used to influence the U.S. election. On Feb. 16, they charged 13 Russians and three Russian entities with sowing discord among U.S. voters through social media -- impersonating Americans, coordinating with unwitting U.S. activists and even planning rallies.

No Americans were charged Friday. But the indictment shows unidentified Americans -- including a person close to the Trump campaign and a candidate for Congress -- communicated with the Russian intelligence officers.

Echoing Rosenstein, White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said that “today’s charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result.”

The charges were unveiled only three days before the U.S. president is to meet Putin in Helsinki. “The president is fully aware of the department’s actions,” Rosenstein said.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called for Trump to cancel his summit. “Glad-handing with Vladimir Putin on the heels of these indictments would be an insult to our democracy," Schumer said.

Edward Royce, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, gave the Trump administration credit for taking actions to hold Russia accountable but said “the president should use today’s indictments to challenge Vladimir Putin” at Monday’s summit.

Stolen Information
The Russian officers are accused of stealing user names and passwords of volunteers in Clinton’s campaign, including its chairman, John Podesta.

Trump “continues to ignore it all, to excuse it all,” Podesta said in an interview. He stopped short of calling on Trump to cancel his meeting with Putin but said, “Maybe he should ask Putin to turn over” the indicted Russians.

The charges include conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S., aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to launder money. Rosenstein said the investigation would now be handled by the Department of Justice’s national security unit.

The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, also presiding over the Washington trial of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, set to begin on Sept. 17.

The GRU officers hacked a state election board and stole information on 500,000 voters, according to Rosenstein. They also were accused of hacking a company that supplied software used to verify voter registration information and targeting state and local officials who administered the elections.

The Russians masked their activities using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to buy servers, register Internet domains and make other payments, according to the indictment. While Bitcoin transactions are recorded on a public Blockchain, the Russians sought to hide their actions by using fictitious names and hundreds of email accounts. They oversaw Bitcoin mining and bought cryptocurrency using transactions using pre-paid cards and peer-to-peer exchanges as well.

The indictment said the Russians shifted their hacking tactics “on or about July 27, 2016” to target a domain hosted by a provider used by Clinton’s personal office and 76 email addresses at the Clinton campaign’s Internet domain. That was the same day that Trump urged the Russians “to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

 Trump Says Not to Expect ‘Perry Mason’ Moment With Putin

Trump has frequently dismissed the Russia probe as a “witch hunt” and expressed his anger that Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigation. Rosenstein then appointed Mueller.

The DNC has sued Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks over what it called an attack on American democracy. Tom Perez, the chairman of the DNC, said on Friday that the indictments make clear the attack was part of a vast Russian operation.

“This is not a witch hunt and it is certainly not a joke, as Donald Trump has desperately and incorrectly argued in the past," Perez said. “It’s long past time for him and his allies in the Republican Party to stop ignoring this urgent threat to our national security.”

Trump told reporters in London on Friday, before the indictments were announced, that he would “absolutely firmly” ask Putin about the interference allegation. But he added, “I don’t think you’ll have any ‘Gee, I did it, I did it, you got me” confession.

— With assistance by Jennifer Epstein, Andrew M Harris, Justin Sink, David Voreacos, Steven T. Dennis, Michael Riley, David Kocieniewski, and Jordan Robertson

Trump-Putin summit 'is on' in spite of hacking indictment

 

The leaders will reportedly discuss US-Russia relations and national security issues on Monday

A summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin will go ahead as planned despite tension over Moscow’s alleged election meddling, the White House says. The pair will meet for talks in the Finnish capital, Helsinki , on Monday.
“It’s on,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters.

But there are calls for the meeting to be cancelled after the US charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with election interference on Friday. For its part, Russia said it was looking forward to the meeting.
“We consider Trump a negotiating partner,” said Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov.
“The state of bilateral relations is very bad. We have to start to set them right.”

The announcement that the Russians had been charged with hacking Democratic officials during the 2016 presidential election sparked a heated war of words between Washington and Moscow.Russia’s foreign ministry said the claims were a “heap of conspiracy schemes” intended to “damage the atmosphere” before Monday’s summit.

