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奥黑和民猪裆留下一堆废墟（底特律，克利夫兰，芝加哥，费城。。。。），可怜这糟老头来收拾
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下文说的两件事，我以为，特朗普都不会做。否则，就是自掘坟墓。
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ler-or-start-war-with-north-korea-burman.html
Donald Trump has two Hail Mary plays left — fire Mueller, or start war with North Korea: Burman
As he leaves on a crucial Asia trip, the U.S. president is increasingly acting like desperate man. It’s a dangerous time in the turbulent Trump presidency.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, seen here in an Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, has the potential to destroy Donald Trump’s teetering presidency. The question now is when, not if, Trump fires him. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
By Tony Burman Foreign Affairs Columnist
Fri., Nov. 3, 2017
Feeling cornered and under siege, an angry Donald Trump has embarked on a crucial trip to Asia, the longest foreign tour of his imploding presidency.
Increasingly, Trump is acting like a man who sees only two ways to survive. Given that, the only remaining question for him in his desperation may be this: “What should I do first?”
Will he fire Robert Mueller as the special counsel investigating Trump’s ties to Russia, which now seems only a matter of time, even though it is certain to trigger a constitutional crisis?
Or will he first try to regain popular support by risking a catastrophic nuclear war with North Korea, now closer than ever in the absence of any genuine diplomacy happening, even though it would inevitably result in hundreds of thousands of casualties?
This is a dangerous period in the turbulent Trump presidency, and for the world.
When the history books are written about this era, it is hard not to conclude that this week’s developments will loom large. This was the week we learned the first strong indications that — to put it in Trump’s vernacular — the jig is up.
The announcement from the Mueller team last Monday was a bombshell. Two senior Trump campaign officials have been indicted and a third Trump adviser has pleaded guilty. The 12-count indictment laid out the first charges in Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with last year’s U.S. election — including the headline charge of “conspiracy against the United States.”
Even as a tiny fraction of what the Mueller team now undoubtedly knows, the court filings drew a staggering portrait of how Trump’s world operated last year. It revealed how Russian intelligence successfully penetrated Trump’s campaign operation at different levels.
For several months, including during the Republican convention of last summer, Trump’s campaign was run by Paul Manafort, who operated in secret as a foreign agent of a regime friendly to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Before Manafort joined Trump in an official capacity, the charges indicate he laundered tens of millions of dollars for the Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovych.
Perhaps even more ominous for Trump is the unexpected guilty plea of former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos — once described by Trump in an interview with The Washington Post as an “excellent guy.” Papadopoulos admitted to lying to the FBI about his attempts to set up meetings with Kremlin contacts in search of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
This week’s developments, as an opening volley from the Mueller team, provide an indication of what their strategy is. They are pressuring Manafort to co-operate and reveal what he knows about Trump’s role. They have already done a deal with Papadopoulos to tell them what he knows about who else was involved.
As Trump himself must know, it is widely accepted that Mueller has Trump’s tax returns in his possession. This means that Mueller’s team is able to pull together a complete picture of Trump’s financial relationship with Russians — including the years well before he announced for the presidency.
There have been numerous reports that Trump and his associates have been heavily financed by Russian oligarchs and mobsters, including those involved in money laundering, extortion, drugs and racketeering. If so, this would help explain why Trump has been so obsessively reluctant to be critical of Putin or of Russia since being elected president.
More than anyone, Trump would know the extent of his involvement with Russia — although Mueller, by now, may be a close second. Therein lies the danger for Trump. He knows that Mueller has the potential to destroying his presidency.
So — if you’re Trump — Mueller, somehow, has to be gotten rid of. The only question is when. Neither Trump nor his associates have ever acknowledged this, although Trump once described it as a “red line” if Mueller ever started examining his financial holdings. Mueller has certainly crossed that line.
It is widely accepted in Washington political circles that Trump is seeking an opportunity to fire Mueller. To this end, many of his media boosters at Fox News are working overtime in trying to come up with ways to discredit Mueller and his team.
Yes, the risks for Trump in this are enormous. Any firing of Mueller — not unlike the fabled “Saturday Night Massacre” by Richard Nixon in 1973 — would trigger a constitutional crisis. But in Trump’s mind, that would be a risk worth taking if the stark alternative — as a response to Mueller’s eventual findings — is impeachment.
This drama is only beginning.
