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Washington (CNN) The Mexican government on Sunday again stressed its position that it will not pay for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
Trump tweeted Sunday morning: "With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other."
In response, the country's foreign ministry released a statement saying Mexico would not pay for a wall or other physical barrier at the border "under any circumstances."
"This determination is not part of a Mexican negotiating strategy, but a principle of national sovereignty and dignity," the statement said.
One of Trump's principle campaign promises was to build a wall at the southern border and have Mexico pay for it. Since taking office, Trump has called for Congress to allocate money for the wall instead and have Mexico pay the US back. Mexican leaders have publicly rejected any avenue to pay for the wall.
Earlier this month, Trump threatened a government shutdown should Congress not allocate money to build the wall that Mexico has refused to fund. The deadline for passing a spending bill to keep the government open is at the end of next month.
The Mexican foreign ministry's statement also addressed Trump's comment regarding crime in Mexico. The ministry said the crime is a "shared problem" for both countries and is caused in part by US demand for Mexican narcotics.
"Only on the basis of the principles of shared responsibility, teamwork and mutual trust can we overcome this challenge," the statement said.
The ministry also reacted to a different Trump tweet Sunday morning about the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever made) renegotiation process with Mexico & Canada. Both being very difficult, may have to terminate?" Trump tweeted.
Mexico said its position at the negotiating table was "serious and constructive" and sought a winning result for Mexico, the US and Canada.
"Mexico will not negotiate NAFTA nor any other aspect of the bilateral relationship through social media or the media," the ministry added.
Mexico offered any help that may be needed to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey as well.
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Donald Trump 'might refuse to leave the White House when his term ends', expert warns
Tim Rogers says the US leader has 'no interest in preserving the sanctity of the presidency'
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Donald Trump might refuse to leave power when his time at the White House comes to an end, an expert on Latin American leaders has warned.
Tim Rogers, a journalist, said the US leader had no respect for the "sanctity of the presidency".
The expert on Nicaragua’s Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and the country's former President Daniel Ortega, Mr Rogers said it was common for Latin American leaders to stay in power for long periods.
He added that he sees similarities between Mr Trump and the likes of Mr Ortega.
Describing Mr Trump as a “tribal leader", he said he was “dividing" the US as opposed to uniting it.
“This is a dangerous moment for the country," he wrote on the Fusion website. "Trump has shown no interest in preserving the sanctity of the presidency or the traditions of U.S. democracy. He might not even be familiar with them.
“Trump is only interested in Trump. He’s willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of self-preservation. This is how dictatorships are born."
He added: “Shortly after Daniel Ortega was elected president of Nicaragua in 2006, renowned author and intellectual Sergio Ramírez told me, 'anyone who thinks Ortega is going to leave office at the end of his term is being naive.' I was naive. I didn’t see it coming, even after I was warned what to look out for.
“I might be naive again by thinking that Trump will try something similar by refusing to go away when his time is up. But Nicaragua taught me it’s best to err on the side of caution when dealing with authoritarians.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...el-ortega-white-house-term-ends-a7915066.html
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Fox News, no friend anymore? 
Poll: U.S. majority believes Trump is ‘tearing the country apart’
08/31/17 10:02 AM
By Steve Benen
Following Donald Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio earlier this week, the Washington Post published an analysis that explained, in no uncertain terms, that the president “has chosen to be a divider, not a uniter, no matter how many words to the contrary he reads off a teleprompter or from a prepared script.”
There’s fresh evidence that most Americans agree. A Fox News poll released last night included this interesting finding:
Do you think Donald Trump is drawing the country together or tearing the country apart?
Drawing the country together: 33%
Tearing the country apart: 56%
Looking at the crosstabs, the president’s core supporters – Republicans, conservatives, white evangelical Christians, and whites without college degrees – still see Trump as a uniting force, but across every other constituency, Americans consider the president a source of division.
The same poll included this gem:
described American journalists as “the enemy” of the people who “don’t like our country.” Trump’s rhetoric about white supremacists, especially in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, has been far more forgiving.
On a related note, the Fox poll also included this question:
Who do you think poses a greater threat to the United States: white supremacists or the news media?
White supremacists: 47%
News media: 40%
It wouldn’t have been quite this close were it not for Trump voters, 75% of whom said they see journalists as a greater threat.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/poll-us-majority-believes-trump-tearing-the-country-apart
Poll: U.S. majority believes Trump is ‘tearing the country apart’
08/31/17 10:02 AM
By Steve Benen
Following Donald Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio earlier this week, the Washington Post published an analysis that explained, in no uncertain terms, that the president “has chosen to be a divider, not a uniter, no matter how many words to the contrary he reads off a teleprompter or from a prepared script.”
