All posts tagged "Tammy Bruce"

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did not receive resounding support from the Trump administration over this week's comments regarding Israel and Gaza.

During Tuesday's Pentagon news briefing, a reporter asked, "Today, Speaker Johnson was in the West Bank, which he referred to as 'Judea and Samaria,' and said that it rightfully belongs to the Jewish people. Is that official U.S. policy, and if it's not, what is U.S. policy toward the West Bank?"

Johnson visited a settlement in the occupied West Bank as part of a private visit to Israel, according to Axios. He traveled with other Republican members of the Friends of Judea and Samaria caucus in Congress, "which supports Israeli settlements and advocates for annexation of the West Bank," according to the report....

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce explained Tuesday that the United States has withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, because it's not "aligned with" President Donald Trump's "America first" values.

By definition, UNESCO "promotes cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to foster peace worldwide," not strictly to meet American objectives.

Nonetheless, Bruce explained that the decision came as the result of an "executive order that the president issued...to have a review of the international organizations that we're involved in to make sure, just like with foreign aid -- are these organizations aligned with the values of the America First framework?" ...

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce grew increasingly combative during a CNN interview Wednesday, when she repeatedly refused to answer a question about a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, exclaiming, "That's not what we're going to do here!"

The confrontation began when anchor Pamela Brown asked about the U.S. threat to walk away from peace talks with Russia and Ukraine over the issue of Crimea.

"Most of what you're asking also relies on speculation, relies on maybe an individual report, or rumors, or even gossip," Bruce said before Brown interjected, "What, specifically?" ...

Jamelle at Post-Bougie reports on a new Rasmussen poll that shows that only 14% of African-Americans polled agreed that America is a fair and decent place, compared to 55% back in February. That is a precipitous drop, but those of us observing American politics since Obama's inauguration aren't really in a place to be surprised by this. And those of us observing wingnuts being wingnuts shouldn't be surprised that said wingnuts blame black Americans and white liberals, who they routinely assume are able to push around black people with ease. Jamelle dug into Assrocket at Powerline arguing that this is basically evidence that black people are gullible.