Robert Litt, former general counsel for the director of national intelligence, talks with Rachel Maddow about the dangers inherent in Donald Trump filling the leadership of ODNI with political loyalists to prevent the sharing of intelligence that Russia is actively backing his reelection. Aired on 02/20/20.
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Trump Takes Risk Putting Political Loyalty Over Expertise At ODNI | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Once again, 45* subverts the national interest for his own. Unamerican malignant narcissist.
Without treatment, TDS will eventually DRIVE YOU INSANE!!
@Priscilla Robb dont have to be brave. At minimum you can boycott the billionaires who support trump. You have to care though. All people who care will magically find ways to stand up. There are options for the poor the busy the middle class the youtubers. Everyone can do something immediately but nobody cares
They wont care until its too late
Debate Me! , Amen. I hope my prayers can move mountains. 🙏🙏🙏💙
He gets away with it as long as that goes on. If something happens, then you will see the incomitance. If he is in 4 more years that chance goes up though maybe the 20 year cycle of violence that preceded him will quiet things down till a generation that has not leaned those lessons takes charge. The lesson groups like the Taliban I hoped have leaned is, you go outside you region for no good reason, it not only will not advance your cause it will end your existence. ISIS is a prefect example, if they would have taken territory, created alliances with groups like the Kurds, not murder and try to emulate Suleiman (it’s not 1500), leave the West be even if they are supplying your opponent. They probably would still hold norther Iraq and might be getting assistance from Turkey, instead they are gone and all the leadership are dead.
Ash Roskell Bravo, Ash! You always post intelligent, logical posts and I hope the uneducated Cult45 will read your wise words! Thanks! 🇺🇸
People people please these titles of Trump takes risks…Trump exposed, evidence against Trump, haven’t we learned anything about all this is that Trump is above the law.. yes.. it’s disgusting.. how corrupted republicans are!! But the truth is Impeachment did very little to Trump.. he’s rigging the elections wit the help of Russia 🇷🇺.. many Americans will be dead next year with Trump new budget cuts plans like Medicaid/Medicare
60 % of americans earn less than $40,000 per year…..some of that to health insurance
@Debate Me! Oh? What a MOST surprising comment:
Admittance of fault, neglecting YOUR duties of check and balance and making Legal demans to be poliyically better educated and actually informed?
Are a good begin of all thoughts!
Well, Dearies, where there is one actual thinker, there might be others.
And, there might be still some hope your fall into total American Nazism will be short.
But then again, I remind that hipe is a dope and one voice of reason of an internet feed never changed anything, or have the dark money funded voices in fact changed everything, including the Reality you all perceive?
Debate Me, what do YOU know about WHO the Nazis were and how all religious conservative money-oligarchs psyOps crusaders propaganda work?
START there, know more, then I might ACTUALLY enjoy debating the likes of American slow “thinkers” as you too.
Carpe Diem! Happy reading you all. And happy catching up to YOUR own actual politic Nazism REALITY.
Godless Best,
A.E.
Projectheureka LLC
We are disgusted by traitors such as you.
November cannot get here fast enough so we get rid of this only President and his crew and the Republican Senators too
@Mr Lopez Mr. Lopez you are fake. FU
Bernie is the only way to all that you’re wishing for. But…
@Fred M ?????????????
*THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE.IF WHY WE NEED TO VOTE IN HUGE NUMBERS*
@J You have some Valid Points.. I was a John Kasich Supporter who was not willing to Vote for Trump or Hilary and I voted for Bernie..I do believe he is a good and honorable man..However the enforced Medicare for all troubles me, as it appears the majority still do not Support it.. I wish he would consider Medicare for All who Choose it over their Private Plans.. The Dems desperately need to get on track with less division.. I like Elizabeth Warren as she checks all my boxes but I guess I am in the minority at this point.. I will NOT Vote for Trump no matter what..so I will endorse whoever gets the Nomination as we need to get our Country on track..
trump and his administration and many Republicans ARE THE DEEP STATE AND THE COUP that they claim others are!
@Hildebeast Clinton obsessed is funny coming from a trump cultist with that handle as a name….
@Dave Schultz No. Bernie is ACTUALLY for the people and has decades of history of voting like it. Trump claimed to be like that and sold out to big business before he even made it to the White House. You all have been fooled into thinking a Republican cares. Again.
@Paul Wilson Tin foil hat anyone? You realize Trump is in charge of the biggest pedo ring since the Catholic church, right?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.amp.html
why do people keep saying ;this is very troubling instead of saying this is a fascist soft coup
A textbook “no content” MAGA regurgitator account:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEvUgRBC9lnMZDK8pYelWWA
The fun and easy 5 step approach to foulmouthed MAGA regurgitator’s:
1: Quote the MAGA regurgitator’s foul drivel letter to letter.
2: Dissect the MAGA regurgitator’s foul drivel.
3: Debunk the MAGA regurgitator’s foul drivel.
4: Ridicule the MAGA regurgitator’s foul drivel.
