Posted on 03/21/2016 10:23:33 AM PDT by dlt
Donald Trump revealed part of his foreign policy advisory team and outlined an unabashedly non-interventionist approach to world affairs during a wide-ranging meeting Monday with The Washington Post's editorial board.
The Republican presidential front-runner listed for the first time five of the individuals who are part of a team, chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies.
You called him an "adviser," implying a member of Trump's advisory team, not that he met with Trump one time 6 months ago along with all the other candidates. You then give a long reply basically demanding that Trump prove he doesn't beat his wife. Your lies are pathetic.
“They stare...but with a peripheral vision of 360 degrees. Kinda like Mom.
And your sixth grade teacher.
and my wife”
Is you’re wife related to mine?
No matter how anyone feels about Trump's various positions, it does appear he has met with Richard Haas, who is the wizard of the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
I am deeply concerned about this because of all the warnings about how the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS corrupted Ted Cruz through his wife who reportedly has some connection to the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Apparently, few Americans know what Haas said to Trump because the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS is keeping the advise, err I mean the discussions, a secret.
But - since this is Trump meeting behind closed doors with the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS everything is fine, just fine.
He met with his "good friend" Haass to discuss what, baseball?
We can dicuss what constitutes an advisor but I would suggest looking up the definition first.
Nothing that I posted is a lie.
And please stop with the juvenile insults, it degrades the forum and surely doesn't win anyone to your side..
HAASS: Well, again, we obviously have areas of, you know, some disagreement, to say the least, on policy. It's pretty well-known, for example, that I'm - I've long been committed to free trade. And even though while it does cost, you know, specific jobs for individual workers, on balance I think it's been a net-plus for the United States. It's created a lot of jobs. It's given consumers a lot more choice. It's driven down inflation. And strategically it has been a major force for peace in the world 'cause it creates economic interdependence. While I would argue we have to do something, particularly in the area of education and training for those workers who have lost jobs, on balance I think that free trade has been in the national interest of the United States. And I think, for example, if we were not to go ahead with the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that has recently been signed, it would raise real questions around the world, again, as to American reliability and predictability."
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470776648/on-foreign-policy-trump-s-campaign-hasn-t-released-names-of-advisers
No matter how anyone feels about Trump's various positions, it does appear he has met with Richard Haas, who is the wizard of the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
You are dumb. Haas goes through great lengths to distance himself from Trump throughout the article and even points out they left disagreeing. You're trying to claim that Trump is secretly in bed with the CFR just because Cruz literally has CFR members working for him, not just meeting with him and then distancing themselves from him in interviews.
You called him an "Advisor." You did not say, "He advised him once and then gave an interview where he distanced himself from Trump and even complained that Trump didn't agree with him on Free Trade." No, you said "He is an advisor," present tense.
You were simply lying by giving only half truths just so you can extricate Ted Cruz who literally has a senior CFR member on his advisory team, and a former CFR member in his bed, who is currently a Vice President of Goldman Sachs.
Let's face it, you're a desperate liar posting this crap.
“Haas goes through great lengths to distance himself from Trump throughout the article and even points out they left disagreeing.”
I knew you would say that.
In fact, I included a pre-buttal in my previous post: “But - since this is Trump meeting behind closed doors with the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS everything is fine, just fine.”
“You were simply lying by giving only half truths just so you can extricate Ted Cruz who literally has a senior CFR member on his advisory team, and a former CFR member in his bed, who is currently a Vice President of Goldman Sachs.”
I hate to say this as much as you hate to hear it, but it does appear Trump has met with Richard Haas, who is the wizard of the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
And both Haas and Trump appear to be sworn to secrecy by some higher power about what was said and agreed to in the behind-closed-door meeting of Trump and the COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.
I’m sure it is nothing to worry about. Probably nothing to worry about.
Anyone know if any of these guys are from Council of Foreign Relations? Carter Page is but how about the rest?
Donald Trump outlined an unabashedly noninterventionist approach to world affairs Monday, telling The Washington Post’s editorial board that he questions the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has formed the backbone of Western security policies since the Cold War.
The meeting at The Post covered a range of issues, including media libel laws, violence at his rallies, climate change, NATO and the U.S. presence in Asia.
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Speaking ahead of a major address on foreign policy later Monday in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Trump said he advocates a light footprint in the world. In spite of unrest abroad, especially in the Middle East, Trump said the United States must look inward and steer its resources toward rebuilding domestic infrastructure.
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“I do think it’s a different world today, and I don’t think we should be nation-building anymore,” Trump said. “I think it’s proven not to work, and we have a different country than we did then. We have $19 trillion in debt. We’re sitting, probably, on a bubble. And it’s a bubble that if it breaks, it’s going to be very nasty. I just think we have to rebuild our country.”
He added: “I watched as we built schools in Iraq and they’re blown up. We build another one, we get blown up. We rebuild it three times and yet we can’t build a school in Brooklyn. We have no money for education because we can’t build in our own country. At what point do you say, ‘Hey, we have to take care of ourselves?’ So, I know the outer world exists and I’ll be very cognizant of that. But at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially the inner cities.”
For the first time, Trump also listed members of a team chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that is counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies: Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz.
