DONALD TRUMP caused a rift in his family when he embraced his 2016 presidential election campaign manager as “the son he never had”, despite having three sons, a book has revealed.
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Day: January 11, 2020
Washington, Beijing Agree to New Dialogue to Pursue Reforms, Address Disputes
Washington, Beijing Agree to New Dialogue to Pursue Reforms, Address Disputes – WSJ
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2015 memo from Erik Prince to Trump campaign: ‘National disgrace’ that Soleimani ‘not already DEAD’
Erik Prince, the Blackwater-founder-turned-unofficial-2016-Trump-campaign-adviser, advocated to the campaign years ago for the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a recently disclosed memo that reveals some of the earliest thinking circulated within Donald Trump’s team regarding his approach to Iran.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics/erik-prince-trump-campaign-qasem-soleimani/index.html
Trump suggests he’d invoke executive privilege to block Bolton testimony
Trump suggests he’d invoke executive privilege to block Bolton testimony – POLITICO
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2020/01/10/trump-john-bolton-testimony-097349
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Rudy Giuliani Calls MEK-linked Former Iranian Terrorists ‘My People’
MEK-linked groups paid Rudy Giuliani to get them off the U.S. list of terrorist groups. Now, Rudy is bringing their anti-Tehran message straight to Trump.
— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-and-his-old-iranian-clients-cheer-soleimanis-death
[2018] Who is the Iranian group targeted by bombers and beloved of Trump allies?
Djavad Khadem, a co-founder of Unity for Democracy in Iran (UDI), an umbrella group of exiled Iranian opposition groups, said MeK’s “collaboration with Saddam against Iranian people will never be wiped out from the memory of Iranian people”.
Khadem said Bolton’s appointment by Trump may have looked liked a coup for the MeK, but argued that Bolton was bound to act more responsibly in administration. “But Bolton will use them as an instrument of pressure on the regime,” he said. “This is bad tactics, because the Islamic regime will use it to frighten the middle class in Iran, as they have done for the last 40 years.”
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/02/iran-mek-cult-terrorist-trump-allies-john-bolton-rudy-giuliani
U.S. rejects Iraqi demands for troop withdrawal.
The Trump administration needs to work this out unless it plans on reinvading Iraq.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/iraq-withdrawal-troops-status-of-forces.html
No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps
No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps: I. Summary
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