For a President who likes to call himself strong... he has a weakness which is, he is not a very good poker player.
James Clapper: “For a President who likes to call himself strong... he has a weakness which is, he is not a very good poker player.”
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Clapper remarks on the President's inability to separate personal attacks from national security concerns regarding Russia.
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I think the tide is beginning to turn here in favor of the Ukrainians, and if they can sustain this, and that means, we in NATO, providing them the weapons they need, the supplies they need, et cetera because the Russians are going to run…
This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.
This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves using about revelations of abuse of power by the Trump administration.
He has a grievance eating at him for about 20 years and has made a decision, I think, to try to redraw the national security architecture of Europe.





