U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Yahoo News: The Washington Post published transcripts of Trump’s colorful calls with 2 foreign leaders
Days after his inauguration, President Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia show a president anxious to live up to the immigration tough talk he touted on the campaign trail.
Transcripts published by the Washington Post on Thursday of the calls between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull contained strikingly tense exchanges.
Predictably, Trump and Peña Nieto had markedly different views on whether Mexico is obligated to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. During the campaign, Trump constantly vowed that Mexico would pay for “100 percent” of the wall’s construction, but the president privately backed off that promise to Peña Nieto.
Despite the disagreement, Trump was friendly toward Peña Nieto, at one point telling him, “It is you and I against the world, Enrique, do not forget.” (He called both foreign leaders by their first names, rather than their titles, throughout both conversations. Both Peña Nieto and Turnbull addressed him as “Mr. President.”)
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WNU Editor: The Washington Post story is here .... ‘This deal will make me look terrible’: Full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia (Washington Post). What's my take .... those who voted for President Trump are relieved that he is focused on the issues they voted him for. And for those who opposed him .... more proof that he is unfit for office and must be removed. As to what will be the consequence of these leaks .... which is what I am interested in .... these leaks are going to make any future telephone conversation between President Trump and any other foreign leader difficult to be arranged, and when it does happen, the other party is going to be reserved on what they are going to say knowing too well that maybe in a few months their talk will be posted on the Washington Post. International diplomacy lives and dies on people keeping their private communications private. And while this type of leaking does happen with diplomats/their cables/and their conversations, I do not recall ever reading a still classified telephone conversation between the U.S. President and a head of state. Bottom line .... the U.S President's ability to conduct foreign policy has just been severely limited.
Actually the leaks of President Petulant Man/Baby's transcripts and the Politico leak of the WSJ's full interview, enhances the US's abilitity to conduct sucessful Foreign Policy, because it makes clear:
ReplyDelete- Hair Twitler's a moron,
- Hair Twitler has to be both prepped and baby sat by The Adults for there is to be any real discussions,
- all meetings, discussions et al must be conducted in "public" with lot's of witnesses because President Petulant Man/Baby's a moron with no ability to learn, and is willing to lie his ass off about even the most trivial events.
Where past Presidencies could conduct one on one Diplomacy and Foreign Policy,
The leaks make it very clear that the Adolph Twitler Presidency cannot.
The Foreign Policy "threat" is not the leaks, it's the Moron In Charge.
http://i.imgur.com/KzAKjvM.jpg
ReplyDeleteThe leakers are Obama holdovers. What they're doing is illegal. They don't like the outcome of the election and they're trying to annul it. What's going on is a coup. If you think this is going to damage Trump in the eyes of his supporters, the opposite will occur and is occurring. And there's a good chance that there isn't 50 leakers working overtime passing on secret information, it may be just a few.
ReplyDeleteAnd the threat here is hardcore transnational progressivism. The symptom is seditious interference with POTUS' ability to do his job.
"US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced four people have been charged over leakshttps://t.co/7JVA0lxJBl pic.twitter.com/K53ynNQYVh
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 4, 2017
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced four people have been charged over leaks as he launched a crackdown on disclosure of classified material.
He said the suspects stood accused of unlawfully divulging classified information or concealing contacts with foreign intelligence officers.
America's top prosecutor said the administration has tripled the number of active leak probes since January."
Jeff Sessions Suggests Justice Department May Subpoena Reporters to Quell WH Leaks https://t.co/jeCkB7vx99 pic.twitter.com/o8Ol2F34zP
Mediaite Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 4, 2017
Word is, Mike Pence leaked the transcripts.
Deletehang the leakers, nothing less
ReplyDeleteNo evidence as to leakers but you know?
ReplyDeleteDumb bias
"The excuse, as always, is that the leaks “place lives at risk.” Refresh my memory, y’all: Have any leaks from the Trump White House endangered troops or imperiled U.S. citizens or foreign assets — aside from when Trump opened his big fat yap and bragged to the Russians about intelligence on ISIS, torching an Israeli asset?
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, the leak of the transcript of Trump’s conversations with the Australian PM and Mexican president is intolerable to the administration. Not because any valuable intelligence was exposed, but rather because a staggering LACK of intelligence was revealed: The president is a blithering idiot, a liar and a shitty negotiator."
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/08/04/first-they-came-for-the-first-amendment/
No fred, it's sort of a modified Occam's Razor. Instead of the simplest answer, it's more of a "Why wouldn't they?" approach.
