Pompeo, Mattis on cleanup duty after Trump diplomatic blowups

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 Pompeo, Mattis on cleanup duty after Trump diplomatic blowups

At the Hoover Institution, the pair make it clear they stand for a stable global order.

By BRYAN BENDER

07/24/2018 07:32 PM EDT

PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s top national security and foreign policy leaders declared their allegiance Tuesday to the global order that U.S. diplomacy fashioned and reinforced over the decades — just a week after Trump upended that order in Helsinki.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis completed two days of meetings with Australia's foreign and defense ministers at the Hoover Institution, a citadel of the foreign policy elite that’s become increasingly dismayed by Trump’s repeated slams at NATO, widening trade war and last week’s private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Neither Mattis nor Pompeo made any overt remarks about Trump or the controversy over last week’s Helsinki summit. But they repeatedly asserted that the U.S. stands with its allies — and is being tough on Russian aggression; in Pompeo's words, to an extent “unequaled in the history of the United States.”

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/24/pompeo-matteo-trump-putin-helsinki-707901

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The controversy that didn't bark.

[Emjay]

Pompeo, Mattis on cleanup duty after Trump diplomatic blowups

At the Hoover Institution, the pair make it clear they stand for a stable global order.

By BRYAN BENDER

07/24/2018 07:32 PM EDT

PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s top national security and foreign policy leaders declared their allegiance Tuesday to the global order that U.S. diplomacy fashioned and reinforced over the decades — just a week after Trump upended that order in Helsinki.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis completed two days of meetings with Australia's foreign and defense ministers at the Hoover Institution, a citadel of the foreign policy elite that’s become increasingly dismayed by Trump’s repeated slams at NATO, widening trade war and last week’s private meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Neither Mattis nor Pompeo made any overt remarks about Trump or the controversy over last week’s Helsinki summit. But they repeatedly asserted that the U.S. stands with its allies — and is being tough on Russian aggression; in Pompeo's words, to an extent “unequaled in the history of the United States.”

more
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/24/pompeo-matteo-trump-putin-helsinki-707901

This is all so bogus.  Trump didn't slam NATO; he simply requested that other member nations pay their fair share.

As far as trade war is concerned, Trump has explained repeatedly that the U.S. should not be the victim of unfair trade practices and he is trying to correct that.  Whether tariffs work or not can be debated but time will tell.

This ridiculous controversy about Trump's meeting with Putin is entirely democrat created.  Trump did not punch Putin out.  Anything that he might have said privately to Putin, we don't know.  No other President has been belligerent  when meeting with Putin.  It's not what you do.

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This is all so bogus.

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