by Jim Heath | Jan 30, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
President Trump is convinced he knows more about the world than his intelligence chiefs. and today said they should “go back to school” and lectured their “naive” assessments. This after they sharply contradicted his foreign policy claims, on...
by Jim Heath | Jan 30, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
If you’re an American president, it’s probably not a great idea to meet with a foreign leader who meddled in your country’s elections without some way to record what’s being discussed. But that’s just what President Trump did — again. According to the Financial Times,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 29, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
A new American intelligence assessment of global threats has concluded that North Korea is “unlikely to give up” all of its nuclear stockpiles, and that Iran is not “currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activity” needed to make a bomb, directly...
by Jim Heath | Jan 29, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
The Trump Administration announced Sunday that it had ended sanctions on three companies controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, then the very next day a Trump insider was appointed to Deripaska’s board. Sanctions on Russian energy giant EuroSibEnergo,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Immigration
President Trump tweeted this afternoon that he will be making a “major announcement” tomorrow from the White House concerning the ongoing government shutdown, and a bipartisan number of lawmakers hope he is not declaring an emergency. Trump wrote in a...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2019 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
After their first and only meeting last year, President Trump said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “fell in love.” Now they’ve agreed to a second date in hopes of taking the relationship to the next level. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said this...
