Trump Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections

[babylonsister]

Because of course he does.

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/13/trump-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections/

Trump Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections
February 13, 2019 at 10:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

Daily Beast: “Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately for election threats in 2020.”

“One of the task forces is now half the size it was a few months ago… and there’s no indication that DHS senior political leadership will staff it up or sustain it. Instead, there are concerns it will completely wither away. The other task force also shrunk significantly shortly after the midterms… and before its members produced a thorough assessment of what happened during the 2018 elections.”

[democratisphere]

1. How is this sh't allowed to happen?

Have we actually become a full fledged dictatorship by dictator drumpf?

[JHB]

2. Because Republicans allow it. R E P U B L I C A N S

Trump couldn't do bubkis without the backing of his party.

[democratisphere]

4. Well Nancy Pelosi and Chuck better get together and kick some

redumbliCON butt. The Democracy continues to twiddle with redumbliCON lying, cheating and stealing.

[global1]

7. I Better Hear Chuck & Nancy Raise Holy Hell About This.....

on the cable news shows and the rest of the Dems being loudly supportive of them. I better hear MSM press ask Trump why he cut back here. I better hear MSM ask Repugs if they support Trump doing this. We didn't come all this way from 2016 and the Mueller Investigation to allow Trump to do a repeat of 2016. This is an outrage.

[trusty elf]

10. Yet another riddle...

[Achilleaze]

12. TrustyElf, you be, like, brilliant and stuff

I'm totally freaked by the image of republican moral champion & BFF Mohammed bin Offing with his bloody bonesaw. And then, of course, the bonespurs, honored family emblem of the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his Skanky Spawn!!!

So much to see here. This should be enlarged to WALL proportions, then hung in the Metropolitan Museum of TrustyElf Masterpieces.

[trusty elf]

19. Aw shucks, that's very kind, thank you!

Very much appreciated coming from you Achilleaze, one of my favorite DUers!

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. "Ben's Grain Storage" !!

The silence from Republicans is deafening.

[atreides1]

17. One name

Kirstjen M. Nielsen. She's been in Trump's pocket since she got the job...she will do anything to gain Trump's favor! He brow beat her in a cabinet meeting and she's still loyal to him...she's either suffering from Battered Woman Syndrome or she's as much of a racist as he is...

[BigOleDummy]

3. Just goes

to show how the rethuglican party REALLY want's to play. A cancer on our Nation. Can the House set up a task force/entity of some kind to assist the ones being decimated? Or even to replace them as we've seen that's its impossible to trust anything even remotely related to elections that the right wing touches.

Or does trump and his enablers WANT the average Russian citizen to choose our president/senate/house races? Only about half snark on that...….

[oasis]

5. Trump's oath to protect America from enemies, foreign and domestic?

Gotta ask Sarah Hucksterbee about that.

[GetRidOfThem]

20. Sarah F*ckabee? n/t

[gademocrat7]

6. The assault on democracy continues.

[global1]

8. We Can't Sit Back And Let 2016 Happen All Over Again.....

this action by Trump better become a big story. This is insane. I'm insensed!!!! Outrageous!!!!!!! This madman and his Party must be stopped. Defeated.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. These functions should be enshrined into law....

as a permanent function of DHS in a fashion that political winds cannot denigrate them. Accountability, an untouchable budget and thoroughly defined reporting duties are the keys to success.

Both domestic and foreign election interference will be a serious threat to democracy from now on.......

[Achilleaze]

11. The kremlin is HAVING ITS WAY with Dirty Donny* & repube cronies

and they are flushing American democracy down the fascist crapper.


* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[democrank]

13. Trump's betrayal of this country is an everyday occurrence.

He wakes up, grabs the remote, betrays....

Wakes up, grabs the remote, betrays....

Wakes up, grabs the remote, betrays....

[Vinnie From Indy]

14. Every Dem should be talking about this

eom

[BSdetect]

16. Clearly Putin is dictating the tactics

[mnmoderatedem]

18. getting NO COVERAGE in the MSM