President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I appreciate Steve Schmidt bringing this out, but let's not forget that he's finally talking about it 14 years later, after he's made millions playing the anti-Trumper. I suppose I should be grateful that it didn't wait until he could write a book.

 

‘Ultra-MAGA’ longshot roars into contention in key Senate race

 

Is there an echo in here?

 

"I left before the (January 6th) riot" is the new "didn't inhale"/"read it for the articles" of 2022.

 

Probably!

Sorry if I missed it.

 

and now, ffs, this:

 

Sure. And that was only half serious, throwing up a mirror at the conservatives. I really don't object to them having coverage, not these days. Random people get shot over nothing, and they are high profile targets.

OTOH, they poked a dog with a stick. Sometimes they come to their feet snarling. It's not good to be too insulated from that kind of communication.

 

Trump’s Korea policy was even more reckless than we thought

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...esper-trump-reckless-north-korea-south-korea/


"Trump regularly disparaged South Korea, a key U.S. ally in Asia, and repeatedly threatened to order the U.S. military to pull out all 28,500 U.S. troops stationed there, former defense secretary Mark T. Esper writes in a new book. Esper and other top officials worked to dissuade and delay Trump from ordering this withdrawal. And although Trump never gave the order, he never gave up the idea.

Trump said that the South Koreans were “horrible to deal with” and were “ripping us off,” Esper writes. The troop withdrawal issue was wrapped up in Trump’s demand that South Korea increase its financial contribution for the hosting of U.S. troops by 400 percent. “They sell us Samsung TVs and we protect them. It makes no sense,” Esper quoted Trump as saying."