Trump Administration – Jack Hutton

[Financial Times]: Putin envoy visits White House as Donald Trump toys with détente.

By hutton.jack April 3, 2025Financial Times, Max Seddon, Russia, Steve Witkoff, Trump, Vladimir PutinNo Comments

By Max Seddon in Berlin, April 3, 2025 Reuters reported on Wednesday that Dmitriev had been invited to the White House by Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy…

[Substack, The Status Kuo]: Hold My Beer, Neville Chamberlain

By hutton.jack February 19, 2025Autocracy, Donald Trump, Geopolitics, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

The U.S. “peace talks” with Russia over Ukraine, which include neither Ukraine nor any of our allies, is an upside down horror show. By Jay Kuo, Feb 19, 2025 https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/hold-my-beer-neville-chamberlain?r=buqu&utm_medium=ios

[The Atlantic]: There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

By hutton.jack February 18, 2025Anne Applebaum, Articles, Autocracy, Autocrats, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, The Atlantic, Trump, Trump Administration

How regime change happens in America. By Anne Applebaum, February 13, 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671 Summary of "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing: How Regime Change Happens in…

[PBS News Hour, Youtube]: White House holds briefing as crews investigate D.C. plane collision

By hutton.jack February 1, 2025Donald Trump, Karoline Leavitt, PBS News Hour, White House Press Briefing

Video, January 31, 2025, Friday (statement at about 25:30 into it ) https://www.youtube.com/live/ReztcpZDweY?si=kN9LF2AQi1lQVQ2o&t=1526 Where Karoline Leavitt offers the brazenly racist binary: you either have safe competent pilots or you have…

[NYTimes] Gift Article: Hegseth Told Senator He Paid $50,000 to Woman Who Accused Him of Rape

By hutton.jack January 24, 2025Elizabeth Warren, Pete Hegseth, The New York Times, Trump Administration

By Sharon LaFraniere Reporting from Washington, January 24, 2025, Friday https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/hegseth-payment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk4.43VR.pf_keR2lN3II&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Foreign Policy Live Podcast]: Inside Trump’s Defense Policy (Re-Air)

By hutton.jack December 30, 2024Elbridge Colby, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, National Security, The Foreign Affairs Interview, Trump Administration

Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief intervew with Elbridge Colby, Trump's pick for under secretary for policy. December 30, 2024. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foreign-policy-live/id1034003458?i=1000682146791 “Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief. This is FP…