Sunday, February 10, 2019

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Lawyers for President Trump and his three oldest children responded to a lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of New York against the family and their charitable foundation alleging a 'shocking pattern of illegality' and 'persistently illegal conduct'

In court papers obtained by DailyMail.com, attorney Marc Mukasey writes: 'The Foundation has, to date, distributed approximately $17

5million to almost 600 charitable organizations, and, upon dissolution, will disburse another $1

74 million.' The filing denies almost every allegation made against the family, and objects to the attorney general demanding the Trump Foundation be dissolved

The president grudgingly agreed, however, to phase out his family philanthropy in December

It still has approximately $1.7million in funds to disburse.SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE COURT FILING He blamed Democrats, including New York Gov

Andrew Cuomo and former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, for its closure

'The Trump Foundation has done great work and given away lots of money, both mine and others, to great charities over the years - with me taking NO fees, rent, salaries etc

,' he wrote in a series of tweets.'Now, as usual, I am getting slammed by Cuomo and the Dems in a long running civil lawsuit started by sleazebag AG Eric Schneiderman, who has since resigned over horrific women abuse, when I wanted to close the Foundation so as not to be in conflict with politics

'Shady Eric was head of New Yorkers for Clinton, and refused to even look at the corrupt Clinton Foundation

In any event, it goes on and on & the new AG, who is now being replaced by yet another AG (who openly campaigned on a GET TRUMP agenda), does little else but rant, rave & politic against me

Will never be treated fairly by these people - a total double standard of 'justice

' When the state of New York sued eight months ago, Trump vowed: 'I won't settle this case!' Trump's sons also figure prominently in the family's legal pushback, filed Friday

'Donald Trump, Jr.has served in various capacities, including on the Board of Directors, for Operation Smile, Smile Train and their successors,' writes Mukasey

'Ivanka Trump has long supported women's causes, was a founding partner of the UN Foundation Up Girl Initiative and donated royalties from her book, Women Who Work, to a fund which, in turn, made donated the proceeds to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the National Urban League's Entrepreneurship Center's programs

' The Trump Foundation had no full-time employees and practically no expenses.Its expense-to-donation ratio was among the lowest of all American philanthropies when it began winding down

Eric Trump is described as the most charitable of the group.He declined comment during a brief phone call on Friday

'In 2006, at age 22, Eric Trump established the Eric Trump Foundation to support St

Jude Children's Research Hospital in the fight against pediatric cancer,' reads the filing

'In 2012, the Eric Trump Foundation committed to raise $20 million to build a state-of-the-art surgical center and intensive care unit at St

Jude, and in 2014, the Eric Trump Foundation Surgery & ICU Center at St.Jude opened to treat children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases

' Then-Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued, alleging that Trump illegally tapped his family foundation to settle legal disputes, help his campaign for president and pay for personal and business expenses, which included spending $10,000 on a six-foot portrait of himself

The attorney general's office is seeking $2.8million in restitution and other unspecified penalties in its civil suit

News reports have hinted that the state attorney general referred its findings to the IRS and the Federal Election Commission for further action

A criminal investigation would allow state prosecutors to broaden their probe, a jump in authority that often requires a referral from the governor or a state agency

The White House has dismissed the lawsuit as politically motivated and Trump has called the case 'ridiculous

For more infomation >> President Trump says he has donated $8 million of his OWN money to the Trump Foundation - Duration: 7:08.

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Resumption of inter-Korean tour program hinges on second Kim-Trump summit - Duration: 0:42.

The success of the Kim-Trump summit scheduled to be held later this month in Hanoi, Vietnam

could open up the possibility of South Korea resuming tours to North Korea's Geumgangsan

Mountain.

That's according to Bae Kook-hwan , CEO of Hyundai Asan, a Hyundai subsidiary set up

to deal with inter-Korean businesses.

He was speaking Saturday after visiting the North Korean tour site for two days.