It said there was no evidence linking any of the dozen officials to hacking or military intelligence.
But US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein insisted that “the goal of the conspirators was to have an impact on the election.”

What are the allegations?


The 11-count indictment names the Russians defendants, alleging they began cyber-attacks in March 2016 on the email accounts of staff for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. They are accused of using keystroke reading software to spy on the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and hack into the party’s computers.

Mr Rosenstein said the conspirators used fictitious online personas, including “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0”, to release thousands of stolen emails. They are also accused of stealing the data of half a million voters from a state election board website.


What has the reaction been?

During a joint news conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, Mr Trump said he would “absolutely” ask the Russian president about alleged election meddling. But top Democrats have urged him to cancel the planned summit altogether following the indictment.

“President Trump should absolutely cancel this meeting with Putin on Monday,” said DNC chairman Tom Perez. “He is not a friend of the United States.”
“President Trump should cancel his meeting with Vladimir Putin until Russia takes demonstrable and transparent steps to prove that they won’t interfere in future elections,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.

Republican Senator John McCain said the summit “should not move forward” unless the president “is prepared to hold Putin accountable”.

What’s the big picture?

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating US intelligence findings that Russians conspired to sway the 2016 election in Mr Trump’s favour. As of Friday, the inquiry has indicted 32 people – mostly Russian nationals in absentia – as well as three companies and four former Trump advisers.
None of the charges allege Trump advisers colluded with Russia to interfere with the presidential campaign.

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser, have pleaded guilty to making false statements about their contacts with Russians.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates were charged with money laundering relating to their political consultancy work in Ukraine.
Mueller keeps digging up more dirty secrets and when he comes full circle he will end up in the Oval Office. Just an opinion. What is Putin holding over Trump's head ? Whatever it is, it has Trump meekly licking his boots.

President Trump meets Britain's Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle

THOMSON REUTERS        July 13th 2018 
WINDSOR, England, July 13 (Reuters) - Donald Trump met Britain's Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle on Friday but the 92-year-old monarch was forced at one point to walk around the U.S. president after he halted abruptly during a ceremonial inspection of the guard.

Trump's first visit to Britain as president was not the full state visit he was originally promised, but he was heralded by military bands on his arrival at Windsor, before he and First Lady Melania went into the castle for tea with the queen.

The U.S. president had earlier praised Queen Elizabeth as a "tremendous woman."

The queen greeted the pair with a smile, although she had earlier glanced at her watch as she waited for their arrival.

While inspecting the guard at Windsor, Elizabeth appeared to give direction to Trump but then the president abruptly halted and Elizabeth was forced to walk around him.

Queen Elizabeth's tea for the Trumps was due to last 25 minutes according to the White House's schedule, the last part of their official visit.

He arrived at Windsor after a morning spent visiting Britain's royal military academy at Sandhurst and held talks with Prime Minister Theresa May at her country residence, Chequers.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through London on Friday to demonstrate against the U.S. president's visit.

Trump is due to fly to Scotland later on Friday for a private visit where he will spend two days at a golf course he owns, before heading to Helsinki for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Writing by Sarah Young; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

Witchy is going round in circles   :
is there ANYBODY who DOES NOT KNOW------"you are never suppose to show your back to the QUEEN??????" EVIDENTLY-----the bull in the china shop who is too stupid to "follow"...proper manners!!!!!
When has  tRUMP ever had manners? Oh that's right, he was very pleased to meet Putin and Kim Jong Un. The poor Queen. Bet she wanted to call out sick!
If not for the fact that  rEUMP  is clueless, I'd say that stopping in front of the Queen and forcing her to walk around him,  was deliberate rudeness.  But, he's just entirely unaware and uncaring of anyone else.  Bloviating Narcissist.
There is now a shortage of penicillin in the UK as the Queen was forced to spray down the castle to kill off the STD virus left behind by Trump and his WalMart rent lady
Barack Obama got a full royal motorcade and had a state dinner at Windsor Castle.  2 full days.
tRUMP  came in on a toyota prius and left with nothing.  30 minutes.  
Obama:  so so much cooler than fatboy.
While interrupting the ceremony by lifting his glass to toast the Queen...never realizing that they guests were standing for the Queen's Anthem and NOT for him.   When he finally realized how stupid he looked, he "slithered" his glass back down on the table and looked the true fool!   ....HeHe

11 things British politicians have actually said about Donald Trump

Posted by Louis Staples 
President Donald Trump's visit to the UK has attracted unprecedented controversy, with hundreds of thousands expected to protest his arrival.

