Donald Trump
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  Donald Trump  (billionaire businessman, politician) | |
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| Born | Donald John Trump 14 June 1946 Queen's, New York City |
| Alma mater | Fordham University, University of Pennsylvania |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Spouse | • Ivana Zelníčková (1977–91) • Marla Maples (1993–99) • Melania Knauss (2005) |
| Member of | Jeffrey Epstein/Black book, Lolita Express/Passengers, Trump family |
| Supposed perpetrator of | 2021 Washington D.C. Riots |
| Interest of | 7th floor group, Sheldon Adelson, Liz Cheney, Maria Farmer, Noor Bin Laden |
| Subpage | •Donald Trump/2024 presidential campaign •Donald Trump/Assassination attempt in Pennsylvania •Donald Trump/Conspiracy theories •Donald Trump/First Presidency |
Donald Trump is a leading Republican Party contender in the United States presidential election, 2016.[1]
Contents
Brokering an Israel-Palestine deal
On 21 March 2016, Donald Trump addressed some 18,000 supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an influential pro-Israel lobby group, and outlined his most detailed thoughts yet on the prospects for Middle East peace, on curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and on defeating the violent extremists of the Islamic State.
Trump’s AIPAC speech, which unusually for him he read from a prepared text, was a mixture of pandering, implausible bluster and contradictory promises. The billionaire denounced the United Nations as an anti-Israeli opponent of democracy. “We will totally dismantle Iran’s global terrorist network, which is big and powerful—but not powerful like us,” he promised, without further explanation. He said he would “dismantle the disastrous deal” struck by President Barack Obama to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, then seemed to say that he would enforce it, or perhaps the sanctions regime that preceded it, “like you haven’t seen the terms of a contract enforced.”
In his speech to AIPAC, Trump worked hard to cast himself as sternly pro-Israeli. He variously cited his role as Grand Marshal of the 2004 “Salute to Israel” Parade in New York City and his daughter Ivanka’s conversion to Judaism after marriage. Months after angering a gathering of Jewish Republicans by fudging his views on the status of Jerusalem, Trump bowed to conservative pressure and pledged to AIPAC that he would move the American embassy to that divided city, calling it “the eternal capital of the Jewish people”.
Most straightforwardly, Trump brought his constant campaign-trail refrain about being a savvy businessman and deal-maker to AIPAC, offering America as a broker between Israel and the Palestinians. “Deals are made when parties come to the table and negotiate. Each side must give up something it values in exchange for something it requires,” he told delegates.
In the poisonously divided politics of 2016 Washington, even suggesting that Israel might have to give anything up in the name of peace involves challenging conservative shibboleths. In recent years, Republicans have aligned themselves with the views of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in suggesting that Israel should not be prodded to engage in talks, because the Palestinian side has shown no sincerity or seriousness as a potential partner for peace.[2]
"Great respect for Muslims"
On 23 March 2016, in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Donald Trump said he had “great respect for Muslims” and had “many friends that are Muslims”. But when asked what the Muslim community should do to prevent radicalism, Trump replied:
- “I would say this to the Muslims, in the United States also: when they see trouble they have to report, and they are not reporting it. They are absolutely not reporting it. That’s a big problem.”
Speaking in the aftermath of the Brussels atrocities, Trump said:
- “I knew Brussels years ago, I was there probably three or four times and it was so beautiful, so secure and so safe. And now it’s an armed camp - I’m talking about before this new bombing. It’s a different world, a different place. There’s no assimilation. What’s going on there and what’s going on in other cities like Paris and others is a disgrace - an absolute disgrace - that we allow it to happen.”
Trump criticised how the recently arrested Paris bomber, Salah Abdeslam, was “coddled and taken care of by people that live in the neighbourhood”, and claimed “a lot of people in the community” knew the California attacks were being planned. He went on:
- “I have great respect for Muslims. I have many friends that are Muslims. I’m just saying that there is something with radicalised portion that is very bad and very dangerous.”
