Posted on 11/10/2024 5:54:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The incoming president and his foreign policy players will soon confront a world on fire. There is a land war in Ukraine, which Trump has promised to end even before taking the oath of office. The president-elect has also vowed to bring peace to the Middle East by bringing the Israel-Gaza conflict to a close. Across the globe, meanwhile, an increasingly aggressive China threatens Western interests.
Dealing with those challenges will begin by naming a top diplomat to take over the State Department, which Lee described in an interview with RealClearPolitics as a bureaucratic “can of worms.” Grenell is particularly suited to that kind of work, added South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, because he “knows where the bodies are buried.”
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For his part, Grenell has never strayed from Trump’s orbit. “I could be wrong,” said a former senior Trump official granted anonymity because they are also being considered for a role in the next administration, “but I think the job is probably his.”
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“If you want to avoid war, you better have a son of a bitch as the secretary of state,” Grenell told the “Self Centered” podcast earlier this year. America needs a “tough” chief diplomat, he added, “who goes in to these tables and says: ‘Guys, if we don’t solve this here, if we don’t represent peace and figure out a tough way, I’ve got to take this file, go back to the United States and transfer it to the secretary of defense, who doesn’t negotiate. He’s going to bomb you.’”
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Please not Mike Pompeo.
First female CoS and first, as far as I know, openly gay SoS?
Pompeo and Haley have been ruled out. Hopefully, Barr will be too.
Don Jr says he’s on the committee for appointments just to make sure the wrong type don’t slip in.
Trump made it clear yesterday Pompeo and Hailey will not be part of his admin.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-rules-two-gop-stalwarts-joining-his-administration-inviting
It didn’t seem like Pence did Trump any favors with regards to appointments after the 2016 election. I would like to think Vance will be a much better advisor in this regard.
I, for one, don’t care who he sleeps with as long as it’s not a national security issue.
But I do know Grenell would scare the excrement out of David Lammy.
I’d really enjoy seeing that.
“Temp Allies”
They think we are at war
It’s not ever going to let up. They act like they won. No matter what happens from here out.
Barr?? Would he be under consideration for anything other than the guy that takes out the garbage?
Good choice. Loyal and competent.
Sounds like he's describing Bannon
“Please not Mike Pompeo.”
Trump has no reason to keep the other side close this term. He knows thes people by now.
Barr absolutely no way.
Trump allies.
LOLOLOLOL
Just a thought on the China/Taiwan item.
China wants TaiSuppose the US nationalizes all of China’s business interests and property holdings in the US?
NO NO NO. He is gay. He is NOT going to take down the pride flags off of our embassies. He does not represent America and anyone that Linda Grahamesty recommends is the wrong choice.
Grenell would make a great SOS. He proved his chops as Trump’s ambassador to Germany the first time around. He was very hard nosed on them in sync with Trump’s Western Europe as US parasitic leeches view of the western Europe
He is extremely competent.
With respect to his homosexuality, the Biden and Obama Administrations have created such a deficit of competency in all areas of our lives that we would welcome nearly ANY competent person with open arms.
Fortunately, if he is chosen, he wouldn’t be shoehorned into some stunted version competency...I think he would still rise to the top of any competency level we set.
Yes. Agree. Put Barr on bench with Rove and they can doodle with each other on a whiteboard.
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