GOP heavyweight James Baker slams Trump's foreign policy: 'We have allies that are just scared...

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

GOP heavyweight James Baker slams Trump’s foreign policy: ‘We have allies that are just scared to death’

TRAVIS GETTYS
06 FEB 2017 AT 10:17 ET

James Baker, the veteran Republican statesman, said President Donald Trump’s administration had gotten a lot more wrong so far than it’s done right.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, the former top official under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush criticized the Trump administration’s relationship with Mexico, Israel, NATO allies and the GOP-majority Congress.

“We have allies that are just scared to death,” said Baker, who feared that Trump was trading away sanctions against Russia for “nothing.” Baker — who served as Reagan’s chief of staff and treasury secretary, and then as Bush’s chief of staff and secretary of state — reluctantly voted for Trump, but he wasn’t impressed so far with his White House operations.

“The White House that they have constructed has a lot of chiefs,” Baker told the website. “In this White House, it seems to me, you’ve got at least four, maybe five, different power centers, so we are just going to have to wait and see how it works in practice.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/gop-heavyweight-james-baker-slams-trumps-foreign-policy-we-have-allies-that-are-just-scared-to-death/

[cilla4progress]

1. Maybe an upside is this will spawn a new alliance

Of sane people who want a functioning country?

[blueseas]

20. we can only hope

Where are the sane and decent human beings in government?

[SHRED]

2. Baker helped plant the seeds for Trump to rise to power

All Republicans have with their lying pro-corporate agenda.

Fuck him.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Agreed.

If he voted for Trump, he's an idiot and he's part of the problem.

[heaven05]

6. +++this

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. +1

[madokie]

22. Exactly

[exboyfil]

3. He was at the Super Bowl with Mike Pence

Perhaps a palace coup is coming?

[Solly Mack]

7. I was going to post that. I saw them sitting together.

I think it very telling.

[DK504]

12. 25th Amendment anyone?

Love to see how they get that through.

[heaven05]

4. he voted for him

he may say what he is saying here, but........weak, wishy-washy as most GOPers are."Wait and see"??????????????????geez

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Trump's behavior was predicted, by many people. Anyone who voted for him should have known

Especially someone as astute as Baker.

[Phoenix61]

8. Everything I've read about Twitler indicates that is how he manages

Considering he's gone bankrupt 6 times, I think we know how it will work out. The only good news is it may slow the train wreck down as they ham-string one another.

[C_U_L8R]

11. To heck with the allies

WE"RE scared to death !!!!!!!!!!
We've got a craven idiot manchild at the helm
covered in hate spittle and rancid conspiracy sauce.

[bdamomma]

15. this involves not only the USA

it involves all of us.

No allies means the US gets no backing if any conflict arises.

[hollowdweller]

13. I'm not interested in anything Baker has to say

First he voted for Trump

Second because of his reputation the media pumped up he was able to throw the 2000 election to Bush.

Third his globalism that enriched the 1% and impoverished the US working class is actually WORSE than Trumps protectionism.

In my view his view is one where he and his global elite buddies rip off the working class of the world.

Also remember the reasons for the Gulf War were mostly lies. Iraqi troops massed on he Saudi border. Babies ripped from incubators. All lies. All about keeping the business climate right for he and his Texas oil buddies.

All the shit he did, has brought us to this point. Both Bernie and Trumps populist views were a reaction to what the policies of Baker brought us to as a country. Our soldiers going to war to protect the interests of the global elite, while the working class suffers.

[blueseas]

21. +1

This is true!

[northoftheborder]

14. A "reluctant voter of Trump"....

......is my most despised person ---- even over those who enthusiastically voted for him. They KNEW---- and did it anyway.

[Golden Raisin]

16. Crocodile tears from a cold-blooded

Washington, D.C. "fixer", power-broker and facilitator for Reagan and Bush the Elder.

[NewJeffCT]

17. He's not going to lift the sanctions on Russia for nothing

it's in exchange for their hacking the DNC. Trump will supposedly get an ownership stake in the big Russian oil conglomerate, too.

[longship]

18. Screw James Baker in the ass with a stolen dildo! nt

[Jopin Klobe]

19. Poor little fop, Jimmie Addison Baker III ...

...he helped build this outhouse and now he doesn't want to live in it ...

... quick tip, Jimmie ...

.. when you install a cannon ...

... make sure it's not loose ...