Is Biden a Weak President?

[Ren]

Opinions vary

From this poll you are in the minority

Obviously we know what team you are on.

Putin's team!

Putin and I agree that woke wankery has a grip on the West. That's a major problem and he's dealing with it.

How can I disagree with the man on that point? I can't. You can, because you're smothered in woke sauce.

 

[rickc]

I have never understood this woke business.

What is woke?

If it means eyes wide open and thinking for yourself I guess that would be me.

Oh I just Google it. It means alert to racial prejudices. Well looking at a trump rally crowd it really isn't hard to pick out the racist. I think that could be one of Trump's biggest draws. Certainly the reason white working class people vote republican. They certainly don't vote for them because they make their lives better.

 

[post]

Here’s some reality for you. Biden is considered weak, and Trump was considered strong. You ignore the wiped out caliphate, Al Bagdhadi and Solimeni kills. Biden left Americans in Afghanistan. The worst military screw up since Saigon. You think Biden is stronger than Trump? Fine, I disagree.

By who? Certainly not by anyone not irresistibly attracted to Trump....

Worst POTUS in at least 150 years.

Consider the diversity and credentials of the evaluators who considered and evaluated the performances of all 44 white men and
one alleged Indonesian muslim with a fake birth certificate....

Survey Participants | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021 | C-SPAN.org

www.c-span.org

Consider how radically divorced your opinion of Trump and those cohabiting your bubble is from Trump's actual record, deeds, claims....

A lifelong "victim posture" is not an indication of strength, but of chronic grifting,

Link to cached page of January 23, 2016 article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it

"..The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination."

Trump retweeted this pathetic, corrupt portrayal of obstructor-of-justice Trump as a victim deserved of unconstitutional reparations !

Link to cached page of this article,

Two more years? Trump's retweet sets off a furor over the idea ...​

https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/05/06
May 6, 2019 — Trump on Mueller probe: 'We can never ever let this happen to ... said some people did "treasonous things" and it should never happen again.


View the two hour discussion resulting in Trump's abysmal performance rating,

Washington Journal: Historians Discuss C-SPAN's Historians Presidential Leadership Survey

Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Amity Shlaes talked about the results of C-SPAN's fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership.

www.c-span.org

 

[antiquity]

He, Biden will become weaker after the story come out in the NYT admitted that the Hunter story about his laptop were true......I am guessing that that revelation will point out when big tech cancelling anyone (mainly the NYPost) story says it was true which influenced the 2020 elections was also true. If the laptop story had come out before the 2020 election Biden would probably not be in the WH screwing up our country right now.

 

[Ren]

I have never understood this woke business.

What is woke?

If it means eyes wide open and thinking for yourself I guess that would be me.

Oh I just Google it. It means alert to racial prejudices. Well looking at a trump rally crowd it really isn't hard to pick out the racist. I think that could be one of Trump's biggest draws. Certainly the reason white working class people vote republican. They certainly don't vote for them because they make their lives better.

Government isn't supposed to make our lives better. It's supposed to defend our rights and get the f*** out of our way.

See, that's the problem with diaper doping nanny statists: they can't think or even chew gum without resting assured that government is ever increasing and growing in power over the people.

 

[post]

He, Biden will become weaker after the story come out in the NYT admitted that the Hunter story about his laptop were true......I am guessing that that revelation will point out when big tech cancelling anyone (mainly the NYPost) story says it was true which influenced the 2020 elections was also true. If the laptop story had come out before the 2020 election Biden would probably not be in the WH screwing up our country right now.

Show the courtesy to your readers of supporting with links to sources other than Murdoch's NY Post and other RWE propaganda websites how
the Hunter Biden "laptop story" is actually relevant to anything Joe Biden has actually said or done.

 

[NolanVoyd]

 

[Ren]

Show the courtesy to your readers of supporting with links to sources other than Murdoch's NY Post and other RWE propaganda websites how
the Hunter Biden "laptop story" is actually relevant to anything Joe Biden has actually said or done.