Bae said the facilities at Geumgangsan are fairly decent but since they've been closed

for more than a decade, they'd need repairs before tours could resume.

The tour program at Geumgangsan was suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot

dead near the resort.

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Kellyanne Conway says Trump-hating woman assaulted her in DC restaurant in October - Duration: 4:37.

AMaryland woman faces charges that she assaulted White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in front of her teenage daughter during a confrontation last year at a restaurant in a Washington suburb

Mary Elizabeth Inabinett, 63, of Chevy Chase, was charged in November with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct and has a trial tentatively scheduled to start March 29, court records show

Conway told police she was attending a birthday party Oct.14 at a Mexican restaurant in Bethesda when she felt somebody grab her shoulders from behind and shake her, according to a charging document prepared by Montgomery County police

The woman who confronted Conway yelled, 'Shame on you,' and 'other comments believed to about Conway's political views,' the document says

Inabinett's attorney, William Alden McDaniel, Jr.,said in a statement that his client exercised her First Amendment right 'to express her personal opinions' about a public figure in a public place

McDaniel said his client didn't assault Conway and will plead not guilty to the misdemeanor charges

'The facts at trial will show this to be true, and show Ms.Conway's account to be false,' the lawyer's statement says

'Her "First Amendment" right to scream like a lunatic does not include touching me or anyone else,' Conway told The Associated Press in an email

In a CNN interview broadcast Friday, Conway said she was standing next to her middle school-aged daughter and some of her daughter's friends when the woman began shaking her 'to the point where I thought maybe somebody was hugging me

' She said it felt 'weird' and 'a little aggressive,' so she turned around to face the woman

'She was just unhinged.She was out of control,' she said.'Her whole face was terror and anger

She was right here, and my daughter was right there.And she ought to pay for that

She ought to pay for that because she has no right to touch anybody.' The restaurant's manager told police the woman who confronted Conway had to be forcibly removed from the premises

Conway told police the woman yelled and gestured at her for 8 to 10 minutes before she was escorted out of the restaurant

Conway wasn't injured, according to the charging document.The woman who confronted her was gone by the time police arrived, but restaurant staff helped police identify her as a suspect, and Conway's daughter provided officers with a short video clip and photograph of the encounter

Conway said she told President Donald Trump about the incident 'long after' it happened

She said Trump asked her, 'Are you OK? Is your daughter OK? Are the other girls OK?'

For more infomation >> Kellyanne Conway says Trump-hating woman assaulted her in DC restaurant in October - Duration: 4:37.

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TÜRKİYE VENEZUELA İÇİN NE YAPACAK? ERDOĞAN - MADURO - TRUMP - Duration: 3:28.

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BREAKING ALERT , TRUMP WARNS DEMS , President Trump, you must build the wall - Duration: 12:22.

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BREAKING How Trump's Tax Returns Could Become Public - News - Duration: 5:26.

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What does Wang Qishan say about President Trump? How did CCP betray Kim Jong Un 王岐山如何评价特朗普,怎么出卖金正恩的 - Duration: 2:12.

For more infomation >> What does Wang Qishan say about President Trump? How did CCP betray Kim Jong Un 王岐山如何评价特朗普,怎么出卖金正恩的 - Duration: 2:12.

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Twitter roasts Melania Trump for wearing ONE black leather glove at the State of the Union - Duration: 3:15.

'She's just solidified her super villain image': Twitter roasts Melania Trump for wearing ONE black leather glove at the State of the Union, comparing her to everyone from Michael Jackson to Luke Skywalker

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Leaders of S. Korea and U.S. likely to speak ahead of 2nd Kim-Trump summit - Duration: 0:29.

South Korea's presidential office says it will be in close touch with officials in the

U.S. ahead of President Trump's summit later this month in Vietnam with North Korean leader

Kim Jong-un.

