Trump appointing Whitaker just one example of his Unconstitutional Actions…There are lawsuits being filed claiming installing that new acting AG is unconstitutional, which require urgent rulings, since as we speak Whitaker could be doing or planning some serious damage to undermine the Russia probe. A Dem House can oversee things come January, but plenty of destruction could take place in the meantime. The president doesn’t seem to mind doing things that are unconstitutional, so we can’t put anything past what he might try doing, or the ramifications of some wink-wink arrangement he made with Whitaker. We just found out Trump had previously sought to illegally prosecute Hillary & Comey, only displaying how lawlessly dangerous he is!
From an interview over the weekend, Trump dished out some more whoppers. He claimed he knew nothing of Whitaker’s prior statements ripping the Mueller probe: trump-whitaker-fox-wallace-mueller-russia & also trump-claims-with-a-straight-face-that-he-didnt-know-about-whitaker-had-criticized-mueller-probe. Truth be known, it’s the whole reason Trump appointed him as acting AG. And despite the happy talk, Whitaker is there for one reason & one reason only, to stymie Mueller.
Another big lie from that interview was Trump saying he easily answered the written questions from Mueller by himself, that he didn’t need the help of his lawyers. Those answers were just turned into Mueller. But everything the prez says is not based on reality, it’s only a cold calculation on what narrative can make him look good. And Trump is very good at it, since he built his whole career of being a con man based on his pathological lying.
So the one thing Trump was honest about is in the next links, that he won’t intervene if Whitaker takes steps to limit the Mueller probe: trump-chris-wallace-interview-mueller-fox-news-russia-matthew-whitaker & also trump-says-he-wouldnt-stop-matt-whitaker-from-limiting-mueller-probe. Off course, that would be unconstitutional & a deliberate attempt to hide the truth from Congress & the American people, bringing on a full-fledged constitutional crisis! Trump also alluded to the probe as wasting enough time & that we’re finished, so it’s seems clear what his marching orders are to Whitaker. The prez thinks he’s above the law & has unleashed his henchman to stop the investigation in its tracks. Preserving the rule of law demands we not let that happen!
The Federal Vacancies Act is open to interpretation, with no prior precedent/ruling on it in a court case on who might be eligible as a temporary replacement for a position such as AG. This is an urgent matter, so 3 Dem Senators filed a lawsuit that the Whitaker appointment was unconstitutional, since he has never been confirmed by the Senate for any role in the cabinet: senate-democrats-challenge-matt-whitakers-appointment-as-acting-attorney-general-in-federal-court.
Other reports on this lawsuit are listed here by news source & article title (in bold), which you could do a copy & paste to search for any of these. There’s a NY Times article among these showing how Trump has always sought to use the DOJ as his own personal gestapo, going relentlessly after his opponents! It’s banana republic stuff! So our American President wants to act more like a fascist dictator:
The damage could be happening secretly behind the scenes: washingtonpost/if-matthew-whitaker-hinders-the-mueller-inquiry-would-we-even-know
Followed the forced resignation of Sessions: washingtonpost/senate-democrats-sue-to-block-trumps-acting-attorney-general-matt-whitaker
Rubin knows this suit is critically important: washingtonpost/another-critical-lawsuit
Installing Whitaker flagrantly defies constitutional law: politico/senate-democrats-sue-block-whitaker
Whitaker an unconfirmed lackey whose appointment was illegal and unconstitutional: usatoday/senate-democrats-matthew-whitaker
Even right-wing media makes mention of it: newsmax/us-trump-whitaker
We do need to check on this guy: investigaterussia/schumer-requests-whitaker-investigation
A separate Maryland case: huffingtonpost/matthew-whitaker-supreme-court-acting-attorney-general
Tainted partisan hack: washingtonpost/conservative-nonprofit-with-obscure-roots-and-undisclosed-funders-paid-matthew-whitaker-12-million
Proof the prez wants to use the DOJ to go after his political enemies, in this case Hillary & Comey: nytimes/president-trump-justice-department
Click on this link to see a video of an ad: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-attacked-over-acting-attorney-061542232.html
House Dems to the Rescue!
