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Trump says US cutting troops in Germany over NATO spending

US President Donald Trump has announced a reduction in American troops stationed in Germany. He faulted Berlin for failing to meet its NATO spending obligations and accused it of treating the US "unfairly" on trade.



US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is reducing the number of American troops deployed in Germany down to 25,000, accusing Berlin of being "delinquent" in its contribution to NATO.

"We're protecting Germany and they're delinquent. That doesn't make sense," Trump said at the White House. "We are going to bring down the soldier count to 25,000 soldiers," he said, adding that the deployment of troops comes at "a tremendous cost to the United States."

Germany, he said, is not meeting its commitment to spend 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense as required by the NATO alliance. Member nations had pledged to reach the 2% threshold by 2024. Germany has said it hopes to reach the target by 2031.

Trump has long complained that host nations have not been paying their fair share for the US troops and has repeatedly singled out Germany as a major offender. Until Berlin meets the spending target, he said, the US will reduce its deployment in the country.

He also accused Germany of treating the US "badly" on trade. "So we get hurt on trade and we get hurt on NATO," he said.

Doubts over commitment

The troop withdrawal plan raised fresh questions about Trump's commitment to longstanding cooperation agreements with European allies and the Western military alliance itself.

Earlier this month, US media reports said Trump was planning to pull some troops stationed in Germany. The reports caused alarm among some German politicians, with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas saying that the US-German relations had become "complicated" since Donald Trump became president.

The reports of troop withdrawal were, however, welcomed by Germany's Left party, which has long called for a total withdrawal of American troops from Germany.

German Ambassador to the US, Emily Haber, responded to Trump's announcement saying that the US troops were in Europe to defend trans-Atlantic security and help the US project its global power.

"US troops...are not there to defend Germany. They are there to defend the trans-Atlantic security. They are also there to project American power in Africa, in Asia," Haber said at a virtual event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.




'Grave consequences'

The announcement also drew criticism from US lawmakers, including from those within Trump's own Republican party.

"The threats posed by Russia have not lessened, and we believe that signs of a weakened US commitment to NATO will encourage further Russian aggression and opportunism,"US Representative Mac Thornberry of Texas wrote in a letter to Trump with his colleagues.

Democrat Senator Jack Reed, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed Trump's move as "anotherfavor" to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Republican Representative Liz Cheney last week warned Trump of the negative consequences of such a move. "America's forward presence has never been more important than it is today, as our nation confronts the threats to freedom and security around the world posed by Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Chinese Communist Party," Cheney said.

"Our presence abroad is critical to deterring these adversaries, bolstering alliances, maintaining peace through strength, and preserving American leadership. Withdrawing our forces and abandoning our allies would have grave consequences, emboldening our adversaries and making war more not less likely."

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Trump: Ex-adviser John Bolton risks facing charges if he publishes book

Donald Trump said his former National Security Adviser John Bolton may face a "criminal problem" if he goes ahead with the publication of his book that is expected to be highly critical of the president.

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Thượng bất chính, hạ tất bị Trung cộng xúi.

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Donald Trump Gets Hit With Blunt Fact-Check For AIDS Vaccine Falsehood

Twitter users let out a collective sigh of despair at President Donald Trump’s latest falsehood ― a claim during a White House speech Tuesday that scientists have “come up with the AIDS vaccine.”

Medical professionals, celebrities, journalists, political commentators and others were quick to fact-check the president’s erroneous statement, reminding him there is currently no vaccine to prevent people from contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Many of Trump’s critics also highlighted the president’s appalling record of telling lies. The Washington Post notes that Trump, as of May 29, had made 19,127 false or misleading claims since his inauguration in January 2017.

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Chắc là lú lẫn. Dotard Trump.

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"full of...xxxx"

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John Bolton: Ten biggest claims in his Donald Trump book


The presidency of Donald Trump has already generated a long reading list, but the latest offering from former National Security Adviser John Bolton has attracted more attention than most, given the author's high-ranking status and the nature of his claims.

His work - The Room Where It Happened - portrays a president ignorant of basic geopolitical facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election.

Critics of Mr Trump have asked why Mr Bolton did not speak up during impeachment hearings, while the president himself has called his former top adviser on security matters "incompetent" and a "boring old fool".

