Sideface:BBC News -Trump says he deserves Nobel Peace Prize not Abiy Ahmed

The Orange Idiot is just jealous that Obama got a Nobel Peace prize and he hasn't.

BBC News - Which countries love Trump the most and least?

8 January 2020

President Donald Trump has been a polarising figure at home - but how has he fared abroad? 

 

A new report by the Pew Research Center details what the world thinks of the US leader.

 

Pew, a non-partisan US-based opinion pollster, surveyed nearly 37,000 individuals across 33 countries from May to October of last year. 

 

Here are some key findings. ...

 

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The New York Times - A Narrative Collapses as Trump Tweets: ‘It Doesn’t Really Matter’

Jan. 14, 2020

WASHINGTON — In the 10 days since it carried out the drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the Trump administration has been struggling to draft an after-the-fact narrative to justify it. 

 

On Monday, President Trump put an end to that hash of explanations. “It doesn’t really matter,” he tweeted, “because of his horrible past.”

 

 

 

 

Until that message on Twitter, the administration had insisted in various ways that General Suleimani, Iran’s most important military official, was planning myriad “imminent” attacks. ...

 

With the president’s latest utterance, he bolstered critics of a strike that had raised fears of an all-out war with Iran and had led Iraq to call on the United States to leave the country. 

 

And, the critics wondered, was it reckless and irresponsible for the United States to kill Iran’s second most important leader if the reason did not “really matter”? ...

 

As is well-known and thoroughly documented, Trump is a pathological fantasist and liar. He makes things up to suit his whims. If called out on his fabrications, he starts squirming. If completely pinned down, he dismisses the matter as not really important anyway. 

Yes, the MAGA deplorables are right, Trump brought back dignity to the office. Oh, wait. He didn't:

The Washington Post - House to vote Wednesday to send impeachment articles against Trump to the Senate

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that the House will vote Wednesday on a resolution appointing House impeachment managers and transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate, allowing the trial of President Trump to begin this week.

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) later told reporters that he expects to engage in the initial phase of the trial this week, including the swearing in of senators as jurors.

 

The substantive trial action would begin on Tuesday, he said.

 

The Washington Post - Eyeing swift impeachment trial, Trump’s legal team aims to block witnesses and cast doubt on charges

Jan. 16, 2020

White House lawyers are trying to engineer the fastest impeachment trial in American history, aiming to have President Trump acquitted by the Senate without witnesses and after just a few days of proceedings, according to senior administration officials.

 

Trump’s desire for a short trial has solidified over the past few weeks, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) delayed transmitting two articles of impeachment to the Senate because of concerns about how the trial would be structured. 

 

The White House, which previously supported a more expansive trial in the GOP-led Senate, has now accepted the idea that senators should make quick work of acquitting Trump. ...