ReplyDeleteOther than the yard, kitchen and janitorial staff, there's no Obama holdover's in the White House, and the leaks are coming from inside the house.
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Nope. Wrong. There's dozens of Obama holdovers and career gov't staffers who are happily backstabbing Trump.
ReplyDeleteMcMaster is busy purging pretty much anyone loyal to Trump and keeping the Obama holdovers who infest both the White House and State.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/mcmaster-warpath-purges-key-trump-allies-white-house-nsc/
And the reason we keep getting these establishment favorites like McMaster and Kelly in powerful cabinet positions is because the House/Senate are deliberately blocking Trumpop's preferred people.
They all went on their August vacation, but the GOP leadership stayed on in phony session to lob pro forma floor motions so they're not actually in recess. Prohibiting Trump from making recess appointments. Its the GOP-E doing this. McConnell et al. Deliberately hindering the the the office of the president.
We will all remember come primary season.
LMFAO,
DeleteThere are no Obama era staffers in the White House,
The leaks are coming from inside the House,
Word on the street, is it was Pence,
LMFAO
If Pence did this we can expect his resignation. Like tomorrow.
ReplyDelete/I mean if balloon juice says it, it must be true.
LMFAO,
DeleteThe Republican House and Senate passed their only significant legislation in 6 months, the Russian Sanctions Act, in a manner that Adolph Twitler had to sign it,
The Republican Senate has arranged "pro-forma" sessions during the Recess, so that while Cheeto Benito can try to fire people, he can't make any Recess Appointments,
LMFAO,
Pence ain't resigning until after Mueller makes the arrest.
LMFAO,
The General's have taken charge, trying to "save America",
https://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2017/08/trumps-generals-are-trying-to-save-world.html?m=1
From Trump, the Gullibillies, the Deplorables and the alt-Reich,
LMFAO
I see you've succeeded in totally convincing..... yourself. That there is some vivid political fantasy. Drippingly so
ReplyDeleteTwain had a quote: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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Deletehttp://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article165303667.html
ReplyDeleteRoosevelt,” that official quipped to Guajardo about Trump. “He speaks loudly and carries a small stick.”
Seven months into the Trump administration, the world’s diplomatic community has gone from throwing its hands in the air to now leaning back in their chairs and laughing, albeit morosely, at Trump’s cringe-worthy display of diplomacy during the infancy of his presidency.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-whole-world-is-laughing-at-us/
"Australian TV panel tries to discuss leaked Trump transcripts, can’t stop laughing"
"those who voted for President Trump are relieved that he is focused on the issues they voted him for. And for those who opposed him .... more proof that he is unfit for office and must be removed."
ReplyDeleteLike the RAISE act?
Is that what people want to impeach him over?
A neighbor immigrated here from overseas. His job is stocking shelves. He can't speak English. He hangs out with chicks from public housing. Now he's gone. Any takers on where he went?
"more proof that he is unfit for office and must be removed. "
ReplyDeleteFOR WHAT?
Not speaking The Queen's English with proper diction?
I am sure that is a mortal offense to many in The Beltway, the Intelligentsia, and those who think they are in the Intelligentsia.
I am reading through the conversation and find nothing wrong.
LMFAO
DeletePS it's almost a year now and still no evidence of collusion by your side. Again. .I hate Trump and wish he'd be gone and stay on his golf courses for the rest of his life. But your side absolutely needs to bring that evidence. I've been telling you for months and still nothing. NaDa. ..so yeah. .guys like you are probably the most damaging to democracy at the moment. Talking BS all day long, innuendo, dividing the country, applauding internationally damaging leaks, suggesting criminal acts etc all without evidence. You know in some countries this is considered defamation. In your head this is normal. What's your agenda? Why do you so blindly join this name calling and even compare him to Hitler? Don't you see how this must hurt Jews for example? I'm sorry for calling you names sometimes but you seem to be fixated on him being guilty instead of waiting for evidence. And why are you pro leaks? Other countries, including Canada suffer from these leaks too...it's not just embarrassing to Trump,don't you get that? ??
ReplyDeleteRight. I am old enough to recall that calling the National Socialist Party and its leader, Hitler, names could get you send to concentration camp. As for length of time you note, anon: you simply do not know how these things work. "We" call names and then you go on and on calling names.
ReplyDeleteNames should not get you sent to a concentration camp, but names should get you divorced at some point.
ReplyDelete""We" call names and then you go on and on calling names."
Bingo! Have you read Malcom X? Have you studied structural science? If you do then maybe you can draw the proper conclusion. (We're not the ones holding the leash. You are.)
BTW that looked like an admission and perceptive. Enjoy