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Leading up to his first face-to-face meeting with Putin, U.S. intelligence officials have prepared a detailed psychological profile of the long-serving Russian strongman, a former KGB officer who spent decades recruiting spies for the Soviet Union and mastered the art of bending people to his will.

The profile, according to two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the preparations, is part of a thick binder prepared for Trump. The president often doesn’t read the usual briefing books and relies on in-person briefings, the officials said, so aides also have written a list of tweet-length sentences that summarize the main points Trump could bring up with Putin.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-fg-t ... story.html

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:50 am

How can the man be expected to do any winning if he's supposed to be reading all the damn time?

Postby **Troy Loney** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:50 am

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/stat ... 3606653952

Direct response to Trump just ripping up the TPP when he was elected. TPP would have been good for America, it definitely needed some tinkering to atleast address the arguments put forth by the left (Warren and Sanders), but just abandoning it only helped China.

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 11:54 am

As Trump is not ideological, his mistakes (see TPP) come from being uninformed and/or stupid.

Postby **MR25** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:21 pm

How can the man be expected to do any winning if he's supposed to be reading all the damn time?

He is McBane from the Simpsons movie.

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:26 pm

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/882982234936012800

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:27 pm

Finally...score one for the pinkos...

Postby **columbia** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:40 pm

Poland is pretty much the white trash of Europe, so it makes sense that Trunp received a warm reception.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:41 pm

It helps that they bused people in from around the country to welcome him in.

Postby **Viva la Ben** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:13 pm

https://twitter.com/independent/status/ ... 2331471872

Postby **CBear3** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:20 pm

#FAKENEWS
I was expecting actual wikipedia quotes.

Postby **grunthy** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:26 pm

https://twitter.com/independent/status/ ... 2331471872

Honestly how is this any different than every other president talking about a country and their struggles and how they fought through it? This article is incredibly petty. I'm not surprised that you found it.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:30 pm

Yeah, that's pretty much boilerplate I feel like...then again, I'm not a lunatic when it comes to partisan politics...

Postby **eddy** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:41 pm

https://twitter.com/costareports/status ... 2631177217

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:42 pm

https://twitter.com/R_U_Srs/status/882600368965898240

Postby **eddy** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:42 pm

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday over her delay of regulations meant to protect federal student loan borrowers defrauded by their schools.

The lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in D.C., led by Massachusetts and joined by 18 other Democratic attorneys general, accuses DeVos of illegally delaying the regulations aimed at predatory colleges, which were finalized by the Obama administration and had been set to take effect on July 1.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/0 ... ons-240260

Postby **eddy** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:44 pm

https://twitter.com/taykuy/status/882998814549921793