Donald Trump US President: The next 4 years

[Lala81]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/trump-says-union-head-who-accused-him-of-lying-has-done-a-terri/3351080.html

 

 

NEW YORK: Donald Trump clashed on Wednesday with a union official who accused the president-elect of lying about the number of jobs saved in a deal to keep air conditioner maker Carrier from moving some jobs from Indiana to Mexico.

Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents workers at United Technologies Corp's Carrier plant in Indianapolis, in an interview on CNN criticized Trump for at least the second time in two days over the deal.

 

Trump, in a Twitter post on Wednesday, offered a sharp reply: "Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers Local 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!"

On Tuesday, Jones told The Washington Post that when Trump spoke at the Carrier factory last week, "He got up there and, for whatever reason, lied his ass off."

Indiana state officials have agreed to give Carrier US$7 million in tax breaks to encourage it to keep about 1,100 jobs in the state, although about 300 of the jobs are in the company's headquarters and were not scheduled to go to Mexico.

Only 800 of the positions are union factory jobs, and Carrier still plans to send an estimated 1,300 jobs to Mexico.

Some employees are disappointed, Jones said on CNN on Wednesday. "We had a lot of our members, when the word was coming out of 1,100, they thought that they would have a job," he said.

In more remarks on CNN later on Wednesday, Jones responded to Trump's Twitter post. "That's pretty low-down, low life," he said. "He doesn't like to be challenged, and I challenged him."

Trump, who made tough talk on trade a centrepiece of his election campaign, had vowed to impose hefty tariffs if Carrier did not reverse course on shifting jobs to Mexico.

Trump posted another tweet after Jones' later remarks on CNN. "If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana," Trump wrote.

(Reporting by David Ingram in New York and Eric Walsh in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)

- Reuters

 

[Jamesc]

Only US$140,000.

 

My fren Jibby has billions and can talk to Trumpet anytime.

 

  

 

WASHINGTON — Former Senator Bob Dole, acting as a foreign agent for the government of Taiwan, worked behind the scenes over the past six months to establish high-level contact between Taiwanese officials and President-elect Donald J. Trump’s staff, an outreach effort that culminated last week in an unorthodox telephone call between Mr. Trump and Taiwan’s president.

 

Mr. Dole, a lobbyist with the Washington law firm Alston & Bird, coordinated with Mr. Trump’s campaign and the transition team to set up a series of meetings between Mr. Trump’s advisers and officials in Taiwan, according to disclosure documents filed last week with the Justice Department. Mr. Dole also assisted in successful efforts by Taiwan to include language favorable to it in the Republican Party platform, according to the documents.

 

Mr. Dole’s firm received $140,000 from May to October for the work, the forms said.

 

 

[Lala81]

Only US$140,000.

 

My fren Jibby has billions and can talk to Trumpet anytime.

 

  

 

he's not the PM u know, he just can't go out and sapu few billion dollars 

[Fcw75]

Time magazine really nailed it.

 

Divided States of America.

 

Next time no need say USA, just say DSA.

[Staff69]

He didn't say don't replace hor. He just implied that Boeing is ripping them off.

 

One tweet and Boeing gets scared. But let's see if it leads to any concessions on the negotiating table.

 

But whatever it is, still better than some folks who happily defend high costs and tell you that you are ignorant and won't understand how the costs are actually reasonable.

 

 

Did they happens to love white

[Lala81]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/cia-says-russia-intervened-to-help-trump-win-white-house/3357238.html

 

 

WASHINGTON: The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, the Washington Post reported on Friday (Dec 9).

Citing U.S. officials briefed on the matter, the Post said intelligence agencies had identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and others, including the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to WikiLeaks.

 

The officials described the individuals as people known to the intelligence community who were part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and reduce Clinton's chances of winning the election.

"It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected," the Post quoted a senior U.S. official as saying. "That's the consensus view."

The Post said the official had been briefed on an intelligence presentation made by the Central Intelligence Agency to key U.S. senators behind closed-doors last week.

The CIA, in what the Post said was a secret assessment, cited a growing body of evidence from multiple sources. Briefers told the senators it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, the Post quoted officials as saying on condition of anonymity.

In October, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

President Barack Obama has said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences for the attacks. But Russian officials have denied all accusations of interference in the U.S. election.

The CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump has said he is not convinced Russia was behind the cyber attacks. His transition team issued a statement on "claims of foreign interference in U.S. elections" on Friday but did not directly address the issue.

The hacked emails passed to WikiLeaks were a regular source of embarrassment to the Clinton campaign during the race for the presidency.

