Posted on 02/17/2017 5:17:27 AM PST by HomerBohn
President Trump went on a Twitter rampage Wednesday as he viciously bashed both the news media and the leaky U.S. intelligence community for waging outright war on his administration.
“The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred,” he said in the first tweet of the morning.
The source of Trump’s anger is obvious. Since Monday, when National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign, the “Russia Story” has sprouted new legs. Democrats – and even a few Republicans – are calling for a full investigation of Trump’s ties to the Kremlin. The New York Times is reporting that Trump’s aides were in “constant contact” with Russian officials during the campaign. Liberal hacks like Michael Moore are taking to social media, demanding that “Russian traitor” Trump resign from office.
It was a matter of speculation when Trump was inaugurated as to how well he would get along with the intelligence community he had derided in the weeks after the election. While Trump assured both the CIA and the public that his issues were only with the outgoing leadership, these recent machinations prove that the animosity towards the president went well beyond James Clapper.
“This Russian connection nonsense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton’s losing campaign,” Trump said in a later tweet.
That’s certainly where the bulk of this story originated – including the sanctions hastily imposed by Barack Obama. But now it has become a personal, inter-agency war on the president and his credibility. Flynn was the first tangible victim of that war, but unless Trump can find the rats leaking phone calls to the press, he won’t be the last.
“Information is being given illegally to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?),” Trump wrote. “Just like Russia.”
For all of the liberal fretting about Trump as the personification of American fascism, there’s not a lot of concern about the truly authoritarian actions we’re seeing right now in the so-called Deep State. These unelected, anonymous figures at the intelligence agencies are doing everything possible to give this president a first-class ticket back to New York City. Nevermind the voters. Nevermind Trump’s pro-American agenda. Nevermind Republicans and Democrats. The intelligence community is the last, fortified battle station of the Establishment, and they are not going to submit to Trump. If their survival means the death of democracy, they won’t hesitate to pull the trigger.
I'm referring to the ICE, DIA, etc.; in other words all federal law, immigration and national security.
If Trump actually succeeds in "draining the swamp ", they're all afraid the American people will find out what's in the bottom of it. That's the reason for all the distractions. Jeff Sessions going to be a very busy Attorney General.
Better to fire them ALL and get rid of the back stabbers!!
Reminds me of Hoover.
Trump is letting rove back in WH through Dubke
WhY?????????? Hate it.
Polygraphs all around and stop signing paychecks.
I’m sure this goes deep and the tentacles far
“The intelligence community is the last, fortified battle station of the Establishment, and they are not going to submit to Trump. If their survival means the death of democracy, they won’t hesitate to pull the trigger.”
Fedgov workers illegally wiretapping the president, fedgov workers ignoring congressional subpoena’s, and getting away with all of it.
You’ve got a fedgov workforce of about 4 million, the size of a state, above the President, above the Congress, above the Law.
Trump needs to call for an investigation of the Clinton-China relationship. Back to the 90’s.
“If Trump actually succeeds in “draining the swamp “, they’re all afraid the American people will find out what’s in the bottom of it.”
Yes indeed!
The “resistance” in our intelligence agencies may wish to look for a better hill to die on, but too late.
They’re up against someone who WINS because he is persistent.
Fire all the soldiers. HANG the DAMNED GENERAL’S OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR SEDITION.
What did the president know and when did he know it?
I’m talking about Obama, of course. That last minute EO to change the rules about sharing raw intel is a smoking gun.
The 50’s called, they want their Red Scare back.
I’ll say, at this time, that POTUS uses the fore-finger-and-thumb because he was brought-up by his parents to ^not point at others^; it is rude and socially unacceptable.
He is following his upbringing. Give props to his parents!
President Trump needs to eliminate the CIA and other intelligence branches. President Truman disbanded the OSS, because it was doing exactly what the intelligence community is doing right now. The OSS was too powerful and Truman feared it, so he killed it. President Trump needs to disband the CIA and build a new replacement agency of his own design.
And why do we need 16 or 17 intelligence agencies. We only need 2, one for domestic stuff and one for foreign stuff. With 16, there is too much redundancy and not enough efficiency; also, with this much redundancy there is too much opportunity for mischief.
9-11 might not have happened had there been one coordinated office.
CR expires in April. Cut the IC budgets 20% with promise of 10% supplemental whenthe IC delivers ALL traitors heads on pikes. That is enough money to cause an internecine war of unprecedented savagery. You should see an agency squabble over a mere $20 million.
Don’t forget their campaign against GWB and everybody in his administration. When I saw that Tillerson had fired a bunch of State Dept. employees, I was very happy, because State was also involved in the anti-Bush campaign.
Making a start with State is good. But all of the intelligence services have got to be cleaned out too.
Ha, indeed!
(Might make for a nice horror movie script, actually...)
You are so right!!!!
It’s interesting you should say that.
It has been my theory that Billy Goat and Hitlery were Red Star crossed ‘lovers.’
Billy was originally to be the USSR’s Manchurian Candidate, but it fell, thanks to RWR, and China picked up the option. They even bought a prominent Little Rock bank to be close to their investment and to divest funds to further this fatherless Hillbilly piece of trailer trash’s political career.
China used their super secret Triad killer squad to bump off anyone that might upset their apple cart.
Russia had always had their eye on Hitlery and that’s why these two traitors were selected and paired. China became the beneficiary of Russia’s farsightedness.
Russia is also responsible, along with Vatican II, of destroying the Roman Catholic Church. They had lots of help over the years from complicit phony popes. Their plan was to have their planted cardinals and bishops load up the seminaries with perverts. The united States and the Roman Catholic Church were the two enemies of the USSR.
The plot has such propulsion that it outlasted the Soviet Union and is today grinding away inside the Church that subsequently, after Vatican II, created an entirely new religion and ruined the lives of countless young men exposed to the large homosexual larded priesthood.
China is still working behind the scenes with Soros, but they failed to get their candidate elected. They’ll hold back, being extremely patient and await the next election cycle.
Americans should be alert, but the numbers of true patriotic Conservatives dwindles. The ranks of the largely complicit political elite have many factors in their favor the chief ingredient being the utter stupidity of the RINOs and the American electorate.
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