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TRUMP GOES ROGUE – Makes Massive Putin Announcement

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to issue a terrifying threat

to Russia's President Vladimir Putin that indicates World War III could be closer than

ever.

Daily Mail reported that Trump warned a missile attack on Syria is coming hours after the

Kremlin pledged to shoot down any rockets fired at the Assad regime in retaliation for

last week's poison gas atrocity.

"Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria.

Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and 'smart!'

You shouldn't be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!"

Trump wrote on Twitter.

"Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the

Cold War," Trump later added.

"There is no reason for this.

Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and

we need all nations to work together.

Stop the arms race?"

Russia's foreign ministry responded to Trump's tweet by saying, "smart missiles should

fly towards terrorists, not legal government."

Trump has made it clear that unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, he is not afraid to take action

against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and it's Russian backers for chemical attacks

in the war-torn country.

Rescue workers say that over 40 people died on Saturday in a chemical attack in the rebel-held

Damascus suburb of Douma.

The attack left victims struggling to breathe, foaming at the mouth, and with discolored

skin.

The World Health Organization released a statement condemning the chemical attack.

"WHO demands immediate unhindered access to the area to provide care to those affected,

to assess the health impacts, and to deliver a comprehensive public health response,"

said Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general for emergency preparedness and response.

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Trump mentions US prisoners in North Korea - Duration: 1:19.

Right now, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's regime is holding at least three American

citizens captive.

Ahead of his meeting with Kim, President Trump said the U.S. is in talks to free those three

people.

Trump said, "We are likewise fighting very diligently to get the three American citizens

back.

I think there's a good chance of doing it; we're having very good dialogue."

One of the captives, Kim Dong-chul, was arrested in 2015 and charged with spying.

The other two, Tony Kim and Kim Hak-song, were seized in 2017 and accused of "hostile

acts."

Trump also promised to raise the issue of Japanese citizens held captive in North Korea

— a key issue for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The last American captive North Korea returned to the U.S., student Otto Warmbier, was medically

evacuated from the country and died shortly after returning.

That prompted Trump to chastise the North during his State of the Union.

"We need only look into the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the

nature of the nuclear threat it could pose," Trump said.

Relations between the two countries are slightly warmer now.

But Trump also said he's willing to walk away from the negotiating table if he doesn't see

"fruitful" progress from North Korea.

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President Trump Visits Key West - Duration: 2:25.

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PUBLIC ENEMY #1: Reports Suggest CNN Helped Orchestrate Setup Of Trump - Duration: 6:16.

PUBLIC ENEMY #1: Reports Suggest CNN Helped Orchestrate Setup Of Trump.

Memos written by former FBI director James Comey reveal that CNN may have helped orchestrate

a possible setup of then-president-elect Donald Trump.

According to multiple published reports, the memos seem to indicate that a meeting Comey

had with Trump was prompted by pressure from CNN and then was used to launch the media

frenzy over the anti-Trump dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee

and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist writes:

In multiple memos, Comey specifically mentioned that CNN had the dossier and wanted a "news

hook" that would enable the network to report on its most salacious allegations even though

they had not been verified.

Writing on the conversation he had with Trump, Comey wrote in a classified memo: "I said

the Russians allegedly had tapes involving him and prostitutes at the Presidential Suite

at the Ritz Carlton in Moscow from about 2013."

As Hemingway notes, no reports had been published by any media outlet at the time Comey met

with Trump and briefed him on the allegations contained in the dossier.

"I said media like CNN had [the allegations] and were looking for a news hook," Comey

specifically told Trump and noted in his memo.

The Daily Caller reports:

Four days after that meeting, CNN published a story revealing the existence of a salacious

report alleging the Russian government had compromised Trump.

The CNN story was referring to what's now known as the dossier — an unverified 35-page

report written by former British spy Christopher Steele.

"I explained again why I had thought it important that he know about it," Comey

wrote in another classified memo on January 28, 2017.

"I also explained that one of the reasons we told him was that the media, CNN in particular,

was telling us they were about to run with it."

CNN's January 10, 2017 report on the salacious and unproven allegations contained in the

dossier was extremely significant, as Hemingway explains:

Extremely well-placed sources told CNN that the Obama administration's top intelligence

appointees had briefed Obama, Biden, and Trump all about a dossier they took incredibly seriously

and considered credible.

And it sounded really bad, as the headline [of CNN's report] indicated.

"Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr.

Trump," CNN reported in an article written by Jake Tapper, Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, and

Carl Bernstein.