The CIA presentation fell short of a formal U.S. assessment by all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, the Post said. A senior U.S. official said there remained minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the assessment because some questions are unanswered, it said.

Intelligence agencies did not have specific intelligence showing the Kremlin directed the individuals to pass the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, another senior official told the Post. The actors were "one step" removed from the Russian government rather than government employees, the official said.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said in a television interview that the Russian government was not the source of the emails, the Post said.

- Reuters

 

 

On another hand, this TIME Cover potrait photograph is an absolute masterpiece 

 

http://forward.com/culture/356537/why-times-trump-cover-is-a-subversive-work-of-political-art/

[Ender]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/cia-says-russia-intervened-to-help-trump-win-white-house/3357238.html

 

 

 

On another hand, this TIME Cover potrait photograph is an absolute masterpiece 

 

http://forward.com/culture/356537/why-times-trump-cover-is-a-subversive-work-of-political-art/

Wah,. cold war still on???  ...This is like the TV series The Americans, Alot of normal everyday Americans who are actually Russian spies, waiting to be activated

[Jamesc]

So Russia put the president they want in the US&A?

 

Smart Russians and dumb Americans.

 

 

[Kb27]

Prior election, obama wins, like not much noise, except for a few secession calls.

 

2016 election, trump wins, full of noise.

 

Green party recounts, CIA, FBI involved, obama orders review of Russian hacking.

 

Democrats looks like poor losers.

[Jamesc]

Not bad, donate to my fiend

and get a top job.

 

 

The woman President-elect Donald Trump chose Wednesday to lead the Small Business Administration gave $1 million in October to a super political action committee that supported him.

 

That brings Linda McMahon's total pro-Trump super PAC donations to $7 million. The former wrestling executive gave $6 million over the summer to the group Rebuilding America Now and another $1 million in October to the group Future 45. Both spent money primarily on television advertising.

 

McMahon's most recent contribution was disclosed for the first time in a Federal Election Commission report filed late Thursday.

 

 

[Volvobrick]

He didn't say don't replace hor. He just implied that Boeing is ripping them off.

 

One tweet and Boeing gets scared. But let's see if it leads to any concessions on the negotiating table.

 

But whatever it is, still better than some folks who happily defend high costs and tell you that you are ignorant and won't understand how the costs are actually reasonable.

 

I wonder if we had a MP Trump, would he also tweet about some world most expensive rubbish bin centre.....

[Jamesc]

Nostradamus predicted that US will ally with Russia

 

and go to war with China.

 

For this to happen Trump will need to pick Rex Tillerson

 

as his Sec of State. Rex is very close to Putin and Putin

 

gave him the Russia's Order of Friendship in 2015.

 

All ahead full steam to WWIII.

 

  

[Fcw75]

Nostrildamus?

[Lala81]

Prior election, obama wins, like not much noise, except for a few secession calls.

 

2016 election, trump wins, full of noise.

 

Green party recounts, CIA, FBI involved, obama orders review of Russian hacking.

 

Democrats looks like poor losers.

 

Actually most of the furore has been from people who are genuinely upset.

Remember, Clinton won the popular vote by 2.5 MILLION people.

 

The Russian thing has been on-going since October already. 

 

The Democrats are actually responding poorly, cos Trump says all the populist stuff, so it's very hard for them to attack as well. They don't have Congress/Senate support.

 

[Shull]

Nostradamus predicted that US will ally with Russia

 

and go to war with China.

 

For this to happen Trump will need to pick Rex Tillerson

 

as his Sec of State. Rex is very close to Putin and Putin

 

gave him the Russia's Order of Friendship in 2015.

 

All ahead full steam to WWIII.

 

  

 

China flexing muscle in South China Sea is not helping either..

 

When countries play the nationalistic card, they usually need to deflect attention away from some internal problem..

[Playtime]

To me, the scary part is where do singapore fit in?

 

Our dear leader has demonstrated a near autistic ability to be blind to others sensitivities and offended the 2 big powers.

 

When and if usa and china goes head to head, we may be the one paying the highest price.

[Blueray]

Trump: US doesn't 'have to be bound' by 'one China' policy

 

 

Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump again signaled Sunday a willingness to confront Beijing, questioning whether the United States should keep its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China."

 

"I fully understand the 'one China' policy, but I don't know why we have to be bound by a 'one China' policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday."

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/11/politics/donald-trump-china-taiwan/index.html

 

[Jamesc]

If Trumpet does away with the 1 China policy.

 

Everything changes. 

 

That one call from the Taiwan lady is so powerful

 

and China cannot budge on the 1 China policy.

 

We can look forward to a period of instability

 

and volatility.