ElNono
03-11-2019, 08:06 PM
Cheney grills Pence on Trump's foreign policy
In a private session, the former vice president told the current one that Trump's policy looks too much like Barack Obama's.
Dick Cheney lit into Vice President Mike Pence behind closed doors over the direction of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, flouting a set of agreed-upon subjects and forcing Pence on the defensive over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
The former vice president interviewed Pence at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum in Sea Island, Ga., an off-the-record confab attended by approximately 200 top-dollar Republican donors, lawmakers, and business leaders who flock to the private island every spring.
Cheney pressed Pence about Trump’s proclivity for making major policy announcements on Twitter and his off-and-on commitment to NATO, according to four meeting attendees and a source briefed on their remarks. The former vice president, who has kept a low public profile in recent years, questioned whether Trump places enough value on the findings of the intelligence community, which he has repeatedly and publicly dismissed. He suggested that Trump foreign policy has at times looked more like President Barack Obama’s — which Cheney has repeatedly lambasted — than that of a Republican standard bearer.
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That didn’t stop Cheney from grilling him. Citing what many conservatives derided as Obama’s “apology tour” through the Middle East, Cheney told his successor that, “It seems, at times, as though your administration’s approach has more in common with Obama’s foreign policy than traditional Republican foreign policy,” according to one attendee.
Pence responded by pointing to Trump’s “commitment to rebuilding our military and restoring the arsenal of democracy and noting that the president is “calling on our allies to live up to their commitments to do more.” When Cheney referenced news reports indicating that Trump had agreed to pull American troops out of Syria during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan without informing key allies, Pence replied that the move had been under discussion for six months and wasn’t “made overnight,” according to a source briefed on the conversation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/cheney-mike-pence-foreign-policy-1216663
In a private session, the former vice president told the current one that Trump's policy looks too much like Barack Obama's.
Dick Cheney lit into Vice President Mike Pence behind closed doors over the direction of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, flouting a set of agreed-upon subjects and forcing Pence on the defensive over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
The former vice president interviewed Pence at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum in Sea Island, Ga., an off-the-record confab attended by approximately 200 top-dollar Republican donors, lawmakers, and business leaders who flock to the private island every spring.
Cheney pressed Pence about Trump’s proclivity for making major policy announcements on Twitter and his off-and-on commitment to NATO, according to four meeting attendees and a source briefed on their remarks. The former vice president, who has kept a low public profile in recent years, questioned whether Trump places enough value on the findings of the intelligence community, which he has repeatedly and publicly dismissed. He suggested that Trump foreign policy has at times looked more like President Barack Obama’s — which Cheney has repeatedly lambasted — than that of a Republican standard bearer.
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That didn’t stop Cheney from grilling him. Citing what many conservatives derided as Obama’s “apology tour” through the Middle East, Cheney told his successor that, “It seems, at times, as though your administration’s approach has more in common with Obama’s foreign policy than traditional Republican foreign policy,” according to one attendee.
Pence responded by pointing to Trump’s “commitment to rebuilding our military and restoring the arsenal of democracy and noting that the president is “calling on our allies to live up to their commitments to do more.” When Cheney referenced news reports indicating that Trump had agreed to pull American troops out of Syria during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan without informing key allies, Pence replied that the move had been under discussion for six months and wasn’t “made overnight,” according to a source briefed on the conversation.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/cheney-mike-pence-foreign-policy-1216663