you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again

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In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. The final package included $400 million for the effort, which was far less than what Democrats had sought.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again

'Grotesque Abuse' of Authority as Trump Declares National Emergency Over ICC Probe of Alleged US War Crimes

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/11/grotesque-abuse-authority-trump-declares-national-emergency-over-icc-probe-alleged

"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain."

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) holds a joint news conference on the International Criminal Court with Defense Secretary Mark Esper (R), at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 11, 2020. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered sanctions against any official at the International Criminal Court who prosecutes U.S. troops as the tribunal looks at alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. (Photo by Yuri Gripas/ Pool/ AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration renewed its attacks on the International Criminal Court on Thursday with President Donald Trump issuing an executive order imposing economic sanctions against ICC staff involved in the ongoing investigations into alleged war crimes by U.S. and Israeli forces, with travel restrictions also imposed on those ICC court officials and their family members.

"Trump's sanctions order against ICC personnel and their families—some of whom could be American citizens—is a dangerous display of his contempt for human rights and those working to uphold them."—Hina Shamsi, ACLU "President Trump is grossly abusing emergency powers to block one of the only avenues left for justice to victims of terrible American human rights violations," Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in response to the move. "He has repeatedly bullied international organizations, and is now playing directly into the hands of authoritarian regimes by intimidating judges and prosecutors committed to holding countries accountable for war crimes.

"Trump's sanctions order against ICC personnel and their families—some of whom could be American citizens—is a dangerous display of his contempt for human rights and those working to uphold them," said Shamsi.

The new order follows the court's March decision to greenlight an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. forces and others in Afghanistan—despite repeated bullying attempts by the administration to block that probe as well as the ICC's investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—who signaled earlier this month that such a move was forthcoming—announced the administration's action at a press conference Thursday in which he accused the ICC of being a "kangaroo court" carrying out an "ideological crusade against American servicemembers" and warned that other NATO countries could "be next" to face similar investigations.

The executive order accuses the ICC of making "illegitimate assertions of jurisdiction over personnel of the United States and certain of its allies" and claims the court's probes "threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

From Trump's executive order:

The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those responsible for the ICC's transgressions, which may include the suspension of entry into the United States of ICC officials, employees, and agents, as well as their immediate family members. The entry of such aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States and denying them entry will further demonstrate the resolve of the United States in opposing the ICC's overreach by seeking to exercise jurisdiction over personnel of the United States and our allies, as well as personnel of countries that are not parties to the Rome Statute or have not otherwise consented to ICC jurisdiction.

I therefore determine that any attempt by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any United States personnel without the consent of the United States, or of personnel of countries that are United States allies and who are not parties to the Rome Statute or have not otherwise consented to ICC jurisdiction, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

In a lengthy Twitter thread responding to the order, Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, framed the White House's action as "a grotesque abuse of emergency powers, on par with the president's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding that Congress had denied for building a border wall along the southern border."

That Trump said "the prospect of U.S. personnel being held accountable for war crimes is a *national emergency* (The war crimes themselves? Not so much.)" is "particularly galling because the U.S. uses this particular emergency power—the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—to impose sanctions on foreign government officials who engage in human rights violations," tweeted Goitein.

"The president's abuse of emergency powers has itself become an emergency," she continued, "and if Congress does not act soon, the situation will only get worse."

"The Trump administration's contempt for the global rule of law is plain," tweeted Liz Evenson, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch. "ICC member countries should make clear this bullying won't work."

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He has repeatedly bullied international organizations,

Trump is somehow reaching for based levels i didn't thought possible. Giving UN globalists the finger is something i'd expect of Putin or Jinping.

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Giving UN globalists the finger is something i'd expect of Putin or Jinping.

On the contrary, Winnie the Pooh got a huge boost to his Belt and Road Initiative, and thereby to chinese power, by Trump pulling out of the TPP whose main goal was containing chinese influence.

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It was a corporate power grab to dictate copyright and DRM. Educate yourself.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

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Your understanding is superficial, although your heart seems to be in the right place. All "free trade" treaties with ISDS type provisions are corporate power grabs, although "copyright and DRM" are far less important than circumventing the domestic legal system. But this doesn't single out the TPP. Within the group of treaties of this type, the defining characteristic of the TPP is that it was designed to contain chinese influence. The Pea-brainOTUS gave a huge boost to chinese influence by withdrawing.

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down.”

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How does it contain China, who has trade with every single country in the world?
It was another powergrab for corporate power in guise of free trade and cooperation.

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How does it contain China, who has trade with every single country in the world?

You dropped the word "influence". It was aimed at containing chinese influence through quite similar means to how China has aggressively spread it through Belt and Road since the Pea-brainOTUS withdrew from the TPP. It set the US up as the hub through which regional cooperative projects would be coordinated, a position that gives you the kind of positive influence that cannot be obtained by dotting the map with military bases or perferming freedom of navigation exercises. This is not something Trump has the temperament or the mental capacity to understand. Separately, of course the TPP would have been immensely improved by cutting out all ISDS type provisions.

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down.”

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It set the US up as the hub through which

There isn't such thing in the treaty, unless you somehow insert the petrodollar dependence scheme here. There isn't any concrete requirement for US arbitration, in fact it subsumes US authorities in favor of broad ISDS powers that are staffed by globalists & megacorporation stooges.

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There isn't any concrete requirement for US arbitration, in fact it subsumes US authorities in favor of broad ISDS powers

Superficially this may appear to be true. However, you need to remember that arbitration decisions do not magically become reality if the parties do not want them to. They need to be enforced. For example, Ecuador is unlikely to get billions of Exxon's assets no matter how many arbitration decisions it wins. The TPP parties agreed to group enforcement by the signatories, which means de facto US enforcement. It would not have come to that anyway in most cases since US good will is usually much more valuable to countries than getting one over the US in an arbitration hearing.

“When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down.”

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