RAND PAUL GOES AFTER RESPONSE TO TRUMP, PUTIN MEETING, SAYS IT’S ‘TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME’
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said critics of President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladmir Putin in Helsinki, Finland have “Trump derangement syndrome” Monday on CNN.
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“Let me get right to the questioning. Do you believe that President Trump’s meeting with Putin made America safer?” asked CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
“You know, I think engagement with our adversaries, conversation with our adversaries is a good idea. Even in the height of the cold War, maybe at the lowest ebb when we were in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, I think it was a good thing that Kennedy had a direct line to Khrushchev. I think it was a good thing that we continued to have ambassadors to Russia even when we really objected greatly to what was going on, even during Stalin’s regime. So I think that it is a good idea to have engagement,” Paul said.
“And I think that what is lost in this is that I think there’s a bit of Trump derangement syndrome. I think there are people that hate the president so much that this could have easily been President Obama early in the first administration setting the reset button and trying to have better relations with Russia and I think it’s lost on people that they are a nuclear power,” Paul continued.
The Kentucky senator added, “They have influence in Syria. They’re in close proximity to our troops in Syria. They are close to the peninsula of North Korea and may have some influence that could help us there. The other thing that’s lost and people forget this completely, the Russians tried to help us stop the Boston marathon bombing. We actually did help them stop a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg because we were communicating and exchanging information.”
Paul went on to say that “all of those things are good, and because people hate Trump so much, all of that’s being lost.”
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From this opinion piece it would seem that many of the top Republicans have ''Trump derangement syndrome''
Don't you think that that is kinda strange?
the never trumpers are no surprise. both left and right have been selling us out for about 60yrs.
Do you consider McConnell, Ryan and others as ''never Trumpers''....They seem to support Trump 90% of the time.
I mean all you have to do is look at George Will. He's turned out to be a left wing weasel boy. Trump knows damn well what a POS that Putin is and when the tone of his talk turns negative about Putin and Russia, then the never-Trumpers wll accuse him of saber rattling and war mongering, such as they did about Kimmy Poo. No good would have come from getting into a heated exchange or a fist fight at the "presser". You don't get anywhere trying to publicly humiliate someone like Pootie, it just further muddies the waters. I think Trump laid his cards out to Putin in the private meeting as to what he [Trump] will find acceptable, or not. Meantime, talks continue behinds the scenes, as they are with NK.
patience is a virtue
It seems that others that are not ''never Trumpers'' have called him out on his latest display of ignorance....
If Trump had never been elected or never got close to being elected we would have never found out all the corruptness that went on during the last 8 years. Obama knew all about all of the corruptness and in no way can say he learned it on the TV like the rest of us, unless he missed all his morning meetings. He had nothing to say about it until the potential that Trump had a chance of winning. No one knows anyone who changed their votes because of Russian meddling and no ballots were affected.
By Trump being elected the GDP is on par for nearly 4.0 this quarter. Trump has stopped, at least for the moment, North Korea's missile launches, the Dow has gone up 4 times as much as it did during the last 2 years of Obama's time in office, millions have received pay raises, bonuses and more company retirement involvement. Germany has been discovered to be sending millions, if not billions, to Russia for a private natural gas deal, when we are the people who are suppose to protect them from Russia, NATO has been called out and it appears they have decided to do better in their support of NATO
None of this would have happened if Hillary Clinton had been elected.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected....
We would be fighting for our guns
We would be fighting to stop illegal immigration, which she would have promoted.
Catch and release would still be going on
We would probably be in a war with Russia instead of trying to promote peace
We'd be flying over Syria killing millions of citizens
The anarchy in this country would have a free run
The list can go on and on.
Only time will tell for sure. trump's presidency is going exactly as I predicted it would at this point. "Clean up on isle 1,2,3 and 6 and 7 pronto !"
Yep and as far and wide as one's imagination could carry it.
Meanwhile, in reality at this time we actually have "Clean up on isel 1,2,3 and 6 and 7 pronto !"
Yep, It just can't get any better...LOL
I don't think many people, right or left, depend on Rand paul to give them direction as to what to think about things. His opinions are immaterial.
He's always been a pain in the rump of the neocons. We could use more like him.
We could use more people that ignore the findings of every US intelligence agency in existence? How is that a good thing?
After yesterdays debacle by Mr. Trump no one is listening to this crap, no one ever listened to Mr. Paul so what He has to say is neither here nor there. Sorry Heartland, Mr. Trump has been exposed for the coward and traitor He is and it was on the world stage for all to see.
What was he supposed to do or say, in your view? What positive effect would it have produced?
Not trying to tweak you, but are you referring to Mr. Rand's comments or Mr. Trump?
I listen to Rand he's my favorite member of the Senate. I liked his dad even more but Rand is a chip off the old block.
If you consider this comment to be true, do you have any proof, a link etc to back up your comment?
Also why aren't you pointing out the many republicans that are practicing willful sabotage and disruption ...You know Ryan, McConnell et al.
Orange conman toddler in chief isn't going to do shit for the US, BELIEVE ME. He's only playing grab ass with Putin so he can still get personal and business loans from Russian banks since NO US Banking institution will touch this POS.
Trump is going to repair our relations with Russia as much as possible despite willful sabotage and disruption from the democrat party
LOL and just what could Obama had done that he would have not be crucified at the time over ?
In reality he didn't have much choice IF he would have moved on the information at the time he would have been attacked unmercifully. I call it a catch 22 moment, you're screwed either way.