Trump signalled that efforts to destroy ISIS were not enough. He told the ex-Daily Mirror editor:
- “I would hit ISIS so hard you wouldn’t believe it. I’d get the people over there to put up their soldiers. It’s about time somebody did it. I’d have such back up like you’ve never seen in terms of air power like. You’ve got to take them out and you’ve got to take them out harshly and you’ve got to take them out fast.”
Trump had previously claimed that parts of London were so radicalised that police were afraid to go on the streets, comments dismissed by the Met Police and David Cameron's government.[3]
Quotes by Donald Trump
| Page | Quote | Date | Source |
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| Donald Trump/First Presidency | “Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"” | 6 January 2021 | Twitter, Donald Trump |
| Donald Trump/First Presidency | “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” | 6 January 2021 | Twitter, Donald Trump |
| Donald Trump/First Presidency | “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing, it's the greatest theft in the history of the world” | May 2016 | Donald Trump |
| Immigration and Customs Enforcement | “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.” | May 2018 | White House, New York Times |
Appointments by Donald Trump
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Rome/Deep state | “Commodus, like a number of other late Roman emperors and like Donald Trump was incompetent and consumed by his own vanity. He commissioned innumerable statues of himself as Hercules and had little interest in governance. He used his position as head of state to make himself the star of his own ongoing public show. He fought, victoriously, as a gladiator in the arena in fixed bouts. Power for Commodus, as it is for Trump, was primarily about catering to his bottomless narcissism, hedonism and lust for wealth. He sold public offices to the ancient equivalents of Betsy DeVos and Steve Mnuchin. He orchestrated a vast kleptocracy.” | Chris Hedges | 2017 |
| John Bolton | “Trump spoke with Xi Jinping by phone on June 18, ahead of 2019's Osaka G20 summit, when they would next meet. Trump began by telling Xi he missed him and then said that the most popular thing he had ever been involved with was making a trade deal with China, which would be a big plus politically. They agreed their economic teams could continue meeting. The G20 bilateral arrived, and during the usual media mayhem at the start, Trump said, "we've become friends. My trip to Beijing with my family was one of the most incredible of my life." With the press gone, Xi said this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. He said that some (unnamed) political figures in the United States were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war, this time between China and the United States. Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats, or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don't know, but Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats. He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise.” | John Bolton | June 2020 |
| Richard Branson | “All big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate.” | Richard Branson Nick Davies | August 1990 |
| Jeb Bush | “Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow. ... They seem to be ever, ever-changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of. Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view. All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into — it's kind of disturbing. ... He doesn't believe in things, this is all a game.” | Jeb Bush | August 2016 |
| George Carlin | “An interesting kind of, you know a real rat, it would be nice to see him run over by a truck. but he makes life interesting. These people make my life interesting. (...) I can’t help but marvel at the Leona Helmsleys and the Oliver North and the Donald Trumps and the Zsa Zsa Gabors and the Bess Myerson’s and all these people who managed to get themselves in these ridiculous situations. I am very entertained by the world.” | George Carlin | 1989 |
| Jimmy Carter | “I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you, but the reason is Trump has proven already that he's completely malleable. I don't think he has any fixed opinions that he would really go to the White House and fight for. Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right-wing policies, in my opinion, that would be pursued aggressively if and when he would become president.” | Jimmy Carter | February 2016 |
| Deep state/2017 Popularisation | “The term ‘Deep State’ has entered established parrot journalism, where it joins ‘the one percent’, the other notion ascended from the internet ‘underground’. You can tell by the way it is now mocked in mainstream publications. I first noticed when one of those informed its readers that it lurked somewhere in the remote internet corners given over to conspiracy theory. And now, quite suddenly, there is a mini avalanche of pieces explaining for example why such a thing may exist in Turkey (where the term was first used) or Egypt, but not the United States where all manner of protections guard against it. David Remnick’s article in the New Yorker reflects considerable confusion in parrot journalism ranks about what to do with this concept that has forced itself on America’s consciousness through the combined maneuvers of state and non-state institutions intending to get rid of the new president.” | Karel van Wolferen | 4 April 2017 |
