Ex-UK Ambassador: Trump "peddling falsehoods", "gratuitously damaging."

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/19/white-house-trump-wiretap-uk-ambassador-peter-westmacott?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=218090&subid=22065893&CMP=GT_US_collection

"The former UK Ambassador to Washington, Sir Peter Westmacott, has issued a withering criticism of Donald Trump and his inner circle, accusing them of making absurd, unthinkable and nonsensical claims about the UK’s involvement in alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower that he warns could damage close ties between the two countries.

Trump and Spicer’s remarks about British ‘wiretapping’ are absurd – and dangerous
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“This is a dangerous game,” Westmacott writes. “The intelligence relationship between Britain and America is unique and precious. It is critical to our shared efforts to counter terrorism.”

Westmacott adds that “gratuitously damaging it by peddling falsehoods and then doing nothing to set the record straight would be a gift to our enemies they could only dream of”.

The former ambassador’s excoriating remarks are all the more remarkable given that he stepped down from his role as the UK’s representative in Washington as recently as January 2016.

His unrestrained putdown of Trump’s refusal to correct the unsubstantiated wiretapping allegations – which Westmacott ascribes acerbically to the president’s “famous reluctance to admit mistakes” – is a clear indication of the intensity of British anger at having been dragged into what is seen as a controversy entirely of Trump’s own making."......

[karynnj]

1. Great statement - especially as to what the dangers are of the nonsense tweeted by a CT

obsessed President. ( I wonder if he will tweet tonight - I assume that the Gallup numbers which caved lower than ever today might not make him happy ... and when he is unhappy he tweets.)

[world wide wally]

2. Send Bond. James Bond