What's notable about the authors is that CNN's Perez had undisclosed ties to Fusion GPS,

the firm that compiled the Democrat-funded dossier.

Perez later falsely reported that the Republicans were the ones who funded the dossier, even

after the facts had been made public which proved he was not telling the truth.

Hemingway continues:

BuzzFeed published the actual dossier within minutes of CNN's story going live, showing

the world that the dossier was riddled with salacious gossip that lacked even a possibility

of corroboration.

Among the most important facts revealed in Comey's memos, which the Justice Department

released on Thursday, is the fact that there were seven memos compiled by Comey, four of

which were classified.

This is significant because Comey leaked four memos to his friend for him to turn around

and leak to the media, which means that at least one of the memos had to have been classified.As

noted by Hemingway and the Washington Examiner's Byron York, one of the biggest takeaways from

Comey's January 6, 2017 memo is that Comey indicates in the memo that the briefing was

the idea of then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper."I said there was something

that Clapper wanted me to speak to [Trump] about alone or in a very small group," Comey

wrote.

"I then executed the session exactly as I had planned."

Comey then went on to tell Trump that CNN had the allegations and was looking for a

"news hook" so they could publish the salacious and unproven allegations.

"I said it was important that we not give them the excuses to write that the FBI has

the material or [REDACTED] and that we were keeping it very close-hold," Comey wrote in

his memo.

As The Federalist and The Daily Caller both noted, CNN ran the story just a few days after

Comey's meeting with Trump.

Given Clapper's connection to Comey's meeting with Trump, Hemingway notes an important finding

from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) final report on Russia.

The committee's report found: Finding #44: Former Director of National Intelligence

James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to

the Committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.

Hemingway continues:

So Comey, at Clapper's expressed behest, told Trump that CNN was "looking for a news

hook" to publish dossier allegations.

He said this in the briefing of Trump that almost immediately leaked to CNN, which provided

them the very news hook they sought and needed.

The briefing on January 6, 2017 was the catalyst for a series of events that ultimately led

to where the Russia investigation currently sits.

The briefing was immediately leaked to CNN, which attempted to legitimize the dossier,

and in the process ignited a media firestorm.

Hemingway concludes:

During the freakout, Comey deliberately refused to say in public what he acknowledged repeatedly

in private — that the President of the United States was not under investigation.

He even noted in his memos that he told the president at least three times that he was

not under investigation.

Comey's refusal to admit publicly what he kept telling people privately led to his firing.

That led to Comey leaking multiple memos in order to get a special counsel appointed out

of revenge.

Hemingway's assertion that Comey leaked the memos out of revenge is not without factual

basis.

During an interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie this week, Comey admitted that he had an "obvious"

bias against Trump because "he fired me."

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'I'll never beat that record!' Trump ends tribute to Barbara Bush about her 73-year marriage - Duration: 5:02.

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BOMBSHELL REPORT: Rod Rosenstein Ends Mueller's 'Trump Witch-Hunt' - Duration: 4:55.

For more infomation >> BOMBSHELL REPORT: Rod Rosenstein Ends Mueller's 'Trump Witch-Hunt' - Duration: 4:55.

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Mueller Gets Some Bad News, Trump Unleashes Secret Weapon To Strike Back - Duration: 5:24.

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Trump says Comey threw McCabe 'under the bus' after criminal referral - Duration: 3:11.

Trump says come--the room a cave under the bus after criminal referral

president Trump said Thursday that former FBI director James Comey through

fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe under the bus after the Justice

Department's inspector general referred McCabe to federal prosecutors the

president made the comment on Twitter less than three hours after Comey told

CNN that he could well be a witness in a criminal case against McCabe I liked

McCabe very much as a person but sometimes even good people do things

they shouldn't do Comey told the lead with Jack Tapper I think it is

accountability mechanisms working and they should work because it's not

acceptable in the FBI or the Justice Department for people to lack candor

it's something we take really seriously last week Justice Department Inspector

General Michael Horowitz released a report finding that McCabe misled Comey

and federal investigators about his role in leaking information to the Wall

Street Journal in October 2016 about the FBI investigation into the Clinton

Foundation DOJ watchdog sends criminal referral for McCabe to federal

prosecutor Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16th less

than two days before his scheduled retirement date Trump tweeted Thursday

that the Horowitz report on McCabe was a disaster for him and Comey and suggested

the two were G adding a little lot of their own medicine

the president has attacked McCabe and call me repeatedly before and after

their firings from the FBI Trump fired Comey in May 2017 the Inspector

General's report said Makeba authorized FBI officials to share non-public

information with a reporter and then denied having done so when questioned

about it under oath McCabe has denied misleading anyone he

that as FBI deputy director he had the authority to share information with the

media and that he permitted subordinates to do so in this case to correct a false

narrative that he had tried to stymie an FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation

McCabe told the inspector general's office he told Comey after the article

was published that he had allowed the officials to share the information and

that Comey thought it was a good idea to rebut a one-sided narrative but Comey is

quoted in the report as saying McCabe didn't tell him he had approved sharing

details of the Col and in fact had left him with the opposite impression I don't

remember exactly how but I remember some form or fashion and it could have been

like can you believe this crap how does this stuff get out kind of thing Comey

was quoted as saying in the report but I took from whatever communication we had

that he wasn't involved in it The Associated Press contributed to this

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HUGE DACA ANNOUNCEMENT ROCKS NATION – Trump Supporters Stunned - Duration: 10:23.

HUGE DACA ANNOUNCEMENT ROCKS NATION – Trump Supporters Stunned

Dreamers in one major U.S. state are in full panic mode after the state's Supreme Court

issued a major ruling about them.

Fox News reported that Barack Obama's precious Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

recipients are no longer eligible for cheaper "in-state" tuition in Arizona.

This ruling will impact Dreamers who attend Arizona's three state universities and its

largest community college.

The Arizona Supreme Court said that it will release an opinion explaining the ruling on

May 14 and that it was announcing the decision now to give the district and its students,

as well as the state, as much time as possible for planning.

"While people can disagree what the law should be, I hope we all can agree that the

attorney general must enforce the law as it is, not as we want it to be," Arizona Attorney

General Mark Brnovich said in a statement.

Liberals are of course fuming over this decision, with Matt Hasson, spokesman for the Maricopa

County Community Colleges District, saying his district was disappointed by it.

"This ruling is troubling for the 2,000 DACA students currently enrolled in Maricopa

Community Colleges," he said in a statement.

"During the past five years, more than 600 DACA students earned an associate's degree

or a certificate from one of our colleges and are making valuable contributions to the

health of our economy."

This comes weeks after President Donald Trump called out Democrats for abandoning Dreamers.

"Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall.

It is just a down payment.

Work will start immediately.

The rest of the money will come – and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we

will not)!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

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Trump Makes Stunning Announcement After Mueller Raid - Duration: 12:44.

Trump Makes Stunning Announcement After Mueller Raid

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has broken his silence after Special Council Robert Mueller

raided the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

At the start of a meeting with senior military leadership Monday night, Trump blasted the

FBI's raid, calling it a "disgraceful situation" and an "attack on our country

in a true sense … an attack on what we all stand for."

The president said: "It's a total witch hunt.

I've been saying it for a long time.

I've wanted to keep it down.

I've given over a million pages in documents to the special counsel.

They continue to just go forward and here we are talking about Syria, we're talking

about a lot of serious things … and I have this witch hunt constantly going on for over

12 months now.

Actually it's much more than that.

You could say right after I won the nomination it started."

Trump also criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia

investigation, saying, "[H]e made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for

the country.

But you'll figure that out."

The Mueller investigation has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and dragged on

for nearly a year straight.

And yet, there's still not an iota of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and

the Russian government.

Do you agree with Trump that Mueller's investigation is nothing

than

a witch hunt?

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8 Years of Obama Gave NK Nukes, 1 With Trump Has Them Begging for 'Complete Denuclearization' - Duration: 3:42.

8 Years of Obama Gave NK Nukes, 1 With Trump Has Them Begging for 'Complete Denuclearization'

For the Obama Democrats, even the headlines have to be humiliating.

For the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, North Korea expanded its nuclear weapons programs

with impunity, defiantly claiming its right to weapons that threaten the globe while a

cringing American administration stood helplessly to the side.

But a little more than a year into President Donald Trump's first term, a turnaround

might be in sight.

South Korean President Moon Ja-in told reporters in Seoul on Thursday that the North Korean

regime is ready to talk about "complete denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula

ahead of a potential meeting between Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

And doing it without any deal-breakers on the table.

"North Korea is expressing a will for a complete denuclearization," Moon said, according

to Reuters.

"They have not attached any conditions that the U.S. cannot accept, such as the withdrawal

of American troops from South Korea.

All they are expressing is the end of hostile policies against North Korea, followed by

a guarantee of security."

