Russia 'Has Leverage' Over Trump Foreign Policy Says ex-CIA Official
Former CIA and Department of Defense official Jeremy Bash argued on Monday that President Donald Trump’s foreign policy makes sense when you look at it through the lens of Russia’s international ambitions.
Bash, who served as the chief of staff of the DoD after serving as the chief of staff of the CIA under President Barack Obama, appeared on a segment of MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss Trump’s shifting foreign policy positions. He argued that Trump’s international policies appear to be impacted by Russian “leverage over him”
“I would say that the president actually is operating from a coherent perspective, in that he totally pushes away intelligence, he doesn’t listen to it, every instance as you go down the line, his foreign policy is one where Russia has leverage over him,” Bash alleged.
“It’s kind of inexplicable,” he continued. The former CIA official then laid out a series of foreign policy decisions made by the president that have appeared to be in Russia’s interest.
“If you look at the Syria decision to basically prop up [Syrian President Bashar al-]Assad, which is a Russian client, if you look at the decision to denigrate NATO, if you look at the decision to invite Russia back into the G-7 publicly in front of all the other allies, if you look at the decision to endorse election interference by [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, and now if you look at the decision to allow Russia to interfere in Venezuela against U.S. interests,” he argued, “that’s a pretty coherent worldview.”
“It’s totally at odds with what the U.S. intelligence community believes,” Bash asserted.
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