Trump fires IG that okayed whistleblower complaint

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  1. Lucifer

    Lucifer Well-Known Member

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    What's the point?

    You think you can sell this bullchit?

    Only the KoolAid drinkers believe this crap.

    And Jordan is one of the many Trump apologists out there with less than squeaky clean records. Yeah, like I'm going to trust a guy who turned the other way when presented with an opportunity to stop a sex abuser. In fact, Jordan himself has been accused of covering it up, so please pardon me if I find your "proof" lacking credibility.
     
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    Willful blindness can do that for you. This isn't a close one. There was an unprecedented coordinated attack by our government that lied, tampered with documents, embedded agents into presidential campaign of an outsider, lied to a FISA court and you aren't alarmed? More thinking like that by those in power and I worry I'll end up in a gulag. Freedom isn't free. Part of the cost is vigilance and an understanding that power corrupts.
     
  3. Lucifer

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    I hate to tell ya buddy, but you supporting Trump is helping to bring about the very thing you claim you fear.
     
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    EyesWideOpen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Good riddence.

    That hearsay whistleblower should have never been allowed to use that process.
     
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    Another charge next year after Donny is defeated.
     
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    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    Reading between the lines will involve your natural biases. Which makes any conclusion suspect.
     
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    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    Yes, the US is not a company. Doesn't change the fact that there isn't a single leader out there that would not fire someone that they don't trust. It's called a truism that applies regardless if you're a CEO, manager, or world leader.
     
  9. Lucifer

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    Trump's actions are nothing less than that of a despot. This man was not a direct report of the president. His White House staff and cabinet are.
     
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    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    Yes, he's such a despot that Trump. Asking all those companies to help make all those needed masks, ppe, ventilators for the country instead of using the Defense Production Act like all those Democrats hollering for him to do. Such a despot he is.

    Trump doing something that you don't like does not equal despot. Firing someone you don't trust is not despotic and is something every single leader big or small has done through out time immemorial.
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Except there was no wrongdoing, in which case you fire them. Everything working as intended. Or did you forget Trump's exoneration?
     
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    Of the two major ideologies, who is against due process? Free speech? Gun rights? Individual liberty and the right to achieve, even in ways that can result in unequal outcomes? Doesn't seem to be difficult to understand the dangers to liberty we have to worry about. If the left wins, I do not think it will be too long before those left alive have to dig through garbage looking for something to eat.
     
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    You could look at it that way, or you could look at track record. Today, he said he never liked him. Then he said he didn't know him - didn't think he'd ever met him. Yet, he appointed him.
     
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    I will have forgotten about that picture by next week, but I'll always remember Trump was impeached.
     
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    Levant Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And you, and history, will always remember he was acquitted and that the impeachment was purely sour grapes over bad campaign management by his 2016 opponent.
     
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    Well I will remember he was acquitted, so I'll make sure not to vote for our Republican Senator.
     
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    The fact you cannot recognize that everything you gripe about what you think the left is doing, is precisely what this Trump administration has either directly or indirectly been doing.

    Free Speech? Please, the man is on a mission to destroy it unless it's favorable to him.
     
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    I think you've confused D and R's.

    Also, tRUMP the impeached, put him in that position.

    Michael Kevin Atkinson (born May 16, 1964) is an American attorney. He worked for the United States Department of Justice for approximately 15 years, before becoming the second Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. He assumed office on May 17, 2018.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atkinson_(Inspector_General)

    oops.
     
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    He did his job as you pointed out above and I bolded.

    And tRUMP put him in that position

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atkinson_(Inspector_General)
    Michael Kevin Atkinson (born May 16, 1964) is an American attorney. He worked for the United States Department of Justice for approximately 15 years, before becoming the second Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. He assumed office on May 17, 2018.
     
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    Yes, conveniently forgetting part of history is quite common among certain groups of left.
     
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    Atkinson became Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) in May 2018.[2] He was nominated to the position in November 2017 by President Donald Trump[8] and was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote on May 14, 2018.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atkinson_(Inspector_General)

    NOPE. tRUMP put him in that position.
     
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    And be sure and remember how your party pissed away time and attention from important things like preparedness and the nations medical stockpiles and where we are today? So was it all that much of a victory when consider all things to date?

    But I'm glad you are pleased with you toothless victory though ;)
     
  23. dairyair

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    Making a deeper swamp.

    This was a guy tRUMP promoted to the position.
    Being impeached isn't a hoax. tRUMP is officially the 3rd ever prez to be impeached.
     
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    I imagine most were on his side at the time of hiring. But tRUMP becoming the very definition of a corrupt politician, is having people out his corrupt arse.

    And he got impeached for being corrupt.
     
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    Yep. The leader of the country takes no responsibility. For anything.
     

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