Media reports White House 'perplexed' that Kamala Harris' first foreign trip is riddled with disasters

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Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC

Vice President Kamala Harris' first foreign trip - to Guatemala and Mexico - has left White House officials with little to be happy about, a new report suggests.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond, who accompanied Harris on her recent trip, reported on Wednesday morning that multiple White House "insiders" were left "perplexed" by Harris' performance overseas.

Diamond added that Harris' own team has expressed "frustration" over their boss and the vice president's answer to certain questions have "overshadowed" whatever successes she actually had on her trip.

One of those answers came during an interview with NBC News' Lester Holt, who confronted Harris about her lack of visits to the US-Mexico border, a frequent point made by conservative critics who have targeted Harris since she was put in charge of the border crisis in March.

Asked why she hadn't been to the border, Harris retorted by saying she also hadn't been to Europe, an answer that left many scratching their heads.

Harris also received backlash for trying to take a hardline stance on immigration while in Guatemala, telling migrants thinking of making the "dangerous trek" to the US to "not come" multiple times, language that was later softened by the White House - they simply said the structures weren't in place yet to properly care for migrants - and received pushback from Harris' own party, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"There was hope the trip would be a success, and in the end, they feel it may have been overshadowed by some of her answers to these questions," Diamond said, acknowledging in the segment that Harris is taking heat "from all sides."

The rest of Harris' trip was marked by bizarre occurrences gathering attention, including her plane having to restart its trip after an unexplained technical issue, and a viral image of cakes modeled after Harris' likeness that she reportedly handed out on the plane, leading critics to blast the vice president as a "narcissist."

She was also greeted in Guatemala by pro-Trump protesters holding signs visible to her motorcade as she made her way to see the president. The signs sported slogans such as "mind your own business," "go home," and "Trump won."

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Harris is barely welcome in her own country, let alone anywhere else:

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weeman666 · 2021-06-09T17:57:26Z

Oh my gosh,really!!!!!! Who knew?

JTF Truth · 2021-06-09T19:02:36Z

Here is what I know, Guatemala is not "overseas" from the USA.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-06-09T19:18:57Z

LOVE that P-51D(+). (Then again, I don't see that the US Air base there was closed in 1946 and never flew P-51's. [Link] Same makes me wonder 'Supermarine Super Spitfire"?)

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-06-09T19:33:20Z

Rowan Cocoan I just found this image which shows the square cut wing tips so I'm running with a P-51, but I will defer to our informed SOTTites. (Which is redundant.) [Link]
Also, the other I was thinking of was a Burmese Hawker Sea Fury which got shot down in Burma by a CIA Kuomintang supply plane in the 1950's -60s. See, generally, [Link]

Although most operational activity concerned flying missions against indigenous rebel groups, the remnants of the KMT also received their fair share of attention from the UBAF. During the late 1950s, the Chinese Nationalist Air Force (CNAF), flew several missions in support of the KMT units remaining in Burma. On one of these missions, on 15 February 1961, an unarmed CNAF P4Y-2 Privateer (or a B-24 Liberator, available sources disagree on the type of aircraft), was shot down by a UBAF Hawker Sea Fury. The Sea Fury was flown by Noel Peters, a former RAF pilot. He fatally crashed in Thailand near the town of Mae Sai to unknown causes shortly after downing the CNAF transport aircraft. To this day, this constitutes the UBAFs sole air-to-air victory.

NOW THAT'S propaganda! The fatal crash of the Sea Fury pilot was found on his wing where he landed despite 50 cal bullets through him.

Here's another:

Burma Between 1957 and 1958, Burma received 21 Sea Furies, the majority of them being ex-FAA aircraft. The Sea Fury was frequently employed as a counter-insurgency platform in Burmese service and on 15 February 1961, a Republic of China Air Force Consolidated PB4Y Privateer was intercepted and shot down by a Sea Fury near the Thai-Burmese border. Of the aircraft's crew, five were killed and two were captured. The aircraft had been on a supply run to Chinese Kuomintang forces fighting in northern Burma.[49] It is believed that the Burmese Sea Furies were retired in 1968 . . .

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