Eric Loh

No more playing nice. Days of Pelosi not fighting fire with fire is over. Trump insults go way back on Pelosi and even her family and she kept her cool. Dems have been criticize for being too passive and lack fire in their bellies. Now they are taking a page from Trump's Art of the Deal tactics number 8 'Fight back'.

Call that G1 cause Trump only one in attendance. He has nothing to contribute to the other 6 leaders and they are tired of his self congratulatory indulgence. 

14 minutes ago, MyTHaiMyKe said:

I wish all of you who are bad mouthing President Trump would tell us what country you came from so we could laugh at all of you for the bad leaders in your country and in the world! Jealousy must be it! President Trump has done more for the USA then any president before! He will be reelected guaranteed and you can take it to the bank! All I heard was how hillary was going to win from all of you, what happened, not a squeak from none of you! So keep listening to the lying msm, cnn, msdnc and democrats and you will know absolutely nothing about the truth what is really going on in the USA! But come November you will see! So stay jealous that President Trump and the USA is the greatest country in the world! Period!!! No matter what you all say!

Can’t wait for November to get rid of him. World leaders will be thankful and US will be happy that democracy can be restored. Good American values like morality and decency will return. 

I wouldn't be bother with what Trump said about hydroxychloroquine. His views are only for Fox viewers and still only 70% believe the drug is very or possibly effective. Those are the folks who also believed that UV light is effective against corona virus. The wider well read Americans don't support that notion.  

10 minutes ago, candide said:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/17/many-voters-think-trumps-a-self-made-man-what-happens-when-you-tell-them-otherwise-224019

Thanks and good read. Exactly what Trump’s supporters feared; facts and truth. 

3 hours ago, dexterm said:

I think China has upped the ante simply to embarrass Trump deservedly.

They are more or less saying, "You withhold $400m to score some domestic political points and allow a private citizen Bill Gates to cover your shortfall, well up yours, toothless tiger."

Lots of humble pies eaten comparing $2 B to measly $400. Definitely meant to embarrass Trump. 

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.