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Apple CEO Says He Has Urged Trump To Address Legal Status of Immigrants; Also Told Him That Tariffs Are Wrong Approach To China (bloomberg.com)
Apple chief executive Tim Cook told Bloomberg Television that he has criticized Donald Trump's approach to trade with China in a recent White House meeting, while also urging the president to address the legal status of immigrants known as Dreamers. From the interview: Cook said his message to Trump focused on the importance of trade and how cooperation between two countries can boost the economy more than nations acting alone. Cook met with Trump in the Oval Office in late April amid a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China. The Trump administration instituted 25 percent tariffs on at least $50 billion worth of products from China, sparking retaliation. In the interview on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations," Cook acknowledged that previous trade policies were flawed but said Trump's move is also problematic. "It's true, undoubtedly true, that not everyone has been advantaged from that -- in either country -- and we've got to work on that," Cook said. "But I felt that tariffs were not the right approach there, and I showed him some more analytical kinds of things to demonstrate why."
Timmy needs to virtue signal to his base. That's all.
Just to be clear, you're saying that if the FBI, CIA, and NSA finds compelling evidence that a hostile foreign power is interfering in an election, they shouldn't investigate it further if there's any risk at all that a Republican (Democrats apparently don't matter, I don't see you complaining about Comey's October Surprise) candidate might be benefiting from said interference?
What compelling evidence? That 'dossier?' The DNC server the DNC has never given to an outside entity (government or otherwise)? Maybe Stormy Daniels?
Concocting narratives - even with the help of every 'official' institution in the land - to avoid the reckoning Democrats need to have just prolongs the pain. What reckoning is that? That the Democrats let themselves get hijacked internally and officially by Yankee version of Eva Peron and they lost - lost to a buffoon - because of that. Want to beat Donald Trump? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to beat the dog catcher in your local municipal elections? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to not need pliant FBI directors to avoid criminal indictments of your presidential candidate? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to avoid losing to an orange bombastic reality TV personality? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. This is easy, Democrats just need to figure it out, have that reckoning, and move on. Blaming the Russians at this point is like a drunk blaming...anything other than stupidity of continuing to consume poison.
Wake up Democrats
It's funny. Obama runs most of the race and then hands Trump the baton when he's a few steps away from being first at the finish line. Then Trump crosses the finish line and you hyperpartisan asshats give Trump the credit. Anyway, fuck you.