According to MSNBC trump has been holding aid to Lebanon that was passed by Congress.

[shraby]

No explanation for doing it and he's supposed to go back to Congress and hasn't.

[jberryhill]

1. I'll bet it's because he doesn't like lesbians

[guillaumeb]

2. What do you have against Lesbanons?

Congratulations. I wish I had written that one.

[jberryhill]

4. Make Lebanese Bologna Again!

[louis-t]

7. I am Lebanese. Before anyone knew where Lebanon was

kids in school would say "You're 'Lesbanese'? What's that?" So we told them we were Syrian.

[guillaumeb]

9. Did they know where Syria is located?

One of my sisters ln law is Syrian.

[louis-t]

10. They may not have known where it is located

but at least they had heard of it.

[seaglass]

3. This came up during the impeachment hearings and no one addressed it. The report on MSNBC

was a response to Chris Murphy's tweets:

Link to tweet

?s=20

[pwb]

5. He may be trying to make withholding Ukraine aid Normal.

With this .

[Behind the Aegis]

6. One word: Russia

[struggle4progress]

15. +

Syria, then Lebanon!

[Hortensis]

20. "All Trump's roads...." No doubt. But reporting in general

says the reasons are currently a mystery. I don't see a consensus among the speculation either.

Imo, all speculation should include your assumption.

[triron]

21. Pundits are clueless mainly cause they choose to be. Except Rachel. She knows wtf is going on.

[Hortensis]

22. They like their elite jobs way too much. The safe place

is in the middle of the group(think).

[redstatebluegirl]

8. Reporting on it this week is like doing it on Friday afternoon taking out the trash.

Nobody will be paying attention until next week. Then it is only a couple of weeks and there will be two weeks of dead time again.

[2naSalit]

11. Well, it's just the other side of Syria from

the location of his last debacle...

[moondust]

12. Possibly Bibi related.

Apparently Bibi has been doing some strongman stuff to try to hang onto power. Dumpy may be trying to help him in that effort though I don't have any specifics.

[hedda_foil]

14. Actually, it's Iran and Hezbollah that would reap the benefits first. Then Russia.

[moondust]

16. True.

Though I think it's possible that Bibi has something he wants Dump to do for him regarding Lebanon and the amateur Dump will impulsively do it without regard for the bigger picture of unintended consequences. I guess it's the timing coinciding with Bibi's struggle to hang onto power that makes me wonder.

[triron]

18. It's Russia that is most interesting. please explain if you can.

[hedda_foil]

19. The group we're funding i Lebanon is the opposition force to Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.

If we bow out then Russia can swoop down and provide funding to them instead.

[samir.g]

13. Islamophobia

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. what's in it for TrumPutin? that's his prime motivator