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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:54 PM Mar 2016

Trump'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 nation’s capital—which may be why they’re attractive to Trump.

Trump revealed little about what specific advice they’d given so far, or how any of them may have shaped Trump’s 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

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Trump's foreign policy advisors can be described in one word: Derp. (Original Post) sufrommich Mar 2016 OP
They could be Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Warpy Mar 2016 #1
I take it this is a list of people willing to take X amount of money from Donald Johonny Mar 2016 #2
It looks like a list of people Alex Jones sent over to sufrommich Mar 2016 #3
In an interview The Donald said he's his no. 1 advisor wordpix Mar 2016 #4

Warpy

(110,903 posts)
1. They could be Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 06:03 PM
Mar 2016

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)
2. I take it this is a list of people willing to take X amount of money from Donald
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:29 PM
Mar 2016

so he can pretend to have advisers.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. It looks like a list of people Alex Jones sent over to
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:30 PM
Mar 2016

"help" Trump. They're all as crazypants as Jones.

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