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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:29 AM Jul 2019

Trump's intelligence chief resigned after the WH repeatedly suppressed his warnings about Russia

https://bit.ly/2Mjry3j


Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in recent months saw his warnings about threats posed by Russia watered down by the White House, The New York Times reported Sunday.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in recent months saw his warnings about threats posed by Russia watered down by the White House, The New York Times reported Sunday.

Coats' resignation was announced Sunday in a tweet by President Donald Trump, who wants a loyalist, Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas, to replace him.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats repeatedly found his warnings about the threat posed by Russia suppressed by the White House, The New York Times reported Sunday amid his resignation from the post.

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Trump's intelligence chief resigned after the WH repeatedly suppressed his warnings about Russia (Original Post) G_j Jul 2019 OP
Trump really is a traitor. Kid Berwyn Jul 2019 #1
Not only Trump atreides1 Jul 2019 #4
Absolutely. Kid Berwyn Jul 2019 #7
You've got to admire Obama's restraint against saying what he really thinks of Trump Poiuyt Jul 2019 #17
You can throw in much of the media. triron Jul 2019 #19
Reagan is turning in his grave. I'm not sure who is worse, Trump or McConnell. Pepsidog Jul 2019 #14
Now to let America know what is really going on blueinredohio Jul 2019 #2
+1, I pray he is just another functionary who pulled his lever and says "my job is done" and does uponit7771 Jul 2019 #6
if he is now allowed to put one of his cronies in as DNI 5X Jul 2019 #3
*** THERE WILL BE NO 2020 ELECTION !!! *** uponit7771 Jul 2019 #5
I wouldn't doubt they're trying to figure out how to make that happen. bearfan454 Jul 2019 #13
Due to foreign interference, Trump will suspend elections IronLionZion Jul 2019 #16
And Putin just tried to kill Alexei Navalny who spoke out about Konstantin Kilimnik* Botany Jul 2019 #8
He's intentionally driving people away duforsure Jul 2019 #9
+1. dalton99a Jul 2019 #15
+1, uponit7771 Jul 2019 #21
A subpeona from the intelligence committee is in order nt Fiendish Thingy Jul 2019 #10
Agree, Dems should subpoena Dan Coats onetexan Jul 2019 #12
Wonder how vocal Coates will be if this was his reason for leaving jcgoldie Jul 2019 #11
This is from Putin duforsure Jul 2019 #18
Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend". " keithbvadu2 Jul 2019 #20

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
1. Trump really is a traitor.
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:34 AM
Jul 2019

Hard to believe, but the evidence and facts, like all the pink slips of patriots who stand for the Constitution instead of Trumputin, are piled sky high.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
4. Not only Trump
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:38 AM
Jul 2019

Every Republican member of Congress and every "American" who continues to support Trump, are traitors as well!!!!

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
7. Absolutely.
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:43 AM
Jul 2019

They share one big tell:



https://journalisms.theroot.com/putins-circle-considered-obama-the-n-word-1823832442

Excerpt...

Michael Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, also cite information indicating that Donald Trump, who had claimed that Obama was not born in the United States, vied with Putin in his hatred of the 44th president. They report on a controversial dossier that said Trump hired prostitutes to defile space where the American president and first lady had slept.

“Putin and his inner circle had nothing but utter contempt for Obama and his administration — much of it cast in racist terms,” Isikoff and Corn write in “Russian Roulette: : The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”

“Putin and his top advisers routinely denigrated Obama and his national security team as ‘weak’ and ‘indecisive’ — and then, contradictorily, blamed him for meddling in Russia’s internal affairs. In Putin’s presence, Obama would be called a ‘monkey,’ and it was not uncommon for the American president to be referred to as the N-word.”



Today’s GOP is, at heart, the Confederacy.

Poiuyt

(18,125 posts)
17. You've got to admire Obama's restraint against saying what he really thinks of Trump
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:09 AM
Jul 2019

I'm guessing it's not good.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
2. Now to let America know what is really going on
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:36 AM
Jul 2019

he has to go on every news show and scream this as loud as he can.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
6. +1, I pray he is just another functionary who pulled his lever and says "my job is done" and does
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:42 AM
Jul 2019

... exactly what you're saying here.

5X

(3,972 posts)
3. if he is now allowed to put one of his cronies in as DNI
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:38 AM
Jul 2019

his takeover is nearly complete, the dictator is installed.

The house must move NOW!

bearfan454

(6,697 posts)
13. I wouldn't doubt they're trying to figure out how to make that happen.
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 10:53 AM
Jul 2019

I think that would be Putin's dream come true.

IronLionZion

(45,457 posts)
16. Due to foreign interference, Trump will suspend elections
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:05 AM
Jul 2019

until we can figure this whole thing out. Just like his Muslim travel ban and draconian immigration policies. Or he'll suspend elections until the wall is built or some such nonsense.



Botany

(70,516 posts)
8. And Putin just tried to kill Alexei Navalny who spoke out about Konstantin Kilimnik*
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:14 AM
Jul 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-29/russian-opposition-leader-may-have-been-poisoned-says-doctor/11355218


* And Kilimnik was one of the persons that Manafort & Gates were passing along the
Trump campaign's internal polling (Data Analytics) that allowed Russia to rat fuck our
elections.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
9. He's intentionally driving people away
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:29 AM
Jul 2019

So he can replace them with corrupt loyalists, then when he gets them corrupted as far as they'll go, he picks a fight and uses that as an excuse to replace them with someone who'll be even more corrupt, or like with Sessions to Barr.

onetexan

(13,043 posts)
12. Agree, Dems should subpoena Dan Coats
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:51 AM
Jul 2019

As (former) DNI head he has duty to let the country know we have traitors in the executive branch.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
20. Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend". "
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 11:26 AM
Jul 2019

Today's republicans: "Russia is our friend".

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

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