Trump offered Italy help to fund public debt next year: newspaper
Source: Reuters
MILAN (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in a recent meeting in Washington the United States was ready to offer Italy help in funding its public debt next year, Il Corriere della Sera reported on Friday.
Citing three unnamed Italian senior officials, the newspaper said Trump made the offer to Conte during their meeting in Washington at the end of July.
The paper said the premier spoke of the offer to officials upon his return from Washington but did not explained what form it would take.
Contes office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-us-debt/trump-offered-italy-help-to-fund-public-debt-next-year-newspaper-idUSKCN1L90KC?il=0
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)freaking repubes are giddy about squandering our hard-earned tax dollars to buy a pucker up to the flabby ass of their ignoble leader, the super-slippery republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)Trump seems to think the end game to all of this is the U.S. declaring bankruptcy.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Trump must have been desperately trying to buy European friends.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)They speak the same language. Anti-immigrant language. Two peas in a pod.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)his Mussolini. If he has to buy him, so what. The American taxpayer is picking up the tab.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)The US has plenty of money available to help out, unless you're a US vet, or a citizen who needs health care, or a US school kid, etc.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Is it bc the leader is openly fascist? No money for NATO but we are going to pay off Italys debt?
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Use the tax payers money to buy "leaders" and get international support. This is more dangerous territory, these people think of themselves as the owners of the country and feel they can dispose of its riches anyway they feel like it, and one of those tactics is buying international support.
Chavez paid for the Argentinian external debt, and of course that didn't help the Argentinian people, the corrupt politicians pocketed most of the money. Same thing with Bolivia, Ecuador, etc.
I don't know what is going on in the USA with the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies, too many things are being let to happen, not only inside the USA but abroad.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)rurallib
(62,415 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Winning.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)wouldn't surprise me
elmac
(4,642 posts)and has strong fascist ties to russia. I'm thinking there is much more to this story.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)the "Bridge of Trump".
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)When I was over there in March of this year I saw a similar article. I guess Puti told Theorange maggot to make this offer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/world/europe/russia-courts-italy-in-us-absence.html
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)In an economy he inherited that was stable and moving unlike what Obama got from Bush.IDIOT.
ffr
(22,670 posts)No sense in making things worse by getting in bed with a grifting traitor.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)Step one: Fund Italy's debt.
Step two: ? ? ?
Step three: Profit!
(With apologies to South Park's underpants gnomes.)