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I Couldn’t be happier or have anymore faith in my president Donald J Trump! He is definitely MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! [emoji631]
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Why do you think so low of Christians? Especially those who like what Donald Trumps done for The USA? Real question, not starting anything..
In a tense meeting in early March with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
But Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter.
Mueller’s warning — the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team — spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president’s lead lawyer.
“This isn’t some game,” Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.”
The flare-up set in motion weeks of turmoil among Trump’s attorneys as they debated how to deal with the special counsel’s request for an interview, a dispute that ultimately led to https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attorney-john-dowd-resigns-amid-shake-up-in-presidents-legal-team/2018/03/22/0472ce74-2de3-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.e7173929175c (Dowd’s resignation).
CHARLOTTESVILLE — One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year’s “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.
Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, who wore a military tactical helmet and brandished a large shield during the Aug. 12 attack against DeAndre Harris, was convicted by a jury of nine women and three men.
The jury recommended a sentence of ten years, with the option of suspending some of the time and a $20,000 fine. The presiding judge, Richard E. Moore, will set the sentence on Aug. 23. When the court clerk read the jury’s recommendation, Goodwin’s mother let out a loud gasp.
The assault on Harris, 20, a former special education instructional assistant, was so ferocious that he suffered a spinal injury, a broken arm and head lacerations that required eight staples.
Online footage of the beating has been viewed online tens of thousands of times and attracted a group of online sleuths, led by https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/finding-the-white-supremacists-who-beat-a-black-man-in-charlottesville/2017/08/31/9f36e762-8cfb-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.59019912b098 (Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King). They tracked down the alleged perpetrators’ identities, including that of Goodwin, who lives in Ward, Ark. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/third-white-supremacist-arrested-in-charlottesville-garage-beating-of-a-black-man/2017/10/11/49277d5c-ae8c-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.df3d18aaf0db (Goodwin was arrested)about two months after the rally.
LONDON — Britain will be able to impose sanctions on people who commit gross human rights violations under a so-called "Magnitsky amendment" backed by members of parliament on Tuesday.
The amendment to a new Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill going through parliament passed without a vote as it was backed both by the ruling Conservatives and the main opposition Labour Party.
Lawmakers referred to it during their debate as the Magnitsky amendment, in reference to Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was arrested in 2008 after alleging that Russian officials were involved in large-scale tax fraud. He died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after complaining of mistreatment.
The amendment is not specifically aimed at Russians, but it comes at a time of crisis in relations between Britain and Russia following a nerve agent attack in England on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, which London blames on Moscow.
So Trump armed Russia’s adversary effectively to hide evidence of his own corruption. He is indeed The Dealmaker.
The historic handshake between the leaders of North and South Korea has, for now, reduced the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong Un even stepped across the line between the Koreas, becoming the first North Korean dictator to set foot in the South, even if only for a moment.
While these are welcome developments, they don’t justify the amount of, shall we say, irrational exuberance they’re producing. President Trump’s supporters, among whom we must now improbably count Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are already talking about a Nobel Peace Prize.
The South Korean president and his foreign minister are dutifully rendering credit to Trump as well, although this might be as much about placating an ally — Washington — who was left out of a crucial strategic move as much as it is about diplomatic politeness.
It is difficult to know why Kim is, literally, putting his best foot forward. Some of Trump’s critics have suggested that the North Koreans have suffered a major accident at their testing site, and that this is why Kim is willing to negotiate. Arms control experts have dismissed this idea. They note that Kim still has workable facilities and, more important, he already has all the testing and data he needs to maintain a nuclear stockpile.
A more judicious inventory of the situation suggests caution for multiple reasons:
►First, there can be no denying that North Korea has already achieved major diplomatic and strategic victories over the past year, while giving up exactly nothing. Pyongyang has tested nuclear weapons and long-range missiles at will. Months of heated threats from Washington were answered with equally muscular rhetoric. Kim stood fast: Today, the threats are over, but the arsenal remains.
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►Second, the Americans are doing all of this backward — deciding first to have a summit, and then trying to figure out why. Holding a summit without a firm agenda is always courting disaster. The North Koreans have nothing to lose here; a summit will buy them time for their nuclear program and make it harder for the West to stay united on sanctions. In the meantime, Kim is making offers that he will likely never honor, almost certainly in order to elicit reckless promises from a president who values deals more than anything.
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►Third, these negotiations seem to have some serious opponents in the administration, starting with national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton has cagily suggested that the deal to denuclearize Libya could serve as a template for a Korea deal. Bolton, of course, knows — and Trump likely does not — that the North Koreans pointed to Moammar Gadhafi's abdication of his nuclear program as the reason the West toppled him. When Bolton equated a Korean deal with Libya, he might as well have warned Kim directly that regime change is in the cards no matter what happens. ...
At this point, the United States is committed to these talks, and so we must wish the president luck. But just as in the Iran deal, we should have no illusions about the price we have already paid to get this far, and prepare for the dangers that lie ahead if we find — as still seems likely — that we are being duped.
