Frank Kendall and the Weapons of Tomorrow Eric and Eliot discuss the week’s jackassery, including the administration’s stripping former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall of his security clearance for innocuous comments about Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.
Source: Eric S Edelman; Eliot A Cohen — Read the full report
Frank Kendall and the Weapons of Tomorrow Eric and Eliot discuss the week’s jackassery, including the administration’s stripping former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall of his security clearance for innocuous comments about Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. Eric and Elio…
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Melania Trump hosted representatives from the Russian and Ukrainian governments at the White House on Thursday to mark the end of a localized ceasefire. The source describes this as a limited humanitarian breakthrough, noting it occurred while President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war have not succeeded.
The event took place two days after a midterm election defeat that Republicans attribute to the Iran war.