Trump Is Openly Sabotaging Biden’s Foreign Policy Before Leaving The White House

Donald Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the outcomes of an election he decisively misplaced has been embarrassing, but it surely’s not the one harmful factor the outgoing president is doing earlier than his time within the White Home runs out.

The Trump administration additionally seems to be sabotaging Joe Biden’s overseas coverage – and American nationwide safety extra broadly – in its last days.

As former Obama Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor Ben Rhodes identified on Monday, the Trump administration has spent the transition interval making an attempt to explode relations between america and Iran so Biden can’t reenact the Iran nuclear settlement that Trump pulled out of.

“They’ve been utilizing this time within the weeks main up the Biden inauguration to stack extra sanctions on Iran. Now we see this assassination (of an Iranian nuclear scientist),” Rhodes mentioned. “This appears very very similar to an effort to sabotage an incoming Biden administration from doing what they mentioned they want to do.”

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.@brhodes blasts Donald Trump for making an attempt to derail Biden’s overseas coverage in the course of the transition interval. pic.twitter.com/lpob0Cni5x

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) December 1, 2020

Rhodes mentioned:

The timing of this simply cries out. It is a man who’s been well-known to Israel and america for a few many years as an Iranian scientist concerned of their nuclear program. And but we’re simply having this actually irresponsible, unlawful assassination of a scientist out of the country happen in the course of the transition. By the best way, it’s not going to reach fixing the issue of Iran’s nuclear program. That program had been rolled again beneath the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal. Iran has considerably superior its nuclear capabilities since Donald Trump pulled out of that settlement. And so they have been utilizing this time within the weeks main up the Biden inauguration to stack extra sanctions on Iran. Now we see this assassination. By the best way, even when this was a important scientist in Iran, he’s not the one one who had the data of learn how to conduct the nuclear program. You can not eradicate that with a single assassination. You may’t put the genie again within the bottle in terms of a rustic understanding learn how to produce the nuclear gasoline cycle. So this appears very very similar to an effort to sabotage an incoming Biden administration from doing what they mentioned they want to do, which is return to a nuclear settlement if Iran does in order nicely.

Trump is making America much less protected on his method out the door

It has turn into abundantly clear over the previous few weeks that Donald Trump is about as able to accepting defeat as a toddler who loses a recreation of hopscotch on the playground.

However Trump’s pettiness and private shortcomings are much less essential than the best way he’s brazenly undercutting the acknowledged nationwide safety agenda of the person who simply soundly defeated him on the poll field.

Donald Trump’s post-election tantrum isn’t simply embarrassing for him personally. It’s additionally making America much less protected in methods that can do lasting harm to U.S. overseas coverage.

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Sean Colarossi at present resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts diploma in Journalism from the College of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for each of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He additionally labored with Deliberate Parenthood as an Inexpensive Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, serving to northeast Ohio residents acquire medical insurance protection.