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The list of things you don't know really is quite long. You should work on that.

 

That isn't happening. President Trump is finding excuses to start shit with our allies, but cozying up to the Russians.

 

Silly.

You gotta come with more than that on a day like this, my friend.

 

This moment may be as vulnerable as Trump has been at any point in his presidency.

So now it's up to someone in the Democratic party to think, "What would Mitch McConnell do in this situation" then go do it. Being ruthless is so much more useful than being smug.

I see the cute tweets from Ted Lieu. I'm sure talking heads on MSNBC are frothing at the mouth.

But what can a Democrat do right now to claim a victory politically? Trump embarrassing himself and the country doesn't count -- he does it every day.

Or, are they truly capable of nothing until/unless they win back control of the House in November?

 

A traitor.

LOL. Dummy.

 

Somebody needs to tell the Republicans that abortion is legal in Russia, albeit more limited.

 

He pressed our allies to spend more money on their defense. That's not what Russia wants.

 

LOL. This is EXACTLY what Putin wants.

The allies are not going to increase their spending by one dime just because Trump blusters about something, and Russia knows it.

Trump's bluster is designed to damage the relationships of the western allies. That's Putin's goal. He doesn't give two shits about defense spending.

 

Singapore 2: Treasonous Boogaloo

 

Wrong:

SECRETARY GENERAL STOLTENBERG: I agree with you that we have to do make sure that our allies are investing more. The good news is that allies have started to invest more in defense.

After years of cutting defense budgets, they have started to add billions to their defense budgets. And last year was the biggest increase in defense spending across Europe and Canada in that generation.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Why was that last year?

SECRETARY GENERAL STOLTENBERG: It’s also because of your leadership, because of your carried message. And —

PRESIDENT TRUMP: They won’t write that, but that’s okay.

SECRETARY GENERAL STOLTENBERG: No, I have said it before, but the thing is that it really has. And your message is having an impact, and we are going to build on that to make sure that we have further increases. You initiated last year that all allies are going to develop national plans on how to spend more on defense. And based on these national plans, we now estimate that European allies and Canada will add 266 extra U.S. dollars for defense from now until — billion U.S. dollars — until 2024.

So this is really adding some extra momentum. It helps and we are moving in the right direction. But we still have to do more, and that is what we’re going to address after the summit later on today.

Remarks by President Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at Bilateral Breakfast