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Former US ambassador says Donald Trump is weakening the State Department - Duration: 2:46.
Former US ambassador says Donald Trump is weakening the State Department.
The US State Department is being �weakened and sidelined� under President Donald Trump,
a former American diplomat has claimed.
Nicholas Burns, who served as a senior diplomat under both Republican and Democratic administrations,
told The Los Angeles Times that Mr Trump�s foreign policy is �a radical departure from
every president since WWII�.
�Trump is weak on Nato, Russia, trade, climate, diplomacy,� said Mr Burns, the former Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President George W Bush.
He added: �The US is declining as a global leader.�
Since taking office, Mr Trump has pursued an �America first� agenda that involves
shying away from various global commitments.
This summer, for example, Mr Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord � a
landmark environmental agreement to which nearly 200 countries signed in.
He also refused to certify Iran�s compliance in a historic nuclear deal, and threatened
to make Nato member countries pay more to ensure their defence.
Mr Trump also shocked diplomats earlier this month when he acknowledged Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel � a decision the UN believes should only be negotiated during Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks.
Nearly every former US ambassador to Israel told the New York Times that they disagreed
with the President�s decision.
Former diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford resigned shortly thereafter, claiming the US government
had �failed to demonstrate a commitment to promoting and defending human rights and
democracy�.
�In these challenging global times we should be seeking to conduct more diplomacy with
more resources, not less with less,� she wrote in her resignation letter.
�I am sure [the State Department] will endure and ultimately overcome this period of marginalisation,
but the consequences will affect our global leadership and status abroad for many years
to come.�Many diplomats have raised similar concerns about a lack of resources at the
State Department.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has implemented a hiring freeze at the Department, and proposed
slashing his own budget by almost 30 per cent.
America�s Office of Management and Budget recently directed the Department to cut staffing
by 8 per cent.
Sixty per cent of career ambassadors have left the Department this year, and 74 top
posts remain vacant, according to Foreign Policy.
Democratic members of the House Foreign Relations Committee wrote a letter to Mr Tillerson last
month, urging him to reverse what they called an �intentional hollowing-out of our senior
diplomatic ranks�.
Mr Burns finds these latest developments ironic.
The President, he said, �needs a strong State Department to implement� his strategy.
Instead, he added, �State and the Foreign Service are being weakened and often sidelined�.
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Russia is going to attack our next election The Trump administration may not even try to stop it - Duration: 3:12.
Russia is going to attack our next election the Trump administration may not even try to stop it
The Russians are coming for our elections to disrupt them to discredit them and even to affect their outcome they ll be coming in
2018 and in
2020 the trouble is that even if we figure out what they were up to our own
government
May be unable or unwilling to stop it
That s the conclusion one has to come to upon reading reports like this new one from a tremendous Ellen
Nakashima and Greg Jaffe which describes how powerless the federal government has been and continues
To be in the face of an ongoing war that Vladimir Putin is waging against us democracy
It was hard enough to resist when the executive branch wanted to resist it
Who knows how hard it will become as president Trump feels more politically threatened by upcoming elections and Robert s Mueller s investigation
into Russian meddling in
2016 this new report shows how the Russian effort last year included not only hacking into
Democratic email systems in the use of an army of social media BOTS, but also the creation of articles pitched to left-leaning websites
Which were used to attack Hillary Clinton and promote WikiLeaks?
While it was going on the government was all but paralyzed the events surrounding the FBI s norther night
Investigation follow a pattern that repeated for years as the Russian threat was building US intelligence and law enforcement
Agencies saw some warning signs of Russian meddling in Europe and later in the United States
But never fully grasped the breath of the Kremlin s ambitions
Top US policymakers didn t appreciate the dangers then scrambled to draw up options to fight back in
the end big plans died of internal
Disagreement a fear of making matters worse or a misguided belief in the resilience of American society and its democratic institutions
When previously unreported order a sweeping presidential finding to combat global cyber threats prompted u.s.
Spy agencies to plan a half dozen specific operations to counter the Russian threat
But when a year after those instructions were given the Trump White House remains divided over whether to act
intelligence officials said as
former acting CIA director Michael Morel and former House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers note in this op-ed
Russian cyber warfare effort - eatin tea stop after
2016 of later covert social media strategies have involved attacking the FBI
going after Republican politicians
Who are critical of President drum and even urging a boycott of Keurig when it pulled its advertising from Sean Hannity s show?
But it s not as simple as promoting President Trump in the GOP
Most experts believe Vladimir Putin s motives are more complex than that and involve sowing discord and confusion
That destabilizes our system the danger becomes
particularly acute during election season
There are three fundamental questions to ask about this threat do we know what they redoing if?
We know what they redoing do we know how to fight it, and if we know how to fight it
Do we have the will to do so at various times the answer to all three has been no
But let us say that sometime in 2018 or even more likely in
2020 intelligence agencies and private analysts conclude that Russia is engaging in an
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BREAKING! Trump Just Paid For It ALL – Obama Is MAD AS HELL! | Top Stories Today - Duration: 4:22.
BREAKING! Trump Just Paid For It ALL – Obama Is MAD AS HELL!
For the past 8 years, Barack Hussein Obama made it no secret how much he despised our
country's police officers.
The clown was constantly inviting BLM terrorists to the White House to hang out, even rolling
out the red carpet for BLM leadership just days after one of their members slaughtered
5 Dallas cops.
But thankfully, the time for these lawless morons to run rampant has ended.
