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Michael Hayden Warns: Impeachment Would Be Viewed as ‘Soft Coup’
Big Government ^ | 8/24/18 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 08/25/2018 5:49:30 AM PDT by markomalley

Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), warned Thursday that impeaching President Donald Trump would have unintended consequences and could further delegitimize the intelligence community.

Hayden, a frequent critic of President Trump, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton that he believes “impeachment would be a bad idea.”

“If President Trump is somehow forced to leave office before the end of his first term, one-third of America will believe it was a soft coup conducted by people, well frankly like everybody here at the table would be their view,” Hayden said. “I think the only way we move beyond this in any way that’s healthy for our democracy is we vote,” the Obama-era intelligence official added.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bucksexton; coup; coupplot; hayden; jamescomey; krystalball; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; michaelhayden; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; smearmachine; thehill
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To: markomalley

Even while we read and write, Democrat Election Supervisors in counties where “early voting” happens, are (or will be) busily changing your votes to guarantee the “right” people are in power. Early voting is simply a means for corrupt Democrats (are there any who are not corrupt?) to rig elections. Early voting only works if every one protecting your vote is honest. Do you really believe that is who Democrats are?

Democrats have us surrounded. The Media. FBI/DOJ/Mueller. Election Supervisors.

Trump may be making the final stand. What future Republican will have Trumps ability and will to fight? If even Trump can’t do it what real chance does a free United States have?


81 posted on 08/25/2018 8:36:41 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Sweet Saint Skittles bounced dat ole white Craka head off da sidewalk causin he was real skeered.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Socialists are certifiable.

They are indeed.

And impossible to reason with.

82 posted on 08/25/2018 8:38:12 AM PDT by TADSLOS (1. DonÂ’t Forget Nothing.)
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To: markomalley

I’m slightly encouraged by this.

Although, in the absence of an actual soft coup, I suspect the game plan will be to continuously weaken Trump so he gets nothing done.


83 posted on 08/25/2018 8:38:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: JonPreston
“If President Trump is somehow forced to leave office before the end of his first term, one-third of America, all armed, will believe it was a soft coup..." Fixed.

I have been wondering for a long time now after I realized the RATs wanted to start CW2 under Ovomit, how many of us would come out of our houses and actually DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS COUP??? I seriously doubt we could get 10% of that one-third of America to lift a finger. How many marches on the District of Corruption has the right organized and attended? The only two I can think about is the approx 20K righties that marched around the Capitol led by Michele Bachmann ranted about Obamascare, and then there was the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor rally in 2010 (But I am not saying Beck is a rightie, more of a Libertarian).

Other then those two examples I cannot name one really that drew thousands of Righties in the past decade. The TEA party held individual rallies for a while but that has all but disappeared after the lefties branded us as AstroTurf.
84 posted on 08/25/2018 8:38:50 AM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Raycpa

Huge, huge, huge, good point. As a Catholic, I know that we lost the Catholic Church after Vatican II, when it was infiltrated by perverts, pedos, rapists, Marxists, etc. That’s over 50 years of leftist rule just in the one denomination alone.

As far as I’m concerned, once the general public rolled over and allowed the 10 Commandments to be removed from parks and other public squares, it was all over. I hope they’re happy with their Georgia Guidestones, since they did nothing to retain the 10 Commandments monuments.


85 posted on 08/25/2018 8:39:28 AM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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To: virgil

Tanks, A-10s and rifle companies are too noisy to keep a secret. Chocolate bars on CNN won’t fool them, but CNN will surely be part of their response. They’ll have to be more subtle to keep it a law enforcement matter and not a military one. So, the police will be given new powers to function more like the Gestapo instead of your local constabulary. They would become the domestic arm of the military. They’re almost there now with tactical gear and kangaroo courts.
This is where I think it would go.


86 posted on 08/25/2018 8:40:51 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: silverleaf

It’s their fear of becoming Adolph Eichmann forever running from the hunters...


87 posted on 08/25/2018 8:42:24 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: frank ballenger

Yeah, I’m still waiting for Lois Lerner to be prosecuted for her crimes against conservatives. The Communists won WWII, moved over here, and have been winning here ever since. And it seems that not one person will come out to help Pres Trump, other than possibly Scalise and Rand Paul, both of whom were already nearly murdered.


