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Let Trump make mistakes: John Howard (Former Australian Prime Minister)
Yahoo! 7 News ^ | July 17, 2018 | The Australian Associated Press

Posted on 07/17/2018 10:09:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

John Howard believes the world has to let Donald Trump make mistakes, after his much-condemned press conference with Vladimir Putin.

The former Australian prime minister said the US president had clearly made a mistake when he said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies.

"I thought he was wrong to have said what he did but he's now dealt with that and the important thing is to understand that people shouldn't take sides too much on Mr Trump," Mr Howard told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.

"I think one of the problems with the attitude around the world of Donald Trump is that people are either totally for him or totally against him....

(Excerpt) Read more at au.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: australia; howard; johnhoward; putin; russia; trump; trumpputin
The Democrats need to calm down It's hard to retract claims of someone being a traitor, especially a president who might serve another six years.
1 posted on 07/17/2018 10:09:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Klapper, Brennan and Stroke/Struck/Smirk are not to be believed.

In any way.

Fey Wray and Sessions are no better.


2 posted on 07/17/2018 10:12:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has been wiretapped, had a bogus investigation now going on for over a year without any proof. The subpoenas were obtained illegally. False evidence was presented in support of them. Those originated from Hillary Clinton herself, as I understand it.

No, why would Trump think our intelligence agencies were problematic?


3 posted on 07/17/2018 10:13:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, hyperpartisanship is so extreme they cannot back off. They undermine themselves with calls for impeachment, calls for investigations at every word, embrace of socialism and MS-13, etc. Democrats and the media are self-destructing right in front of our eyes.


4 posted on 07/17/2018 10:13:18 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s probably helped him by giving another opportunity for the dems to expose their crazy selves while not costing him more than 10 votes.


5 posted on 07/17/2018 10:18:56 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not trust the intelligence community that refused to brief then republican nominee, Donald Trump, and spied on him and his campaign staff?

The Donald Trump who was tipped off by Adm.Mike Rodgers about the conspiracy to end his presidency?

I would not Trust Trump if he trusted these clowns after what they did to him.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 10:30:24 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

The only mistake DJT made was trying to explain a grammatical error. The hell with our so called intelligence agencies. They suck. Rank and file my big hairy arse. There’s something rank all right just take a little sniff. It’s coming from DC.


7 posted on 07/17/2018 10:44:07 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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Too few don’t understand what’s really going on, or too many have sold their souls.


8 posted on 07/17/2018 10:47:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Too few understand what’s really going on, or too many have sold their souls


9 posted on 07/17/2018 10:48:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Some of the jerks at Fox need to reel it in too. Trish Regan went all snowflake yesterday, pissing and moaning that Trump stepped over the line. Then we have Newt, Cavuto and Nappy who failed to back The Donald.


10 posted on 07/17/2018 10:57:09 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

Maybe instead of The Donald telling Putin “Nyet” he was telling the swamp and the MSM. NYET. MAGA. Long live Ronald Reagan’s memory. Go DJT.


11 posted on 07/17/2018 11:08:53 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Donald Trump make mistakes.” Everyone does. Grow up and get over it. We have a world to fix for the Lord.


12 posted on 07/17/2018 11:15:28 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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from the moment the announcement was made that 12 Russian intel people were being indicted just days before the meeting of Trump & Putin - treasonous? - the narrative/agenda was hijacked.

FakeNewsMSM, including Fox, went along with the narrative and haven’t let it go yet.
nothing is being reported about all the other topics discussed:

3 Jan 2017: Washington Examiner: Schumer warns Trump: Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you’
by Daniel Chaitin
The new leader of Democrats in the Senate says Donald Trump is being “really dumb” for picking a fight with intelligence officials, suggesting they have ways to strike back, after the president-elect speculated Tuesday that his “so-called” briefing about Russian cyberattacks had been delayed in order to build a case.

“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday evening on MSNBC after host Rachel Maddow informed him that intelligence sources told NBC news that the briefing had not been delayed...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/schumer-warns-trump-intel-officials-have-six-ways-from-sunday-at-getting-back-at-you

Deep State/Swamp/FakeNews - one and the same.


13 posted on 07/18/2018 12:58:50 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If diplomacy is a mistake, then withdraw all of the diplomats. President Trump didn’t give Russia anything but a slight inflation of their pride. There were only words.


14 posted on 07/18/2018 1:05:28 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Cobra64
You got that right!! Trish Reagan, Cavuto etc. were DISGUSTING!! I think it was a GREAT Press Conference!!

WHY the HELL would Trump Trust the Deep State that is trying to get rid of him?

15 posted on 07/18/2018 3:15:20 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All he said was he respected his agencies but Putin had been strong in his denials. I don’t see that as saying he believed Putin at all.


16 posted on 07/18/2018 4:35:24 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Gene Eric
Too few understand what’s really going on, or too many have sold their souls

Don't forget those being blackmailed by the surveillance Deep State. The 24-7 surveillance has a purpose, and this is it.
17 posted on 07/18/2018 4:44:18 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
when he said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies. Problem is he clearly did not say that. This is a ploy of the week minded left. They pontificate over what they wish President Trump would have said rather what he actually says, then create "OUTRAGE" over what he didn't say. Here is what I actually have to say "F..OFF". Was that clear or do I need to translate it into Lefty Speak?
18 posted on 07/18/2018 5:34:50 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: River_Wrangler

when he said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies.

</I> Problem is he clearly did not say that. This is a ploy of the week minded left. They pontificate over what they wish President Trump would have said rather what he actually says, then create “OUTRAGE” over what he didn’t say. Here is what I actually have to say “F..OFF”. Was that clear or do I need to translate it into Lefty Speak?


19 posted on 07/18/2018 5:38:21 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: River_Wrangler

I seam to be having a problem with formatting today. Sorry.


20 posted on 07/18/2018 5:39:47 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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