Joel Brenner, who served as Inspector General of the National Security Agency under President Bush, tells Lawrence O’Donnell the firing of several inspectors general shows President Trump believes all government officials owe him “personal loyalty.” Aired on 5/18/2020.
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Former Inspector General: Trump Is Attacking The ‘Institution’ Of Oversight | The Last Word | MSNBC
WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE GIRTHER MOVEMENT! WHAT IS TRUMPS LONG FORM BMI (BIG MAC INTAKE)? WE WANT ANSWERS!
🤣🤣🤣I can’t stop laughing!!!
You shouldn’t fire people without bothering to check who the person is and what you are firing them for. Very unprofessional.
Trumps modus operendi. If your not his tool you’re only OK until you behave honorably. Cheat for him you’re gold, and you’ll be rewarded. That’s how this administration works.
Trump and his dastardly deeds. Disgusting. I expected nothing more and he has fulfilled my expectations.
88happiness this president has never been professional since he took office, I can see he is the only unprofessional president firing people who go against his will…if you check back I think there are a long list of people he already fire ,probably the number added up is more than since America had her first President…
88happiness : Begs the question; is trump’s lying-assed excuse worse than admitting it’s a lie, really? When you can just fire the Inspector’s General, at will, you don’t actually HAVE any IG’s, do you? That’s it, in a nutshell
Him saying he doesn’t known him means his firing of him is baseless
Tiffany Jack : We know it’s a lie, but yes. If it were true, it would mean that any crimes can be committed, and people fired for investigating them, by a POTUS who isn’t looking into them, and therefore, he’s not doing his job. Let’s face it, to that final question, “Do you want a rule of law, or don’t you?” We know Donny’s answer. And that goes for the entire cult too, whether they’re in government, or just, “protesting,” on the streets for their right to be dumb, racist and poor
I wouldnt trust an obama official
@RickJames the watch dog is not in place to have loyalty to trump or his administration they are put in place to protect the peoples interests. He has fired anyone who has criticized him. That’s a problematic at best. To fire someone who he claims not to know with no question as to why is problematic. That’s not a democracy its a dictator
Tiffany Jack people are corruptible. Obama is corrupt. I do not trust anyone in our government. The only dictator we have is bill gates
@RickJames clearly people are look at the trump administration. If this last guy was so bad why wait until 3 years in? trump claims not to know who he is. He just fired him without question that’s problematic. He has a pattern of firing people who don’t do what he want the government is not at his personal will
Trump* says he is firing somebody he does not even know???
Next joke pls…
#FireFakePresidentLiesalot
Olympia Reinhart he’s really that stupid…typical for a Trump supporter
@R Thomas You sure are full of yourself for a Dementia Joe supporter!
@Olympia Reinhart How can Trump be the president and not be the president at the same time? A fake president would not be the president and claim to be the president!
@R Thomas My question was sarcastic…but I see you got it, BINGO . Anybody BLUE will do better than the lying, cheating, cruel, immoral, delutional wannabeemessia clown in the WH right now 🏆🥇🍀💖
@Bud Fudlacker go back to bed till you know what you are talking about..wake up or grow up, what ever comes first, then we talk again sillybilly
Trump* cheated his way into the WH
Trump is attacking rule of law, decency, democracy. Defying the constitution. Everyday.
PRAISE BE TO OUR GLORIOUS MAGA LEADER!!!
Trump is not mentally fit to be are President !!!!!!!
I like your message.
I hate your spelling.
Fix it and I’ll give you your like.
@Richard Cook ya got issues and hangups, eh??
@Richard Cook change your attitude and I will give you you’re like😁
“president Trump” will cheat in any game or argument or lawsuit or relationship. How many inspector generals have been fired? Anyone critical of Cheetos in Chief goes away just like magic. Nothing new.
John Dean served as White House counsel to Nixon from 1970 to 73, he was a key figure in the Watergate saga—participating in, and then helping to expose, the most iconic political scandal in modern U.S. history at the time. Back in 2016, Dean said that Trump could easily be the most corrupt presidents ever—and possibly get away with it..
“The American presidency has never been at the whims of an authoritarian personality like Donald Trump,” Dean stated. “He is going to test our democracy as it has never been tested.”
Dean stated that he is not only convinced that Trump will be worse than Nixon in virtually every way—he thinks he could possibly get away with it.
