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David French

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1977 total appearances

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The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

It's going.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

It's going, Michelle.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

I mean, look, this is a war that Trump started that our NATO allies were not consulted on.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

They had been relentlessly scorned.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

As of today on Thursday, Michelle, we have received reporting that Denmark was actually preparing for a potential invasion of Greenland.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

That under the guise of exercises, they had sent troops and the troops had explosives to blow up airfields in case America tried to invade.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

I mean, this is the environment in which we launched another war.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And then there's a lot of reporting that says that General Kane warned Trump that the Strait would close.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And he pushed through these warnings in a way that was essentially, he denied to himself the potential crisis could exist.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And now that it is, he's lashing out in a million different directions.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And this is the first time in my life that we have had a war leader where

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

legitimately you wonder, and I don't even wonder that much, is he really mainly motivated by self-interest here, or is he mainly motivated by the national interest?

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And everything about Trump that we know says this is a dude that's mainly motivated by self-interest, and also that he's extraordinarily mercurial.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And so we just saw this whole exchange, this big escalation in the war where there was an Israeli strike on Iranian natural gas fields.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Then there was an Iranian strike on Qatar's natural gas fields.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And by the way, these are two of the most important facilities for the production of this vital resource in the whole world.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And Trump comes out and says, well,

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Israel struck Iran and then Iran struck Qatar and I didn't want any of this.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And then within moments after that, you get reporting saying, what are you talking about?

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Israel says they did consult, that this was a strike approved by the United States and that Trump just doesn't like the blowback from the Gulf states as a result of all of this.