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Donald Trump Talks to Himself For Foreign Policy Advice

By Jim Swift

Donald Trump hires the best people. The greatest. It’s a promise he’s made voters in 29 states, most of which have voted for him.

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That’s been the snake oil peddled by a candidate who clearly knows very little on policy and has yet to trot out a brain trust other than failed competitors, Carl Icahn, and Sarah Palin.

Rushed at an airport by a left-wing protestor in Dayton, Ohio last week, Trump claimed he was affiliated with ISIS. (He wasn’t.) When challenged by NBC’s Chuck Todd on this false assertion on Meet the Press, Trump said (in a non-phone interview) that “I don’t know, all I know is what’s on the internet.”

It’s gotten worse, per a phone interview Trump gave to MSNBC‘s Morning Joe:

I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. In fact, in my book, in 2000, I talk about Osama bin Laden, and I do remember someone putting the book in front of Joe, and Joe saying, No way he talked about it, no he wrote about Osama bin Laden before the World Trade Center came down, and they said, No, he really did. And I remember Joe looking at the book saying, I don’t believe it, that’s amazing, OK? So I know what I’m doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people, and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are, but I speak to a lot of people. But my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff.

The ancient Greek aphorism “know thyself” has been transformed: when in doubt on foreign policy, talk to thyself.

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