[hal ogen]

There are many, many traitors and anti-American seditionists at all levels of government. Weed them out and crush them.

[gaijin]

When Obama was first elected the loud and repeated mantra was, “We hear there all ALL KINDS of gummint people now swearing they won’t follow Obama orders..!”

Yet, BEHOLD, that is what they’re doing to THIS prez.

Is Huawei innocent? I’m sure they’re not.

But the *timing* of the arrest is really suspect, it smells like Deep State.

[SpeedyInTexas]

It wasn’t sabotage. It was the right thing to do. Arrest her, extradite her, give her a fair trial, then execute her... umm, sorry, give her a long prison term.

[Nifster]

Who s doing this? Why are they still employed?

[Old Retired Army Guy]

We will drop the Extradition Request if the Chinese give us assurances the Iranian pipeline is closed down.

[Tench_Coxe]

Not everything is a conspiracy.

Who gave the ok, how long has the investigation been going on, how long has the CFO been in the sights of the DOJ?
You do have to depend on the people you hired to do their jobs, and expecting the President to micromanage is foolish.
Now the timing is inconvenient, but there's more to this IMHO than just trade between the US and China.

[silverleaf]

Now Trump Pompeo and Bolton have more seditionists to identify and neutralize

An out of control DOJ is no DOJ
It is a 5th column

And Rosenstein trolls the POTUS?

[Tench_Coxe]

Not everything is a conspiracy.

Who gave the ok, how long has the investigation been going on, how long has the CFO been in the sights of the DOJ?
You do have to depend on the people you hired to do their jobs, and expecting the President to micromanage is foolish.
Now the timing is inconvenient, but there's more to this IMHO than just trade between the US and China.

[Pravious]

Do these clowns in the “Justice” department actually work for we-the-people?

[DesertRhino]

It’s not an American company. My understanding is that they bought some things from us companies, and later resold them to Iran. Just like the new us law making it An American Crime for a foreign athlete to use performance enhancing drugs if Americans are competing in the competition, just like charging Swiss bankers with violating American law if they allow an American to open a bank account , there’s a dangerous trend of us charging foreigners with American crimes. This universal jurisdiction boloney makes us look like crap in front of the world.

And doj clearly submarined Trump.

[DesertRhino]

It’s not an American company. My understanding is that they bought some things from us companies, and later resold them to Iran. Just like the new us law making it An American Crime for a foreign athlete to use performance enhancing drugs if Americans are competing in the competition, just like charging Swiss bankers with violating American law if they allow an American to open a bank account , there’s a dangerous trend of us charging foreigners with American crimes. This universal jurisdiction boloney makes us look like crap in front of the world.

And doj clearly submarined Trump. At the very moment he’s having dinner with the Chinese leader,DOJ request this persos arrest, and they don’t tell Trump? Yeah sure I believe that was innocent.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If Trump can’t get control of the rogue DOJ he may as well just retire to Mar-a-Lago now.

[Bratch]

REPORT: Chinese Huawei CFO Arrest – John Bolton Knew Arrest Imminent, President Trump Did Not?…

Posted on December 6, 2018 by sundance

If the latest reports are accurate, this is *not* good.  Remember, there are trillions at stake and Wall Street has spent hundreds-of-million on behalf of multinational interests lobbying to keep the current status with China unchanged.

There’s a deep financial motive within this dynamic to stop President Trump from resetting the trade relationship with China. Additionally, Canada is aligned in self-interest with Wall Street and Trump’s adversaries toward the same goal.

Apparently National Security Adviser John Bolton was aware the CFO of Huawei was going to be arrested in Canada.  However, President Trump was kept out of the loop.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said in an interview with National Public Radio that he knew in advance about the arrest of a top executive of the Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], according to an NPR reporter on Thursday.

Bolton said he did not know if the president was aware in advance of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada on Saturday, the day Trump struck a 90-day truce on trade in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Argentina, NPR reporter Steve Inskeep said in a tweet.

“I knew in advance. That is something we get from the Justice Department,” the tweet quoted Bolton as saying. (read more)

Here’s the alarming (if true) aspect:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump did not know about a U.S. request for the extradition of Huawei’s chief financial officer from Canada before he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping over dinner last weekend, a White House official said on Thursday.

Huawei Technologies Ltd’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company’s founder, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States. The United States has been looking since at least 2016 into whether Huawei violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. (read more)

So while President Trump was sitting down with Chairman Xi to negotiate the framework of their ongoing trade discussions; Bolton knew a very geopolitical arrest, that would directly impact the relationship, was about to take place…. And he did not inform President Trump?

If true this is concerning because the Deep State would like nothing more than to scuttle any possible trade reset between the U.S. and China; and Canada would be more than willing to assist therein.

Canada benefits from the status quo.  Canada exploits their access to the U.S. market as part of their overall economic model.  Canada brokers Asian manufactured goods through their country, and assembles some parts into finished products therein.  This skirts any countervailing duties imposed on the originating Asian nation by the U.S.  This exploitation has been very lucrative for Canada.

Additionally, the Wall Street multinationals and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have paid U.S. politicians to allow maximum benefit to Chinese manufacturing.   The Big Club is opposed to President Trump; there are trillions at stake.

If Bolton knew of the location of a landmine that could have serious damage to the efforts of Trump’s economic team, and he kept it hidden, he could have intentionally positioned President Trump’s policy toward China for maximum collateral damage.

Not good.

Must watch this closely.

Suspicious cat needs more information.

 

 

 

 

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Huawei oligarch should have eaten some plutonium.

Everything would be much simpler if we just murdered our enemies like the Clintonistas and Russians.

[ifinnegan]

If they’re claiming Trump wasn’t supportive of this, then I’d be disappointed.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Somebody has to say it. My belief is that coming down the road the deep state is going to push Trump to the point he has no choice but to call martial law.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think the military tribunal deal goes into effect in January. It was just announced a couple of days ago that a bunch of military guards were headed to Gitmo. I think currently we only have 9 prisoners there so Trump must be gearing up for something.

[Pining_4_TX]

That warmonger moron Bolton knew about this. Why did Trump let him in his administration?