The White House is trying to stop the book's release, but US media have obtained advance copies and have started publishing details from it. Here are some of the most eye-catching allegations.


1. Trump wanted help from China to win re-election...

In the book, Mr Bolton describes a meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a G20 meeting in Japan last year.

The US president "stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election [in 2020], alluding to China's economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Mr Bolton writes.

"He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome."

Agriculture is one of the major industries in the Midwest American states that helped propel Mr Trump to victory in the 2016 election.


2. ... and said building internment camps was the 'right thing to do'

China's treatment of the Uighurs and other ethic minorities has brought international condemnation, with about a million people thought to have been detained in camps in the Xinjiang region.

On Wednesday President Trump authorised sanctions against Chinese officials involved in the mass incarceration, prompting an angry response from China.


President Trump has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping while also being embroiled in a trade war with him

But in Mr Bolton's book, when Mr Xi defended building the camps, the US president suggested he approved of China's actions.

"According to our interpreter," Mr Bolton wrote, "Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do."

3. Trump offered 'personal favours to dictators'

The Chinese leader is not the only authoritarian Mr Bolton accuses the president of pandering to.

Mr Trump was willing to intervene in criminal investigations "to, in effect, give personal favours to dictators he liked," Mr Bolton wrote.

According to the book Mr Trump offered help to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2018 in a US investigation into a Turkish company over potential violations of Iranian sanctions.

The US president is said to have agreed to "take care of things" and that the prosecutors involved were "Obama people".

4. The Democrats should have gone further with impeachment efforts

In the book, Mr Bolton backs up Democrats' allegations that President Trump wanted to withhold military aid to Ukraine to pressure its government into investigating his rival Joe Biden. The claim sparked impeachment efforts against Mr Trump.

However, Mr Bolton criticises the Democrats in his book, saying they committed "impeachment malpractice" by just focusing on Ukraine. He argues that if they had broadened the investigation more Americans would have been persuaded that President Trump had committed the "high crimes and misdemeanours" necessary to be removed from office.

Mr Bolton does not say if the new allegations he makes are impeachable offences.

He declined to testify in the process when it was in the House of Representatives late last year, then was blocked from appearing in the Senate by Republicans.

5. Trump suggested he wanted to serve more than two terms

More now on President Trump's conversations with Xi Jinping. Mr Bolton says Mr Trump told China's leader that Americans were keen for him to make the constitutional changes needed for him to serve more than two terms.

"One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him," he wrote in an extract published by the Wall Street Journal.

"Xi said the US had too many elections, because he didn't want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly."

6. Trump didn't know the UK was a nuclear power...

Britain was the third country after the US and the Soviet Union to test an atomic device, in 1952. But that the UK is part of the small club of nuclear-armed states appears to have been news to President Trump.

One extract told of a 2018 meeting with then UK Prime Minister Theresa May in which an official referred to Britain as a nuclear power.

Mr Trump is said to have replied: "Oh, are you a nuclear power?"

The remark, Mr Bolton said, "was not intended as a joke".

Donald Trump 'unaware UK was nuclear power', says former aide

7. ... or if Finland was part of Russia

Mr Bolton says there were other gaps in President Trump's knowledge.

Before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki, he is said to have asked if Finland was "kind of a satellite of Russia".


President Trump met Russia's Vladimir Putin in Helsinki

According to Mr Bolton, intelligence briefings were not "terribly useful" since during most of them "he spoke at greater length than the briefers, often on matters completely unrelated to the subjects at hand".

8. He was very close to actually quitting Nato

President Trump has been a persistent critic of the Nato military bloc, calling on other members to boost their spending.

Despite this the US remains a member, but Mr Bolton says that at a 2018 Nato summit Mr Trump had decided to quit.

"We will walk out, and not defend those who have not [paid]," the president said, according to Mr Bolton.


9. Invading Venezuela would be 'cool'

One of the major foreign policy headaches for the Trump administration has been Venezuela, with the US a staunch opponent of its President Nicolás Maduro.

In discussions on the matter, President Trump said it would be "cool" to invade Venezuela, and that the South American nation was "really part of the United States".

Mr Bolton writes that in a May 2019 phone call Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled off a "brilliant display of Soviet-style propaganda" by likening Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, which "largely persuaded Trump".