Tony Burman is former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ler-or-start-war-with-north-korea-burman.html
Donald Trump has two Hail Mary plays left — fire Mueller, or start war with North Korea: Burman
As he leaves on a crucial Asia trip, the U.S. president is increasingly acting like desperate man. It’s a dangerous time in the turbulent Trump presidency.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, seen here in an Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, has the potential to destroy Donald Trump’s teetering presidency. The question now is when, not if, Trump fires him. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
By Tony Burman Foreign Affairs Columnist
Fri., Nov. 3, 2017
Feeling cornered and under siege, an angry Donald Trump has embarked on a crucial trip to Asia, the longest foreign tour of his imploding presidency.
Increasingly, Trump is acting like a man who sees only two ways to survive. Given that, the only remaining question for him in his desperation may be this: “What should I do first?”
Will he fire Robert Mueller as the special counsel investigating Trump’s ties to Russia, which now seems only a matter of time, even though it is certain to trigger a constitutional crisis?
Or will he first try to regain popular support by risking a catastrophic nuclear war with North Korea, now closer than ever in the absence of any genuine diplomacy happening, even though it would inevitably result in hundreds of thousands of casualties?
This is a dangerous period in the turbulent Trump presidency, and for the world.
When the history books are written about this era, it is hard not to conclude that this week’s developments will loom large. This was the week we learned the first strong indications that — to put it in Trump’s vernacular — the jig is up.
The announcement from the Mueller team last Monday was a bombshell. Two senior Trump campaign officials have been indicted and a third Trump adviser has pleaded guilty. The 12-count indictment laid out the first charges in Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with last year’s U.S. election — including the headline charge of “conspiracy against the United States.”
Even as a tiny fraction of what the Mueller team now undoubtedly knows, the court filings drew a staggering portrait of how Trump’s world operated last year. It revealed how Russian intelligence successfully penetrated Trump’s campaign operation at different levels.
For several months, including during the Republican convention of last summer, Trump’s campaign was run by Paul Manafort, who operated in secret as a foreign agent of a regime friendly to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Before Manafort joined Trump in an official capacity, the charges indicate he laundered tens of millions of dollars for the Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovych.
Perhaps even more ominous for Trump is the unexpected guilty plea of former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos — once described by Trump in an interview with The Washington Post as an “excellent guy.” Papadopoulos admitted to lying to the FBI about his attempts to set up meetings with Kremlin contacts in search of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
This week’s developments, as an opening volley from the Mueller team, provide an indication of what their strategy is. They are pressuring Manafort to co-operate and reveal what he knows about Trump’s role. They have already done a deal with Papadopoulos to tell them what he knows about who else was involved.
As Trump himself must know, it is widely accepted that Mueller has Trump’s tax returns in his possession. This means that Mueller’s team is able to pull together a complete picture of Trump’s financial relationship with Russians — including the years well before he announced for the presidency.
There have been numerous reports that Trump and his associates have been heavily financed by Russian oligarchs and mobsters, including those involved in money laundering, extortion, drugs and racketeering. If so, this would help explain why Trump has been so obsessively reluctant to be critical of Putin or of Russia since being elected president.
More than anyone, Trump would know the extent of his involvement with Russia — although Mueller, by now, may be a close second. Therein lies the danger for Trump. He knows that Mueller has the potential to destroying his presidency.
So — if you’re Trump — Mueller, somehow, has to be gotten rid of. The only question is when. Neither Trump nor his associates have ever acknowledged this, although Trump once described it as a “red line” if Mueller ever started examining his financial holdings. Mueller has certainly crossed that line.
It is widely accepted in Washington political circles that Trump is seeking an opportunity to fire Mueller. To this end, many of his media boosters at Fox News are working overtime in trying to come up with ways to discredit Mueller and his team.
Yes, the risks for Trump in this are enormous. Any firing of Mueller — not unlike the fabled “Saturday Night Massacre” by Richard Nixon in 1973 — would trigger a constitutional crisis. But in Trump’s mind, that would be a risk worth taking if the stark alternative — as a response to Mueller’s eventual findings — is impeachment.
This drama is only beginning.
Tony Burman is former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News.
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必须同情老床。哈哈，那胜利太艰难了，看看below。
Both Warren and Trump have previously railed against what they call a “rigged” political system in the U.S., but from differing standpoints.
