His noxious tweets undermine his presidency. Trump should not undermine our institutions because of the corrupt or illegal actions of some individuals.ĥ. But the vast majority of those in the FBI, the Justice Department and the CIA are good, decent and honorable patriots who deserve the president’s respect. Trump is right to be angry about leaks of private conversations with foreign leaders and the political bias of some individuals involved in the Russia probe. He has attacked the FBI and the intelligence community. Trump promised to start treating captured terrorists as enemy combatants again, but instead of intelligence-driven interrogation and sending terrorists to Guantanamo Bay, he has continued Obama’s criminal-justice approach to terrorist detention.Ħ. He is giving Miranda rights to captured terrorists. By forging a de facto alliance with Russia and Iran to defeat the Islamic State, Trump is driving Sunni Arabs into the waiting arms of al-Qaida – which is preparing to replace the Islamic State and is much more dangerous.ħ. Yet he spent an inordinate amount of time in his first year at war with members of his own party.Ĩ. Trump needs to expand his Senate majority if he wants to pass his agenda. He has spent more time attacking Republicans than Democrats. Perhaps the “Resistance” would have refused, but Trump would have gotten credit for trying.ĩ. Bush reached across the aisle in their first year in office, but Barack Obama told Republicans that “elections have consequences” and “I won.” Instead of repeating Obama’s mistake, Trump should have reached out across party lines. On Wednesday, I gave my list of the 10 best things Trump has done in his first year in office.
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In his first year in office, President Donald Trump has done many positive things – from enforcing Barack Obama’s red line in Syria to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, driving the Islamic State from its physical caliphate, getting NATO allies to kick in more money for our collective security, reversing Obama’s Afghan withdrawal, enacting historic tax and regulatory reforms, and installing conservative judges who will preside for decades.īut his record of conservative achievement has been overshadowed by a series of self-inflicted wounds.
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