But Trump has also divided opinion among Britain's leading politicians. To mark his first official visit to our shores as president of the United States, we've collected some quotes from UK politicians to help decipher between Trump's friends and foes. From Twitter beefs to secret admissions of admiration, UK politicians have said it all.
Boris Johnson.

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 Britain’s former foreign secretary was once described by former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as “Donald Trump with a thesaurus". Suspiciously, his views on Trump have apparently changed a great deal since his election victory.
Before Trump's election: 
I think he's betraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of President of the United States [...] The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump
After Trump’s election:
I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.
Imagine Trump doing Brexit. He’d go in bloody hard… There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.
Emily Thornberry.

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 Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry did not mince her words when questioned on her dislike for the stable-genius-in-chief.
He is an asteroid of awfulness that has fallen on this world.
I think that he is a danger and I think that he is a racist.
Jacob Rees-Mogg.

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 Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg has been consistent in his admiration for Trump, stating that he’d “almost certainly” have voted for him. He also urged Britain to treat the president with the utmost respect.
Our relationship with the United States is our most important foreign relationship and whoever the president of the United States is, it is in our interest to treat him with the greatest respect and courtesy.
And if that is what Mr Trump wants to do, yes of course it would be sensible to lay out the reddest of red carpets for him.
He is a major ally. We have so many interests in common.
Michael Gove.

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 Environment secretary Gove is in agreement with Trump in supporting Brexit. Following Trump’s election victory, Gove bagged the first UK interview with him, which contained this gem.
His skin glows a sodium orange, his hair is blonder than any human you will have encountered and his clothes are in primary colours so bold they make everyone else in the room seem dowdy.
Nigel Farage.

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 Everyone knows Farage and Trump are thick as thieves. Farage addressed Trump’s campaign rallies in 2016 and Trump has even called himself “Mr Brexit”. This closeness lead Farage to defend Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which he was heard bragging about allegedly sexually assaulting women.  
Look, this is alpha-male boasting. It’s the kind of thing, if we are being honest, that men do. They sit around and have a drink and they talk like this.
By the way, quite a lot of women say things amongst themselves that they would not want to see on Fox News or the front page of a newspaper. 
David Cameron.

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 Former prime minister David Cameron pulled no punches in condemning Trump before he became president.
I think his remarks are divisive, stupid and wrong and I think if he came to visit our country I think it'd unite us all against him.
Nicola Sturgeon.

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 Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon also expressed her opposition to Trump’s campaign tactics.
I never want to be, I am not prepared to be, a politician that maintains a diplomatic silence in the face of attitudes of racism, sexism, misogyny or intolerance of any kind. I hope that president-elect Trump turns out to be a president very different to the kind of candidate he was and reaches out to those who felt vilified by his campaign.
Jeremy Corbyn.

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 In words he may regret two years later, in 2016 Corbyn suggested Trump, as a presidential candidate, should visit the UK to learn about our multicultural society.
We manage to have a coherent, multifaith, multicultural society in London, in Birmingham, in Leicester, all parts of this country. He's welcome to come and see. He might learn something
David Lammy.

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 Vocal Trump opponent Lammy, who before becoming the Labour MP for Tottenham was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School, is set to protest Trump when he visits the UK on 13 July.
Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath. He is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long. It is because I cherish and champion those values that this Friday, I will march with London against Donald Trump.
Caroline Lucas.

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 Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas did not hold back in her criticisms of Trump, or of Theresa May who she accused of enabling his behaviour.
Aren't these the actions of someone who doesn't yet have the experience, who is learning very fast in a new job?
No, they are the actions of a racist bigot and we have to stand up to bullies and that is what the UK should be doing.
Theresa May is so worried about being friendless after Brexit that she will accept any kind of relationship with any kind of bigot around the world.