European Commission To Meet With Trump About Reducing Auto Tariffs

#ArtOfTheDeal

Commitments to pay up on NATO and reduction of tariffs.

This should be interesting to watch play out. I hope it works. I have not been a fan of Trump and especially dislike his cowardice and unwillingness to confront Russia given the facts.

@carcrazin

Awwww, its so cute that you buy into the media’s position that President Trump has collided with Russia.

“But some more facts. Obama as president, Obama did nothing effective at all to stop the Russians interfering in our election. He's the one who ought to be under investigation. No pushback for the invasion of Georgia. No pushback for the annexation of Crimea. No pushback for the invasion of eastern Ukraine. No pushback from Russia's criminal shootdown of flight MH-17. He capitulated to Russia in Syria, the redlines, his betrayal of Poland and the Czech Republic by acceding to Russia's demand to remove U.S. missile defense systems there. He betrayed The Ukraine by refusing them with defensive weapons.

Now contrast that disaster, that utter appeasement to what Trump has done in the 18 months. He's expanded sanctions on Russian companies and apparatchiks, he's expanded and beefed up NATO. He's had a massive increase in U.S. defense spending no thanks to the liberals. Restoring missile defenses to Poland and the Czech Republic. Returning heavy armored divisions to Germany. Prepositioning armored divisions in the Baltics. Ending arms embargoes on The Ukraine and Georgia that Obama imposed on victims of Russian aggression. Ending the ban of oil exports to try and compete with the Russians when it comes to their oil.“

“Colluded with Russia”

Apparently Jeff missed a few years, kicked out of the G7 (Putin is still crying about that, although Trump is working hard to get him back in ... with an economy smaller than Italy's minus the oil, ha), coordinated sanctions with our previous European Allies (who share the belief in liberal democracy, well not sure that is still a shared belief), expelled numerous Russian "Diplomats", shut down various "diplomatic" sites in Maryland, Virginia etc... where it was suspected were used for spying etc... Should they have been tougher and quicker to act, in hindsight hell yea. Trump has not even implemented the sanctions Congress voted overwhelmingly to impose. On collusion... I would say it is not collusion it is love. Putin loves his Manchurian pet and his pet will do anything to please him. As for the gist of the article I say lets see... we are actually on a very level playing field with Europe if you look at tariffs on a $ basis. There are plenty of items we have high tariffs on and many we have very low tariffs and vice versa. It averages out to about 3% for Europe, 2.4% for the US and 3.1% for Canada. Instead of fighting with our allies who believe in freedom and liberal democracies, have similar worker protections and environmental protections he should have teamed up with them to battle China who steals IP, manipulates currencies, have no real worker protections and little regard for the environment. However that does not fit with Putin's objectives of weakening those alliances so I guess he won't go there. All the above are not my opinion they are facts including the Manchurian pet.

Jeffgall

Once more again good post and points that the left will merely ignore or twist as it doesn't suit there fucked up agenda or logic. Don't forget how Hussien interfered with the Israeli election and had a hard on for Netanyahu or how "Judenrat" George sack of shit Soros funded anti-Harper attach ads for the Canadian election to get his sock puppet bitch Mohamed Trudeau in office and now has one of his American directors sitting on our immigration board creating our policy -WTF? Plenty of collusion going around by more than just the Russians if we were to be perfectly honest here...

I don’t think the US had bots, paid advertisements, fake news sites, active bloggers posing as Israelis to try and influence the weak minded in their election. Maybe we did get some karmic payback for our past history of mucking around in other countries. I would give us a bit of a pass as we were also trying to counter similar activities by Russia. It is interesting though how the story has changed on all these forums in lock step with Hannity’s changing story. 1st, we had nothing to do with any Russians, we never meet with any Russians we don’t even know what a Russian is 2nd after confirming something like 72 total meetings, calls etc... with Russians (about 10x more than meetings with any other countries officials) ok yes we met with Russians but it was no big deal, talked about adoptions and such. Now - maybe we did talk about the election but hey this collusion was not illegal, everybody does it and it saved us from Hillary. If that’s the attitude I think the Democrats should solicit help from every country Trump has pissed off which will be all except Israel and Russia.

