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on Wednesday July 22 2020, @06:35PM
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U.S. Orders China to Close Its Houston Consulate in 72 Hours (archive)
The United States ordered China to close its diplomatic consulate in Houston, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday, dealing another blow to the rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries.
In the hours after the Trump administration notified the Chinese of its decision, smoke was seen billowing from a courtyard inside the consulate as employees dumped what appeared to be documents into flaming barrels, according to a video posted by KPRC-TV, a local television station.
The Houston police and fire departments responded to reports of a fire on Tuesday evening but did not enter the building, over which the Chinese have sovereignty.
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U.S. Orders Closure of Chinese Consulate in Houston: Documents Burned in Barrels in Response
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:10PM (9 children)
>please explain the unprecedented multiple private meetings Trump has had with Putin
My tin foil hat is shiny side in. The planets aligned. Jet fuel can't melt steal beams. 2+2=5. And the earth is flat. All amount to the same evidence as the Russia Hoax.
> Once they found the evidence of Russian interference
I take it you have not been following any of the recent developments into the Russian interference and "Trump Russia collusion" conspiracy? Let me paraphrase the recent findings. Hillary Clinton used Steele to produce the Dossier that was known to the FBI as lies but was still used to spy on Trump campaign through multiple FISA applications where the FBI lied to the judges. The FBI knew they had nothing. They knew Clinton paid for it. The FBI also then knew that people like Flynn did nothing wrong but broke procedure to get him fired by threatening his son.
Russian interference was a few Facebook ads. Do you want to talk about the interference social media companies are doing now in an effort to change the election?
What the Mueller investigation did find is that Trump is remarkably clean.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @09:11PM (3 children)
Clean, that's the word that did it for me +1 Funny
(Score: 2, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:36PM (2 children)
It could have been anything in that post really, but yeah "clean" was pretty funny.
I also enjoyed the repeated lies. That A/C listens to Rush Limbaugh. I would put money on it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:51PM (1 child)
It'd be money you'd lose.
I take it you haven't seen anything from Horowitz report, the Flynn case, or the recent Durham investigation declassifications?
A few years ago, it was acceptable to have some doubt. Now? People need to be jailed. It's not acceptable to have the FBI do what they did.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 23 2020, @01:20AM
It was (mildly) funny once, but if you keep repeating it you just come across like some sort of flat-earth conspiracy theorist.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:44PM (3 children)
C'mon - even many Trumpers openly admit that Trump is anything but clean. He's been playing dirty his whole life - that's what a lot of his voters love about him!
Do you really think that it's not at all suspicious that Trump has had multiple meetings with Putin where he has gone well out of his way to ensure that nobody finds out what was discussed? Please mention one other politician that he has done this for. Bonus points if it's an "ally".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2020, @10:54PM
I think that if anything had been found it, that would have been what he would have been impeached for instead of reaching for out of context statements.
>Do you really think that it's not at all suspicious that Trump has had multiple meetings with Putin where he has gone well out of his way to ensure that nobody finds out what was discussed?
No more so than I think it's suspicious that jet fuel can't melt steal beams.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:06AM
Ted Kennedy's treasonous collaboration with the USSR is pretty well established.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday July 23 2020, @12:13AM
What's supposed to be suspicious about that?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 23 2020, @02:06AM
What the Mueller investigation did find is that Trump is comparably clean.
You know, compared to all those congress people with 40 years of high living
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..