The election this month which will give the House majority to the Dems may have literally saved our constitutional democracy from an autocratic demagogue. If acting AG Whitaker pulls any stunts to hamper Mueller, as both he & Trump are itching to do, they’d have the House investigative committees to answer to. If the GOP had kept their House majority, there’d be little left to effectively check Trump’s lawlessness. Another plus are 3 dozen sealed indictments that are waiting in the wings in court, presumably providing evidence of crimes for those involved in the Trump campaign just waiting to be unleashed.
Look at this Schitt
Inside the next links, see the crude remarks Trump made in tweets where he’s dishing out more schitt. The schitt’s going to hit the fan when the schitt rains down on Trump’s parade when Adam Schiff becomes chairman of the intelligence committee. Jerry Nadler on the judiciary committee is also one who won’t be putting up with Trump’s schitt, so together these two committees can get to the bottom of Trump’s wide array of criminal activities & pile of schitt: trump-tweet-adam-schiff & also donald-trump-adam-schiff-twitter-little-adam-schitt-democratic-congressman-house-intelligence-committee. These are more clear signs to the American people our liar-in-chief is full of schitt!
Mueller Ready to Pounce?
Just don’t mess with Mueller: majority-of-americans-says-congress-should-protect-mueller-poll. Here’s an article describing Trump has concern for sonny-boy jr, but even more so he’s worried about his own fate: vanity-fair-reporter-trump-worried-don-jr-will-get-indicted-not-reason-might-think. And those sealed indictments are a fascinating mystery, since we don’t know whose names are on them, with these excerpts being the beginning & ending to dozens-sealed-criminal-indictments-dc-docket-mueller:
More than three dozen sealed criminal indictments have been added to the federal court docket in Washington, D.C. since the start of 2018. Sealed criminal court files are assigned a case number, but do not indicate the identity of the parties or the nature of the charges, so it is impossible for the public to discern what those sealed cases contain. But several legal experts told ABC News the number of sealed cases awaiting action right now is unusual. Fourteen were added to the docket since late August alone, a review by ABC News has found, just as the midterm elections were drawing near and longstanding Justice Department policy precluded prosecutors from taking any public action that could appear to be aimed at influencing political outcomes. And the inadvertent discovery on Thursday night of what appear to be secret charges pending against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has drawn fresh attention to the mystery. Legal experts told ABC News that the sealed cases could be tied to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possibly part of a quiet effort to protect his investigation from any premature effort to shut it down. “I assume that Mueller knew that once the election was over, there could be an existential threat to his investigation,” said Matthew Miller, a former senior Justice official under former Attorney General Eric Holder. “He knew the best thing to do was act before that.”
And there was good reason, Miller said, for Mueller to lock in charges before the midterms. Mueller can only indict someone with the approval of the Attorney General, and once the indictments have been approved and filed, any effort to withdraw charges would involve a judge. At the time, those approvals fell to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein because Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the Russia matter. But President Trump had sent strong signals he planned to replace Sessions after the elections with someone who might be more willing to curtail the probe into Russian election interference and possible collusion. The day after the elections, Trump appointed acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who has previously denounced the Mueller probe. A Justice Department spokeswoman said this week that Whitaker “is fully committed to following all appropriate processes and procedures at the Department of Justice, including consulting with senior ethics officials on his oversight responsibilities and matters that may warrant recusal.” “You can’t prevent a new AG from blocking new indictments,” Miller said. “But if you were ready to move on cases, you could return a bunch of indictments under seal. If the stumbling block is approval from Mueller’s supervisors, you get that approval while you still have a supervisor who approves of your work.”
Nixon looks like a Choir Boy
Yes, it does appear in comparing Russiagate to Watergate, Trump is indeed worse than Nixon. Our current prez doesn’t adhere to any standard protocol, while lacking any sense of awareness or shame. As I’ve said, his actions are unconstitutional in thinking he’s above the law! See this beginning to the article inside trump-worse-nixon
When President Richard Nixon decided in late October 1973 to force out the attorney general and replace him with someone who would fire the special prosecutor haunting his life, he went through the chain of command until he got to the third person in line, the solicitor general, who did the deed. Now here we are again, with another president wanting to be rid of an investigation by a special counsel that threatens his presidency. But rather than follow the regular order, as Nixon had, President Trump selected as acting attorney general a lackey who had been chosen as chief of staff to the attorney general because of his TV appearances as a private citizen in which he echoed the president’s position on the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. Among other things, he’d parroted Mr. Trump’s obsessive line, “There was no collusion.” It has been broadly assumed that this man would, one way or another, end the special counsel’s investigation. Whether, as some legal scholars argue, Mr. Trump’s choice was unconstitutional, since the new acting attorney general has never been confirmed by the Senate, or was simply unwise since his choice was blatantly self-serving, the differences in the ways the two presidents have approached getting rid of an inconvenient prosecutor are informed by their different backgrounds.
