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Michael Cohen: Does Donald Trump have a 'secret' pardon? | 60 Minutes Australia
Feb 7, 2021
He may no longer be President, but Donald Trump can’t stop making headlines. In the next few days he goes on trial in the US Senate charged with inciting his supporters’ rampage on the Capitol building last month. But while the world was shocked by the shameful attack on democracy, Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, wasn’t surprised at all. In fact two years ago he predicted it. Cohen used to be The Donald’s closest ally but ended up an enemy, and in prison, when he took the fall for covering up Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. And now, in an extraordinary interview with Tara Brown, filmed while he serves the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in New York, Cohen is happy to spill all of his old boss’s dirty secrets.
Feb 7, 2021
He may no longer be President, but Donald Trump can’t stop making headlines. In the next few days he goes on trial in the US Senate charged with inciting his supporters’ rampage on the Capitol building last month. But while the world was shocked by the shameful attack on democracy, Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, wasn’t surprised at all. In fact two years ago he predicted it. Cohen used to be The Donald’s closest ally but ended up an enemy, and in prison, when he took the fall for covering up Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. And now, in an extraordinary interview with Tara Brown, filmed while he serves the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in New York, Cohen is happy to spill all of his old boss’s dirty secrets.
There was only one Democrat among the visitors to a gun show in West Virginia
Americans voice 'legitimate fears' of civil war as Trump's impeachment trial looms
Many Americans are afraid of a looming civil war-style conflict, amid the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Feb. 8 - American politics often baffles outsiders but on the eve of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, it really has never been weirder.
Politicians promoting a delusional conspiracy claiming America is in the grips of a child-trafficking liberal cabal backed by the deep state are now sitting in the US Congress.
And Mr Trump's grand fiction that the election was stolen from him, is believed by millions.
From our soundings in West Virginia, many also fear the country is sliding towards civil war, backing claims in recent polls that more than half of Americans fear as much.
To gauge the mood of conservative rural America we went to a gun show where there was no shortage of people openly afraid of looming civil conflict.
"I'm very worried about this country, where it's going," gun dealer and wood carver Scott Pickett told me.
"If it keeps heading down this same way, they're going to push people into another civil war and I don't want to be here then."
From our soundings in West Virginia, many also fear the country is sliding towards civil war, backing claims in recent polls that more than half of Americans fear as much.
To gauge the mood of conservative rural America we went to a gun show where there was no shortage of people openly afraid of looming civil conflict.
"I'm very worried about this country, where it's going," gun dealer and wood carver Scott Pickett told me.
"If it keeps heading down this same way, they're going to push people into another civil war and I don't want to be here then." source
Americans voice 'legitimate fears' of civil war as Trump's impeachment trial looms
Many Americans are afraid of a looming civil war-style conflict, amid the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Feb. 8 - American politics often baffles outsiders but on the eve of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, it really has never been weirder.
Politicians promoting a delusional conspiracy claiming America is in the grips of a child-trafficking liberal cabal backed by the deep state are now sitting in the US Congress.
And Mr Trump's grand fiction that the election was stolen from him, is believed by millions.
From our soundings in West Virginia, many also fear the country is sliding towards civil war, backing claims in recent polls that more than half of Americans fear as much.
To gauge the mood of conservative rural America we went to a gun show where there was no shortage of people openly afraid of looming civil conflict.
"I'm very worried about this country, where it's going," gun dealer and wood carver Scott Pickett told me.
"If it keeps heading down this same way, they're going to push people into another civil war and I don't want to be here then."
From our soundings in West Virginia, many also fear the country is sliding towards civil war, backing claims in recent polls that more than half of Americans fear as much.
To gauge the mood of conservative rural America we went to a gun show where there was no shortage of people openly afraid of looming civil conflict.
"I'm very worried about this country, where it's going," gun dealer and wood carver Scott Pickett told me.
"If it keeps heading down this same way, they're going to push people into another civil war and I don't want to be here then." source
Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Stephen Ford, 2020.
Robert Ford’s slanted Article in favor of the Turkish expansionist Policy in the Middle East and beyond!
Feb. 8 - A misguided vision of Former Ambassador Ford’s article published on January 25th, 2021; recommends that the US should rely on Turkey and Russia in Syria. Ambassador Ford mentioned Russia, but Russia is only lip service, his main lobby is Turkey. If President Erdogan is to write an op-ed to defend his expanist policy in Syria; he most likely wouldn’t be able to defend his expansionist policy in the way that Ambassador Ford defends it.
Mr. Ford’s ill-advised venture will create more chaos, more wars, more refugees, more displacement of people, and more ethnic cleansing than the Middle East could ask for. Turkey’s invasion of sovereign states and neighboring countries under the cover of their own security is illegal under international law. Turkish forces are fighting in Iraq, and along with their cohort Jihadis, are also fighting in Syria, Libya, and in Nagorno Karabakh-Armenia. President Erdogan is threatening the Greek government over gas and oil explorations in the eastern Mediterranean.
