Jack Kingston: It's fine for Trump to be 'cozy' with authoritarian regimes because...

[DonViejo]

Jack Kingston: It’s fine for Trump to be ‘cozy’ with authoritarian regimes because ‘EU is extremely liberal’

DAVID EDWARDS
30 MAY 2017 AT 10:43 ET

CNN contributor Jack Kingston, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, asserted on Tuesday that the president should appear closer to authoritarian regimes than European allies because the European Union is “extremely liberal.”

Following President Donald Trump’s overseas trip, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark argued that the president made a mistake when he did not personally affirm the foundation of the NATO alliance: an attack on one is an attack on all.

CNN host Alisyn Camerota pointed out to Kingston that Trump had a “cozier relationship with Saudi Arabia” and “chillier” relationships with France and Germany.

“I am comfortable because I don’t think it’s that chilly,” Kingston replied. “But if you look at what the EU has become, the EU is to the left of Bernie Sanders. We know that the EU is extremely liberal,” he added.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/jack-kingston-its-fine-for-trump-to-be-cozy-with-authoritarian-regimes-because-eu-is-extremely-liberal/

[NightWatcher]

1. "Former" my ass. He's still in the employ of trump but instead of carrying papers to Moscow,

like he had done last year, he's carrying water for him on CNN and CNN is paying him for it.

He's a toadie of the highest kind. He's sold his soul for a job in a traitor's organization.

[Wounded Bear]

2. The EU almost collapsed from their austerity policies after the 08 recession...

They're not as liberal as our RW echo chamber want people to believe.

In fact, the "liberal" policies like social safety nets ameliorated the effects of the Great Recession on many Europeans. Americans, on the other hand, barely got movement toward UHC from it, along with some minimal banking reforms.

[oberliner]

3. The EU is to the left of Bernie Sanders

Which he is saying is a problem.

Saudi Arabia is to the right of....?