Don’t Forget, it was the Obstruction which brought down Nixon
Obstruction of Justice is a big deal & has been out there in plain sight: trump-obstruction-justice-russia-mueller-ex-fbi-counsel-james-baker. When he speaks off the cuff, he often becomes like an obstruction machine, as explained in this opening statement from trumps-crazy-crafty-strategy-discredit-everybody-until-nobody-believes-anything-anymore:
If there’s one thing you might have thought Donald Trump has learned in the past two years it’s that it was a huge mistake to go on TV with Lester Holt and admit that he was thinking about the Russia investigation when he decided to fire FBI Director James Comey. Recall that Trump was just rambling, in his stream-of-consciousness mode, when he just blurted it out without prompting. That revealing statement was not only what precipitated the appointment of Robert Mueller, it was also one of the most compelling pieces of evidence that Trump was trying to obstruct justice when he fired Comey — an apparent confession of intent. Trump has said and done hundreds of stupid things during his tenure, but that one really stands out as the blunder of all blunders. Oops, he did it again. This week, in the midst of what observers everywhere are characterizing as a meltdown, Trump gave an interview to the Daily Caller in which he was asked if he had come up with any names for the permanent attorney general appointment, and whether Chris Christie had come up. Trump replied that his acting AG, Matt Whitaker, is highly respected in the Department of Justice and that he got a “very good decision” affirming that Whitaker’s appointment was legal. Then he said:
I knew him only as he pertained, you know, as he was with Jeff Sessions. And, you know, look, as far as I’m concerned this is an investigation that should have never been brought. It should have never been had.
It’s something that should have never been brought. It’s an illegal investigation. And you know, it’s very interesting because when you talk about not Senate confirmed, well, Mueller’s not Senate confirmed.
Nobody had mentioned Russia or the Mueller investigation. The question wasn’t even about Whitaker. Just as he blurted out his intent when asked why he fired James Comey, he blurted out his intent when he was asked about the attorney general. He doesn’t have the mental discipline not to reveal his motive for firing or hiring anyone when it comes to the Russia probe. If one didn’t know better one would think he is subconsciously begging to be indicted for obstruction of justice. In any other administration, Whitaker would never have been chosen because of the obvious appearance of bias. He spent months trashing the investigation and declaring the president innocent of all charges. Indeed, it’s obvious that was the reason he was hired. At this point no one knows whether ethics advisers in the DOJ have been asked to weigh in on Whitaker’s possible conflict of interest, in that he worked closely with Sam Clovis, a subject of the investigation. Even so, the consensus seems to be that Whitaker can simply refuse to recuse himself even advised that he should. After what happened with Sessions, Whitaker recusing himself is about as likely as Donald Trump shaving his head. For all we know, Whitaker has been read into the investigation and has already been on the horn with Trump, sharing all the details. That might very well explain Trump’s thought process in that moment. It would also explain why for the first time in weeks Trump fired off a volley of tweets about Mueller that are even more hysterical than usual.
Search for these Palmer articles if you dare
I rarely ever post stuff from the Palmer Report, since they’re way to the far-left & tend to be conspiratorial in nature (but not to the same degree of the right-wing echo). But I like to peek as sort of a guilty pleasure, so if you’re curious, you can do a copy/paste & peek too:
palmerreport/yes-2016-rigged-closer-confirm
palmerreport/quitter-donald-trump-is
palmerreport/hillary-comey-trump-did-what?
Ivanka, How Could You?
The projected House Dem investigative plate overfloweth. Will the crowds at the Trump rallies chant lock her up for a new target? After all the hullabaloo over Hillary sending personal emails for government business, we now find out Ivanka has been caught doing the same thing. After her daddy used that indiscretion as a main campaign talking point against Hillary, how tone deaf & hypocritical would someone have to be to commit those same sins?: but-her-emails. The whole family plays by its own rules with zero ethics: ivanka-trump-used-personal-email-account-official-white-house-business-crooked-hillary-clinton.