President Erdogan’s Turkish expansionist flail upheaval policy is similar to Benito Mussolini’s expansionist policy of imperial colonization of the mid 1920’s to early 1940’s on the Horn of Africa, in Somalia, Ethiopia, British Somaliland, and Libya…
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Robert Ford’s slanted Article in favor of the Turkish expansionist Policy in the Middle East and beyond!
Feb. 8 - A misguided vision of Former Ambassador Ford’s article published on January 25th, 2021; recommends that the US should rely on Turkey and Russia in Syria. Ambassador Ford mentioned Russia, but Russia is only lip service, his main lobby is Turkey. If President Erdogan is to write an op-ed to defend his expanist policy in Syria; he most likely wouldn’t be able to defend his expansionist policy in the way that Ambassador Ford defends it.
Mr. Ford’s ill-advised venture will create more chaos, more wars, more refugees, more displacement of people, and more ethnic cleansing than the Middle East could ask for. Turkey’s invasion of sovereign states and neighboring countries under the cover of their own security is illegal under international law. Turkish forces are fighting in Iraq, and along with their cohort Jihadis, are also fighting in Syria, Libya, and in Nagorno Karabakh-Armenia. President Erdogan is threatening the Greek government over gas and oil explorations in the eastern Mediterranean.
President Erdogan’s Turkish expansionist flail upheaval policy is similar to Benito Mussolini’s expansionist policy of imperial colonization of the mid 1920’s to early 1940’s on the Horn of Africa, in Somalia, Ethiopia, British Somaliland, and Libya…
“Biden Should rely rely on Turkey, Russia in Syria” continue to read
Robert Stephen Ford (born 1958) is a retired American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008 and the United States Ambassador to Syria from 2010 to 2014.
Syria
In 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama nominated Ford as the first U.S. Ambassador to Syria in five years (pending U.S. Senate approval).[6] In December 2010, after the U.S. Senate had failed to act on the nomination, Obama used a recess appointment to secure Ford the position.[7] The Senate then confirmed Ford by unanimous consent on October 3, 2011.[8][9] As a result, Ford no longer was serving under a recess appointment and therefore could have held the position until Obama's term ended in January 2017.
On October 24, 2011, Ford was recalled from Syria; the U.S. State Department cited "credible threats" to his safety.[10] Ford had attracted the ire of pro-Assad Syrians due to his strong support of the Syrian uprising. According to American officials, Ford had been attacked by an armed pro-government mob, and Syrian state television had begun running reports blaming him for the formation of death squads similar to those in Iraq. This led to fears that supporters of the Syrian government might try to kill him.[11]
In August 2013, it was reported by The New York Times that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had recommended that Ford serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, following the incumbent ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, being nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs – the head of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, which oversees the Middle East.[12] On February 4, 2014, officials of the U.S. State Department said that Ford was retiring[13] and on February 28 announced his departure.[14] The U.S. States Department announced the appointment of Daniel Rubinstein as U.S. special envoy for Syria on March 14.[15] In December 2018, Ford declared his support for President Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, describing it as "essentially correct."[16]
Actions in Syria
He visited Hama, where he was cheered by protesters.[17] He met with Hassan Abdul-Azim, and was attacked with eggs and tomatoes by government supporters.[18][19]
Syria
In 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama nominated Ford as the first U.S. Ambassador to Syria in five years (pending U.S. Senate approval).[6] In December 2010, after the U.S. Senate had failed to act on the nomination, Obama used a recess appointment to secure Ford the position.[7] The Senate then confirmed Ford by unanimous consent on October 3, 2011.[8][9] As a result, Ford no longer was serving under a recess appointment and therefore could have held the position until Obama's term ended in January 2017.
On October 24, 2011, Ford was recalled from Syria; the U.S. State Department cited "credible threats" to his safety.[10] Ford had attracted the ire of pro-Assad Syrians due to his strong support of the Syrian uprising. According to American officials, Ford had been attacked by an armed pro-government mob, and Syrian state television had begun running reports blaming him for the formation of death squads similar to those in Iraq. This led to fears that supporters of the Syrian government might try to kill him.[11]
In August 2013, it was reported by The New York Times that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had recommended that Ford serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, following the incumbent ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, being nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs – the head of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the U.S. Department of State, which oversees the Middle East.[12] On February 4, 2014, officials of the U.S. State Department said that Ford was retiring[13] and on February 28 announced his departure.[14] The U.S. States Department announced the appointment of Daniel Rubinstein as U.S. special envoy for Syria on March 14.[15] In December 2018, Ford declared his support for President Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, describing it as "essentially correct."[16]
Actions in Syria
He visited Hama, where he was cheered by protesters.[17] He met with Hassan Abdul-Azim, and was attacked with eggs and tomatoes by government supporters.[18][19]