The Blue House spokesperson says presidents Moon and Trump might speak on the phone in

the coming days.

The spokesperson also hinted at further discussions on multiple levels between Seoul and Washington,...

some between their top diplomats as well as between their national security chiefs Chung

Eui-yong and John Bolton.

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Trump Want to Meet With Imran Khan | Pm Imran Khan | Nawaz Sharif | M Starter Tv | 10 Feb 2019 - Duration: 4:48.

Pm Imran Khan

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Trump Voters FREAK OUT After Realizing They Aren't Getting Tax Cuts - Duration: 5:30.

Well, now that the government shut down, as over in the IRS appears to be working again,

people are starting to file their taxes, both Democrats and Republicans alike. And what

a lot of Trump supporters have found out is that, oh, they didn't get those republican

tax cuts like they were promised just 15 months ago. Now, if you'll remember, Republicans

told us, an analysts told us in economists told us that the tax cuts immediately went

into effect for the, for the top one percent, right? They, they got their tax cuts immediately.

It was an accent at the end of 2017, they got the IRS for 2018. The rest of us, we had

to wait another year. It is really didn't kick in until we filed our taxes in 2019.

So we weren't going to get our paychecks, you know, blowing up immediately. Had to wait

until the next year. Well, now that people are filing their taxes and still collecting

paychecks, they've realized that they were swindled and Trump voters, Trump supporters

are absolutely pissed off. And taking to twitter to share their horror

stories about filing their taxes this year. A raw stories done a phenomenal job of kind

of cataloging a lot of these tweets. So I'm going to go through. I'm and read just a couple

here. Uh, let's start with this one from a a dentist. Jordan says, I am a Republican

voter. I just did our taxes. The GOP tax bill costs my family thousands of dollars this

year on our return due to changes thereby hitting us with the largest tax increase of

our lives. We are middle class homeowners, homeowners. And you raised our taxes. Infuriating.

Here's another one, says I have to pay $2,000 more in taxes this year. What happened? I

voted for you. I thought you were fixing this. Not making it worse. I thought I would get

money back this year. There's another one. Nyc Girl voted for you. Family. Have two hard

working. New York cops did taxes for years. We would

pay more and get a refund at the end of the year to help pay debt. FIRSt Time in 30 years,

we had to pay more in federal taxes. I'm disgusted. Another one here from Joel Services at Potus.

Thank you for screwing the middleclass with your tax reform. I have never in my life.

I'm 49 years old. Had to pay into the IRS until this year. We have a combined income

of $150,000. The middleclass voted for you. I will not make the same mistake twice. The

list goes on. I mean this. You can read more. Just follow the link in. The description is

video, but there's so many of them and now I've said in the past I'm going to stop showing

sympathy for Trump voters voters. But listen, this, I get, okay, this, I understand. Not

that I didn't understand the others, but, but I do have sympathy on this particular

issue. These people bought into the lie that Republicans

were going to give us trickledown economics and trickle down economics on this, you know,

fourth, fifth try. Whatever it was was totally going to work this time. Well, it didn't,

you know, you should have known better on that part, but here's what they didn't realize

and this is why so many people are paying more in taxes, is that we had to give the

top one percent, you know, everything they wanted and the middle class we were going

to get a tax cut, right? Our taxes, we're going to go down slightly, but what they did

to make up for that was they got rid of a lot of our middleclass deductions, so things

in the past that we were able to write off and take a big chunk off of our tax bill.

We can't do that anymore. The that didn't happen for the top one percent,

but it happened for us among the changes by the way, is that teachers can no longer write

off the total amount that they spend out of pocket to buy supplies for their classroom.

And if I seem pissed off about that, I am. I am married to a teacher who spends at least

$100 every month of the year out of her pocket to buy stuff for her classroom. We don't get

to write that crap off anymore. I have not yet filed my taxes, but like everyone else

in this twitter thread here, I am also likely going to end up paying more. I did not get

a reduction in any of my paychecks for the last 14 months showing that I got a tax cut.

