Kamis, 05 Desember 2019
Trump on impeachment: It's a big fat hoax - Fox News
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2019-12-05 18:47:10Z
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Trudeau's hot mic comments cause consternation in Canada - CNN
Trudeau was caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO seemingly trash talking President Donald Trump. On the video, where audio is heard intermittently, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asks French President Emmanuel Macron, "Is that why you were late?"
But it is Trudeau who interrupts to say, "He was late because he takes a ... 40-minute press conference at the top."
And Trudeau goes on from there, hands gesturing, mouth grinning. You get the picture, and so did news streams and social media feeds around the world.
The slight did not go unnoticed by Trump, who called Trudeau "two-faced."
But it was his son, Donald Trump Jr., who picked up on his father's turn of phrase on Twitter, tweeting a picture of Trudeau dressed in blackface, referring to a scandal earlier this year when it was revealed that the Prime Minister had worn racist makeup several times.
Trump Jr. writes, "As usual @realDonaldTrump is 100% right!!! Trump calls Trudeau 'two-faced' see evidence below," referring to a photo of Trudeau wearing blackface when he was teacher nearly two decades ago.
For his part Trudeau did not apologize to Trump but said, "Last night, I made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with President Trump and I was happy to take part of it, but it was certainly notable."
Canadian officials traveling with the Prime Minister tell CNN the cocktail conversation was taken out of context and Trudeau was merely telling fellow colleagues about his day.
But Canada's Conservative opposition leader, Andrew Scheer, said there was no excuse for such a mistake in front of a global audience.
"Justin Trudeau's poor judgment, lack of professionalism and love of drama continues to weaken Canada's position on the world stage," Scheer said during a speech to Conservative members of parliament.
New Democratic Party opposition leader Jagmeet Singh repeated a criticism of Trudeau first heard during the blackface scandal and seemed to subtly agree with Trump on the Prime Minister's character.
"What I've said often about Mr. Trudeau is that he certainly says some things in public and then says things very differently in private," said Singh, speaking to reporters outside the room where his caucus met on Wednesday.
Reaction among Canadians was mixed both online and in interviews, while opinion columnists debated whether it would have any effect on US-Canada relations going forward.
Referring to Trump's "two-faced" jibe, Globe & Mail newspaper opinion writer Lawrence Martin writes, "Insults between great friends and allies don't get much nastier than this. In fact, it is arguably the worst insult a President has ever issued to a PM, a broadside more penetrating than Donald Trump's calling Justin Trudeau 'very dishonest and weak' after the June, 2018, G7 summit in Quebec."
But he also notes that former President Richard Nixon was apparently caught on tape in the 1970s referring to Trudeau's father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre, as "that a**hole Trudeau."
US-Canada relations spectacularly survived that fractious relationship. But with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal yet to be ratified and a continuing dispute with China over the arrest of a Huawei executive and the detention of two Canadians in retaliation, Trudeau needs to be able to depend on the President more than ever.
Toronto Star national columnist Susan Delacourt tweeted, "OK. I'll say it: What's so wrong about laughing at @realDonaldTrump?" and wrote in her column, "Did you hear the one about the world leader behaving badly at a NATO summit? In what truly is a sign of just how much Donald Trump has disrupted the rules of political diplomacy in three tumultuous years in office, the punchline to that joke is not Donald Trump."
Canadian officials speaking to CNN stressed that despite the viral moment, the meeting was "good and substantive" with discussions about the USMCA and -- of particular importance -- they say Trump agreed to help Trudeau secure the release of the two Canadians held in China.
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2019-12-05 13:30:00Z
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‘The world is laughing at President Trump’: Joe Biden highlights viral NATO video in campaign ad - The Washington Post
Former vice president Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, released a new campaign ad late Wednesday highlighting the NATO video in a blistering critique of Trump’s ability to lead on the global stage. Biden’s campaign also mocked Trump’s repeated insistence that the United States requires a president who isn’t a “laughing stock,” ending the ad with a graphic that read, “We need a leader the world respects.” By early Thursday, the roughly minute-long video had been watched more than 5 million times.
