Thursday, June 8, 2017

Trump's Big CON: Time For the Enablers to Leave

As noted before:

"Like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster are expected to be early alarms in the event that life in the Trump administration becomes untenable. If the White House fails to build an atmosphere in which they can work, Mattis and McMaster — both of whom are keenly aware that the world is watching their every move — could take their leave. The shock waves caused by their departure would be felt throughout the White House, Congress, and foreign capitals around the globe. The stakes couldn’t be higher — everyone knows that if they aren’t able to make it work, something must be seriously broken."

A prominent Republic critic of Trump's thinks it is time to acknowledge Trump can't be President:

"Maybe he was peeved there was no sword dance or lavish reception, as there has been in Saudi Arabia. Maybe he didn’t like French President Emmanuel Macron’s handshake. Whatever the explanation, a president who on the spur of the moment decides not to communicate a key commitment is also a president who might not keep it even if he said it. He repeatedly proves himself feckless and thereby undercuts the United States’ standing with allies and its image with foes. And once again, it demonstrates that when it matters most, top advisers serve up the appearance of sanity without prompting him to act more sanely. In other words, they are enabling him.

As I said before, literally to prevent nuclear war, [National security adviser H.R.] Mattis should remain, but the other two in his national-security triumvirate [Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson] have failed to constrain and guide the president when it mattered. Their leaving would be more beneficial than their staying at this point."

Read the Washington Post, The people who are supposed to be constraining Trump clearly aren’t.

Read also Trump's Big CON: His Enabler.

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