Posted on 06/29/2020 6:00:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America's principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials -- including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff -- that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.
The calls caused former top Trump deputies -- including national security advisers H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as intelligence officials -- to conclude that the President was often "delusional," as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders. The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.
These officials' concerns about the calls, and particularly Trump's deference to Putin, take on new resonance with reports the President may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan -- and yet took no action.
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“My screed takes on more relevance when I am suckered by a fake news story from the new york times”
Bernstein and his late partner Woodward covered a news story that was a tempest in a pisspot.
Yeah. I really don’t care about deep state bureaucrats and our so-called allies. I care about our country as founded. Carl “the stenographer” Bernstein is so mired in the swamp, he can’t pull the kudzu out of his ass to save his life.
Berstein, you’re soooo over. The only people that listen to you are the idiots that watch the faux channels you’re on.
“Isn’t Carl Bernstein of WaterGate fame supposed to be the “gold standard” ( note the quotes ) for investigative journalism?”
Yeah, the gold standard if the medals are made of Pyrite.
Bernstein helped start the Russia hoax.
He also alarmed the “Federal Reserve” which is NOT a federal entity but a private Corp and the “Money-changers” of the world when he signed EO 11110.......
DO YOUR OWN DD!!!...you'll be surprised to connect a few dots about his assassination...
Bernstein is a communist. His parents before him.
well if true he sure was dead-on about Theresa May and communist Merkel
I saw “Bernstein” and thought it was news about Althea? Wrong!
Why has Trump delayed releasing the JFK documents. The release is now like 2 years overdue
This thread needed a BARF alert at the top!
What absolute bull shi*. The integrity-free corrupt losers at cnn are malignancies in our society .
Remember, the author of this article is Carl Bernstein, the proud “Rad Diaper Baby” of two hardcore Communist Party members (by his own admission and description).
This is one “red” I wouldn’t trust with our freedom.
FU Carl
Gee, and here I thought Putin grabbed Crimea under Obama. I guess I must have been dreaming.
The last big story that this guy broke was Watergate. He’s been coasting on that for the past 50 years. How many interviews with the reporters who wrote about the Teapot Dome scandal did you see during the wall to wall Watergate coverage in 1973?
Ah, I see I was correct about you. Thanks for the confrimation and yes radical leftist infiltrators like you can be spotted a mile away.
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