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demmiblue

(36,853 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:10 AM Aug 2018

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.

Conte’s 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

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Trump offered Italy help to fund public debt next year: newspaper (Original Post) demmiblue Aug 2018 OP
republican "conservatism" means screwing US Taxpayers Achilleaze Aug 2018 #1
We don't have enough money to fund decent roads in this country! Vinca Aug 2018 #2
$17.8 trillion in debt and we're offering to help out Italy? Snellius Aug 2018 #3
It's because of new hard-right racist Italian Immigration minister that tRump approves of. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #4
Ding, ding, ding - Bingo! That's it exactly. LittleGirl Aug 2018 #11
Twitler is looking for... SergeStorms Aug 2018 #20
$20.4T if you're referring to total US debt ffr Aug 2018 #23
Trying to get them to leave the Euro Union. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #5
Bailing out countries while we have no healthcare. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #6
Same tactic Chavez used Perseus Aug 2018 #7
+100 Buying more fascist friends. sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #10
where does the money come from? Raising taxes on the rich? rurallib Aug 2018 #8
That IS 'rich'! keithbvadu2 Aug 2018 #9
He was promised a bridge in Genoa as a throw-in though BeyondGeography Aug 2018 #12
Many are saying they promised him a highway in downtown Venice named after him. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #13
He could be the most uncomplicated man on the face of the earth BeyondGeography Aug 2018 #14
Trump Tower Rome NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #19
and Italy is one of the few countries that is pro putin elmac Aug 2018 #15
The Axis powers have to take care of each other. PubliusEnigma Aug 2018 #16
Um, what about US debt? I thought the slogan was 'America First'. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #17
The" Bridge of Sighs" in Venice will now be know as justhanginon Aug 2018 #18
Russia is also making a big propaganda push in Italy kimbutgar Aug 2018 #21
Meanwhile Trump has added nearly $1 TRILLION to the ND since Jan 1st......... Bengus81 Aug 2018 #22
If I were leading Italy I'd graciously decline help from any conservative crime enterprise ffr Aug 2018 #24
Probably wants to build a hotel in Italy. True_Blue Aug 2018 #25
It's part of Trump's three step plan: tclambert Aug 2018 #26
Another entry in the "Trump ego delusion/ proof of mental unfitness for office"file stuffmatters Aug 2018 #27

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republican "conservatism" means screwing US Taxpayers
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:12 AM
Aug 2018

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)
2. We don't have enough money to fund decent roads in this country!
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:16 AM
Aug 2018

Trump seems to think the end game to all of this is the U.S. declaring bankruptcy.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
3. $17.8 trillion in debt and we're offering to help out Italy?
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:17 AM
Aug 2018

Trump must have been desperately trying to buy European friends.

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)
11. Ding, ding, ding - Bingo! That's it exactly.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 08:40 AM
Aug 2018

They speak the same language. Anti-immigrant language. Two peas in a pod.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
20. Twitler is looking for...
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:13 AM
Aug 2018

his Mussolini. If he has to buy him, so what. The American taxpayer is picking up the tab.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
5. Trying to get them to leave the Euro Union.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:44 AM
Aug 2018

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)
6. Bailing out countries while we have no healthcare.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:48 AM
Aug 2018

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)
7. Same tactic Chavez used
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 07:48 AM
Aug 2018

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.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
15. and Italy is one of the few countries that is pro putin
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:27 AM
Aug 2018

and has strong fascist ties to russia. I'm thinking there is much more to this story.

kimbutgar

(21,148 posts)
21. Russia is also making a big propaganda push in Italy
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:28 AM
Aug 2018

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)
22. Meanwhile Trump has added nearly $1 TRILLION to the ND since Jan 1st.........
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:56 AM
Aug 2018

In an economy he inherited that was stable and moving unlike what Obama got from Bush.IDIOT.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
24. If I were leading Italy I'd graciously decline help from any conservative crime enterprise
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 11:23 AM
Aug 2018

No sense in making things worse by getting in bed with a grifting traitor.

tclambert

(11,086 posts)
26. It's part of Trump's three step plan:
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:53 PM
Aug 2018

Step one: Fund Italy's debt.
Step two: ? ? ?
Step three: Profit!



(With apologies to South Park's underpants gnomes.)

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