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applegrove

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Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:07 PM Jun 2020

Officials Concluded Trump Was National Security Threat

Officials Concluded Trump Was National Security Threat

June 29, 2020 at 6:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 229 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/29/top-officials-concluded-trump-was-a-national-security-threat/

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Carl Bernstein: “In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders… 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.”

“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.”

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Officials Concluded Trump Was National Security Threat (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Jun 2020 #1
Was??? Doreen Jun 2020 #2
They knew Leith Jun 2020 #3
Yet he's still in office. I've had it up to my eyeballs with all of these do-nothing "officials." SMC22307 Jun 2020 #4

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