No NATO nation agreed to anything new. "Goals" related to increased military spending were signed during the Obama administration and have a date of 2024. As for a deal on automobiles and parts, if you read the article it could take a very long time as the EU is not of one mind on this and may want it included in a broader bilateral trade deal or have it open to all WTO member nations. Sure they could discuss it, but it could take 5-7 years for a deal like that to be agreed to.

@CANADIANCOMMENTS: You're not watching nearly enough Fox New and reading enough Breitbart. Next thing you'll tell us is that the North Korean deal #45 signed didn't result in North Korea denuclearizing, or that Mr. Trump manufactured fears of nuclear annihilation via alleged ongoing inflammatory jabs at North Korea's Illustrious Leader, Kim Jong-un, and then claimed to put out the fire he, himself, started.

Such codswallop! Poppycock!

@TheSTeve to be honest with you, from the unbelievable comments made by Trump at the press conference with Putin that Russia didn't meddle in the 2016 election, he is now saying that presently Russia is not conducting cyber attacks against the USA when your national security groups all say that they are. I really thought the MAGA crowd would take a moment and ponder what they had just seen and perhaps take some time to think about the mental fitness of the current occupant of the White House.

The two of you need to get a motel room.

Once again..winning!! Much to the dismay of leftists everywhere.

Captain Kirk would be ashamed of you. You would surrender to the Romulans.

They will all eventually back down and give in if they want to sell to America -leftish, useless Europe included. Trump knows this and is ruthless in getting what he wants. Trade is fair with Canada and actually the US has a surplus but that isn't stopping Trump from kicking the shit of us Canucks with threats of even more tariffs to get a much better deal/concessions for the US.

Like him or loathe him -there is a method to his madness and he only cares about end results and not so much about how you get there. Interesting times indeed.

If you were Putin who would you want to win the previous election...Trump the wild card or Clinton who was part of the administration that 1) let Russia take
land in Ukraine, 2) blinked on Benghazi, 3) backed off Russia crossing the line in Syria, 4) reduced military spending , 5) supported open borders weakening our security and economy, 6) traded terrorists for a deserter, 7) sent billions to Iran without adequate safeguards, 8) supported big government practices versus stimulating business growth and stronger economy, 9) walked back relations with Israel causing greater mid east turmoil, etc etc. etc. Why do so many on the left really believe it would have been in Putin's best interests to have Trump rather than Clinton and a weakened US military, economy and world standing. Beyond me.

Uh Oh! The "handy" buddies are going to pounce and shout for sure.

I'll pounce on this one it's too easy. 1) Nobody just let them take land in Ukraine, they did it militarily. We responded by putting sanctions on Russia along with our allies. The Russian kleptocracy and Putin desperately want to develop the oil resources in Siberia worth billions and Exxon had even signed a contract to do so. That all went down the tubes. We did not respond militarily, I guess we decided to see if we could solve it by putting pressure on Russia in ways other than starting WW III over it. 2) Bengazi? Really Bengazi still??? The Rs had about a billion hearings on Bengazi and found nothing, nada, zilch and besides is has nothing to do with Russia. 3) What line did Russia cross in Syria? I am not aware of any lines Russia crossed in Syria? I am open to learning the facts on this particular point. 4) We still spend more than like the next 8 largest spending countries or about 33% of the worlds expenditures on the military. I doubt a few million make Putin change his calculus. 5) Open borders? I guess I never saw that part? We removed all our border patrol agents under O? We got rid of the border checkpoints? WOW, ok of course you were joking since O put in many additional border patrol agents during his time in office, in fact we had more agents on the border than at any time in our history up to that point and illegal immigration was way down during his watch. In fact it has been declining since the late 90s. That's a fact Jack whether you like it or not. 6) Traded terrorist for a deserter... normally the US leaves no soldier behind even deserters I guess. Maybe not the best move but this statement is factually correct. 7) We did not send billions to Iran, we gave them access to their money. Not sure what safeguards could have been put on it. I would say this is partially true. 8) US has had the longest recovery ever with O turning around the last irresponsible R blasting tax cuts and ballooning the deficit. We are going to see that same hard crash again but this time the US will have little room to maneuver to recover from the crash that Trump is bringing on us. Already our annual deficits are going to be close to a trillion this year and over a trillion next year. O had been bringing that deficit back down steadily after the stimulus was finished that likely saved us from another 1930s style depression. Many of the same factors are at play again and Trump is leading us right down that path... read your history... in depth. Oh just for grins, the economy added more employees in the last 18 months of O vs the first 18 of T. 9)I won't delve into the Middle East Israel relationship, that is simply your opinion that worsening relations caused problems. So would Putin rather have Hillary or Trump. That is an easy one. You have one guy spouting how he was going to get rid of the sanctions so Putin and the kleptocracy can make a fortune, you have one guy spouting how NATO is no longer relevant, you have one candid