Of course, that goes double for your sources. Clean up your own shit, first.

 

[post]

Of course, that goes double for your sources. Clean up your own shit, first

None of you who are irresistibly attracted to Trump afford to your readers the courtesy of supporting your posts with links
other than occasionally Murdoch owned or other RWE sources, and none of you specifically challenge with supporting links
anything I post.... you "infer," (popcorn for your likeminded audience) as you attempted in your post I am replying to.

Ken Vogel is one of three NY Times authors of the article antiquity didn't bother to provide a link to...

He, Biden will become weaker after the story come out in the NYT admitted that the Hunter story about his laptop were true......I am guessing that that revelation will point out when big tech cancelling anyone (mainly the NYPost) story says it was true which influenced the 2020 elections was also true. If the laptop story had come out before the 2020 election Biden would probably not be in the WH screwing up our country right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden–Ukraine_conspiracy_theory#Rudy_Giuliani

"Rudy Giuliani​

...and Attorney General William Barr confirmed that the Justice Department had created an "intake process" to review Giuliani's findings. Giuliani and his associates worked with individuals linked to Russian intelligence and organized crime, including Andrii Derkach and Dmytro Firtash. Derkach released snippets of a supposed conversation between Joe Biden and Poroshenko, in which Biden linked loan guarantees to the ouster of the country's corrupt and ineffective prosecutor general. The recordings, which were not verified as authentic and appeared to be heavily edited, did not provide evidence to support the ongoing conspiracy theory that Biden wanted the prosecutor fired to protect his son. In June 2020, Poroshenko denied that Joe Biden ever approached him about Burisma and characterized the recordings as fake. In September 2020, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Derkach, stating he "has been an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services". The Treasury Department added that Derkach "waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election," including by the release of "edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent to discredit U.S. officials".

In late 2019, it was revealed that the NYSD, which Giuliani had once led, was investigating him for multiple felonies relating to his activities in Ukraine. Intelligence officials warned Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Bidens, that he risked spreading Russian disinformation. The Washington Post reported in October 2020 that American intelligence agencies warned the White House in 2019 that Giuliani was the target of a Russian influence operation, and National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien warned President Trump about accepting what Giuliani told him. American intelligence monitoring Russian assets intercepted Giuliani communicating with them. ..National Security Advisor John Bolton told his staff not to meet with Giuliani, as did his successor Robert C. O'Brien, .. These officials were also concerned that Giuliani would be used as a conduit for disinformation, including "leaks" of emails that would mix genuine with forged material to implicate Hunter Biden in corrupt dealings. Interviewed by The Daily Beast, Giuliani would later declare that Derkach's being sanctioned was the result of a conspiracy led by George Soros and that "the chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50".

Ukrainian businessman Hares Youssef told The Times that an associate of Dmytro Firtash asked Youssef to lie about Hunter Biden's business dealings .. in exchange for a United States visa. .."

 

[antiquity]

Show the courtesy to your readers of supporting with links to sources other than Murdoch's NY Post and other RWE propaganda websites how
the Hunter Biden "laptop story" is actually relevant to anything Joe Biden has actually said or done.

I did show evidence...its called the 'New York Times' and the evidence that Joe is the' big man' according to Hunter's own emails that the NYT has said and what the NY post reported was actually true.
I knew left wingers won't buy into it but the left wing NYT did...so there.
To further complicate Hunter and Joe problems is the Federal grand jury that will probably be indictments forthcoming.
The cover up by the MSM along with the big tech will be exposed both had a great influence on the 2020 election by pushing this story under the rug. As liberals/progressives/democrats say its treasonous. in the highest order.