In fact, because insurance prices when up again at the start of the year as they always

do, my paychecks are technically less right now than they were one year ago.

I'm with you on this folks, except I wasn't full hearty enough to vote for Donald Trump.

I knew better, but I also knew better than to not believe the Republicans when they tell

us anything about taxes because they're liars, but here's the great thing. These people get

it now and so many more, so many more than just what's in this twitter thread. They understand

it, they get it, and hopefully they will never make the same mistake twice as this one. Twitter

users said, this is what Republicans do. They pull you in with these lofty promises and

then screw you over every chance they get. They have been proving this for decades, and

finally, finally, some of these people are starting to open their eyes and realize that

the Republican Party is nothing more than a party of Donald Trump's just con men as

far as the eye

can see.

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BOLSONARO QUER DISCUTIR COM TRUMP DERRUBADA DE MADURO - Duration: 4:31.

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Them Trumps: State of the Union - SNL - Duration: 2:15.

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President Trump holds firm on his push for a border wall as the deadline for a deal approaches - Duration: 3:55.

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MASSIVE NEWS TRUMP JUST DROPPED THE GIANT BOMB ON THE MEDIA AFTER HE DID THIS - Duration: 11:16.

MASSIVE NEWS TRUMP JUST DROPPED THE GIANT BOMB ON THE MEDIA AFTER HE DID THIS

Trump just dropped the goliath bomb on the media after he did this well the Trump organization

is

endeavoring to in general the country's nourishment stamp program by growing work prerequisites

for beneficiaries Georgia now.

one of the main states to uphold those stricter standards allegedly dismissing 8,000 individuals

from nourishment stamps in the wake of deciding

those beneficiaries as jobless capable grown-ups who are fit for working yet some in the left-wing

media

pummeling the move with features like these see that Trump intends to make individuals

work for nourishment stamps original thought.

here to respond Fox News giver and editorial manager in-boss camps change Lawrence Jones

most importantly well done the morning

much thanks to you valued the original thought that he would work in case you're physically

fit you realize you should work before you.

get government benefits yes so I believe it's vital for individuals to comprehend this was

a law as of now

set up it returned away before the Clinton organization however amid the Clinton organization

the administrators

removed that amid the subsidence however they never executed it back so what this law expects

you to do is in any event.

work at 20 hours get some type of training or if nothing else demonstrate that you can

work that you make it so all these

individuals jump on the framework and they remain on it thus this was a scourge that

get them associated with the procedure really

search for an occupation so they simply don't be reliant on this program isn't requiring

work having work prerequisites.

for welfare or sustenance stamps anyway we need to profit by the whether it's lodging

or something different doesn't that

empower individuals to escape neediness instead of remain in it right I know many individuals

on the Left needed to trap.

individuals in this since they will have their casting a ballot bowl they don't need to

work to really concentrate on the issues that influence unfavorably Americans yet the truth

is this a great deal of this

arrangements have influenced my locale by and by numerous individuals of the general

population in my locale end up remain on these projects.

since it's a device it's a legislature caught keep them in there that is the reason the

first program was to permit individuals

to have some type of help get a leg up however not be caught on it perpetually with the goal

that's the realities of it as Pete

referenced those features before so what is the doing for what reason are they failing

to understand the situation well they're playing this.

hostile to trump amusement that preceded Trump so the way that the issue is the president

is a few seconds ago implementing the law

Chicago Illinois Chicago Illinois Louisiana's one of those that mean a portion of those

states are as yet battling the.

endowments is in Georgia was too they're one of the primary states to begin this yet by

the day's end this is a

government law there was route set up path before Trump is offending to advise individuals

that they shouldn't need to function admirably.

