Donald Trump Doubles Down on Foreign Policy: What Could Go Wrong?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

With boatloads of trouble at home and a Congress unlikely to actually do anything between now and the election, Donald Trump needs to come up with some way to distract from the Mueller investigation and his deepening legal woes. Live Tweeting Fox & Friends is obviously not doing the trick nor is The Rudy Show. So why not blow up the Iran deal, open an embassy in Jerusalem and negotiate a nuclear deal with a guy who blew up his uncle with an anti-aircraft gun as an alternative? What could go wrong--after all Javanka can handle Israel and John Bolton and Mike Pompeo can do the rest? Our panel of David Sanger, Daniel Benjamin and Rosa Brooks discuss...and then head for the silos to wait it out until Trump decides to go back to beauty contests or something safer.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.1	And in Vermont we have David Sanger who is by a pond somewhere and not too far away. We have Daniel Benjamin of the Dickey Center at Dartmouth and then in
1:26.7	Washington DC we have Rosa Brooks so we've got a great group and I thought that I would start with
1:37.2	events in the Middle East because today as we tape this, and of course, not too long ago as you listen to it, we had the
1:48.8	opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
1:53.5	And we had an image that I think will be one of those that will sort of survive for some time that may become a kind of an indelible image of people at an embassy opening event celebrating applauding, and side by side with that, demonstrations in Gaza, which produced 50 plus deaths,
2:24.4	hundreds of injuries, and continue
2:27.8	this Israeli tough response to protesters on their Gaza border.
2:37.2	And it's a really a stark contrast
2:41.2	and it has produced stark responses from commentators and just concerned citizens everywhere.
2:50.0	Rosa, let me start with you.
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