Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Trump Is Slaughtering the Beltway's Sacred Cows

 Bob Woodward's new book, Fear: Trump in the White House is meant to cast a negative light on Donald Trump's presidency.

You see, whether intended or not, Trump's entire political career has been about slaughtering sacred cows.

Think about it: in two major instances in Fear, President Trump expresses skepticism about the American military engagement in Afghanistan as well as our military presence on the Korean peninsula.

According to Trump, the overpriced consultant's "Lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant's waiters instead might have yielded a better result." To add insult-to-injury, Trump is reported to have argued that "The tendency is to assume if someone isn't a three-star general he doesn't know what he's talking about, and that talking to lower-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes in business."

Bob Woodward reports that President Trump had a contretemps last year with Secretary of Defense James Mattis over the United States' longstanding presence in South Korea.

After questioning the desirability of keeping American forces hostage to a nuclear-armed Pyongyang on the Korean peninsula, Trump is derided by shadowy "Experts" and accused of coddling dictators.

What Trump is doing is slaughtering many sacred cows in Washington, D.C. For this reason alone, the "Deep State" has decided Trump's presidency must be ended.

https://spectator.org/trump-is-slaughtering-the-beltways-sacred-cows/

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