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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 07:55 PM Sep 2019

During presser w/ his bro Boris, Trump offers a calm, lucid explanation of the Ukraine matter.



During a brief press conference at the United Nations with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Trump was asked why he cut off aid to Ukraine.

“Why is the United States the only one paying to Ukraine?” the U.S. president complained. “Why isn’t Germany, why isn’t France? Why aren’t these countries paying? Why are we paying all the time? No one has given more to Ukraine. President Obama used to send pillows and sheets. I send anti-tank weapons.”

“Why is it always the United States that’s paying? I made that loud and clear. I told that the Mick Mulvaney, I told to a lot of people,” the president continued. “I told it to a lot of different people. I told it to Mike, two Mikes. I it told to Steve. I keep asking Wilbur Ross.”

Trump ranted on: “I said, hold it up, let’s get other people to pay, and then everybody called me, ‘Oh please, can we pay?’ — and they said — and there was never any quid pro quo, the letter was beautiful, it was a perfect letter, unlike Biden.”

Trump concluded by insisting “there was no pressure applied, no nothing” to Ukraine.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/i-told-it-to-mike-two-mikes-trump-launches-into-indecipherable-rant-when-asked-about-ukraine/
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During presser w/ his bro Boris, Trump offers a calm, lucid explanation of the Ukraine matter. (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2019 OP
The dog ate it C_U_L8R Sep 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2019 #2
Love the way you safeinOhio Sep 2019 #10
That word salad needs a few croutons. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #3
"We paying" would be we if this filled to the brim anal sac actually paid any taxes. nt UniteFightBack Sep 2019 #4
Can someone translate that for me? smirkymonkey Sep 2019 #5
the UN is still looking for a translator Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #9
LOL!!! ...nt 2naSalit Sep 2019 #13
*snicker* smirkymonkey Sep 2019 #14
Makes. No. Sense. peggysue2 Sep 2019 #6
Wait I missed something jcgoldie Sep 2019 #7
I think that he's forgotten the word "transcript." Chellee Sep 2019 #12
that picture, draw some lines on it and it's a Tom Tomorrow square Skittles Sep 2019 #8
25th amendment spanone Sep 2019 #11
What Chump doesn't seem to comprehend Totally Tunsie Sep 2019 #15

Response to Miles Archer (Original post)

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,328 posts)
9. the UN is still looking for a translator
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 08:17 PM
Sep 2019

Thought they found one, but it turned out to be a howler monkey with its nuts caught in its throat.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
15. What Chump doesn't seem to comprehend
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 09:15 PM
Sep 2019

is that the U.S. offers aid to needy countries as a gesture of compassion, NOT as a billable expense/obligation to be shared by all the UN countries. But then, WTF does this child-snatching, p****- grabbing jackhole know about compassion?

He seems to be of the thought that if we give aid and assistance out of the goodness of our hearts (and any ultimate power brokerage), then everyone else is required to do so..."pay their share". Doesn't work that way, Chump.

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