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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Wasn’t sorry for tweets I directed to him over the years countering his falsehoods, and I’m extra glad for the times I called his lies out now.
As a Democrat, he will receive no jail time. He’s rubbing his treason in America’s face and laughing at us.
This is mental. An “envoy” just flat-out admitting he and his cronies in the diplomatic-military complex flat LIED to the President of the United States so they could short-circuit his express order and do what THEY wanted. And he’s bragging about it publicly!
See my tagline for the solution.
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2016 was “A New Hope”, 2020 is “The Empire Strikes Back”, I’m pessimistic we see “Return of the Jedi”.
I think the Democrats are more vulnerable than you realize.
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