Amid a Special Counsel investigation heating up … into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign/Russian collusion and other related issues, Donald Trump continues to do and say so many questionable things. We keep asking ourselves WHY? Why was he so upset when Nikki Haley, US. Ambassador to the UN, announced further sanctions on Russia for their part in the chemical attacks, killing 40 Syrian people in Damascus? The White House walked that announcement back. Trump basically refused to enact the sanctions on Russia over election meddling, that Congress passed 98-2 back in summer 2017, but finally in March of this year announced ‘would be’ enacted, after Russian poisonings in the U.K.
He listens to advice from Sean Hannity over his Chief of Staff, John Kelly. He is everyday rant-tweeting about James Comey, who said on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, “I’m like a breakup he can’t get over”. He’s distraught over the FBI raid on his “fixer”, Michael Cohen’s property and materials. He had CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, secretly meet over Easter weekend with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim, “using intelligence rather than diplomatic channels to communicate”. Pompeo is Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, and is anxiously awaiting confirmation as secretary. Former Deputy Secretary of State, John J. Sullivan, became Acting Secretary on 4/1/18; he is the chief foreign affairs adviser/diplomatic officer, not Pompeo. “Mr. Trump said he would give his blessing to North and South Korea to discuss the end of the war, opening the door to a peace treaty that would replace the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953.” These are very complicated, long-standing diplomatic issues.
I’m really tired of all the Obama-bashing over the ‘ignored red-line’; Obama asked Congress to authorize potential use of force against Syria, and they declined to hold a vote, after McConnell, Boehner and Corker praised him for “absolutely the right decision”. Protests, rallies and polls demonstrated that the majority of citizens were not on board for extended involvement in Syria’s civil-war. “Under the constitution, the responsibility for declaring war lies with Congress.” Barack Obama did the right thing! However, there was a covert CIA program, arming and training Syrian rebels to fight the Russian and Iranian-backed Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad. Trump and Pompeo pulled the plug last summer on the CIA program supporting the rebels — in order to improve relations with Russia. To Russia With Love.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Apr 21 2018
4/21/18 LETTER TO THE EDITOR TRUMP INVESTIGATION HEATING UP!
Amid a Special Counsel investigation heating up … into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign/Russian collusion and other related issues, Donald Trump continues to do and say so many questionable things. We keep asking ourselves WHY? Why was he so upset when Nikki Haley, US. Ambassador to the UN, announced further sanctions on Russia for their part in the chemical attacks, killing 40 Syrian people in Damascus? The White House walked that announcement back. Trump basically refused to enact the sanctions on Russia over election meddling, that Congress passed 98-2 back in summer 2017, but finally in March of this year announced ‘would be’ enacted, after Russian poisonings in the U.K.
He listens to advice from Sean Hannity over his Chief of Staff, John Kelly. He is everyday rant-tweeting about James Comey, who said on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, “I’m like a breakup he can’t get over”. He’s distraught over the FBI raid on his “fixer”, Michael Cohen’s property and materials. He had CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, secretly meet over Easter weekend with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang to lay the groundwork for direct talks between Trump and Kim, “using intelligence rather than diplomatic channels to communicate”. Pompeo is Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, and is anxiously awaiting confirmation as secretary. Former Deputy Secretary of State, John J. Sullivan, became Acting Secretary on 4/1/18; he is the chief foreign affairs adviser/diplomatic officer, not Pompeo. “Mr. Trump said he would give his blessing to North and South Korea to discuss the end of the war, opening the door to a peace treaty that would replace the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953.” These are very complicated, long-standing diplomatic issues.
I’m really tired of all the Obama-bashing over the ‘ignored red-line’; Obama asked Congress to authorize potential use of force against Syria, and they declined to hold a vote, after McConnell, Boehner and Corker praised him for “absolutely the right decision”. Protests, rallies and polls demonstrated that the majority of citizens were not on board for extended involvement in Syria’s civil-war. “Under the constitution, the responsibility for declaring war lies with Congress.” Barack Obama did the right thing! However, there was a covert CIA program, arming and training Syrian rebels to fight the Russian and Iranian-backed Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad. Trump and Pompeo pulled the plug last summer on the CIA program supporting the rebels — in order to improve relations with Russia. To Russia With Love.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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