Why is he STILL backing a company that violates our sanctions and that our military and intelligence has deemed a threat to the security of the US? #ZTE phone sales were BANNED on military bases, just 12 days ago!https://t.co/SlqKl6Hn1l pic.twitter.com/reUmlFr2TX
— VoteVets (@votevets) May 14, 2018
Ethics experts see a clear "quid pro quo" and another violation of the Constitution's "emoluments clause." https://t.co/NFEZirX7V4 # via @HuffPostPol
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 15, 2018
Ohhhh now I see why Trump directed the U.S. Department of Commerce to use American tax dollars to send jobs to China. I guess we can assume there’s a direct link because @RajShah45 says the American people don’t deserve an explanation from the White House. https://t.co/pRVgy17wNP
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 15, 2018
A billion-dollar Indonesian property development with ties to Trump is expected to be backed with up to $500,000,000 in Chinese government loans. https://t.co/m3uau9fkT9
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 15, 2018
Trump’s lack of respect for the rule of law isn’t just about the criminal justice system. The China deal is clearly unethical if not illegal-Trump must believe the court system is so slow to resolve these questions that he can make money while delaying the proceedings.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 15, 2018
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump promised over and over again that he would bring back American jobs that have been outsourced to China. Instead of working to bring back outsourced jobs, he is now pledging to help create jobs in China. https://t.co/Gnin2zK3pO
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 14, 2018
Trump giving millions to China as Puerto Rico still struggles.
— Eileen Marie Sarah (@EileenMarieSar1) May 15, 2018
Donald Trump’s day so far:
– Didn’t show up for Melania surgery
– U.S. Embassy move deadly disaster
– $500 million bribe from China
– Grand jury against Michael Cohen
– Bribe meeting “will redefine ugly”
– Trump fears treason charges
– It’s still only 7:11am— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) May 15, 2018
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Elsewhere in Trumpworld…
The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
$1 million donation to Trump inauguration traced to conservative legal activists who introduced Trump to Gorsuch: report https://t.co/JxouyooAai pic.twitter.com/RFl8b5Bj3Z
— The Hill (@thehill) May 15, 2018
Trump has asked for better "TV lawyers" to fight Mueller probe as Giuliani bombshells continue: report https://t.co/RCSEiDvtEx pic.twitter.com/F2kBTDkDLp
— The Hill (@thehill) May 15, 2018
After Melania Trump is hospitalised for surgery on a troublesome lump, doctors admit she’s been living with it for some time: pic.twitter.com/m3SItEip1d
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) May 15, 2018
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WORLD
Palestinians bury dead after bloodiest day in Gaza since 2014 https://t.co/nGM6DdfQpC
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) May 15, 2018
Deaths in Gaza result of utter disregard of Messers Trump & Netanyahu for Palestinian rights & homeland. By moving Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump played politics, destroyed US peacemaker role. New generation of Israelis/Palestinians need to isolate extremists to find path to peace.
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) May 14, 2018
Left: #Jerusalem
Right: #Gaza(Pictures taken at the same time this afternoon) pic.twitter.com/0ySzaGjQC9
— Patrick Galey (@patrickgaley) May 14, 2018
All you need to understand who Donald Trump and his friends and family are is to notice which lives they value and which deaths they treat as meaningless.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 15, 2018
Have no illusions that Trump will care about dead Muslims, anymore than he cares about Americans in Puerto Rico, the immigrant babies he wants to separate from parents, the black Americans he is deporting reneging TPS. He will come for all of us. We must speak out and #resist
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) May 15, 2018
Fox News host: Trump fulfilled a "biblical prophecy" by moving the US embassy to Jerusalemhttps://t.co/90fpdOMjZy pic.twitter.com/lNBoUlTinX
— The Hill (@thehill) May 15, 2018
Western powers were muted in their response to Israel's killing at least 60 Palestinian protesters. Only President Emmanuel Macron of France directly assailed Israel’s actions. https://t.co/2uXDU954OI
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 15, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
A constitutional crisis is looming as the Scottish Parliament appears poised to formally refuse to give consent to Theresa May's Brexit legislation https://t.co/jO0HKMxRoQ pic.twitter.com/v5aH6KR0KY
— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) May 15, 2018
Avoiding a hard Irish border is not just an 'EU demand', it is also importantly an objective that the UK has 'guaranteed' and to which on numerous occasions it has formally committed.
https://t.co/QX14xCJ6sF— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) May 15, 2018
Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU https://t.co/hM8AqIhLWy
— EU Beauty #FBPE #WATON #Remain (@ORourkeGerry) May 15, 2018
Go and join the Tories.https://t.co/3YBkLw34Ci
— Jo Maugham QC (@JolyonMaugham) May 15, 2018
A reminder, from a Norwegian, of why what is by far the least damaging Brexit option is still a crock.
The choice is between whichever one of a set of options ranging from appalling to pretty bad UKGov negotiates, and stopping Brexit. https://t.co/NI4pcP9C7z
— Steve Bullock (@GuitarMoog) May 15, 2018
Wow. Labour frontbencher Preet Gill comes out in support of a fresh Brexit referendum. Owen Smith got sacked for saying the same thing. Great scoop by @wizbateshttps://t.co/NnJcfXBHq9
— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) May 14, 2018
If #Brexit & #NorthernIreland is a hot topic, it is too often discussed without reference to the actual stated positions of key organisations in NI.
@LisaClaireWhit1 & I try to rectify this in these *5 slides*.1st: look how much NI parties converge on Brexit priorities. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/6RQkBSfqOb
— Katy Hayward (@hayward_katy) May 15, 2018
Brexit is like a Möbius strip.
Whatever direction Brexit takes us towards, we’ll always end up back at the realisation we cannot get a better deal than the current deal of staying in the EU. pic.twitter.com/CQUUjo9JbX
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) May 14, 2018
Palestine is a tinderbox, Brexit is a mess, there’s a lack of disclosure over the Windrush Scandal, and yet we have obsequious forelock tugging media coverage of two stinking rich people who happen to be getting married on Saturday. #RoyalWedding #BreadAndCircuses
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) May 15, 2018