“The world is laughing at President Trump,” Biden tweeted. “They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.”
The world is laughing at President Trump. They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.
We cannot give him four more years as commander in chief. pic.twitter.com/IR8K2k54YQ
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 5, 2019
The pointed ad marks the continued fallout after Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other dignitaries were caught on camera Tuesday engaging in a brief exchange apparently about Trump that quickly spiraled into an international incident. On Wednesday, Trudeau, Macron and Johnson were forced to field questions about the candid conversation and Trump was described as “the scorned child on the global playground” and “a sulking, brooding president,” The Washington Post reported.
Set to dramatic instrumental music, Biden’s ad opens with Trump grinning and flashing a thumbs up as he stands flanked by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
But the video quickly cuts to the Tuesday footage of the leaders at Buckingham Palace and their animated conversation.
“World leaders caught on camera laughing about President Trump,” a narrator says.
“Several world leaders mocking President Trump,” another speaker says. The video zooms in on Macron talking before jumping to a close-up of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte mid-laugh. Other clips show Johnson and Trudeau smiling.
The ad then calls attention to other occasions where Trump has been met with derision from foreign leaders, including video of the president addressing the U.N. General Assembly last year, where his remarks were met with “audible guffaws” from audience members, The Post’s David Nakamura reported.
“A president the world is laughing at,” reads all-caps text superimposed on footage from Trump’s address.
As videos of Trump play, Biden slams the president, calling him “insincere, ill-informed, corrupt, dangerously incompetent and incapable, in my view, of world leadership.”
“And if we give Donald Trump four more years, we’ll have a great deal of difficulty of ever being able to recover America’s standing in the world, and our capacity to bring nations together,” Biden says over images of himself with foreign leaders such as Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In a Wednesday tweet, Trump defended his behavior at the summit, writing, “I got along great with the NATO leaders.”
“The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to belittle my VERY successful trip to London for NATO,” Trump tweeted, adding that there was “only deep respect” for the United States.
The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to belittle my VERY successful trip to London for NATO. I got along great with the NATO leaders, even getting them to pay $130 Billion a year more, & $400 Billion a year more in 3 years. No increase for U.S., only deep respect!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2019
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, hit back at Biden over his own foreign policy credentials.
“As the President has said, Joe Biden claims that foreign leaders have told him they want him to win the election. Of course they do,” Murtaugh wrote in an email to The Post. “They want to keep ripping off the United States like they did before Trump became President.”
The viral video from Buckingham Palace offered Biden a chance to highlight a regular theme from his campaign: emphasizing his foreign policy experience, while slamming Trump’s handling of global relations. In November, Biden’s campaign touted endorsements from 133 foreign policy experts and former officials who supported the former vice president as the “best antidote” to Trump, The Post’s Josh Rogin wrote. Days later, Biden accused Trump of “shredding our alliances” during an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon.
At an event in Ames, Iowa, earlier on Wednesday, Biden had declined to directly attack Trump’s NATO performance, citing his stance that presidents shouldn’t be criticized while they are on foreign soil, WHO-DT reported. “What happened in the recent NATO conference has disturbed me. Really, really disturbed me,” he said.
But less than an hour after Air Force One delivered Trump back to the U.S. on Wednesday night, Biden dropped his ad.
On social media, the video was met with mixed reactions. Some praised Biden’s team for creating what one person called “the best anti-Trump ad I’ve seen yet.” Others warned that the ad would only inspire a similar video from the Trump campaign centered on Biden’s numerous gaffes.
Viewers, however, did appear to largely agree on one thing: Trump would not be pleased.
“@realDonaldTrump is going to explode,” one person tweeted.
