Stephen Biegun tutored Palin on foreign policy; now leading Trump's push to denuclearize

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Tucker Higgins
Published 4 Hours Ago

... Biegun .. named to the position last week ... has focused for much of his career on Europe ...

"It's been the case where no one in the State Department has the ability to convey the complexity of this process to the president in a way that he understands and will go along with," said Brett Bruen, who served as the White House's director of global engagement ...

... Biegun will have to carefully manage his relationship with a president whose goals experts say are unrealistic, while negotiating with a foreign adversary that has dogged American negotiators for decades ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/former-sarah-palin-tutor-stephen-biegun-leads-trump-north-korea-push.html

[Solly Mack]

1. Oh, yeah. Cause tutoring Palin was so successful.

Same results. Different asshole.

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3. It might have been an easy assignment, compared to shoring up The Don

[Solly Mack]

4. True. Palin probably didn't throw anything at him.

Can't be too sure with the orange blob.

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2. Palin's Foreign Policy

By Romesh Ratnesar
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008

... I reached this conclusion after watching the foreign-policy portion of her disastrous Sept. 25 interview with .. Katie Couric ... Palin resembled a "high schooler trying to BS her way through a book report," which is an insult to both high schoolers and BS. Palin's answers were hesitant, convoluted and, at times — like when she appeared to suggest that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might be preparing a one-man airborne invasion of Alaska — downright loony ...

... the more worrisome responses were the ones that betrayed her lack of curiosity about current events and reliance on bumper-sticker wisdom over complex thoughts. There were moments, in fact, in which you wondered whether she had been paying any meaningful attention to the world outside Alaska before McCain picked her as his running mate ...

... did she just not know what Couric was talking about?

... Most Americans are not particularly interested in the nuances of politics in Pakistan or the Middle East. But we should expect our leaders to be fluent in at least the basics of foreign policy. So far, Palin is still struggling for words.

http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1845116,00.html

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5. He taught her everything he knew,

and she's still stupid.