The 'Ultimate Diversionary Tactic': Wag-the-Dog Concerns Emerge as Trump Cancels Pompeo's N Korea Trip
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"This will be the first of many efforts by Trump to distract attention from the legal hurricane that is gathering force around him."
by: Jake Johnson
Mike Pompeo shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a 2018 East weekend trip. (Photo: White House via AP)
In a move that triggered fresh recognition of the power President Donald Trump possesses to ratchet up tensions—or even start a war—with a foreign adversary in order to distract from the "legal hurricane" that now engulfs his administration, Trump announced on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be visiting North Korea for scheduled high-level talks.
"I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because ...