Hunter Biden Paid Tax Bill, but Broad Federal Investigation Continues (Published 2022)

The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.

www.nytimes.com

How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese (Published 2021)

The president’s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s largest cobalt deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.

www.nytimes.com

Now that Joe Biden’s president, the Times finally admits: Hunter’s laptop is real

First, The New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is l…

nypost.com

 

[jaypatriot]

By who? Certainly not by anyone not irresistibly attracted to Trump....

Worst POTUS in at least 150 years.

Consider the diversity and credentials of the evaluators who considered and evaluated the performances of all 44 white men and
one alleged Indonesian muslim with a fake birth certificate....

Survey Participants | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021 | C-SPAN.org

www.c-span.org

Consider how radically divorced your opinion of Trump and those cohabiting your bubble is from Trump's actual record, deeds, claims....

A lifelong "victim posture" is not an indication of strength, but of chronic grifting,

Link to cached page of January 23, 2016 article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it

"..The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination."

Trump retweeted this pathetic, corrupt portrayal of obstructor-of-justice Trump as a victim deserved of unconstitutional reparations !

Link to cached page of this article,

Two more years? Trump's retweet sets off a furor over the idea ...​

https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/05/06
May 6, 2019 — Trump on Mueller probe: 'We can never ever let this happen to ... said some people did "treasonous things" and it should never happen again.


View the two hour discussion resulting in Trump's abysmal performance rating,

Washington Journal: Historians Discuss C-SPAN's Historians Presidential Leadership Survey

Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Amity Shlaes talked about the results of C-SPAN's fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership.

www.c-span.org

You consistently expect everyone to read and agree with all of points you are making simply because you put up citations you feel buttress your points.
You have no idea whether people are agreeing with you or not.

 

[mrjurrs]

Here is some recent news, just in case you havent heard:

62 percent of voters say Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president: poll

A majority of American voters say that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had former President Trump still been in office, according to a new survey released …

thehill.com

A poll says a majority of Americans believe that Putin would not have attacked Ukraine if Trump was reelected.

Biden Snubbed by Arab Leaders in Bid to Control Gas Prices, Report Says

Saudi Arabia and the UAE both said they will not produce more oil than agreed upon with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

www.newsweek.com

Biden snubbed by UAE and Saudi leaders over his calls to discuss oil exports.

AFAIK, no POTUS has ever been snubbed by these leaders before.

So based on all of this, what do you think?

History isn't your strong point. Does Nixon and the oil embargo ring a bell?

Poll interpretation is the second area where you seem to lack understanding. I would have voted with the majority BECAUSE IF djt WERE STILL PRESIDENT THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO REASON FOR putin TO INVADE UKRAINE. He was getting everything he wanted from djt.

 

[uptower]

 

[Pluto]

A poll asking "Is Biden a weak President?", under the backdrop of what appears to be a majority of voters who support/ed the 1/6 insurrection. Followed by some bit over Saudi oil in which the U.S. is no longer dependent upon. BTW, we have enough oil, it's just that the greed that backs the industry prefer's to remain a bit 'advantageous'. As for Biden's often proposed weakness's, at least his administration passed a Covid Relief Bill along with a trillion dollar infrastructure bill in its first year. And this, with a 50–50 Senate and a razor thin majority in the House. Not to mention Biden also spearheaded a unified European response to the Russian war in Ukraine. - Meanwhile, Trump's "genius" is hard at work attempting to walk back his non-support of NATO, while his minions go on to suffer a memory lapse about why he was impeached for demanding made-up dirt on Biden in exchange for providing Ukraine military aid - who he subsequently stopped providing aid to.

 

[PoS]

History isn't your strong point. Does Nixon and the oil embargo ring a bell?

Poll interpretation is the second area where you seem to lack understanding. I would have voted with the majority BECAUSE IF djt WERE STILL PRESIDENT THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO REASON FOR putin TO INVADE UKRAINE. He was getting everything he wanted from djt.

Your moronic strawman fallacy is once again on full display. This isnt about your hero Nixon, this is about Biden, so stick to the subject or go elsewhere.

