Papadopoulos被判刑（获特朗普总统特赦）, Cohen入狱三年, Manafort获刑7.5年、Gates, Flynn, Patten认罪， Roger Stone获刑40个月；Flynn、Manafort、Stone获特朗普总统特赦; Steve Bannon、纳瓦罗被判四个月监禁
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Trump: Stock Market Booming ‘Because of Me’
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Speaking with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Japan, President Trump took sole credit for the surging U.S. stock market.
“The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me,” he said. I’ve always been great with money, I’ve always been great with jobs, that’s what I do. And I’ve done it well, I’ve done it really well, much better than people understand and they understand I’ve done well. But we have a tremendous amount of strength because of what’s happened. You know, think of it — $5.5 trillion worth of value.”
(Never mind Trump’s bankruptcy history, or the fact that the U.S. economy had been steadily improving for several years before Trump came into the picture.)
Authoritarian-style rhetoric aside, it’s completely understandable that Trump would want to cling to the one factor — the economy — that is likely keeping his rotten approval ratings from sinking even further.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/trump-stock-market-booming-because-of-me.html
Speaking with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Japan, President Trump took sole credit for the surging U.S. stock market.
“The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me,” he said. I’ve always been great with money, I’ve always been great with jobs, that’s what I do. And I’ve done it well, I’ve done it really well, much better than people understand and they understand I’ve done well. But we have a tremendous amount of strength because of what’s happened. You know, think of it — $5.5 trillion worth of value.”
(Never mind Trump’s bankruptcy history, or the fact that the U.S. economy had been steadily improving for several years before Trump came into the picture.)
Authoritarian-style rhetoric aside, it’s completely understandable that Trump would want to cling to the one factor — the economy — that is likely keeping his rotten approval ratings from sinking even further.
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Washington (CNN) White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
The interview brings the special counsel investigation into President Donald Trump's inner circle in the White House. Miller is the highest-level aide still working at the White House known to have talked to investigators.
Miller's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey was among the topics discussed during the interview as part of the probe into possible obstruction of justice, according to one of the sources.
Special counsel investigators have also shown interest in talking to attendees of a March 2016 meeting where foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos said that he could arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin through his connections. Miller was also at the meeting, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
Papadopoulos was recently charged with lying to the FBI about Russian contacts he had during the campaign.
Earlier this year, Miller assisted Trump in writing a memo that explained why Trump planned to fire Comey, according to sources familiar with the matter. Eventually that memo was scrapped because of opposition by White House counsel Don McGahn, who said its contents were problematic, according to The New York Times. The Comey dismissal letter -- drafted during a May weekend at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey -- has also drawn interest from the Mueller team. Sources tell CNN that White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who was also in New Jersey that weekend, did not oppose the decision to fire Comey. CNN has reported the special counsel's team is asking questions in interviews with witnesses about Kushner's role in Comey's firing.
The Times reported in September that the Justice Department had turned over a copy of the letter, which was never sent, to special counsel Robert Mueller. That memo, according to a source, was very similar to a letter written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that was cited as the reason for firing Comey. Rosenstein's letter criticized Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.
But just days after the firing, Trump said he considered the Russia probe in his decision to fire Comey.
"In fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said 'you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won'," Trump said about his decision to fire Comey in a May interview with NBC News.
Miller was also an early member of Trump's campaign staff, leaving his role as Sessions' communications director in the Senate to join Trump in January 2016.
Mueller's team has also talked to key former aides including former White House chief of staff Reince Preibus and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. They have also interviewed National Security Council chief of staff Keith Kellogg. CNN has previously reported Mueller is also seeking to interview other White House staff including McGahn, communications director Hope Hicks and Kushner communications aide Josh Raffel.
The special counsel's office declined to comment. Miller did not respond to a request for comment.
CNN's Mary Kay Mallonee and Brian Rokus contributed to this report.
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Trump blames US for trade gap with China
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/donald-trump-xi-jinping-statement/index.html
Beijing (CNN)President Donald Trumplavished praise on China for the very trade practices he once lambasted as unfair during a remarkable morning session in Beijing.
