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Why Isn’t Saudi Arabia A Part of Trump’s Muslim Ban?

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Possibly the following reasons [1]:

OIL: There are American investors in Saudi Arabia’s oil industry.  It might hurt the profits from Trump’s investments and his CEO friends in the oil industry.

REFUGEES: There doesn’t “seem” to be many refugees for Saudi Arabia although the 9-11 hijackers were primarily from Saudi Arabia.

The Washongton Post, “The seven nations targeted for new visitation restrictions by President Trump on Friday all have something in common: They are places he does not appear to have any business interests.”[2]

  1. The Truth Division, January 28, 2017 – Trump Didn’t Include Saudi Arabia In Immigration Ban… And Here’s Why
  2. The Washington Post, January 28, 2017, Rosalind S. Helderman – Countries where Trump does business are not hit by new travel restrictions

 

Is Trump Losing His Mind?

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Many find it unusual that Trump can’t stand on his own two feet, figuratively. He is constantly surrounded by the Vice President and a team of “counselors”.

Alternet, “In recent weeks, a slew of political commentators have opined that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, is losing his mind; in a lengthy take-down of Trump’s recent attacks on the Khan family, HBO’s John Oliver even called Trump a sociopathic narcissist.”[1]

  1. Alternet, August 4, 2016, Elizabeth Preza – Dr. Drew Examines the Possibility That Trump Has Gone Insane – The doctor is in. Trump’s sanity is out.

Trump-Russian Connections

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Russian - Hammer in HandUS News, “A House Intelligence Committee investigation is covering whether there were possible ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, as well as other efforts by Moscow to meddle in the U.S. election.”[1]

Read the unclassified January 6, 2017, released to the public by the intelligence community. [2]

References:

  1. US News and World Report, January 25, 2017, Gabrielle Levy – House Panel Probing Possible Links Between Russia, Trump Campaign – The House Intelligence Committee is looking at ‘links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns.’
  2. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (PDF), January 6, 2017 – Background to “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections”: The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution

Tech Companies NOT Supporting Trumps Immigration Ban

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Recode, “Apple CEO Tim Cook became the latest tech industry leader to speak out against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies on Saturday.”[1]

References:

  1. Recode.net, January 28, 2017, Kara Swisher and Ina Fried – Apple CEO Tim Cook on Trump’s Muslim ban: ‘Apple would not exist without immigration … It is not a policy we support.’ The move comes as other tech leaders finally start speaking out against the new president’s policies.

Trump’s Lies – Echos Business Past

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Available from Amazon.com

The New York Times, “Yet even jaded connoisseurs of Oval Office dissembling were astonished over the last week by the torrent of bogus claims that gushed from President Trump during his first days in office. “We’ve never seen anything this bizarre in our lifetimes, where up is down and down is up and everything is in question and nothing is real,” said Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the author of “935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity,” a book about presidential deception.”[1]


The New York Times, January 28, 2017 [1]

References:

  1. The New York Times, January 28, 2017, David Barstow – ‘Up Is Down’: Trump’s Unreality Show Echoes His Business Past

Trump’s Wall Will Cost US Consumers Dearly

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The US consumer will pay at least 20% more for food and items imported from Mexico.  That is, if they they can even find the products in the stores.  Many products manufactured or grown in Mexico will simply be exported to other countries where such taxes are not imposed.  Yes, the US consumer will get screwed.


US Consumers will pay for the wall.[1]

The Yucatan Times, “Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Twitter around midday on Thursday that he was scrapping a planned trip to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly demanded that Mexico pay for a wall on the U.S. border. Later in the day, White House spokesman Sean Spicer sent the Mexican peso falling to its low for the day when he told reporters that Trump wanted a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for construction of the wall.”[2]

References:

  1. The Washington Post, January 27, 2017, Joshua Partlow and William Branigin – President Trump and Mexican president speak by phone amid crisis in relations
  2. The Yucatan Times, January 27, 2017 – U.S.-Mexico crisis deepens with White House proposal for border tax on imported goods