Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House.
Last week, when Trump was in France for the G7 meeting, he told reporters that Chinese officials had reached out to him to ask that trade negotiations be re-opened and that it would happen soon. “They have been hurt very badly but they understand this is the right thing to do and I have great respect for it,” he said. “This is a very positive development for the world. I think we are going to have a deal.”
Shortly after, Chinese officials said they had no idea what the president* was talking about and there had been no high-level calls. It seemed to be just another lie from a guy who would tell you it’s sunny outside during a hurricane.
View the complete September 1 article by Joshua Holland from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.