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Mike Pompeo's senior adviser resigns
(CNN)A senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Thursday.
The adviser, Michael McKinley, had been a diplomat for more than three decades and served as ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan and, most recently, Brazil until he was appointed to his advising role in May 2018, according to his department biography. McKinley was a trusted adviser of the top US diplomat, who recruited him as an adviser and liaison to the career service and traveled with him on official trips frequently.
(CNN)A senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resigned, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Thursday.
The adviser, Michael McKinley, had been a diplomat for more than three decades and served as ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan and, most recently, Brazil until he was appointed to his advising role in May 2018, according to his department biography. McKinley was a trusted adviser of the top US diplomat, who recruited him as an adviser and liaison to the career service and traveled with him on official trips frequently.
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Donald Trump’s clash with Democratic lawmakers reached new heights when top Democrats walked out of a White House meeting and House speaker Nancy Pelosi pitied the president for having a “meltdown”.
Pelosi and other top Democrats say they walked out of the contentious White House briefing on Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria after it devolved into an insult-fest and it became clear the president had no plan to deal with a potentially revival of Isis in the Middle East.
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, told reporters Trump had called Pelosi a “third-rate politician”. He said the meeting “was not a dialogue, this was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts”.
Pelosi said: “I pray for the president all the time … I think now we have to pray for his health – this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president.”
She added Democrats “couldn’t continue in the meeting because he was just not relating to the reality of it”.
Republicans pushed back, arguing it was Pelosi who’d been the problem. “She storms out of another meeting, trying to make it unproductive,” said the House GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy.
The White House spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, called Pelosi’s action “baffling but not surprising”.
Trump himself pushed back in a series of tweets, calling Pelosi “Nervous Nancy” and the Democrats the “Do Nothing Democrats”.
Pelosi later made one of the photos her Twitter cover photo.
The move came on the same day the US House, which is bitterly divided over the impeachment inquiry, nonetheless banded together to overwhelmingly support a resolution condemning the president’s Syria policy by a vote of 354-60.
Turkey launched an offensive against Kurdish forces in northern Syria two days after Trump suddenly announced he was withdrawing forces from the area. Trump declared on Wednesday that the US had no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters, who died by the thousands as America’s partners against Isis extremists.
Condemnation of Trump’s stance on Turkey, Syria and the Kurds was quick and severe during the day, and Pelosi said Trump appeared visibly “shaken up” after nearly two-thirds of the House GOP caucus voted in support of the resolution.
The non-binding resolution states Congress’s opposition to the troop pullback and says Turkey should cease its military action in Syria. The measure also says the White House should present a plan for an “enduring defeat” of the Islamic State; many worry that Isis will resurge as Turkish forces attack Syrian Kurds who are holding the extremists.
The Syria briefing marked the first face-to-face interaction between Trump and Pelosi since the House speaker formally launched an impeachment inquiry against the president last month.
Trump himself has stalked out of his White House meetings in the past, including with congressional leaders in May, when he said he would no longer work with Democrats unless they dropped all Russia investigations, and last January during the partial government shutdown.
In public appearances on Wednesday, Trump said he was fulfilling a campaign pledge to bring US troops home from “endless wars” in the Middle East – casting aside criticism that a sudden US withdrawal from Syria betrays the Kurdish fighters, stains US credibility around the world, and opens an important region to Russia, which is moving in.
“We have a situation where Turkey is taking land from Syria. Syria’s not happy about it. Let them work it out,” Trump said. “They have a problem at a border. It’s not our border. We shouldn’t be losing lives over it.”
Details of the contentious encounter continued to emerge throughout Wednesday evening. Trump was said to have kicked off the meeting by bragging about his “nasty” letter to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to a Democrat familiar with the meeting who was granted anonymity by the Associated Press to discuss it.
Pelosi mentioned the House vote and Schumer began to read the president a quote from the former defense secretary James Mattis on the need to keep US troops in Syria to prevent a resurgent of Islamic State fighters.
