Donald Trump reveals foreign policy team in meeting with The Washington Post

Washington Post ^ | 3/21/2016 | Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

[jennychase]

Donald Trump revealed part of his foreign policy advisory team and outlined an unabashedly non-interventionist approach to world affairs during a wide-ranging meeting Monday with The Washington Post's editorial board.

[jennychase]

“Walid Phares, who you probably know. Ph.D., adviser to the House of Representatives. He’s a counter-terrorism expert," Trump said. "Carter Page, Ph.D. George Papadopoulos. He’s an oil and energy consultant. Excellent guy. The honorable Joe Schmitz, [was] inspector general at the Department of Defense. General Keith Kellogg. And I have quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do. But that’s pretty representative group.”

[Lisbon1940]

Kellogg, Schmitz and Page are fine. You can keep the Greek and the Arab. /s

[GeaugaRepublican]

Bill Kristol and the NeoCon gang at NRO is already mad, so, let them cry in their beer.

Go Trump.

[Irish Eyes]

ttt

[BerniesFriend]

The Republican presidential front-runner listed for the first time five of the individuals who are part of a team, chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies. They are Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz.

Papadopoulos? Wasn't he the "Worm Guy" in 1998 "Godzilla" movie???

[euram]

What, no Krauthammer, no Goldberg, no Goldstein, no Kristol, no Podoretz. No wonder they are all fuming, foaming and frothing at the mouth.

[FreeReign]

Carter Page is a member of the CFR.

[Uncle Miltie]

“Phares was appointed as foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney for his 2012 presidential campaign.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Phares

The stink of Romneyism is strong with this one.

[L,TOWM]

I thought we had agreed to never speak of that movie ever again on this forum...

[gov_bean_ counter]

...and they left Richard Haass off the list.
Wonder why???

[ek_hornbeck]

From what little I know about these guys, they’re foreign policy realists, much like the people (Eagleburger, Schultz, Weinberger, etc) that Reagan surrounded himself with. That should probably give the neoconservative/Bushite wing of the party even more conniption fits than before.

[wiley]

I like his reference to G. Shultz of the Reagan admin.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Carter Page, CFR (Fellow).

Walid Phares, Neocon. Romney retread.

Joe Schmitz, Blackwater, K Street DC Lobbyist firm Patton Boggs, and sister to famed Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher and convicted pedophile.

Keith Kellogg, CACI, "beltway bandit" military contractor.

[JimRed]

Gives the ComPost more folks to dig dirt on, or to make up stuff about!

[JimRed]

Carter Page is a member of the CFR.

So, we have THAT particular enemy infiltrated? Good!

[mkjessup]

Joe Schmitz, Blackwater, K Street DC Lobbyist firm Patton Boggs, and sister to famed Mary Kay Letourneau, teacher and convicted pedophile.

I think you got Joe's gender confused.

That happens when the spittle is flying from your mouth to the keyboard.

And what exactly does Mary Kay Letourneau have to do with it?

Oh that's right, nothing. But you Trump-haters are running out of sh*t to sling, you gotta grab anything you can, ya losers.

[WENDLE]

Well, that should shut up the FAUX “news” partisan anti-Trump crowd. It wont affect the Alphabet networks because the are busy covering the baby eaglet, white privilege and Ling Ling the baby panda. They will all spend all night showing obama in front of the Communist thug Che Guevara building in Havana and averting their gaze from the greatest diplomatic put down and humiliation in our nations history where the communists sat on their asses instead of greeting the President of the United States at the airport and our sycophantic leftist President let them!! I was sicken and offended.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Nope. He's "Joe", alright.

[Hoodat]

Carter Page is a member of the CFR.

Doesn't matter. Different set of rules for Trump.

[RoosterRedux]

Interesting that Joe Schmitz was one of the coauthors of Shariah: The Threat To America.

His co-authors on that book were:

LT. GEN. WILLIAM "JERRY" BOYKIN served primarily in Delta Force and Special Forces, then as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Pentagon. LT. GEN. EDWARD SOYSTER served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Panama Invasion and Desert Shield/Storm. CHRISTINE BRIM was the Chief Operating Officer at the Center for Security Policy. AMB. HENRY F. COOPER served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and as Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). STEPHEN C. COUGHLIN is a specialist on Islamic Shariah Law, Islamic doctrine and ideology, and the strategic information, international law, and intelligence. MICHAEL DEL ROSSO served as CEO and CTO of large public companies and early stage companies. He is a Lincoln Fellow at The Claremont Institute and Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy. FRANK GAFFNEY is the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy. He acted as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. JOHN GUANDOLO is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, an Officer in the Marine Corps and a former Special Agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. BRIAN T. KENNEDY is President of the Claremont Institute. CLARE M. LOPEZ is a a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and vice president of the Intelligence Summit. ADM. JAMES "ACE" LYONS is was Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. ANDREW C. MCCARTHY was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, and in 1995 he led the terrorism prosecution against the "Blind Sheikh" for the first World Trade Center bombing. PATRICK POOLE is one of the nation's leading analysts on issues related to the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist activities in the United States. TOM TRENTO is the Director of United West. J. MICHAEL WALLER is Vice President for Information Operations at the Center for Security Policy. DIANA WEST is a columnist and the author of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. R. JAMES WOOLSEY served as the Director of Central Intelligence (1993-95). DAVID YERUSHALMI is General Counsel to the Center for Security Policy.