 

[mrjurrs]

Your moronic strawman fallacy is once again on full display. This isnt about your hero Nixon, this is about Biden, so stick to the subject or go elsewhere.

You have no game. In your post you made this claim...
"AFAIK, no POTUS has ever been snubbed by these leaders before." I popped that weak ass balloon.

You try to make some point about how if djt were president Ukraine would not be invaded. That claim is so stretched everyone can see right through it.

Your posts are appropriate for your avatar

 

[mrdeltoid]

By who? Certainly not by anyone not irresistibly attracted to Trump....

Worst POTUS in at least 150 years.

Consider the diversity and credentials of the evaluators who considered and evaluated the performances of all 44 white men and
one alleged Indonesian muslim with a fake birth certificate....

Survey Participants | C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021 | C-SPAN.org

www.c-span.org

Consider how radically divorced your opinion of Trump and those cohabiting your bubble is from Trump's actual record, deeds, claims....

A lifelong "victim posture" is not an indication of strength, but of chronic grifting,

Link to cached page of January 23, 2016 article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it

"..The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination."

Trump retweeted this pathetic, corrupt portrayal of obstructor-of-justice Trump as a victim deserved of unconstitutional reparations !

Link to cached page of this article,

Two more years? Trump's retweet sets off a furor over the idea ...​

https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/05/06
May 6, 2019 — Trump on Mueller probe: 'We can never ever let this happen to ... said some people did "treasonous things" and it should never happen again.


View the two hour discussion resulting in Trump's abysmal performance rating,

Washington Journal: Historians Discuss C-SPAN's Historians Presidential Leadership Survey

Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Amity Shlaes talked about the results of C-SPAN's fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership.

www.c-span.org

" WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Among eight character dimensions, Americans' perceptions of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ most on likability: 66% of U.S. adults believe Biden is likable, while 36% say Trump is. Americans are also more likely to perceive Biden than Trump as being honest and trustworthy and as caring about the needs of people like them. Trump surpasses Biden only when it comes to being a strong and decisive leader."

Is Donald Trump a strong leader?
Leadership has always been a relative strength for Trump. The 56% who currently say he is a strong and decisive leader is similar to what it was in the fall of 2016 (57%), when he was campaigning for president, and the 59% measured after he was inaugurated.

Americans View Biden as Likable, Honest; Trump, as Strong

Americans are much more likely to perceive Joe Biden than Donald Trump as being likable, and rate Biden better on honesty and caring. Trump's sole advantage is on being a strong and decisive leader.

news.gallup.com

President Joe Biden's approval rating hit another grim record on Tuesday with a new poll placing him with just 39 percent of voters' support. Meanwhile a separate survey suggests the president has lost the faith of Americans who largely think he does not care about them and is a weak leader, both dire outcomes just a year after he took office.

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[post]

" WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Among eight character dimensions, Americans' perceptions of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ most on likability: 66% of U.S. adults believe Biden is likable, while 36% say Trump is. Americans are also more likely to perceive Biden than Trump as being honest and trustworthy and as caring about the needs of people like them. Trump surpasses Biden only when it comes to being a strong and decisive leader."

Is Donald Trump a strong leader?
Leadership has always been a relative strength for Trump. The 56% who currently say he is a strong and decisive leader is similar to what it was in the fall of 2016 (57%), when he was campaigning for president, and the 59% measured after he was inaugurated.

Americans View Biden as Likable, Honest; Trump, as Strong

Americans are much more likely to perceive Joe Biden than Donald Trump as being likable, and rate Biden better on honesty and caring. Trump's sole advantage is on being a strong and decisive leader.

news.gallup.com

President Joe Biden's approval rating hit another grim record on Tuesday with a new poll placing him with just 39 percent of voters' support. Meanwhile a separate survey suggests the president has lost the faith of Americans who largely think he does not care about them and is a weak leader, both dire outcomes just a year after he took office.