But Trump cut Schumer off, complaining that Mattis was “the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough.” Trump went on: “I captured Isis.”
Pelosi explained to Trump that Russia has always wanted a “foothold in the Middle East”, and now it now had one with the US withdrawal, according to a senior Democratic aide who was also granted anonymity.
“All roads with you lead to Putin,” the speaker said.
Then things escalated.
Trump said to Pelosi: “I hate Isis more than you do.” Pelosi responded, “You don’t know that.”
Schumer intervened at one point and said: “Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks?”
Trump replied: “Our plan is to keep the American people safe.”
Pelosi said: “That’s not a plan. That’s a goal.”
Trump turned to Pelosi and complained about Barack Obama’s “red line” over Syria. According to Schumer, he then called her “a third-rate politician”.
At that point, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House majority leader, interjected: “This is not useful.”
Pelosi and Hoyer stood and left the meeting. As they did, Trump said: “Goodbye, we’ll see you at the polls.”
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当翻译不简单，尤其是翻译美国总统川普的话。川普前天接见义大利总统马塔雷拉，提到土耳其攻击叙利亚与当地库德族时说："那边有很多沙子，他们可以玩沙。"让坐在后面的一名女翻译傻了眼，表情也被镜头拍下来，网友全笑翻，还有人直说她红了！
综合外媒报导，川普和义大利总统马塔雷拉会面时，只见坐在后面的义大利籍女翻译员，很认真的把川普的话记录下来，再翻译给义大利总统马塔雷拉，没想到在提到土耳其攻击叙利亚的库德时，川普居然神回："那边有很多沙子，他们可以玩沙。"
意大利总统马塔雷拉也尴尬回覆"谢谢你如此有趣的评论。"而引起关注的不只川普的惊人之语，还有翻译听到川普回答时一脸震惊和疑惑的表情，引来不少讨论还特写处理，让网友看了笑翻直说："今天真可怜翻译了，得去做个SPA和深层治疗才能恢复"、"笑死人了"、"工作没这么难过吧"、"表情说明了一切"、"她吓坏了"、"她红了。"（吕青倚／综合外电报导）
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Washington (CNN)Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney faced internal efforts to oust him before House Democrats moved ahead with their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, multiple sources tell CNN.
Top aides including Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner were in the process of reaching out to at least two potential replacements for the top West Wing job shortly before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in late September that she would move ahead with an impeachment inquiry.
These previously unreported efforts did not come to fruition, but underscore the weakness of Mulvaney's position even before his headline-generating performance in the briefing room last week. One person familiar with Mulvaney's thinking said the search came as Mulvaney himself was looking for an exit after 10 months in the role, though people close to Mulvaney have denied he wanted to leave.
The chief of staff role, traditionally one of the most important in any administration, has been a famously difficult one in the Trump era. All three of his chiefs have tried different governing styles, but the result is nearly always the same: the President ultimately makes the decisions, and eventually undercuts his top deputy.
While Kushner has fielded complaints about Mulvaney, an administration official insists Kushner did not reach out to any potential replacements for the chief of staff job.
Mulvaney, who was head of the Office of Management and Budget until he was tapped to succeed former Marine general John Kelly, has never been afforded the formal title, instead serving in an acting capacity, an arrangement both he and Trump have publicly said they prefer.
Efforts to replace Mulvaney apparently subsided as the White House was abruptly forced to focus its attention on the escalating impeachment crisis after the release of a whistleblower centered around the President's July 25 call with the Ukrainian President.
One person familiar with White House strategy and dynamics told CNN that the President has raised concerns about having four chiefs of staff in three years.
In a statement, the White House said Mulvaney's "standing in the White House has not changed."
"He is still the acting chief of staff and has the President's confidence," deputy press secretary Judd Deere said in a statement to CNN.
Mulvaney came under renewed scrutiny this week after he said, then denied, that Trump held up an aid package to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into an unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for hacking Democratic Party emails in 2016.
