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kpete

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Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:51 AM Sep 2018

More like a cornered RAT

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“As we anticipated, this individual is going to be facing increasing pressure from within,” Brennan said. “The walls are collapsing around and his mercurial, reckless nature might lead him to do something rash to distract attention from his problems, his domestic problems.”

Brennan suggested Trump might provoke a military conflict or crack down on domestic dissent.

“We’ve seen this behavior before in terms of authoritarian leaders, who will continue to suppress and repress any type of opposition and remove any threats that he or she sees that are rising on the political scene,” Brennan said. “But I wouldn’t rule out that there is going to be some type of effort to engage in some type of action that will distract attention from his political problems. better when he says it.”

The veteran intelligence official said the president’s position was very worrisome.

“A wounded lion is very dangerous, and he is very wounded,” Brennan said.


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-offers-dire-warning-trump-wounded-lion-dangerous-wounded/
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More like a cornered RAT (Original Post) kpete Sep 2018 OP
So if he does what Putin does greymattermom Sep 2018 #1

greymattermom

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1. So if he does what Putin does
Thu Sep 6, 2018, 08:58 AM
Sep 2018

and arranges a murder, can he pardon himself? Someone should remind him that murder is a state crime.

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