Ever since Trump got into office he made it clear that his administration would have the
backs of our nation's police.
And over Christmas, President Trump did something completely unprecedented for our police, that
it's sending Obama and his minions into an absolute rage.
If there's one thing we've learned about our new President, is that he always puts
his money where his mouth is, as he fully understands that actions speak louder than
words.
Trump decided to do something incredibly special for the police officers assigned to protect
him over Christmas that's immediately putting cop-hating Obama to enormous shame.
President Trump spent Christmas with his family at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which
takes an incredible amount of security given the current Trump-hating atmosphere plaguing
our country.
While Trump always treats everyone assigned to his detail incredibly well, the police
and Secret Security were never prepared for the special thing that the President of the
United States did for them, as he treated them all to "a full Christmas spread,"
that "all came out of the president's pocket, without a dime apparently spent for
the dinner by taxpayers," Conservative Tribune reported.
Conservative Tribune went on:
That's a pretty big move to begin with, but it looks positively great when you consider
the previous White House's acrimonious relationship with the nation's police.
It was so bad that in summer of 2016, right after five Dallas police officers were shot
and killed during a Black Lives Matter march, the executive director of the National Association
of Police Organizations said that then-President Obama had engendered a "war on cops."
William Johnson said that the "continued appeasements at the federal level (by the
Obama administration) with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals,
their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death
of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems
in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible."
This isn't the first time that President Trump has gone out of his way to do something
nice for our country's police officers.
Over the summer when one of the motorcycle cops who was escorting Trump's motorcade
in Indiana suddenly lost control of his bike and crashed, the President immediately dropped
everything on his schedule, even grounding his flight, to make sure that the officer
was okay.
Several photos showed the motionless officer with several bleeding cuts lying next to his
police motorcycle on the side of the highway.
As the critically wounded officer was being treated by emergency hospital staff, the unexpected
happened.
Officer Turner received a phone call from a frantic President Trump who was defiantly
refusing to board his plane until he got confirmation that the officer was okay.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department "posted to Facebook that Trump refused to
take off until he spoke with the wounded officer to thank him for his service," IJ Review
reported.
Our President continually proves that he always has the best interests of Americans at heart
with the genuinely nice way he treats anyone he comes into contact with.
Whether it's kneeling down to kiss a baby, chasing down a Marine's hat that's blown
off, taking time from his busy schedule to visit our wounded warriors, or going to a
fallen soldier's funeral, Trump's sincere care and compassion for Americans truly knows
no bounds.
It's so wonderful to finally have a president in office who supports law and justice and
isn't propping up violent cop-hating terror groups like BLM.
You know Obama is pissed to have Trump rip the spotlight away from him, after Obama made
a complete idiot out of himself over Christmas, after being spotted singing Christmas carols
with women wearing pink p*ussy hats.
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Gallup poll: Obama is 'most admired man' for the 10th year in a row - Duration: 2:55.
Gallup poll: Obama is 'most admired man' for the 10th year in a row
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Perfect Beauty Tiny Maine Cottage is the Epitome of New England Charm - Duration: 2:42.
PERFECT BEAUTY TINY MAINE COTTAGE IS THE EPITOME OF NEW ENGLAND CHARM
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Citroën Jumpy XS 1.6 Hdi 95pk Club (prijs is excl. BTW / Airco / trekhaak / PDC achter) - Duration: 0:59.
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James Woods SLAMMED Obama Like Nobody Before Him! – This Is POWERFUL! | Top Stories Today - Duration: 2:43.
James Woods SLAMMED Obama Like Nobody Before Him!
– This Is POWERFUL!
A few days ago actor James Woods appeared Twitter speaking his words for former President
Obama's religion.
He wasn't afraid to speak about it publicly as everyone else was so scared to.
His tweet came as a response to Jacob Wohl's tweet:
"Obama targeted Christian Churches and Conservative Charities with the IRS, but ordered investigations
into Hezbollah to be stopped.
Let that sink in" – Jacob tweeted.
"He is a Muslim.
He can deny it, his apologists in the media can refute it, and his enablers can promote
a narrative that he is a Christian.
It's a pack of lies.
Obama is a Muslim and that is where his allegiance lies.
Always has.
Always will."
– James's response on Twitter.
Via Fox News: "The Obama administration gave a free pass
to Hezbollah's drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations — some of which were unfolding
inside the U.S. — to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track, according
to a bombshell exposé in Politico Sunday.
An elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra,
reportedly targeted the Lebanese militant group's criminal activities.
But by tossing a string of roadblocks holding back the project, Obama administration officials
helped allow the 35-year-old anti-Israel criminal enterprise to evolve into a major global security
threat bankrolling terrorist and military operations, the report added.
"This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," David Asher, who helped establish
Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst in 2008, told Politico.
"They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced,
and it was done from the top down."
When Project Cassandra leaders, who were working out of a DEA's Counter facility in Chantilly,
Virginia, sought an OK for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and
financial sanctions, Justice and Treasury Department officials delayed, hindered or
rejected their requests, according to Politico."
While Barack Obama was President of the United States the world was under attack from the
Muslim group of terrorists ISIS, it's proper to question if this had something to do with
Obama himself.
This, of course, is a clear indicator that Obama has actually put his hands on something
very dangerous, something that will eventually be his downfall.
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