In an interview Monday with a news outlet known for its leftward lean, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a fierce defense of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy initiatives, particularly in regard to China, Syria and North Korea.
The interviewer, Politico’s chief international affairs columnist Susan Glasser, had been trying desperately to bait Rice into saying something negative about the president’s allegedly negative “words” both on the campaign trail last year and while in office, but the former secretary of state wasn’t buying it.
“I see that we are seeing words that look to me like they are — and I’m speaking now in the area that I know, foreign policy — more strategically placed, for instance, than in the campaign and even in the early days of the administration,” Rice replied.
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“I think, for instance, to say to the Chinese, ‘If you don’t deal with the North Koreans, we will’ — there’s nothing wrong with that message,” she continued. “I think to say to the Syrians, ‘We are not going to sit by and let you gas Syrian babies’ — I think there’s nothing wrong with that message.”
She said something similar about the president’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that there was “nothing wrong” with the president telling the Russian leader, “Yes, I want to meet with you but at an appropriate time.”
“I see nothing wrong with that message and I think it is reflective also of the strength of the national security team that they have: Rex Tillerson and Jim Mattis and H.R. McMaster and John Kelly,” she added.
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Not shockingly, most liberal news outlets skipped right over this defense and instead focused their stories on what Rice said next, which was that she hoped the Trump administration would “say even more,” because “the world is really a dark place when the United States of America is not involved.”
Outlets such as The Hill claimed this statement was a direct repudiation of what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said earlier in the month to State Department officials about how trying to force other countries to adopt America’s values was not always in the United States’ national security interests.
Considering that Rice endorsed Tillerson prior to his confirmation and that she specifically praised both him and other top national security officials in her interview Monday, this narrative by the left appears to be little more than fake news.
H/T The Daily Caller
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