MSN

www.msn.com

Link to cached page of January 23, 2016 article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it

"..The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination."

"Victim" seeking reparations....

TRUMP: No politician in history 'has been treated worse or ...​

In a commencement speech to the 2017 graduating class of the US Coast Guard Academy,
arguing that he has been treated unfairly by the Washington media amid a ..

Trump Said He's Been Treated Worse Than Abraham Lincoln ...​

https://www.businessinsider.com › Politics › News
Jun 17, 2019 — "If you can believe it, Abraham Lincoln was treated supposedly very badly, but nobody's been treated badly like me," Trump told ABC.

The date of your article was a month before the 2020 presidential election.

Americans View Biden as Likable, Honest; Trump, as Strong

Americans are much more likely to perceive Joe Biden than Donald Trump as being likable, and rate Biden better on honesty and caring. Trump's sole advantage is on being a strong and decisive leader.

news.gallup.com

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The 'Shared Psychosis' of Donald Trump and His Loyalists

Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it

www.scientificamerican.com

Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it
January 11, 2021

"..Why does Trump himself seem to gravitate toward violence and destruction?
Destructiveness is a core characteristic of mental pathology, whether directed toward the self or others. First, I wish to clarify that those with mental illness are, as a group, no more dangerous than those without mental illness. When mental pathology is accompanied by criminal-mindedness, however, the combination can make individuals far more dangerous than either alone.

In my textbook on violence, I emphasize the symbolic nature of violence and how it is a life impulse gone awry. Briefly, if one cannot have love, one resorts to respect. And when respect is unavailable, one resorts to fear. Trump is now living through an intolerable loss of respect: rejection by a nation in his election defeat. Violence helps compensate for feelings of powerlessness, inadequacy and lack of real productivity.."

 

[Puigb]

with every day that passes Biden looks better and stronger.


i wonder who that pisses off the most.

The Anti-American scumbags that make up the GOP.

 

[PoS]

You have no game. In your post you made this claim...
"AFAIK, no POTUS has ever been snubbed by these leaders before." I popped that weak ass balloon.

You try to make some point about how if djt were president Ukraine would not be invaded. That claim is so stretched everyone can see right through it.

Your posts are appropriate for your avatar

Show some proof that Nixon was actually snubbed by the Saudis. Go on, link it.

 

[mrjurrs]

Show some proof that Nixon was actually snubbed by the Saudis. Go on, link it.

Nixon considered military action to seize oil fields as a last resort. You don't think there were previous attempts to get OPEC to release supply. The embargo ended at the Washington Summit in 1974. It didn't happen on the first day.

 

[mrdeltoid]

Link to cached page of January 23, 2016 article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it

"..The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, a defense attorney who two decades earlier had been a top aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during his infamous effort to root out communists in government. Cohn portrayed the Trumps as the victims and counter-sued the government, demanding it pay them $100 million for falsely accusing them of discrimination."

"Victim" seeking reparations....

TRUMP: No politician in history 'has been treated worse or ...​

In a commencement speech to the 2017 graduating class of the US Coast Guard Academy,
arguing that he has been treated unfairly by the Washington media amid a ..

Trump Said He's Been Treated Worse Than Abraham Lincoln ...​

https://www.businessinsider.com › Politics › News
Jun 17, 2019 — "If you can believe it, Abraham Lincoln was treated supposedly very badly, but nobody's been treated badly like me," Trump told ABC.

The date of your article was a month before the 2020 presidential election.

Americans View Biden as Likable, Honest; Trump, as Strong

Americans are much more likely to perceive Joe Biden than Donald Trump as being likable, and rate Biden better on honesty and caring. Trump's sole advantage is on being a strong and decisive leader.

news.gallup.com

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The 'Shared Psychosis' of Donald Trump and His Loyalists

Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it

www.scientificamerican.com

Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it
January 11, 2021

"..Why does Trump himself seem to gravitate toward violence and destruction?
Destructiveness is a core characteristic of mental pathology, whether directed toward the self or others. First, I wish to clarify that those with mental illness are, as a group, no more dangerous than those without mental illness. When mental pathology is accompanied by criminal-mindedness, however, the combination can make individuals far more dangerous than either alone.

