Great improvements in the NATO alliance since Trump took office. Our European allies are spending billions more for their own defense and Trump is in London to keep that progress moving.
“By the end of next year, European Allies and Canada will have invested well over 100 billion U.S. dollars more since 2016,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday. “I can announce that the accumulated increase in defense spending by the end of 2024, will be 400 billion U.S. dollars.”
In the 3 decades before my election, NATO spending declined by two-thirds, and only 3 other NATO members were meeting their financial obligations. Since I took office, the number of NATO allies fulfilling their obligations more than DOUBLED, and NATO spending increased by $130B!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2019
Meanwhile, Democrats are starting another phase of their impeachment farce. But Speaker Pelosi will be thousands of miles away on yet another taxpayer funded vacation in Spain to push the Dem's other big farce: global warming. Yes, while she and the Hollywood left drive carbon emissions through the roof with their first class travel to Spain Trump will be doing real work in London and the Dems at home their usual clown show. But not with any participation by team Trump.
The White House rejected participation in this next round of the farce:
“This baseless and highly partisan inquiry violates all past historical precedent, basic due process rights, and fundamental fairness,” wrote White House counsel Pat Cipollone. "As for the hearing scheduled for December 4, we cannot fairly be expected to participate in a hearing while the witnesses are yet to be named and while it remains unclear whether the Judiciary Committee will afford the president a fair process through additional hearings," Cipollone said.Here is the entire letter:
He continued: "When the Judiciary Committee scheduled a similar hearing during the Clinton impeachment process, it allowed those questioning the witnesses two-and-a-half weeks' notice to prepare, and it scheduled the hearing on a date suggested by the president's attorneys. Today, by contrast, you have afforded the president no scheduling input, no meaningful information and so little time to prepare that you have effectively denied the administration a fair opportunity to participate."
"Your letter also wrongly claims an equivalence between the procedures applicable to past impeachment inquiries and the procedures adopted by H. Res. 660. Past inquiries, however, did
not authorize one set of committees to conduct two rounds of hearings with witnesses (one round in secret and another in public) while prohibiting the President from any opportunity to
participate. Nor did these past inquiries eontinue to deny those rights to the President even in a third round of hearings before yet another committee, the Judiciary Committee. In other
impeachment proceedings, the President's counsel was not excluded from the hearings that took testimony from fact witnesses, nor was the President denied the right of cross examination
during those hearings."
WHITE HOUSE LETTER TO NADLER by Fox News on Scribd
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