There’s fresh evidence that most Americans agree. A Fox News poll released last night included this interesting finding:
Do you think Donald Trump is drawing the country together or tearing the country apart?
Drawing the country together: 33%
Tearing the country apart: 56%
Looking at the crosstabs, the president’s core supporters – Republicans, conservatives, white evangelical Christians, and whites without college degrees – still see Trump as a uniting force, but across every other constituency, Americans consider the president a source of division.
The same poll included this gem:
described American journalists as “the enemy” of the people who “don’t like our country.” Trump’s rhetoric about white supremacists, especially in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, has been far more forgiving.
On a related note, the Fox poll also included this question:
Who do you think poses a greater threat to the United States: white supremacists or the news media?
White supremacists: 47%
News media: 40%
It wouldn’t have been quite this close were it not for Trump voters, 75% of whom said they see journalists as a greater threat.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/poll-us-majority-believes-trump-tearing-the-country-apart
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这是啥意思?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...yers-lay-strategy-discredit-james-comey-head/
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's legal team has met with special counsel Robert Mueller to discuss the investigation and has prepared memos arguing Trump did not obstruct justice when he fired then-FBI Director James Comey, a source familiar with the memos tells CNN.
The source said the memos prepared for Mueller argue the President's powers under the Constitution inherently give him the right to fire the FBI director for any reason, meaning the move could not have been obstruction of justice.
The President's lawyers have said publicly they would file a complaint against Comey with the Department of Justice. Instead, the source said one of the memos written to Mueller was written as that complaint.
The President's lawyers also called Comey's credibility into question by arguing he was an admitted leaker -- arguments Trump's team has made publicly.
The meeting and details of the memos were first reported by the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
When asked by CNN about the report, one of Trump's attorneys, John Dowd, said they "will not discuss and have not discussed contents of communications with special counsel."
Ty Cobb, special counsel to the President, said: "We respect the special counsel's office and out of respect for that office we are not commenting incrementally on any of Muellers requests and responses."
Trump's legal team has argued publicly that Trump's firing of Comey does not constitute obstruction of justice, and Trump has accused Comey of lying about their interactions.
"There is a fundamental threshold question there that the President's authority to terminate the FBI director is based on the Constitution," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said on CNN in June.
Shortly after Comey's firing, it became public that the former FBI director made contemporaneous memos on his conversations with Trump. He confirmed their existence and some of their contents in testimony to the Senate intelligence committee in June.
Comey said Trump tried to get him to back off former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the cloud of the Russia investigation.
Marc Kasowitz, who once led Trump's legal team on this matter, said in response to Comey's blockbuster testimony: "The President never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone."
Trump himself has attacked Comey's credibility a number of times.
In June, he tweeted, "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"
In March, Comey had made public the FBI investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump associates to influence the 2016 election.
Trump went on to fire Comey in early May. The President said in an interview with NBC that he fired Comey with Russia on his mind and that he would have made the decision to fire Comey regardless of a recommendation to do so by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Trump has dismissed the entire investigation as a "witch hunt" and repeatedly denied any personal wrongdoing.
The Washington Post first reported in June that the special counsel was investigating Trump for attempts to obstruct justice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...yers-lay-strategy-discredit-james-comey-head/
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's legal team has met with special counsel Robert Mueller to discuss the investigation and has prepared memos arguing Trump did not obstruct justice when he fired then-FBI Director James Comey, a source familiar with the memos tells CNN.
The source said the memos prepared for Mueller argue the President's powers under the Constitution inherently give him the right to fire the FBI director for any reason, meaning the move could not have been obstruction of justice.
The President's lawyers have said publicly they would file a complaint against Comey with the Department of Justice. Instead, the source said one of the memos written to Mueller was written as that complaint.
The President's lawyers also called Comey's credibility into question by arguing he was an admitted leaker -- arguments Trump's team has made publicly.
The meeting and details of the memos were first reported by the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
When asked by CNN about the report, one of Trump's attorneys, John Dowd, said they "will not discuss and have not discussed contents of communications with special counsel."
Ty Cobb, special counsel to the President, said: "We respect the special counsel's office and out of respect for that office we are not commenting incrementally on any of Muellers requests and responses."
Trump's legal team has argued publicly that Trump's firing of Comey does not constitute obstruction of justice, and Trump has accused Comey of lying about their interactions.
"There is a fundamental threshold question there that the President's authority to terminate the FBI director is based on the Constitution," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said on CNN in June.
Shortly after Comey's firing, it became public that the former FBI director made contemporaneous memos on his conversations with Trump. He confirmed their existence and some of their contents in testimony to the Senate intelligence committee in June.
Comey said Trump tried to get him to back off former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the cloud of the Russia investigation.
