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Moving forward: Trump is already working to erase Obama's legacy from history

Anita Kumar
McClatchy DC
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:03 UTC
Trump Obama
© Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP
President-elect Donald Trump was surprisingly gracious as he met President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Thursday but make no mistake: He is already working to erase major parts of Obama's legacy from the history books.

Trump will be able to change some of Obama's policies with a quick stroke of the pen. Others will be much more difficult, requiring justification to pass legal hurdles or buy-in from lawmakers on Capitol Hill or foreign leaders.

"He can make a big difference at the outset of his administration, but it will take him years and support from dubious congressional factions and allies overseas to get a lot of other things done," said Charles Tiefer, former solicitor and deputy general counsel of the House of Representatives and now a professor at the University of Baltimore law school.

Despite the strong rhetoric on the campaign trail, Obama and Trump were complimentary of each other after meeting for 90 minutes — longer than expected — seated alone in the Oval Office Thursday.

"I have been very encouraged by the, I think, interest in President-elect Trump's wanting to work with my team around many of the issues that this great country faces," Obama told reporters after the meeting.
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The Trump election and what comes after the uprising

Peggy Noonan
Wall Street Journal
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:38 UTC
Trump
President-elect Trump needs to reassure the country, including those who opposed him.
Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself.

Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind... .

Call it the mores, call it God or Fate ...

That force exists and moves.

And when it moves

It will employ a hard and actual stone

To batter into bits an actual wall

And change the actual scheme of things.

—Stephen Vincent Benét,

" John Brown's Body"*

Hand it to him, the hard and actual stone who changed the actual scheme.

There were actually many stones, some 60 million, but Donald Trump did it, battering not just the famous blue wall but a wall of elites and establishments and their expectations.

The moment for me that will never be forgotten:

I was in a busy network green room late on election night. We were scrolling down, noting margins in various battlegrounds, looking for something definitive. Then someone read aloud from his phone: "AP calls it — Donald Trump elected president of the United States." There was quiet for just a moment. I wrote in my notes "2:32 a.m., 11/9/16." Soon we went into the newsroom for a panel, and I said what I thought, again from my notes: "We have witnessed something epochal and grave. It is the beginning of a new era whose shape and form are not clear, whose personnel and exact direction are unknown. But something huge and incalculable has occurred. God bless our beloved country."
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Trump could easily reverse much of Obama's foreign policy legacy

Yeganeh Torbati and Phil Stewart
Yahoo News
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:15 UTC
Trump and Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could reverse with the stroke of a pen.

Due to take office on Jan. 20, Trump, the winner in Tuesday's election, campaigned at times to dismantle Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and to reimpose sanctions Obama eased on Cuba. Trump also disagreed with foreign policy decisions that included the way Obama has deployed troops abroad to combat Islamist militant groups.

In his most notable foreign policy achievements, Obama, a Democrat, used executive authorities that offered a convenient legal path around a Republican-controlled Congress committed to blocking his agenda.

The U.S. Constitution gives a president broad executive powers to enact foreign policy. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have sought to exercise those powers by issuing executive orders, presidential memoranda and what are called findings.

"He (Obama) relied on executive authority to build a foreign policy legacy," said Thomas Wright, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution.

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Snakes in Suits

Who is Trump's billionaire backer Sheldon Adelson? Committed to 'the Jewish people' and believes Palestinians are a 'made up people'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:56 UTC
Trump with Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
© Andy Aboud in VegasTrump with Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
Donald Trump is supposed to be his own man, but in some regards he defers to one of the richest men in the world: Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul who says that "Israel is in my heart." During the campaign Trump's superPAC got a $25 million cash infusion from Adelson; and Trump "made a 180-degree shift in his position" on Israel/Palestine, from saying he would be neutral between the parties to saying he was on Israel's side.

It is surely no coincidence that the man being bandied about today as a Trump secretary of state, Newt Gingrich, is an Adelson favorite, whom Adelson supported in his own failed presidential runs. In fact, just last May, Adelson said he and Gingrich share an outlook on the Palestinian people:
I happen to believe what our friend Newt Gingrich said is true, it's a made up people.
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Boris Johnson backtracks on Trump, calls for EU leaders to stop whining


RT
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:01 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Djordje Kojadinovic / ReutersBoris Johnson
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has ordered an end to the "collective whinge-o-rama" about Donald Trump's election to the White House. It's part of an apparent change of heart from Johnson who had previously called Trump "unfit" for office. Johnson was in full backtracking mode on Wednesday morning soon after Trump's win, tweeting he was "looking forward" to working with the president-elect's new administration.

"I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it's time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective 'whinge-o-rama' that seems to be going on in some places," the former London mayor said during a diplomatic visit to Serbia on Friday.