这只是冰山一角。我看，老床之总统之旅不需要有任何大业绩。只要能survive，就是美国政治的胜利。他打破了发霉的酱缸。
Opposites agree: Trump, Warren say Democratic primary was 'rigged'
By CRISTIANO LIMA and HENRY C. JACKSON
11/02/2017 08:04 PM EDT
Updated11/02/2017 10:00 PM EDT
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Donna Brazile’s explosive assertion that the Democratic Party’s 2016 primary was “rigged” in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders reverberated Thursday night, with President Donald Trump calling for a Justice Department investigation and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 contender, saying she agreed with Brazile’s conclusion.
In a pair of posts on Twitter, Trump said that “Crooked H” had “bought and paid” for the primary.
Trump tweeted that it amounted to “real collusion and dishonesty,” adding that it was a “Major violation of Campaign Finance Laws and Money Laundering — where is our Justice Department?”
Earlier Thursday, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview with CNN that she backed the conclusion by Brazile, the former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, that the party’s 2016 presidential primary was “rigged” in favor of Clinton.
So far, neither Clinton nor her former campaign apparatus has responded to Brazile’s assessment of the primary, which was first published in POLITICO Magazine on Thursday. In excerpts from Brazile’s upcoming book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House,” she revealed the existence of what she described as an “unethical” agreement between Clinton and the DNC, in which the candidate’s campaign traded funding for increased control of the platform.
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Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
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“What we’ve got to do as Democrats now is, we’ve got to hold this party accountable," Warren added.
The senator, a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a potential candidate for president, came out in favor of Clinton over Sanders during the 2016 primaries, a move that frustrated Sanders supporters and further boosted the front-running Clinton’s bid for the nomination.
Both Warren and Trump have previously railed against what they call a “rigged” political system in the U.S., but from differing standpoints.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Warren cast Trump as “a man who cares only for himself.”
“His whole life has been taking advantage of a rigged system,” she said, forcefully denouncing Trump’s business and political careers.
As a candidate, Trump slammed the “rigged” and “boss-controlled Republican primaries.” As both Clinton and Trump neared clinching their respective parties’ nominations, Trump began to bash the Democratic primaries for being “rigged” against Sanders.
For his part, Sanders while campaigning frequently spoke out against the “rigged” economic system in the U.S., challenging existing practices on campaign finance and money in politics.
Both Warren and Trump have previously railed against what they call a “rigged” political system in the U.S., but from differing standpoints.
这只是冰山一角。我看，老床之总统之旅不需要有任何大业绩。只要能survive，就是美国政治的胜利。他打破了发霉的酱缸。
Opposites agree: Trump, Warren say Democratic primary was 'rigged'
By CRISTIANO LIMA and HENRY C. JACKSON
11/02/2017 08:04 PM EDT
Updated11/02/2017 10:00 PM EDT
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Donna Brazile’s explosive assertion that the Democratic Party’s 2016 primary was “rigged” in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders reverberated Thursday night, with President Donald Trump calling for a Justice Department investigation and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 contender, saying she agreed with Brazile’s conclusion.
In a pair of posts on Twitter, Trump said that “Crooked H” had “bought and paid” for the primary.
Trump tweeted that it amounted to “real collusion and dishonesty,” adding that it was a “Major violation of Campaign Finance Laws and Money Laundering — where is our Justice Department?”
Earlier Thursday, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview with CNN that she backed the conclusion by Brazile, the former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, that the party’s 2016 presidential primary was “rigged” in favor of Clinton.
So far, neither Clinton nor her former campaign apparatus has responded to Brazile’s assessment of the primary, which was first published in POLITICO Magazine on Thursday. In excerpts from Brazile’s upcoming book, “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House,” she revealed the existence of what she described as an “unethical” agreement between Clinton and the DNC, in which the candidate’s campaign traded funding for increased control of the platform.
BOOK CLUB
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC
By DONNA BRAZILE
“What we’ve got to do as Democrats now is, we’ve got to hold this party accountable," Warren added.
The senator, a leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a potential candidate for president, came out in favor of Clinton over Sanders during the 2016 primaries, a move that frustrated Sanders supporters and further boosted the front-running Clinton’s bid for the nomination.
Both Warren and Trump have previously railed against what they call a “rigged” political system in the U.S., but from differing standpoints.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Warren cast Trump as “a man who cares only for himself.”
