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Mona Charen: Thank God Trump isn't president right now
triblive.com ^ | March 13, 2022 | Mona Charen

Posted on 04/25/2022 11:47:57 AM PDT by lowbridge

President Biden is not very good at his job, and yet, I thank God every day that Biden is president. In the Ukraine crisis, he has redeemed the hopes of those who voted for competence. The administration’s warnings to Moscow were unambiguous without being hysterical. Our revelations of intelligence unmasking Russian disinformation and false flag narratives were on the nose. Biden’s coordination with European allies was a skillful presentation of unity (special kudos to Secretary of State Antony Blinken).

There were some missed opportunities. The president should have placed the invasion of Ukraine in a broader historical context and outlined how the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism is the defining issue of our time, whether abroad or at home. And he ought not to suggest or pretend that Americans can be spared any hardship, even higher gas prices, during this fight.

But Biden sees clearly what sort of menace Russian President Vladimir Putin is. Only the most obtuse or twisted soul could fail to see it … which brings us to the president’s predecessor.

A quick refresher on former President Donald Trump’s relations with Putin and Ukraine leaves little doubt that far from deterring Putin, he was Putin’s most reliable “useful idiot.”

Trump wasn’t the first president to go soft on Putin, of course. Barack “Tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election” Obama plowed that ground very well. But at least Obama knew what he was doing. He chose diffidence and called it wisdom. Trump was a dupe and a dope, a walking refutation of the adage “you can’t kid a kidder.”

At Trump’s first meeting with Putin, he accepted the Russian’s denials of election interference

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To: lowbridge

The world has turned upside down.

The people I used to think were rational have become crazy and the people who I thought were crazy are now rational.

Strange days indeed.


61 posted on 04/25/2022 1:01:57 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: bray

Mona Charente is a conservative commentator and columnist. I remember reading her work during the Clinton years in the Conservative Chronicle, she was level headed and made sense back then. I don’t know what’s going on now.


62 posted on 04/25/2022 1:02:00 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: lowbridge

She’s more stupid than Bidet.


63 posted on 04/25/2022 1:03:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: telescope115

Bushies and Clintonites were just two sides of the same coin. The only difference was who got to be in the White House at the time.


64 posted on 04/25/2022 1:03:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bray

She peaked in the Reagan years. Liberal Jew who correctly understood the Soviet threat. Irrelevant and toxic since. Neocon.


65 posted on 04/25/2022 1:10:58 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: lowbridge

...cause peace and prosperity for the serfs, sucks.


66 posted on 04/25/2022 1:13:16 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: lowbridge
Biden helped create the crisis in Ukraine! This really shows how clueless Charen is.

Here's a few of the elements that led to the Russian invasion.
*As president, Trump was highly critical of NATO, and was clear about putting limits on their activity, and relieving the US of the security of Europe: Putin did not plan an attack during Trump's administration because there was no threatening rhetoric coming from the US.

*Late last year, as president, Biden made it clear to the Ukraine president that the US would not object to their proposed NATO membership.

*Biden later stated that the US would not respond if there was a "minor incursion" into Ukraine. Even though it was walked back by the White House management team who actually operate the US government. The message was sent that there was not a cohesive opinion against Russian aspirations.

Charen bizarrely gives credit to Biden for awkwardly allowing Russia to invade Ukraine, while dismissing Trump's solid record of suppressing Putin's ambitions.

67 posted on 04/25/2022 1:17:01 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: lowbridge

If Trump were President, THINGS WOULD NOT LIKE THIS!

And, you, you Putz, would have NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT.

Truthfully, I thought she had died.


68 posted on 04/25/2022 1:18:01 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: marktwain
All three alternatives are probably applicable to Charen. Mona Charen knows what is going on with the communist democrat party and that Biden is a puppet for those behind the screen. She, along with Ann Coulter etc. are complicit in aiding the communist democrat party in their efforts to destroy this American Republic. Donald Trump, alone, has used what assets were available to him to expose the width and breadth of the rot and decay of the Republican party that he is trying to save for those who still believe in God, Country,Family,and Freedom. Charen and her RINO ilk will be saved from themselves by Donald J. Trump even tho they should have to suffer for their betrayal of America that has stolen an election, and my vote, and given the demented Joe Biden and his puppeteers the power to destroy this Republic. I refrain, with great effort, from saying what would be inappropriate for this forum, the extent of my wish for those betraying this country. God Bless Donald J. Trump.
69 posted on 04/25/2022 1:19:20 PM PDT by mountainfolk
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To: lowbridge

Mona is Ann Coulter without the long blonde hair worn like a sixteen year old.


70 posted on 04/25/2022 1:20:07 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: lowbridge
...he has redeemed the hopes of those who voted for competence.

Who would that be, the Russians?
71 posted on 04/25/2022 1:21:15 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: lowbridge

“Trump wasn’t the first president to go soft on Putin” ???

Wow! The Democrat Party keeps churning out dumber and dumber morons every day!

Putin walked all over Barack and now is walking all over Biden. But while Trump was President, Putin walked on egg shells and behaved like a good little 2nd world dictator.

I don’t understand how someone as stupid as her has survived to adulthood without drowning in a rainstorm from forgetting to close their mouth!!!


72 posted on 04/25/2022 1:21:39 PM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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To: PortugeeJoe

Her hero, Dumbya, was much softer on Putin.


73 posted on 04/25/2022 1:23:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: telescope115
I remember reading her work during the Clinton years in the Conservative Chronicle, she was level headed and made sense back then.

Yes. I recall once thinking that she might make a good replacement for Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal. She is a childhood friend of the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, and I suspect that Marcus took her over to the dark side.

74 posted on 04/25/2022 1:44:20 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: bray
Who is this?

Back in the 90s Mona Charen passed as a conservative, but when the rubber met the road, she went hard left.

Now she is just plain nutz.

75 posted on 04/25/2022 1:52:40 PM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: lowbridge

Never ever even heard of her.


76 posted on 04/25/2022 2:01:19 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: USS Alaska

Sounds like she will make a great CNN Repub.


77 posted on 04/25/2022 2:02:30 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: lowbridge
President Biden is not very good at his job, and yet, I thank God every day that Biden is president.

Really? Most people don't "thank God every day" for somebody who's "not very good at his job".

Trump was intentionally unpredictable, which is exactly what is needed when dealing with bullies on a grand scale.
78 posted on 04/25/2022 2:10:41 PM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: lowbridge

Mona Charen - because Stupid should hurt.


79 posted on 04/25/2022 2:10:45 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: lowbridge

Another liberal dinosaur I can’t believe is still alive.

She’s the new Helen Thomas.


80 posted on 04/25/2022 3:13:45 PM PDT by simpson96
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