WITNESSING HISTORY: All eyes are on Singapore as Pres. Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, staying in hotels less than half a mile apart, prepare for their historic and high-stakes summit. @DavidMuir reports. https://t.co/fr4QPCDXm8 pic.twitter.com/t8KlOkj25N
— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) June 11, 2018
Kennedy and Khruschev. Nixon and Mao. Reagan and Gorbachev. A legacy of high-stakes summits precedes the Trump-Kim meeting. https://t.co/5OyrPy5OBh
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 11, 2018
As Kim Jong Un embarks on this charm offensive, it seems like a good time to repost this story I wrote last year about life inside the totalitarian state: "If you ask me what was the worst thing about North Korea, I’d say: Being born there." https://t.co/pKd7rOnPCS pic.twitter.com/FLatvdoTfG
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) June 10, 2018
Tomorrow, the entire world will be treating Kim Jong un as a global leader, on stage with the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Human rights, assassinations abroad, etc. will unlikely be mentioned. That is a tremendous achievement for North Korean diplomacy.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 10, 2018
Fox & Friends host slips: Trump’s North Korea summit is a ‘historic meeting between two dictators’ https://t.co/s9s0riVvZ8
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 10, 2018
Now is a good time to remember that Trump’s top science adviser — i.e., the person who should be advising him on nuclear issues ahead of the North Korea summit — never even studied science. His most recent job was as chief of staff for Peter Thiel. https://t.co/QUbWpybF31
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 11, 2018
Can someone tell fuck-face that the D in CVID is for “dismantlement” not “denuclearization”. https://t.co/RZfiNHMJvG
— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) June 11, 2018
Hey Media friends, important to keep in mind that Trump wants this North Korea stuff to play out in TV episodes. Welcome to the season premiere. @brianstelter
— Kelly Magsamen (@kellymagsamen) June 11, 2018
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WORLD
If you can't get along with Canada you're not human.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 10, 2018
Canada responds to Trump attacks on Trudeau: Ad hominem attacks aren't "appropriate or useful" https://t.co/2Abctz9vBR pic.twitter.com/ChnQOMnDfm
— The Hill (@thehill) June 10, 2018
If these guys are so afraid of even the mildest retaliatory action, Canada and its serious allies should give Trump a response worth fearing, writes @InklessPW https://t.co/9IJKgXJlJX
— Maclean's Magazine (@macleans) June 10, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office: "We spent two days to obtain a text and commitments. We will stand by them and anyone who would depart from them, once their back was turned, shows their incoherence and inconsistency." https://t.co/uCgFLmiyhI
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 10, 2018
There. Fixed it. pic.twitter.com/CDH2Bb5YnD
— Sam Thompson (@JarrieSam) June 10, 2018
NATO is not a protection racket, it's an alliance of like-minded states banding together for their mutual defense.
Or was. https://t.co/iMVK4WHq5b
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 11, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
Robert De Niro slams Trump at the #TonyAwards: 'F— Trump' https://t.co/TA0i2j91A3
— Variety (@Variety) June 11, 2018
Robert De Niro's popularity is suddenly rising in Canada. pic.twitter.com/30LPxiWg7f #TonyAwards
— David Beard (@dabeard) June 11, 2018
Grandpa flake and grandma collins: what did you do to support democracy and the constitution? Flake and Collins: I sent some tweets and gave a couple speeches. Grandkids: is that it. Flake and Collins: yep, but I got to stay in the gop caucus!
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) June 11, 2018
Trump has a habit of ripping up all of his paper — his own "filing system" of sorts. Officials working in records management spend their days taping them back together to avoid violating Presidential Records Act https://t.co/SxhurtBzmC
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) June 10, 2018
Did ya ever notice that even though Trump hurls personal insults at people, he never does it face to face?
He always does it via twitter, when he's far, far away from the people he's taking a shot at. https://t.co/FYX25KV5V8
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 10, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
Dear America, you need to get to grips with story dominating UK press. Today, we reveal how Russian ambassador groomed the funders of Brexit campaign with offer of sweetheart deal. That's the Brexit campaign led by Bannon friend & Trump ally @Nigel_Faragehttps://t.co/4ZRLW34kyO
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) June 10, 2018
Arron Banks and Russia:
Time for proper investigation
-Tomorrow’s Guardian pic.twitter.com/cdX3g84QPY— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) June 10, 2018
It's now critical that the @ElectoralCommUK calls in the Metropolitan Police to help get to the bottom of where Bankes' millions for https://t.co/zszIQfttNY truly came from. We HAVE to know the truth of whether Russia bought the # Brexit votehttps://t.co/YE5Hf3lyT2
— Liam (@LiamByrneMP) June 10, 2018
Arron Banks, who ran the Leave EU campaign, was secretly in contact with Russian officials from 2015-2017, according to emails published in Britain on Sunday. Banks and Farage were then two of the first foreign visitors to Trump Tower after the election.https://t.co/AFpLjkru5h
— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) June 11, 2018
Excellent piece. Many (myself included, I admit) have been reluctant to make too much of Russian interference in, & other irregularities of, the Brexit Referendum. But it's now clear that a miasma of illegitimacy hangs over the vote, and it's absurd for HMG to ignore that. https://t.co/fhlVAAUbOP
— Chris Grey (@chrisgreybrexit) June 10, 2018
Why the impossible case for Brexit is collapsing – and Labour’s opportunity to do the right thing for party and country.https://t.co/1KoMYw9Em6
— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) June 10, 2018
Please remember: no matter how dramatic and serious the Brexit/Russian revelations…
…there is no direct legal or formal way that the referendum can be annulled.
Not like a parliamentary election where there can be a re-run and a MP disqualifed.
Don't get your hopes up.
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) June 10, 2018
On Tuesday there will be an almighty Brexit showdown in the House of Commons. https://t.co/1MekycaeT7
— The New European (@TheNewEuropean) June 10, 2018