Even liberal media outlets that have been at war with the Trump White House since its

first days had to report the development: CNN: "North Korea drops withdrawal of US

forces as condition of denuclearization, Moon says"

The New York Times: "North Korea Removes Major Obstacle to U.S. Negotiations, South

Says"

The Guardian: "North Korea wants total denuclearisation, says Seoul"

Funny that The Times couldn't come right out and say what the "major obstacle"

was, but any way you cut it, that's a far cry from the North Korean situation Trump

inherited from Obama – and one key figures in the Obama administration would never have

predicted.

In August 2017, when U.S.-North Korean tensions were at their highest and Trump was warning

North Korea of the "fire and fury" it faced from the United States, former Obama

National Security Advisor Susan Rice published an Op-Ed in The New York Times declaring that

the United States could live with North Korea permanently armed with nuclear weapons.

"History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea — the

same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during

the Cold War," she wrote.

"It will require being pragmatic."

What Obama's gang calls "pragmatic," the Trump White House calls appeasement.

And guess which approach is starting to pay off?

Trump's get-tough attitude — a radical departure from Obama's "strategic patience"

policy of doing nothing — might have ratcheted up tensions with Pyongyang for a year, but

also appears to have laid the groundwork for some final solution.

The secret trip to North Korea over Easter weekend by CIA Director and secretary of state

nominee Mike Pompeo had even some Democrats giving Trump grudging credit, according to

The Washington Post.

It's important to remember, of course, that the apparent progress with Pyongyang could

still be an illusion.

Kim's predecessors as North Korean dictators made a habit of lying in international negotiations,

then tearing up any agreements they made as soon as they got what they wanted out of them.

But the point is that Trump has pushed the North Koreans harder than any American has

since MacArthur pounded them at Inchon, and if that "complete denuclearization" proposal

that South Korea's Moon's announced Thursday has any reality to it, Trump will have brought

prospects for a permanent peace agreement on the peninsula closer than they've been

in decades.

And for Obama Democrats who were convinced there was no stopping the North, even the

headlines about the possibility have to be humiliating.

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BREAKING: Moscow Sends W*r Message To President Trump… WW3 Getting CLOSER - Duration: 2:34.

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California Fights Trump About Sending Troops To Border – Texas Fires Back With Epic Response - Duration: 14:35.

California Fights Trump About Sending Troops To Border – Texas Fires Back With Epic Response

Rumors are swirling that California is about to back off it's promise to send National

Guard troops to President Donald Trump to secure our border, but Texas isn't having

any of it.

Mad World News reported that California Governor Jerry Brown may not follow through with answering

Trump's calls to send troops to help secure the border with Mexico.

One week ago, Brown said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secretary

of Defense "Mad Dog" James Mattis that he would send 400 troops to the border to

fight transnational crime, which included drug smugglers, transnational gangs, and human

traffickers.

However, Brown added that he does not want California National Guard members not be involved

in any sort of federal immigration enforcement operations.

"This will not be a mission to build a new wall," Brown wrote.

"It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence

and seeking a better life.

And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws."

Chaos ensued in California after the letter was sent, with liberal state officials talking

part in fruitless conversations about what California guardsmen would be allowed to do

after being sent to the border.

These conversations have reportedly since completely stopped.

When California could not make a deal with the federal government about the troops, Trump

took to Twitter to blast Brown.

"Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for safety and security along

their very porous Border," Trump wrote.

"He cannot come to terms for the National Guard to patrol and protect the Border.

The high crime rate will only get higher.

Much wanted Wall in San Diego already started!"

Things got even worse yesterday, when Ronald Vitiello, the Acting Deputy Commissioner of

the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters that Brown decided the tasks required

of the California guardsmen were "unsupportable."

"The governor determined that what we asked for is unsupportable, but we will have other

iterations," Vitiello said.

Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) fired back with the perfect response for Brown and the rest

of California.

Fox News host Stuart Varney asked Williams about Brown "balking at sending National

Guard troops to secure the border," adding, "I'm sure you don't think much to this,

vent, please."

"Well, I don't think much to it, Governor Abbott of Texas is doing a great job.

He's doing his responsibility, as you said, 700 on the ground now of 1,400," Williams

began.

"Jerry Brown sees things totally different.

"I mean, we've got issues down there with drug wars, we've got sovereignty issues,

we've got people coming over, terrorists that want to kill Americans, and I guess he

sees it a little different by not wanting to send his National Guard there.

So, that's the difference between California and Texas."

BOOM!

When asked if Brown's refusal to send troops to the border was a direct shot at Trump,

Williams replied, "Well, there's no question about it.

