Curt Mills
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Mar
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Trump, in the days leading up to him taking the Oval Office oath, issued essentially an enormous denunciation, a fatwa against Mr. Hook, extraordinary, to say not only is this guy not in the mix, I hate him. And he said that. So that occurred. And then additionally, both Hook and Pompeo's security detail was removed in the last few days.
He definitely has not served, Mr. Biden.
Not an expert on who gets Secret Service details. I can actually directly answer that. So the key thing here is that there is an allegation, a belief, many in the intelligence community believes this, that there were serious, credible plans by the Iranians to assassinate members of the Trump high command, as it were.
So Trump, Hook, John Bolton, et cetera, et cetera, in revenge principally for the Soleimani assassination.
The cause is belly for it.
I think the key thing here is the critique on Trump always was he fired Bolton, but he didn't really understand why. So he just, he soured on the guy, but he didn't change any like policy. You know, he didn't learn. This is the sort of pedantic way of looking at the president. But with The Hook and Pompeo,
removal from his inner circle uh there is i think very credible evidence that uh trump's personal grudges are now blending quite heavily with policy he doesn't trust the iran hawk old guard a lot of the iran hawk old guard think tanks struck out in getting uh transition officials and officials in this government and again circled around this very unlikely pentagon
helmed by a guy who has changed his life, it appears, in pretty severe ways over the last five years, both ideologically and morally, is this very new Pentagon that is now being targeted by all the usual suspects. And it is the biggest story in American politics that people aren't talking about.
I mean, you control the Pentagon. You control the military.
Yeah. I mean, the Bolton firing itself is, again, ancient history, but it's circled around an issue of policy. Oh, I remember. Yeah. So, I mean, Trump had invited the Taliban, which was then the outlaw, not government of Afghanistan, as it is today, to Camp David. Yeah. On 9-11. I just love the sound of it. So Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David. He did. He literally did that.
I mean, I'm just reporting the facts here.
Bolton was wiped out before this meeting never happened, but it was the instigating... incident for the final breakdown of their relationship.
It is. Very funny. A lot of this stuff is very funny. It is sort of funny.
Is that what you're seeing? No. I mean, if he sees this through, this is the biggest presidency, certainly since Reagan, you alluded to FDR. I mean, it is moving the ship of state and people are going to try to stop him from doing it. Yes. But they're not going to say that he's bad, though. They're going to go after... No one will ever say, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
readjusting expectations for what we can achieve. The reason that I started covering war on foreign policy principally is that the reality is that U.S. domestic policy is a morass. It's impossible to get anything done. Obama tried to do a healthcare plan. Six years in, they couldn't even get the website working. The country's hard to govern. But externally, the president is imperial. He's God.
Quite literally the most powerful person on earth. And if you want to burnish a legacy real quick, you do big things in foreign policy. You do shocking things in foreign policy.
Well, he seems to have the authentic view that these people can afford it, especially with Fauci and especially with Bolton. He specifically flagged them. Yeah. And Pompeo, who's now running around being like, I'm actually a businessman. He's on a board of a Ukrainian company as well.
Look, I mean, so the Pompeo thing is supremely interesting because, you know, I think it's somebody who probably would have positioned himself to run in a major way had Trump lost. I think it's somebody who's not going to quit being president. This is not an unintelligent man. Pompeo is smart.
He's not dumb. No, I agree. This is a real fighter.
um and uh i don't want to say he's part of the cynical bet crowd but he's making a bet that the trump thing will pass and i will be able to steamroll people like vance and even rubio in the future because i'm more vicious and um in the meantime uh you know maybe make some money uh influence the debate etc etc and he's very impressive if you don't know
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