In a January 27 phone call with President Nieto, the issue of the border wall came up with the president expressing his frustration at the Mexican president pushing back publicly regarding payment for the wall.
Trump reportedly said the money issue “will work out in the formula somehow … it will come out in the wash, and that is okay” – but if the Mexican leader insists on saying he won’t pay, “then I do not want to meet with you guys anymore because I cannot live with that.”
President Trump suggested to his Mexican counterpart that they had more important topics to deal with, but that the wall was important politically for him.
From the details leaked, the call with the Australian prime minister was particularly unpleasant.
The main topic discussed on January 28 was an agreement made by President Barack Obama to take 2,000 refugees from Australian detention centers.
The president’s concern was how well these individuals had been vetted, if at all. He worried about letting in the next Boston bomber.
This is going to kill me,” he reportedly told Turnbull. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people.”
Trump then told Turnbull that the call for him was the “most unpleasant” of the day.
The leak issue has the White House and Republicans concerned about its impact on national security. Republicans on the Senate homeland security panel recently produced a 24-page report, “State Secrets: How an Avalanche of Media Leaks is Harming National Security.”
While attention has been focused on the White House staff as the source of the leaks, scrutiny has not fallen on much more likely suspects in the intelligence community, whose antipathy to President Trump is well known.
The National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency both have the capability to electronically monitor a wide range of presidential communications and provide them to their willing dupes in the news media, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both major papers have been outlets for leaked government information and CIA propaganda for decades.
Source: Fox News
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I believe the phones in the White House and government are bugged and its all happening in DC where Barry Soetoro lives-the damn place needs to be raided ASAP
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
After eight long years of cover-ups, bald-faced lies, and judicial obstruction, the government has finally released thousands of documents
demonstrating that the Obama Administration created false pretenses to unlawfully siphon tens of billions of corporate cash from Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac. These documents clearly demonstrate that senior government officials knew the GSEs were on the verge of sustained
profitability and took actions to usurp all of those profits. Indeed, the documents reveal that these officials lied to the public and perjured
themselves in federal courts. The so-called “Net Worth Sweep” was unnecessary to prevent a “downward spiral.” Put simply, we now have
unambiguous evidence that the Obama varsity team knew what their statutory authorities were, willfully exceeded those authorities to steal
billions of dollars from investors, and subsequently engaged in a cover-up to hide their wrongdoing.
When you follow the cash, it’s easy to see that Fannie and Freddie have generated hundreds of billions in profits, taxes, and consumer savings.
Each held tens of billions of tangible value and maintained tens of billions in earnings power – even at the worst point of The Great Recession.
Each had the wherewithal to pay all bills and pursue its stated mission of providing liquidity when all others cannot.
Federal agencies continue to defend contrived accounting gimmicks by arguing that they followed the law and, notwithstanding, they are above
it. As more and more documents are released, the Department of Justice will see that the actions undertaken by former officials undermine their
defenses and long-established laws. Fannie and Freddie can safely return to their role of insuring the uniquely American housing finance system
against catastrophic risk with private capital. There is a proven blueprint to succeed, and we hope to successfully resolve this matter before
reaching the Supreme Court of the United States.
After all, capital markets are based on the sanctity of contracts – the original buyers’ and sellers’ expectations and rights travel with a contract
no matter who holds it. When this saga ends, we expect contracts to be honored and substantial value for all stakeholders.