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Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump


President Donald Trump spoke with CNBC anchor Joe Kernen on Thursday just outside the Oval Office at the White House. The conversation touched on the state of the U.S. economy, America's trade wars — and the president's news-making remarks about the Federal Reserve's ongoing interest-rate hikes.

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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:
I have been far tougher on Russia than any President in many many years. Maybe ever. Even the big fight I have with Germany over the fact that they're taking natural gas, they’re taking energy from Russia. Paying them billions of dollars. I said, wait a minute, we're supposed to be protecting you from Russia and you're paying them billions of dollars. What's that all about? Now, do you think that's a positive for Russia? I’m talking them out of things that where they were given billions of dollars. It's ridiculous by the way that that's happening. And then on top of that, Germany pays a fraction of what they should be paying for defense. We're supposed to be defend them. So they’re paying Russia and we're supposed to defend them from Russia. so just look at that point. But look at the sanctions I have put on. Look at the diplomats I threw out. Look at all the things that I have done. Nobody else did what I have done. Obama didn’t do it. Obama was a patsy for Russia. He was a total patsy. Look at the statement he made. When he thought the mics were turned off okay, the stupid statement he made. No one makes a big deal of that. getting along with President Putin getting along with Russia is a positive not a negative. Now, with that being said if that doesn’t work out I'll be the worst enemy he's ever had.. the worst he's ever had.

 
Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:




You do know that trump lies, a lot of the time. One instants here would be sanctions, he has fought against Congress applying more on Russia and when they passed them anyway he has refused to apply them. One if these days you just might get the fact that Trump lies through his teeth and that you fall for them on a regular basis or maybe you will always live in denial, life is full of choices.
 
Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:




IMO Trump is using "the carrot and the stick" methodology with Russia. He offers conciliatory remarks seeking some particular goal for US interests, but uses a stick to keep Russia in line.

Actions speak louder than words, and his actions since taking office show he is trying to keep his promises despite naysayers objections.

IMO more and more Americans are coming to see that things are not all "doom and gloom" as some on the Left would have them believe.
 
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Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:

I can't without an interpreter.
 
You do know that trump lies, a lot of the time. One instants here would be sanctions, he has fought against Congress applying more on Russia and when they passed them anyway he has refused to apply them. One if these days you just might get the fact that Trump lies through his teeth and that you fall for them on a regular basis or maybe you will always live in denial, life is full of choices.

Bolded is a lie. He may have said he doesn't think theyre necessary but he did sign the legislation from congress applying those sanctions.
 
You do know that trump lies, a lot of the time. One instants here would be sanctions, he has fought against Congress applying more on Russia and when they passed them anyway he has refused to apply them. One if these days you just might get the fact that Trump lies through his teeth and that you fall for them on a regular basis or maybe you will always live in denial, life is full of choices.

I fall for nothing. I actually inform myself of the facts. You might want to try it.

Speaking of self-denial, ... get out of the echo chamber and learn what this president has done regarding Russian sanctions. I challenge you to find one president in this century who has been as tough on Putin as President Trump.

So much so, the sanctions resemble a Russian nesting doll: one sanction of top of another, on top of another.

Just last April, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions on Russia — including strict sanctions on seven of Russia’s richest individuals and 17 top government officials for their interference in our elections.

The sanctions directly penalized President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle by prohibiting them from traveling to the United States ever again. He did this by opening a bank account in the West, preventing them from doing business with the West and prohibiting anyone else to do business on their behalf.

The sanctions were significant — among the toughest sanctions ever placed on individuals in a foreign country, with the exception of perhaps Iran and North Korea. Yet like many of Trump’s successes, it received minimal mainstream media coverage.

During his first month in office in January 2017, President Trump upheld strict sanctions to punish Russia for its unlawful 2014 annexation of Crimea. With those sanctions, the Trump administration punished more than three dozen individuals and organizations that were behind the invasion of Ukraine.

Even Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had a hand in the actions, stating that there would be no easing of the sanctions until Russia meets its obligations under the 2015 Minsk agreement — the ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

In August 2017, Trump signed a bill slapping even more sanctions on Russia — this time specifically aimed at the country’s energy and defense industries. Congress made the legislation Trump-proof, meaning that no executive order could ever undo such sanctions; yet Trump signed it anyway.

In fact it was Trump — not Obama — who ordered the closure of Russian diplomatic properties in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and New York City that appeared to be a threat to American security.

It was also President Trump who shuttered the Russian consulate in Seattle.

To be sure, Obama kicked 35 Russian diplomats out of the country after suspected election meddling by Russia, but only after Trump won the 2016 election. It is questionable whether he would have done so had Hillary Clinton succeeded in being the victor.