Attacking an American Hero
This bozo of a prez can’t handle criticism & keeps punching down against his constituents who’d dare voice their opinions & concerns. This Navy Seal hero correctly called Trump’s attacks on the free press a threat to democracy, which Trump couldn’t leave it alone & took pot shots back at him: trump-bin-laden-navy-seal-fox-news-interview. McRaven while in charge of special ops oversaw the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound & the capture of Saddam Hussein. The heroism, character, smarts & accomplishments of a man like McRaven is in stark contrast to a moral degenerate like our president, so by comparison it truly makes Trump look like an inferior species.
But this true American hero must not be a hero in the president’s eyes, much like Trump didn’t think McCain was a hero because he got captured. If you’ll recall, Trump also had denigrated a Gold Star family. How can any American with an IQ that exceeds their age still support this jerk of a president? There is no logical explanation, other than I reason it must be propelled by the supernatural powers of an evil cult. More articles on these ridiculous & tone deaf comments about McRaven are listed here which you could search (since our blog limits the number of live links):
motherjones/trump-osama-bin-laden-fox-mcraven-navy-seal
thinkprogress/donald-trump-osama-bin-laden-fox-news-pakistan-navy-seals-chris-wallace-william-mcraven
mashable/donald-trump-bill-mcraven-adam-schiff-twitter-schitt
msn/patently-ridiculous-former-top-intel-officials-hit-back-at-trump-after-criticism-of-bin-laden-raid
washingtonpost/trump-attacks-retired-navy-admiral-for-not-capturing-osama-bin-laden-faster
washingtonpost/i-served-under-commanders-chief-trump-doesnt-grasp-role
washingtonpost/why-trump-cant-stop-personally-attacking-military-veterans
washingtonpost/republicans-used-to-vilify-presidents-who-disrespected-the-military
Clueless on International Matters
Yes, we need to find a way to curtail the North Korea & Iran nuclear programs which could precipitate a suicidal nuclear proliferation throughout the world, truly the greatest existential threat we face: nick-bostrom-vulnerable-world-global-catastrophic-risks. And yes, NATO should chip in more for their mutual defense. Plus China should stop manipulating conditions giving their industries unfair built-in trade advantages. Our president has perfected the routine of being a bull in a china shop, destroying old arrangements. So while Trump has tipped over the applecart in wrecking established norms, there are yet no signs of him orchestrating a better applecart. These excerpts come fromtrumps-trip-europe-disaster-not-because-he-was-boorish-bully:
In the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s latest exhibition of diplomatic clumsiness, it might be tempting to conclude that he just doesn’t understand anything about international affairs. On his recent visit to Europe, he managed to convey once again his contempt for America’s European allies, and to demonstrate that he places more value on his own personal comfort than on the sacrifices that US soldiers have made in the past. The trip itself cost millions of taxpayer dollars, yet Trump chose to skip a key ceremony honoring US war dead at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery because it was raining. The White House offered up a cloud of unconvincing excuses for Trump’s absence, but other world leaders were not deterred by the fear of a few raindrops, and neither were past presidents Obama, Clinton, Bush, or Kennedy back in their day. By choosing to stay warm and dry in his hotel room while other world leaders acknowledged the heroism of those who fought and died for freedom, Trump gave the concept of “American exceptionalism” a whole new meaning.
And then, instead of marching with other European leaders at a ceremony marking the end of World War I, Trump showed up late and on his own and even missed the symbolic tolling of a bell marking the 100th anniversary of the 1918 armistice. (In a revealing coincidence, Vladimir Putin arrived on his own as well.) Overall, Trump seemed intent on proving that while the obligations of being president might force him to go on such trips, he doesn’t have to behave himself while he’s there. In theory, there’s a difference between being boorish and clueless — and, when it comes to diagnosing international problems, there’s evidence that Trump’s not the latter. For example, Trump is correct to accuse China of engaging in a variety of predatory trade practices and of failing to live up to its World Trade Organization commitments. He is also right when he complains that Europe has neglected its own defenses and relies too much on American protection (though he still seems to think NATO is a club with membership dues). For that matter, Trump wasn’t wrong to see North Korea’s nuclear and long-range missile programs as a serious problem that called for creative diplomacy.
