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demmiblue's JournalTrump warns of more tariffs if 'great deal' not reached with China
Source: The Hill
The Trump administration could implement another major round of tariffs against China if trade negotiations with the country aren't successful, the president said Monday night.
President Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that another round of trade measures equaling $264 billion in value was "ready to go" if Chinese authorities do not bend to U.S. demands for significant changes to China's trade policies.
“I think that we will make a great deal with China, and it has to be great, because they’ve drained our country,” Trump told Ingraham.
"[But] I have $267 billion waiting to go if we can’t make a deal,” he added.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413775-trump-warns-of-more-tariffs-against-china
Barbra Streisand - Don't Lie to Me (Official Video)
Barbra Streisand Can't Get Trump Out of Her Head. So She Sang About Him.
There are similar messages throughout the album, “Walls,” due on Friday, which also includes a medley of John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” The title track warns that people now “build them where they shouldn’t be.”
In a phone interview from California, Streisand spoke to The New York Times about a range of topics, from her music to presidential power to the remake of “A Star Is Born” to pancakes. But her politics engulfed her. She answered questions about the #MeToo movement by discussing Hillary Clinton’s loss and her belief that Senator Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, should not have quit after he was accused of groping or trying to kiss several women. A question about her last visit to Brooklyn elicited a rumination on democracy and truth. Those who recall her attacks on Senator John McCain in 2008 — and the Arizona Republican’s butchering of “The Way We Were” on “Saturday Night Live” (“Do I know how to sing? About as well as she knows how to govern America.”) — might be amused to hear her now praising the senator, her anti-Trump compatriot.
Pointing to Trump's rhetoric, attorneys for Kansas militiaman convicted of mosque bomb plot ask for
Source: WaPo
Pointing to Trump’s rhetoric, attorneys for Kansas militiaman convicted of mosque bomb plot ask for a more lenient sentence
Attorneys representing a Kansas man convicted of a 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslim refugees by bombing a mosque and apartment complex in Garden City, Kan., have asked a federal judge to consider a more lenient sentence, arguing that President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric should be taken into account as the “backdrop” for the case.
Patrick Eugene Stein faces life in prison for conspiring with two other men to carry out the attack, which was supposed to take place on the day after the 2016 presidential election. On Monday, his attorneys filed a memo in U.S. District Court in the District of Kansas, requesting that Stein receive a sentence of no more than 15 years. They note that Stein was an “early and avid supporter” of Trump, and argue that the climate in the months leading up to the 2016 election should be taken in account when evaluating the comments prosecutors used to build their case.
During the trial in the spring, prosecutors played back recordings in which Stein described Muslim immigrants as “cockroaches” that needed to be exterminated, and talked about killing Muslims with weapons dipped in pigs' blood. Two months before the conversation took place, The Washington Post’s Abigail Hauslohner noted, Trump had referenced a questionable tale about Gen. John J. Pershing killing Muslims with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
"The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president,” James Pratt and Michael Shultz, Stein’s defense attorneys, wrote in their sentencing memo, as HuffPost first reported.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/30/pointing-trumps-rhetoric-attorneys-kansas-militiaman-convicted-mosque-bomb-plot-ask-more-lenient-sentence/?utm_term=.0acfe32aa52a&tid=sm_tw&noredirect=on
.@realDonaldTrump leaves the stage following a MAGA campaign rally at the Southern Illinois Airport
https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1056331330047410176
"By the way, therapy dogs came to Squirrel Hill today."
https://twitter.com/juliareinstein/status/1056607149495869442
The letter in the little girl's hand:
Sarah Sanders: Is there any tragedy the Washington Post won't exploit to attack President...
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1056542731982569472
The President responded by calling them, "Very good people."
THIS WEEK he said "globalists" were hurting the world. "
Globalist" is the white nationalist term for "Jew."
You are LYING.
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1056550062015184896
Josh Marshall: Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs...
For those who don't know this world, "ZOG" is a staple of white supremacist/neo-Nazi websites/literature etc. Stands for "Zionist occupied government", i.e., US govt being controlled by Jews. This guy knows exactly what lever he's pulling when he uses this phrase.
Chris Farrell, the guy in the interview is "Director of Investigations" at @JudicialWatch
Final point. Shooter was clearly a virulent anti-semite of long standing. But what appears to have triggered his rampage is exactly THIS conspiracy theory, that Soros and Jews are funding/directing the caravan. This is little the guy's beef. Pushed on FoxBiz not 12 hrs later.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1056324117329297409
Social media platform used by suspected Pittsburgh shooter banned from PayPal
Source: The Hill
Gab.com, a social media company that was used by the suspect of Saturday's shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, received a notice from PayPal Saturday afternoon saying it would be kicked off the payment platform.
“We are hereby notifying you that we are terminating our relationship with you pursuant to PayPal’s User Agreement. Under the PayPal User Agreement, PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate your account for any reason and at any time upon notice to you,” the website said in an email to Gab’s CEO, which Gab then posted to its Twitter page.
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Gab, which describes itself as “The Home Of Free Speech Online,” rejected claims it bore any responsibility for Saturday’s shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 dead.
The suspected shooter, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, posted on his Gab page that “jews are the children of satan.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/413488-social-media-platform-used-by-suspected-pittsburgh-shooter
Please join me in giving a collective hug to DU's Jewish members and their loved ones.
The attacks on the Jewish community have soared since Trump took office: bomb threats/vandalism of Jewish community centers, desecration of Jewish graves, chants of "Jews will not replace us", hateful signs and symbols becoming more and more visible on the daily... murder.
I know this is just an internet message board, but I hope you know that there is true feeling behind this small gesture...
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