Trump said the administration is making a nationwide effort to go after criminal illegal immigrants, gang members and drug dealers. “It should not be about relitigating the campaign”.
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Various blocs of his administration are busy fighting amongst themselves, his top national security adviser abruptly stepped down over allegations that he discussed change in sanctions with Russian ambassador when former President Barack Obama was still in office, and the court blocked his Islamophobic executive order restricting travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Ryan said Wednesday that no one has claimed to have evidence that President Trump or his associates were “in on” or “involved in” Russia’s meddling in last year’s election.
Several folks on Twitter were quick to respond to Trump’s speech with other economic indicators that counter his narrative. There is no universal consensus from Clinton aides on how to move forward.
One person not on those calls: Hillary Clinton. She’s close to Russian Federation. President Trump, I beg you! “But this issue has become about a need for fact-finding and it shouldn’t have to exist in the political realm”. Tomorrow, you will say, “Donald Trump wants to get along with Russian Federation; this is bad”.
“This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton’s losing campaign”, he tweeted. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The US president spent the first few minutes of his speech – which is still going on – attacking the press. Upending decades of USA policy on Israel-Palestinian conflict, he told the Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu that he “could live with” either a one state or a two state solution “that both parties want”. I find it repulsive. When Trump was asked by reporter April Ryan if he’d meet with the CBC, Trump asked her if they were “friends of hers” and then instructed her to “set up a meeting”, as he apparently assumed that she knew them because she was black as well.
“We need an independent investigation, embraced by Republicans and Democrats alike”, Margolis said.
For the first time, I am deeply concerned about the direction of this country.
“It’s a mess”, Trump said, citing “jobs [that] are pouring out of the country … low pay, low wages, mass instability overseas no matter where you look”.
‘Every country takes advantage of us, almost.
Speaking on behalf of Vladimir Putin’s foreign ministry, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova used a weekly news briefing to correct President Trump’s claims that Crimea was “taken”.
Ukraine, however, said the referendum was just for show and was organised at a gunpoint after the Russian troops annexed the peninsula.
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It was nearly word-for-word what Trump said while campaigning in Waukesha, Wis., in September 2016. Washington and its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies responded by imposing economic sanctions on Moscow, and relations with Russia have deteriorated rapidly since then, with alarming deployments of both Russian and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military forces.
