for their cooperation on many fronts. the timing of the attack raising questions. in pakistan, what precipitated the president s tweet about threatening to withhold future usa the president is simply following through on a commitment that he made. this is a president who does what he says he s going to do. we know that pakistan can do more to fight terrorism and we want them to step up and do that. all of this as trump pushed a rhetorical line about putting america first and boycotting international talks. he s angered allies while provoking enemies. obama s foreign policy was characterized as leading from behind and trump s doctrine is known to be retreating from the front. and quote, we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars a year and
loyalists. the longest serving in the senate, orrin hatch, just announced he is retiring two weeks ago. he had this to say about a trump presidency. we re going to keep fighting and we re going to make this the greatest presidency that we ve seen, not nongenerations, maybe ever. there was a blistering editorial calling for him to step down due to his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power. now he is stepping down and this man could be stepping forward. romney appears all but ready to run for this seat. he has had a tumultuous history with trump. think of donald trump s personal qualities. the bullying. the greed. the showing off. the mysogyny. the absurd third great
many days on trump properties, on mar-a-lago, bedminster, other trump properties and golf courses. he cannot psychologically separate himself from his businesses and so that confirms what we ve known all along. it s a matter of grave concern, though, because he is using the presidency to enrich his businesses. and that s a system, an economic system that has been used in other countries. it s called kleptocracy where government power is used in rich, specific private companies and it s very, very dangerous. richard, you brought up that point about kleptocracy you ve seen in other countries. the washington post has reported that trump s d.c. hotel made nearly $2 million in profits in the first four months of 2017 alone. that is actually exceeding anybody s expectations. does that raise red flags for you, that kind of research aven that kind of profit? yes, it does. people are going to that hotel
investigate the investigators, nick. what do you think? i think it is absurd. this is a joke. there s no evidence that anybody shared information with the media. there s no evidence there was any leaks. we re talking about the fbi. the fbi is the investigative arm of the department of justice. they don t decide who gets prosecuted or what is brought before a grand jury. this whole things a big red herring. even the evidence that they came up with on this one agent. the worst thing was to call trump an idiot. trump s own secretary of state called him a moron. to me, a moron is probably worse than an idiot. but giving that the benefit of the doubt that an idiot is worse than a moron, who cares? it doesn t make any difference. let me add the caveat that the secretary of state denied, dismissed as nonsense.
for the presidency. i say potential because we don t know how a mitt romney would vote. we ve seen criticism on personal points always been reliable votes on policy. it is possible mitt romney would continue that tradition speaking out against donald trump when it comes the his character. his temperament but still being a reliable vote. on the other hand, he could end up being a john mccain where he does take on president trump when it comes to policy. so i think it is a very big wild card. as a practical matter, looking to the mid terms. i think this helps solidify utah for the republican party and it is crazy that we re talking about solidifying that, given that utah is one of the reddest states in the country. after we saw what happened in alabama and after orrin hatch and his run for re-election, mitt romney who got 73% of the vote in utah in the 2012