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US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden has a blunt suggestion for President-elect Donald Trump: It is time to “grow up”.
Asked about a few of Trump’s controversial remarks and tweets since winning the November election, Biden had some intemperate comments of his own.
“Grow up Donald, grow up, time to be an adult, you’re president,” he told television station PBS in an interview broadcast last night.
“Time to do something. Show us what you have”.
Trump had earlier described America’s leading congressional Democrat Chuck Schumer as the “head clown”.
Donald J. Trump / TwitterThe Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to fix it, they..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2017
Biden’s comments came as Trump was today due to be briefed by the heads of four top intelligence bodies on their assessment of Russia’s alleged meddling in last year’s presidential election.
Spy chiefs yesterday insisted they have strong evidence that Russia mounted an unprecedented bid to disrupt the American election, standing firm in the face of Trump’s refusal to accept their conclusions.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate hearing yesterday he had “very high” confidence in their findings.
Clapper, National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers and Marcel Lettre, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, told the committee in a joint statement that “only Russia’s senior-most officials” could have authorised the operation, in which hackers stole Democratic Party files and emails.
Those files were then disseminated via WikiLeaks, embarrassing the party and harming losing candidate Hillary Clinton’s White House effort, spy chiefs said.
Trump’s doubts
Trump, who has pledged a rapprochement with President Vladimir Putin’s Russia after taking office on 20 January, has repeatedly dismissed that finding.
The Republican has mocked via Twitter past intelligence errors of the CIA, FBI and other agencies, challenging them to prove that the hacking and leaks could be traced up to the top of Putin’s government.
Late last night, he again asked “how and why are they so sure about hacking,” claiming that the DNC prevented the FBI from accessing their servers. BuzzFeed News reported that the FBI had in fact never asked to examine them.
Donald J. Trump / TwitterThe Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
Donald J. Trump / TwitterSo how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017
Today’s briefing for Trump will come amid worries he has already soured relations with key parts of the all-important national security establishment.
In addition to casting doubts on their conclusions over Russian interference, Trump raised more hackles on Wednesday by citing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to suggest that anyone, even a 14-year-old child, could have been behind the hacking.
Under strong criticism from politicians of both parties for placing more credibility in Assange than the CIA and FBI, Trump defended himself yesterday.
Toyota
Meanwhile, Toyota shares dropped more than 3% today after Trump threatened the carmaker with import taxes over a new vehicle plant in Mexico, also prompting an objection from the Japanese government.
Shares in the Japanese automaker fell as much as 3.11% after the opening bell before paring losses to move 2.04% lower at 6,905 yen at the break.
Other automakers also sagged, with Nissan declining 1.79% to 1,178 yen and Honda down 1.54% to 3,514 yen by the break.
Toyota became the latest company to face Trump’s wrath when he tweeted “NO WAY” to the firm’s plans for a new manufacturing plant in Mexico.
Donald J. Trump / TwitterToyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2017
Referring to the statement, Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko said Japanese auto industry have “contributed to (creating) 1.5 million jobs in the United States”.
Seko stressed the need for the new US administration to understand that the Japanese auto industry “has greatly contributed to the US economy” in comments to reporters.
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Trump attending an intelligence briefing is a bit like my cat attending the opera.
Democrat’s have become real neocon Hawks in the last few years as bad as John McCain Regime change in the middle east confront Russia everywhere…..Trump making sense no new cold war with Russia
The briefing will be presented in comic cook format, and Trump will get a Lucky bag to take away with him at the end of it.
* comic book format even.
Comic book format even. Though maybe they’ll use the cook from the Muppets to help keep his attention.
Wonder will we get the first over tweet from a US president while attending an intelligence briefing?
Wow the trumpites are still supporting this simpleton puppet .
I’ve read somewhere else that, as President-elect, he’s entitled to receive daily intelligence reports but so far has only bothered to be briefed on two of them, yet he takes the time to dismiss the same intelligence as speculation and nonsense. This can’t end well.
Stockholm syndrome. Cheeto Jesus has them brainwashed to stay in this abusive relationship, no matter what.
Always remember that phrase from the so called intelligence brigade ” weapons of mass destruction” maybe for once some one is right to be a little sceptical for a change, there are massive agendas in play in ‘establishment USA’ ones that certainly haven’t got it ‘right’ so far..
This is all part of a preparation for going to war with Russia. The Military Industrial Complex desperately needs a new war., ‘Operation Atlantic Resolve’, is in full swing. 2,000 US tanks will be sent in coming days from Germany to Eastern Europe, and 1,600 US tanks is deployed to storage facilities in the Netherlands. They will be unloaded in Bremerhaven this weekend. At the same time, NATO countries are sending thousands of soldiers in to Russian borders. Many people in whose financial interest this is, fear Trump may disrupt their plan. This is totally ignored by the media even though it will almost certainly be the beginning of WW3.
And speaking of “Fake news”
“Glenn Greenwald: Mainstream U.S. Media is Culpable for Disseminating Fake & Deceitful News on Russia
We are joined by Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of The Intercept. His latest article is headlined “WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived.” In it, he writes, “Any story that bolsters the prevailing D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how dubious, is spread far and wide. And then, as has happened so often, when the story turns out to be false or misleading, little or nothing is done to correct the deceitful effects.” Read more :
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/5/glenn_greenwald_mainstream_us_media_is
Trump’s tweets later today will be telling. Either it’ll be “I was right” or he’ll be silent/deflect.
