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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:32 PM Feb 2019

Republicans Are Finally Seeing Trump's Intelligence Problem

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Republicans Are Finally Seeing Trump’s Intelligence Problem
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) spoke out on Sunday about the president’s 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 wasn’t 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 president’s fidelity to Fox News and foreign autocrats over the FBI and CIA.

“There’s an awful lot — there’s so much tradition, and history and complexity to some of these foreign policy issues, you have to rely on people who have been working these issues for decades,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said on Fox News Sunday. “It’s just imperative that you actually listen to, for example, the CIA chief, the director of national intelligence. These people have the real knowledge and you have to listen to them.”


Johnson also criticized the president’s 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.


Over on CNN, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) elaborated on why the president’s politicization of intelligence is so troubling. “These are professional people,” he said. “The president’s briefed every day on it. He’s 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 they’re pretty much on point.”



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Republicans Are Finally Seeing Trump's Intelligence Problem (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2019 OP
Which is that he doesn't have any. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #1
And what are they going to DO about it now that they've "seen" it? NOTHING. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2019 #2
Yep. Seeing and doing are two completely different things. TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #3
Shelby said it was "troubling" gratuitous Feb 2019 #4
Their concern is noted... Scurrilous Feb 2019 #5
maybe republicans could summon enough courage to write a sternly worded letter? Achilleaze Feb 2019 #7
This 👆🏼 UpInArms Feb 2019 #9
They all knew he was at very least criminal and weird Hortensis Feb 2019 #6
Ron Johnson and Richard Shelby speaking about intelligence. Hahahaha Freethinker65 Feb 2019 #8
Isn't he one of those POS who went WhiteTara Feb 2019 #10
Too late republickan fucko Mr. Quackers Feb 2019 #11

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Shelby said it was "troubling"
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:42 PM
Feb 2019

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.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
7. maybe republicans could summon enough courage to write a sternly worded letter?
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:54 PM
Feb 2019

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. They all knew he was at very least criminal and weird
Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:52 PM
Feb 2019

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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