Posted on 05/14/2017 12:43:58 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Sunday on CNNs State of the Union, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said our institutions of government were under assault by President Donald Trump.
Partial transcript as follows:
TAPPER: Lets take a wider view of this for one second and then get back to more detailed questions. This week with the president firing the FBI director while this investigation is going on, and then saying that he was thinking about the Russia probe when he was making the decision, have we crossed a line here? well,
CLAPPER: Well, I will just say that the developments of the past week very bothersome, very disturbing to me. I think in many ways, our institutions are under assault both externally and thats the big news here, is the Russian interference in our election system. And I think as well our institutions are under assault internally.
TAPPER: Internally from the president? exactly.
CLAPPER: Exactly.
TAPPER: Because hes firing the checks and balances?
CLAPPER: Well I think you know, the founding fathers a system of three coequal branches of government, and a built-in system of checks and balances, and I feel as though thats under assault and is eroding.
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Damn right!
“YOUR institutions” were all built illegitimately, and in contravention of both the spirit and the letter of the Constitution!
Bastard...
Good. Our institutions have been broken for far too long.
Only CNN could imagine this swine has anything to say about public policy.
I agree vette!
“Well I think you know, the founding fathers a system of three coequal branches of government, and a built-in system of checks and balances, and I feel as though thats under assault and is eroding.”
The left is 100% assaulting the Constitutional balance of power, because they hate Trump so much they prefer to try to overturn our election and trash the Constitution than allow Trump to exercise his proper powers as president. Two-bit activist judges appointed by leftists to piss on the Constitution and usurp the powers of both the legislature and president, and thus of the people, are doing this right now—not to mention the obstructionism and lies from the Marxists on the Hill attempting to use the legislature to paralyze the executive. The leftists think they can get away with a quiet coup against President Trump, but there is only so much B.S. the regular Americans will take.
Clapper, tell your fellow anti-American Cultural Marxists to quit their almost non-stop assault on the head of the executive branch, and the threat to our balance of power will end immediately. But the problem with Marxist “progressives” is they really believe they should have total control and the people and their representatives no say at all.
There’s only one institution these treasonous bastards need to be concerned about, and it’s not going anywhere....Leavenworth.
Our institutions are full of kooks with nothing but hatred and enmity for America. Just look at John Brennan: why should a guy who voted for the Communist Party be allowed to run our largest national security apparatus? Remember the days when the CIA went after communists? President Trump is bringing those days back.
Washington views the 2016 election as a hostile takeover.
In a hostile takeover, you set a new direction and get rid of the dead wood. Washington is full of dead wood and parasites.
Dear albaby,
re: “The FBI was in on international stuff under Clinton”
Were they:
1. Looking for more women for Bill?
2. Looking for more children, for both Bill and Hill?
3. Ensuring their overseas contacts went missing, and never to be found?
With Bill, the FBI was just another plaything to be abused, and was.
Dear hal.
re: “The “media” SHOULD be “under assault”. They are chronic liars who make-up fake news. LIARS!”
I agree.
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