Trump Brutalizes Hillary in Room Full of Foreign Leaders
During a White House meeting with leaders of the Baltic states on Tuesday, President Donald Trump took some shots at his former presidential campaign opponent.
Trump discussed NATO funding with the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, pointing out that NATO member states are expected to contribute at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense spending annually, a benchmark many European nations consistently missed during previous administrations.
“You look at what’s going on, Germany pays 1 percent, the United States is paying close to 4 percent (of GDP on defense),” Trump told leaders and reporters in the Cabinet Room, according to The Daily Caller. “The United States, as you said, is paying 80 percent of the cost of NATO. Do you think that’s fair?”
He continued, “With all of that being said, because of me and you can speak to the head of NATO, Mr. Soltenberg, he said that because of what I’ve said to the countries, they’ve taken in … many billions of dollars more than they would have had if you had ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton as president. That I can tell you. Many billions of dollars more.”
As noted by Mediaite, a number of liberal reporters and former Obama officials lost it on Twitter following the president’s swipe at Clinton in front of foreign leaders.
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A reporter for The New York Times tweeted that Defense Secretary James Mattis “looks down” at the table as Trump dropped the “Crooked Hillary” line, implying he disagreed with it. An NPR reporter choose to use all caps in a tweet noting the swipe occurred “IN A MEETING WITH WORLD LEADERS.”
A Democrat consultant with an anti-Trump blog called Trump a “lunatic” for using the nickname in front of the Baltic leaders, and in a follow up tweet suggested the left concoct a similar nickname with which to slam Trump in order to drive him “nuts” and push him closer to impeachment.
Then there was former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, who stated that even if some Americans had grown numb to the phrase, it nevertheless “makes us an embarrassment around the world” for Trump to use it in front of foreign leaders, particularly those threatened by Russia.
The topic of Russia was certainly part of the conversation given its proximity and past history with the Baltic states. Trump made it clear in the meeting that under his administration the United States has been “very tough on Russia.”
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“Nobody has been tougher on Russia, but getting along with Russia would be a good thing, not a bad thing,” Trump stated. “And just about everybody agrees to that except very stupid people. We’ve been very tough on Russia, frankly.”
As evidence of that toughness, Trump cited the increased defense spending by NATO countries and the expulsion of Russian diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom.
(He could have also noted the Patriot missile-defense batteries recently sold to Poland, or other lethal military arms sold to Ukraine, or sanctions on Russian oligarchs, or the destruction of a unit of Russian mercenaries in Syria.)
Trump also pointed to the increased importation of U.S. liquefied natural gas by European nations to reduce their reliance on Russian energy exports, which led to his next swipe at Clinton: “My opponent was into other forms of energy, like windmills.”
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That increased importation of U.S. liquefied natural gas by European countries is part of a larger effort by Trump to ramp up production of oil and natural gas in America that has the U.S. on the verge of surpassing Russia as the world’s largest energy producer, something that would have been highly unlikely to occur under a theoretical Clinton administration.
As for his savage slams against Clinton in front of world leaders, some may take issue with it in terms of presidential decorum, but it is simply further evidence that Trump is not just another polished politician who carefully measures each word prior to speaking it, but an American who speaks his mind and tells the blunt truth as he sees it.
That is a trait that many of supporters truly love and one that drives his detractors mad. And besides, if Clinton hadn’t done so many “crooked” things over the years, Trump wouldn’t need to call her “Crooked Hillary.” https://conservativetribune.com/trump-brutalizes-hillary-leaders/
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Trump has weakened this country to a point I don't know how long it will take to recover, if ever. Getting trust and respect back will be almost impossible. You can be happy with his disrespect and disparagement of this country, from companies to individuals to politicians. Never Putin though, he cowers before him and won't say one bad thing about him. Now he's got a trade war started that is about to hit us all, but hopefully hurt his supporters the most so they can see what they voted for.
Maybe someone should let grandpa know that the election is over.
Based on Trump's and his followers bizarre obsession with Hillary...my guess is that what they're hoping for is that soon Hillary will be impeached and removed from Office!
(Of course the fact that sahe does not actually hold any elected position seems to have escaped their notice...its a classical case of "Stuck on Stupid"!)
You don't think/comprehend that Donald Trump is an asshole.
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Yes it is actually very uncommon for any other president than our current insane president to obsess about it.
Only corporate users and abusers plus a few mush brainwashed fanatics still like Trump.
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That's what cj said.
Criminal charges could seriously alter that claim, now if you are suggesting a violent protection of trump against the courts, I think the opposition would be far more determined than you could imagine.
Trump Brutalizes Hillary In Room Full Of Foreign Leaders
What a total buffoon is Trump.
I'm sure all those foreign leaders really enjoy hearing Trump ranting about some American politician...especially one that no longer holds office!
Wasting their time with nonsense when they could be discussing something important . . .
Trump Brutalizes Hillary in Room Full of Foreign Leaders
To what point one might ask?
I have to laugh, the folks on the right constantly remind the left that Ms. Clinton lost and they should get over it (to which I may slightly agree), yet they and certainly Mr. Trump continue to resurrect her on a regular basis.
Ms. Clinton is no longer a part of government, has nothing to do with the current going ons and is now as relevant as one Ms. Palin. Say what you will of him, but I do not recollect Mr. Obama going on about either John McCain or Mitt Romney once the elections had concluded, most likely because he found it counter productive.
More hypocrisy.
There’s a time and a place for trashing Hillary but I don’t think this was the time or the place. On the other hand, the MSM and Democrats show absolutely no respect for Trump as a person or as President and trash him as they see fit. Hillary is kind of an opposition poster child so trashing her indirectly trashes them. Our culture has become a trash can so watching both sides throwing trash back and forth is what I’ve come to expect. Trump sure knows how to get under liberals’ skin so, when he does it, it’s always worth a good chuckle and I got one here.
Not so much getting under the skin as to most democratic voters realize that Hillary is a defeated candidate and therefore rather irrelevant. Trump actually simply plays to his base, he throws candy out to his devout children and they happily clap their hands.
You should know - how's it taste?
I doubt she attends his rally's.
Nah - she just tapes them so she can have all types of fantasy dreams at night.
The interest in a fantasy concerning trump is more along the line of wanting to see him doing the perp walk into Leavenworth, nothing to do with him launching bile at his deniers.
He knows she’s defeated and irrelevant. But it’s like all the democrats and MSM are standing in line. He slaps her face and says pass it on.