The remarks contrast starkly with those made last year, when Johnson dubbed the businessman "unfit" to rule and "out of his mind" if he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the United States. He also suggested that Trump's remarks were "playing the game of the terrorists."
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Snakes in Suits

The Clintons and Soros launching America's Purple Revolution

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:38 UTC
George Soros and Hillary Clinton
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is not about to "go quietly into that good night". On the morning after her surprising and unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker hotel in midtown Manhattan and were both adorned in purple attire. The press immediately noticed the color and asked what it represented. Clinton spokespeople claimed it was to represent the coming together of Democratic "Blue America" and Republican "Red America" into a united purple blend. This statement was a complete ruse as is known by citizens of countries targeted in the past by the vile political operations of international hedge fund tycoon George Soros.
Bill and Hillary Clinton - Purple
Bill and Hillary during her farewell speech after losing the election, 2016
The Clintons, who both have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions and Clinton Foundation donations from Soros, were, in fact, helping to launch Soros's "Purple Revolution" in America. The Purple Revolution will resist all efforts by the Trump administration to push back against the globalist policies of the Clintons and soon-to-be ex-President Barack Obama. The Purple Revolution will also seek to make the Trump administration a short one through Soros-style street protests and political disruption.
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NATO members fear having to 'pay their bills' under Trump Presidency


Sputnik
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:27 UTC
Trump campagne
© Brendan McDermid/reuters
The victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election is NATO's worst nightmare come true. Trump has repeatedly showed a skeptical attitude toward the alliance. Now, NATO chiefs reckon with "the worst developments," including the possible withdrawal of US troops from Europe, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

Brussels does not exclude that under the new administration Washington will decide to withdraw at least a part of its troops from Europe, the magazine wrote. After Trump's victory, NATO expects negative developments in this regard, the article said.

The magazine referred to a secret report of the office of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg which described possible scenarios of Trump's presidency in detail and, in particular, cited his promises to withdraw the American military contingent from the EU.

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So long 'Madam Clinton,' you won't be missed!

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 13:24 UTC
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
The departure of Hillary Clinton and her husband from the US political scene opens the way for those who want to offer the American people a genuine left wing alternative. However given the decayed state of the Democratic Party it is doubtful if they can make use of it.

In the vast ocean of words which have been written about the US Presidential election it is important to hold on to one single fact: Donald Trump won primarily because Hillary Clinton lost.

Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate, and absolutely the wrong person for the Democratic Party to propose for President. I have previously discussed her background in some detail, and have said why merely on the strength of her public record she was a completely unsuitable person to become President of the United States of America

Comment: Further reading: President Trump Is A Wake Up Call, But Not For The Reasons You Think

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Quenelle - Golden

Trump says: 'US should be focused on fighting ISIS' instead of pursuing regime change in Syria


RT
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:34 UTC
Trump
© Mike Segar / Reuters
US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he will most likely abandon the Obama administration policy on Syria to seek a possible rapprochement with Russia on the issue of Assad. "I've had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria," the 70-year-old Republican told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the election. From the start of the Syrian war, Barack Obama's foreign policy has been focused on the support and training of the so-called "moderate" rebel groups who were supposed to defeat Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, and survive to eventually overthrow Assad. That approach became deadlocked this year when Washington failed to honor its obligations under an agreement with Moscow to separate their moderate rebel forces from internationally-recognized terrorists.

Trump, on the other hand, said on Friday that the US should be focused on fighting Islamic State, instead of pursuing regime change in Syria. "My attitude was you're fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria... Now we're backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are."

Comment: Syria responded positively on Trump's statements and breathed a sigh of relief, because Damascus agrees with Trump's plans on anti-terrorism struggle.
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The anti-Trump protesters are tools of the oligarchy. Their objective: Delegitimize Donald, install "Madam President"

Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 02:30 UTC
Newsweek Madam President
Newsweek Cover Fail
"Reform always provokes rage on the part of those who profit by the old order." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order

Who are the anti-Trump protesters besmirching the name of progressives by pretending to be progresives and by refusing to accept the outcome of the presidential election? They look like, and are acting worse than, the "white trash" that they are denouncing.

I think I know who they are. They are thugs for hire and are paid by the Oligarchy to delegitimize Trump's presidency in the way that Washington and the German Marshall Fund paid students in Kiev to protest the democratically elected Ukrainian government in order to prepare the way for a coup.

The organization, change.org, which claims to be a progressive group, but might be a front, along with other progressive groups, for the Oligarchy, is destroying the reputation of all progressives by circulating a petition that directs the electors of the Electoral Collage to annul the election by casting their votes for Hillary. Remember how upset progressives were when Trump said he might not accept the election result if there was evidence that the vote was rigged? Now progressives are doing what they damned Trump for saying he might do under certain conditions.

Comment: Roberts makes some good points. However he is apparently overlooking another possible reason for Trump's election: The powers that be decided they could not risk nor tolerate a Clinton presidency, so they let the people elect Trump as was bound to happen anyway in a fair election process.

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