From New York Times: "Chief Justice Defends Judicial Independence After Trump Attacks ‘Obama Judge’"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/trump-chief-justice-roberts-rebuke.html
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The President, once again, ignores the findings of U.S. intelligence
A very good editorial, below, from The Washington Post.
The President's statement on Tuesday, about Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince, and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi--in which the President, in short, let the Crown Prince off the hook--was beyond disgraceful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-latest-statement-on-khashoggi-was-a-betrayal-of-american-values/2018/11/20/f4efdd80-ecef-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html?utm_term=.8c9c723530d4
The President's statement on Tuesday, about Saudi Arabia, the Crown Prince, and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi--in which the President, in short, let the Crown Prince off the hook--was beyond disgraceful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-latest-statement-on-khashoggi-was-a-betrayal-of-american-values/2018/11/20/f4efdd80-ecef-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html?utm_term=.8c9c723530d4
Monday, November 19, 2018
Max Boot essay: "Donald Trump really is a genius — when it comes to second-guessing other people’s decisions"
From Max Boot's Nov. 19th essay, below, in The Washington Post:
"So convinced is President Second Guesser of his own superior virtue and perspicacity that he does not hesitate to cruelly mock those who have displayed actual heroism in real life. In 2015, he attacked John McCain for being captured by the North Vietnamese — an implicit second-guessing of the split-second decisions McCain made as a Navy pilot flying over some of the most heavily defended airspace in the world. A few months later Trump attacked the generals who had failed to defeat ISIS and suggested that he would do so with torture and indiscriminate bombing.
"So convinced is President Second Guesser of his own superior virtue and perspicacity that he does not hesitate to cruelly mock those who have displayed actual heroism in real life. In 2015, he attacked John McCain for being captured by the North Vietnamese — an implicit second-guessing of the split-second decisions McCain made as a Navy pilot flying over some of the most heavily defended airspace in the world. A few months later Trump attacked the generals who had failed to defeat ISIS and suggested that he would do so with torture and indiscriminate bombing.
"And on Sunday, he attacked retired Adm. William H. McRaven, the Navy
SEAL who supervised the raid that killed bin Laden and who now has the
temerity to criticize Trump’s attacks on the media. “Wouldn’t it have
been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it
have been nice?” the president said. Trump showed no awareness that it’s
not the job of Navy SEALs to find wanted fugitives. That’s the
responsibility of the intelligence community — and as soon as the spies
had found bin Laden, McRaven’s men were spinning up for the mission."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/11/19/donald-trump-really-is-a-genius-when-it-comes-to-second-guessing-other-peoples-decisions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/11/19/donald-trump-really-is-a-genius-when-it-comes-to-second-guessing-other-peoples-decisions
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