Trump praised George P. Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s top diplomat, and was harshly critical of current secretary of state John F. Kerry. He questioned the United States’ continued involvement in NATO and, on the subject of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, said America’s allies are “not doing anything.”
“Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we’re doing all of the lifting,” Trump said. “They’re not doing anything. And I say: ‘Why is it that Germany’s not dealing with NATO on Ukraine? Why is it that other countries that are in the vicinity of Ukraine, why aren’t they dealing? Why are we always the one that’s leading, potentially the third world war with Russia.’ “
Trump said that U.S. involvement in NATO may need to be significantly diminished in the coming years, breaking with nearly seven decades of consensus in Washington. “We certainly can’t afford to do this anymore,” Trump said, adding later, “NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting Europe with NATO, but we’re spending a lot of money.”
Trump sounded a similar note in discussing the U.S. presence in the Pacific. He questioned the value of massive military investments in Asia and wondered aloud whether the United States still was capable of being an effective peacekeeping force there.
“South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do,” Trump said. “We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.”
Asked whether the United States benefits from its involvement in the region, Trump replied, “Personally, I don’t think so.” He added, “I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country, and we are a poor country now. We’re a debtor nation.”
Trump cast China as a leading economic and geopolitical rival and said the United States should toughen its trade alliances to better compete.
“China has got unbelievable ambitions,” Trump said. “China feels very invincible. We have rebuilt China. They have drained so much money out of our country that they’ve rebuilt China. Without us, you wouldn’t see the airports and the roadways and the bridges. The George Washington Bridge [in New York], that’s like a trinket compared to the bridges that they build in China. We don’t build anymore. We had our day.”
Trump began the hour-long meeting by pulling out a list of some of his foreign policy advisers.
“Walid Phares, who you probably know. PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives. He’s a counterterrorism expert,” Trump said. “Carter Page, PhD. George Papadopoulos. He’s an oil and energy consultant. Excellent guy. The honorable Joe Schmitz, [was] inspector general at the Department of Defense. General Keith Kellogg. And I have quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do. But that’s a pretty representative group.”
Trump said he plans to share more names in the coming days.
Kellogg, a former Army lieutenant general, is an executive vice president at CACI International, a Virginia-based intelligence and information technology consulting firm with clients around the world. He has experience in national defense and homeland security issues and worked as chief operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad following the invasion of Iraq.
Schmitz served as inspector general at the Defense Department during the early years of President George W. Bush’s administration and has worked for Blackwater Worldwide. In a brief phone call Monday, Schmitz confirmed that he is working for the Trump campaign and said that he has been involved for the past month. He said he frequently confers with Sam Clovis, one of Trump’s top policy advisers, and that there has been a series of conference calls and briefings in recent weeks.
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Papadopoulos directs an international energy center at the London Center of International Law Practice. He previously advised the presidential campaign of Ben Carson and worked as a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.
Phares has an academic background, teaching at the National Defense University and Daniel Morgan Academy in Washington, and has advised members of Congress and appeared as a television analyst discussing terrorism and the Middle East.
Page, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and now the managing partner of Global Energy Capital, is a longtime energy industry executive who rose through the ranks at Merrill Lynch around the world before founding his current firm. He previously was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focused on the Caspian Sea region and the economic development in former Soviet states, according to his company biography and documents from his appearances at panels over the past decade.
Trump’s meeting with The Post was on the record. An audio recording was shared by the editorial board, and a full transcript will be posted later Monday. Trump was accompanied to the meeting, which took place at The Post’s new headquarters, by his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and spokeswoman, Hope Hicks.
Heidi was not a senior member of the CFR, how was she there to reform the CFR? People don’t join the mafia to reform it.
The Cruz alignment with the Bushes gets closer as Neil Bush is now part of the Cruz team.
How could Cruz run for President when he knows he wasn’t born in the United States?
I DON’T think you EVER have to worry about Trump not making his own decisions he will weigh all the facts BUT he will make the final decisions!!!
Leni
LOL!
Gotta have a little humor now and then.:>)
It's OK if Trump has a member of the CFR on a council of advisors; the other advisors give balance, and a President often tells his advisors to stick their advice in their ear.
But a wife has undue influence on her husband's politics through the "pillow talk" effect. Even Barry Goldwater turned left when he married a sweet young thing...and Rush Limbaugh loves to tell of how the high-ranking GOP donors complain to Rush about the religious right and their stubbornness on abortion: because their wives are complaining at them.
Trump is married to someone from the former Soviet bloc. Hence she is likely to know something of the perils of socialism rather than the supposed glamour.
Trump's current wife, Melania, is a Slovenian-American. Slovenia, being a part of the former Yugoslavia, was not part of the Soviet bloc. It remained independent from the USSR but was still a Communist country, however.
His first wife, Ivanka, was a Czech-American. Czechia (then Czechoslovakia) was a part of the Soviet bloc.
“People don’t join the mafia to reform it.”
Do people make products in Red China to reform and stop other people from making products in Red China?
You can play the speculation game on and on, especially if the goal is to disqualify a candidate by marriage when there is no other, factual basis.
By that reasoning, Trump is disqualified for president because his wife of today is LIKELY deep KGB.
Yes, that sounds kooky because it is kooky. But in today's trumped-up campaign, it passes for normalcy.
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