Emerging after two hours of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he doesn't fault China for taking advantage of differences between the way the two countries do business.
"I don't blame China," Trump said during remarks to business leaders inside the Great Hall of the People. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for benefit of their citizens? I give China great credit."
Instead of pointing the finger at Beijing for exacerbating trade disputes, Trump blamed past US administrations "for allowing this trade deficit to take place and to grow."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/donald-trump-xi-jinping-statement/index.html
Beijing (CNN)President Donald Trumplavished praise on China for the very trade practices he once lambasted as unfair during a remarkable morning session in Beijing.
Emerging after two hours of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he doesn't fault China for taking advantage of differences between the way the two countries do business.
"I don't blame China," Trump said during remarks to business leaders inside the Great Hall of the People. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for benefit of their citizens? I give China great credit."
Instead of pointing the finger at Beijing for exacerbating trade disputes, Trump blamed past US administrations "for allowing this trade deficit to take place and to grow."
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Jeff Sessions gets CAUGHT LYING by ted lieu & jeffries on Trump Russia Meetings
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January 10, 2017: During his confirmation hearing, Sessions denied having any communications with Russians or knowledge of any campaign contact with Russians.
He was asked by Democratic Sen. Al Franken, "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do?"
Sessions responded, "I'm not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."
It was reported two months later that Sessions had met the then-Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, twice during the presidential campaign. Sessions acknowledged these meetings and said that they were part of his job as a senator and were unrelated to the campaign. Sessions also recused himself from overseeing the FBI investigation into Russian meddling.
January 17, 2017: Sessions denied having any campaign-related contacts with Russians in a written questionnaire submitted as part of his confirmation process.
The question from Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy read, "Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?" Sessions provided a one-word reply: "No."
Two months later, Sessions acknowledged meeting Kislyak during the campaign, but he has maintained that their conversations were not about the presidential election.
June 13, 2017: Sessions denied under oath that he knew about any conversations between Trump campaign officials and Russians regarding interference in the election.
"I have never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States," Sessions told the Senate intelligence committee. "Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign."
At a March 2016 meeting of the Trump campaign's foreign policy team, Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos said that he, "had connections that could help arrange a meeting," between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to court filings unsealed in October. Sessions was at the meeting. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts.
October 18, 2017: Sessions testified that he was unaware of anyone in the Trump campaign, or campaign surrogates, having communications with the Russians before the election.
At a Senate judiciary committee hearing, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham asked, "Did anybody in the campaign, did you ever overhear a conversation between you and anybody on the campaign who talked about meeting with the Russians?" Sessions replied, "I have not seen anything that would indicate collusion with the Russians to impact the campaign."
Franken later asked: "You don't believe that surrogates from the Trump campaign had communications with the Russians? Is that what you're saying?" Sessions replied, "I did not and I'm not aware of anyone else that did, and I don't believe it happened."
By the time of the hearing, communications between a handful of Trump associates and Russians had been reported in the press and, in some cases, confirmed by the Trump associates, including Donald Trump Jr. and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
The Papadopoulos case was unsealed a few weeks after this Senate hearing, revealing his contacts with Russians and that Sessions was privy to at least some off his communications. Sessions later testified that he remembered the meeting after seeing news reports about it.
November 14, 2017: Sessions testified that he didn't remember key details about meetings with Trump campaign advisers where they mentioned their communications with Russians.
"Frankly, I had no recollection of this until I saw these news reports. I do now recall the March 2016 meeting at Trump Hotel that Mr. Papadopoulos attended, but I have no clear recollection of the details of what he said during that meeting," Sessions told the House judiciary committee. "After reading his account, and to the best of my recollection, I believe that I wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the Russian government, or any other foreign government, for that matter."
Sessions also said he didn't recall talking about Russia with Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in summer 2016. Page recently told the House intelligence committee that he informed Sessions that he was going on a trip to Russia, as a private citizen, to speak at a university.
"As for Mr. Page, while I do not challenge his recollection, I have no memory of his presence at a dinner at the Capitol Hill Club or any passing conversation he may have had with me as he left," Sessions said about his knowledge of Page's trip to Moscow, which occurred in July 2016.
