Posted on 07/20/2018 11:37:01 PM PDT by be-baw
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) - Facing condemnation from allies and foes alike on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump was outnumbered even in the Oval Office. Top aides gathered to convince the president to issue a rare walk-back of the comments he’d made raising doubts about U.S. intelligence conclusions of Russian election interference as he stood alongside Vladimir Putin.
Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser John Bolton and chief of staff John Kelly stood united in the West Wing on Tuesday in their contention that the commander in chief had some cleanup to do. They brought with them words of alarm from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as well as from a host of congressional leaders and supporters of the president for whom Trump’s public praise of Putin proved to be a bridge too far.
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All I said was that I thought the victim was targeted and not picked at random. If you choose to not consider the motive and call us that do “wing nuts” that’s your prerogative. But it’s clear you’re not someone worthy of serious consideration. Bye now. Have a peachy day.
Oops. Please ignore that last post. It was intended for a different thread. My bad.
Say nothing other than to tell these people to change their wet underwear.
Bolton is the only one of the three that I trust.
Financial Times’ well-bred(?) man in DC, Edward Luce, tries to get Kissinger to loosen his tongue on Trump, and fails. a little on Helsinki, not really critical.
however, I liked this bit.
20 Jul: Financial Times: Henry Kissinger: ‘We are in a very, very grave period’
The grand consigliere of American diplomacy talks about Putin, the new world order - and the meaning of Trump
by Edward Luce
I sense that I am losing my battle to get him on to Trump - or failing to detect his hidden message. Is he saying we are underestimating Trump - that, in fact, Trump mmay be doing us the unacknowledged service of calming the Russian bear? Again, there is a pause before Kissinger answers.
“I don’t want to talk too much about Trump because at some point I should do it in a more coherent way than this,” Kissinger replies... “I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences. I doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident.”...
https://www.ft.com/content/926a66b0-8b49-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543
“I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences...”
Yes the pretences may be given up...but some core realities remain. Take NATO for example. Trump essentially threatens to dismantle it and then all of a sudden the stubborn nations decide to pay up...
They realize, that for whatever reason, they still have a stake in what has been built.
No surprise, because it’s an Associated Press piece. Russians did *not* interfere* with the election. They may have tried, but they didn’t. President Trump was right.
And more likely, they were only trying to accomplish what we see now: chaos, internecine fighting and weakening of American freedoms.
No, I think he does.
Meddled in the most minor and (to the winners) almost inconsequential way. The unseemly fuss over what ought to have been viewed as a diplomatic issue arose from political enmity.
I get bad vices about John Kelly
Bolton, Pence, and Kelly? President Trump’s got to get some others into that inner circle who aren’t totally owned by the war machine.
The walkback means nada. Everyone knows that the FBI has shat itself. And the CIA has been wrong continuously. It is the simply the pregnant bride forgetting to wear her jumper before the wedding they are excited about.
Rank and file Americans now distrust the intelligence community too.
ASSociated Press hit job. True, Trump should have blew away that questioner from the fake media.
BUT, the guy is under CONSTANT scurtin and attacks by the main stream media - DemocRat - RINO cabal. EVERY WORD he utters is flyspecked.
ANYONE who believes Trump is colluding with Putin at this time is an idiot or a leftist.
It NOW that supporters of Trump need to start fighting back against these people on their level.
Liars and hypocrits.
LeMire is the A.P. reporter that asked that last ultimatum question at the Helsinki summit.
Little reminder: EVERYONE thought Reagan “lost” at Reykjavik. George Will, William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review, and almost every major “conservative” thought he lost, let alone the DemoKKKrat press, which all gleefully bought into the notion that Gorby showed RR what’s what.
Three months later: it became clear Reagan won huge at Reykjavik. George Schultz, whom many thought was a RINO (I actually found Schultz to be incredibly supportive in my forthcoming bio of Reagan) said in an NSC meeting that Reagan won virtually all of the concessions at Reykjavik that were the STARTING point for Geneva.
Don’t believe the fake news, even from so-called “conservative” sites. Trump did far better with Pootie-poot than anyone suspects.
>>Rank and file Americans now distrust the intelligence community too.<<
Any rank-and-file Americans who do NOT distrust the intelligence community are either totally ignorant about what these Deep State Trump haters and warmongers are up to, or they are themselves supportive of their seditious activities.
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