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Donald Trump's Top Foreign Adviser, Joseph Schmitz, is a Former Blackwater Executivehttp://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/25/donald_trumps_top_foreign_adviser_joseph
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AMY GOODMAN: Jeremy Scahill, I wanted to ask about Donald Trump. He originally said on MSNBC, when asked about who his foreign policy advisers were, "Im speaking with myself, number one," he said, "because I have a very good brain." But then, with The Washington Post, he talked about his top foreign policy advisers and named Joseph Schmitz as one of them. Talk about who Joseph Schmitz is.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Yeah, Joseph Schmitz was the Pentagon inspector general under Donald Rumsfeld, and he didnt really inspect much of anything. He was a big cheerleader, actually, for many of the most kind of excessive policies of Rumsfeld and the Pentagon in the post-9/11 world. And when Schmitz left the DOD, he became an executive at Blackwater. And Joseph Schmitz is ayou know, is a radical Christian supremacist. He is a member of the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta and really is sort of ayou know, has a neo-crusader worldview. And Im choosing those words carefully. I mean, thatshe is definitely a radical Christian supremacist.
And he was an enthusiastic fan of Erik Prince and Blackwater, and he goes and he joins that company. And, you know, this is a guy, though, whowhen I was researching him for the Blackwater book, he wrote a series of letters to the editor of conservative newspapersWashington Times and othersin the '90s. He was a fanatical opponent of abortion. And in one of the letters, heI actually want to quote this correctly, because Joseph Schmitz threatened to sue me onceand, of course, he couldn't, because everything I said was true. But he said, "As a former fetus the plight of aborted innocent human life is as real to me as rape is to most women."
This is Donald Trumps, you know, top foreign policy adviser right now. And, you know, I mean, Joseph Schmitz is, in many ways, in Washington a total clown and a joke because of his insane worldview that has no bearing in the modern world, and yet he continues to get government contracts. He washe was getting paid by the inspector general on Afghanistan under the Obama administration. And, you know, so hes part ofI wouldnt even put him in the category of neoconservatives. I mean, its really more the neo-crusader crowd that Joseph Schmitz is a part of.
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Donald Trump's Top Foreign Adviser, Joseph Schmitz, is a Former Blackwater Executive (Original Post)
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Mar 2016
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malaise
(269,237 posts)1. Oops - have you seen this??
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)2. This Should SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE!
Erik Prince is a Nazis for Christ.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)3. No more christian extremists!