In my textbook on violence, I emphasize the symbolic nature of violence and how it is a life impulse gone awry. Briefly, if one cannot have love, one resorts to respect. And when respect is unavailable, one resorts to fear. Trump is now living through an intolerable loss of respect: rejection by a nation in his election defeat. Violence helps compensate for feelings of powerlessness, inadequacy and lack of real productivity.."

Rather than an endless copy and paste exchange, I’ll concede that you believe Biden is strong and I believe Trump is stronger.

 

[post]

Rather than an endless copy and paste exchange, I’ll concede that you believe Biden is strong and I believe Trump is stronger.

It's about the facts, not belief.

Putin pets his poodle at the Helsinki summit - The Boston Globe

Trump’s actions in Helsinki were truly disturbing.

www.bostonglobe.com

EDITORIAL

Putin pets his poodle at the Helsinki summit​

July 16, 2018,
"...
Standing next to Putin, Trump pointedly refused to accept the universal assessment of his intelligence agencies that Russia attempted to disrupt the 2016 election. Instead, the president engaged in a deflection detour before arriving at this stunning remark: “[Director of National Intelligence] Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.” That supposed bafflement about motive came even though Putin had just acknowledged he had wanted Trump to win “because he was the one who wanted to normalize relations with Russia.”
...
Trump, of course, has a self-interested reason for creating doubt about Russian interference: Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the role Russia played in trying to disrupt the election — and whether the Trump team colluded with those efforts. Mueller’s investigation upped the ante on Friday by securing the indictments of 12 Russian intelligence operatives for their alleged efforts to hack into Democratic campaign organizations. Under their online avatar Guccifer 2.0, those operatives were in touch with at least one close Trump associate, probably Roger Stone. Armed with those indictments, Trump could have forcefully confronted Putin. Instead, he elevated Putin’s credibility to the level of US intelligence agencies. Senator John McCain called this what it was: “One of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.”
The message here will reverberate around the world. No matter what US intelligence agencies say about Russia and Putin, Trump won’t credit that information. Trump may be ready to forget the past — a past that includes the unlawful annexation of Crimea, war against Ukraine, and election meddling — and welcome Putin back into the community of respectable nations. But the past leaves a paper trail.."

Washington Journal: Historians Discuss C-SPAN's Historians Presidential Leadership Survey

Historians Richard Norton Smith, Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Amity Shlaes talked about the results of C-SPAN's fourth Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership.

www.c-span.org

JULY 4, 2021 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 07/04/2021

 

[PoS]

Nixon considered military action to seize oil fields as a last resort. You don't think there were previous attempts to get OPEC to release supply. The embargo ended at the Washington Summit in 1974. It didn't happen on the first day.

That doesnt prove that the Saudis were snubbing Nixon. He was always planning to attack everyone regardless.

 

[American]

I’d prefer a strong man as long as he’s not an idiot like Trump. Trump was all bark anyway. The Biden/Harris combo is as week as it gets.

US drone strike ordered by Trump kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad | CNN

The commander of Iran's Quds Froce has been killed in a United States strike ordered by President Donald Trump and aimed at "deterring future Iranian attack plans," the Pentagon said in a statement.

www.cnn.com

'He died like a dog': Trump announces killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi in Syria

President Trump announced the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, or ISIS, group, in a televised address on Sunday morning.

news.yahoo.com

Trump announces death of al-Qaeda leader in Yemen after US strike

President Trump on Thursday confirmed the death of an al-Qaeda leader in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.Trump said the U.S. carried out a successful counterterrorism operation that killed Q…

thehill.com