Op Ed by Will Hurd, Republican, On Trump

[oxmixmudd]

Will Hurd is a Republican Senator for the state of Texas, and not one that is planning to retire. He is also a former CIA operative, so he both knows what he is talking about, and hails from a conservative position from one of the most conservative states in the Union:



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Jim

[rogue06]

Niggling detail but...

Will Hurd is a Republican Senator for Representative from the state of Texas, and not one that is planning to retire

[oxmixmudd]

Niggling detail but...

Fair enough! My mistake. (And I do know the difference )

Jim

[Sparko]

Fair enough! My mistake. (And I do know the difference )

Jim

A pretty big difference!

One thing people might not be considering is that Trump is smarter than they think and is just playing friendly in public and to Putin's face to placate him, while having our spies work behind the scenes. What good does it do to just call Putin a liar to his face? It benefits us to keep diplomatic relations and dialogs going with Russia. Obama and Hillary did it. Bush 1 & 2 did it, every president does it.

[rogue06]

A pretty big difference!

One thing people might not be considering is that Trump is smarter than they think and is just playing friendly in public and to Putin's face to placate him, while having our spies work behind the scenes. What good does it do to just call Putin a liar to his face? It benefits us to keep diplomatic relations and dialogs going with Russia. Obama and Hillary did it. Bush 1 & 2 did it, every president does it.

As I noted in a previous thread

Trump has a history of playing kissy-face during joint press conferences with world leaders that he had just excoriated in private days before. His recent meeting with UK PM Theresa May is a recent example. According to stories leaked to the British media, Trump dressed her down when they met and the press was enraged with how he "disrespected" her but then in public he was all praise. It was something that CNN's Christiane Amanpour even made note of. He's totally a different person in private meetings than he is in public ones.

[Sparko]

He's totally a different person in private meetings than he is in public ones.

Breaking News! Trump has split personalities! We must impeach him them!

[rogue06]

Breaking News! Trump has split personalities! We must impeach him them!

One of the committees that I have organized the various voices in my head into are debating this right now.

[JimL]

A pretty big difference!

One thing people might not be considering is that Trump is smarter than they think and is just playing friendly in public and to Putin's face to placate him, while having our spies work behind the scenes.

Hmm, didn't you come up with that same excuse in defense off Obama's so called apology tour? Oh no, you didn't, did you? You're just trying to justify to yourself your support for the traitor Sparko.

[rogue06]

Hmm, didn't you come up with that same excuse in defense off Obama's so called apology tour? Oh no, you didn't, did you? You're just trying to justify to yourself your support for the traitor Sparko.

So Obama was really was working behind the scenes against the Japanese when he bowed as deeply as a servant would to their emperor?

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[Teallaura]

Breaking News! Trump has split personalities! We must impeach him them!

Zem. Get it right, you non-conformist.

[Starlight]

One thing people might not be considering is that Trump is smarter than they think and is just playing friendly in public and to Putin's face to placate him, while having our spies work behind the scenes.

Trump isn't playing 3-dimensional chess. He's a 3 year old drawing on the walls with crayons while Putin plays chess.

[Teallaura]

Hmm, didn't you come up with that same excuse in defense off Obama's so called apology tour? Oh no, you didn't, did you? You're just trying to justify to yourself your support for the traitor Sparko.

No, he didn't. And neither did you - no one argued this about Obama when he was president. As I recall, you argued that he wasn't doing anything wrong.

[rogue06]

No, he didn't. And neither did you - no one argued this about Obama when he was president. As I recall, you argued that he wasn't doing anything wrong.

First the White House and sycophantic MSM denied it was taking place only showing images from behind where it was hard to see the bowing but images from the foreign press started circulating showing the deep bows.

Then we were told he was only bending down to eye level of those foreign leaders but not only the pictures revealed that was false but some of them like the Saudi king was nearly as tall as he was. Moreover, the only leader he didn't bow before was Queen Elizabeth -- the shortest of those he met.

Only then did we get told that it was okay to bow like he did.

[Mountain Man]

Hmm, didn't you come up with that same excuse in defense off Obama's so called apology tour? Oh no, you didn't, did you? You're just trying to justify to yourself your support for the traitor Sparko.

The difference, of course, is that Obama's foreign policy was just as spineless and subservient as his public front. Trump plays soft in public but is tough as nails in private. But then there are idiots like you who think Trump should have damaged our relations with Russia by publicly humiliating Putin.

[One Bad Pig]

One thing people might not be considering is that Trump is smarter than they think....

Quick, name the last Republican president people thought was smart....