{"id":3209,"date":"2018-06-12T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2018-06-12T06:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:55:25","slug":"10jun2018-looking-ahead-to-the-news-week-that-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/12\/10jun2018-looking-ahead-to-the-news-week-that-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"10JUN2018 \u2013 Looking Ahead to the News Week That Will Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camera Girl and I hosted some friends last weekend that we haven\u2019t seen in almost thirty years.\u00a0 Suffice it to say we had a lot of catching up.\u00a0 Kids, grandkids, deaths, relocations, you name it.\u00a0 And we definitely ate too much and stayed up too late.\u00a0 So, I sort of lost rack of events.\u00a0 I knew the G7 was going on and I read that the North Korean summit was coming up but I didn\u2019t really pay much attention to the actual dates.<\/p>\n<p>I come to find out that the G7 is over and the North Korea summit is coming up.\u00a0 So, I watched a clip on CTH \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WC0qDoAE2H4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/WC0qDoAE2H4<\/a>\u00a0 of the President\u2019s press conference after the G7 and in anticipation of the summit.\u00a0 Man, this guy is so much fun.\u00a0 He just bats these idiots in the press around like they\u2019re punching bags.\u00a0 I love the bravado and the shots he takes at his enemies and the pounding away at the message, \u201cthe era of taking advantage of the United States through tariffs is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when one reporter asks him a loaded question, Trump shoots back, \u201cWho do you work for?\u201d\u00a0 When the reporter admits CNN, Trump smirks and says \u201cKnew it, fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, this week we have G7 results, North Korea summit and the report from the DOJ Inspector General.\u00a0 The G7 was an example of pygmies posturing around a giant and not doing a very convincing job of it.\u00a0 Trudeau from Canada made noises as if he were going to put Trump in his place.\u00a0 But instead Trudeau just looked like a three-year-old holding his breath hoping to get his way.\u00a0 With respect to North Korea, Trump was honest and said it was slightly better than fifty-fifty as to outcome.\u00a0 But he seems fine in the knowledge and stresses that just making the effort is a worthwhile thing.\u00a0 Personally, I have no illusions about the reliability of Kim.\u00a0 But I definitely think something positive may develop simply because Trump likes to stir the pot and see what develops.\u00a0 It makes me hopeful that he may interject himself personally into other areas of foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>But the elephant in the room is the IG\u2019s report.\u00a0 At this point expectations have gotten so high that it\u2019s almost inevitable that it will be a let-down.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, anything short of McCabe pointing the finger at Loretta Lynch will feel like the opener rather than the headliner.\u00a0 I mean let\u2019s face it, unless someone pretty big is facing a decade in prison he isn\u2019t going to spill his guts on his bosses.\u00a0 And make no mistake that\u2019s the only thing short of firing that will put Mueller out of business.\u00a0 I think the report is fifty-fifty.\u00a0 It could be dynamite, it could be a nothing burger.\u00a0 If no one is getting arrested (or at least indicted) I\u2019ll consider it a huge disappointment and a major setback for the President\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But just to reiterate, watching a President Trump speech or news conference is incredibly entertaining and encouraging.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said a million times, what we really need is for Trump to name a successor (not Pence) before the end of his term.\u00a0 If we could bottle what he\u2019s got it would make it possible to turn the table on these awful leftists and their endless onslaught against normalcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camera Girl and I hosted some friends last weekend that we haven\u2019t seen in almost thirty years.\u00a0 Suffice it to say we had a lot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,818,245,6],"tags":[26,1136,582,16],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ocf","category-review-of-article","category-trump","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-g7-summit","tag-north-korea","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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