@John003:
Such a short memory… The Obama administration had a Russia reset and Putin Invaded Crimea, backed a war criminal in Syria, Cyber attacked the Department of Defense and interfered with the US Elections..
Trump has already threatened Iran and North Korea, insulted China, Mexico, Europe,….. Get real, the Democrats started no war while Obama was in charge… Finished a few but started none… Look at the facts…
The Russian buddy stuff is to get a $600bn dollar oil deal in for Exxon and surprise surprise where does the Secretary of State come from?
@Pat O’Dwyer: Well I guess in the coming days Pat you will wither be lording over us all with “I told you so”s or having to finally admit to yourself that you have been taken in by one too many conspiracy theories.
Wasn’t Biden the one who wanted to take trump ‘behind the bike shed and beat him up’ (paraphrasing)?
All Trump seems to care about is what his next tweet will do to a company’s stock
Indeed, and if you knew the subject of his next attack you could make quite a lot of money from it.
I wonder what stocks he holds? I bet he isn’t tweeting about them and watching his own stocks plummet
Unless he sell them short just before he tweets. His own version of insider trading.
The CIA telling lies? Couldn’t be!!
@Nollaig Elliot:
You will also have to include DOD, FBI, DHS, Trump’s own words during the campaign, real evidence, Russian Hackers…
I think that might be enough..
It’s time for everyone to grow up.
It’s ridiculous. Not far away from Bush’s spat with China when the US spy plane was grounded I’m China. “Give us our plane back”, “No, say your sorry first”. America toddles off to sulk because a bigger boy stole his lollipop in the playground.
Does this mean they’ve now given up on the allegation that the Russians rigged the ballot tallies? Bower they’re just saying that the Russians influenced the election by releasing true emails showing that the Hillary campaign rigged the DNC election against Sanders?
It is a little ridiculous at this point alright. Hillary had burnt toast this morning – must have been those Russian hackers cyber attacking her toaster.
The so-called allegations regarding the Russians interfering with vote tallies was #fakenews.
The US intelligence agencies made no such claim.
The flames were fanned on that one when pro-Clinton news sources ran headlines like “Russians interfered with US presidential election “. This could be interpreted as direct interference in voting process (a lie) but was only referring to CIA/FBI/NSA claims relating to HRC/DNC email hack to wikileaks
Except that according to Julian Assange, the source who allowed wiki leaks to get hold of those emails did NOT come from Russia nor from a government.
&bryan
And Assange is incapable of telling a lie is he?
@Peedur Dante: No, but he is far more reliable than the CIA and American government. Wikileaks rarely give details about their sources but in this case they made an exception and made it perfectly clear that i was NOT Russia. Assange and WikiLeaks don;t have sides. they’ve published lots of stuff about Russia before.
I heard john McAfee this morning saying that the malware used on the dnc was 18 months old and that no serious hacker would use malware that old especially not the Russians. So basically no tallies were hacked only the dnc which showed clinton campaign playing dirty themselves within the dnc and John podesta which shown Hillary Clinton getting debate questions at times among other things. So maybe the democrats should look closely at themselves and realise it was their actions and words that lost the election.
So now he is giving out about a Japanese company moving their production from Canada to Mexico..
‘ ‘Grow up Donald… Time to be an adult’
My goodness, what a puerile remark.
Search for creepy joe Biden on YouTube, you won’t see this man the same way again if you do!
Was that our Mary he was rubbing up?
@ crypto
Eh, no thanx
Some hypocrite…. I’ve seen those memes. Like changing the language settings on the TV to Spanish.!
@matt
Memes aren’t true matt.
His cabinet is filled with goldman sachs alum. He knows what he’s doing
In total truth, while we do not know if the accusation is true or not (we don’t have – we won’t ever have, the ‘intelligence’ the US has to make this claim), what we DO know, is just as much shocking!
We do know that the top man making the claim, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, has himself nationally lied before a state investigation when asked ‘Was the US agencies spying on it own people?” He stated that they weren’t – but as we know know, they were and have been doing it absolute massively for decades.
Is the world now supposed to trust this man that has been proven to be a liar and never held to legal account for his lies?
http://www.unitedpeople.ie/more-white-house-double-standards/
I have to be honest, like dose no one else find it strange that the u.s.a are throwing around all these reports and all we are getting from the heads of the intelligence agency’s are refusal for reviews of systems and words like we are fairly certain with 0 and I mean there is honestly 0 evidence so far other than what is reported.
@paddy
They haven’t released evidence yet . There is a multitude of reasons not to release evidence at this stage. Since the ramifications of this could conceivably lead to something akin to a war, the evidence is classified while they build a case and strategise how. best to move forward.
Joe Biden was the one mouthing off on trump saying he wanted to take him behind the school yard shed. There has been plenty more times he has said silly crap like that. Why the selective journalism? Ohh ya I forgot Denis o Brian….
That guy still hasn’t learned that such pathetic condescending language and attitude was exactly what lost them the election.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: The lies never helped either?
“They had also identified go-betweens who delivered stolen Democratic emails to the Wikileaks website, sources said, without providing further details.” OK here is the deal, they hacked the emails, printed them off, put them in a black case and sent them by courier!!! Oh what something wrong here…..What we really have here is a fog of if’s, buts, maybes, probably. Dressed in the new language cyberspace full of “Go-betweenies”, “Fake News”, “Social Media Trolls”, “Propaganda” as if this is not what CNN, NBC, BBC, RT etc etc are doing now, today and everyday for their respective lords and masters. Democrats just cannot face up to their shortcomings, the world is moving on and leaving them behind.
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