| Jacob Dreizin | “After seeing the (to this day) vakk-seen promoting, 1/6 prisoner-ignoring, Ukraine-loving, Dr. Oz-endorsing, clueless joke that Trump has become, I can tell you this: MAGA is now an illusion, forget it, it failed. It’s not coming back. It’s just a cheap ticket for opportunistic “outsiders” to nail down the pissed-off vote in GOP primaries. The “we need to keep electing MAGA people, and after ten or twenty elections, we’ll finally save the country” track is RIDICULOUS. By the time of the second election, the first crop would be busy fundraising with Big Pharm and the military-industrial complex, LOL.” | Jacob Dreizin | 10 May 2022 |
| Immigration and Customs Enforcement | “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.” | Donald Trump | May 2018 |
| Rupert Murdoch | “Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas, which open America's doors to select immigrants, might be hard to square with his promises to build a wall and close the borders. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, 'We'll figure it out.' "What a fucking idiot," said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.” | Rupert Murdoch Michael Wolff | 2018 |
| Vladimir Putin | “His unpredictability is not related to him exclusively, it is also related to a very strong opposition within the country. They are stopping him from delivering almost any of his election platforms and plans. As soon as he makes a decision on migrants, a court blocks it straight-away. It happens all the time. So, it is wrong to say that his unpredictability depends only on him. No, it depends on the entire American political system.” | Vladimir Putin | July 2018 |
| Bernie Sanders | “What [Donald Trump] is doing and this is his entire political strategy is to divide the American people up based on where we came...So you have a president who gives tax breaks to billionaires and wants to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. That's not what he's going to run on. You've got a president who tried to throw 32 million people off health care. He ain't gonna run on that one. You got a president who gave 83 percent of the tax benefits to the top one percent, not going to run on that one. So how do you win an election? What do you say — You see those undocumented people, they all your enemy. 'Stand with me. Hate them. Let's divide this country up.” | Bernie Sanders | June 2019 |
| Charles Schumer | “"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in response to the president-elect challenging allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this," Schumer added. "What do you think the intelligence community will do if they were motivated to," Maddow wondered. "I don’t know, but from what I am told intelligence officials are very upset with how [Trump] has treated them and talked about them," Schumer replied. "Do we think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean this form of taunting hostility," she said. "Let me tell you. Whether you’re a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community," Schumer noted.” | Charles Schumer | 2017 |
| The Twitter Files | “After the 2016 upsets of Brexit and the election of Trump, however, the establishment soured on free speech. Both events were seen as undermining NATO, and both were blamed on foreign influence on social media—specifically Russia. The U.S. and UK governments in particular saw the need to identify and purge Russian influence operations online and set up a government–private apparatus to do so.” | Peter Svab The Epoch Times | 17 January 2023 |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2018 | 23 January 2018 | 26 January 2018 | Switzerland | ~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
Event Witnessed
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Trump/Assassination attempt in Pennsylvania | Butler Pennsylvania | An assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 2024, missing his skull by a few inches. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:A Mafia Don with a Pompadour | article | 20 March 2016 | William Engdahl | There are two possible conclusions to draw about the billionaire Mafia Don: either Donald Trump didn't know - or else he was fully aware - that his business associates were involved with the US Mafia. Either way, Trump is not fit to occupy "the most powerful office on Earth." |
| Document:After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger | Article | 3 January 2020 | Jefferson Morley | Donald Trump has now fulfilled the wishes of Mossad. After proclaiming his intention to end America’s “stupid endless wars,” the president has effectively declared war on the largest country in the region in solidarity with Israel, the most unpopular country in the Middle East. |
