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"This Trump plan, at least so far as I understand it, sounds a lot like the kind of plan we've come up with again and again since the end of World War Two," a senior Pentagon officer says. "We're going to surge troops, reform the government we support and put pressure on our allies. In this building [the Pentagon] there's a hell of a lot of skepticism. And that's because we all know what this new strategy really means - and what it means is that the only way we can get out of Afghanistan is to get further in. You know, it seems to me that if there's one thing we've learned, it's that that doesn't work."Bah! Work shmirk. The point is that copying Obama's failed "surge" strategy will look aggressive and manly and will pump even more of that Fed-issued fiat debt paper into the pockets of the Pentagon and their contractor buddies, so now Trump is officially "Presidential" according to all the neocons on the right and the warmongers on the left.
Few staff members in the West Wing are as concerned about it [as the President], senior administration officials said.
Some in the White House have urged Trump not to focus as much on the wall, try to pass a clean debt-ceiling bill and move to tax reform. "You have barely anyone here saying, 'Wall, wall, we have to get the wall at all costs,'" one White House official said.
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Two people who have spoken to Trump said he sees not building the wall as a personal embarrassment - and that he has shown more interest in building the wall than in other issues, like the upcoming budget negotiations. "You don't want a government shutdown," the White House official said. "He is told that. He says, 'I want money for the wall.'"
Politico article here.
"Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year's presidential election," Rohrabacher said, "Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails."On Friday Rep. Rohrabacher joined Tucker Carlson to discuss his meeting with Julian Assange. Rohrbacher told Tucker Assange knows who provided him the information and it was likely a Democrat party insider. Rep. Rohrabacher:
Pressed for more detail on the source of the documents, Rohrabacher said he had information to share privately with President Trump.
"Julian also indicated that he is open to further discussions regarding specific information about the DNC email incident that is currently unknown to the public," he said.
He was adamant that the Russians played no role in the disclosure of the Democratic National Committee their emails that were exposed during the election. They played no role... The liberal left in this country had every reason to lie about it... The whole thing is a fraud, is a con job.
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