FROM EIR DAILY ALERTTrump Optimistic, Points to Future Agreement with Xi and PutinDec. 3, 2018 (EIRNS)—President Donald Trump has used his Twitter account this morning to make several forward-looking statements about his potential cooperation with Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, following the U.S.-China “trade truce” agreed to at Buenos Aires. While some of his direct statements about the “trade truce” are being obfuscated by press attempts to find disagreements between him and his secretaries and aides, the President’s statements about cooperating with other great-power Presidents are optimistic. Trump’s first tweet was,
An hour later the President brought in the North Korea summits or “Singapore process”:
Interestingly Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in a CNBC-TV interview, said the President would be leading the next 90 days’ trade talks with China personally; whereas trade advisor and China-basher Peter Navarro, on NPR, claimed that Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer would lead them. Trump’s third tweet, at 8:30 a.m., was most optimistic:
This flies in the face of Robert Mueller’s McCarthyite attempt to criminalize any American contact with Russia, and outright demands for war with Russia from British intelligence and like-thinking Atlantic Council, etc., figures. |
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