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Aug62019 by adminNo Comments

Trump: ‘We are watching Google very closely!’

President Trump has attacked Google in a series of tweets referencing allegations of the company's bias and anti-conservative culture.The president claimed Google chief executive Sundar Pichai had been in the Oval Office "working very hard to explain how much he liked me" and disputing criticisms by rivals and right-wing commentators. Mr Trump said: "It all sounded good until I watched Kevin Cernekee, a Google engineer, say terrible things about what they did in 2016 and that they want to 'Make sure that Trump loses in 2020'."Mr Cernekee appeared on Fox & Friends the evening before the tweets, claiming that Google executives cried on stage when President Trump won the election in 2016 and "vowed that it would never happen again". Image: Goog...

Aug32019 by adminNo Comments

Trump says China and Russia ‘very excited’ about his new nuclear pact idea

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Donald Trump has said he wants a new nuclear pact signed by Russia and China.The president's comments come after he withdrew the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia. Mr Trump said of the proposed new pact: "I've discussed it with President Putin. I've also discussed it with China. And I will tell you China was very, very excited about talking about it and so is Russia. So I think we'll have a deal at some point." For more than three decades, the Cold War-era pact banned land-based missiles with a range of between 310 and 3,400 miles.But Mr Trump said on Friday the US would quit the INF Treaty, blaming Moscow for violating the agreement with its development and fielding of certain weapons. Adver...

Aug22019 by adminNo Comments

Kim Jong Un has ‘great and beautiful vision’ for N Korea – Trump

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By Alan McGuinness, news reporter Donald Trump has claimed that recent North Korean missile tests do not breach an agreement between Washington and Pyongyang - as he said Kim Jong Un has a "great and beautiful vision for his country".In a series of messages on Twitter, the US president said the launches may be in breach of United Nations resolutions, but not a deal the pair agreed at an historic meeting last year. Mr Trump said: "These missiles tests are not a violation of our signed Singapore agreement, nor was there discussion of short range missiles when we shook hands. ...

Jul262019 by adminNo Comments

Trump threatens tariffs against ‘foolish’ Macron

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Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "foolishness" over a digital services tax, and hinted that he would tax French wine in retaliation.Mr Trump voiced his anger in a Tweet on Friday, in response to French plans to tax multinational firms like Google.French authorities argue that the firms pay little or no corporate tax in countries where they are not based.The Trump administration has said the tax unfairly targets US tech giants."France just put a digital tax on our great American technology companies. If anybody taxes them, it should be their home Country, the US," Mr Trump wrote on Twitter. "We will announce a substantial reciprocal action on Macron's foolishn...

Jul262019 by adminNo Comments

Trump demands Sweden release US rapper charged with assault

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Donald Trump has told Sweden to "give A$ AP Rocky his freedom" after the US rapper was charged there with assault.In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said he had watched the video of the alleged assault in Stockholm. The US president tweeted he was "very disappointed" Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had been "unable to act" and urged him to "treat Americans fairly". Give A$ AP Rocky his FREEDOM. We do so much for Sweden but it doesn’t seem to work the other way around. Sweden should focus on its real crime problem! #FreeRocky— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2019 Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act. Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United Sta