Trump keeps bashing the Kurds to justify the deal he made with Erdogan. Erdogan knows how to handle mobsters like Trump. If Trump wants to keep the American base open in Turkey, he has to let Erdogan destroy the Kurds, according to the New York Times.
Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham told the press pulling troops out of Syria was the dumbest move of Trump’s career. Graham wants to sanction Turkey, but Trump would break his deal with Erdogan if he messes with Turkish the economy. Erdogan knows Trump wants to keep his only hotel in Europe open in Turkey, so Trump will try to let the story die down.
But destroying the Kurds is not something people will forget. That’s why some Republicans might vote blue during the impeachment trial in the Senate. Other lawmakers want Adam Schiff to present more evidence before they throw the Trumpster under the impeachment bus. But now that more government employees want to tell their quid pro quo Trump story, more Republicans will vote to impeach Mr. Trump, according to the Washington Post.
The new chief of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde let Trump know what she thinks of his Jerome Powell tweet-bashing. She told 60 Minutes Trump needs to act like a president instead of holding global trade captive with his tariff wars. Lagarde said Trump’s trade war with China will remove $700 billion worth of global economic growth in 2020.
Mr. Trump still claims President Xi will sign a trade deal when they meet in Chile in November. But the intellectual property stealing and Huawei’s blackballing will keep the tariffs in place in 2020. Xi won’t let Trump change the way China subsidizes their international companies. And Trump won’t lift the ban on Huawei even though Ren Zhengfei offered U.S. telecoms his 5G platform. The U.S. is behind the rest of the world when it comes to taking a share of the global 5G build-out.
The power brokers in the Democratic Party have a hard time rallying around any of the candidates in the race. Some deep-pocket donors want Michelle Obama to run. Others want Hillary and Bloomberg to run. The major Democratic donors know Biden’s campaign took a serious hit from the Trumpster, and Biden may not recover. Biden donations are in the toilet, but his will to stay in the race will keep Bloomberg, Obama, and Clinton out of the hunt for the nomination, according to the Daily Mail UK.
