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Carl Bernstein: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials
CNN ^ | 06/29/2020 | Carl Bernstein

Posted on 06/29/2020 6:00:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.

The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.

These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; carlbernstein; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; foreignaffairs; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; putin; russia; smearmachine; trump
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To: SeekAndFind

“My screed takes on more relevance when I am suckered by a fake news story from the new york times”


41 posted on 06/29/2020 7:05:09 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernstein and his late partner Woodward covered a news story that was a tempest in a pisspot.


42 posted on 06/29/2020 7:06:13 PM PDT by yardboyd (Call me a rose.... or leave me alone.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Carl, you made a career out of reporting on a scandal, Watergate, that in comparison to what the Obama administration and his FBI and CIA have done is extremely insignificant. That said, neither you, nor Woodward, nor any of your liberal brethren in the media have the slightest interest in reporting on it. Aren't you ashamed? If not, you truly should be. If you were a physician, what you and your colleagues are doing would be the equivalent of ignoring resectable colon cancer in favor of removing benign moles.
43 posted on 06/29/2020 7:10:00 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Zhang Fei

Yeah. I really don’t care about deep state bureaucrats and our so-called allies. I care about our country as founded. Carl “the stenographer” Bernstein is so mired in the swamp, he can’t pull the kudzu out of his ass to save his life.


44 posted on 06/29/2020 7:11:32 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: SeekAndFind

Berstein, you’re soooo over. The only people that listen to you are the idiots that watch the faux channels you’re on.


45 posted on 06/29/2020 7:16:16 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: SeekAndFind

“Isn’t Carl Bernstein of WaterGate fame supposed to be the “gold standard” ( note the quotes ) for investigative journalism?”

Yeah, the gold standard if the medals are made of Pyrite.


46 posted on 06/29/2020 7:17:12 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernstein helped start the Russia hoax.


47 posted on 06/29/2020 7:22:40 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: rintintin
From what I’ve heard, JFK also alarmed intelligence officials.<<<

He also alarmed the “Federal Reserve” which is NOT a federal entity but a private Corp and the “Money-changers” of the world when he signed EO 11110.......
DO YOUR OWN DD!!!...you'll be surprised to connect a few dots about his assassination...

48 posted on 06/29/2020 7:33:48 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernstein is a communist. His parents before him.


49 posted on 06/29/2020 7:47:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: SeekAndFind

well if true he sure was dead-on about Theresa May and communist Merkel


50 posted on 06/29/2020 7:47:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw “Bernstein” and thought it was news about Althea? Wrong!


51 posted on 06/29/2020 8:00:37 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: M-cubed

Why has Trump delayed releasing the JFK documents. The release is now like 2 years overdue


52 posted on 06/29/2020 8:26:52 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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To: Secret Agent Man

This thread needed a BARF alert at the top!


53 posted on 06/29/2020 8:41:10 PM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith. Come quickly, Jesus)
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To: SeekAndFind

What absolute bull shi*. The integrity-free corrupt losers at cnn are malignancies in our society .


54 posted on 06/29/2020 9:11:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: SeekAndFind

Remember, the author of this article is Carl Bernstein, the proud “Rad Diaper Baby” of two hardcore Communist Party members (by his own admission and description).

This is one “red” I wouldn’t trust with our freedom.


55 posted on 06/29/2020 9:47:33 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: SeekAndFind

FU Carl


56 posted on 06/29/2020 10:31:02 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: SeekAndFind
outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin

Gee, and here I thought Putin grabbed Crimea under Obama. I guess I must have been dreaming.

57 posted on 06/29/2020 11:49:24 PM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm living in a bizarro world !biaroord
58 posted on 06/30/2020 12:00:22 AM PDT by timestax
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To: SeekAndFind

The last big story that this guy broke was Watergate. He’s been coasting on that for the past 50 years. How many interviews with the reporters who wrote about the Teapot Dome scandal did you see during the wall to wall Watergate coverage in 1973?


59 posted on 06/30/2020 12:53:33 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ah, I see I was correct about you. Thanks for the confrimation and yes radical leftist infiltrators like you can be spotted a mile away.


60 posted on 06/30/2020 1:44:22 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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