Discussion: Mnuchin: 'We're Putting The Trade War On Hold'

epicurus · May 20, 2018, 4:57pm

Of course they are, because the Criminal-in-Chief got a sweet bribe. This is so transparent and so disgusting.

eggrollian · May 20, 2018, 5:04pm

中國歷經6000多年的輝煌

nowarino · May 20, 2018, 5:04pm

.Because the president was paid off with a deal, or you couldn’t win?

Both? Yeah, that’s what we thought.

benthere · May 20, 2018, 5:05pm

“Mumbles” Mnuchin Mumbles

dommyluc · May 20, 2018, 5:05pm

Steve Mnuchin: the illegitimate father of Aaron Schlossberg.

pauldownard · May 20, 2018, 5:11pm

Too late for American soy bean farmers you idiot fucking moron. Trump has single handedly destroyed their livelihoods for this year. And what the hell is the Dollar bill guy telling us for? Don’t we have a Secretary of Commerce or do they just keep that money laundering Cyprus bank board member sleeping in his coffin until they need to drag him out for a bless-a-thon cabinet meeting?

Hang the whole lot of them.

drtv · May 20, 2018, 5:11pm

Mnuchin: ‘We’re Putting The Trade War On Hold’

Sure thing, Stevie Boy. After all the China-Trump financial corruption has now taken place, there’s no longer a need to fight.

teenlaqueefa · May 20, 2018, 5:15pm

So basically Trump has bravely ran away?

tena · May 20, 2018, 5:16pm

No, he got the extortion money he wanted from the threat of the trade war.

teenlaqueefa · May 20, 2018, 5:18pm

…and then he bravely ran away?

eggrollian · May 20, 2018, 5:18pm

Sustainable corruption requires capture of the security/defense forces and financial system. When Trump came in he a) surrounded himself with military guys, and b) brought in Wilbur and Steve to take care of the financial system. In the gradual erosion of the rule of law needed to make a corrupt regime permanent you need to pass certain milestones. Trump has so far evaded independent auditable financial reporting, the emoluments clause and most of the US code concerning money-laundering and financial crime. Yet to read most news coverage, you get the impression the rule of law is winning.

litho · May 20, 2018, 5:19pm

Shorter Mnuchin: “The quest for a Nobel is the most important thing, so China gets whatever they want so long as they promise to help strike a deal — any deal — with Kim.”

dddinah · May 20, 2018, 5:26pm

So Donald Trump and his administration waged a trade war with China, played extortion, using or waging the American pocketbook for personal gain. And it work for the Trump family. There is no plan there is no framework it it’s all a lie. It was a threat he threw out there and levied the pocketbook of American citizens to gain personal wealth for his family. Tell her to a deplorable and they don’t care, they just plain don’t care they love Donald Trump just the way he is A liar, a thief, a mobster they find his character exciting that’s how smart they are it’s completely deplorable. The bad part is it we’re all on this train you bunch of dumb misfits.

littlegirlblue · May 20, 2018, 5:28pm

This is true, and there’s going to be a move towards the end of using internal combustion automobiles and electric cars only but nothing firm on that idea.

labman57 · May 20, 2018, 5:32pm

The Petulant One thumps his chest and goes on a Twitter tirade … and then the grown-ups in the room try to clean up his mess.

Unfortunately, Team Trump is more concerned with providing cover for Donnie than they are with solving real problems.

ralph_vonholst · May 20, 2018, 5:34pm

Papier-mâché tiger.

ETA. “And in the name of the poppycock guild, we wish to welcome you to Mnuchkinland.”

bodie1 · May 20, 2018, 5:37pm

At what point does the working class Trump voter realize they were used and screwed?

thebigragu · May 20, 2018, 5:38pm

Never?

bikerdad · May 20, 2018, 5:39pm

On hold … meaning, back into the Trump Crime Family’s distractions closet, to be released after the next corruption/collusion/obstruction revelation.

bodie1 · May 20, 2018, 5:40pm

Not as long as they have Mexicans to kick around ?