Jesus, this is savage. Trump is going to be apoplectic when he sees this. Expect a lot of angry Biden tweets in the morning, and maybe even a renewed push to find someone - literally anyone - willing to "investigate" his family. https://t.co/zbkIDnpYSE
— Christopher Clark (@chrisclarkwords) December 5, 2019
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2019-12-05 13:18:00Z
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Strikes set to paralyze France as protesters take to streets - CNN International
The last time France reached for a universal pension system, Jacques Chirac was President, Alain Juppe was his prime minister and, like today, a wave of freezing cold weather had descended on the country.
After 2 million people took to the streets and nearly three weeks of near total paralysis, the pension reform was dropped. It hadn't been attempted since. Until now.
President Emmanuel Macron has announced reforms that would put an end to the 42 retirement schemes currently in place in France.
His proposal: Schemes, which include special provisions for certain professions, like rail workers and train drivers who benefit from early retirement, would be unified into a single points-based system that would give all workers the same rights.
What's driving concern? Many fear that under Macron's new universal retirement system, they will have to work longer for less, even though the official retirement age in France is 62 -- one of the lowest among the 36 countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
What to expect Thursday: Ambulance drivers, teachers, police unions, postal workers, hospital workers are expected to join the strike. And for the first time, yellow vests will be joining the unions in their protests.
In Paris alone, 300 of the capital's 652 primary schools will be closed because of the strike action. And 6,000 police officers will be deployed in Paris for rallies across the city, with protests on the Champs Elysees, Matignon and police stations forbidden.
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2019-12-05 12:34:00Z
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NHS: Specter of U.S. interference looms over health care debate in U.K. - NBC News
LONDON — Antoinette Simmons has lived in the United States for the last 10 years, after having lived in England for a decade. Guess which country’s health care system she prefers?
In the U.K., the National Health Service diagnosed and treated her husband’s cancer free of charge. After moving to Atlanta in 2009, Simmons says she was hit with an unexpected bill of $28,000 after having surgery and misreading the fine print in her insurance policy.
"It was a very dark time," she said, "because I just felt that the walls were closing in."
Simmons, 57, a public defender who was born in Jamaica, has a warning for those who are using the future of the NHS — specifically its ability to negotiate drug prices after Brexit — as a campaign issue in the national elections on Dec. 12.
"People should run screaming away from anything that involves the pharmaceutical vampires in the United States getting anywhere near the NHS," she said.
Built out of the chaos of World War II, the NHS is now the world's fifth-largest employer, and because of it, no U.K. citizen need face bankruptcy because of medical care, or have to choose between seeing a doctor and keeping the lights on.
But this year, the opposition Labour Party is raising concerns that another Conservative government could "sell off" the NHS to the United States.
"After Brexit, if we have a Conservative government they will be very desperate to have a trade deal with the U.S.," said Sonia Adesara, a doctor who is campaigning on behalf of the Labour Party. "And I think it's very clear the U.S. wants access to our NHS."
"Access," in this sense, refers to the administration’s desire for American pharmaceutical companies to be allowed to fully participate in the U.K. health care market, according to trade objectives published in February.
The NHS budget was $170 billion this year, much of it used to help negotiate low drug prices, scoring bargains Americans can only dream of.
So potentially there is a lot of money to be made in any trade deal between London and Washington after the U.K. leaves the European Union.
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Labour, which founded the NHS in 1948, frames the choice facing voters this way: Will the U.K. preserve the service as a pillar of postwar society, providing free health care in a system that's rated as the best in the developed world?
Or will the U.K. allow increased influence from the United States, whose far more expensive free-market-oriented model is ranked worst in the world, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan research organization.
Last week, Labour released a trove of government documents covering talks between the U.S. and the U.K. that it says are "proof" the NHS would be on the block if the ruling Conservative Party wins the election and negotiates a post-Brexit trade agreement with the U.S.
Despite the documents, the Conservatives still repeatedly insist that the NHS would not be part of any post-Brexit trade deal with Washington.