Mr Putin's objective was to defend his ally President Maduro, Mr Bolton writes. In 2018, Mr Trump labelled the leftist Mr Maduro a dictator and imposed sanctions, but he clung to power.

In an interview with ABC News to be broadcast in full this Sunday, Mr Bolton says of Mr Trump: "I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle."

10. Even allies ridiculed him

Mr Bolton's book contains several examples of White House officials mocking President Trump.

He describes a dysfunctional White House, one in which meetings resembled "food fights" rather than considered efforts at policy-making.

When he arrived at the White House, the then chief of staff John Kelly warned him, "this is a bad place to work, as you will find out".

Even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, considered a loyalist, is said to have written a note describing the president as "full of shit".


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Facebook removes Trump ads for use of Nazi symbol

An Antifa-bashing Trump campaign ad used a symbol once used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners. Facebook has removed the ads for use of hate symbols.



Facebook removed campaign ads for Donald Trump for using a Nazi symbol, the company said on Thursday.

The ads featured an upside-down red triangle, the same symbol that was once used by the Nazis to identify political prisoners, communists and other political prisoners in concentration camps.

Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, told a House Intelligence Committee that the ads were removed because Facebook does not permit symbols of hateful ideology "unless they're put up with context or condemnation."

"In a situation where we don't see either of those, we don't allow it on the platform and we remove it. That's what we saw in this case with this ad, and anywhere that that symbol is used, we would take the same action," Gleicher said.

Antifa

Trump's communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said that the ads, which started on Wednesday, used the inverted red triangle because it was a symbol used by Antifa.

He said the symbol is not included in the Anti-Defamation League's database of symbols of hate.

"But it is ironic that it took a Trump ad to force the media to implicitly concede that Antifa is a hate group," he added.

Trump has targeted Antifa, meaning antifacist, alleging without evidence that it is a hate group that has incited violence, particularly during recent Black Lives Matter protests.

''Highly offensive'

Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League said on Twitter: "The Nazis used red triangles to identify their political victims in concentration camps."

"Using it to attack political opponents is highly offensive. POTUS' campaign needs to learn its history, as ignorance is no excuse for using Nazi-related symbols."


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A spokesman for the ADL said its database was not meant to cover historical Nazi symbols, but those "commonly used by modern extremists and white supremacists in the United States."

He said that there had been isolated incidents of Antifa using the symbol, but that it was not a particularly common symbol used by the group.

Watchdog group Media Matters said in a response to a tweet from a "Trump War Room," that the symbol was certainly not widely used by Antifa.

The Facebook ads ran on pages belonging to Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. They also appeared in ads and posts on the "Team Trump" page.

The hearing focused on efforts by big technology companies to stop the spread of misinformation. Facebook's Gleicher was joined by representatives of Twitter and Google.

Democrats asked Facebook and Twitter why they had not removed tweets by Trump referencing the shooting of looters and a doctored video showing House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi look intoxicated.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been the target of criticism for refusing to take action on inflammatory posts by Trump.

Twitter recently posted a fact check beside a particularly egregious tweet by Trump, deeply angering him.

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Trump's bid to end Obama-era immigration policy ruled unlawful





The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump's bid to end a major programme that protects young immigrants from deportation.

The justices upheld lower court rulings that found his move to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) was "unlawful".

It protects "Dreamers", about 650,000 young people who entered the US without documents as children.

The Trump administration has sought to end the Obama-era policy since 2017.

The Supreme Court took up the case after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately explain why it was ending the programme, criticising the White House's "capricious" explanations.

On Thursday, the justices voted 5-4 to uphold the lower courts' findings that the administration's order violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which says a government action cannot make policy that is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law" or "unsupported by substantial evidence".


What's the reaction?

Mr Trump denounced the decision in a series of tweets.

"These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservative," he wrote.

He called on voters to re-elect him in November to put more conservative judges in the court, should there be a vacancy.

He also suggested that he would renew efforts to end the programme and "start the process all over again".

"Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn't like me?" he tweeted.

Former President Barack Obama praised the ruling and urged voters to elect a Democratic president and Congress in November to ensure "a system that's truly worthy of this nation of immigrants once and for all".

Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, said he would seek to make the programme permanent should he beat Mr Trump.


