GroveHillWanderer

US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and Russia https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/us-withdraws-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-b1225632.html

Well, he's not negotiating any more. US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and Russia https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/us-withdraws-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-b1225632.html

This ruling doesn't say the President cannot conduct foreign policy. It says that the President does not get to interpret Congressional statutes and decide what they mean - that's the job of the courts. The judge was very clear about this in his ruling. https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blocks-alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans-texas/story?id=121364022

Who is that directed at - the judge? I doubt if he reads this forum.

I'm not sure I'd refer to this as a win for Trump. I'd say it's more of a win for Ukraine. What the deal actually does, is create a: Where the minerals/resources come into it is as follows: So the short term effects of this fund being established, will all go to investment within Ukraine, so pretty much exclusively to Ukraine's benefit. And while there should be some gains for the US eventually, that's unlikely to be for at least a decade, given the following provision. Svyrydenko and Bessent signed an agreement to create a US–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund https://odessa-journal.com/svyrydenko-and-bessent-signed-an-agreement-to-create-a-usukraine-reconstruction-investment-fund

I've listened to the entirety of her remarks and her words don't sound any better when taken in the round.

He's negotiated a deal with Ukraine here, however it has nothing to do with ending the war, except perhaps in the most indirect sense. This is a deal to invest in a fund for the future rebuilding and development of Ukraine but does nothing, in and of itself, to end the war. For instance, it doesn't involve Russia in any way and I don't know about you but I reckon any deal to end the war would have to involve them.

But again, the claim that 258 million people's lives were saved, doesn't even make any sense. Yes, the amount of fentanyl seized could theoretically kill that many people. However, for it to be true in reality, you would have to assume that firstly, 258 million people were actually going to take fentanyl and secondly that every single time it was taken, it would have been fatal to whoever takes it. Which is clearly not the case. Incidentally, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's figures, they seized 64,000 pounds of fentanyl during former President Joe Biden’s administration. Using Bondi’s logic, it could be said that Biden saved 14 billion lives (which is double the world’s population). https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/may/01/pam-bondi/Bondi-Trump-fentanyl-seizures-overdose/

No, he hasn't. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/03/04/donald-trumps-team-takes-first-steps-to-cut-legal-immigration/ Donald Trump’s Team Takes First Steps To Cut Legal Immigration

Do these people not realise how ridiculous they sound when they make absurd, sycophantic claims like this? https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-trump-pam-bondi-fentanyl-b2743103.html

Your interpretation flies in the face of the evidence, though. Reduced to its simplest form, it was put to Trump that he could bring Abrego Garcia back, to which he replied, "I could." It doesn't get much clearer than that

No clearer indication could be found of Trump's compulsive lying. They're aren't 200 countries in the world. Unless of course, Trump has done two deals already with some of them. 😁

See, even you can see that the letters MS13 were added in to the photo. However that's not what Trump believes. The transcript could hardly be clearer: "Trump: "No, no, Terry, no, no....no, no....He had M-S as clear as you can be, not interpreted." (Emphasis mine)

See my post immediately above yours. No law enforcement agency or manual lists these as MS13 symbols.

You don't even understand the terminology do you? "Afrikaner" refers to the descendants of the original Dutch colonists in South Africa. There are no black Afrikaners, the term is used exclusively for white people.

Of course there's something to contest it - multiple experts on gang affiliations and tattoos have pointed out that these are not known to be symbols associated with MS13. Even US law enforcement does not list these symbols as being MS13-related. As stated in the article below: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-image-kilmar-abrego-175852020.html

No, he didn't say the tattoos were photoshopped, he said the characters "M S 1 3" shown above the tattoos in the photo Trump had shown, were photoshopped and that the meaning of the actual tattoos, the mariajuana leaf, smiley face, cross and skull were open to interpretation.

Here's the actual photo, being held up by Trump. As the article linked to below points out: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-image-kilmar-abrego-175852020.html

But only if they're the right sort of people, of course. South Africa reels over Trump's offer of refugee status to white Afrikaners https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5352893/south-africa-reels-over-trumps-offer-of-refugee-status-to-white-afrikaners

Trouble with that argument is that he wasn't deported for entering the US illegally, he was deported for being an alien enemy, and under the terms of the Alien Enemies Act (1798). If he isn't a member a dangerous gang, then he isn't subject to the terms of that act and was therefore illegally deported under its terms. (There's a viewpoint that even if he were a gang member, he still wouldn't be subject to the AEA but that's a different argument). If the government wants to eventually deport him for a different, legitimate reason they're perfectly free to do so, as the courts have pointed out.

Trump now saying that he could have Abrego Garcia returned to the US, he just doesn't want to (in defiance of court orders, including from the SCOTUS). Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-abrego-garcia-deported.html So it turns out (surprise, surprise) that when he and other members of his administration kept saying that they couldn't do anything to have him returned, they were being "economical with the truth."

Why do you keep repeating this ridiculous argument? I think I've called you out on it several times already. The felonies (34 of them, actually) were for falsifying business records in the first degree. They were felonies, not misdemeanors and none of them had expired (if they had, the case would have been dismissed on the first day). The underlying crime, as specified in the AP article below, was a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn star. Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0

This wouldn't have applied to you - it's only for numbers registered since January 1, 2022, at least according to the OP.

I was given the same advice in regard to animals running in front of the car, by my BSM driving instructor when I was learning to drive,

You mean they actually lie more often than the Russians do, in relation to this conflict? That would take some doing.