Trump angst pours in from overseas governments (lobbyists working for foreign govs)

The Hill ^

[quesney]

Lobbyists in Washington say they are being flooded with questions and concerns from foreign governments about the rise of Donald Trump.

Officials around the globe are closely following the U.S. presidential race, to the point where some have asked their American lobbyists to explain, in great detail, what a contested GOP convention would look like.

The questions about Trump are “almost all-consuming,” said Richard Mintz, the managing director of Washington-based firm The Harbour Group, whose client list includes the governments of Georgia and the United Arab Emirates.

After a recent trip to London, Abu Dhabi and Beijing, “it’s fair to say that all anyone wants to talk about is the U.S. presidential election,” Mintz added. “People are confused and perplexed.”

The Hill conducted interviews with more than a half-dozen lobbyists, many of whom said they are grappling with how to explain Trump and his unusual foreign policy views to clients who have a lot riding on their relationship with the United States.

“We’re in uncharted territory here,” said one lobbyist with foreign government clients who asked not to be identified.

“The questions coming from the international community are not different than the things, categorically, we’re asking ourselves,” said Nathan Daschle, the president and chief operating officer of the Daschle Group, a firm run by his father, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).

“There’s an added level of bafflement because this is not the United States that they’ve been living with for so long,” Daschle said. “This is not the image the United States has been projecting.”

The questions about Trump often concern his foreign policy positions.

[tophat9000]

the problem we’re fighting so many “end of us sovereignty” globalist... inside our own country, inside our movement now... even inside this board ....being the useful idiots of globalism

conservative “legalist” ( conservative version of political correctness police) are just as counterproductive as religious “legalist”... they’re blind to the forest for the trees... they follow the notes point-by-point by rote but don’t get the spirit of the music or even understand the song anymore

the war right now is against the end of sovereignty globalization.... that is what detrimental to the American people

[ozzymandus]

So foreign countries and US leftists have the same “concerns” about Trump? That should explain a lot to Cruz supporters.

[Rio]

From some of these countries?...

Foreign aid received in millions of US dollars^[6]