“His whole life has been taking advantage of a rigged system,” she said, forcefully denouncing Trump’s business and political careers.
As a candidate, Trump slammed the “rigged” and “boss-controlled Republican primaries.” As both Clinton and Trump neared clinching their respective parties’ nominations, Trump began to bash the Democratic primaries for being “rigged” against Sanders.
For his part, Sanders while campaigning frequently spoke out against the “rigged” economic system in the U.S., challenging existing practices on campaign finance and money in politics.
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The picture, snapped by a White House photographer traveling with the president as he left his golf course in Sterling, Va., went viral almost immediately. News outlets picked up the story when it appeared in a White House pool report. Late-night talk show hosts told jokes about the encounter and people on social media began hailing the unidentified woman as a “she-ro,” using the hashtag #Her2020.
The woman’s name is Juli Briskman. Her employer, government contractor Akima LLC, wasn’t so happy about the photo. They fired her over it.
In a Saturday interview with HuffPost, Briskman, a 50-year-old mother of two, said she was stunned that someone had taken a picture of her giving Trump the middle finger.
As the photo circulated online, Briskman decided to tell Akima’s HR department what was happening when she went to work on Monday. By Tuesday, her bosses called her into a meeting and said she had violated the company’s social media policy by using the photo as her profile picture on Twitter and Facebook.
“They said, ‘We’re separating from you,‘” said Briskman. “Basically, you cannot have ‘lewd’ or ‘obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ‘obscene.’”
Briskman, who worked in marketing and communications at Akima for just over six months, said she emphasized to the executives that she wasn’t on the job when the incident happened and that her social media pages don’t mention her employer. They told her that because Akima was a government contractor, the photo could hurt their business, she said.
Virginia is an employment-at-will state, meaning employers can fire people anytime and for any reason. But Briskman said what’s been particularly infuriating is that a male colleague kept his job after recently posting lewd comments on his Facebook page that featured Akima LLC as his cover photo. She said this colleague was reprimanded for calling someone “a fucking Libtard asshole” on Facebook, but was allowed to delete the post and keep his job.
“How is that any less ‘obscene’ than me flipping off the president?” she asked. “How is that fair?”
A request for comment from Akima was not immediately returned.
Someone posted this graphic on Juli Briskman's Facebook page after she flipped off the president's motorcade. Briskman was amused.
Asked what she was thinking when she saw Trump’s motorcade roll up next to her, Briskman said it was a gut reaction to flip him off.
“He was passing by and my blood just started to boil,” she said. “I’m thinking, DACA recipients are getting kicked out. He pulled ads for open enrollment in Obamacare. Only one-third of Puerto Rico has power. I’m thinking, he’s at the damn golf course again.”
“I flipped off the motorcade a number of times,” she added.
Briskman, a Democrat, said she plans to look for a new job with an advocacy group that she believes in, like Planned Parenthood or PETA.
Despite getting fired, she said she has no regrets about the attention her public show of displeasure with Trump received. In fact, she said she’s happy to be an image of protest that resonates with many Americans.
“In some ways, I’m doing better than ever,” she said. “I’m angry about where our country is right now. I am appalled. This was an opportunity for me to say something.”