"There are no circumstances in which this government or any Conservative government will put the NHS on the table in any trade negotiation," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said during a televised debate with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. "Our NHS will never be for sale."
Opponents point to the prime minister's career and private life, which have been riddled with allegations of lying, as reasons to be skeptical. Most recently the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled he misled Queen Elizabeth II before suspending Parliament so it could not scrutinize his Brexit plans.
As many as 45 percent of respondents in a poll by Survation in November said they do not trust the prime minister with the NHS.
It's not just Labour and other opposition parties who warn of Johnson’s untrustworthiness.
Nick Boles, a former Conservative lawmaker and chief of staff when Johnson was mayor of London, wrote in The London Evening Standard that the prime minister "will betray the NHS in a heartbeat if that is what it takes to get a trade deal out of his role model — Donald Trump."
'Question of Power'
The sheer unpopularity of Trump in the U.K. has made the specter of NHS interference a potent attack line for Labour, which has been languishing in the polls under the weight of a vicious dispute over allegations of anti-Semitism in the party and its divisive stance on Brexit.
On Sunday, Corbyn leaned into this unpopularity by calling Johnson the "world's leading sycophant" with regard to Trump.
The president and his ambassador in London, Woody Johnson, said this summer that the NHS would be "on the table" in any post-Brexit trade deal, although both later backtracked.
Trump has also vowed to go after what he calls "freeloading" countries — or those that don’t pay the full share of medical research and development. It aligns with what the powerful pharmaceutical lobby has advocated for years.
If the Conservatives win a majority this month, as polls suggest they might, the U.S. could be in a position to strong arm the British government over the NHS.
Robert Lawrence, a trade expert who served on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, suggested that the U.K. could try to set firm ground rules with the Americans during trade talks, which can't start officially until after Brexit, now slated for Jan. 31.
"It could be made clear to the United States that the NHS is just a nonstarter," he said. "Then it comes back to a question of power: Do you have sufficient leverage to swallow that hot potato? It just it depends on what else you’re prepared to give up."
Giving way on drug prices could put a huge strain on Britain.
Paying the free-market U.S. price would increase the NHS pharmaceutical budget to $58 billion from $23 billion per year, according to University of Liverpool research conducted for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4.
That would put a colossal strain on the NHS's already overburdened finances after a decade of austerity. However, few are suggesting that the NHS would stop being free at the point of access.
Supporters point out that, for all of its faults, the NHS still outshines the U.S. medical system by most measures. That's despite the U.S. spending more on health care, publicly and privately, than any other country.
"The NHS provides world-class treatment as soon as you walk through that door," Adesara, the doctor and Labour activist, said. “I think that's a pretty amazing thing — that everyone gets this amazing care no matter who you are and how much money you have."
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2019-12-05 09:25:00Z
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‘The world is laughing at President Trump’: Joe Biden highlights viral NATO video in campaign ad - The Washington Post
Former vice president Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, released a new campaign ad late Wednesday highlighting the NATO video in a blistering critique of Trump’s ability to lead on the global stage. Biden’s campaign also mocked Trump’s repeated insistence that the U.S. requires a president who isn’t a “laughing stock,” ending the ad with a graphic that read, “We need a leader the world respects.” By early Thursday, the roughly minute-long video had been watched more than 4 million times.
“The world is laughing at President Trump,” Biden tweeted. “They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.”
The world is laughing at President Trump. They see him for what he really is: dangerously incompetent and incapable of world leadership.
We cannot give him four more years as commander in chief. pic.twitter.com/IR8K2k54YQ
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 5, 2019
The pointed ad marks the continued fallout after Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other dignitaries were caught on camera Tuesday engaging in a brief exchange apparently about Trump that quickly spiraled into an international incident. On Wednesday, Trudeau, Macron and Johnson were forced to field questions about the candid conversation and Trump was described as “the scorned child on the global playground” and “a sulking, brooding president,” The Washington Post reported.