it's annoying and it's likewise you need to scrutinize the thought processes right for

what reason do you need individuals to remain on a government framework

that implies that you're some of the time at the lowest pay permitted by law in some

cases it's you're in a neediness level or underneath the destitution level

for what reason would you need individuals to remain on this framework and I think numerous

individuals that are on those program need to address.

those administration authorities that are really supporting for the Lord's in case I'm

correct you used to be a Democrat however

you saw the world contrastingly for what reason did you see it that way and for what reason

did you change the manner in which you see the world well.

by the day's end you know look I needed to be useful as a Democrat yet when you begin

seeing the devices of the

left where they endeavor to hold you down in each part of your life where they feel

like as a result of the shade of.

your skin or your social monetary status that you can withdraw and didn't remarkable government

to do that that gets

disappointed into somebody that originated from the mother that had him as 16 and it

was shown diligent work by his mom and

father I couldn't be a liberal any longer since it's simply didn't line up with the

qualities that I was educated in my home and.

there's a left playing governmental issues with low-salary individuals as well as old

individuals better believe it they're playing legislative issues yet

they likewise are playing a monetary amusement okay this isn't only a run of the mill legislative

issues as you see everyday this is

saying I'm going to hold you down in each American that are on these projects should

I'm not saying that we ought to get.

free of them since that would be improbable Congress could never pass that however the

truth this is

not a program this ought to be changeless this is something to surrender you a leg not

only a hand down welcome my companion I

need you to investigate this world war one Memorial it stands 40 feet tall and has been

there for about a hundred.

a long time now some non-christians are clearly set up to brawl over its shape and they need

to bring him down back now new

subtleties is Fox News boss reporter Jonathan and Jonathan what's happening here great night

again Lisa this is a.

instance of spotlights on only one Memorial and Maryland however it could have broad outcomes

affecting landmarks over

the country including some at Arlington National Cemetery the dedication at the focal point

of this cases over the donners.

World War one veteran's and Bladensburg Maryland its development was begun by collective individuals

and moms whose children kicked the bucket in

World War one and it was finished by the American Legion a lower court has decided that a cross

ought to be expelled

since it disregards the Establishment Clause of the Constitution which obviously peruses

quote Congress will make.

no law regarding a foundation of religion or restricting the free exercise thereof however

an amicus brief

documented by thirty states says the Supreme Court statement should turn around the lower

court's require its demolition as a

place in our national convention and more extensive social setting clarified the Bladensburg

remembrance praises both the.

servicemembers it was worked to respect and the sacred standards incorporating into the

First Amendment they kicked the bucket to shield

in West Virginia's Attorney General who drove the gathering of 30 states and testing the

lower courts that quote

we owe a lot of appreciation to the daring people who penance everything for our nation

respecting that.

penance with commemorations that incorporate religious images does not abuse the US Constitution

and is one of the numerous

opportunities these people battle to protect now this tested the 93 old cross started with

the American Humanist.

Affiliation and philanthropic a topics to association that starting at course rent documented

comparable claims over the

nation Lisa thank you Jonathan going along with us currently is West Virginia Attorney

General Patrick Moore CA is driving the 30 state

charge to secure this dedication and furthermore Fred Edwards previous official chief of the

American Humanist Association and.

an offended party for the situation Fred I needed to begin with you my are you against

a dedication that respects the individuals who paid the

extreme penance to secure our opportunities like the First Amendment since we need to

respect them all and

that is our central purpose we even have a hashtag respect them all since we have an

inclination that we perceive that at 40.

foot tall and cross on the administration land communicate obviously that just Christian

officers are being regarded

fred is regarding law the men who passed on that are recorded on that remembrance how

is it how is it respecting since in spite of your

hashtag in 1985 the cross was proclaimed to be a respect of all veterans of all wars all

veterans were not Christians.

Why Trump's zigzagging speech made perfect sense

President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, as it unfolded, was a dizzying and

even disorienting experience, a cascade of rhetorical passages that seemed to contradict

each other every few moments.

