Tapper Clapper Crapper.
No true journalist would fail to follow up on this. Exactly what institution(s) are threatened, and precisely how? Clapper’s statement is too broad to mean anything, and Tapper’s failure to inquire more deeply proves his failure (to objective people) as a legitimate journalist.
The Founders DID NOT create “3 coequal branches” they created a representative republic where Congress was supposed to have most of the power.
The leftists, and the power elite, have altered our system to their advantage, and they don’t want Trump to successfully return the power to The People.
Clapper is part of the problem, not the solution. The media, and the seditionist left, are all going to have to be hung from lampposts if our republic is to survive
No, our nation is under arrack by our institutions. Trump is trying to stop that and correct the mess that institutions have gotten our nation into.
James Clapper is just like his former boss. All hat and no cattle.
He needs to see the inside of a federal courtroom under oath.
Same with Brennan, and Rice.
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The venality and corruption of our Establishment is why our "institutions" are under assault by The Deplorables.
The three branches of government, executive, legislative and judicial, did not include the deep state institutions he speaks of.
President Trump can’t “threaten” anything as long as he has those so-called, “Republicans,” hindering him.
I saw a story on the Fox News website this afternoon about Mitch McConnell and Mike Lee, saying it would be a “fantastic idea” if the president nominated, Garland, who was Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to be the FBI director!
In other words, these RINOs want to put an Obama-appointee, liberal at the head of our nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency!
THIS is what the president is up against.
The Constitution’s system of checks and balances is the three branches of government. The Legislative, composed of the House and Senate, is set up in Article 1. The Executive, composed of the President, Vice-President, and the Departments, is set up in Article 2. The Judicial, composed of the federal courts and the Supreme Court, is set up in Article 3.
Good night! How does a former lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and the former director of national intelligence fail Government 101 with this ignorance? It is just that thinking that undercuts ALL credibility.
Hillary was supposed to be the new god of the statist religion...
Trump is sitting on her throne...
He must be destroyed to move the statist religion forward
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Clapper is just playing his part...
I came back two days ago expecting to see the smiling face of our new President, Donald J. Trump. Lo and behold, there was no picture up anywhere in the remodeled terminal, nor any reference to President of the United States welcoming arrivals at all. I strongly suspect this change has nothing to do with the ongoing (and long overdue) remodeling of the LAX international terminal, but is instead an act of dissent by government workers.
Is that the kind of institution Clapper feels is threatened? :)
Drain the swamp
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.
“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 that’s 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.
