Don warns against outsourcing Says Russia dossier on him is fake; will build Mexico wall
New York, Jan. 11: President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked US companies who ship jobs offshore, singling out the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices and for manufacturing overseas.
Mr Trump said US companies relocating production offshore are “getting away with murder” and warned their products will be hit with hefty taxes if imported into the United States.
“There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder,” he said at his first press conference after winning the election.
He also denounced the publishing of claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked US intelligence agencies over the leak of the information. “I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out there...,” he said.
MEXICO WILL reimburse US for the cost of border wall. US FIRMS that send jobs abroad will pay major border tax. HAVE TURNED over ‘complete’ control of business to my sons. IF Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what folks, that’s called an asset, not a liability. INTELLIGENCE agencies should never have allowed this fake news to “leak” into the public. Are we living in Nazi Germany?
New York, Jan. 11: President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked US companies who ship jobs offshore, singling out the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices and for manufacturing overseas.
He called the dossier that makes salacious claims about him “fake news” and “phony stuff.”
“I think it’s a disgrace ... That’s something that Nazi Germany would have done,” he said.
Mr Trump acknowledged that Russia likely hacked the Democratic National Committee and the emails of other top Democrats during the 2016 presidential election, but defended his goal of better ties with Moscow.
“If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability,” Trump told about 250 reporters jammed into the lobby at his New York offices.
Mr Trump vowed to forge ahead with plans for a wall on the southern US border after taking Washington, Jan. 11: US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday faced explosive claims that Russian intelligence gathered compromising information on him which the Kremlin dismissed as fake and aimed at damaging ties.
Mr Trump denounced a report circulating in US media with damaging claims over his personal and professional life as a “political witch hunt” as he was set to hold his first news conference in nearly six months on Wednesday.
Russia denied the claims, with President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling journalists: office, and said Mexico would reimburse the United States for the cost. “I could wait about “The Kremlin does not have compromising information on Trump.” He called the dossier a “total fake” and “an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations.”
Buzzfeed had published, without corroborating its contents, a 35page dossier of memos , which had been circulating in Washington for months. — Agencies a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico, which we’ll start immediately after we get to office, but I don’t want to wait,” Trump told a news conference.
“We’re going to start building,” he said.
Regarding jobs, Mr Trump said: “We’re going to create jobs. I said that I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created. And I mean that.”
Mr Trump also outlined how he will aim to avoid any conflicts of interest when he steps into the White House.
His lawyer, Sheri Dillon of Morgan Lewis, told reporters that he will resign from the Trump Organisation and hand over management to his sons, Don Jr and Eric.
When asked about his tak returns, the President-elect said: “I’m not releasing the tax returns because they’re under audit ... The only people that care about my tax returns is the reporters ... I won. I became president. I think you care. First of all you learn very little from tax returns.”