Upon actual investigation, Trump's sexism and sexual assault don't exist

A year and a half after the 2016 election and the media still insist (wrongly) that President Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women. Funny, then, that the closest thing we have to any sexual misconduct by Trump is an alleged consensual affair from more than a decade ago with a porn star.

We were told we elected an unashamed “groper in chief.” It turns out we got Trump, who, if the affair with Stormy Daniels actually happened, doesn’t want people to know about it even 12 years later!

The reality is so much more boring than what the media said.

According to Daniels, she and Trump had a few encounters in 2006, which included sex in a hotel room. Trump denies it, though he has admitted that he reimbursed his attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment he made to Daniels in 2016 in exchange for her silence.

If it happened, and there's enough evidence to suggest it did, Trump committed adultery against his wife, first lady Melania Trump. But with the horrific things the media has said about Trump and women, that's like taking communion for him.

Virtually everything the media has said about Trump and women is a lie.

They said it was sexist when he said of his former Republican rival Carly Fiorina, “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that?”

Also of Fiorina, Trump said, “She was using a trowel to put on makeup. I will not say that she was trying to cover up her ears.”

Actually that second quote was about Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a man. Trump also mocked the way Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and columnist George Will look (“Take away the glasses, he looks like a dumb guy.”).

Trump might be vicious but at least it's spread among all 71 genders.

The Los Angeles Times said it was “sexually suggestive” when Trump in December tweeted that “Lightweight” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., “would come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them).”

But he previously used almost the exact same language about Mitt Romney.

At a campaign rally in May 2016, Trump said, “He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees."

And then there was the hot-mic that caught Trump in the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape saying, “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab them by the p—y. You can do anything.”

The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino wrote a full year later the audio showed that Trump had “bragged about habitually committing sexual assault.”

In December last year, Time magazine said the tape “captured Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women.”

You can be grossed out about the banter without making the incredible leap from “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” to See! He admitted to violating females! (By the way, it was Hillary Clinton fundraiser Harvey Weinstein who really was literally caught on tape admitting to grabbing a woman’s breast uninvited.)

That’s not what the tape showed and, if anything, the Stormy Daniels saga is revealing Trump to be a harmless old man.

She said she was a willing participant of their alleged affair and that the sex was unremarkable.

So much for all the groping we were warned about.

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/upon-actual-investigation-trumps-sexism-and-sexual-assault-dont-exist

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Where did this pic come from…Where's the sauce?

Singapore churches urge prayers for peace as Trump-Kim summit nears

SINGAPORE – With President Trump and Kim Jong Un preparing to come together for a monumental summit next week, Christians here spent their Sunday praying that the upcoming meeting would contribute to lasting peace and stability throughout the Korean peninsula and rest of the world.

During an early morning service at St. Andrews Cathedral, an Anglican church just miles away from the venue for Tuesday's bilateral discussion, visiting Rev. Alvin Toh urged the parish to pray that "good will and diplomacy prevail" as Trump and Kim come together to discuss denuclearization and a possible peace treaty to end the Korean War.

"Ask God to direct the course of the talks towards concrete outcomes for world peace," Toh said, calling for prayers of "protection on security matters" and for those who have been involved in preparing the city for the two leaders ahead of their separate arrivals Sunday evening.

Toh's request came a day after the Catholic Archbishop of Singapore William Goh urged his parishioners in a Facebook post to keep Trump and Kim in their prayers.

"May this be the start of a continuous effort to building strong relationships, freed from the burden of fear and the weight of suspicion. May nations learn to trust each other and work towards world peace for all human kind," Goh wrote.

The calls for celestial support by local religious leaders come just 48 hours before Trump and Kim are slated to meet at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island.

Despite expressing cautious optimism prior to departing for Singapore on Saturday, Trump has repeatedly said he is willing to "walk away" from the summit if he is unconvinced of Kim's commitment to the "complete, verifiable, and irreversible" dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missiles program.

"This is unknown territory in the truest sense, but I feel really confident," Trump told reporters before departing the G7 summit in Canada. "It's never been done, it's never been tested. So we are going in with a really positive spirit."

The president is currently expected to meet one-on-one with Kim and their translators before opening the talks to high-level officials from both countries on Tuesday. Trump is being accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton and several White House officials, while Kim is reportedly traveling with his younger sister Kim Yo-jong and North Korea's vice chairman Kim Yong-chol.

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/singapore-churches-urge-prayers-for-peace-as-trump-kim-summit-nears

Trump just backed out of the G7 communique - Read the full text of the agreement here

Shortly after German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the G7 members, including the U.S., had agreed to sign a new 2018 communique, President Trump announced that wouldn't be the case.

