Blinken dinged for tone-deaf tweets about Spotify playlist

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is perhaps the most accomplished musician to lead the State Department in recent years, but his recent release of a Spotify playlist showed a tin ear, according to GOP critics and observers.

“We’re in the middle of a pretty tense crisis with Russia and some pretty tough-nosed diplomacy there,” the American Enterprise Institute’s Zack Cooper said. “So, just as a tone thing, I think it struck a bunch of foreign policy experts as being a bit strange.”

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