Posted on 11/13/2020 2:05:31 PM PST by PGR88
Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump” letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America, retiring diplomat Jim Jeffrey is recommending that the incoming Biden administration stick with Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
But even as he praises the president’s support of what he describes as a successful “realpolitik” approach to the region, he acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
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Biden’s group would be fools to trust this man now.
He’s openly saying that he lied to the president he was serving. A serious breech of trust. That being said, I hope they do hire him anyway.
It would serve them right.
Isn’t this called insubordination??
The deep state not only exists, it is winning.
I would say this is scandalous, but it is pretty much par for the course with what Trump has experienced for almost 4 years.
Declassification - a joke. The agencies simply ignore or redact the hell out of everything.
Doing legitimate investigations? a joke. DOJ simply drags their feet as do OIG’s and they issue milquetoast reports with convoluted logic and fewer facts than investigative journalist put in their books published using public records.
Even FDA and other bureaucracies within government are stalling COVID related stuff supposedly.
The solution to this is to order every damn soldier, marine, airman and National Guard man out of Syria 100%. End of discussion.
The President is running out of time to at least make some statement in the form of a purge.
I think of all the things the deep state hated about Trump, his challenging of foreign policy was number 1.
The Trump Saga is a Trilogy.
We just finished the Second Episode.
The Democrats will overplay their hand.
Lying in all its forms has become second nature to all too many politicians of all perspectives. Morals have become passe.
Teach your children.
Call in the secretary of the defense, give him a direct order. 72 hours to have every single American out of Syria. End of the discussion. Zero debate. Treat him like a damn private, Not as a voting member.
How disgustingly sad is this? This decent man wanted to do nothing but do good for this country had everybody from the top to the bottom working against him and trying to sabotage him. An
Just lets you know how much they hate us too.
He was taking his orders from the shadow government/deep state. This guy will get promoted . Well he would have but Donald Trump will get out of this somehow. MAGA!
I hope this evil traitor will receive justice. Actually, I hope the same for quite a few traitors.
Yep.
Nearest wall. That is the only way we are going to get out of this treachery.
Personal note to Jim Jeffrey:
I worked at the Office of Defense Cooperation in Ankara while you were the Ambassador in Turkey. What would you have done if our two star General, along with the rest of us working for him, had lied to you and your staff at the Embassy?
You obviously have a greatly inflated view of your worth to the United States. Only a complete moron would admit to what you’ve done. I sincerely hope we cross paths again - there’s something I forgot to give you the last time we met.
Sorry, Mr. Nevertrumper. Biteme is going to turn the Middle East over to Iran and throw overboard Israel and our Sunni Allies. That is what you idiots have wrought.
Nearest wall. That is the only way we are going to get out of this treachery.
Yep. It’s the bipartisan nature of Never Trumpism that unloosed this plague of insubordination on the nation. The Deep State made a pinata out of POTUS knowing full well there would never be any overnight of their actions.
How disgustingly sad is this? This decent man wanted to do nothing but do good for this country had everybody from the top to the bottom working against him and trying to sabotage him. An
Just lets you know how much they hate us too.
Just elect Perdue and Loeffler in the GA runoffs. That will fix everything. /s
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