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originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: Willtell
Just imagine Obama doing something like this, what the same people who are defending Trump would be saying.
Traitor, communist, foreigner, all kinds of scorn.
Trump knows he can literally do anything and they will defend it. He said himself 'I could shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters'
Obama would never do anything that makes sense anyway, so your "thinking" is deceiving and backwards.
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originally posted by: Southern Guardian
a reply to: SKEPTEK
You don't find the bail out of ZTE questionable?
President Donald J. Trump’s overseas business dealings have once again come under scrutiny with reports that the Chinese government will provide financing to the tune of $500 million for construction of a theme park in Indonesia featuring a Trump-branded golf course and resort-hotel. This news comes on the heels of Trump’s surprise announcement that he will offer concessions to Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, recently hit with a U.S. components ban after violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Trump’s concessions to ZTE prompted “bipartisan rebuke,” accusations of “putting China first and letting sanction-breakers off the hook,” and suspicions that the concessions might be linked to China’s financing of the Trump-branded Indonesian deal worth millions of dollars to Trump. The White House refused to answer questions from media on whether the deal might violate the U.S. Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause and Trump’s own pledge not to pursue new foreign business deals while serving as president.
originally posted by: xuenchen
I think the author of the article's suggestion is ridiculous
There’s no proof of anything
None of it matters one way or the other
All Trump is doing is avoiding a trade war and we will get the best of it.
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originally posted by: Southern Guardian
It's becoming more and more evident:
In the past few years ZTE, a Chinese electronics company that, among other things, makes cheap smartphones, has gotten into repeated trouble with the U.S. government. Many of its products contain U.S. technology — technology that, by law, must not be exported to embargoed nations, including North Korea and Iran. But ZTE was circumventing the ban.
Initially, the company was fined $1.2 billion. Then, when it became clear that the company had rewarded rather than punished the executives involved, the Commerce Department forbade U.S. technology companies from selling components to ZTE for the next seven years.
And two weeks ago the Pentagon banned sales of ZTE phones on military bases, following warnings from intelligence agencies that the Chinese government may be using the company’s products to conduct espionage.
But all of a sudden, a complete 180 turn as far as the Trump administration was concerned. Too many jobs at risk in China!
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originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: Uberdoubter
I've asked several times and been ignored because they don't like inconvenient facts, how many US jobs are being helped here.