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BREAKING NEWS TRUMP 6/12/18 TRUMP RECORDS STAFFERS FIRED WITHOUT EXPLANATION

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Published on Jun 12, 2018

BREAKING NEWS TRUMP 6/12/18 TRUMP RECORDS STAFFERS FIRED WITHOUT EXPLANATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btAgFtaW4Wc

The big picture.

These multi-segment longer ones take a bit of getting used to. In the N Korea bit (hope it is in this one) Rachel reiterates what all objective people have seen, Trump giving a basket-load of goodies to Kim, while getting little, if anything, new back. Even shortly after abusing his 'good Canadian friend', and others of the G7, Trump praised Kim like he was better than the best sex. Kim did not nearly reciprocate. Trump gave the brutal dictator Kim a stage of equal stature with the president of the U.S.A., with no preconditions. In 2008, the GOP and others laid on Obama hard when he suggested he would do the same. This time Trump's people, and more, loved it. And Trump said he would halt the joint military exercises held each year on the Korean peninsula.

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Reportedly Trump blindsided all others involved when he said he would stop the Olchi Freedom Guardian exercises.

Trump in surprise summit move says he will halt Korea war games

Steve Holland, Soyoung Kim, Jack Kim

June 12, 2018 / 8:58 AM / Updated 6 hours ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump made a stunning concession to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday about
halting military exercises, pulling a surprise at a summit that baffled allies, military officials and lawmakers from his own Republican Party.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-northkorea-usa/in-stunning-summit-concession-trump-says-he-will-halt-korea-war-games-idUKKBN1J72PL

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Trump Gave Kim a Summit But Left With Little to Show for It

By Margaret Talev and Toluse Olorunnipa

June 12, 2018, 9:22 PM GMT+10

* It’s not clear what the U.S. got out of Singapore meeting
* Summit delivered a longtime strategic goal for Kim family

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Anthony Ruggiero, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and a former official of the U.S. State and Treasury
departments who investigated the illicit financing of North Korea, said Trump’s meeting with Kim appeared heavy on pomp and light on substance.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/trump-gave-kim-a-summit-but-left-with-little-to-show-for-it

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Russia has been calling for the joint military exercises to be cancelled for years. China for even longer.

China is having a 'big day' after Trump-Kim summit: Ex-diplomats

* Trump says he would eventually like to see the full withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula.

* "China would love American troops to be gone from the Korean Peninsula," says Wendy Sherman, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs.

* Max Baucus, U.S. ambassador to China under former President Obama, also says that China is likely "generally pleased" with the agreement.

Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | @BerkeleyJr
Published 18 Hours Ago Updated 14 Hours Ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/china-is-having-a-big-day-after-trump-kim-summit-ex-diplomats.html

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At 29:10 there an excerpt from a June 23 1972 Nixon tape, in which Nixon said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say..." Heh.

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Toward the end Maddow talks about archival staff spending their days putting Trump's torn up
records (all legally bound to be kept) back together again - yep, she thought of Humpty Dumpty, too.

Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.

By ANNIE KARNI 06/10/2018 04:12 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164