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The Trump administration is trying to make it easier to sell guns worldwide that could end up in criminal hands Donald Trump has so far spent the month of July using his presidential platform to degrade international relations and further destabilize peacekeeping efforts. He has bashed NATO , called the European Union a "foe" of the United States and publicly colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to issue transparent denials of the Russian military's crimes against American democracy.
As with a rotting fish, the stench from President Donald Trump's execrable performance in Helsinki only grows more putrid with the passage of time. The leader of the sole superpower was simpering and submissive in the face of a murderous dictator's "strong and powerful" lies.
Republicans foil Democrats' attempt to subpoena State Department translator who was present for every second of Trump and Putin's meeting White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that President Trump and President Putin's meeting in Helsinki had not been recorded Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have blocked a move to subpoena the American translator from the Helsinki summit to testify about the private talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The panel's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, said Thursday he wanted Maria Gross, the translator, who works for the State Department, to appear in closed session, saying Congress must 'find out what was said' during the two-hour meeting.
Sixty-four years ago, the U.S. Senate censured the bullying demagogue Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin for conduct that "tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." McCarthy lingered in the Senate for 2 1/2 more years, but the censure essentially ended his early-1950s "Red Scare" reign of intimidation and character assassination.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting to get a different result, which is one of the many reasons President Trump's news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed so insane. Trump is trying to do something that both of his immediate predecessors tried to do: turn over a new leaf with Russia.
In an interview that aired Tuesday evening with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump appeared to suggest that the NATO mutual defense compact is confusing, particularly the question of why an American would have to defend a small country like Montenegro, which is more than 5,000 miles away. Trump has long raised questions about the future of the United States' commitment to NATO, a defense treaty which was established to stave off aggression from what was then the Soviet Union.
Washington: US President Donald Trump has sowed even more confusion over his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, insisting after a day of conflicting statements about Russia's interference in the 2016 election that he had actually laid down the law with Putin. "We're not going to have it, and that's the way it's going to be."
President Donald Trump is expected to receive European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on July 25. Juncker will visit Trump in an effort to heal divisions between the U.S. and Europe, following the NATO summit meeting where Trump declared the EU a trade "foe" of the U.S. Trump told CBS News: "I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn't think of the European Union, but they're a foe."
When asked if Moscow, accused by US intelligence agencies of meddling in the 2016 presidential election, was still interfering, Trump said "no." That assertion appeared to be at odds with the assessment of US intelligence chief Dan Coats, who said Monday that Russia was involved in "ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy."
U.S. President Donald Trump stepping in front of Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic while pushing him aside with one hand at the NATO summit in 2017. Even if U.S. President Donald Trump had not been caught on tape physically shoving Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic out of the way during a photo op at last year's NATO summit in Brussels, Trump's comments last night about the tiny European nation would still be galling.
Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to "clarify" his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. "The sentence should have been, 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be Russia" instead of "why it would," Trump said, in a rare admission of error by the bombastic U.S. leader.
Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to "clarify" his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. "The sentence should have been, 'I don't see any reason why I wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be Russia" instead of "why it would," Trump said, in a rare admission of error by the bombastic U.S. leader.
Unbowed by the broad condemnation of his extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that his summit in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin went "even better" than his meeting with NATO allies last week in Brussels. The tweeted defense came a day after Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, and he seemed to accept Putin's insistence that Moscow's hands were clean.
Russia's Defense Ministry says it's ready to boost cooperation with the U.S. military in Syria, following talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ministry said in a statement Tuesday that it's ready for "practical implementation" of agreements reached by Trump and Putin.
Amid an outpouring of fury from Democrats and their liberal media partners on Tuesday, President Trump pushed back on the negative reaction to his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in several tweets: "While I had a great meeting with NATO, raising vast amounts of money, I had an even better meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia. Sadly, it is not being reported that way - the Fake News is going Crazy!" Trump tweeted around 10:20 a.m. A short time earlier, he tweeted: "I had a great meeting with NATO.
Taking to Twitter hours after he was blasted by senior Republicans and Democrats, the president wrote: 'While I had a great meeting with NATO, raising vast amounts of money, I had an even better meeting with Vladimir Putin of Russia.
In an extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump on Monday openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' firm finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's insistence that Moscow's hands were clean. Trump's meeting with Putin in Helsinki was his first time sharing the international stage with a man he has described as an important U.S. competitor - but whom he has also praised a strong, effective leader.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., characterized his colleague Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as being wrong for four decades after the latter made critical remarks about Monday's U.S.-Russia summit in Helsinki. Paul appeared on Fox News and said McCain's comments - the ailing senator called the meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin a "tragic mistake" - were misguided.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the airport in Helsinki, Finland, Sunday, July 15, 2018 on the eve of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the airport in Helsinki, Finland, Sunday, July 15, 2018 on the eve of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.