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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's foreign policy advisors can be described in one word: Derp.
A Christian academic accused of inciting violence against Muslims. A former Pentagon official who blocked investigations into Bush administration bigwigs. And an assortment of self-professed experts probably few in established foreign policy circles have ever heard of. These are the minds advising Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on foreign policy and national security.
Trump, who has been pressed for months to name his council of advisers, revealed five in a meeting with the Washington Post editorial board on Tuesday: Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares, and Joseph E. Schmitz.
Few of these names will register with most voters, or many experts in Washington. None of them are especially sought after for foreign policy views and national security expertise in the nations capitalwhich may be why theyre attractive to Trump.
Trump revealed little about what specific advice theyd given so far, or how any of them may have shaped Trumps surprising new position that the U.S. should rethink whether it needs to remain in the seven-decades-old NATO alliance with Europe.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/21/donald-trump-s-new-foreign-policy-advisers-are-as-rotten-as-his-steaks.html
Warpy
(110,903 posts)It wouldn't make any difference, it's not like he's going to listen to anything but his own massive ego and set of bigotries.
Johonny
(20,683 posts)so he can pretend to have advisers.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)"help" Trump. They're all as crazypants as Jones.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Nice to know he's got the experts on board