His comments undercut denials by the President of a quid pro quo, and stunned White House staffers who questioned his strategy. One person said he was unprepared to answer questions about Ukraine in a briefing that was supposed to be about the President's decision to use his personal property to host world leaders for a G7 summit next summer. That move, which Mulvaney defended amid immediate criticism, was abruptly reversed by Trump late Saturday.
A source familiar with the President's thinking told CNN that after watching media coverage this weekend about Mulvaney's Thursday news conference and performance attempting to clean it up, the President has grown increasingly frustrated with his acting chief of staff's ability to properly communicate the White House's impeachment strategy.
Trump has voraciously consumed news coverage about Mulvaney and has become more agitated, the source added. Specifically, the President is concerned, according to the source, that Mulvaney is not transitioning enough to the role he is in now -- helping to lead the impeachment inquiry defense from the West Wing.
The source also told CNN the President has fielded calls this weekend from allies who have been criticizing Mulvaney's performance. In a rare instance, the President has stayed at the White House this weekend.
In the source's view, Mulvaney is increasingly on shaky ground with Trump, but by no means is it clear that the President will get rid of him.
The escalating impeachment inquiry also raises questions about how appealing the chief of staff role would be to possible replacements.
Since the impeachment inquiry began, Mulvaney has been locked in a feud with White House counsel Pat Cipollone. One person familiar with the quarrel said Mulvaney was frustrated because he felt Cipollone wasn't reading him in on the appropriate legal matters that a chief of staff needs to know about. The person familiar with White House strategy said that is partly because Cipollone is treating the impeachment inquiry as a legal matter, rather than a political one.
Mulvaney also believed he was attempting to undermine him so Cipollone could eventually take his job. A person familiar with the dynamic said that Cipollone isn't angling for Mulvaney's job, but more influence, and because of the subject at hand -- impeachment -- more influence is within his grasp.
The two argued at length over the decision to publish an eight-page letter declaring that the White House wouldn't cooperate with an impeachment inquiry because they saw it as illegitimate -- a clash CNN reported on earlier.
Mulvaney and the impeachment inquiry
Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, remains central to the White House response to the impeachment inquiry. He traveled to Camp David this weekend with Republican lawmakers.
Mulvaney's proximity to the ballooning scandal has afforded him insulation, because of how much he knows, two sources told CNN.
Mulvaney was not on the contested July 25 call with the Ukrainian president, but he has conceded he was aware of the President's push for an investigation into a unsubstantiated theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind election interference. Trump's former homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has said that claim is not true.
Yet after last week's remarks, which were seen as an admission that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo, Trump himself made clear that Mulvaney needed to issue a clarification. One source said Trump's confidence in Mulvaney has fluctuated in recent months, though another said the President wasn't that angry with his chief because he recognized Mulvaney was defending him in the briefing room.
"We all get turned into a pretzel defending Trump. That's the sad reality," a separate source close to the White House said.
Several Republicans said Mulvaney's comments have made it more difficult to defend the President.
Rep. Francis Rooney, a Florida Republican who has since announced he will not run for reelection, told reporters Friday he was "shocked" by what Mulvaney said, and dismissed his denial that came hours later.
"I couldn't believe it," Rooney said. "I was very surprised that he said that. I don't know why. The only thing I can assume is he meant what he had to say -- that there was a quid pro quo on this stuff."
Trump's outside allies also expressed disbelief. During his radio show, Sean Hannity, who speaks with the President on a nearly nightly basis, asked, "What is Mulvaney even talking about? I just think he's dumb, I really do. I don't even think he knows what he's talking about. That's my take on it."
One sign of support for Mulvaney, however, came from the President's reelection campaign Friday afternoon when officials introduced a $30 T-shirt with the phrase "Get over it" emblazoned across the front, an homage to Mulvaney's advice to reporters that "there is going to be political influence in foreign policy."
