Susan Rice just wrote an op-ed bashing Trump and ended up exposing Barack Obama as a fraud instead.
Look, we all remember how Obama played politics with national security including telling Russia he would have flexibility after his election to Romney in 2012. We have the receipts - scroll down to see an article from 2012 that shows Obama doing what Rice is accusing Trump of.
Hypocrites the Democrats are - every last one of them. From The Washington Examiner:
Susan Rice panned President Trump’s foreign policy, saying he puts his best interests ahead of what is best for the country.
Rice, who served as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2013 to 2017, called Trump’s foreign policy contradictory and self-serving in an op-ed for the New York Times on Monday.
“The unifying theme of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy is simply to service his domestic politics,” she said.
“Mr. Trump welcomes and encourages Russia, a hostile adversary, to interfere in our elections so long as the manipulations benefit him. He discards decades of bipartisan policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to curry favor with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, and thus right-wing political support. The president follows a basic, if unorthodox, playbook: He and his party over our country,” Rice wrote.
Rice also cited the administration’s actions toward Cuba and Venezuela as more evidence, which she said are aimed only at “dishing up red meat to energize the Republican base.”
Rice also cited the administration’s actions toward Cuba and Venezuela as more evidence, which she said are aimed only at “dishing up red meat to energize the Republican base.”
Though Rice credited Trump for backing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, she questioned the president’s motives. She said if Trump truly wanted to help Venezuelans he would grant those already in the U.S. temporary protected status, but that would anger anti-immigrant voters.
“Plenty of presidents before Mr. Trump have made serious, sometimes catastrophic foreign policy mistakes; but, few, if any, decided almost every aspect of foreign policy on the basis of what would help him get re-elected,” she wrote.
Rice, of course, forgets that the joke is always on Barack Obama because everyone remembers when he put his short-term political interests first and told Russia he would have more flexibility after his election.
From Reuters:
President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.
Obama, during talks in Seoul, urged Moscow to give him “space” until after the November ballot, and Medvedev said he would relay the message to incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin.
As he was leaning toward Medvedev in Seoul, Obama was overheard asking for time - “particularly with missile defense” - until he is in a better position politically to resolve such issues.
“I understand your message about space,” replied Medvedev, who will hand over the presidency to Putin in May.
“This is my last election … After my election I have more flexibility,” Obama said, expressing confidence that he would win a second term.
“I will transmit this information to Vladimir,” said Medvedev, Putin’s protégé and long considered number two in Moscow’s power structure.