| Document:American Presidents | blog post | 4 November 2020 | Craig Murray | On the US election I showed my limitations with a tweet yesterday evening predicting Joe Biden would win fairly comfortably, and Trump would concede with good grace. I was wrong. |
| Document:Boris Johnson is a threat to democracy itself | Article | 18 June 2019 | Simon Wren-Lewis | We can only hope that while most Conservative members want to live in a world where there is no spoon, enough voters prefer changing the real world in ways that enhance, rather than diminish, our democracy. |
| Document:British military presence near Venezuela ‘extremely concerning’ | Article | 5 February 2019 | Phil Miller | “Britain’s recent history of catastrophic military interventions should rule out any UK participation in Donald Trump’s attempts to destabilise a democratically elected government in Venezuela.” |
| Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou | Article | 8 December 2018 | Christopher Black | Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all. |
| Document:Canada sanctions 40 Venezuelans with links to political, economic crisis | Article | 22 September 2017 | Michelle Zilio | Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, MP for the Toronto district of University-Rosedale, said: "I have some Venezuelan Canadians living in my constituency and they have been really vocal … and have said our family, our friends, they need help and they're counting on Canada to speak up." |
| Document:David Cameron's 'counter extremism' experts work with far-right Donald Trump sympathisers | Article | 19 December 2015 | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | The link between the two organisations (Henry Jackson Society and Quilliam Foundation) and Donald Trump is Frank Gaffney, who was the chief inspiration for Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States |
| Document:Destroying Syria | Article | 23 January 2018 | Philip Giraldi | Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says the United States has zero evidence on the Syrian conflict. Someone should remind the President that similar scenarios did not turn out very well in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. |
| Document:Free Julian Assange, Mr. President | Article | 9 February 2018 | Roger Stone | The Donald Trump I know is a generous, compassionate, humane and, above all, fair man. As his steadfast, loyal, decades-long supporter, with all I have I implore him: Mr. President, FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! |
| Document:How Chrystia Freeland Organised Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela | Article | 7 February 2019 | Eric Zuesse | That’s what Ukraine, and now Venezuela, and many other US coups and invasions, are - and have been - really about. It’s about the ‘peace’ of the graveyard, NOT any democracy, anywhere at all. |
| Document:In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup | Article | 7 February 2019 | Greg Palast William Camacaro | Four centuries of White Supremacy in Venezuela by those who identify their ancestors as European came to an end with the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez, who won with the overwhelming support of the Mestizo majority. This turn away from White Supremacy continues under Nicolás Maduro, Chavez’s chosen successor, who was re-elected in 2018 for a second six-year term. |
| Document:Internalised Danger | blog post | 6 November 2020 | Craig Murray | America urgently needs a radical dose of social and economic reform as championed by Bernie Sanders. It needs the Green New Deal, and the world needs a real commitment in Washington to environmentalism. |
| Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness | Article | 3 February 2019 | William Engdahl | Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency. |
| Document:JD Vance has some weird influences | Article | 17 July 2024 | Gavin Haynes | "I think Trump is going to run again in 2024", JD Vance once said. "I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." |
| Document:John Bolton on Trump | blog post | 18 June 2020 | Mr Bolton should have come forward during President Trump's impeachment proceedings rather than save his account for a $2 million book contract | |
| Document:Julian Assange is a suspected Russian intelligence asset | Article | 24 February 2020 | Susie Boniface | "If Assange was interested in avoiding extradition to the US, he'd have gone to Sweden to answer the charges that were unlikely to see a conviction, and where he had far less chance of being extradited. But if he really WERE a Russian intelligence asset... well, then it all makes sense." - except that what it really makes is nonsense. |
| Document:Julian Assange makes first public statement since prison release | blog post | 1 October 2024 | Andy Worthington | "Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad. I fear that unless norm-setting institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity of the situation it will be too late. Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few." |