Continent	Country	2012	2013
Asia	Afghanistan	6,725.0	5265.95
Europe	Albania	341.6	298.38
Africa	Algeria	144.5	207.96
Africa	Angola	242.3	287.61
Americas	Antigua & Barbuda	2.3	1.5
Americas	Argentina	178.9	30.12232
Europe	Armenia	272.7	292.76
Europe	Azerbaijan	284.9	-63.13
Asia	Bangladesh	2152.0	2669.1
Europe	Belarus	103.2	104.68
Americas	Belize	25.1	49.55
Africa	Benin	511.3	652.61
Asia	Bhutan	161.2	134.69
Americas	Bolivia	658.6	699.15
Europe	Bosnia-Herzegovina	571.1	550.04
Africa	Botswana	73.8	108.38
Americas	Brazil	1.2	1150.17
Africa	Burkina Faso	1,158.5	1040.11
Africa	Burundi	522.7	546.27
Asia	Cambodia	807.4	804.81
Africa	Cameroon	596.2	737.49
Africa	Cape Verde	246.1	243.37
Africa	Central African Republic	227.2	189.25
Africa	Chad	478.5	399.33
Americas	Chile	125.5	78.52
Asia	China	-194,13	-651,11
Americas	Colombia	764.4	852.03
Africa	Comoros	68.6	81.9
Africa	Congo, Dem. Rep.	2859.3	2572.2
Africa	Congo, Rep.	138.6	150.4
Americas	Costa Rica	32.7	37.77
Africa	Côte d'Ivoire	2,635.6	1262
Americas	Cuba	87.8	101.24
Africa	Djibouti	146.5	152.95
Americas	Dominica	25.6	19.8
Americas	Dominican Republic	261.3	148.13
Americas	Ecuador	149.4	147.8
Africa	Egypt	1,806.6	5505
Americas	El Salvador	230.4	171.3
Africa	Equatorial Guinea	14.2	5.7
Africa	Eritrea	133.7	83.69
Africa	Ethiopia	3,261.3	3,826.2
Oceania	Fiji	107.3	90.9
Africa	Gabon	73.2	90.8
Africa	Gambia	138.8	110.8
Europe	Georgia	662.2	652.7
Africa	Ghana	1,807.9	1,330.5
Americas	Grenada	7.6	10
Americas	Guatemala	299.4	494.1
Africa	Guinea	339.6	499.5
Africa	Guinea-Bissau	98.9	103.6
Americas	Guyana	114.4	101.8
Americas	Haiti	1,275.1	1,170.5
Americas	Honduras	571.5	627.6
Asia	India	1667.63	2435.68
Asia	Indonesia	67.8	53.3
Middle East	Iran	148.8	131.3
Middle East	Iraq	1,300.7	1,541.4
Middle East	Israel	3,070.0	3,150.0
Americas	Jamaica	21.0	70.3
Middle East	Jordan	1,416.9	1,407.9
Asia	Kazakhstan	129.6	91.3
Africa	Kenya	2,654.0	3,236.2
Oceania	Kiribati	64.6	64.4
Asia	North Korea	98.1	109
Europe	Kosovo	567.6
Asia	Kyrgyzstan	472.9	536.6
Asia	Laos	408.9	421
Middle East	Lebanon	710.2	626.4
Africa	Lesotho	282.6	320
Africa	Liberia	570.9	534.2
Africa	Libya	87.0	129.4
Europe	Macedonia	148.9	251.6
Africa	Madagascar	378.6	499.7
Africa	Malawi	1,174.6	1,125.8
Asia	Malaysia	15.3	-119.4
Asia	Maldives	58.0	22.9
Africa	Mali	1,001.3	1,391.3
Oceania	Marshall Islands	76.0	93.7
Africa	Mauritania	408.3	291.2
Africa	Mauritius	177.8	148.3
Americas	Mexico	417.8	560.6
Oceania	Micronesia, Federated States of	115.0	142.9
Europe	Moldova	473.0	374.4
Asia	Mongolia	448.7	428.2
Europe	Montenegro	103.2	127.3
Africa	Morocco	1,480.3	1,966.1
Africa	Mozambique	2,096.9	2,314.1
Asia	Myanmar	504.0	3934.8
Africa	Namibia	264.8	261.7
Asia	Nepal	769.7	870.5
Americas	Nicaragua	532.3	496.6
Africa	Niger	901.8	773.1
Africa	Nigeria	1,915.8	2,529.4
Asia	Pakistan	2019	2174.1
Oceania	Palau	15.0	35.2
Americas	Panama	50.7	6.8
Asia	Papua New Guinea	664.8	656.2
Americas	Paraguay	104.4	129.4
Americas	Peru	393.8	367.5
Africa	Rwanda	878.9	1,081.1
Oceania	Samoa	120.6	118.1
Africa	São Tomé and Príncipe	48.7	51.7
Africa	Senegal	1,080.1	982.8
Europe	Serbia	1,089.8	783.2
Africa	Seychelles	35.3	25.4
Africa	Sierra Leone	442.8	443.7
Oceania	Solomon Islands	304.9	288.3
Africa	Somalia	998.6	991.9
Africa	South Africa	1,067.1	1,292.9
Africa	South Sudan	1,578.0	1,447.4
Asia	Sri Lanka	487.5	423.2
Americas	St. Kitts & Nevis	21.9	29.3
Americas	St. Lucia	26.8	24.3
Americas	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.5	7.5
Africa	Sudan	983.2	1,163.1
Americas	Suriname	39.6	29.8
Africa	Swaziland	88.1	115.9
Middle East	Syria	1,671.5	3,626.7
Asia	Tajikistan	393.9	382.2
Africa	Tanzania	2,831.8	3,430.2
Asia	Thailand	-134.7	-23.7
Asia	Timor-Leste	283.0	257.8
Africa	Togo	241.4	220.5
Oceania	Tonga	78.2	80.3
Africa	Tunisia	1,017.0	713.6
Asia	Turkey	3,033.1	2,740.5
Asia	Turkmenistan	38.0	37.3
Oceania	Tuvalu	24.4	26.6
Africa	Uganda	1,655.1	1,692.5
Europe	Ukraine	769.2	800.7
Americas	Uruguay	19.3	35.7
Asia	Uzbekistan	255.2	292.5
Oceania	Vanuatu	101.4	90.5
Americas	Venezuela	48.1	35.4
Asia	Vietnam	4,115.7	4,084.7
Middle East	Yemen	709.3	1,003.5
Africa	Zambia	957.7	1,142.4
Africa	Zimbabwe	1,001.2	811
AFRICA	[TOTAL]	46,003.5
EUROPE	[TOTAL]	5,439.9
ASIA	[TOTAL]	25,970.5
AMERICAS	[TOTAL]	7,782.4
MIDDLE EAST	[TOTAL]	11,258.7
OCEANIA	[TOTAL]	1,007.4
WORLD	[TOTAL]	97,462.6