Furthermore, it was President Trump who led the world in expelling Russian diplomats after the Russian government was suspected of carrying out a nerve agent attack in the United Kingdom against one of their former spies. President Trump moved swiftly to expel 60 Russian diplomats from U.S. soil, and other countries followed suit by expelling dozens as well.

In addition to stringent sanctions, President Trump has also called out Russia publicly.

During a landmark speech last year in Poland, Trump lambasted Russia for using oil to hold NATO’s Eastern European countries hostage. Trump underscored the dangers of those countries’ dependence on Russian oil deliveries to keep their people warm during the winter, leading to their inability to criticize Russia the rest of the year.

The Trump administration even offered to help identify alternative energy sources for the region. Trump’s remarks on European soil was the energy industry equivalent of Reagan’s “tear down that wall” speech.

Compare all of the above actions to Obama’s milquetoast policy on Russia and outright appeasement on issues such as the “red line” that Russia blew right past in Syria. Obama’s lackluster track record with Russia is in stark contrast to the Trump administration that has already, in its first 18 months, surpassed what Obama did over a total of eight years.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-ho...er-on-russia-in-18-months-than-obama-in-eight
 
Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




____________________________________________

My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:


Lmao, the lies continue.

Not only is he tougher than Obama, he even kicked out people and Obama didn't! Except of course the Obama administration passed sanctions on the Putin administration that they were working with Michael Flynn to overturn.

The same Michael Flynn Trump didn't want the FBI going too hard on and requested a break for. The same Flynn who was an undeclared foreign agent working for a foreign government to push through their agenda. The same FBI he threw under the bus for the entire world to see while standing next to Putin.

All of this tough talk at home isn't believed anymore. We saw his car salesman act next to Putin and nobody believed for one second he was protecting US interests.

You better be ready for November. We know, we know, you voted for Hillary. That's as believable as Trump saying he has been tougher than anyone.





Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.
 
IMO Trump is using "the carrot and the stick" methodology with Russia. He offers conciliatory remarks seeking some particular goal for US interests, but uses a stick to keep Russia in line.

Actions speak louder than words, and his actions since taking office show he is trying to keep his promises despite naysayers objections.

IMO more and more Americans are coming to see that things are not all "doom and gloom" as some on the Left would have them believe.

We all know why the left is blowing this Putin thing out of proportion. They're being told to resist anything good this president does. They would rather put their politics ahead of the good of the country, an attempt at good relations which in the long run will be in the best interests of The United States.

Trump has done plenty that is good for our country on the global stage. His foreign policy is on mark...Even Angela Merkel agrees that it is good Putin is coming to the WH in the fall. I recall her words, "it's good for all."

"That talks are held is basically good for all, in particular between these two countries," Merkel said.
"I find that meetings between the US and Russian presidents must return to normality," she said.

I trust Mike Pompeo, SOS, former director of the CIA for one year, that we are on the right track with Russia.
Read what he has to say:
Pompeo says a second Trump-Putin meeting is 'all to the good'
 
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Lmao, the lies continue.

Not only is he tougher than Obama, he even kicked out people and Obama didn't! Except of course the Obama administration passed sanctions on the Putin administration that they were working with Michael Flynn to overturn.

The same Michael Flynn Trump didn't want the FBI going too hard on and requested a break for. The same Flynn who was an undeclared foreign agent working for a foreign government to push through their agenda. The same FBI he threw under the bus for the entire world to see while standing next to Putin.

All of this tough talk at home isn't believed anymore. We saw his car salesman act next to Putin and nobody believed for one second he was protecting US interests.

You better be ready for November. We know, we know, you voted for Hillary. That's as believable as Trump saying he has been tougher than anyone.





Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.

I didn't vote for Hillary and what does your lie have to do with the subject of this thread?
 
I didn't vote for Hillary and what does your lie have to do with the subject of this thread?
I was just inserting voting anecdotes randomly before you did. It seems to be your standard response to being criticized for being a Trump supporter. I regularly mock posters who preface their posts supporting/criticizing with some meaningless reference about their voting record.

It's cute that you ignored the straight up lies in Trump's statements though. You do realize Michael Flynn in his present situation would not agree with anything Trump has said, right?


Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.
 
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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. ... President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.


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IMO Trump is using "the carrot and the stick" methodology with Russia. He offers conciliatory remarks seeking some particular goal for US interests, but uses a stick to keep Russia in line.

Actions speak louder than words, and his actions since taking office show he is trying to keep his promises despite naysayers objections.

IMO more and more Americans are coming to see that things are not all "doom and gloom" as some on the Left would have them believe.

Trump's ACTIONS have been to fight against any sanctions on Russia. Congress passed more sanctions and the ACTIONS of Trump was to not enact them. Trump has gone so far to believe foreign dictators like Putin and Kim over the US intelligence agencies and reality while calling the media the enemy of the people. THOSE are the TRAITOROUS ACTIONS that you ignore and continue to cheer Trump on. Pathetic on your part.
 
Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




____________________________________________

My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:




We can always count on you to faithfully parrot the propaganda.
 
We can always count on you to faithfully parrot the propaganda.
Get ready, irrelevant claims that she didn't vote for Trump are coming.

Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.
 
Watch CNBC's full exclusive interview with President Trump




____________________________________________

My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/19/trump-us-russia-relations-putins-worst-enemy.html

President Trump:






“My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia. As usual, he does not hold back.”

“President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative, the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker; a traitor.”

Wrong, wrong, wrong. You have no evidence to back up Trump’s quotes or can’t do so without also pointing the finger elsewhere as well, like at us:

“They’re taking energy from Russia”

So are we. In 2013, our largest import category from Russia was fuel oil, $19.4B. And, talking about trade imbalance, our worldwide trade deficit in 2017 was 20% of our total trade in goods whereas it was 71% with Russia. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

“Germany pays a fraction of what they should be paying for defense.”

And that fraction is in accordance with NATO agreements made before Trump. Nothing Trump has said has changed either the percentage of the agreed goal nor the schedule in achieving that goal. Germany nor any other NATO nation is “in arrears”.

“We're supposed to be defend them.”

NATO is a mutual defense agreement. It is a forward line of defense. Europe is the frontline separating the US from Russia. You know, fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here on home soil. It’s Europe that is the initial sacrifice.

“But look at the sanctions”

No. Look at the sanctions Congress forced Trump, against his own wishes, to put on Russia.

“Look at the diplomats I threw out”

No. Trump angrily objected to the number of diplomats that were thrown out. The president specifically told aides to “match their numbers,”. “We’re not taking the lead. We’re matching,” Trump said. A total of 100 Russian diplomats were expelled by the US and European countries, 60 of them by the US. Trump wanted only 40 to be expelled from the US. Trump purposely held back from expelling Russian diplomats until the European countries had committed to doing so first. He didn't want to look so bad to his friend, Putin.

BTW, the State Dept. said that Russia can replace those diplomats on a case-by-case basis.

“Nobody else did what I have done. Obama didn’t do it.”

Wrong. More lies, disingenuity, or pure ignorance. Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats in response to Russian interference with the US presidential election, including sweeping new sanctions.

As usual, Trump lies like a rug. Narcissistically unconscious lies as they may be.
 
We can always count on you to faithfully parrot the propaganda.

I challenge you to prove what was said in the interview is propaganda. Be sure and back up your proof with legitimate sources.
 
Trump said in his interview: “Nobody else did what I have done. Obama didn’t do it.”

Wrong. More lies, disingenuity, or pure ignorance. Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats in response to Russian interference with the US presidential election, including sweeping new sanctions.

As usual, Trump lies like a rug. Narcissistically unconscious lies as they may be.

In this regard, expelling Russian diplomats, Trump did do more, so he did not lie...
President Donald Trump's administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats from the US, closing a Russian diplomatic compound in Seattle in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK.
 
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My comment: Particularly informative are the president's comments on Russia.
You mean he makes excuses for them.

As usual, he does not hold back.
Yea, blames everyone else but not Russia, so yes he is holding back on them.

President Trump pretty much debunks the false narrative
That moron couldn't debunk a coin toss.

the whirling hysteria that Trump is Putin's boot licker
Denying facts does not change them.
 
You mean he makes excuses for them.

Yea, blames everyone else but not Russia, so yes he is holding back on them.

That moron couldn't debunk a coin toss.

Denying facts does not change them.

Do you feel better now after getting out all that bile?
If so, care to refute Trump's points expressed in the CNBC interview with legitimate sources?
 
IMO Trump is using "the carrot and the stick" methodology with Russia. He offers conciliatory remarks seeking some particular goal for US interests
Such as?

but uses a stick to keep Russia in line.
Yes, he said please, pretty please do not do that again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJvHc65knmU

Actions speak louder than words
Hence the deafening silence.

and his actions since taking office
Have been nothing but deplorable.

IMO more and more Americans are coming to see that things are not all "doom and gloom" as some on the Left would have them believe.
Yea, they are worse.
 
Trump's ACTIONS have been to fight against any sanctions on Russia. Congress passed more sanctions and the ACTIONS of Trump was to not enact them. Trump has gone so far to believe foreign dictators like Putin and Kim over the US intelligence agencies and reality while calling the media the enemy of the people. THOSE are the TRAITOROUS ACTIONS that you ignore and continue to cheer Trump on. Pathetic on your part.

Since the media have had almost endless coverage of supposed Russian collusion and Russian meddling in the 2016 election, shouldn't we get wall-to-wall coverage that the Obama chief cyber-official was ordered to stop investigating Russia's attack on the election months before the election?

