For years, Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken has been right by Joe Biden’s side helping him make all the wrong calls.
Blinken was Biden’s national security advisor when he opposed the raid on bin Laden, and when Biden pushed the disastrous Russia “reset,” bragging that Biden was the “one who first advanced” the terrible policy.
Later in his time working for the Obama-Biden administration, Blinken admitted Iran could use cash from the Iran Deal to fund terrorism, and was a key player in Obama’s failed “red line” policy in Syria. Astonishingly, Blinken insisted, “we enforced the red line diplomatically, not militarily, and far more effectively than if we had used force.” If this is where Biden is getting his advice, it’s no wonder he claimed in 2017 that the Obama-Biden policy in Syria was “not a failure.”
And like many in the Biden orbit, Blinken turned to the swamp after his time in government.
He co-founded the firm WestExec Advisors in 2017, which has paid him almost $1.2 million in two years according to Politico. The firm is now facing scrutiny for its work, including a recently scrubbed website post in which WestExec bragged that it can “advise on strategies to screen foreign research partners and donors, reduce risk associated with operations in China and…navigate these issues with the Defense Department.”
Bottom Line: Biden and Blinken are the least dynamic foreign policy duo in Washington. We already tried Blinken once, we don’t need to try Blinken twice.
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