...Trump supports the existing international order to the precise extent to which it works to his liking and advantage and not a bit more. NATO is stronger and more robust under Trump than it was under Obama. The UN appears to be working less horribly with Nikki Haley as US Ambassador than under the Samantha Power who spent more time eavesdropping on Americans than she did on advancing American interests.
..."The Trump Doctrine is ’We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine."
[National Review] President Obama has met privately with nine Democratic presidential hopefuls in recent months to discuss the state of the party and what strategies they should pursue to best counter president Trump in 2020, Politico reported Monday.
The meetings were arranged secretly, without the knowledge of close advisers, according to Politico. Thus far Obama has counseled former vice president Joe Biden, Democratic senators Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren, former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, and others, though he remains reluctant to publicly endorse any one candidate.
Sanders reportedly requested his meeting with Obama, which was held in March, because he wanted to discuss their respective visions for the future of the party and how it might best balance idealism and pragmatism.
Obama initiated his first meeting with Warren because he wanted to discuss her criticism of the $400,000 speaking fee he received from a Wall Street investment firm after leaving office. The Massachusetts lawmaker, who has made a career of lambasting large financial institutions, had called the payment "troubling" and said it exemplified the influence-peddling "that slithers through Washington."
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Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren, Deval Patrick, Mitch Landrieu, Eric Garcettiand others were present in a secret meeting to develop a strategy to address Trump in 2020. There's a stellar group. Where's Terry McAuliffe in the list or O's admin. intelligence/security personnel?
The last strategy didn't work too well, i.e. the one where the FBI and DOJ were weaponized against Trump to take him down and or impeach him for nothing before he was inaugurated.
Hey, maybe they should have invited that positive, upbeat kind of guy. Robert Di Niro to the secret meeting to vent his spleen. Or McCain.
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There's no way they didn't invite Kamala Harris to this libfest.
Harris is beholden to Fauxcahontus, hoping for a VP slot.
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"Be light skinned African American, well spoken, with minimal opinions on record. Oh, and try to be the first one so that Americans can virtue signal they aren't prejudice." Do that and you are sure to be elected.
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Willie Brown Jr. (born 1934) took her under his "wing" or some other appendage even (or especially) though she was 30 years his junior. Truly remarkable
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[Victory Girls] It seems that Hillary Clinton’s issues with transparency were rather widespread during the Obama Administration years ‐ and it’s going to affect history, research, and scholarship on that period forever, because the National Archives are missing records that they should have had.
Detailed on Real Clear Politics, it seems that electronic record keeping is just as easy to get rid of as paper copies for the federal government, if you’re determined enough. The digital upgrade to the National Archives was signed into law by President Obama in 2014.
For the first time electronic government records were placed under the 1950 Federal Records Act. The new law also included updates clarifying "the responsibilities of federal government officials when using non-government email systems" and empowering "the National Archives to safeguard original and classified records from unauthorized removal." Additionally, it gives the Archivist of the United States the final authority in determining just what is a government record.
And yet the accumulation of recent congressional testimony has made it clear that the Obama administration itself engaged in the wholesale destruction and "loss" of tens of thousands of government records covered under the act as well as the intentional evasion of the government records recording system by engaging in private email exchanges. So far, former President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Lynch and several EPA officials have been named as offenders. The IRS suffered record "losses" as well. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy called it "an unauthorized private communications system for official business for the patent purpose of defeating federal record-keeping and disclosure laws."
Clearly, America’s National Archives is facing the first major challenge to its historic role in preserving the records of the United States. What good is the National Archives administering a presidential library, like the planned Obama library in Chicago, if it is missing critical records of interest to scholars? And what’s to prevent evasion of the entire federal records system by subsequent administrations to suit current politics rather than serve scholars for centuries to come?
That planned Obama library in Chicago is actually meant to be more of a shrine, and not one everyone is on board with, incidentally. But back to the issue at hand. Are we really shocked that the Obama Administration would conveniently lose non-backed up electronic records ‐ this supposedly tech-savvy crew?
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