| Document:Labour Built the Bomb | Article | 10 July 2017 | Bill Ramsay | The prompt for this short essay is not Labour's nuclear legacy: it is what took place in the UN General Assembly last Friday when the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty passed into international law. |
| Document:Libya: Fine, but why Britain | article | 20 March 2011 | Brian Barder | David Cameron seemingly Gung Ho on toppling the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, while Barack Obama takes a back seat |
| Document:Manchester Alleged Suicide Bomber Linked to Libya Islamic Fighting Group | Article | 24 May 2017 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | The British government is directly responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. It had foreknowledge of LIFG’s existence and likely its activities within British territory and not only failed to act, but appears to have actively harboured this community of extremists for its own geopolitical and domestic agenda. |
| Document:Meet Team Trump | Article | 12 November 2016 | James Corbett | Trump supporters: Will you rally around the party flag as a new crew of neocons and banksters and establishment insiders step into their pre-ordained roles? |
| Document:Mohammed Bin Salman: The Truth Behind The Reformist Facade | blog post | 8 March 2018 | Craig Murray | Then something remarkable happened which the world mainstream media has almost entirely ignored. Despite Saudi sponsored adverts all over US media portraying named senior Qataris as terrorist sponsors, and despite strong Israeli pro-Saudi lobbying, Donald Trump suddenly called Mohammed bin Salman to heel. |
| Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
| Document:Pictures resurface showing US Secretary John Kerry and President Assad dining in Syria together | Article | 3 September 2013 | Heather Saul | John Kerry's volte-face: Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region (2009). President Assad is a "thug" like Adolf Hitler (2013). |
| Document:Rothschilds Caught Rigging The US Presidential Election | Article | 30 September 2016 | 'SatyaRaj' | Whether it's Clinton or Trump, the Rothschilds are the real winners! |
| Document:Russian propaganda and the US election SHORT | analysis | 26 December 2018 | Integrity Initiative | |
| Document:Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels | Article | 28 April 2016 | Eric Zuesse | The commercially-controlled media won’t inform the public when a US Secretary of State, and her boss the US President, are the persons actually behind a sarin gas attack they’re blaming on a foreign leader the US aristocrats and their allied foreign aristocrats are determined to topple and replace. Is this really a democracy? |
| Document:Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy | Article | 4 August 2024 | John Naughton | Speaking to a Christian convention in Florida the other day, Donald Trump said: “Get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what: it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.” |
| Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps | Speech | 31 August 2017 | Bashar al Assad | The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin. |
| Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN | Speech | 7 February 2018 | Beatrice Fihn | "Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both." |
| Document:Spy behind Donald Trump 'golden shower' dossier feared president had been 'compromised by foreign power' | Article | 10 January 2018 | James Law | "It's political rhetoric to call the dossier phoney. The memos are field reports of real interviews that Chris's network conducted and there's nothing phoney about it. We can argue about what's prudent and what's not, but it's not a fabrication." |
| Document:The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed? | Wikispooks Page | 16 November 2024 | Kit Klarenberg | A longstanding Russia hawk who cut her Agency teeth recruiting spies in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, Gina Haspel twice served as the CIA’s London station chief - from 2008 to 2011, and 2014 to 2017. Sergei Skripal arrived in Britain in July 2010 via a grand spy swap during her first tenure, which was negotiated by Haspel’s longtime collaborator Daniel Hoffman, then-CIA Moscow station chief. |
| Document:The Clown with the Russian Credit Card | Article | 13 October 2016 | David Scheim | In 2011, after four bankruptcies, Donald Trump's claims of billions of $ were laughed out of a court. Russian money and Mobsters filled the gap. |
| Document:The Four Horsemen Gallop By | blog post | 11 April 2018 | Craig Murray | The notion that Britain will take part in military action against Syria with neither investigation of the evidence nor a parliamentary vote is worrying indeed. Without Security Council authorisation, any such action is illegal in any event. |
