James Clapper: ‘Reprehensible’ For Trump To Call The Justice Department ‘Deep State’

The Daily Caller ^ | 01/02/2018 | Justin Caruso

[cincinnati65]

I agree it IS reprehensible that he has to call it what it is.....

[LydiaLong]

There once was a guy named James Clapper
Who thought about life on the crapper
When tried to hurt Trump
He got thrown on his rump
Then he realized he wasn’t that dapper.

[FlipWilson]

I love how they roll out this guy as if he has a corner on the “gravitas” market. The guy was and remains Obama’s accomplice tased with politicizing the intelligence agencies of our country.

He has now been caught red-handed doing so yet still is the media’s go to guy when it comes to needing a serious fellow.

[GOPJ]

All Clapper needs to be a total phony is to add the MSNBC fake British accent and move his nose slightly up...

[Fhios]

Yes, our pure Byzantium bureaucracy is incapable of waste fraud and abuse.

There needs to be a reckoning with these people.

[carmen2017]

My thoughts Exactly.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Clapper said, “I think it’s reprehensible to use that phraseology. I guess who that refers to is the career civil servants who are patriots dedicated to the country. I’d point out that when you take the oath of office as a civil servant you swear to uphold the Constitution.”

By "civil servant", Clapper is referring to un-elected bureaucrats. I don't care about their oath of office or how these bureaucrats choose to interpret that oath - they are answerable to the elected representatives of the people, and at the executive level that is the POTUS. If Clapper's "patriots dedicated to the country" are determined to undermine the elected president with their "resistance" BS, they must be removed.

[Kalamata]

>>And yes, justice will only be done when Clapper and all those like him swing from ropes.
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in the public square at high noon.

Alternatively, Italy, 1945.

[chuckee]

Sleazy failed deep state incompetent does not like the term deep state. And this is news why?

[norwaypinesavage]

It is Clapper and his cronies still in and out of the government who are reprehensible. The “Deep State” is not the honest worker bees, it’s the command structure that is conniving to unseat Trump that needs to be tried for treason.

[Kalamata]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,

“Who’s the “deepest state” of all”?

[Pollster1]

My reaction was slightly different from Clapper’s. I thought is was reprehensible and disturbing for the Justice Department to act as the deep state in opposing and undermining President Trump.

[COBOL2Java]

He has now been caught red-handed doing so yet still is the media’s go to guy when it comes to needing a serious fellow.

What does that tell you about the media?

[Redleg Duke]

The useless fake news organ interviewing a useless fake news source.

Clapper needs an orange jump suit and a ball and chain!

[TheStickman]

President Trump continues to trigger anti-Americans whether they are former Obama officials or progressives in general.

I love it!!!

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Clapper, Brennan, Comey, etal. would look right at home in a gathering of 1952 Soviet politburo members.

Dour, pasty, humorless apparatchiks who know the “system” is what provides for and enriches them and will defend it at all costs, the truth, their conscience and the Constitution be damned.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Clapper can go (do an unnatural act on) himself.

[Renegade]

Trump is the Head Of THE Justice dept.He can call it a anything he wants.

[savedbygrace]

And it’s ironic that James Clapper knows how to pronounce a five syllable word without understanding its meaning.

[NorthMountain]

Yeah? Let's see some actual upholding of that Constitution. If most civil servants really wanted to uphold the Constitution, the first thing they would do would be to resign from their UNconstitutional job.