~*~Mining and Metals Du Jour~*~

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Leaks Suggest Trump’s Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-leaks_us_589a45f1e4b04061313a1fbb

The part that related to gold price - his "weak dollar" statements:

President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?

So he made a call ? except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.

Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.

Trump was not thrilled with that response ? but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ? although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail.

Another quote:

“I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.”
Eliot Cohen, former State Department official under George W Bush.