Hey they cut me off and I was just getting started. In any case all 17 Intelligence agencies said Russia meddled and favored Trump. I will take their word on it over Putin’s denial or bloviating wimps on Fox News OPINION shows like no water boarding for me Hannity. Brings a smile to my face every time, bragged about water boarding not being torture, little girls could handle it, then when asked to actually go through it he wimped out. No respect from me for chicken hawks like Hannity.

You all are parroting the Fox news narrative which in turn comes directly from the White House. Obama put strict restrictions on Russian trade and banks and expelled diplomats (spys). he did far more than DumbDonnie has done. The only push back DD has done so has been because congress made him do it. He wants Russia back in the G* after the annexed another country's territory! He wants to let Russian FSB agents (KGB) interrogate US investigators and FBI agents.
And to ASSpy11, no one sold all of our uranium to anybody. The US owned 20 percent of a Canadian mining company. A Russian wanted to acquired this company (uranium was not all they mined). The deal was vetted by the State Department and US intelligence and given the OK.
Trump surrendered to Putin in front of the world. Treason!

And you're not parroting CNN? #hypocrite

Conservative radio hero Charles Sykes at The Weekly Standard: “What we have learned again is that at the heart of every truculent and strutting bully is a craven sycophant eager to cower before a bigger bully…. [Trump’s] performance [was] so servile that we struggle to place it in context, because there are no parallels in the history of the American presidency.”

I am not parroting anything. I read a lot of news sources, both conservative and not and some for overseas. Mueller's team contains a Who's Who of international money laundering experts. They all have outstanding credentials and attentional to detail (oh-oh, DD). They have been to Germany to interview Deutsche Bank officials. The circle of indictments around DD is getting closer.
And yes, the uranium deal that fox keeps bring up is laughable.
Several reports on the accuracy of the news media all say fox is the most inaccurate and by a sizable margin. If they are right and patriotic, why do they need to lie? Sad.

#delusional

I would argue with that point. I would say Fox News NEWS is not too bad. Fox News viewers are mislead and have the least grasp of basic facts that are easily discernible, mainly due to the talking head shows on Fox News. Uranium 1 is a great example of that.

As we’ve noted in previous fact-checks, the Obama administration took actions before and after Election Day. Prior to the election, the Obama administration publicly named the Russian government as the culprit, confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin in person, and worked to secure U.S. election infrastructure — all while intelligence agencies investigated the issue.

But the Obama administration’s most significant retaliatory measure against Russia came after Trump’s electoral win.

On Dec. 29, 2016, Obama ordered 35 Russian diplomats and suspected intelligence agents to leave the United States, and he also imposed narrow sanctions on some Russian individuals and organizations. He also worked with our allies to oust Russia from the G-8 after the incursion into Crimea.
Trump signed a law calling for new sanctions against Russia in response to its interference with the election, they added that the legislation was hardly the product of Trump’s hardline advocacy. Congress largely passed the bill — with veto-proof majorities — in response to Trump’s downplaying of the meddling question and his seeming interest in lifting sanctions against Russia

Trump is also pushing to allow Russia back into the G-8, essentially rewarding them for annexing part of another country. Trump was tougher on Stormy Daniels than he was on Putin.