U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin © Reuters / Sputnik
NBC: Trump at odds with his national security team over pro-Russia moves
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Donald Trump is scrapping “the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad.” As luck would have it, that’s precisely what Vladimir Putin’s Russian government wanted the American president to do.
This wasn’t an isolated development. As we discussed last week, Trump has also tried to weaken sanctions, isolated the United States diplomatically, fractured Western alliances, diminished the influence of the State Department (which is now led by Putin’s closest American ally), and largely ignored Russia’s attack on the U.S. elections – all of which serve Moscow’s strategic goals. As Rachel noted on Tuesday’s show, the list of actions in D.C. that Putin is certain to like keeps growing.
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Update: By embracing Russia, Trump bumps up against top advisers (AP).
WNU Editor: President Trump was very opened on what he wanted to do when he ran for President .... and now that he is implementing his agenda .... at least that part of his agenda that is not dependent on Congress .... we are now seeing (and this not a surprise to me at all) the blow-back from national security "anonymous" sources .... whoever they may be.
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