22 Jul: The Hill: The Nation contributor: Trump critics would rather impeach than avoid war with Russia
By John Bowden
A contributing editor for The Nation says that Democrats and Republican critics of the president are letting their dislike of President Trump cloud their judgement on relations with Russia.
Stephen Cohen, who is also a professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, accused Trump’s critics, particularly Democrats, of preferring the possibility of impeaching the president to avoiding war.
“I put it like this: The people that are doing this would prefer to impeach Trump over avoiding war with Russia,” he told host John Catsimatidis on New York’s AM 970 in an interview airing Sunday. “And [Trump’s critics] have become our No. 1 national security threat. They themselves, these ‘Russia-gate’ people.”...
Well both sides need a little history, they seem to have amnesia,” Cohen said. “Since [former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt], every American president without exception has met with the Kremlin leader. More than once sometimes.”
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“And by the way, for the record, every major detente, that is, improvement in relations with Russia, has been led by a Republican president,” he said. “So he is squarely within that tradition.”...
So in my judgement, because the relationship with Russia is so dangerous today, more dangerous than any time in my lifetime ... Trump had no choice. It was the duty of the American president to go meet with Putin, and try and walk back some of these conflicts.”...
Cohen previously criticized media coverage of the joint press conference, calling it “mob violence.”
http://thehill.com/policy/international/398198-the-nation-contributor-trump-critics-would-rather-impeach-than-avoid-war
As promised here are some posts by FReepers on the prior thread which discuss the IC request to POTUS to declassify unredacted texts, Brennan, and Iran:
No_Doll_i
House Intel (GOP) Wants POTUS To DECLASS FISA Application
799 posted on 7/22/2018, 7:34:07 PM by No_Doll_i
ransomnote: Note that No_Doll_i also posted the images of the letter at the last thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3672664/posts?page=848#848
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Steven W.
JOHN BRENNAN JUST DELETED HIS TWITTER HISTORY!
https://twitter.com/johnbrennan
Tweets
45
809 posted on 7/22/2018, 7:52:33 PM by Steven W.
ransomnote: Note that ‘45’ in Steven’s post indicates that Brennan deleted all but 45 of his Twitter history (tweets). Quite a coincidence given Trump is POTUS ‘45’.
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Steven W.
Iran is Next!
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1021234525626609666?p=v
Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump Verified Account
@realDonaldTrump
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
8:24 PM - 22 Jul 2018
825 posted on 7/22/2018, 8:39:41 PM by Steven W.
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StormFlag
Rep. Goodlatte said this morning that they plan to bring Brennan in for testimony now. Maybe that inspired some deleting....but the tweets are probably still out there somewhere...
843 posted on 7/22/2018, 9:18:48 PM by StormFlag (May the Light shine and darkness remove, MAGA)
Re the Hill article. Steven F. Cohan is a weekly guest of John Bachalor on WABC every Tuesday from 10 til 11 EDT. I’ve been listening to him for the last four years. He is married to Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation magazine, not a conservative by any stretch, but since the election of Trump he has been increasingly critical of the Dems tactics. He has totally denounced the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative as pure BS, and dangerous to US/Russian relations, thus to the safety of us all. This is the line he has been spouting for more than a year. This past week, since the Helsinki press conference, he has brought his criticism to a fever pitch on several outlets, including Hannity, Batchalor, and now The Hill. On this topic, he is correct and strange bedfellows aside, a good guy.