Trump refuses to condemn Russian aggression against Ukraine

[Dill]

(11-28-2018, 01:27 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: He's wishy-washy. He has no internal guide for his actions other than what benefits him the most. That gets a lot greyer when you're POTUS so he doesn't really know what he's doing.

There is that. He can't seem to fire people personally.

But I think the "maybe . . . Maybe not . . . we'll see" is also a tactic, deliberate ambiguity.

Remember when he first launched his birther claims, he was never definitive. There were always "people" who claimed O was not born in the US and he was just putting the issue out there.  There is no "100% proof" Putin was behind interference in our elections.

This is rather like flipping Cheney's 1% policy (if there is a 1% chance Saddam has WMDs, we cannot take the risk). 

If there is only a 99% chance the CIA is right about Putin or Kashoggin, then we can't take the risk of basing policy on intel.  You don't want to ruin a guy's reputation based on rumor, do you?

"Maybe" he will cancel the Putin meeting. That means, until the meeting, we can't say for sure that he is in Putin's pocket. That is what that "maybe" is about.