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Jonathan Lemire ✔ @JonLemire
Trump to reporters on AF1 contradicts Pompeo on Iran:
Theyre allowed to kill our people? Theyre allowed to torture and maim our people, theyre allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people? And were not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesnt work that way
7:20 PM - Jan 5, 2020
He's back to threatening war crimes again!!
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)bluestarone
(16,976 posts)EVERY FUCKING DAY!
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Doubling down on intention to commit war crimes. What a feckless turd.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)or Mount Rushmore or Lincoln Center, they'd also claim it was OK because "it works that way"?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)I very much hope iran is smart enough to realize that this is about TRUMP, and NOT the govt hes trying to run in order to keep himself out of prison.
If I were the leadership in Iran, I would go to the UN, and ask that he be declared a war criminal.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)A DUer this morning brought up this point, I found it bone chilling.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)But his base just doesn't matter any more.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... polls was the over performance of Russian backed 3rd parties in those states.
HRC didn't just as good as Obama in those states too,
dang it ... I think its a politico article but they broke it down that too many of the M$M is paying attention to Trumps base but his base didn't win him the election.
Found it, it was a VOX article here
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/18/16305486/what-really-happened-in-2016
Stein nearly tripled her support to 1.06 percent and Johnson more than tripled it to 3.27 percent. Evan McMullin, who basically only ran in Utah, got a larger share of the vote in 2016 than Stein had gotten in 2012.
And the third-party vote made a big difference in the aggregate. Trump carried Arizona, Utah, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin with less than 50 percent of the vote. Clinton did the same in Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, and Colorado.
Exit polls indicate that a majority of voters were persuaded by Clintons arguments that Trump was unqualified and temperamentally unsuited for the presidency, but a decent swathe of voters who agreed with her about that voted third party rather than for Trumps opponent ultimately denying Clinton the victory.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Im just done with this loser.
spanone
(135,844 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)IcyPeas
(21,893 posts)he doesn't understand culture. or history for that matter.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)To build his skyscraper, Trump first had to knock down the Bonwit Teller building, a luxurious limestone building erected in 1929. The face of the building featured two huge Art Deco friezes that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve. The museum asked Trump to save the sculptures and donate them, and the mogul agreedas long as the cost of doing so wasnt too high.
But then, according to journalist Harry Hurt III in his book Lost Tycoon, Trump discovered that taking out the sculptures would delay demolition by two weeks. He wasnt willing to wait. On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches, Hurt wrote. Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces.
The art world was shocked. Architectural sculpture of this quality is rare and would have made definite sense in our collections, Ashton Hawkins, the vice president and secretary of the Mets board of trustees, told the New York Times. Robert Miller, a gallery owner who had agreed to assess the friezes, told the paper that the reliefs are as important as the sculptures on the Rockefeller building. Theyll never be made again.
Pig. Philistine. Vandal.
choie
(4,111 posts)Torture and main our people? unless hes talking about what happened 40 years ago?
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)He is openly threatening to commit war crimes. This is worthy of impeachment. No witnesses or testimony is needed for this one since he has done it openly and publicly. Nadler/Pelosi should start drafting the article tomorrow.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)He is vile. And guess what? He is the face of America the world sees. He needs to be removed from office before he drags us so far down the shitter that there will be no coming back.
delisen
(6,044 posts)https://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/afghan.buddhas/index.html
Remember the destruction of the incredible Buddhas in Afghanistan
Trump is our lawless bigoted destroyer.
phylny
(8,380 posts)I learned that probably the only good thing Mussolini did was ask the allied forces not to bomb the Vatican or the Colosseum and Forum and those sites remained unharmed. Now another Fascist doesnt give a shit.