Monday, October 9, 2017

Tom Cotton on Tillerson and Mattis: If you can’t get with the Trump program, quit.

 Bridget Mulcahy/POLITICO

This is a moment of truth for President Trump’s national security team. He is set to overrule both his secretaries of State and Defense on the Iran nuclear deal this week, declaring it no longer in the U.S. “national interest” in explicit contradiction to their public position. And if they don’t like it, Senator Tom Cotton says, then they should get out.

Their “job is now to move out and execute,” Cotton, the Arkansas Republican and national security hawk who is one of Trump’s closest remaining congressional advisers on foreign policy, says in a new interview for The Global Politico, our weekly podcast on world affairs. Or, “if you feel strongly enough, then you have to resign.”

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8 comments:

  1. According the TV news, ABC ( gag ), Tillerson called Trump
    a moron. It's possible as Trump is abrasive.

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    1. Trump is abrasive.

      I am sure, but he's the boss so if you can't take it, leave.

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    2. Most of the good ones have left. Diplomacy.
      Spicer, whom I could care less about, said he went to
      see Trump at the WH and Trump slammed the door in his
      face.

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    3. Thanks and I couldn't find an article concerning this. Do you have a ink?

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    4. What's ink S/B link

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  2. Oh, I get it. Didn't notice the misspell.
    About in the middle of this video he states after fired
    he went to confront Trump about his dismissal, then the
    door slammed:
    http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/sean-spicer-resigns-white-house-press-secretary-48783785

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