Appeals for unity and bipartisanship jostled with ideological and cultural scab-picking.

At first blush this all may have seemed like incoherence, as though the speech was a composite

of recommendations from warring factions, every zig offset by a whiplashing zag.

Taken as a whole, the address revealed a clear strategic purpose - one designed to revive

and strengthen the ideological connection between the Trump of 2019 with the Trump who

first began his astonishingly effective takeover of the Republican Party four years ago.

That Trump stood in condemnation of both parties as mired in a swamp of self-dealing and dysfunction.

Yes, it takes brass ones - no doubt he's got 'em - for this Trump to deliver a sermon on

putting the national interest over vindictiveness and partisanship.

It was also a sign that Trump recognizes the potential damage he incurred by offering to

"Own" the federal government shutdown and that being seen as the leader of an unpopular

establishment party sacrifices the insurgent and outsider nature of his own brand.

The Trump brand is, at its core, against free trade, against illegal immigration and against

"Endless wars."

So, long sections of his speech Tuesday night made the case on these subjects anew, in plain-spoken

language that in the past has won nods of affirmation from millions of working class

white voters who in an earlier age were natural Democrats.

His calls for big spending on infrastructure rubbed the same muscles; ditto for pledges

to use federal power to lower what he called unfairly high drug prices.

So there was an homage to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, still several months away, by introducing

very old veterans of the invasion, who actually were not all that old 35 years ago, the first

time Ronald Reagan merged D-Day commemoration with a presidential reelection in 1984.

For all of Trump's boasts that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without dimming the

loyalties of his supporters, he knows that for many of them this is not true.

They vote for him because they think the alternatives are corrupt or left-wing kooks.

So it was no surprise that he found time to inveigh against "The new calls to adopt socialism

in our country."

It can be too reductionist, arguably, to interpret every word of a major presidential address

through the prism of reelection politics.

Historically the State of the Union immediately following a president's first midterm has

served as the de facto first major statement of the campaign to follow.

It was that for Bill Clinton, and for George W. Bush and for Barack Obama.

It is precisely through this prism that all the jolts and swerves of Trump's speech can

actually be seen as logical and linear.

The speech started out with a brief glimpse into an alternative universe, one in which

Trump embraces the populist rhetoric and category-killing brand of politics that propelled him past

conventional politicians of both parties in 2016 but discarded the vulgarity and taunting

and egomania that is also central to his persona.

Trump on Tuesday night played along with the what-if game for a couple minutes.

"Victory is not winning for our party.

Victory is winning for our country.

We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution - and embrace the boundless

potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good."

Trump's alliterative lullaby soon ended.

A few lines later he made clear that his notion of bipartisanship would be for the opposition

to drop "Ridiculous partisan investigations," even as a prosecutor with a Republican lineage

has already secured convictions against several of his former close aides.

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Gutfeld: Trump's week was about as good as the Democrats' week was bad - Duration: 13:26.

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Chris Christie opens up on the 2016 presidential campaign and the Trump presidency - Duration: 7:42.

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Lara Trump: The left would rather see the country fail than see the president succeed - Duration: 5:31.

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Trump's SOTU Was Garbage, And Dems Who Clapped Are Garbage Too - Duration: 4:58.

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SIX MONTHS TO AVOID AN ARMS RACE: What Trump needs to do to halt path to NUCLEAR WAR - DAILY NEWS - Duration: 6:14.

SIX MONTHS TO AVOID AN ARMS RACE: What Trump needs to do to halt path to NUCLEAR WAR

DONALD TRUMP announced the US will withdraw from the nuclear weapons treaty but what will

happen next?

Will a new treaty be negotiated in the six-month window?

US President Donald Trump announced the US would be withdrawing from the Intermediate-range

Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, saying: "We will move forward with developing our own

military response options" to Russia's suspect missile.

The announcement has triggered a six month expiration period in which renegotiations

can take place.