Trump instructed U.S. officials not to sign the agreement during his Saturday flight to Singapore.

Agreement in images above

https:// www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/read-full-text-of-g7-communique-trump-backs-out-of-joint-statement-agreement

Weakness has consequences: Why Canada's Trudeau just spent $3.5 billion to nationalize an oil pipeline

According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, the network of oil and gas pipelines in Canada is 840,000 kilometers long. And virtually every kilometer of pipe was laid by private capital over many decades.

Yet today, it appears the only way a major pipeline project in Canada can get built is if the federal government buys the project, as it did this week when it spent $4.5 billion Canadian ($3.5 billion U.S.) to buy the Trans Mountain project, which aims to triple the capacity of former owner Kinder Morgan’s existing pipeline bringing oil from Alberta to the Port of Vancouver. Even then, the outcome is uncertain.

How did it come to this? The answer is that this was the entirely foreseeable outcome of a policy of appeasement toward pipeline opponents and environmental activists pursued by the governing Liberals. Winston Churchill once famously described an appeaser as one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Having devoured all, the crocodile is now ravenously eyeing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the prime minister nervously tries to shoo the beast away with billions of dollars of taxpayer cash.

The roots of this story reach back to the years just prior to the 2015 federal election. The previous Conservative government had tried to position Canada as a “world energy superpower,” as Alberta oilsands production rose precipitously and existing pipeline capacity neared its limits.

Four major pipeline proposals were all forging ahead. Two went to the west coast (Trans Mountain and Northern Gateway), one to the Atlantic (Energy East), and the fourth (Keystone XL) to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Every one of them sought the Canadian energy holy grail: access to tidewater. Without such access, the existing pipeline network only reaches U.S. domestic markets. Due to fracking, U.S. markets are already awash in oil, such that the Western Canadian Select oil blend fetches a discounted price. But if it can sail, then Canadian oil fetches the world price in Europe and Asia, currently roughly $20 a barrel higher than what American refiners will pay.

In the Conservatives’ love affair with Canadian energy exports, the Liberals saw a potential political advantage. If the Tories could be portrayed as callous money-grubbers, indifferent to the environmental cost of energy development, the Liberals stood to benefit, since Canadians believe strongly in high environmental standards.

Standing in their way was the regulatory and legal framework developed over many years by successive governments. Canada in fact already had some of the toughest environmental and constructions standards in the world. The workings of the National Energy Board were widely admired, and people came from all over the world to study how Canada managed oil and gas so successfully.

The Liberals’ political strategy therefore required them to throw in their lot with the hardline environmental movement. While claiming to favor responsible pipelines, they made it clear that they would not ride roughshod over pipeline opponents, but would toughen standards even further and win over opponents by demonstrating their commitment to environmentally-sound economic growth. To do that, they had to make clear that the existing standards were not just inadequate, but dangerously so, bad enough to justify political and civil disobedience.

As Trudeau said when his party was still in the parliamentary minority, governments may issue permits, but only local communities can give permission for projects that affect them. The stage was set for legitimizing direct challenges to democracy and the rule of law in the name of a higher environmental ethic.

The Liberals duly won the election and, thinking they had a deal with the environmentalists, set out making good on their end of the bargain. They are toughening regulatory requirements, replacing the NEB, introducing a carbon tax, banning oil tankers on the northern west coast and, in concert with the government of Alberta, introducing tough measures to limit the growth of the oilsands, including a greenhouse gas emissions cap.

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Amazing is they wanted the upper hand in this crap! Knowing full well who and what Trump is about, they must have been crazy bat shit to try and peddle this garbage on him, and then expect him to be nice, it's just incredible.

I guess they really didn't believe he was working for American 1st.

>>1685589

It is my firm belief that they will need us more, they just need to come to term with it, "OURS" for a change, kek

>>1685594

So am I, and when the rest catch up and know the truth they will be too.

>>1685611

I was wondering if Kim invited him, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities I believe.

>>1685612

I am wondering if they all sneaky enough to do this after he left, it just seems like a move they would play, just like congress getting their agenda 's put in place stuffed into a bill deep.

>>1685650

Almost like they are working in WWIII, isn't it?

>>1685739

Think you should read what I wrote again, because I never mentioned Trump,, I said KIM as in Jong Un

>>1685785

I think it's important to remember that Trump probably wouldn't speak for another Country, as these things go,each country will have their guest lists. Trump and Kim will be staying in separate hotels as well. Security detail is different for each with that in mind.