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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: Sooth2222

Cities like San Francisco have people using the streets as a toilet...


21 posted on 08/25/2018 6:22:14 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: markomalley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfHAiIq-Yeo

The Jackals figured out they have gone too far!


22 posted on 08/25/2018 6:23:41 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: markomalley

I think there is something else going on. Like the Clap, Hayden is deeply compromised and is worried that if it’s “war,” he and Clap will be the first casualties.


23 posted on 08/25/2018 6:24:59 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: markomalley

The coup happened on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009 with the full cooperation of both parties, the CIA, FBI, NSA and all the other spooks.

What is happening now is the struggle to restore the Constitution and the rule of law.


24 posted on 08/25/2018 6:25:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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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.

Wait you ignorant POS we already did that and you lost. The fact you don't accept that is the problem.

25 posted on 08/25/2018 6:29:14 AM PDT by Balata
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To: markomalley

“our democracy”

We are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.


26 posted on 08/25/2018 6:31:38 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: markomalley

Afraid that the FBI, NSA, and IRS have lost most of the respect they had.
As for congress, that pile of excrement has been detested for years.
If they remove Trump, the die is cast, and we’re going to have to do something about clearing the swamp in a more persuasive fashion.


27 posted on 08/25/2018 6:32:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: AndyJackson

“...Soft coup?...”

0bmmmmma thinks that’s a rubber room to keep chickens in.


28 posted on 08/25/2018 6:37:26 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: markomalley

“Soft coup” my a$$. It’ll be the treasonous overthrow of the government. There will be no law, no Republic, no restraints. Ready on the left, ready on the firing line, fire at wil.

BTW, it was only one-third of the colonists who defeated the British.


29 posted on 08/25/2018 6:38:00 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: markomalley

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

You mean like Civil War II?


30 posted on 08/25/2018 6:39:27 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Sooth2222
the other side is armed with bongs and dildoes

And tanks, and A-10s, and USMC rifle companies.

31 posted on 08/25/2018 6:42:06 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble
And tanks, and A-10s, and USMC rifle companies.

And what great optics that would make if they ever used them against Americans on American soil.

32 posted on 08/25/2018 6:49:21 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Junk Silver

“..I’m getting the impression that all this “impeachment” nonsense isn’t playing well with the Democrat party focus groups and polling....”

Bingo. Nail on the head.

They’re trying to walk that rhetoric back, because polling data is telling them people don’t want to hear it. That doesn’t mean they won’t TRY it once - IF - they “seize control” again; it just means they’ll be more covert about it, instead of opening their pie holes and spilling the beans.

It’s not off the table; they’re just trying to put it back UNDER the table until the elections.


33 posted on 08/25/2018 6:49:30 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: markomalley

More like 2/3 of America , Mr Hayden

Sounds like someone took a long look in the mirror and considered the consequences of losing his security clearance


34 posted on 08/25/2018 6:53:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Morpheus2009

I recently saw that they’re hiring 6 folks at $70K a year to clean up the crap.


35 posted on 08/25/2018 6:53:30 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: virgil

If the military is on the side of the coup, you will not gain from the bad optics.

The only optics you will see is soldiers handing out candy bars.


36 posted on 08/25/2018 6:53:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: odawg

He reveals he agrees with the goal, but not the strategy.


37 posted on 08/25/2018 6:54:26 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

The democrats cannot “ impeach” Trump through actual conviction
I dont believe we have 67 traitorous Senators to uphold them


38 posted on 08/25/2018 6:55:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: JonPreston

If all of those openly carrying citizens showed up on the mall, the left might be misled into thinking it was an attempt at “intimidation.”

//sarc


39 posted on 08/25/2018 6:56:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Raycpa
We are already in civil war. Only the battlefield isn’t the traditional. It’s fought by taking over one organization at a time very slow. We are currently losing. We have lost culture, education, law enforcement, and close to losing capitalism and borders.

This!!!!!

40 posted on 08/25/2018 6:58:25 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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