Friday, February 28, 2025

Russian State Media Was Briefly in the Oval Office

The White House did not address how the unapproved reporter was able to gain access to the Oval Office.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:33 PM | 22 COMMENTS | permalink

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A member of Russia's state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office for President Trump's sit-down with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky - even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting.

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-- CNN (@cnn.com) February 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Krasnov is Putin's brain dead bitch.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-28 04:34 PM

What did Putin's demented bitch do with the missing Russia binder?

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-28 07:54 PM

The Independent's White House correspondent tells what it's like to tangle with Trump in Oval Office lion's den
www.independent.co.uk

... The Independent's White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg tangled with a touchy Donald Trump on Thursday after he pressed the president about who pays tariffs during questions in the Oval Office with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

"That's enough," Trump also snapped after Feinberg pressed Starmer later at a press conference for his opinion on Trump's jab that he's going to turn Canada " which is part of the Commonwealth of former British Empire territories " into America's 51st state.

Feinberg talked about the experience as a guest Thursday night on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

"Andrew Feinberg got so fed up with Trump lies" that he confronted the president," O'Donnell remarked. He dubbed Feinberg "tonight's winner of the best question."

Trump had announced in a Truth Social post earlier Thursday that his proposed tariffs " 25 percent on certain goods imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10 percent on China " would go into effect March 4.

Feinberg quizzed the president about the post in the Oval Office as Trump sat with Starmer. Feinberg noted of Trump's tariff's: "You just said, We charge them,' as in: We charge China.' But the tariffs are paid eventually by American importers and consumers."

Trump responded before dodging: "No they're not. No. I think they're paid for by the country." ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 08:20 PM

I think they're paid for by the country.

The man is an idiot. Not only does he not know how tariffs work, he admits he doesn't know.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-28 08:25 PM

If I may raise a point ...

Tariffs are paid by those entities who import goods into the Country.

And, ultimately, the cost of those tariffs are passed on to the consumers of those goodsg.

Pres Trump has zero authority to impose a tax within another Country.

Zero.

Let me say that again.

Zero.

So who pays for the tariffs that Pres Trump has called "beautiful?"

You and me, i.e., Americans.

Pres Trump's beautiful tariffs are little more than a tax upon Americans.

Raising the cost of the goods we need to buy.



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 08:27 PM

I saw that.
Trump is truly, really, honestly a deluded fool that believes his own lies.
He is not in touch with reality.

#6 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-28 08:28 PM

@#4 ...The man is an idiot. Not only does he not know how tariffs work, he admits he doesn't know. ...

Intentional ignorance, actual ignorance, or being surrounded by selected advisers who are afraid to contradict the fearless leader?

I wish I knew.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 08:30 PM

Does it matter?

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-28 09:00 PM

Long enough to plant a bug.

#9 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-28 09:02 PM

#9 - fElon has cyber criminals associated with Russia working in the bowels of our cyber security organization right now. What's going on is beyond anything that most people can even conceive.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-28 09:38 PM

@#10 ... cyber criminals associated with Russia working in the bowels of our cyber security organization right now. ...

Is Pres trump aware of this aspect?

If so, does he care?

Or, stated differently, is he knowledgeable enough to care what is happening to the United States?


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 09:44 PM

#11 - Is there any way to know what is in that addled psychotic brain of his?

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-28 09:46 PM

 

@#12 ... Is there any way to know what is in that addled psychotic brain of his? ...

I've not a clue.

And, to be honest, I am not at all wanting to be in that space. I mean, would you?

But, that aside, then there seems to e things like this ...

More than 200 health professionals say Trump has malignant narcissism' in open letter (October 2024)
www.theguardian.com

... n anti-Trump political group organized a letter signed by more than 200 mental health professionals, warning that Donald Trump is dangerous because of "his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder " malignant narcissism", which makes him "grossly unfit for leadership".

Less than two weeks before the presidential election, the group bought a full-page ad styled as an open letter in the New York Times on Thursday, arguing that the Republican nominee for the White House is "an existential threat to democracy" in the US.

The ad was funded by Anti-Psychopath Pac " a political action committee that has produced attack ads questioning Trump's mental fitness for office. ...


So, yeah, anti-Trump.

But, on the other hand, I have to laud that group for standing up to the issues they may face for offering their anti-Trump opinion.


Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says
www.theguardian.com


#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 10:11 PM

The man is an idiot. Not only does he not know how tariffs work, he admits he doesn't know.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL

Doesn't help that those around him play in to it for their own favors.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-28 10:51 PM

I am no trump supporter, but the purpose of tariffs is being misrepresented here. Yes it makes things cost more for the consumer in this country for things produced outside of it. But that isn't the whole story.

Their intent is to make it cost effective to produce that widget in America, So they it stimulates job growth here.

There are problems, like retaliatory tariffs the countries impose on our goods. But generally, in an economy as massive as ours, that matters very little. China is really the only country that can approach our spending power, so tariffs are heavily weighted in our favor.

Provided they are surgically applied. Something trump doesn't show signs of doing. His bar for tariffs I'd like everything else: did someone forget to fall on their knees and prostrate themselves before my kingly self? Bam. Tariffs.

#15 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2025-03-01 09:28 PM

That is to say: the ultimate goal of a tariff is that no one pays it because we've moved all the manufacturing here.

#16 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2025-03-01 09:30 PM

That is to say: the ultimate goal of a tariff is that no one pays it because we've moved all the manufacturing here.

Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2025-03-01 09:30 PM | Reply

That'll never happen.

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-03-01 09:40 PM

Their intent is to make it cost effective to produce that widget in America, So they it stimulates job growth here.

LMAO! No, that's not the intent. We can't make widgets "cost effectively" here. That's why the free hand of capitalism had us make them over there. The intent of tariffs is to drive the cost up on imports so we can compete with them if companies decide to try and complete at the new import priced widget. In other words, the prices go up for everyone to the new import priced widget. Even if they're manufactured here.

Spelling it out a bit more, what happens in practice is we raise the price of goods manufactured here to match those on the imports. The tariffs raised the prices, and maybe manufacturing shifts to the U.S. Maybe. In 2018, though, the U.S. manufacturers were still Samsung and LG. Prices stayed high, and never came back to the prices before the tariff. Samsung and LG made more money with the manufactured in the U.S. products - and the consumer lost big time.

taxfoundation.org

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-01 10:24 PM

I guess it's just another "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax that the Russian state media found their way into the Oval Office while Trump is president.

#19 | Posted by cbob at 2025-03-02 08:01 AM

Criminal incompetence.

Which is perfectly ok when republicans do it.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-02 11:53 AM

"Their intent is to make it cost effective to produce that widget in America, So they it stimulates job growth here."

That ship has sailed brother.

Better learn some coding. And you better be quick about it. Even that job is not safe from AI anymore.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-02 11:56 AM

"Their intent is to make it cost effective to produce that widget in America, So they it stimulates job growth here."

Are you quoting Project 2025 or are you just applying folk wisdom?

"That is to say: the ultimate goal of a tariff is that no one pays it because we've moved all the manufacturing here."

Trump tweeted how when the nation was founded, tariffs were the primary source of Federal tax revenue, which is true, as there was no income tax until 1913.

So again, are you quoting some policy statement, or just wishful thinking.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-02 11:59 AM

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