The real problem is that Trump has no idea what to do about any of these issues, and he seems incapable of formulating a coherent approach to any of them. To the extent that he does have an actual policy toward Europe, for example, it is the exact opposite of what the United States ought to be doing. This approach might be termed “Neanderthal realism.” Playing “divide and rule” is a good idea when dealing with real enemies, but it makes no sense to sow division among countries with whom one has generally friendly relations and close economic ties, and when their collective support might be needed in other contexts. A Europe roiled by xenophobia, resurgent hyper-nationalism, and persistent internal wrangling wouldn’t be to America’s advantage; it would be just another problem area we’d have to keep an eye on. Nor would a divided Europe be of much use in addressing any of the other problems on America’s foreign-policy agenda. Why doesn’t Trump see this? Possibly because he is reflexively relying on the same tactics that brought him to the White House.
The problem, of course, is that the boorish behavior and conflict-stoking policies tend to backfire on the world stage. Trump’s bullying bluster didn’t win big trade concessions from Canada, Mexico, or South Korea; the shiny “new” trade deals Trump negotiated with them were nearly identical to the old arrangements and in some ways inferior to them. And given how Trump has treated America’s allies, why would May, Merkel, Macron, Abe, or Trudeau do him (or the United States) any favors? The declining US image abroad compounds this problem, as foreign leaders know their own popularity will suffer if they help Trump in any way. Trump’s personal conduct is not even the biggest problem. Arguably, an even bigger issue is the strategic incoherence of his entire transactional approach. His overarching objective is to try to screw the best possible deal out of every interaction, but this approach instead makes it more difficult for the United States to achieve its most important foreign-policy goals.
Threatening trade wars with allies in Europe or Canada makes little sense from a purely economic perspective, for example, and it has made it harder for the United States to address the more serious challenge of China’s trade policies. If Trump were as worried about China’s trade infractions as he claims to be, he would have lined up Europe, Japan, and other major economic actors and confronted China with a united front. Similarly, pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and threatening allies with secondary sanctions not only raises doubts about America’s judgment (because the deal was working, and the Europeans know it); it just fuels further resentment at America’s shortsighted bullying. One of the challenges in dealing with the Trump presidency is seeing beyond the president’s bizarre, deceitful, and frequently alarming antics because they invariably dominate the news cycle, light up social media, and distract us from whatever he did last week.
It is increasingly clear that Trump was never the brilliant businessman he claimed to be; he got most of his wealth from his father using various shady tax dodges, and the Trump Organization may have been heavily dependent on illegal activities like money laundering. But Trump was a legitimate reality TV star, and he clearly understands how to manipulate an image, shape perceptions, and command public attention. The lesson? We should focus less on his personal antics and inadequacies and focus more on his inability to formulate effective policies, even on issues where his instincts are in fact mostly correct. Sadly, the 45th US president possesses a world-class ability to get things wrong, even when he’s right.
More Unconstitutional Moves?
Trump is excusing the brutal murder of a respected journalist & American resident in favor of a business deal. And Trump is choosing the legitimacy of dictators over the lives of journalists. There’s no understating how dangerous this precedent might be! Sounds like something a dictator sure would do, as seen in excerpts from trump-administration-is-trying-hard-not-blame-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggis-death:
It has been abundantly clear from day one that President Trump does not want to blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death. Trump has even said as much: “I hope that the king and the crown prince didn’t know about it,” he said Oct. 17. Even as Trump has occasionally offered tough words, none of it pointed to the top, and most everything Trump has said has offered an alternative narrative that doesn’t implicate Mohammed. That wishful thinking now meets reality, but Trump appears primed to doubt his own intelligence community and/or fail to act upon its conclusions on an issue of huge international import. Again. The Washington Post reported late Friday that the CIA now has high confidence that Mohammed personally ordered the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist and former ally of the Saudi royal family who became a critic. This contradicts the official Saudi explanation, which is that Mohammed’s deputies merely ordered the repatriation of Khashoggi and the team sent to Istanbul instead killed him. The situation — and Trump’s position in it — now carries eerie parallels to the Russia investigation. The U.S. intelligence community concluded Russia interfered in the U.S. election and favored Trump, but Trump has spent most of his presidency publicly casting doubt on this and resisting punitive measures. His administration has still punished Russia. But Trump, whose personal interest in doubting Russian interference is clear (he feels it undermines his 2016 election win), has frequently been a less-than-willing participant.
