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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 08:29 AM Oct 2019

Unswayed by top advisers, Trump doubles down on decision to withdraw troops

President Trump’s order to withdraw essentially all U.S. forces from northern Syria came after the commander in chief privately agitated for days to bring troops home, according to administration officials — even while the Pentagon was making public assurances that the United States was not abandoning its Kurdish allies in the region.

The officials, granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations, described Trump as “doubling down” and “undeterred,” despite vociferous pushback from congressional Republicans who have been loath to challenge the president apart from a few issues, such as national security.

Behind the scenes, Trump has tried to convince advisers and lawmakers that the United States is not to blame for Turkey’s military offensive, which has targeted Kurdish fighters who have aided the U.S. fight against the Islamic State.

But experts — and many Republicans — say otherwise. And even Trump allies say the president needs to do a better job of selling the troop withdrawal to the public, beyond tweets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/unswayed-by-top-advisers-trump-doubles-down-on-decision-to-withdraw-troops/2019/10/13/3305b884-edfc-11e9-b2da-606ba1ef30e3_story.html

The "stabl jenius" strikes again.

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Unswayed by top advisers, Trump doubles down on decision to withdraw troops (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2019 OP
Trump's cruelty is up there with Joe Stalin and Pol Pot Botany Oct 2019 #1
I truly fear what will happen next. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #3
Trump is an existential threat to America and the world and has to be removed ASAP. Botany Oct 2019 #4
We are so screwed and so many of us saw this coming. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #5
+1. His list of crimes grows daily and endlessly dalton99a Oct 2019 #6
Cruel and stupid makes a clear, present danger. C_U_L8R Oct 2019 #7
His top adviser is Putin NewJeffCT Oct 2019 #2
We are worried about genocide Miguelito Loveless Oct 2019 #8

Botany

(70,291 posts)
1. Trump's cruelty is up there with Joe Stalin and Pol Pot
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 08:34 AM
Oct 2019

Putin ordered him to screw the Kurds and let them be slaughtered by the truck load and it
doesn't even phase Trump one bit outside to trying to place the blame in part on others.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142380941

Botany

(70,291 posts)
4. Trump is an existential threat to America and the world and has to be removed ASAP.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 08:53 AM
Oct 2019

He is clearly w/out facts or even the most basic knowledge as per the Kurds, ISIS, and
well just about everything else. And he is clearly a tool of Vlad Putin. We are are really into
uncharted waters here. The man gets his "information" in the AM from the likes of Brian
Kilmeade and his marching orders from Vlad Putin and Russian/Ukrainian mobsters as
Bill Barr plays the part of his consiglieri.

We need to impeach him ASAP, put the proof of his crimes "out there," and if the Republicans
in the Senate want to stand with that treasonous bastard fine let 'em.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
5. We are so screwed and so many of us saw this coming.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 09:06 AM
Oct 2019

Even we didn't think it would get this bad so fast. Watching this horrifying nightmare unfold knowing it gets worse by the hour, powerless to stop it.

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