Trump Made Up “High Level Phone Calls” With China To Boost Markets, Aides Admit: Report

Via ZeroHedge

Just before Europe opened on Monday morning, with US equity futures tumbling below 2,800 and the Chinese yuan in freefall after a tense weekend in which traders stewed over the latest trade war escalations and rushed to sell, algos sent risk surging following a statement by President Trump in Biarritz, France, that “China called last night” and said they want to resume trade talks, later elaborating that two “high-level” Chinese officials had called to try and restart stalled negotiations. He turned to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for backup, and Mnuchin said there had been “communication,” later amending it to “communications.”

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Debt-Free by 2024! Gee, Thanks, Mister!

From the Slope of Hope:

Yesterday, without even looking for it, I stumbled across this headline from an interview in the spring of 2016:

That’s quite a promise! Well, in case you haven’t heard yet, Trump got elected by the Electoral College later that same year, and he’s in his third year of his Presidency right now. Let’s check on his progress so far:

Hmmm. Doesn’t look like much “elimination” to me, unless you’re referring to the kind of stuff that comes out of a person’s ass. We’re on our way to $23 trillion. But maybe this isn’t fair. Let’s take a look at how the debt is doing against the GDP since, who knows, maybe the economy is outpacing debt growth.

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TRUMP LIED!

Submitted by Jack Lovett

Guest Post by Chuck Baldwin

It is undoubtedly true that the vast majority of politicians are liars. Some, however, are more prolific liars than others. And any honest, objective, even semi-intelligent person knows that Donald Trump takes the blue ribbon in the lying game. He lies so much, he can’t even play a game of golf without cheating.

In a column dated August 10, 2017, I wrote a piece entitled The Truth About Donald Trump. In the column I documented the truth about Trump’s lifetime conduct. In short:

*Donald Trump spent his entire adult life scamming people out of billions of dollars.

Trump’s seven bankruptcies (which he brags about) cost investors, employees and consumers multiplied billions of dollars. Doug Heller, the executive director of Consumer Watchdog, said Trump is the “most egregious, almost comical example” of the disparity between what the average American faces when going through bankruptcy and the “ease with which the very rich can move in and out of bankruptcy.”

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Trump Clarifies Border Wall Was Actually Just A Metaphor For Love

Via The Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Hours after rumors began flying that President Trump would be giving up on the border wall as part of a negotiation on the federal budget with Democratic leaders, the President issued a statement at a press conference clarifying that the border wall he promised during the 2016 election was “actually just a metaphor for the love and friendship we all share.”

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