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whatever! Trump blew his wad! haahahaha! didn't use his perceived leverage to get ANYTHING! tested his leverage before negotiating and found that it had no teeth at all! hilarious! NAFTA will get re-negotiated... without these threats. Just like the first time with Trump. Trump will again call it the most beautiful win. it will benefit all parties or it won't get signed.

i hear the crickets singing... Trump fans don't care about democracy bro!

hello Trump fans!? soooo.... quiet.... hahahahaha!

i'm sorry if i didn't explain myself more. laws are up for interpretation in each context. if the jury is convinced that that interpretation is sufficient then the defendant is guilty of a crime. laws cannot be written to encompass the exact details of every conceivable crime. what is the definition of "public nuisance"? i've seen all of the lawyers claiming that there was no law to indict Trump... they're all a bunch of ambulance chasers. they feed this ignorance. like paying from company accounts to lawyers to silence pornstars when running for political office and then chalking it up as a business expense. jury decided it was a crime. like religiously giving banks one inflated asset valuation and then turning around and giving an undervalued asset valuation to an insurance company and the IRS. jury decided it was a crime. the conspiracy one is NOT dead in the water. it was the most damning. for the same reasons i just mention. no one is down with the fake electors plot and subverting an election. a jury would decide it was a crime. but whatever... thats not the OP. the OP is... the Trump administration is already breaking the law and now also IGNORING the judiciary. because of the LEFT? REAP/SOW? hilarious.

absolutely. the emperor has no clothes.

what are their names? Trump is in charge of the FBI now so he will have the names? right? when will Trump release the names? and the charges?

yeah, only in the echo chambers that you live in. others went to jail for the same "non existent" crimes where they broke "non existent" laws. funny that. when a jury of your peers feels that you need to be punished then it doesn't matter. but you conspicuously ignore the big stuff... the conspiracy to steal the election. the withholding of classified documents. the stuff he got caught doing RED HANDED. and he was indicted by juries of his peers. Biden didn't pardon himself. so if he's so guilty then he's waiting for the FBI to indict him. its not going to happen because there isn't a jury of his peers that will do so. you watch. or is Trump just soft on crime again?

yeah, thats really going to help with the sales of US products in Canada and Mexico! ahahahaha! the Trump administration is truly INSANE!! every country in the world is going to reap benefits from the Trump administration... except the US!

i'm sorry... what fabricated political ideological belief system are you coming from? it doesn't matter... you're pushing for Make America Poor Again? is that it?

if you are innocent and can't be proved guilty then it is impossible to weaponize the courts against a political opponent. its just when the political opponent is guilty that it becomes a problem. yes, the president is immune from prosecution for actions he took while executing his duties as president. conspiring to overthrow the election process is not one of those duties and the possession of classified materials after leaving office is not one of those duties either.

well, no he has stated as such. they keep bringing up the dream of the US before income tax. he is quite concerned about the debt ceiling as he may actually not have that power.

you haven't identified anything illegal here. whatever it takes to get criminals behind bars within the law is how it works.

the US has one of the most solid judiciaries on the planet. one is innocent until PROVEN guilty. the number of safe guards in place to protect the innocent often allow the guilty to walk free. if a jury of your peers can be convinced that there is sufficient evidence to indict you and another jury of your peers can be convinced that you are guilty... then you are guilty. sure, there can be an argument to be made that the "other side" is NOT being prosecuted to the same degree. its not an excuse. it does not mean that those adjudicated to be guilty are not felons. if Trump didn't put enough of the guilty in jail his first term then he is just "soft of crime". Hillary did not get "locked up"! and Bidens recent pardons do not prevent him from investigating people anyways and identifying their crimes. but... he won't. because he's not "soft on crime", there just isn't anything to prosecute. no, the Democrats are not to blame for lack of trust in the judiciary. Trump is. thats the tyrants agenda. to constantly be communicating until its believed...that the three pillars of democracy are corrupt. the judiciary, the media and the electoral process. its an ancient model of populist power.

