Eric Loh

Just now, klauskunkel said:

Repairing Democracy post-Trump is going to be en epic undertaking.

Just as epic repairing US tattered and battered international image and foreign relationship. 

1 minute ago, CaptRon2 said:

He turned millions into billions, have you ever come close to that? 

The millions was not even self-made. He received daddy money of at least $60 m ($413 m in 2018). In terms of return on investment, I did better with no daddy's money. Thank you for asking. 

5 minutes ago, CaptRon2 said:

I would have to counter, if you really do not believe that it is crystal clear who is?

https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/#5777c8c047bd

Self-made he is not. ????

28 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

It's clear Pompeo was doing Trump's bidding and couldn't justify this action to the IG.  So he went to Trump to basically "get the dogs off him."  Trump was more than happy to oblige as in his mind, Linick was Obama's guy.  The obvious question:  Why would Trump consistently bend over backwards for MBS?  It seems Saudi Arabia's interest is more important to Trump than America's interest.

Saudi Arabia was his first official visit after his took office. Not close allies like U.K. or Canada but SA. Raised lots of eye brows. Is it because he need SA to stay steadfast on the petrodollar or that he received money or has business links. Probably all of the above and soon we will know when the court ruled that he must revealed his tax return. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-saudi-arabia-financial-interests-ties-hotel-bookings-sales-2018-10

17 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

The second matter is the arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which even the Republican Senate had halted because of Saudi support for one side in the Yemen War.  Both 45 and Pompeo have tried to pressure anything that might cause an issue for Saudi in general and for MbS in particular. Pompeo, while serving as SecState, even told DCI Gina Haspel to change the agency's finding on MbS involvement in ordering the slaughter of Jamal Khashoggi. The agency, using both HUMINT and SIGINT intel, had concluded that MbS personally ordered the Khashoggi slaughter. DCI Haspel literally told Pompeo to "F off" and never make any such request to alter agency analysis ever again, much to the applause of the men and women of CIA.

An aspect of the investigation of Pompeo is that he bypassed Congress by drawing upon an authority under Section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act that allows the administration to undertake arms sales in an emergency. He has lots to explain on what was the emergency. From the manner Trump distancing himself from this case, he is in deep quagmire that will be hard to extradite. 

To abscond him from any fallout, Trump said he didn't know or even have not seen the IG and thereby signalling that he is throwing Pompeo under the bus. What a great boss. 

1 hour ago, TopDeadSenter said:

Does anybody get the feeling Trump says these sort of things just to wind up the left? He has done this consistently since winning in 2016. It is a tactic long known by pro poker players, to get your opponent on tilt and watch them melt down and lose everything. Trump has done it so well, that we are the eve of an election and the democrats haven't even calmed down enough to find a real candidate to run against Trump. 4 years of extreme tilt. Job well done!

 

At the expense of making him look like an imbecile, he did well. Most lefts are used to his lobotomised rambling and just brush this off as another of his malarkey. 

2 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Even the deranged Perlosi admits any POTUS has the right to dismiss any federal employee.

 

So unless you have concrete evidence about how well these individuals were doing their jobs since their appointments to share, we must assume your comment is politically motivated.

No need for that. Trump close aide Peter Navarro already given the reason as ‘not loyal enough’. 

1 hour ago, Aland said:

This last clown was investigating Mike Pompeo for having his assistant make dinner reservations. I kid you not, that’s all he had? What law and or rules were not followed here? If that’s all he had to do with his work time then he really wasn’t necessary and needed to go.

Using tax funded security detail and improper use of government resources to take Pompeo's dog from the groomer and collect his Chinese food among other personal errands. He should follow his colleague Tom Price and resign in shame.   

5 hours ago, webfact said:

White House adviser Peter Navarro, meanwhile, downplayed the firing, saying that what Trump terms the "deep state" has caused problems and those who are not loyal must go.

Peter Navarro in his usual cavalier style admitted the firing has nothing to do with IG Steve Linick’s performance and he was fired for not being Trump’s water boy. What an idiot!

9 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

hehe

Seeing your interest in Wiener, below an extract from the Encyclopedia.com. Trump is again dicing perilously in another legal quagmire of his own doing. 

Two decades later, after President Dwight Eisenhower dismissed Myron Wiener from the War Claims Commission, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the legal limits to the president's removal powers. Though the legislation establishing the commission never stated when, or for what causes, members might be removed, the Court surmised that Congress did not intend commissioners to have to decide war claims while fearing "the Damocles' sword of removal by the President for no reason other than that he preferred to have … men of his own choosing." In Wiener v. United States (1958) the Court once again ruled against a president who tried to exercise his removal powers for expressly political purposes.

Go for it Nancy. There are legal precedents that the courts have ruled and deemed the removal violate the law. Humphrey's executive vs United State (1935), Wiener vs United States (1958) and Nader vs Bork (1973). Trump is doing this for political reason and should be taken to task. 

Does has a semblance of crime family getting rid of good cops. 

1 hour ago, tomazbodner said:

China also holds a vast majority of rare mineral fields that are needed in the high tech industry, including semiconductors. If China stops exporting to US (they call that "nuclear option") US semiconductor output would drop over 80%. US has been trying to source from other markets, but those are ever more reliant on, and turning to, China, which is using its huge dollar reserves to investment into those countries. It's actually a clever play. If you have trillions of dollars, you can't just dump them in the market - value would crash and you'd lose most. If you do it slowly, it takes long and value drops. But - if you use it to give "loans" to others, then ask for repay in something else, it's basically money laundry to get out of USD held debt. US has different ideas - trying to use sanctions and annoyance to wipe its debt to China. Some say COVID is part of the same plan - plant a virus, accuse of coverup, drag feet in implementing prevention to cause massive damage, sanction and demand compensation in the amount of debt held. This theory is from Hong Kong. Let's see if US does sanction China and demands it repays damage at around the amount of US debt...

According to Bloomberg, "China Has a Rare Earths Plan Ready to Go if Trade War Deepens". China control 80% of global REE. 

Let’s see whether Trump will put the money where his mouth is and see this through. Let him be remembered for losing US chip leadership position in the industry to South Korea. China will just buy more from Samsung if the ban is in place or Taiwan and domestically. China is the world’s chip import market. When US loses its leadership position, it will also lose the motivation to innovate and will force them to depend on foreign semiconductor suppliers. Trump is an idiot in foreign affairs. 

Remarkable that there are some here that think that Trump’s scorched-earth China policy is good for USA. The world is better off participating in global trade and harness unlimited productive capacities. Anyway, who knows what Trump will say tomorrow. He is just full of bluff than substance. 

4 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Trump supporters are funny. Today trump hates china somthey all hate china.

 

tomorrow trump will say Xi is a great guy and they will all say china is great.

 

They have form.

They defended Russia and North Korea too. Their bearings seem loosely anchored.