As with Russia, Trump’s motivation to disbelieve his intelligence community is apparent: The Saudis are an important strategic ally; his son-in-law Jared Kushner is close to Mohammed; and Trump has long-standing business ties with Saudis. And this week was full of signs that Trump’s administration isn’t prepared to hold Mohammed accountable — signs that are even starker now that we know what Trump has been told behind the scenes. NBC News reported Thursday that the Trump administration looked into the possibility of extraditing exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been in Pennsylvania for two decades and is accused by the Turkish government of plotting a failed 2016 coup. The reasoning, per NBC, is the U.S. government wanted to “placate” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had been accusing Saudi Arabia of a deliberate plot to kill Khashoggi, and “persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on the Saudi government.” Why would the administration feel the need to placate Erdogan over a killing allegedly committed by the Saudis? The logical conclusion is they wanted to cover for their allies in the Saudi government — a goal that would be consistent with all of Trump’s rhetoric. But that also means the truth about what happened to Khashoggi — about which Turkey, it turns out, has been pretty accurate — would be taking a back seat. The question now is just how much Trump cares about the truth that his intelligence community has determined.
No Morals & Rejects Facts!
He governs only by what’s politically expedient. Trump has a bad habit of giving cover to brutal dictators while dismissing reports from his own intelligence committees, professionals with the contacts & apparatus to uncover the facts. It happened with prior reports of Putin interfering in our presidential election & murdering his political opponents, when Trump was quick to doubt those accounts. Now with our intelligence professionals pinning the murder of Khashoggi on the Saudi crown prince, is Trump waiting on the ditzy Fox & Friends morning show to confirm that before he believes it?: trump-khashoggi-mohammed-bin-salman-kim-nuclear-fox-news. Other articles you could search about this topic are in these titles:
businessinsider/cia-assessment-mohammed-bin-salman-khashoggi-murder-trump-russia
thinkprogress/trump-bizarre-statement-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia
huffingtonpost/trump-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-statement-mohammed-bin-salman
theatlantic/trump-affirms-us-relationship-saudis-despite-khashoggi-murder
slate/trump-on-khashoggi-killing-we-cant-know-if-mbs-ordered-it
politico/trump-defiantly-refuses-to-condemn-saudi-crown-prince-for-khashoggis-death
vox/trumps-khashoggi-statement-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman
nymag/trump-statement-saudis-journalist-murder
thedailybeast/trump-saudis-may-have-killed-khashoggi-but-the-us-doesnt-care
thedailybeast/wapo-trump-remarks-on-khashoggi-killing-a-betrayal-of-american-values
nytimes/trump-khashoggi-saudis
usatoday/trump-says-u-s-stand-saudis-despite-khashoggi-murder
thehill/trump-affirms-us-loyalty-to-saudi-arabia-in-striking-new-statement
msn/trump-says-no-new-saudi-punishment-for-khashoggi-murder
washingtonpost/denial-is-not-a-foreign-policy
washingtonpost/trump-defends-saudia-arabias-denial-about-the-planning-of-khashoggis-death
washingtonpost/khashoggis-murder-will-stain-trump-and-america-forever
washingtonpost/trumps-full-statement-giving-saudi-royal-family-pass-jamal-khashoggi-annotated
washingtonpost/trumps-latest-statement-on-khashoggi-was-a-betrayal-of-american-values
washingtonpost/putin-is-about-to-gain-control-of-the-worlds-main-law-enforcement-organization
politico/trump-pakistan-twitter-osama-bin-laden
Asia Troubles
In Asia, our situation is deteriorating. In Pakistan, Trump has cut off funding & engaged in a war of words. We definitely have serious issues with them, but we can’t help but wonder if that’s the right approach in a country with a large, rabidly-radical Islamic population & nuclear weapons. Pakistan could become a bigger threat than even Iran or North Korea should that country increasingly view America as an enemy. There’s also a fear Putin could control Interpol, giving him even more powers to carry out his thuggery. And the widening tensions with China have grown more perilous: apnews.com/9468e3771986461aaba14c00a6972620
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