| Document:The Trump Administration’s Syria Gas Attack Narrative Continues to Unravel | Article | 18 April 2017 | Michael Krieger | United States Government: "They Lied About Iraq; They Lied About Libya; They're Lying About Syria." |
| Document:The left’s Trump card - weekly briefing | Article | 15 November 2020 | Lindsey German | The Populist Right has had a bad week. Dominic Cummings left Downing Street on Friday after his relationship with Boris Johnson, according to reports, ‘fell off a cliff’. Donald Trump may still be refusing to acknowledge his election defeat, but he is on his way out of the US presidency. The Left still has everything to play for. |
| Document:There is no military solution in North Korea | Interview | 5 September 2017 | Mishal Husain | Former Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell says the United States needs to bring the international community together more effectively over North Korea |
| Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves | Article | 26 May 2018 | Whitney Webb | Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems. |
| Document:Trump said to deprecate Netanyahu's intention to bump off Assad | Article | 1 September 2017 | Eric Zuesse | Better wait until my fundamentalist VP is in place, Benny boy! |
| Document:Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention | Article | 2 November 2019 | Laura Tiernan | Donald Trump’s interview shows that Mike Pompeo’s threatened “push back” is far advanced. If Trump is willing to make such anti-democratic public pronouncements against the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, what are they discussing—and preparing—behind the scenes? |
| Document:Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance | Op-ed | 29 October 2017 | Carole Cadwalladr | (You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.) |
| Document:Under Trump, the Israel lobby is a Hydra with many heads | Article | 30 May 2018 | Jonathan Cook | Since Trump took office, the Israel lobby has mobilised four other powerful lobbies: Christian evangelicals, the alt-right, the military-industrial complex and Saudi Arabia |
| Document:Venezuela, Iran: Trump And The Deep State | Article | 22 May 2019 | Thierry Meyssan | Sheikh Hassan Rouhani was the primary contact with the Western powers during the Iran-Contra affair. He knows Elliott Abrams personally and put the US deep state in relation with Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who became the richest billionaire in Iran thanks to this arms traffic. |
| Document:Washington Considers Military Action Against North Korea to Force Regime Change | article | 7 March 2017 | Stephen Gowans | A history of Post-WWII US military threats against North Korea leading to the latest escalation in Spring 2017, with due weight given to the North Korean perspective |
| Document:Why Isn’t Everyone In Favour of Taxing Financial Speculation? | report | 19 April 2016 | Robert Reich | Bernie Sanders wants to tax stock trades at a rate of 0.5 percent (a trade of $1,000 would cost $5), and bond trades at 0.1 percent. The tax would reduce incentives for high-speed trading, insider deal-making, and short-term financial betting. Sanders’ 0.5 percent tax could thereby finance public investments that enlarge the economic pie rather than merely rearrange its slices – like tuition-free public education. |
| Document:Xi Jinping says a dark shadow looms over the world after years of peace | Article | 3 September 2017 | Tom Phillips Wang Zhen | Shen Dingli, an international relations expert from Shanghai, said Sunday’s nuclear test underlined the futility of both Washington and Beijing’s policies towards North Korea: "It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump realises he has no choice but to sit down with Kim Jong-un." |
| File:Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf | dossier | January 2017 | Christopher Steele | A dossier of evidence purporting to demonstrate that Donald Trump and his transition team members have a history of improper contact with the Russian government and that Russian Intelligence collected substantial compromising information on Trump during his Russian business trips. |
Rating
4 October 2022 Jun What happens when the billionaire friend of all the corrupt politicians runs for president promising to end all corruption? More of the same? Who would've thought?The most talked about president in the world post 9-11. Trump has become the spokesperson for a conservative/alt-right hybrid section of a splintered US deep state that most importantly got older generations on the Internet listening to hand-picked political theories. His campaign-style is always peculiarly focused on the emotional engineering of older rural Americans that the American system (or the Pareto Principle) threw overboard after the Cold War. Up until now nobody still knows why Trump was placed there: Are they planning a civil war by rallying rural Americans to arms? Or is it just the new reality to pander to ageing populations?
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