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Setting the impeachment inquiry aside, it is striking how many new data points we have on Trump’s failed foreign policy, in just in the last few days:
Trump’s decision to kill the Iran nuclear deal and pursue “maximum pressure” not only has brought the region to the brink, Iran is now firing up 1000 centrifuges in an underground facility — the very spot Obama exposed and then dismantled under the deal.

wsj.com/articles/iran-…
North Korea launched missiles in violation of international sanctions — the 9th set since May — even as Trump looks the other way. Three meetings with Kim Jong-un later, Trump has secured no concessions, and missile and nuke programs advance unimpeded.

foxnews.com/world/north-ko…
After Trump gave a green light to Turkey to invade Syria, setting back the fight against ISIS and betraying our partners, he touted a “ceasefire.” This week we learn fighting hasn’t stopped and Russia, Syria, and Iran are cementing gains at our expense.

foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/04/sec…
Trump further hurt set back efforts to address our melting planet by initiating withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, leaving us further isolated and in climate denial.

16th months after a federal judge ordered Trump to stop ripping children from their parents at the border, we only now learn 1556 more families were separated than we knew. The damage is still being done.

cbsnews.com/news/family-se…
And, of course, $100 at a hardware store is all you need to defeat Trump’s wasteful, offensive, and dumb border wall.

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[Thread] Trump’s blank check approach to the Saudis was sold as a hard-nosed approach to a tough region, or as Pompeo put it, allowing the Saudis to be a “powerful force for stability in the Middle East.”
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But in giving the Saudis an unconditional embrace, we’ve enabled and created the conditions to make the region more unstable, not less.
Let’s take a closer look at what America is really getting out of Trump’s approach to the Saudis and the Gulf:
1. Deeper complicity in the war in Yemen, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Trump has doubled down on support for the Saudis’ disastrous war, selling missiles, bombs, and precision-guided munitions to fuel the conflict, all while bypassing Congress.

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One reason Trump misjudged North Korea is that he tends to take autocrats at face value. He did it again this morning on the brutal death of Otto Warmbier, saying of Kim:
“He tells me he didn't know about it, and I take him at his word,” Trump said.

washingtonpost.com/politics/he-te…
He refused to hold the Saudi leadership to account for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American resident and journalist:
“He’s the leader of Saudi Arabia. They’ve been a very good ally,” Trump said in an interview in the Oval Office.

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
And, of course, in Helsinki he took Putin's word over that of America's intelligence community:
"I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today."

cnn.com/2018/07/16/pol…
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[Thread] Let’s take a look at Trump’s “America First” foreign policy in action, over just the last few days. Trump spent 48 hours on the ground at the G-20, made no major public address, no press conference, and cancelled or downgraded meetings with America’s closest allies.
He went into his most important meeting, with China’s President Xi Jinping, without a clear plan and came out of it with a confused outcome — at best kicking the can down the road, at worst sending us further off a cliff.

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Distracted by scandal at home, and with fresh Russian aggression in Ukraine, Trump made a show of cancelling his meeting with Putin, but still found time to talk face-to-face — details we only learned about from the Kremlin.

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