Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost
Source: MSN/Washington Post
President Trump seemed distracted in March as his aides briefed him at his Mar-a-Lago resort on the administrations plan to expel 60 Russian diplomats and suspected spies.
The United States, they explained, would be ousting roughly the same number of Russians as its European allies part of a coordinated move to punish Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter on British soil.
Well match their numbers, Trump instructed, according to a senior administration official. Were not taking the lead. Were matching.
The next day, when the expulsions were announced publicly, Trump erupted, officials said. To his shock and dismay, France and Germany were each expelling only four Russian officials far fewer than the 60 his administration had decided on.
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Even though Trump has wanted to cozy up to Russia, he just ended up making things far more tense given how often he flip flops. Twice, after Trump attacked Syrians and indicated that the U.S. would be done with Syria, Assad has taken this as a green light to start gassing his people, then Trump decides to shoot missiles at Assad to save the people that Trump has repeatedly attacked as terrorists.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)who has his default setting stuck on "moron" is exceptionally dangerous and repulsive.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)trump to do something is tell him Obama did the opposite. Or that it will piss off who ever he is mad at that day.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Plus being the very last person who talks to him before he opens his gaping maw..........
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...and that the result will make him look good.
He's floppier than Jell-O.
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Cha
(297,265 posts)up and distract from his hot messes.
I don't know how "reluctant" that is.
no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)Privately, he complained to aides that the medias fixation on the Mueller probe was hobbling his effort to woo Putin. I cant put on the charm, the president often said, according to one of his advisers. Im not able to be president because of this witch hunt.
Yeah, translated: I can't BS and manipulate.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Yet, he always was. This is what We the People sort of elected.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)The conman has no core. He's a chameleon. He's anything that he thinks will help him at the moment.