I mean, he doesn't favor President Trump, but what's more important is adhering to

the laws of the land, and we need to defend our borders.

California has a border, Texas has a border, and I would think Governor Brown would want

to do what's right rather than putting politics over his dislike for this President."

Williams had another epic response when he was asked what the real reason is that California

does not want to send troops to the border.

"Well, I'm former Secretary of State of Texas and very familiar with what's happening

on the border in Texas.

We've lived with this problem a long time, and you merely go down there and you see those

that are coming over here illegally.

They're coming between the ports, not through the ports," Williams said.

"The tremendous drug war, the drug cartels going on down there has to be taken care of,

and then, there is the sovereignty issue of sovereign borders of the United States of

America.

So, this is not anything to support President Trump, although he's asked, and Governor

Abbott is doing the right thing.

We've been involved in this with Governor Perry, Governor Bush, in securing our borders

in Texas from people who want to come over here and break the law."

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JUST IN Trump GOES NUCLEAR Day After Mueller Raid - Duration: 13:57.

JUST IN: Trump GOES NUCLEAR Day After Mueller Raid

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday afternoon that President

Donald Trump firmly believes that the FBI should not have raided the offices of his

lawyer, Michael Cohen.

"I think that the president has been clear that he thinks this that has gone too far,"

Sanders said, according to Daily Mail.

"The president has voiced his frustration about the situation."

Sources say that Trump privately lashed out at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,

who he blames for approving the warrant application that allowed FBI officials to raid Cohen's

office, home and hotel room.

"This is the president you're going to see more of from here on out: unvarnished,

untethered," one White House insider said.

A Trump advisor said the president ranted that he wished Rosenstein was not in the job,

and that no one was making prosecutors follow the rules.

Sources said Trump also complicated firing Rosenstein.

Trump publicly blasted Rosenstein as well, bringing him up on Monday evening in the context

of his controversial decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey, pointing out to

reporters that Rosenstein supported Comey's firing too.

"Deputy Rosenstein – Rod Rosenstein – he wrote the letter, very critical, of Comey,"

Trump pointed out, adding that Rosenstein had "signed the FISA warrant," referring

to the warrant used to spy on the president's campaign associate Carter Page.

"So Rod Rosenstein, who's in charge of this, signed a FISA warrant, and he also signed

a letter that was essentially saying to fire James Comey," Trump said.

"And he was right about that.

He was absolutely right."

Trump went on to slam Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia

investigation.

"The attorney general made a terrible mistake when he did this, and when he recused himself,"

Trump said.

"Or he should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself, and we

would have used a – put a different attorney general in.

So he made what I consider to be a very terrible mistake for our country."

What do you think about this?

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Unlike Obama, Trump proves he's determined to deter Russian aggression - Duration: 8:11.

Unlike Obama, Trump proves he's determined to deter Russian aggression

The media and Democratic politicians are painting President Trump and his administration as

lapdogs for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., recently lambasted President Trump's supposedly

"soft" stance on Russia, claiming: "President Trump seems more intent on undermining the

rule of law in this country than standing up to Putin."

Such fact-free assertions are nothing more than partisan political attacks.

When comparing President Trump's actions against Russia to those of President Obama,

it is immediately clear that Trump has taken a more responsible approach.

President Trump is the Russia hawk, not President Obama.

Calling the current president "soft" on Russia is both dishonest and unscrupulous.

Attacks by Democrats on President Trump's Russia policy are an attempt to hide the fact

that the current administration has been much tougher on Russia than that of President Obama.

The reason for these attacks is to deflect from President Obama's foreign policy failings,

and to preserve the rapidly collapsing "Russian collusion" narrative.

Democrats seem to have erased the former president's legacy on Russia from their memories, such

as the time during the presidential debates when Mitt Romney called Russia "America's

number one geopolitical foe."

President Obama's response was both mocking and dismissive as he said: "The 1980s are

now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for

20 years."

Consistent with President Obama's naivete, U.S. policy towards Russia was largely defined

by appeasement and utopian wishes.

Officials in the Obama State Department put their fingers in their ears and their hands

over their eyes, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge Russia's machinations and Putin's ever-increasing

global ambitions.

Unsurprisingly, Russian militarism went unchecked as President Obama's administration handed

Putin a big red reset button.

Putin is not the evil maniacal ruler that some make him out to be.

Like any savvy autocrat, he's an opportunist who seeks to advance his agenda wherever and

whenever possible.

