{"id":72679,"date":"2017-05-16T08:29:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72679"},"modified":"2017-05-16T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:29:58","slug":"trumps-enemies-try-to-bind-his-hands-and-feet-using-russia-as-a-pretext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72679","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Enemies Try to Bind His \u201cHands and Feet\u201d Using Russia as a Pretext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-100-the-presidencyglobo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72681\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-100-the-presidencyglobo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-100-the-presidencyglobo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-100-the-presidencyglobo-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TDW News<\/p>\n<p>Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told CBS that the relations between Washington and Moscow \u201chave deteriorated since the election\u201d of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to political expert Yuri Rogulev, Trump\u2019s opponents use every opportunity to criticize the current US President.\u00a0Robert Gates\u2019 statement is <em>\u201canother round\u00a0of critical arrows\u201d<\/em> against\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism can be justified only partially.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFirst of\u00a0all, we have not yet started to\u00a0build our relations, there are literally the first steps. Secondly,\u00a0Trump clearly is not allowed to\u00a0build and improve relations with\u00a0Russia,\u201d the\u00a0expert stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gates\u2019 statement is not an attempt to\u00a0go against\u00a0the Washington mainstream, but\u00a0rather another attack on\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0\u2014 albeit from\u00a0an unexpected side.\u00a0In his\u00a0opinion, Gates\u2019 statement is not an attempt to\u00a0go against\u00a0the Washington mainstream, but\u00a0rather another attack on\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0\u2014 albeit from\u00a0an unexpected side.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cHe is trying to\u00a0point out\u00a0Trump\u2019s mistakes: during\u00a0the election campaign, he promised to\u00a0improve relations, but\u00a0now there is no improvement, and if there were steps in\u00a0this direction, they can\u2019t be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that he does not depart from\u00a0the mainstream position, it is just another portion of\u00a0criticism\u00a0\u2014 maybe just a little more sophisticated and better reasoned,\u201d Rogulev stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All in\u00a0all, the analyst believes that Trump\u2019s opponents <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywesterner.com\/news\/2017-04-21\/exxon-wants-waiver-from-sanctions-to-drill-in-russia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">use Russia as\u00a0a pretext in\u00a0order to\u00a0discredit Trump<\/a> in\u00a0every possible way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe see that they are trying to\u00a0bind Trump\u2019s hands and feet, and Russia is used as\u00a0a pretext, as\u00a0a tool.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tricky tactic.<\/p>\n<p>They want to\u00a0expose Trump\u2019s \u201clinks\u201d with\u00a0Russia, which will enable them to\u00a0take steps to\u00a0initiate an investigation and impeachment,\u201d the expert concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/dailywesterner.com\/news\/2017-05-12\/trump-is-considering-at-least-four-people-for-fbi-director-including-trey-gowdy\/<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywesterner.com\/news\/2017-05-15\/trumps-enemies-try-to-bind-his-hands-and-feet-using-russia-as-a-pretext\/\">http:\/\/dailywesterner.com\/news\/2017-05-15\/trumps-enemies-try-to-bind-his-hands-and-feet-using-russia-as-a-pretext\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}