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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 12:30 PM Mar 2017

Trump Ally Proposes 'Purge' Of 'Leftists' From The Executive Branch

By MATT SHUHAM Published MARCH 6, 2017, 11:22 AM EDT

Conservative congressman and Trump ally Rep. Steve King (R-IA) urged the President on Sunday to “purge Leftists” from his administration before they “sink us.”

On his Twitter account, King made the recommendation while posting a story from Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz.




In his article, Horowitz wrote that there had been “a silent coup within the intelligence agencies” against Trump, and he argued for a wholesale firing of political appointees who don’t “share the views of the president.”

“Any open borders official within DOJ and DHS should be gone,” he wrote. “Any pro-government-run health care supporter within HHS has to go. Any official within Treasury who is not on board with the OMB spending cuts and pro-growth tax cuts should go out and campaign for their cause … on the outside. Any State Department official who is a shill for refugee resettlement, a Palestinian State, the Muslim Brotherhood, or who opposes the president’s immigration moratorium must go.”

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-king-purge-leftists
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Trump Ally Proposes 'Purge' Of 'Leftists' From The Executive Branch (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
Your sunk MFM008 Mar 2017 #1
Leftists? Who Talks Like That in 2017? ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #2

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
1. Your sunk
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 01:33 PM
Mar 2017

Like in the end of Shawshank Redemption.
The horrible warden looks at the sign that says
'Judgment cometh and right soon '....

ProfessorGAC

(65,112 posts)
2. Leftists? Who Talks Like That in 2017?
Mon Mar 6, 2017, 01:41 PM
Mar 2017

Leftist is so mid-20th century, or maybe more like pre WWI.

Of course that explains a lot given this is coming from Steve King. His brain quit taking in new information years ago.

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