Wednesday at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo he was before a group of senators “filled with serious doubts” about the Trump White House on foreign policy.
Corker said,”It’s our hope you will reduce our level of concern by providing us with clear answers that might help convince us that those at the White House know what they are doing and to be candid, you know what they are doing. I can’t say it more forcefully, we really need a clear understanding as to what is going on. What our president is agreeing to and what our strategy is on a number of issues.”
He continued, “Last week President Trump held a summit with Vladimir Putin, someone who has violated the most fundamental international norms through his efforts to annex Crimea, has interfered with elections, including our own, has supported the brutal Assad regime in Syria, has used chemical weapons to poison a Russian agent and his daughter in the United Kingdom, has occupied portions of Georgia, continues to violate the INF treaty, has reportedly hacked U.S. utilities. The last goes on and on and you know the list. In the face of these hostilities in the summit’s aftermath, we saw an American president who appeared submissive and deferential.”
He added, “We’ve heard that some agreements were reached but as of yet have little idea what those might be even though the president has already extended an invitation to Putin to come to Washington to discuss the implementation of these undefined agreements.”
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