Click here for Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American" diary entry on Monday, December 29.
The article starts by saying that Trump said in a televised interview that the U.S. had hit Venezuelan docks that were loading facilities for drugs. But no U.S. organization -- State Department, CIA, DEA, U.S. Special Operations Command, etc. -- has verified Trump's statement. Neither has Venenzuela. So Americans find themselves in the situation of wondering whether it even happened, or is it something Trump has read or hears somewhere and he got it wrong.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo commented: “It’s a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it’s an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.”Then she gets into Zelensky's meeting with Trump. While Trump had met Putin on the red carpet rolled out for him when he arrived to meet with Trump in Alaska in August, Zelensky's visit was treated a little differently: no U.S. government representative was there to greet Zelensky. The only official representative was Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S.
Trump had a 2-hour phone call with Putin immediately before the Mar-a-Lago meeting; Trump told reporters after the meeting that Putin had expressed a desire that Ukraine succeed (??!!). A news item from the day was that Russia reported that 90 drones had attacked Putin's home, a report that was immediately denied by Ukraine. It made Trump angry, however, and while there has been no proof that the attack took place, Trump said that Putin had told him on the phone call that the attack had taken place.
Weird.
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