Posted on 01/26/2019 1:54:03 PM PST by Ennis85
On Jan. 17, President Trump tweeted: “No ‘Cave’ on the issue of Border and National Security.” Eight days later, he caved, agreeing to reopen the government for three weeks without getting a penny for his border wall. His right-wing allies are spluttering in rage, but they shouldn’t be surprised. This debacle confirms that Trump is not the “ultimate negotiator” he purports to be. He is, in fact, a lousy negotiator. Now he may be on the verge of concluding the worst deals of the century by pulling U.S. troops out of South Korea and Afghanistan in return for empty promises from Kim Jong Un and the Taliban.
Trump is preparing for a second summit at the end of February with Kim even though the North Korean dictator continues to expand, rather than dismantle, his nuclear and missile programs. In his New Year’s address, Kim demanded substantial concessions before he would begin to make good on his vague promises of denuclearization made at the June 12, 2018, Singapore summit. He wants a relaxation of sanctions, an end to U.S.-South Korean military exercises, a peace declaration ending the Korean War and the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons from the region.
National security adviser John Bolton, supposedly a hard-liner, just signaled that the administration may give North Korea what it wants. He told the Washington Times, in an interview published Friday, that “what we need from North Korea is a significant sign of a strategic decision to give up nuclear weapons, and it is when we get that denuclearization that the president can begin to take the sanctions off.” So much for the administration’s previous position that the United States would not relax sanctions until North Korea agreed to “complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization.” Bolton is signaling that in exchange for some “significant
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Kill thousands of Americans? Is that what they're cheering for--all because they hate one man?
The MSM and Hollywood are really twisting this around and crapping on Trump and next round their heads will be exploding again ,LOL
Max Boot: Warmongering fag and vile propagandist.
Who reads The Post? It is not over yet.
Max Boot apparently never reads a book until the end, stopping only when the hero is put in a bad situation.
Idiot.
Go ahead Boot.
Lick the hands and feet of those who would chain you.
Enjoy your 30 pieces of silver.
‘Pod
Max Boot. No need to say more.
He is.
Yeah, easy for us as “keyboard warriors” to say that, and having 99% of your political party stabbing you in the back doesn’t help either. If the shutdown continued through this week the Senate on the Repuke side would be caving in with McConnell’s help, and making deals with Schumer and the RATS. It would of been more than the purported six Repukes who were begging for a deal to be made.
Can’t wait to hear WaPo’s tune in another month.
“He has to learn to wield power. He can start by appointing hard nosed advisors and administrators who actually endorse his agenda. The old globalist generals and the neo cons he trusted did all they could to scuttle his agenda.”
Going to have to agree with you here, somewhere in the neighborhood of 100%. I myself can think of about a dozen people right off the top of my head who wound do the President and the country right.
And send his ‘closest and most trusted advisors’, who are flaming liberals, back to the East side of Manhattan.
I know this: we need to stick together. We need to unleash a barrel of whoopass psy-war on them to counter their constant barrage of false flags. When we join them or cheer them on, we work against the most important causes in history — the Gospel and the Constitution.
MAX ASSHOLE is more like it.
What were you thinking posting this guys junk????
Trump ‘negotiated’ to get enough time to get the SOTU done. After that, back to the shutdown. IOW, negotiate to get your way on the SOTU, and then, do the shutdown again where Nancy and Schumer will be re-thinking their temporary win.
But, Trump is going after a bigger win. He gets to do the SOTU, right around the same time as every year, and then, BOOOM!!!, funds and builds the border wall through the defense department budget and personnel.
President Trump is also negotiating with the GOPe, from almost as far to the right (comparatively) as with the dems. The Rs were ready to openly oppose the President. He is trying to use the legitimate tools of governance so the achievement is harder to undo, unlike Obama’s EOs and executive actions.
Are you against constitutional governance, or are you soding with the libs (dems and GOPe)?
Trump called her bluff, if she does not come with any money for a wall, she will own the next shutdown.
Shhhhhhh. She doesn’t realize it yet. Don’t ruin the surprise.
The best part? They had to call the U.S. Coast Guard, and use one of their cutters to get through the ice, and retrieve all the boats/barges. If it wasn't for my son telling me this in a phone call today, I never would have known about it. He lives in Troy, NY, and it took him 3 hours to get to work yesterday because of all the bridges being closed. I live in Central NY, and the news never got to us.
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