{"id":324698,"date":"2017-09-05T14:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/neocons-about-to-run-amok\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T13:06:35","slug":"neocons-about-to-run-amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/neocons-about-to-run-amok\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocons About To Run Amok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the past few days, it became quite clear to me that\u00a0<b><strong>Donald Trump made a deal with the Neocons in Washington.\u00a0He traded part of his domestic agenda for ceding control of foreign policy to the D.C. establishment.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious when you connect the dots.\u00a0Signing the sanctions bill, the non-shift in Afghanistan policy, the tit-for-tat diplomatic aggression with Russia, weapons to Ukraine, etc<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2017\/08\/30\/breitbart-repeal-obamacare-troop-surge-afghanistan\/\">.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written extensively about this<\/a>.\u00a0Graham is suddenly touting his Obamacare replacement bill.<\/p>\n<p>But, taking Graham at his word what this means is that the whole repeal vote was nothing more than a setup, because in no way could they have put this together in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore,\u00a0<b><strong>this was held back from Trump and the rest of Congress for the purpose of finalizing a number of foreign policy initiatives that Trump was hostile to, namely expanded sanctions on Russia and Iran and a troop surge in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Remember, Graham said after Trump\u2019s Afghanistan speech (cribbed almost verbatim from previous speeches made by National Security Advisor Gen. H. R. McMaster) that he was finally proud of his President.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>These moves make sense only if you realize that Lindsay Graham and John McCain ran an operation on Trump that was all about regaining control of foreign policy at any cost<\/strong><\/b>.\u00a0And the costs were enormous.<\/p>\n<p>It goes farther than Obamacare.\u00a0We\u2019re talking tax cuts now.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halseynews.com\/2017\/09\/01\/graham-grand-plan-trap-trump\/\">Graham also withheld crucial information<\/a>\u00a0about former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s conduct during his investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s email server last year.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And this may give Trump enough room to cut a deal with the GOP to pardon Julian Assange to corroborate Hillary\u2019s crimes as Secretary of State.\u00a0And all of that, in the end, is to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/09\/no_author\/neocons-run-amok\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few days, it became quite clear to me that\u00a0Donald Trump made a deal with the Neocons in Washington.\u00a0He traded part of his domestic agenda for ceding control of foreign policy to the D.C. establishment. It\u2019s obvious when you connect the dots.\u00a0Signing the sanctions bill, the non-shift in Afghanistan policy, the tit-for-tat diplomatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}