88 posted on 08/25/2018 8:42:34 AM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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To: dhs12345

Shutting down communication would explode every city.


89 posted on 08/25/2018 8:42:46 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: jhastey

The other aspect is rampant vote fraud. It only goes one way, so we have to be vigilant and ensure that the midterms are NOT corrupted.


90 posted on 08/25/2018 8:44:40 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: virgil

In AZ, cops are being given free reign to gun down anyone they like, especially anyone mentally ill or deaf who does not understand police orders. I know that there are still good PD, retired Marines who went into LE, good CHPs, etc., but after Boston and several other incidents, I don’t believe that all that many LEOs will be on our side after all.


91 posted on 08/25/2018 8:45:22 AM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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To: markomalley
Hayden said. “I think the only way we move beyond this in any way that’s healthy for our democracy is we vote,” the Obama-era intelligence official added.

What about Russians?

I believe from now until forever, EVERY SINGLE TIME a democrat loses to a Republican, especially in Presidential elections, they will blame Russians.

It's not healthy to blame the Russians, but there you went, Mike.

You politicized Intel Honchos already lost. You NEVER should have gone there in the first place.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, Mike.

92 posted on 08/25/2018 8:45:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: Borax Queen
Most of the public is asleep

A majority of the populace actually is medicated into not reacting properly to stimulus in the form of anti-depressants which don't just level out the lows, as well as psychological manipulation via broadcast and cable tv. Have you ever noticed just how many FReepers and conservatives in general eschew both anti-depressants and most television? Correlation is not causation but given past covert intelligence operations experimenting upon psychological manipulation, I believe a compelling argument could be made.

93 posted on 08/25/2018 8:46:15 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: elcid1970
What's to be done?

We use the law.

Our founding fathers were fully aware of evil side of those who huger for power - they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights to stop men like Brennan, Clapper, and Hayden.

WE USE THE LAW... IT'S OUR BEST WEAPON AGAINST THOSE WITH THE MONEY, MEANS, AND HUGER FOR ILLEGITIMATE POWER - POWER THEY WILL USE KILL US AND OUR CHILDREN. THEY'RE NOT 'ELITE' THEY'RE COMMON CRIMINAL THUGS - LIKE THE STALIN AND HITLER'S AND GOONS SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME...

The law is our best weapon.

94 posted on 08/25/2018 8:47:07 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Talk is cheap" - - "Action is what counts.")
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To: TADSLOS

““Uhm, boss...we have a problem with our plan...

An armed and ready multi-million man problem...”

And probably 2/3 of the Military in which the other 1/3 will stand down.


95 posted on 08/25/2018 8:47:12 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Jim Noble

I doubt most Active Duty military folks would take the side of the Pu$$y-hat/Antifa side - I would stake that 65% or more of the grunts and 50% or more of your major commanders would defect if ordered to turn their weapons on American Patriots - many of whom are military veterans themselves.


96 posted on 08/25/2018 8:47:36 AM PDT by jhastey
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To: CodeToad

“Hitlery only won 57 counties.
Trump won 3084 counties.

Hitlery won cities.
Trump won everything else...a well armed and angry everything else”

The Morons are surrounded and they don’t even know it.


97 posted on 08/25/2018 8:51:03 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Cheerio

It will never be said that I went down without a fight, as I stood on a street corner for nearly a year, with about 200-500 others, protesting DeathCare. We’d go every Friday after work, to stand in front of Gabby Giffords office. I’ve also built walls on the border and many, many other things. Most people will not even bother to show up even once, always claiming “work” or “family” or something.

My parents escaped from a Communist country, only to see this one reverting to one over the last 50 years.

I have zero hope that the public will EVER actually stand up and do something. We’re already a banana republic/no law and order for political class/surveillance police/military state for the peons. And don’t get me started about the blood on the hands of those who never protested abortion, endless wars and genocides, toxins in our water and food supply, etc. THEY are the ones who let this happen.


98 posted on 08/25/2018 8:51:32 AM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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To: Raycpa

Well said.


99 posted on 08/25/2018 8:52:41 AM PDT by skams19
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yup! The fluoride/sedated stare that I get way too often from folks... Then they tell me, “Oh, I saw it on tv!”


100 posted on 08/25/2018 8:53:38 AM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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