Cooper on shutdown: Trump said he'd take the heat. He hasn't
CNN Published on Jan 22, 2019
CNN's Anderson Cooper questions what President Donald Trump wants from the government shutdown as both the House and Senate are set to vote on legislation that is not expected to succeed.
CNN's Don Lemon details claims of chaos in Washington, citing President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani's shifting statements on the Trump Tower Moscow project and the ongoing government shutdown as examples.
State Department cancels border security conference due to shutdown over border security By Michelle Kosinski and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Updated 5:43 PM ET, Tue January 22, 2019 Washington (CNN)In the midst of a partial government shutdown stalemate over a border wall, the State Department has had to cancel, for now, an international conference focused on border security -- due to that very shutdown. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/state-dept-border-security-conference-postponed/index.html
Light Of Russia Investigation Sends President Trump Affiliates Scattering | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
MSNBC Published on Jun 7, 2018
Rachel Maddow looks at what has become a pattern of panic by Donald Trump affiliates and associates when questions from or about the Trump Russia investigation send them hiding, denying, or shutting down operations.
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election IMAGE WASHINGTON — Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor. [...] It is unclear whether such a proposal was executed, and the details of who commissioned it remain in dispute. But Donald Trump Jr. responded approvingly, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, and after those initial offers of help, Mr. Nader was quickly embraced as a close ally by Trump campaign advisers — meeting frequently with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, and Michael T. Flynn, who became the president’s first national security adviser. At the time, Mr. Nader was also promoting a secret plan to use private contractors to destabilize Iran, the regional nemesis of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. More - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html
This Year Was the Year Mueller Made the Liars Writhe [...] Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware went on record last May with his belief that Donald Trump Jr. lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee in his testimony when he categorically denied that foreigners had offered or given assistance to the Trump presidential campaign. According to the New York Times, Junior met in August 2016 with George Nader, an emissary from “the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates [who] were eager to help his father in election as president.” (Nader, it should be noted here, is reportedly cooperating with the special counsel.) Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who attended the meeting, may have also fudged his involvement in the Trump campaign in congressional testimony. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145807204
Get Ready for Mueller’s Phase Two: The Middle East Connection [...] In one August 2016 meeting, first reported by The New York Times and later confirmed by The Daily Beast, Nader told the room that the crown princes of both Saudi Arabia and the UAE were eager to help Trump win the election. Also ready to lend his services was Joel Zamel, a self-styled Mark Zuckerberg of the national-security world with deep ties to Israeli intelligence. Zamel had already been in close contact with the Trump team because one of his companies, Psy Group, had drawn up a plan to use social-media manipulation to help Trump clinch the Republican nomination. The company sent former senior campaign aide Rick Gates that proposal. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145437089
(CNN)Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that if he could speak to President Donald Trump directly, he would tell him to "resign."
Asked by CNBC's Tania Bryer during a World Economic Forum panel in Davos, Switzerland, what he would convey to Trump, Kerry replied, "I can't play that ... because he doesn't take any of this seriously. He doesn't have an ability to have that kind of conversation." When pressed on what his message to the President would be, Kerry responded, "Resign."
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, also criticized Trump for "his insane decision" to pull out of the Paris climate accord in June 2017, for which "people will die."
"I wish there was a lawsuit capacity that could hold people liable for such an insane decision as he has made, which is going to cost lives," he said. "People will die because of the President's decision, and billions of dollars of damage will be done to property."
Kerry also accused Trump of lying about the consequences of pulling out of the accord. Trump claimed at the time that he was leaving to pursue "fair treatment" and so that foreign leaders would no longer "laugh at us."
"I'm disappointed when a president of the United States lies, and that was a lie -- there's no burden," said Kerry, who was secretary of state during President Barack Obama's second term. "Paris did not place outside burdens levied by any other country on any other country."
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