Are Trump & Trumpism a set-up for 500,000+ avoidable deaths in next 7 - 10 years?

X Factor said:

Moving our embassy to Jerusalem is one of the things Trump's done I like best. Israel's obviously down for it. What business really is of anyone else? I swear sometimes the "international community" is like that mean girl that doesn't want anyone to like who they don't.

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Iran nuclear deal: Trump to reveal US decision ahead of deadline
Iran nuclear deal: Trump to reveal US decision ahead of deadline - BBC News
BBC News-3 hours ago
President Donald Trump is to reveal whether the US will abandon the nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions. Mr Trump has been ... Mr Rouhani represents the more moderate face of Iran's leadership, and he helped finalise the nuclear deal in a bid to ease the desperate state of Iran's economy.

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Is regime change in Iran part of Trump's agenda?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...part-of-trumps-agenda/?utm_term=.2d6ecfd58bc6
Washington Post-May 6, 2018
Bolton, Giuliani and a host of Washington politicos from both parties have supported — and likely taken money from — front groups directly related to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian resistance group that operates in exile. Its agents have been implicated in the deaths of Americans and thousands ...

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https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBl...om-cotton-john-bolton-and-cambridge-analytica
Tom Cotton, John Bolton, and Cambridge Analytica
Posted By David Ramsey on Mon, Apr 9, 2018

.....Bolton's PAC poured more than $800,000 into Cotton's race. The Cotton campaign itself also hired Cambridge Analytica (Robert Mercer, the conservative billionaire and part owner of Cambridge Analytica, was a major donor to both Bolton's PAC and Cotton's campaign). Cotton also benefited from two other PACs — B-PAC ($77,916 spent on behalf of Cotton in the 2014 race) and the Ted Cruz-affiliated Jobs Growth and Freedom Fund ($5,333) — that contracted with Cambridge Analytica.

Bolton's super PAC, one of the bigger outside spenders backing Cotton in 2014, has now paid Cambridge Analytica more than $1 million. Surreptitiously harvesting personal data of unsuspecting citizens is a pricey business.

Cotton said yesterday that Bolton "understands how to make the levers of power in Washington move" and "knows how to make things happen." Certainly Bolton helped make things happen for Tom Cotton. ...

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https://theintercept.com/2017/10/18/is-there-a-more-dangerous-member-of-congress-than-tom-cotton/
IN THE AGE OF TRUMP, TOM COTTON MAY BE AMERICA’S MOST DANGEROUS SENATOR
Mehdi Hasan
October 18 2017

..The hawkish Republican senator and former U.S. Army captain has never hidden his relentless obsession with confronting Iran. He has led the charge on Capitol Hill to dismantle the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic while constantly banging the drum for tougher sanctions and even airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. With apologies to Winston Churchill, Cotton wants “war-war” not “jaw-jaw” — and he seems to have won over the know-nothing president of the United States. Last week, President Donald Trump refused to certify to Congress that the Iran nuclear deal is in the U.S. national interest and warned that U.S participation in that agreement could “be cancelled by me, as president, at any time.”....

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/world/middleeast/john-bolton-regime-change-iran.html
M.E.K.: The Group John Bolton Wants to Rule Iran
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By Nilo Tabrizy

May 7, 2018
President Trump has never been a fan of the Iran nuclear deal. Now, he’s told Britain, France and Germany to fix three key points by May 12 — or he’ll pull the U.S. out......
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ends-iran-deal-we-have-definitive-proof-they-lied
Trump Ends Iran Deal: We Have ‘Definitive Proof’ They Lied
May 8, 2018
...He referenced intelligence documents that Israel published last week, which showed that Iran pursued a covert nuclear-weapons program in the 1990s, before the 2015 deal was reached. “We have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie,” he said. Trump claimed the documents “conclusively show[ed] a history of pursuing nuclear weapons. It was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never ever been made.” He added that “Iran’s bloody ambitions have only grown more brazen.” “It is clear to me that we can not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under a decaying and rotten structure... America will not be held hostage to nuke blackmail,” he said....

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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/iran-deal/559235/
Trump May Already Be Violating the Iran Deal
The deal’s opponents keep saying Tehran has failed to live up to its commitments to the U.S. But what if it’s the other way around?
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
PETER BEINART APR 29, 2018

...There’s an irony here. For all of the drama surrounding Trump’s decision to decertify Iranian compliance with the deal, there’s little doubt that Iran is complying. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said so nine times. America’s European allies have said so. So has Trump’s own defense secretary, James Mattis. This very month, Trump’s State Department issued a report declaring that “Iran continued to fulfill its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” the technical name for the nuclear deal. (The deal’s opponents often cite the two times Iran narrowly exceeded the agreement’s 130-metric-ton cap on heavy water, which is used in nuclear reactors: In both cases Iran shipped the excess out of the country, and it remains in compliance with the deal.)...

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RabidAlpaca said:

If you're not ready to be a vapid sellout to radical zionism, the Republican party really isn't the party for you.



Of course, young men who train to fight for their country want to do just that. A hammer will tend to see most problems as nails ready to be hammered. That doesn't mean that we should send them to die without good cause as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, wiser minds need to make that decision but unfortunately the Trump administration has gotten rid of most of those. Instead we have Bolton, a man who loves war because he's never had to taste it and is ready to send our brave servicemen to die for his beliefs.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/fema-donald-trump-puerto-rico/index.html
At FEMA, Trump remained mum on new Puerto Rico death toll
Jeremy Diamond 2017
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 4:53 PM ET, Wed June 6, 2018
(CNN)President Donald Trump visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, just over a week after a new Harvard study estimated more than 4,600 people in Puerto Rico died in Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41487814
Puerto Rico: Trump compares Maria and Katrina deaths
4 October 2017
..."What is your death count as of this moment? Seventeen? Sixteen people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands," he said, referring to the 2005 hurricane that killed 1,833 people in New Orleans.

The number killed by Maria was later increased to 34, with 19 killed directly by the hurricane, according to a spokesman for Governor Ricardo Rosello.
Mr Trump also pointed out the impact on US spending from storm recovery on the island, which itself was already facing a budget shortfall of $72bn (£54bn).
"Now, I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that's fine," he said.
"We've saved a lot of lives," he added...

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But even as he was briefed on the upcoming hurricane season, the President remained mum on the new estimate, which dwarfs the
government's official 64-person death toll. Instead, the President praised FEMA and other US officials, telling them they should be "very proud" of their work
to beat back last year's devastating hurricane season.
"We really appreciate the job you've done," Trump told FEMA officials and members of his Cabinet. "I want to thank you very much."...

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