Posted on 02/16/2020 8:11:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Boris Johnson cancelled a planned visit to the White House after a row over China in which President Trump slammed the phone down on him, according to reports.
Prime Minister Johnson was originally due to visit the White House last month following his election win, before postponing the meeting until February.
However, following a heated phone call with the American leader, the Prime Minister has cancelled his trip for fear causing a deeper rift, according to Business Insider.
Donald Trump was said to have been “apoplectic” in his phone call with Johnson while discussing the Briton’s decision to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei help build the United Kingdom’s 5G network, before slamming the phone down on the British leader.
Washington believes Huawei represents a significant security risk, and that Britain’s deal with it will compromise the world-beating Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network which encompasses the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
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Looks like there’s still some leakers and liars to be culled from the NSC
Well, we know what Chinese technology does and is capable of doing. Might as well let them run the country.
I think we’ve had more than enough of Five Eyes as it is.
I’d have slammed the phone on this idiot, too.
So why was it put off last month?
Good for Trump.
And Boris is an idiot.
So a leaker said he slammed the phone? Fake news....although we know we’re not happy with the deal.
“according to reports” = anonymous rumors = fake news ...
Yet another ‘claim’. Just like the liberal’s use of ‘unidentified sources’ and ‘scientists’.
Actually, I suspect the leak would be from the UK side. They have even more problems with people running to the tabloids than we do.
Don’t they do polygraphs anymore?
Boris isn’t an idiot. He wants Chicom cash investments and snubbing them on 5G will scupper that. He’s calculated Trump wants a trade deal above all this year and also that Trump not does not have the political capital to alter Five Eyes now.
Gosh, that “Reports” guy is everywhere but nobody has ever seen him. He’s like an invisible Chicken Man.
While I can't prove it, I suspect he and that Anonymous Source guy are one and the same........
My general impression of Boris Johnson is that he is a boorish thug.
“Claim”, “according to”, “reports”. Wow. Way to do your due diligence, Breitbart. You don’t get more substantive than “according to”. Even your “source”, Business Insider, doesn’t say where it got its info.
Well, they’ve never been not seen at the same time at the same place, so it’s quite possible.
That’s the thing. You don’t have to prove anything these days to be a member in good standing of The Fake News Media. You just write about what somebody else wrote about what they were told about from some nebulous source and you’re automatically a member.
You know, nobody’s ever seen the real Santa Clause yet somehow he has the goods on everyone, thus his naughty and nice list. You don’t suppose..........nah.
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