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新法规引发众怒 川普当天晚上收回成命
2017-11-17 19:54:49 世界日报
川普政府准许在辛巴威猎杀大象的人把象牙带回美国的决定引发争议，致使川普17日晚间收回成命。图为在肯亚南部的一个象群。(欧新社)
川普政府17日正式发布新法规，准许在辛巴威猎杀大象的人把象牙带回美国，使动物维权人士怒不可遏，尤其白宫前一天还宣称这个问题尚未定案；由于外界反应过于强烈，川普政府17日晚间收回成命，依旧维持禁令。
社群媒体一片挞伐声浪，出并现川普两个爱好打猎的儿子与猎物合影的照片。国会保护动物党团的两党共同主席也抨击川普政府的决定，指出一个物种一旦灭绝会就此永远消失。
致力于维护动物权利的法国影星碧姬芭铎（Brigitte Bardot）更痛批川普"不适任"总统，他的政府居然采取这种"可耻行动"。
她致函川普，宣称"全世界没有任何专制暴君有权力杀害作为人类世界传统一部分的久远物种"，而获得"辛巴威疯狂的独裁者支持的残酷决定"，"证实你对整个地球和动物界掌握的病态和致命权力"。
众院外交委员会主席罗伊斯敦促川普政府收回成命，宣称这是"在错误时机的错误做法"。
他指出，这个问题不只事关非洲野生动物，也关乎美国国家安全，因为辛巴威正陷于政治动乱，执政37年的穆加比总统本周遭到军方软禁。
美国驻辛巴威大使馆已敦促在当地的美国侨民限制户外活动。
川普政府推翻欧巴马政府2014年禁止象牙和象皮进口的命令，准许去年1月到明年12月在辛巴威和尚比亚猎杀的非洲象遗体进口，宣称这可为保育计画筹款。
非洲象是全世界最大型的陆上哺乳类动物，1979年即被美国列为濒危物种，可是对象牙的非法需求加上栖息地急遽缩小，使一个世纪前还有大约500万只的非洲象现在只剩下大约40万只。
2017-11-17 19:54:49 世界日报
川普政府准许在辛巴威猎杀大象的人把象牙带回美国的决定引发争议，致使川普17日晚间收回成命。图为在肯亚南部的一个象群。(欧新社)
川普政府17日正式发布新法规，准许在辛巴威猎杀大象的人把象牙带回美国，使动物维权人士怒不可遏，尤其白宫前一天还宣称这个问题尚未定案；由于外界反应过于强烈，川普政府17日晚间收回成命，依旧维持禁令。
社群媒体一片挞伐声浪，出并现川普两个爱好打猎的儿子与猎物合影的照片。国会保护动物党团的两党共同主席也抨击川普政府的决定，指出一个物种一旦灭绝会就此永远消失。
致力于维护动物权利的法国影星碧姬芭铎（Brigitte Bardot）更痛批川普"不适任"总统，他的政府居然采取这种"可耻行动"。
她致函川普，宣称"全世界没有任何专制暴君有权力杀害作为人类世界传统一部分的久远物种"，而获得"辛巴威疯狂的独裁者支持的残酷决定"，"证实你对整个地球和动物界掌握的病态和致命权力"。
众院外交委员会主席罗伊斯敦促川普政府收回成命，宣称这是"在错误时机的错误做法"。
他指出，这个问题不只事关非洲野生动物，也关乎美国国家安全，因为辛巴威正陷于政治动乱，执政37年的穆加比总统本周遭到军方软禁。
美国驻辛巴威大使馆已敦促在当地的美国侨民限制户外活动。
川普政府推翻欧巴马政府2014年禁止象牙和象皮进口的命令，准许去年1月到明年12月在辛巴威和尚比亚猎杀的非洲象遗体进口，宣称这可为保育计画筹款。
非洲象是全世界最大型的陆上哺乳类动物，1979年即被美国列为濒危物种，可是对象牙的非法需求加上栖息地急遽缩小，使一个世纪前还有大约500万只的非洲象现在只剩下大约40万只。
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Sen. Jeff Flake, a frequent sparring partner of President Donald Trump, continues to make enemies in his own party after calling the GOP "toast" while unaware he was still on a live mic.
Flake, R-Ariz., was at a tax reform event in Mesa, Arizona on Friday night when he was caught bashing the president in a conversation with friend, Mesa Mayor John Giles.
"If we become the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast," Flake was caught saying by ABC affiliate KNXV.
Moore is running for the vacant Senate seat in Alabama left by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He has come under fire for a number of allegations of sexual harassment and assault, but has refused to leave the race.
Trump is a frequent opponent for Flake, who announced last month he would not seek re-election in 2018 in a fiery speech condemning the president from the floor of the Senate.
Flake indirectly called out Trump in his Senate speech, saying, "We must dedicate ourselves to making sure that the anomalies never becomes the normal, with respect and humility."
He told ABC News' Mary Bruce of Moore in a Nov. 9 interview on Capitol Hill, "If there is any shred of truth to these stories, he ought to step aside. And now."
Flake's criticism of Trump and the GOP weren't the only interesting comments to be caught on the live mic Friday night.
Giles was caught appearing to encourage Flake to run for president in 2020.
"I am not throwing smoke at you, but you are the guy -- just for fun, think about how much fun it would be -- just to be the foil, you know, and point out what an idiot this guy is," Giles said, apparently referring to Trump. "Anyway, I hope you do it."
Giles, who is a moderate Republican like Flake, has been mayor of Mesa since 2014.