Thanks to President Obama's hands-off mantra, Putin was given a unique opportunity to exploit

America's retreat in key spheres of influence.

Nowhere is this better illustrated than President Obama's inaction during the Russian annexation

of Crimea, seizing it from Ukraine.

Likely feeling emboldened by American passivity in Syria, Putin decided to up the ante in

his quest to make Russia once again a global powerhouse.

After watching as his Ukrainian ally Viktor Yanukovych was ousted as leader of that nation,

Putin decided to go all in on Crimea.

"Little green men" flooded across the Russian border into sovereign Ukraine – effectively

controlling the region by March 2014.

The United States and its European allies – still playing by the old rulebook and

not expecting territorial annexation to happen in 21st century Europe – reacted only weakly.

President Obama imposed minor sanctions, which did little more than bruise Russian defense

firms and banks.

What he did not do is more notable: he refused to provide lethal aid to Ukraine, despite

repeated requests from the embattled government.

Ukraine wouldn't be the end of Russia's ongoing adventurism.

Seeking to build upon its existing sphere of influence in the Middle East, Putin decided

to dramatically increase Russia's presence in the Syrian civil war.

After failing to enforce his own "red line," Obama called upon Moscow to broker an agreement

with Damascus to remove chemical weapons from the conflict.

Putin was more than happy to negotiate an "agreement" that let Assad maintain his

stockpiles of chemical weapons, which are still utilized, brutally and cruelly, to this

day.

Obama passively watched as Putin worked with Assad to commit atrocities against the Syrian

people.

Munitions, arms, and soldiers steadily flowed from Moscow to the Assad regime with no scrutiny.

Putin's forces helped conduct countless airstrikes on civilian areas.

Thanks to the Obama administration's naivete and foolish trust in Putin, Russia received

a free pass for its complicity and barbarism.

In contrast to the Obama administration's misguided and soft approach, President Trump

has been tough on Russia.

He reversed the previous administration's decision to not send weapons to support the

Ukrainian government.

Russia has continued to incite an armed uprising in Ukraine's Donbass region – hoping to

potentially annex that region as well.

But thanks to the Trump administration, much-needed weapons, including Javelin missiles, have

been sent to Ukraine to help quell the Russian-backed rebellion.

The president has taken the gloves off against Putin and his puppet, Syrian dictator Bashar

Assad.

Unlike Obama, Trump backed up American "tough talk" when Assad used chemical weapons against

his own people in the Syrian city of Khan Shaykhun last year.

U.S. forces launched a total of 59 Tomahawk missiles at Shayrat Airbase in Syria in response

to the attack, destroying approximately 20 percent of the Assad regime's airpower in

the process.

And Assad wasn't let off for his recent use of chemical weapons in the Syrian city

of Douma.

In a coordinated effort with Britain and France, the United States launched strikes on three

Syrian regime sites early Saturday.

The Pentagon praised the attack for being "Precise, effective, and overwhelming."

Additionally, the Trump administration offered no apologies or condolences after a deadly

recent clash with Russian mercenaries.

In a major escalation, United States military forces, backed by AC-130s and Apache attack

helicopters, obliterated more than 300 Kremlin guns-for-hire near the Syrian city of Dier

al-Zor in the most lethal encounter between American and Russian forces since the Cold

War.

President Trump hasn't been afraid to target Putin's Kremlin foot soldiers and political

cronies as well.

After it came to light that Russia had poisoned one of its ex-spies in Britain, President

Trump worked in tandem with Britain and our European allies.

The president kicked 60 Russian intelligence officers out of the U.S. and closed the Russian

Consulate in Seattle.

This was the largest purge of Russian spies in American history.

President Trump also recently imposed far-reaching sanctions on seven Russian business tycoons,

including Putin's former son-in-law and other Moscow-backed entities.

John Bolton, President Trump's new national security adviser, solidifies the administration's

hardline stance on Russia.

Moscow certainly needs no introduction to Bolton, who has been a hawkish critic of Putin

and the Russian regime.

Bolton has advocated for the United States to retaliate against Russia through intensive

"cyber-warfare," and has signaled that America should go further in providing more

aid to the Ukrainian government.

Throughout his presidency, President Trump has taken a more aggressive posture against

Moscow than Obama.

Don't expect the administration to let up.

Unlike President Obama, President Trump has learned that only bold and decisive actions,

not meaningless red lines, will deter Russian aggression.

Alex Titus is a fellow at America First Policies, a nonprofit organization supporting policy

initiatives that will put America first.

Republican Matt Gaetz represents Florida's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House

of Representatives.

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