“I used to have one-on-one conversations with Nixon, where I’d see him checking his more authoritarian tendencies,” Dean recalled. “He’d say, ‘This is something I can’t say out loud…’ or, ‘That is something the president can’t do.’” To Dean, these moments suggested a functioning sense of shame in Nixon, something he was forced to wrestle with in his quest for power. Trump, by contrast, appears to Dean, to be unmolested by any such struggle.” Dean went even further in his assessment, stating: “I don’t think Richard Nixon even comes close to the level of corruption we already know about Trump.”
Trump and republicans continue to rage against the Constitution in their ongoing war with our democratic republic. They have made it abundantly clear that we must vote them out of office in order for our democracy to survive.
@Brenda Araba If you want Dementia Joe a guy with every bad quality Trump has times 10, then you should not call anyone a hypocrite!
@Bud Fudlacker you’re clearly stupid too. Keep doing you bruh
@Brenda Araba Good thing you resorted to insults, had you tried to debate me I would have made you look like a fool!
You are certainly right…engaging with a fool makes one a fool so please wear your dunce’s hat and walk away into the arms of your Supreme leader of idiots.
Go on now. Buh bye
@Bud Fudlacker Looking like Trump’s supporters are crying if that’s possible, always projection, attack, blame and lie, that’s all they have is lies, good luck going against facts that is badly needed with this dysfunctional current corrupt administration, probably doing massive cover up with the help of his current fixer lawyer Bill Barr, that’s how a con works through lawyer fixers, that’s his yes men in the tainted white house,sad.
This is exactly what Adolf Hitler did beginning in 1933 when he banned all media outlets that were not pushing his propaganda. Great to be compared to a Nazi!
And…getting rid of the GOOD PEOPLE is what Saddam Hussein did the very day he took over. Except, in Iraq, these good people were never seen again… Still the same result though. Crimes against Humanity! Because Our Rights are being Violated!
He has hero worship for Hitler, tRumpinski’s first wife said that decades ago. He has done more institutional damage in 3 years then hitler did in his first 7 or 8 years.
Mark my words tRump will pay for ruining the lives of so many people for partisan selfish reasons. One way or another.
Impeached trump is the human wrecking ball for everything Americans hold as trust and truth.
Sandy, Acquitted Trump! KAG! 2020!
Trump is being referred to as the worst president ever… and I agree 💯
@R Thomas Obama was the worst!
Diaper Baby wants to LITERALLY rule the world…he needs to to be jailed!
@Bud Fudlacker Trump is disappointed that his PURGING of Americans didn’t reach into the millions! His Ignorance is a tactic he is using to stretch this Crisis out! Trump destroyed the Obama Era Economic Recovery that we were just starting to benefit from! Trump’s Incompetence is what lead to this extended lockdown and the 100,000 now dead!
@Annie Warbux Diaper Baby has said on many occasions that he would be in for, it but also he keeps telling us that he wants his puppies on a leash to act just like KJU and to demand he ALSO be treated as such!
@howie bockslytner I have known people like that and what I have learned is that they are very very different people behind closed doors. These are the kind of people who NEED to protest lockdowns because they NEED to serve their vanity and engage in social “performances” for attention. I pity these people. They are the ones who use social media to feed this desire and measure themselves (and others) according to “likes”. As if someone who does not get a like is unlikeable?? What a low level of self esteem these fools have. Nothing is better than having confidence in oneself, knowing ones own strengths, and being the best version of oneself without the need for confirmation, acceptance or approval.
Annie warbux you must have served in mental health, I Used to be married to a nurse that dealt with dsm patients.
Mona Welch : When you can just fire the Inspector’s General, at will, you don’t actually HAVE any IG’s, do you? That’s it, in a nutshell
Those are FAIRY TALES coming from White House, those are DESPERATE DONALDS LIES. If his lips are moving, lies will be spewing.
I hope all the corruption this Administration has done and is doing will be brought against them in a court of law
Stopping Trump will be
like stopping the weather
So “draw” him into somewhere else with a sharpie? Or nuke him like a hurricane?
Trump will regret having mistreat so many people like this before end of this year.
Too bad that he can’t lose his job as quickly as those IG’s lost theirs. So no oversights to expose WH corruption
AND HE WANTS NO OVERSIGHT!!! ANYONE AROUND TO SEE OR WITNESS HIS MISDEEDS HAS TO GO! IF HE FIRES A GEN.INSPECTOR BECAUSE POMPEO SAID HE HAS TO GO..HE’S IN ON IT TOO.
NO MORALS!
USA ! every day you talk and talk you are letting Trump off the hook, and he wins, start to ACT !
Remember when Trump said he hardly knew Michael Cohen, his personal assistant for years?