Posted on 05/16/2019 10:28:47 AM PDT by ransomnote
Deep State Former Trump Senior State Dept. Official Tells Beijing to Wait Until Trump is Removed
A clear example of the Administrative States seditious alignment with global financial interests and DC indulgences. This is the deep state at its deepest and most statist.
Mrs. Susan Thornton, the former acting assistant secretary of state in the Trump administration, tells her Beijing audience to stop negotiating until President Trump is removed from office in 2020.
(BEIJING) [ ] I want to be optimistic, said Thornton, whose 27-year career in Washington ended in July. I tell all our foreign counterparts they should keep steady, keep their heads down and wait. [They should] try to not let anything change dramatically.
If this skeptical attitude towards talking diplomacy continues in this administration, you might have to wait till another administration, Thornton said at an event held by National Committee of US-China relations and Shanghais American Chamber. (read more)
There was a prescient article written in Politico when Thornton announced her exit from the State Department.
POLITICO [ ] Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pushed for Thornton to lead the states East Asia bureau during his tenure, but then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tried to block her advancement. Bannon claimed she was too soft on China, but her nomination moved forward after he was ousted from the White House. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also said he did not want her to be confirmed. Thornton did receive a confirmation hearing, but never a vote. link
This type of undermining of the president by a well known top diplomat is likely why the Chinese politburo rebuked the deal put together by USTR Robert Lighthizer and Chinese Vice-Primier Liu He.
Obviously President Trumps opposition is confident they can remove him from office; and giving advice to the Chinese who are making long-term strategic decisions with that confidence in mind.
Again, just another example of the scale and scope of the challenges faced by President Trump as he attempts to negotiate strength for the U.S. economy, and is undermined by bureaucrats who make more personal wealth selling out our nation to foreign governments.
There are trillions at stake; and former bureaucrats like Ms. Susan Thornton use their former positions to make millions at the trough even if that means advocating for the interests of a communist government.
Disappointing would be an understatement.
Those who have sold out our nation despise President Trump.
Just spilled a glass of water on my laptop keyboard. Its at the shop hopefully getting fixed and files being saved. My life is in that thing.
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OH NO!!! So sorry. I hope they can save everything!
Festival, as I understand it, is the period at the end of a thread that continues to receive posts after a new thread has been opened and most of us have moved on.
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I hope you never have to experience it, CP.
Usually festival happens as we approach 2000 posts in a thread.
Judge Orders Portions of Mueller Report Unredacted Then Released to Public
FTA:
Judge Sullivan ordered portions of Muellers report related to General Mike Flynn to be made public by May 31, 2019, the Associated Press reported.
The judge also ordered transcripts of Flynns late 2016 calls to Russian Ambassador Kislyak to be released.
Thanks, Kit!
Gene Simmons fights back tears talking about how much his late mother loved America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=b_WLsKQKrlM
CGato
This story is so incomplete ... without any mention of who was arguing which side, what was the reason given for the redactions etc.
For all we know, Flynn and the President’s team may have been in favor of this.
It may even be a step towards further releases.
Impossible to say from the story.
This thornton pig and traitor should be thrown INTO GITMO...and waterboarded . What a duplicitous cretin.
>>This story is so incomplete
That seems to be a quality of Gateway Pundit. Their headlines usually promise more than a brief note at the bottom of an article delivers. But every now and then I get a feeling that they’re giving early notice of something we’ll learn more about soon, and linking to them gives a heads up to expect more on the topic. But I definitely share your frustration.
Gotta update on the wire-hound terror-er? You guys 5:5 on the antenna cable. now? ;)
“Okay will someone please tell me what the hell festival is?”
Festival is what happens to our old threads when a new one is created.
The old thread gets left, largely undefended, to potential
Derp Depredations against stragglers...
One must always be ready to drag one’s pajamas to the new thread!
~Easy
I like that. Instead of having them eating crow, have the crows eat them.
Thank you.
Boy that Salzman is a piece of... work.
I spilled a whole coke in a tv.
I also spilled a cup of coffee in my laptop a few years back.
Our kid dropped her cell phone in the Gulf of Mexico
Dear husband dropped his cell off top of a roller coaster
Dear husband dropped another cell in woods while hunting. Im sure a bear ate it.
Q
That weak attempt by theringer to debunk Q means it’s pretty well over target. Obviously a scifi/horror flick but Carpenter gets closer than he apparently wanted to.
II doo. It reaaally mmakes myy typingg muchh faaassterer......
"The book" referred to by Obama was probably Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
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