David Frum: Trump Administration Is a ‘Collection of Jokers and Crackpots and Crooks’

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On predicting what what he’s going to do. I’m not sure he knows.
>> Smart move from a smart lady. David, when you were in a pivotal moment for a presidency, which I think it is fair to call this moment and a decision of this magnitude arises, what do those conversations normally look like? And then compare that to what we are seeing from this administration?
>> Well, I don’t think.
>> You should compare this administration to anything else in American history.
>> This collection of jokers.
>> And.
>> Crackpots and crooks. We should not allow the drama of the moment to efface from our minds what we know about this administration. It is vacillating. It is weak. When President Trump says he needs two weeks, that means he’s looking for a way not to make a decision, not for a way to make a decision that he enjoys the feeling of power in his hands, but he flinches from the consequences of responsibility.
>> He staffed his.
>> Administration with people. Who shouldn’t.
>> Be.
>> In positions.
>> Of.
>> Public trust. One obvious move that the Iranians would have, for example, if the United States struck at them, would be to activate terror networks inside the United States and inside America’s. what remains of America’s networks of allies after Trump’s attacks on all the allies. So we’ve got a now, if you’re going to defend the country against those, you’ve got an FBI where they have laid off all the counterterrorism. Professionals headed by jokers. You got a Department of Homeland Security that has spent hundreds of millions and millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to say thank you, Trump, again, with kind of a play acting director, you’ve got a defense department whose under the leadership that no one would put this defense department under on the way to.
>> War.
>> It just doesn’t add up. So Trump loves bluster. He loves talk. One of the things that the Israelis need to keep in mind, and.
>> My friends in the pro-Israel.
>> Community need to keep in mind, Trump betrays everyone who trusts him, with one exception, and that is Vladimir Putin, not Israel. He’s betrayed his creditors. He’s betrayed.
>> His investors.
>> He’s betrayed his wives. He’s betrayed his children. He will betray you to be wary of putting.
>> Your. Trust in him. And Israel.
>> Is not a very exposed position. It’s got it’s begun.
>> A.
>> War with magnificent success. But it doesn’t have an obvious way to bring the war to a successful conclusion. It was counting on Trump to help them.