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January 13, 2017 02:34 PM UTC

Radio host drops the ball in interview with Gardner, who signals support for Tillerson

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  • by: Jason Salzman

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In an appearance on KNUS 710-AM Thursday, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is “somebody that a president should be able to have on his cabinet.”

Gardner also said he was “very impressed” with Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos (SSSP).

But Caplis dropped the ball by not challenging Gardner on his comments about Russia.

Gardner: “One of the biggest threats that we had created ourselves is the fact that the U.S. presented weakness over the last eight years. And when we present weakness, we embolden our enemies.  As a result, we’ve seen an emboldened Russia, we’ve seen an emboldened Iran, we’ve seen emboldened terrorists around the globe, and you know, from the Middle East to North Korea.   So, that’s got to change.  And I believe it will change based on the conversation [in hearings] with Rex Tillerson yesterday and what we’re hearing out of the new administration,  that it will be a strong, engaged U.S. foreign policy that shows that the United States will be an active strength and will support our friends and will take it to our enemies.”

Right now we’re having a conversation about whether the next president is actually subject to blackmail by the Russian government, and the next president seems to be entertaining a new policy of capitulating to the Russian position on sanctions, Syria, and Ukraine.

Talking to Caplis, Gardner is saying that an emboldened Russia is a problem, and it’s Obama’s fault for not being tough enough.

But Gardner just participated in a hearing with a nominee for Secretary of State who admitted that he hasn’t talked with Trump about Russia, and this is what Gardner has to say?

You could be Gardner’s very best friend, like Caplis seems to want to be, and still ask Colorado’s U.S. Senator more pointed questions about Tillerson, Trump, and Russia. But Caplis was mum.

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One thought on “Radio host drops the ball in interview with Gardner, who signals support for Tillerson”

  1. So much for the Trump campaign's vetting of Cabinet candidates:

    In an interview following the exchange on Wednesday, Senator Menendez said it was “beyond my imagination” that Tillerson had not engaged in serious discussions about major foreign-policy issues and concerns with President-elect Donald Trump.

    “He said that in his one meeting or his two meetings with the President-elect, he didn’t even discuss Russia—which is beyond my imagination,” the New Jersey Democrat said of the oil-company CEO.

    If Tillerson’s conversations with Trump were as cursory as the nominee suggests, then he has failed to display the basic curiosity and due diligence that would be expected of even the lowest-level diplomat.

    Indeed, Rex Tillerson’s testimony indicates that he does not begin to recognize the responsibilities that go with the position he seeks, let alone the unique challenges that will be associated with serving as Donald Trump’s secretary of state.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/rex-tillersons-jaw-dropping-testimony-just-completely-disqualified-him/

    But I can almost sympathize with Trump's dilemma — given the "Yuge" number of qualified candidates that have publicly rebuked Trump and his erratic tweets of insane policy pronouncements, he's lucky to get the bottom of the barrel scrapings he has.

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