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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Half the people have an IQ below a 100.
RE: 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
There’s something wrong with your senses then. Better go see a doctor while you can.
Yadda yadda yadda leftist infiltrator.
Bertstein? The alcoholic who stole a horse drawn carriage from in front of the Plaza hotel and raced it through Central Park? Still off-the -wagaon? or is it off-the-carriage.
I hope you get better.
I’m sure this is as accurate as anything else Bernstein has written.
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