Trump names Tulsi Dir of National Intelligence

Okay, I can agree that if the DOJ does prosecute that they do almost always win because they have all the evidence to win... slam dunks. That I have to agree with. But that is not the same thing as being "sort of guilty" of a crime simply because they have investigated someone.

 

I would pay real money to see Gaetz defend himself in that hearing. He's fully capable of making people re-think their opinion of his competence to be AG... irrespective of this DOJ investigation nonsense.

 

Agree. I think its the plurality of charges that sends warning signs to me.

 

At least you’re leaving. I was just crashing from my sugar high from the game. Now I have plenty of energy!

 

You mean this guy, correct?

 

Only with Donald Trump. It was all false with him.*








* That's why so many of his associates have required a pardon, requested a pardon, or been incarcerated.

 

look who found her voice again. Guess she realizes that she isn't one of the cool kids or maybe she does have a conscious after seeing the pictures of Assad's gas attacks herself

Nikki Haley Scorches Trump Pick Tulsi Gabbard Over Her 'Disgusting' 2017 Photo-Op

Nikki Haley on Wednesday slammed former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be director of national intelligence — over her 2017 “photo-op” with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “He was massacring his own people. She said she was skeptical that he was behind the chemical weapons attacks,” said Haley of Gabbard on her SiriusXM show.
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Haley, who served as United Nations ambassador under Trump, pointed to a 2017 speech she gave where she held up pictures of Syrian children who were victims of a chemical weapons attack in the town of Khan Shaykhun.

Gabbard, just months before the attack, met with Assad during a secret trip to Syria and, in 2019, would declare that the Syrian president was “not an enemy” to the United States.

“For her to say that Assad was not behind that, literally, everything she said about that were Russian talking points, every bit of that, that was Russian propaganda,” said Haley before adding that the Democrat-turned-Republican also blamed NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She continued, “And the Russians and the Chinese echoed her talking points and her interviews on Russian and Chinese television.”

 

Trump ended up dropping his nomination for AG of a nominee who probably couldn't get an entry level position as an Assistant US Attorney. Hopefully his nominee for DNI who probably couldn't pass the background investigation necessary to receive a top secret security clearance for a position as an entry level intelligence analyst at the CIA, DIA or NSA for the reasons stated in post #128 will also be forced to withdraw her nomination although I wouldn't bet on it.

 

If Gabbard worships Bashar, then so too shall the MAGAs.

If Gabbard worships and quotes Putin, then so too shall the MAGAs.

If Gabbard calls Trump a mortal enemy and unfit to serve, then so too shall the MAGAs:



Oh wait …

 

lot of good stuff in here. sad to me that we have men like Kelly, McMaster and others that are such obviously learned leaders and we elect a carnival barker like djt..

Transcript: H.R. McMaster on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 24, 2024

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, one of the things, and you are a historian, you've written quite a lot and looked at presidential decision making. One of the things you've written in "At War With Ourselves," was, it is important, based on your study of the Vietnam War, to "ensure that the president gets the best analysis and multiple options so he can make informed decisions." Do you think so far, that Mr. Trump's choices for Director of National Intelligence, for Defense Secretary, are these individuals who will provide the President with the best analysis and what he needs to hear, not just what he wants to hear?

LT. GENERAL H.R. MCMASTER: Well, this is what the Senate has to- has to really exercise their advice and consent role. And I think it's worth going back to Federalist 76, where John Adams said, really, this- this advice and consent is so important to make sure the best people are in those positions. President Trump, as I wrote in the book, he does learn, he does listen to advice. He does evolve his understanding. So who will those people be? I think, for the new Secretary of Defense, the nominated Director of National Intelligence, they- they ought to be asked, or- what do you think motivates or drives and constrains Vladimir Putin? There's a fundamental misunderstanding based on- on the nominee for- for the- for- for DNI about what motivates him. It's not his security concerns. His security concerns don't need to be allayed. That's the mistake the Biden administration made, and I think, as a result, almost green lighted the invasion, the reinvasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. What are the consequences if Ukraine fails and Russia succeeds, globally? I think, Margaret, they have got to be asked about, you know, really, how do they reconcile, or help President Trump reconcile, peace through strength? And what you see in some elements of the Republican Party, which replicate the far left, oftentimes, toward retrenchment and disengagement and then even blaming ourselves for the acts of our adversaries, as- as- as Tulsi Gabbard has done, you know, talking about how- how Putin really felt aggrieved, and that's why he had to invade Ukraine.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, that's- that's a Russian talking point that she's repeated, and in direct contravention to what U.S. intelligence has concluded. I also want to ask about someone you--

LT. GENERAL H.R. MCMASTER: This is what- this is what I can't understand, Margaret. There's so- there's some people in the Republican Party these days which kind of tend to parrot Vladimir Putin's talking points. I don't know if it's because they're drawn to him and they see him as a kind of a defender of Western civilization, just the shirtless guy on horseback, but they've got to disabuse themselves of this, you know, strange affection for Vladimir Putin. You know, who- who is- who is not going to stop in his effort to restore Russia to national greatness at our expense. That's what he's obsessed with. He's obsessed with kind of reestablishing the Russian Empire. And so he has aspirations that go far beyond anything that's in reaction to what we do. And the only thing that stops it, really, is strength, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: And you wrote in your book that you didn't understand Donald Trump's fascination with Vladimir Putin. Quickly, Seb Gorka is going to be the Senior Director for Counterterrorism, Deputy Assistant to the President. Is he a good person to advise on national security?

LT. GENERAL H.R. MCMASTER: No, no, he's not, Margaret. But, you know, I think that- that the President, others who are working with him, will probably determine that pretty quickly, soon after he gets into that job.

 

And yet Obama never stated that he would take the word of a former KGB colonel over that of his own intelligence agencies.
Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit

 

Putin is good now. Trump said so. And lots and lots of my friends and neighbors think Trump is more than good, and not a criminal, so that confirms my feelings about Trump and Putin.
- signed, MAGA

It's actually hard for me to opine on topics like this without using words like "traitor", "traitorous," and "traitors."