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(Trump’s campaign didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.) For even the savviest of presidents, the relationship between a commander in chief and his military is famously fraught, an intricate dance of egos and agendas, worldviews and bureaucracies. A President Trump, however, could usher in a clash of historic proportions.
According to an analysis by the U.S. Army War College, “the top leadership is moving the country onto a war footing” in response to what it sees as “an arc of crisis around Russia and a period of great turbulence in international affairs.” since the departure of Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, his foreign ...
I realize there are some differences because of concerns that Trump is beholden to the Russians, but the people who are leading this charge are very militaristic and are very imperialistic, and do have a long history of being pro-war like Adam Schiff, like obviously the neo-cons who have been rehabilitated, like the leaders of the security ...
I have met Trump haters before, lots of them, the kind who seize upon every conspiracy theory and refuse to give him any benefit of any doubt. The four people I recently spent the morning with at Solly’s Tavern in D.C. (sans booze, don’t worry) were not Trump haters. They were, however, Trump quitters.
I had the editor of a major news outlet tell us that for every candidate who enters the race, they do five stories, including a deep dive on their background and a fact-check of their speech. But they weren’t doing that for Trump because they didn’t take him seriously. They just viewed it as publicity.
Trump’s voters feel betrayed by the other candidates on the stage, by the RNC and by the establishment audience in that room. All the booing only showered Trump in precisely the kind of hatred that will win him more votes. At one point he was trashing W’s Iraq War and the boos started to swell. Trump: “I only tell the truth, lobbyists.”
But the job is especially fraught this year. In the first midterm election of the Trump era, Tom Perez is trying to flip seats in blood-red America while also rallying the Resistance. PRINT THIS STORY Perez has been chairman of the DNC since early last year. He took office on the heels of a scandal.
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