5: But do 𝐧𝐨𝐭 respond directly to the MAGA regurgitator’s foul drivel.
I quote the distinguished veteran, 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭 and Republican Senator John Sidney McCain letter to letter:
“Trump fired up the crazies.”
Prophetic words that are proven true 24/7 every single day of the week:
>>@kilipo1 I see from your comment you are in 1st grade, and haven’t gotten much world history yet.<< >>Put on your foil hat… maybe adjustment of your meds is necessary.<< The insanely delusional, ridiculously foulmouthed and utterly deranged 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 is indeed certifiably crazy.
𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎
𝐌oscow’s 𝐀pe 𝐆et 𝐀nnihilated 😄
@Agolf Twittler …crazies for Trump.
𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎
𝐌ake 𝐀merica 𝐂razy 𝐀gain 🥴 😜 😵 😱 🤪
From Belgium stay strong America, let this NARCIST TRAITOR not destroy your beautifull country
@Mr Lopez sthuf….
@Chatty Cathy You first loser
@Beverly Glover Even if he’s elected again (which is highly doubtful), the Democrats control the House and will very likely win the majority in the Senate. That would be Trump’s worse nightmare – he’d finally be held accountable. Twice impeached and finally kicked out of office, along with his sycophants and idiots-in-waiting. A true testament to his complete incompetence and corruption.
Canada is having the same thought. Hope that in november you awake to a new future
Inde nmc I hope he loses. I need him to lose. I hope things go the way you said.
Well this is how democracy dies. The same thing is happening in the UK. The problem for us is that the Far-Right own 65% of the media . You have to make everyone aware in November that this is your last chance to remain democratic.
America has not been Democratic since they implimented the Electoral College
Heil Trump! Wave goodbye to your democracy america…see history books for what happens next…
USA = BANANA COUNTRY
No kidding, be ready for the “Trump youth”, they can have special knives!
@Motorheads
Just off the top of my head, blaming “communists” for burning the Reichstag , book burnings, Kristalnacht, purging the brown-shirts, annexing the Sudatenland, annexing Czechoslovak, iainvading Poland, WWII, Stalingrad, battle of the bulge, The Discovery of the Death Camps, Marries Ivanka in the bunker, Trumps suicide…?
@Eric V
Those were cool knives, besides, tRump will make the trains run on time…
The CLOWN believes that “REAL NTELLIGENCE” comes from Fox “news” and Twitter !!
THAT’S why I call him a CLOWN !!
So America no one in charge of overseeing 17 intelligence agencies because your mad king doesn’t like the bad press? Another act of terrorism is totally ok with Trump though. America first! Lol!!
You can’t drain the swamp by building a bigger new one.
The “Swamp” is now a Cesspool!
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ―Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt misspelled “Oranges”.
🤣
A vote for trump is a vote for putin.
#morerussiansanctions
Did you say something comrade?
***WHY DOES DONALD KEEP HIRING RUSSIAN FASCIST TO TAKE OVER OUR NATIONAL SECURITY?***
But Mr. Trump didn’t have any legal or politicalexperience when he started in as President and look how that turned our!
Yes, he’s been a disaster from day one. Trump is incompetent, corrupt, and a laughing stock.
@Inde nmc lmao….You are so right.
Moscow Mitch is refusing to pass bills that would increase the security of our election process. Now King Trump has replaced those in charge of securing our election process with men who have pledged their allegiance to King Trump.
It’s one more nail in the coffin of our democracy.
It all paints a single simple picture, especially when you look at all the voter blocking and deregistration…
That’s because Moscow Mitch and all the other Repug’s in Congress have no interest for democracy and the rule of law… They only say they do but they don’t and never have.
Trump & intelligence. These two words cannot be used together in the same sentence. votus.us
True. It’s an oxymoron.
Trump/intelligence should be the dictionary definition of an oxymoron
I was eating my cereal while listening to this when the word facts came up When referencing to trump, Needless to say I’m gonna be blowing Cheerios out of my nose all day
“The leader of the most powerful country on Earth believed himself to be infallible. He had the best generals and the best strategists. But the leader always acted on ideology, not on rational strategy. He never accepted compromise; he refused withdrawals. He saw them as loss of face.
The leader’s permanent changes of mind made a coherent strategy impossible. This led to confusion and discontent among his staff, and resulted in frequent key staff replacements. For the leader it was more important that the people he appointed were TOTALLY LOYAL TO HIM rather than that they were genuine experts.
The leader believed in white, Arian supremacy. All other races, he was convinced, were inferior, and they would never manage to stop him. But they did.”
Decide for yourself whether the similarities between Adolf Hitler, described here, and Donald Trump are purely coincidental.
https://youtu.be/5agLW7fTzBc
Troubling? The gas guage nearing E is troubling. Creeping Fascism should be MOTIVATING for patriots not troubling. It’s time we take to the streets in protest.🇺🇸😤
This ” news ” is about 4 YEARS too late.
I can honestly say no Republicans have any intelligence. LOL