Posted on 02/08/2017 3:20:15 PM PST by Rennes Templar
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?
So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.
Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.
Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ― although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail.
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But to Cohen, who now teaches at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, the problem is not the leakers. It’s the president. Because Trump has shown no true affection or respect for anyone outside his immediate family, Cohen said, he cannot expect that of his staff. “This is what happens when you have a narcissist as president.”
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I don’t think we need them and I don’t understand why people post this stuff here.
Right. Trump ran a multi billion dollar company for decades, but he can’t figure out the value of a dollar?
Fake News indeed.
First clue: Huffington Post. Snowflake feel good story.
This is the key sentence. It's an attempt to build a groundswell to invoke the 25th Amendment.
Huffington Post ,LOL
People post it here so we will know what the leftists are blabbering about amongst themselves.
Know yourself, know your enemy.
As odd as it may seem to you, some people actually believe this crap. The even believe CNN and the Washington Post.
Starting immediately I think we need warning tags on news that is real. That way we only need to flag two or three stories a week instead of hundreds a day.
An anonymous source told me Hillary Clinton was scouring bus stations looking for used condoms so she would melt them into chewing gum. And Barack Obama was hiding in the basement of an outhouse trying to look up ladies’ skirts when they went potty. Meanwhile, Michelle was being treated at a posh clinic in Hawaii for testicular cancer.
Trump vs. Bannon. Ivanka vs. conservatives. Now this. The left is trying to pull this juggernaut apart.
Won’t happen!!
“people familiar with Flynn’s account”.
Not people who heard what Flynn said, if anything. People who heard somebody else tell a story about what Flynn said to them.
Again, if anything. Nobody talking to HuffPo even knows if Trump called Flynn on an econ question.
Yes, this is a competitor for fake news of the week. But the week is not yet over.
If Trump’s team is alarmed, then they should quit. I surmise that the leaks are coming from Obama and Clinton holdovers.
Time to bring in Larry Kudlow on a weekly basis.
Yeah because enforcing borders and removing regulations is just effing CRAZY!
Does the left want a civil war?
Because this is how you get a civil war.
Why be alarmed he is doing what he said he would do except doing away with obamacare not as fast as i want
This is just so much bull flop.
Oh, and let’s say they were successful.
Hello President Pence.
And guess who’s PISSED.
Ho, for F sake, make me a sammich and drop dead...
Trump knows more than 99.999999% of the American people about cause and effect of a greenback.
When Trump counts 57 states and thinks that the Marines form a “corpse,” then the lefties will have room to talk.
That is what they are planning. Fasten your seatbelts it’s going to get worse and now they are trying to use his Supreme Court Nominee against him. You know, if Donald Trump went crazy, i wouldn’t blame him. He needs to just concentrate on business. Get it done and not respond to every attack.
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