Set to dramatic instrumental music, Biden’s ad opens with Trump grinning and flashing a thumbs up as he stands flanked by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.
But the video quickly cuts to the Tuesday footage of the leaders at Buckingham Palace and their animated conversation.
“World leaders caught on camera laughing about President Trump,” a narrator says.
“Several world leaders mocking President Trump,” another speaker says. The video zooms in on Macron talking before jumping to a close up of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte mid-laugh. Other clips show Johnson and Trudeau smiling.
The ad then calls attention to other occasions where Trump has been met with derision from foreign leaders, including video of the president addressing the U.N. General Assembly last year, where his remarks were met with “audible guffaws” from audience members, The Post’s David Nakamura reported.
“A president the world is laughing at,” reads all-caps text superimposed on footage from Trump’s address.
As videos of Trump play, Biden slams the president, calling him “insincere, ill-informed, corrupt, dangerously incompetent, and incapable, in my view, of world leadership.”
“And if we give Donald Trump four more years, we’ll have a great deal of difficulty of ever being able to recover America’s standing in the world, and our capacity to bring nations together,” Biden says over images of himself with foreign leaders such as Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In a Wednesday tweet, Trump defended his behavior at the summit, writing, “I got along great with the NATO leaders.”
“The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to belittle my VERY successful trip to London for NATO,” Trump tweeted, adding that there was “only deep respect” for the U.S.
The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to belittle my VERY successful trip to London for NATO. I got along great with the NATO leaders, even getting them to pay $130 Billion a year more, & $400 Billion a year more in 3 years. No increase for U.S., only deep respect!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2019
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, hit back at Biden over his own foreign policy credentials.
“As the President has said, Joe Biden claims that foreign leaders have told him they want him to win the election. Of course they do,” Murtaugh wrote in an email to The Post. “They want to keep ripping off the United States like they did before Trump became President.”
The viral video from Buckingham Palace offered Biden a chance to highlight a regular theme from his campaign: emphasizing his foreign policy experience, while slamming Trump’s handling of global relations. In November, Biden’s campaign touted endorsements from 133 foreign policy experts and former officials who supported the former vice president as the “best antidote” to Trump, The Post’s Josh Rogin wrote. Days later, Biden accused Trump of “shredding our alliances” during an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon.
At an event in Ames, Iowa, earlier on Wednesday, Biden had declined to directly attack Trump’s NATO performance, citing his stance that presidents shouldn’t be criticized while they are on foreign soil, WHO-DT reported. “What happened in the recent NATO conference has disturbed me. Really, really disturbed me,” he said.
But less than an hour after Air Force One delivered Trump back to the U.S. Wednesday night, Biden dropped his ad.
On social media, the video was met with mixed reactions. Some praised Biden’s team for creating what one person called “the best anti-Trump ad I’ve seen yet.” Others warned that the ad would only inspire a similar video from the Trump campaign centered around Biden’s numerous gaffes.
Viewers, however, did appear to largely agree on one thing: Trump would not be pleased.
“@realDonaldTrump is going to explode,” one person tweeted.
Jesus, this is savage. Trump is going to be apoplectic when he sees this. Expect a lot of angry Biden tweets in the morning, and maybe even a renewed push to find someone - literally anyone - willing to "investigate" his family. https://t.co/zbkIDnpYSE
— Christopher Clark (@chrisclarkwords) December 5, 2019
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2019-12-05 11:30:00Z
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House Judiciary Committee holds impeachment hearing - CBS News
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- House Judiciary Committee holds impeachment hearing CBS News
- Martha MacCallum: Turley had a 'powerful moment' in his impeachment hearing testimony Fox News
- Democrats' new impeachment message: Expel Trump now CNN
- Democrats, Don’t Overreach on Impeachment The New York Times
- Gregg Jarrett: Impeachment-obsessed Democrats ignore logic and law as 4 professors testify at hearing Fox News
- View full coverage on Google News
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2019-12-05 11:51:24Z
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