[eyeamok]

Now you have an idea just how far the US Welfare Tit extends. WORLDWIDE!

[DoughtyOne]

Trump angst pours in from overseas

The Hill

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3415535/posts

[dsc]

“They know their gravy train is about to end. Piss on them.”

Wish I’d said that.

[CapitalistCrusader]

One of the best reasons to VOTE TRUMP.

[unixfox]

Japan is not listed.

[PA Engineer]

Globalists worldwide crying. Tom Daschle greatly concerned.

They never go away. Daschle? Mr. Negligence in the death of four Indian Health Service doctors? Mr. Negligence who had his wife at the FAA cover it up.

Daschle who's son shut down the conservative shows on Clear Channel.

Yeah. That Daschle.

[LibWhacker]

“There’s an added level of bafflement because this is not the United States that they’ve been living with for so long,” Daschle said. “This is not the image the United States has been projecting.”

Yeah, they thought we LOVED being patsies!

[tophat9000]

That should explain a lot to Cruz supporters.

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you can’t explain anything to a Cruz supporter

they are blindly oblivious to a lot of things they don’t put Priority or weight on things...

it’s like being in a car with someone reading off directions that’s not looking out the window to see which way you’re going ...there just yelling, Left, Right gas, brake,

to them conservatism is lip service to a bunch of checkoff bullet points ....

guy with the closest number of bullet points thier list wins their support

they don’t “weight” the different priorities in that list for conditions at the moment

remind me of my girlfriend and her priorities

the house could be on fire and she be bitching at me about I didn’t put the toilet seat down or put my socks in the hamper

to her it’s all the same..... to me I “weight” my priorities... fire comes first ....screw the toilet seat.... screw the socks

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Oh I’m sure their concerned when his policy is “America First” since the current policy is “America is your buffet, enjoy”

[WMarshal]

I am so sick of the New World order types on this forum. You can tell they’ve become unhinged. None of these guys ever posted this level of invective against Obama. The NWO Freepers are either stupid,uniformed, or they have a vested interest in ripping America off. I used to think that Everyone on Free Republic put America first but this election has outed a lot of people who really should be posting on DU or MoveOn.

I am beginning to understand he disgust that Democrats feel for neocons.

[manc]

You know a man by his enemies and Trump has all the right enemies which tells me why I made the correct decision to vote for Trump.

Notice how no one else is being attacked by the media, establishment, left wing, international groups etc?

Anyone ever seen the establishment too ever fight like this as they are fighting Trump? Me neither.

[manc]

Gravy train coming to an end and it is America first unlike the other people running on both sides.

[Parley Baer]

Sure is. These are the clown that gave Obama a peace prize.

[kempster]

What is the downside of this?

[soycd]

It’s past time for a redneck in the White House ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-nWfTZvuPE&index=26&list=PLuuuAxQbQJ5_z3XQEjPjKCHCEn-pv1s9z

[Jim Robinson]

We may have to negotiate harder for our own interests on a case by case basis with each trading partner. That is a tough one for our government flunkies to deal with.

[Red Steel]

That’s very obvious and Cruz is a bought and very flawed candidate.