Trump is Conflicted About His Conflicts with US Conflict of Interests Policies and Conflicted About the Time He’ll Talk About Conflicts. It’s a Conflict.
It’s a conflict, so he’s postponing to January, which is a conflict.
And In Other News, China Isn’t Very Happy
We all know the story about Cheeto Jesus provoking the Chinese (just for the hell of it) by breaking 40 years of diplomatic status quo by speaking directly with the president of Taiwan. Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, he doubled down saying,
I fully understand the ‘one China’ policy, but I don’t know why we have to be bound by a ‘one China’ policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.
China has said that the One China policy is “bedrock”. Oh, and there’s this – China, for the first time in 18 months, flew one of their nuclear capable bombers over disputed waters in the South China Sea to warn CJ that they’re serious.
In the meantime, CJ says he doesn’t need a daily intelligence briefing. God help us.
Simply Just Awful; But Why?
Paul Manafort, with close ties to pro-Russian Ukrainian strongman, Viktor Yanukovych.
Calls for Russia to hack Hillary’s emails, and complementary statements made about Vladimir Putin during the campaign.
Clear Russian hacking and selective disclosure of hacked emails to help sway the election by damaging Hillary.
Open celebrations in Russia after US election results were announced.
Antagonism against the CIA report of Russian hacking and dismissal of the findings without any basis except that he doesn’t like the answer.
“I’m a smart person,” and “don’t need” daily intelligence briefings.
Russia’s Newest Friend
Russia has a new friend, and no, it’s not Cheeto Jesus. He’s been a friend for a really long time. The new friend? Mitch McConnell. The Washington Post is reporting today that the Obama administration, after being briefed by the CIA that Russia was 
clearly trying to intervene in the presidential election, attempted to form a bipartisan coalition to go after their hackers. Obama wanted a bipartisan effort to avoid looking like he was playing politics during the campaign.
In mid-September, intelligence officials briefed congressional leaders in a secure room in the Capitol. The Democrats present unanimously supported a bipartisan effort to go public with an accusation against Russia for (more…)