Trump ran on it! he would replace income tax (the progressive tax system) with tariffs (a regressive tax system)! its the GOP "conservatives" wet dream! Navarro is still pushing it even though its clearly going to fail! it has always been a fail. it would never actually work. Navarro: Trump will ‘structurally shift’ American economy with tariff revenue there is no master chess player thing going on here. just pure stupidity by Trump and his teleprompt readers. the GOP know this too but are so damn scared of being primaried that they are content to just let it fail. and possibly let the country fail for awhile too. of course, the latest clear indication that the "tariff economic agenda" is a failure had to be reframed as some kind of win! Navarro on Trump’s tariff threats: ‘It’s a drug war, not a trade war’ we'll see how long it takes for Trump to abandon the whole tariff idea. he was damn sure that he could raise enough revenue to pay for extending his tax cuts. thats impossible. “It’s an absurd idea for many reasons, the biggest being that it is mathematically impossible to replace the income tax with tariffs,” Erica York, senior economist and research director at the right-leaning Tax Foundation. “Imports are a much smaller tax base than taxable income, and there’s no way to squeeze enough revenue from taxing imports to fully replace taxing income. A swap like this would hike taxes on working-class taxpayers and invite harmful retaliation against US exports.” “At first blush, fully replacing $2.4 trillion in income taxes would require a 75% tariff on America’s $3.2 trillion in annual imports,” he said. “However, even that unrealistically assumes that Americans continue purchasing the same imports at nearly double the price.” Trumps first term China tariffs cost taxpayers $26B just for farmer welfare. And its forever because China now buys those products from Brazil. Republicans eye bigger farm bailout amid Trump trade wars "A USDA fund Trump tapped for a $28 billion farm bailout during his first-term tariff clash with China is now running low, lawmakers say. After upcoming payments are made, there will only be an estimated $4 billion left" "It’s not just the immediate threat of price spikes and economic losses that’s of concern. There’s also a fear that tariffs could reshape markets for decades to come: China, for example, has increased its purchases of corn, soybean and other farm products from Brazil and other rising competitors since the 2018 trade war."

just the beginning. the mold is being cast. judges? who cares? the president is immune and has pardon power. who is going to stop this lawlessness? the DOJ? the FBI? nah! EPA spending freeze continues despite court orders

interesting article by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president "The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can’t demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. " "Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it. " "For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101" "From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn't even bringing checkers to a chess match. "

oh yeah, he is the chess genius who is 10 steps ahead at all times. i'd argue the opposite. he shoots in the dark to see what happens. often shooting himself in the foot. this is a good case in point. he implemented maximum leverage before even sitting down to the negotiating table and discovered that he had no leverage. so how the hell are you going to negotiate when the party opposite have already experienced that you have no cards? no, ideally you threaten leverage... hoping that the other side also view it as such. and then you slowly extract what you want while holding that leverage over their heads. particularly if that leverage is untested. he did the opposite.

so, to be clear, you're unaware of any crimes.. specifically?

this is so worth cross posting... how is Trumps deal with Mexico different from Bidens deal? Biden administration agrees to tightening security at border "Mexico made the decision to maintain 10,000 troops at its southern border resulting in twice as many daily migrant interdictions"

how is Trumps deal with Mexico different from Bidens deal? Biden administration agrees to tightening security at border "Mexico made the decision to maintain 10,000 troops at its southern border resulting in twice as many daily migrant interdictions"

god i laughed out loud when Charlie compared Trump to Al Capone during his "syphilitic period"! hilarious! reality. this was announced weeks ago. not sure why Fox News has to pretend it was an outcome of todays discussions.

i wouldn't be surprised if he did... but not in those words. i mean, at this point, when Trump wants to "talk" then you know he is looking for an exit. the DJI took a dump and JT knows that Trump is not going to proceed with what he's threatened.

Trump pauses Canadian tariffs for 30 days in deal with Trudeau Trump blinks again! now its about banks and cars? wtf? like Canada doesn't buy cars? Trump mistaken, U.S. banks can and do operate in Canada US still paying as Canadians stop buying US products and US alcohol still off the shelf. Go Canada!