Marc Kasowitz, who once led Trump's legal team on this matter, said in response to Comey's blockbuster testimony: "The President never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone."
Trump himself has attacked Comey's credibility a number of times.
In June, he tweeted, "Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"
In March, Comey had made public the FBI investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump associates to influence the 2016 election.
Trump went on to fire Comey in early May. The President said in an interview with NBC that he fired Comey with Russia on his mind and that he would have made the decision to fire Comey regardless of a recommendation to do so by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Trump has dismissed the entire investigation as a "witch hunt" and repeatedly denied any personal wrongdoing.
The Washington Post first reported in June that the special counsel was investigating Trump for attempts to obstruct justice.
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Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMANSEPT. 1, 2017
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James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in May, less than a week before he was fired by President Trump. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter drafted by President Trump and a top political aide that offered an unvarnished view of Mr. Trump’s thinking in the days before the president fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.
The circumstances and reasons for the firing are believed to be a significant element of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.
The letter, drafted in May, was met with opposition from Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, who believed that its angry, meandering tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. Among Mr. McGahn’s concerns were references to private conversations the president had with Mr. Comey, including times when the F.B.I. director told Mr. Trump he was not under investigation in the F.B.I.’s ongoing Russia inquiry.
Mr. McGahn successfully blocked the president from sending the letter to Mr. Comey, which Mr. Trump had composed with Stephen Miller, one of the president’s top political advisers. But a copy was given to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who then drafted his own letter. Mr. Rosenstein’s letter was ultimately used as the Trump administration’s public rationale for Mr. Comey’s firing, which was that Mr. Comey mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
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WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter drafted by President Trump and a top political aide that offered an unvarnished view of Mr. Trump’s thinking in the days before the president fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.
The circumstances and reasons for the firing are believed to be a significant element of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.
The letter, drafted in May, was met with opposition from Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, who believed that its angry, meandering tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. Among Mr. McGahn’s concerns were references to private conversations the president had with Mr. Comey, including times when the F.B.I. director told Mr. Trump he was not under investigation in the F.B.I.’s ongoing Russia inquiry.
Mr. McGahn successfully blocked the president from sending the letter to Mr. Comey, which Mr. Trump had composed with Stephen Miller, one of the president’s top political advisers. But a copy was given to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who then drafted his own letter. Mr. Rosenstein’s letter was ultimately used as the Trump administration’s public rationale for Mr. Comey’s firing, which was that Mr. Comey mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
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Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN.
Schiller has told associates within the last two weeks that he plans to leave the White House at the end of September or in early October, the sources said. Schiller has told people his primary reason for leaving was financial, the sources said. Schiller earns a $165,000 annual salary at the White House -- a downgrade from his annual earnings before he followed Trump to the White House.
Schiller's planned departure comes just over a month after Kelly became chief of staff with the mission of instilling new order inside Trump's often chaotic White House. But Trump has chafed at some of Kelly's attempts to restrict access to the President.
Now, Schiller's potential departure will leave Trump without one of his most loyal and trusted aides at his side at a time of tumultuous change at the White House. Schiller has been a constant presence at Trump's side for nearly two decades and was among a handful of aides from Trump's previous life as a businessman to follow Trump onto the campaign trail and into the White House.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the story was "not true" and declined to comment further. Schiller declined to comment.
It is unclear whether Schiller will be convinced to stay longer in his position.
Schiller's White House salary was a decrease in income from his pre-White House time at Trump's side, when he earned $294,000 from his employment at the Trump Organization, Trump campaign and his private security firm, KS Global Group last year, according to a financial disclosure released by the White House earlier this year.
The sources stressed that Schiller's reasoning was primarily financial, but one source said Schiller has also grown frustrated with the new system installed by White House chief of staff John Kelly aimed at restricting access to the President. Schiller has complained that he must call into the White House switchboard to reach Trump over the phone, one source said.
The former New York Police Department detective was entrusted with one of the most sensitive and controversial decisions of Trump's presidency, delivering a letter to FBI headquarters notifying then-FBI Director James Comey that Trump had decided to fire him.
As Trump continues to grapple with Kelly's more isolating measures, just two close aides who worked for Trump at the Trump Organization will remain at Trump's side: Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, and Dan Scavino, the social media director.
While Trump's other personal bodyguards left when the Secret Service took over as Trump's protective detail, Schiller remained at Trump's side, serving as a body man and personal aide who often had the best sense of Trump's mood and needs during the campaign.
The 6'4'' longtime aide also took on the task of removing the protesters who frequently disrupted Trump's rallies during the campaign.
Schiller first entered Trump's orbit while he was still an NYPD detective in 1999, snagging a part-time gig doing bodyguard work for Trump. Eventually, Schiller left the NYPD and became Trump's full-time bodyguard and later his head of security in 2005.
