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Republicans Are Finally Seeing Trumps Intelligence Problem
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) spoke out on Sunday about the presidents routine intel dismissals
By Ryan Bort
President Trump took aim at the intelligence community last week, tweeting that its officials should go back to school after their threat assessments contradicted his rosy vision of international relations. It wasnt the first time the president has dismissed the findings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus last year he sided with Vladimir Putin in refusing to accept that Russia meddled in the 2016 election and Republicans are finally starting to grow frustrated with the presidents fidelity to Fox News and foreign autocrats over the FBI and CIA.
Johnson also criticized the presidents plan to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, a move based on his false belief that ISIS has been defeated, which National Intelligence Director Dan Coats contradicted last week.
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Over on CNN, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) elaborated on why the presidents politicization of intelligence is so troubling. These are professional people, he said. The presidents briefed every day on it. Hes not an intelligence officer. None of us are. But they, the people on the front lines, the people who analyze who gather and disseminate intelligence information to our higher-ups, we should respect them. Most of the time theyre pretty much on point.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What more could anyone possibly want or expect? Because if you do expect more out of Republicans in the House or the Senate, you should get used to disappointment.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Nah. They are the gutless party, and they have turned their backs on their responsibility to protect and defend America and American democracy.
They are the deplorables.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Well said
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)before he was elected, though it was amazing to me that so many apparently thought/hoped they could "work with him." That delusion did not last a month after being sworn in, but he runs their party and the mostly obey. In spite of this spat, just the other night it was reported that even relative hold-out Republicans in congress are consolidating more strongly behind him - and his and their increasingly authoritarian, anti-democracy policies.
That alone should make people wonder just what the Republican Party intends to do with our nation in the future. We thought losing elections would force them to become more diverse and moderate on many issues. Instead, they've chosen another path to survival and power.
Btw, as part of their deliberate policy of inflicting extreme cruelty to manipulate people, the Republicans kidnapped this baby away from her mother when she claimed asylum just 2 months ago. They were reunited Friday.
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Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)to Moscow for July 4th?
Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)do something about it, then.