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High stakes poker underway in White House: Analyst

Saturday, 14 October 2017 4:11 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 14 October 2017 4:29 PM ]

US President Donald Trump

There is a high stakes poker going on in the White House right now over control of US foreign policy, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday after Republican Senator Bob Corker condemned President Donald Trump for undermining Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Corker told The Washington Post in an interview on Friday that Trump’s public statements on foreign policy "castrate" his top diplomat and creates "binary" scenarios for the US on the world stage.

PressTV-US senator blasts Trump for ‘publicly castrating’ Tillerson

A US Republican senator has criticized President Donald Trump over his relationship with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

“You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state” without limiting the options for dealing with North Korea, Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, told the newspaper.

“It’s easy for Sen. Corker to use such words as ‘publicly castrating Tillerson’ or calling the White House an ‘adult day care center’ when he’s no longer running for office. We see other Republicans like John McCain going nasty on him, too, but with McCain it’s always personal, not what’s necessarily good for the welfare of the country,” Hoenig told Press TV.

“If it weren’t for the fact that many of Trump’s opponents in the Primary, especially [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz, could be successfully challenged their next time around, one would think Trump would be red meat for them,” he said.

“Yet what of the leading Democrats? Congressman [Adam] Schiff talks about adults in the room but no leader of the opposition party even dares to call for his resignation or implementing Amendment 25, which calls on the Vice President and cabinet to declare a president ‘incapacitated,’” he stated.

“There is the issue of Trump’s insurance policy: Vice President Pence, the corrupt former governor of Indiana. He might not be as lewd, simple minded, and narcissistic as Trump, but his policies make Trump look like a liberal. Here is a politician whose constituents rail against Sharia Law becoming the law of our land yet he would impose a Biblical litmus test for everything under his control,” he noted.

“This is a high stakes poker going on in the White House right now over control of US foreign policy and it’s hard to say right now who has the best hand. Those who are holding their cards to their chest might simply have nothing to bet on,” the analyst concluded.

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