US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

Garth wrote:

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He's accomplished strawberry float all

Moggy wrote:Is everyone tired of all this winning yet?

Moggy wrote:Is everyone tired of all this winning yet?

US President Donald Trump has deleted several tweets endorsing a candidate he backed in an Alabama election after he crashed to defeat on Tuesday.

"Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement," Mr Trump wrote in one now-removed post.

He campaigned for Mr Strange, but could not save him from defeat to ultraconservative firebrand Roy Moore.

The underdog's victory has sent shockwaves through Washington.

Things Republican Roy Moore believes

In one now-deleted Tweet, the president said Mr Strange "will never let you down!" according to news website ProPublica, which documents Mr Trump's posts.

In another, the president said "vote today for 'Big Luther'".

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1/ The man who commissioned Steele's dossier—and stands by its accuracy—has now given more hours of testimony to Congress than any witness.

2/ While tying for most hours of questions with Page (10; Mueller) of any probe witness, Simpson has so far been found to have told 0 lies.

3/ All investigations—House Intel, Senate Intel, Special Counsel—are now said to be taking the dossier's allegations "extremely seriously."

4/ Bob Mueller has begun *locating Steele's clandestine sources*, and one of those sources is now *regularly providing evidence to the FBI*.

5/ The conclusion of the British press—which has researched the dossier *much* more than ours—is "many of its claims have been proven true."

6/ The Independent implies all 3 U.S. investigations concur with the conclusion that "many of [the dossier's] claims have been proven true."

7/ All 3 U.S. investigations are now *actively* seeking to have Steele travel to the United States to testify in person about his dossier.

8/ A secret trip Trump agents made to find Steele is now seen by both Dems and Mueller as an effort to intimidate Steele out of testifying.

9/ Implied in Trump using Nunes (again) to thwart the Russia probe is that Trump believes Steele's dossier and his testimony could hurt him.

10/ Those few Republicans willing to talk to Steele hope to use him to hurt *Comey*—protecting Trump from an impeachable Obstruction charge.

11/ Far from working only on retainer, Steele in fact gave his research gratis to the FBI last summer due to his concern about its contents.

12/ The Independent implies Mueller's suspicion of—and his knowledge about—Manafort's illicit activities was partly provided by the dossier.

13/ Paul Manafort *confirmed to Roger Stone* that he expects to be indicted over allegations identical to the ones made in Steele's dossier.

14/ Steele's dossier is so good—its intel so ahead of the curve—even the FBI has taken *15 months* to catch up and see its leads bear fruit.

15/ The quality of Steele's sources is now becoming known—there are reports sources "D and E" are both Belarusan businessman Sergei Millain.

16/ Sources with "inside knowledge of the Steele report" say Felix Sater—a criminal and Trump business partner—is *also* a Steele informant.

17/ Sater—who by his own admission acted as a go-between between Putin and Trump—can with some certainty sink Trump if he *is* an informant.

18/ Mueller has hired the *very same prosecutor* who *previously* turned Sater into an informant—suggesting it may well have happened again.

19/ Sater's currently "helping federal authorities" on a money laundering case that may involve Trump—linking the Trump and Manafort probes.

20/ THE INDEPENDENT: "Claims Trump was the 'Muscovian Candidate' for the presidency—raised by Mr. Steele—continue to grow and reverberate."

PS/ The only "theory" this feed ever indulges is that Steele's dossier is "at least 80% accurate." That looks to be an *understatement* now.

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PS3/ Despite threats on his life and the life of his family, Steele has *never* backed down from a *single word* of his (GOP-paid) research.

PS4/ What Steele *has* said is raw intel must always be double-checked—which is exactly why he gave his work directly (for free) to the FBI.

PS5/ The FBI double-checked—and now uses Steele's sources, follows his leads to indictments, and takes his work "extremely seriously." {end}

“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time,” he told The Post. “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.”

In 2013, one of his articles stating that President Obama would use his money to open a Muslim culture museum was apparently so convincing that Fox News reported on it.

Terrorists just tried to assassinate Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Afghanistan

Suspected militants unsuccessfully tried to target Secretary of Defense James Mattis in a massive rocket attack during his surprise visit to Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 27.

Insurgents fired more than two dozen rocket-propelled grenades toward Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, where Mattis, along with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, had landed for an unannounced visit to meet with Afghan officials.

Fortunately, Mattis and Stoltenberg had already left the airport hours earlier, but Afghan Interior Ministry spokesperson Najib Danish told reporters that at least one woman died and 11 other civilians were injured in the attack.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the strike, as did ISIS. But two Taliban commanders told NBC News that they had “insiders” in Afghanistan’s security bureaucracy that had informed them of Mattis’s impending arrival.

At a press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Stoltenberg, Mattis told reporters he had only heard a few reports of the attack so far, but that “an attack on an airport anywhere in the world is a criminal act by terrorist."

"If, in fact, this is what they have done, they will find the Afghan Security Forces continuing on the offensive against them in every district of the country right now," Mattis said.

After firing their weapons, three assailants entered a house behind the airport. Kabul police launched a six-hour operation to clear the house, ultimately killing the attackers.

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Researchers at the bipartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy have been tracking 600 Twitter accounts they believe are tied to the Russian government or at the very least spread Russian propaganda, and of the news stories these accounts shared and promoted last week, more than 25 percent "had a primary theme of anti-Americanism," the Times reports. "What we see over and over again is that a lot of the messaging isn't about politics, a specific politician, or political parties," Laura Rosenberger, director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, said. "It's about creating societal division, identifying divisive issues, and fanning the flames."

For example, Twitter has suspended several accounts this week believed to be linked to Russia that pushed out messages both for and against football players kneeling during the national anthem, which was viewed as an attempt to divide Americans. On Thursday, Twitter employees will meet with staffers of the Senate and House intelligence committees as part of their investigations into Russian interference in the election, and a Senate aide told the Times that Twitter, Facebook, and Google have all been invited to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Nov. 1 regarding Russian meddling.

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Garth wrote:

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Moggy wrote:I’ve always known that Americans are crazy patriotic, but the whole “take a knee” thing has shown just how crazy some of them really are. I cannot for the life of me see how taking a knee instead of standing is in any way unpatriotic.

Trump is obviously just using it as a distraction from all the other gooseberry fool going on with his administration, but it amazes me that people are so angry about it.

It’s a sad state of affairs when people are more angry over a black man resting on one knee than they are over unarmed black men being murdered by the police.

Dual wrote:Keep politics out of sport!

Moggy wrote:

Dual wrote:Keep politics out of sport!

Why do they have the national anthem playing at their domestic sports games anyway?

Imagine going to the football and being subjected to God Save the Queen for every single league game.

Preezy wrote: I know, their fascination and hysteria surrounding their flag and national anthem borders on North Korean brainwashing.

Garth wrote:They're weird like that. Many US schools have the kids chant the pledge of allegiance every morning too.

Moggy wrote:

Dual wrote:Keep politics out of sport!

Why do they have the national anthem playing at their domestic sports games anyway?

Imagine going to the football and being subjected to God Save the Queen for every single league game.