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"We came in after a government and negotiating team that had blinked and had its bluff called at critical moments and the EU had learned not to take our word seriously. So a lot of what we are trying to do this year is to get them to realise that we mean what we say and they should take our position seriously.Talks are due to resume in London on Tuesday but they have stalled over Britain's insistence that it have full autonomy over state aid and its demands over fishing. Britain says the EU is dragging its feet in talks and has failed to fully accept that it is now an independent country.
"That's what being an independent country is about, that's what the British people voted for and that's what will happen at the end of the year, come what may."
Trump shared an article late Friday from far-right outlet Breitbart News declaring that Griffin "Did Not Confirm 'Most Salacious' Part of Atlantic Story" after the reporter shared on the air that sources had confirmed to her certain key details of the magazine's story.You'd think the press might pause on punting the story when even the war-mongering Walrus himself denies it:
"All refuted by many witnesses. Jennifer Griffin should be fired for this kind of reporting. Never even called us for comment. @FoxNews is gone!" Trump declared in a tweet.
The rebuke came hours after Griffin, a national security correspondent for Fox News, reported that sources had confirmed key details of The Atlantic's report. Griffin said sources told her that Trump had said the Vietnam War was "stupid" and anyone who fought in it was a "sucker."
Trump famously received a number of draft deferrals for the Vietnam War from a doctor who said he suffered from bone spurs.
Griffin, citing a former Trump administration official, reported that Trump "was not in a good mood" during his trip to France in 2018 and "questioned why he had to go to two cemeteries."
She also reported that Trump was adamant flags not be lowered to half-staff when the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a fierce critic of Trump, died in 2018.
Trumps remarks, crude as they were, were primarily directed at John ("Canary") McCain, who parleyed a treasonous 5-year stay in a North Vietnamese prison camp into a political career, shedding a terminally-ill wife along the way.
- How 'war hero' John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life
- John McCain: The 'war-hero' who buried information about POWs left in Vietnam
- Worse than his Vietnam POW record: McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy
- Forgotten woman: The wife ambitious McCain callously left behind
- Matt Drudge nails it: John McCain is face of 'corruption'
Trump and a number of White House aides have fiercely denied the report, though multiple news outlets have confirmed certain details.
"If they really exist, if people really exist that would have said that, they're lowlifes and they're liars. And I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more," Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews after a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Thursday evening.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton has disputed a story in The Atlantic claiming that President Donald Trump called fallen World War I soldiers "losers." Bolton told the New York Times Friday that "I was there" and "I didn't hear that."
Bolton, who has emerged as an adversary of the president since leaving the administration last fall, wrote in his tell-all book about Trump that the visit to the cemetery by helicopter had been canceled because of weather. Driving, Bolton wrote, was not an option because of the "unacceptable risk" of being stuck in traffic if an emergency arose. He criticized the media for falsely reporting that Trump skipped his visit because he was "afraid of the rain.
On Friday, Bolton confirmed his account in an interview with the Times, and added that he never heard Trump say "losers" or "suckers":He got support from an unlikely source on Friday when John R. Bolton, his former national security adviser who has broken with him and called him unfit for office, said he was on the trip in question and never heard Mr. Trump make those remarks. "I didn't hear that," Mr. Bolton said in an interview. "I'm not saying he didn't say them later in the day or another time but I was there for that discussion."
The Hill writes (emphasis added):Russian media and other groups are intentionally "amplifying" concerns around mail-in voting in order to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections, a report compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made public Thursday found.Do these DHS folks ever look into mirrors?
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"Russian state media, proxies, and Russian-controlled social media trolls are likely to promote allegations of corruption, system failure, and foreign malign interference to sow distrust in democratic institutions and election outcomes," the Office of Intelligence and Analysis wrote.
And what exactly are the Washington Post and New York Times pieces below doing but "to sow distrust in democratic institutions and election outcomes"?
What's the worst that could happen?
The election will likely spark violence โ and a constitutional crisis
What Will You Do if Trump Doesn't Leave?
Playing out the nightmare scenario.
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