So the treaty could be salvaged in that 180-day window but only if Russia destroys all of

its violating missiles, launchers and associated equipment says the President.

In his statement, Trump warned that unless Russia destroyed its missile by August, the

USA "will move forward with developing our own military response options and will work

with Nato and our other allies and partners to deny Russia any military advantage from

its unlawful conduct."

For 32-years a treaty has been in place with the intention of limiting two of the most

powerful countries in the world with their intermediate-range weapons.

However, American politicians have claimed Russia has continued to violate the terms

of the deal with no consequence throughout the treaty.

Neil Clothier, Head of Negotiations at global sales and negotiation skills development company

Huthwaite International explained to Express.co.uk the potential outcomes of negotiations around

the treaty.

Mr Clothier said: "First, it is useful to understand Trump's negotiation techniques

since he has been in office.

"During his time as President, Trump has had very public problems with China, North

Korea and Russia, while also challenging the majority of Europe.

"To say it has been an eventful Presidency term, would be an understatement.

"After implying nuclear war could be an option with North Korea by saying "My [nuclear

weapon] button is bigger than yours" and calling leader, Kim Jong Un a "little rocket

man" we know that Trump has an aggressive form of negotiating.

"In fact, it's a well-trodden technique known as the 'mad man' approach, also

used by President Nixon in the 1960s and 1970s, aimed at emphasising (or over-emphasising

in Trump's case) an initial stance, to help pave the way for a lesser, but related, demand."

But is this 'mad man' technique effective?

It has arguably helped Mr Trump become the first US President to meet North Korea's

head of state - but what about Russia?

Mr Clothier said: "In this case, his threat that if a new treaty isn't negotiated, America

will outspend and out-innovate other countries is arguably designed to frighten Russia and

other countries, like China, into negotiating a new treaty before the six-month withdrawal

period – whether he intends to carry out his threat or not.

"This is a classic case of leverage – or implied leverage – aimed at giving Trump

the upper hand without him having to necessarily follow through.

"So, following this thinking, if Trump's main aim is to open talks with Russia and

China to create a new treaty that all countries will abide by – including serious consequences

if broken – then we should expect to see America bringing great incentives to the table

to interest all parties.

"This could include a shared security intelligence or even an allied relationship."

However, the US President is dealing with a similar 'strong man' in Russia's leader,

Vladimir Putin - so this approach is risky.

Mr Clothier said: "In business – and the wider political world – effective negotiation

is about compromise and securing a win-win for both parties.

"Unsurprisingly, it is also essential for both parties to be willing to negotiate.

"However, if Russia is already refusing to cease making missiles, then this doesn't

exactly lay the most productive foundations for a negotiation.

"To effectively move forward, the key thing would be for both Trump and Putin to reconsider

their approach to negotiations and head back to the original treaty as a starting point.

"Trump should be acutely aware that Russia can be expected to play 'dirty negotiation

tricks' from the outset, such as delaying negotiation talks until the very end of the

treaty so America would be more willing to concede on points with a looming deadline."

There are only six months until the current treaty is abandoned and both countries will

be free to make weapons with no consequences.

Mr Clothier said: "This is something that many countries will want to avoid – not

least as many critics claim it would be the first step to a global arms race.

"To implement a new treaty in time, the next few weeks will be vital when it comes

to offering insight into what the other countries stances may be when considering a new treaty.

"Importantly, this should see Trump looking to increase pressure on countries, and he'll

likely do this by selling the benefits of joining a treaty and promoting the consequences

of not having one in place.

"However, when negotiations actually begin, Trump will need to be much more reserved.

Negotiations are built on a diplomatic and strategic approach.

"If Trump strikes a careful balance between strength and cooperation, there is an opportunity

for prolonged and sustainable success.

"Whether that will happen – only time will tell – but for Trump, and Global politics,

the consequences of getting it wrong could be devastating."

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