How has Trump fared at the Supreme Court?

Chief Justice John Roberts, often described as a conservative, sided with the court's four liberals in Thursday's majority ruling.

It marked the second time this week that Chief Justice Roberts has ruled against Mr Trump.

On Monday, the court ruled that gay and transgender workers are protected under federal employment law, a major victory for LGBT campaigners.

That decision was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee.

During his presidency, Mr Trump has appointed one other justice, Brett Kavanaugh. The Supreme Court's bench is widely regarded as the most conservative in modern history.

Yet last year Chief Justice Roberts again joined his liberal-leaning counterparts in preventing the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, which opponents had argued would suppress responses from immigrants and racial minorities.

The court has, however, sided with the Trump administration in two other major cases.

It defended the White House's travel ban affecting mostly Muslim countries, and allowed Mr Trump's ban on transgender people in the military to go into effect.

Once again the Supreme Court has ruled that a controversial action by the Trump administration is illegal. And once again the biggest stumbling block for the White House isn't that their officials lacked the power, it's that they went about exercising them in the wrong way.

The Justice Department's attempt to rescind Daca was "arbitrary and capricious", the court held, in a way prohibited by federal law. That mirror's the court's conclusion in a decision last year blocking the Trump administration's efforts to include a citizenship question on the decennial US census.

Both opinions were written by Chief Justice John Roberts, whose technicality-minded devotion to a federal law is presenting an imposing obstacle to the administration's policy objectives.

While the Trump team waged a lengthy court battle to have its Daca order upheld, there may be a few sighs of relief from the president's campaign over this ruling. A Trump win would have pushed hundreds of thousands of Daca recipients into the economic shadows or onto deportation rolls just months before the November election. It would have put a sympathetic human face on the targets of administration's hard-line immigration policies.

Instead, the Supreme Court has given Daca recipients a reprieve, leaving their ultimate fate still far from certain.

What is Daca?

Most of the children protected by the Daca programme are from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

A 2012 executive order, created by former President Obama, shields these so-called "Dreamers" from deportation, and provides work and study permits.

Mr Obama signed the order following failed negotiations for immigration reform on Capitol Hill.

In order to qualify for Daca, applicants under the age of 30 are required to submit personal information to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including addresses and phone numbers.

They must go through an FBI background check and have a clean criminal background, and either be in school, recently graduated or have been honourably discharged from the military.

In exchange, the US government agrees to "defer" any action on their immigration status for a period of two years.

It is only available to individuals residing in the US since 2007.

Daca recipients told the BBC they were relieved and surprised by the ruling on Thursday, and many said they would continue advocating for immigration reform.

Juana Guzman of Texas, 28, said: "It's a very needed win and this is giving us the fuel we needed to continue moving forward and to keep fighting for the rest of our families and the community that does not have Daca".

Metzli Sanchez, 23, said: "As big of a victory that this is, we have to keep applying pressure that we have to keep fighting for other people who are just as able and capable but who do not have this protection."


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Bốn mươi mấy năm trước Biden không muốn cho dân chạy loạn nhập cư vào Mỹ thì bọn hòn vệ binh lôi ra kể tội. Thời nay Trâm không muốn cho dân chạy loạn nhập cư vào Mỹ thì không thấy tụi Trâm binh nói gì.

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1. Trump wanted help from China to win re-election...

In the book, Mr Bolton describes a meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a G20 meeting in Japan last year.

The US president "stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election [in 2020], alluding to China's economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Mr Bolton writes.

"He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome."

Agriculture is one of the major industries in the Midwest American states that helped propel Mr Trump to victory in the 2016 election.

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Có Tào mà cậy chi Tào
Chữ Tào liền với chữ out một vần...


China trade deal is 'over', says White House adviser Navarro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...onavirus-anger

“It’s over,” Navarro told Fox News in an interview when asked about the trade agreement. He claimed the turning point came when the US learned about the coronavirus only after a Chinese delegation had left Washington following the signing of the phase one deal on 15 January.

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Không biết là điềm gì đây? Không có Tàu thì ai sẽ giúp Trâm thắng cử năm nay?

Có Tào mà cậy chi Tào
Chữ Tào liền với chữ out một vần...


China trade deal is 'over', says White House adviser Navarro
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...onavirus-anger

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