The Obama White House's chief cyber official testified Wednesday that proposals he was developing to counter Russia's attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a "back burner" after he was ordered to stand down his efforts in the summer of 2016.

We have been told how tough Obama was on Russia (even though the media know he told Russia he would be flexible) and the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department were so concerned about Russian collusion in 2016 that they had to get court orders to spy on people around Trump. But now we know that the cyber-security investigation was ordered to be stopped months before that. Does that make sense?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...ssia_cyberattack_standdown.html#ixzz5LudFUACw

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-cy...ssian-cyberattacks-summer-2016-204935758.html

https://counterjihadreport.com/2018/06/25/why-obama-wanted-the-russians-to-hack-the-election/
 
Go ahead and refute the facts mentioned in the NPR article.

"There's never been a president as tough on Russia as I have been," Trump told reporters on Wednesday.

That might sound like hyperbole, but in this case, there's actually some basis for the president's boast.

"When you actually look at the substance of what this administration has done, not the rhetoric but the substance, this administration has been much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era," said Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Take military spending: Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration. The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops.

"Those loosened rules of engagement have resulted in direct military clashes with Russian militants and mercenaries on the ground, actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side," Vajdich said.

The administration has also imposed sanctions on dozens of Russian oligarchs and government officials. And Trump has aggressively promoted U.S. energy exports, although so far that hasn't created much competition for Russia's oil and gas.
 
President Donald Trump’s reported White House invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin has generated intense debate about the essence of U.S. Russia policy. For good reason: It’s painful to think back to the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when candidate Trump insisted that Putin was a “strong leader.” Trump seemed to have an odd definition of leadership; the fact that Putin has invaded neighboring countries, jailed or exiled his political opponents, and extinguished media freedom in Russia did not seem to factor into his evaluation of the Kremlin strongman.

Simultaneously, as Trump was praising Putin, the Republican Party’s commitment to provide Ukraine with lethal military assistance mysteriously disappeared from its platform. Even more egregious was Trump’s explicit comparison of the United States to Russia. “You think our country’s so innocent?” he asked Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, drawing an unthinkable equivalence between the two countries’ governments and actions.

More than a year into Trump’s presidency, however, none of the fears generated by his early statements on Russia have become a reality. If you strip away his ostensibly chummy personal relationship with Putin, Trump’s Russia policy has been drastically more assertive than that of his predecessor. In 14 months, here is what his administration has done:

Authorized lethal military aid to Ukraine. While former President Barack Obama’s administration continuously rejected lethal weapons exports after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Trump is said to have personally approved the policy. Whether he told his staff to downplay the decision is immaterial. In fact, Trump has gone even further, selling Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. These moves could fundamentally change the balance of power on the ground. To be sure, Moscow retains substantial military advantages, but U.S.-made Javelins in Ukrainian hands will reduce the Kremlin’s incentive for large-scale hostilities.

Shuttered two Russian consulates, multiple diplomatic annexes, and expelled 60 diplomats. While Obama did shut down Russian government installations in Maryland and New York, Trump’s closure of consulates in Seattle and San Francisco and the expulsion of dozens of diplomats are unprecedented and important punitive measures.

Sanctioned Russian oligarchs and officials. This month, Trump sanctioned nearly 40 oligarchs, the businesses they own or control, and numerous Russian officials. Significantly, the administration justified its latest sanctions in uniquely broad terms, suggesting that future sanctions need not be tied to specific Russian actions.

Expanded the Magnitsky sanctions list. Trump could have easily refused to expand the Magnitsky sanctions, a list of corrupt Russian officials and human rights violators. Instead, he added names, including Chechen dictator and close Putin associate Ramzan Kadyrov and the son of Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.

Forced the U.S.-based subsidiaries of Russian state-backed propaganda outlets RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents. Despite Kremlin complaints, the Justice Department ordered RT America, RIA Global, Reston Translator, and T&R Productions to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. All are now required to disclose their finances and activities in the United States.

Targeted Russia with sanctions over North Korea, Iran, and Ukraine. The White House sanctioned additional Russian companies and individuals in connection with Moscow’s continued occupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Those targeted included heavy hitters such as Russian Deputy Energy Minister Andrey Cherezov. The administration has also gone after entities known to aid the North Korean and Iranian ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

More than tripled defense initiatives to deter Russian aggression in Europe. Trump’s 2018 budget request for the European Reassurance Initiative totaled nearly $4.8 billion. That’s $1.4 billion more than the Obama administration allocated for the 2017 fiscal year.



Trump’s policy toward the Kremlin should be evaluated on its merits. If you extract partisan politics and strip away justifiable distaste for his general conduct, what remains is arguably the most effective Russia policy since the end of the Cold War.
article snipped for brevity

You can't argue with the facts... Glad I could bring them to the thread. :cool:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/13/trumps-russia-policy-is-better-than-obamas/
 
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