Report: Bob Dole organized Trump's Taiwan call
Source: The Hill
Donald Trump's call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen was organized by Bob Dole, a former Republican senator and one-time presidential nominee, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Dole told the Journal that the law firm he is affiliated with does work with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S.
Its fair to say that we may have had some influence, he said.
Trump's Friday conversation broke decades of U.S. protocol.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/308915-report-bob-dole-organized-trumps-call-with-taiwan-president
niyad
(112,432 posts)grabber and self-admitted sexual predator. bob, just shut up and go away.
TuslaUltra
(75 posts)getting under 160 electoral votes and losing the popular vote by 8.5% (unmatched since, hell its the biggest margin after 1984).
niyad
(112,432 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)They just can't get their story straight.
Lies, deflections, deceptions... Trump and
sycophants belittle anyone who questions
their complete international fuck up.
What idiots.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)him out of his misery.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)...Let Alone Use a Phone.
Mr.Bill
(24,103 posts)going around the office on whether Trump would be stupid enough to take the call. My guess is Dole was on the winning side of the bet.
JenniferJuniper
(4,496 posts)god, the stupidity...
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)We don't recognize Taiwan's independence, but we have spent billions to make sure that status quo is preserved, hell we would risk the use nuclear weapons to preserve the status quo. But no, don't pick up the phone.
I am sure China is more pissed off about the sale of guided-missile frigates, F-16s, attack helicopters and anti-aircraft weapons to Taiwan than they are about this.
RAFisher
(466 posts)WTF is going on?
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)And again I say, "WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE????!!!!"
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Whatever your opinions of China/Taiwan, yeah, this is an outrage. He's created a diplomatic problem and HE ISN'T PRESIDENT YET.
Do you get that? Do you understand he literally has zero authority on anything and he's already kicking up trouble before he gets into office? IF Trump wants to go to war with China, fine...but he needs to at least wait until he's in a position of authority and not mucking it up in the final month of Obama's term. It's ridiculous. It's scandalous and would've sunk Obama had he done something similar eight years ago.
niyad
(112,432 posts)office, since HE is now in charge.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)If Obama did this we would have rolled our eyes and pointed out the inherent absurdity of the policy.
As long as we are arming and prepared to go to war for Taiwan, all the while claiming to respect "One China" this doesn't even figure in to China's list of grievances.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Obama would not have caused a diplomatic shit storm while PRESIDENT ELECT. No one would have rolled their eyes, though, if, as president elect (which isn't even an official title), Obama started taking tours to Cuba or making overtures to Iran. They would've been incensed, and rightfully so. Do you know how diplomacy works?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You both illustrate and advertise your bias clearly and accurately.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)The World Anti-Communist League was founded in 1966 in Taiwan, and it's influence has not stopped. In Denmark our most right leaning political party was associated with WACL, and the ranking members highly decorated by the government of Taiwan. They are still pressing for industrial cooperation and more recognition of Taiwan.
angrychair
(8,593 posts)Wow...
wordpix
(18,652 posts)We spoke a bit---I was thinking, "He's not long for this world."
hardluck
(634 posts)I never met him. I'm sure you can reach out and ask him why he did this.
BillyBobBrilliant
(805 posts)working so well Bobby decided to F*ck America.
niyad
(112,432 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)He lost