Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Is President Trump The Dealmaker-In-Chief?

China's Vice Premier Liu He listens to U.S. President Trump as they meet in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Washington Post: Trump says he's the dealmaker-in-chief, but his record lists mostly incompletes

WASHINGTON - Sitting in the Oval Office alongside senior Chinese officials this month, President Donald Trump declared that the United States had reached "a substantial phase one deal" with China - a development that could ease an intensifying trade war that has roiled global markets and hurt many U.S. businesses and consumers.

Within days, however, "the greatest and biggest deal ever made" turned out to be at best a work in progress. Chinese officials signaled they want another round of talks before signing anything, while adding that Trump should scrap a tariff hike scheduled for December before talks proceed.

Nearly three years into his tenure, the president who promised to bring his "Art of the Deal" business savvy to foreign and trade policy has few substantive deals to his name - and is running short on time to deliver big-ticket agreements ahead of Election Day next year.

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WNU Editor: Trade deals take a long time to negotiate. And when they are done, such as the new NAFTA deal with Mexico and Canada, Congress will not give a victory to President Trump by passing it. And as for a Chinese trade deal. China's focus is on seeing President Trump impeached by Congress in the coming months, and then defeated in 2020. They are not going to commit to any trade deals until after 2020, and even then they are primarily hoping that a new Democrat President will return to the status quo before Trump was elected. As a result President Trump is using the only lever that he has, which is issuing executive orders .... Trump outstripping Obama on pace of executive orders (AP). And in my opinion issuing executive orders is not the "Art of The Deal".

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trump’s Cabinet meetings are about everything but the business of his Cabinet
They have served as a chance for the president to boast and lash out at critics
Fact Checker: 15 claims from the Cabinet session
Analysis: How Trump inflated his economic record at his Cabinet meeting
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY
Trump compares probe to ‘lynching,’ drawing swift condemnation
The president’s tweet seized on a word associated with killing of thousands, predominantly African Americans.

By Colby Itkowitz46 minutes ago

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Graham defends Trump’s use of ‘lynching’ term
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Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped sour Trump on Ukraine
President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a view of that country as hopelessly corrupt by its regional adversaries.

By Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, John Hudson and Ellen Nakashima

Diplomat who raised alarm about withholding aid to Ukraine testifies
Acting ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. had told colleagues it was “crazy” to hold up aid for “help with a political campaign.”
By Anne Gearan and John Wagner
Trump promised to bring his ‘Art of the Deal’ savvy to the presidency, but his record lists mostly incompletes
While President Trump has landed a handful of victories, he is running short on time to deliver big-ticket agreements ahead of Election Day.

Anonymous said...

Fredo or a Fredo acolyte has been triggered.

Anonymous said...

In 1999, Donald Trump supported a wealth tax more severe than anything Elizabeth Warren is proposing
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Democrats now have a real chance at winning the Senate in 2020
cnn.com/2019/1...

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Kilroy said...

Ukraine Envoy Testifies Trump Linked Military Aid to Investigations, Lawmaker Says — In closed-door testimony, a Democratic lawmaker said, William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine, drew a “direct line” between President Trump's withholding of security aid and his demand for investigations.
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Anonymous said...

WH Insists Trump Didn’t Mean Lynching When He Called Impeachment A Lynching
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Anonymous said...

The anonymous senior Trump administration official whose 2018 New York Times op-ed was called treasonous by President Donald Trump has written a new book about Trump titled "A Warning" that will be published next month, CNN has learned.
CNN has exclusively obtained a cover of the book, which has been a closely guarded secret until now and will be released November 19 by Twelve, a division of the Hachette Book Group. The author will remain anonymous, and sources familiar with the book tell CNN that "elaborate precautions have been taken to protect the author's identity."

Anonymous said...

Lynching is Democrat Party things to control people.

Democrats use it to control, uppity whites and blacks.

Democrats also conducted the largest lynching in New Orleans, when they lynched a bunch of Italian Americans.

Democrats can proudly say they are #1 when it comes to lynching.

Remember to make the South Solid. Democrats did hist really on murder and arson against black and white Republicans They used Lynching too.

Lynching is not a term limited to White Democrats hanging black s although Democrats like to pretend it is and then threaten everyone who does not go along with their interpretation


"In 1900 Representative George Henry White, a black Republican from North Carolina, introduced the first anti-lynching bill in Congress. It was subsequently defeated in a committee."

