{"id":373367,"date":"2018-08-14T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-vs-his-own-administration\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:14:17","slug":"trump-vs-his-own-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-vs-his-own-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vs. His Own Administration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><b>Ron Paul<\/b><br \/><a class=\"sourcetext\" href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2018\/august\/13\/trump-vs-his-own-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ron Paul Institute<\/a><br \/>August 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are President Trump\u2019s senior cabinet members working against him? It\u2019s hard not to conclude that many of the more hawkish neocons that Trump has (mistakenly, in my view) appointed to top jobs are actively working to undermine the president\u2019s stated agenda. Especially when it seems Trump is trying to seek dialogue with countries the neocons see as adversaries needing to be regime-changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember just as President Trump was organizing an historic summit meeting with Kim Jong-Un, his National Security Advisor, John Bolton, nearly blew the whole thing up by making repeated references to the \u201cLibya model\u201d and how it should be applied to North Korea. As if Kim would jump at the chance to be bombed, overthrown, and murdered at the hands of a US-backed mob!<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Trump\u2019s appointees are again working at cross-purposes to him. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he was invoking a 1991 US law against the use of chemical weapons to announce yet another round of sanctions on Russia over what he claims is Putin\u2019s involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged poisoning took place in March and only now did the State Department make its determination that Russia was behind it and thus subject to the 1991 sanction law. Was there new information that came to light that pointed to Russian involvement? According to a State Department briefing there was none. The State Department just decided to take the British government\u2019s word for it.<\/p>\n<p>Where do we get authority to prosecute Russia for an alleged crime committed in the UK, by the way?<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s own Administration is forcing him to accept the State Department determination and agree to sanctions that may well include, according to the 1991 law, a complete break of diplomatic relations with Russia. This would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/ron-paul-trump-vs-his-own-administration.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron PaulThe Ron Paul InstituteAugust 14, 2018 Are President Trump\u2019s senior cabinet members working against him? It\u2019s hard not to conclude that many of the more hawkish neocons that Trump has (mistakenly, in my view) appointed to top jobs are actively working to undermine the president\u2019s stated agenda. Especially when it seems Trump is trying [&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-373367","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\/373367","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=373367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}