{"id":24904,"date":"2017-08-27T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24904"},"modified":"2017-09-30T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:05:47","slug":"how-the-deep-state-ties-down-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24904","title":{"rendered":"How the Deep State Ties Down Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/08\/26\/how-the-deep-state-ties-down-trump\/\">How the Deep State Ties Down Trump<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>America\u2019s Deep State players have tied down President Trump on Russian sanctions and other foreign and economic policies but that doesn\u2019t mean the struggle is over, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions Act.\u00a0He now has been rendered \u201chelpless\u201d: in respect to d\u00e9tente with Russia \u2014\u00a0gulliverized, spitefully, by his own party, working with the Democrats, to empty Trump\u2019s constitutional\u00a0prerogatives\u00a0in\u00a0foreign policy \u2013 and to seize them for Congress.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22793\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22793\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM-300x238.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM-160x127.png 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM.png 710w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump announces the selection of Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new National Security Adviser on Feb. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And in a further humiliation, Trump has been\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/2017\/08\/httpswwwwashingtonpostcomnewspowerpostpalomadaily-20220170822daily-202-a-dozen-key-lines-from-.html\">rolled<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by his military minders (Generals James Mattis, H.R. McMaster and John Kelly) on his Afghan policy: he has\u00a0relinquished civilian oversight of this military expedition in Afghanistan to McMaster and Mattis \u2014 the former being the presumed author of the \u201cnew\u201d Afghan policy.\u00a0The President was \u201crolled\u201d on his foreign military prerogatives too \u2013 as Commander in Chief \u2013 by his triumvirate of military minders in the White House.\u00a0The \u201ccivilian\u201d leadership has given place to the \u201cmilitary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether these humiliating concessions will appease his opponents sufficiently to allow the President to \u201clive on,\u201d albeit as an incapacitated President, or is this just the <em>hors d\u2019oeuvre<\/em>?\u00a0It seems that the <em>entr\u00e9e <\/em>may be being planned as the complete discrediting of Trump\u2019s base \u2013 ordinary Republicans being lashed to the Trump \u201cTitanic\u201d \u2013 to be sunk along with its captain \u2013 as \u201cwhite-supremacists, white bigots and Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Deep State Ties Down Trump America\u2019s Deep State players have tied down President Trump on Russian sanctions and other foreign and economic policies but that doesn\u2019t mean the struggle is over, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15722,6963,199,7844,694,1109,827],"class_list":["post-24904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alastair-cooke","tag-consortium-news","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26262,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24904\/revisions\/26262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}