"A silent protest in support of the bill was organized by African Americans on June 14, 1922 in Washington, D.C.[11] Republican U.S. President Warren G. Harding announced his support for Dyer's bill during a speaking engagement in Birmingham, Alabama. Although the bill was quickly passed by a large majority in the House of Representatives, it was prevented from coming to a vote in 1922, 1923, and 1924 in the U.S. Senate, due to filibusters by the Southern Democratic bloc."

THANK YOU DEMOCRATS

Interesting FACT

Lynching 1st occurred in the US during the Revolutionary War to hang loyalists. That is the term came into being without reference to race.

Anonymous said...

DD-214 Lapides

Anonymous said...

So there it is, the inconvenient truth. The truth that more than 1,000 whites were lynched and many of them were lynched because they were Republican, because they supported their fellow black citizens and because they opposed the lawless act of lynching. Equal rights, political autonomy, personal freedom … these are fundamental principles of our democracy.

Anonymous said...

President Donald Trump’s top envoy to Ukraine told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday of intense efforts by administration officials to secure politically-motivated investigations of Trump’s rivals in exchange for a White House meeting with Ukraine’s president and critical military aid, according to sources in the room for the testimony.

William Taylor prompted sighs and gasps when he read a lengthy, 15-page opening statement that appeared to undercut Trump’s denials of a quid pro quo, two of the sources said.

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Another person in the room said Taylor’s statement described “how pervasive the efforts were” among Trump’s allies to persuade Ukrainian officials to launch an investigation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden and another probe centering on a debunked conspiracy theory regarding the 2016 election.

Taylor also described the extent to which military assistance to Ukraine and a potential White House meeting with Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart were tied to those investigations, the source added.

“The body language of the people hearing it was ‘holy s---,’ seriously,” Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.), a member of the Oversight Committee, said in reference to Taylor’s opening statement.

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), a senior member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, characterized the testimony as a “sea change” that “could accelerate” the impeachment inquiry. Another lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, said it was “the most thorough accounting we’ve had of the timeline.”

Anonymous said...

The whistleblower complaint at the heart of the impeachment inquiry didn’t just contain evidence that the president pressured a foreign government to help him win reelection. It also contained evidence of a potential campaign finance violation. When President Trump asked for dirt on his political opponent, he likely illegally solicited a “thing of value” from a foreign national.

In August, Justice Department officials decided that rather than turn the whistleblower complaint over to Congress, department lawyers would assess the allegations against Trump, including evidence that the president had broken campaign finance law. After what news reports described as a cursory review, the department declined to launch a criminal investigation, finding that Trump had not asked for a “thing of value.” This was a stretch; campaign finance experts generally agree that opposition research damaging to an opponent, which campaigns can pay a lot of money for, is clearly valuable. The FEC also considers it a “thing of value.” Nevertheless, the department lawyers declared the matter case closed.

Anonymous said...

What came 1st?

1st is was Democrats like Biden holding up aid to Ukraine for personal aggrandizement and also to smear a political opponent.

What is Trump doing?

Trying to untangle a conspiracy created by Democrats to steal an election.

What we all know including Democrats (The covetous ones & the dim ones).

The Democrats elite engaged in crimes to steal the primary from Bernie for Hillary. Democrats are not unapologetic. They were caught and all they do is snicker like hyenas.

Democrats engaged in widespread fraud during the 2016 election and they do not want anyone talking to the Italian, Australian, British or Ukrainian government about what they did.

Democrat leadership does not want people to know that not only did they engage in criminal conduct for the primary election bit for the general election too.

Anonymous said...

Trump Floats Mulvaney Replacements Including Mnuchin and Conway


One Day After Trump Called Emoluments Clause ‘Phony,’ Court Sets Hearing in Emoluments Case Against Him

Anonymous said...

If Biden son has done something illegal, the Barr will be the first to indict. He has NOT
Franklin son supported Brits and so an enemy of the nation being formed
an utterly dumb remark. again.

Anonymous said...

We all know that Hunter and daddy Biden did something illegal, but it is like The Emperor's New Clothes. No one wants to challenge the Democrat Establishment. They fear the man.

Now, if you don't fear God, I would refer you to what physicists hate about astronomy.

Also, you might consider the situation and what economists say about inefficiencies.

But you are not bright. You are just a fuck. So you will have to live as a fuck.