The stripping of John Brennan of his security clearance has predictably caused a great deal of faux outrage on the part of the left. None of it makes sense. The ruckus has caused some democrats to prove themselves even more stupid than previously thought. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asserted that there is a Constitutional right to security clearance.
Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said President Donald Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance is an “illegal” violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of United States of America.
Blumenthal said, “This is not only an abuse of power it is illegal.”
He continued, “To use this kind of punishment is a violation of the First Amendment. It is the reason we have the First Amendment. This kind of criticism is core protected speech. When the Founders of our great nation decided on the First Amendment, it was because the king of England would retaliate against critics by punishing them. So it is a clear violation in my view of the First Amendment.”
He added, “He has the authority to do a lot of things, but not in a way that violates the law.”
Blumenthal might have learned this during his imaginary tour in Vietnam .
It’s simply not true. A Pentagon analyst was stripped of his security clearance for coming upon the giant sums of money being paid to Stefan Halper, the CIA asset who was being used as an FBI informant.
A Trump-supporting Pentagon analyst was stripped of his security clearance by Obama-appointed officials after he complained of questionable government contracts to Stefan Halper, the FBI informant who spied on the Trump presidential campaign.
Adam Lovinger, a 12-year strategist in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, complained to his bosses about Halper contracts in the fall of 2016, his attorney, Sean M. Bigley, told The Washington Times.
On May 1, 2017, his superiors yanked his security clearance and relegated him to clerical chores.
Bigley pointed out something really important
In an internal October 2016 email to higher-ups, Mr. Lovinger wrote of “the moral hazard associated with the Washington Headquarters Services contracting with Stefan Halper,” the complaint said. It said Mr. Baker hired Mr. Halper to “conduct foreign relations,” a job that should be confined to government officials.
“It was a topic of conversation within the office,” Mr. Bigley told The Times. “What is Halper doing, and why is he being paid astronomically more than others similarly situated?”
No one worried about his rights. He was definitely punished for a reason. Lovinger had found a fact democrats wanted buried and so they buried Lovinger. Yet somehow Lovinger seems not to have had a Constitutional right to a security clearance. Former FBI counsel James Baker, who hired Halper, was found to be in contact with reporter David Corn in the fall of 2016. Halper was used to set up George Papadopoulos into a situation which the FBI was to bamboozle poor George into a perjury trap.
Brennan himself reacted by penning an editorial in the NY Times. In it, her presented all of the proof he had of Trump’s collusion with Russia.
The already challenging work of the American intelligence and law enforcement communities was made more difficult in late July 2016, however, when Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, publicly called upon Russia to find the missing emails of Mrs. Clinton. By issuing such a statement, Mr. Trump was not only encouraging a foreign nation to collect intelligence against a United States citizen, but also openly authorizing his followers to work with our primary global adversary against his political opponent.
It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that it was sarcasm. Scott Adams points out that Brennan was apparently unable to discern sarcasm when he heard it.
“So Brennan may have started one of the most important political witch hunts in history based on not recognizing a joke — and I’m not even making that up,” he said. “I feel fairly confident in saying that what I just said is literally true: that the head of the CIA has almost destroyed the United States because he didn’t understand that an obvious joke was a joke.”
Or perhaps he was desperate to find something to pin on Trump as he had nothing else.
Brennan then doubled down
Such a public clarion call certainly makes one wonder what Mr. Trump privately encouraged his advisers to do — and what they actually did — to win the election. While I had deep insight into Russian activities during the 2016 election, I now am aware — thanks to the reporting of an open and free press — of many more of the highly suspicious dalliances of some American citizens with people affiliated with the Russian intelligence services.
Mr. Trump’s claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash.
Innuendo. What he read in the press? That’s it? Brennan has nothing else.
Nothing.
And that means there is nothing.
It gets worse. Brennan has a long history of blatant dishonesty:
1) In 2011, Brennan, then the country’s chief counterterrorism adviser, had sworn to Congress that scores of drones strikes abroad had not killed a single noncombatant — at a time when both the president and the CIA were both receiving numerous reports of civilian collateral death.
2) In 2014, John Brennan, now as CIA director, lied emphatically that the CIA had not illegally accessed the computers of U.S. Senate staffers who were then exploring a CIA role in torturing detainees. Or as he told Andrea Mitchell: “As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.” Brennan’s chronic deceptions drew the ire of a number of liberal senators, some of whom echoed the Washington Post’s call for his immediate resignation. After months of prevarications, but only upon release of the CIA inspector general’s report, Brennan apologized to the senators he had deceived.
3) Brennan, in May 2017, as an ex-CIA director, again almost certainly did not tell the truth to Congress when he testified in answer to Representative Trey Gowdy’s questions that he neither knew who had commissioned the Steele dossier nor had the CIA relied on its contents for any action. Yet both the retired National Security Agency director, Michael Rogers, and the former director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have conceded that the Steele dossier — along with the knowledge that it was a Clinton-campaign-funded product — most certainly did help shape the Obama’s intelligence communality interagency assessments and actions, often under the urging of Brennan himself. There are also numerous reports that, despite his denials about knowledge of the dossier, Brennan served as a stealthy conduit to ensure that it was disseminated widely, at least in the sense of meeting in August 2016 with Senator Harry Reid to brief the senator about its unverified contents in hopes that he would pressure the FBI to further its investigations, which Reid did in a call two days later to James Comey.
Brennan himself makes clear Russia was making feeble efforts to interfere in the US election.
When I warned Mr. Bortnikov that Russian interference in our election was intolerable and would roil United States-Russia relations for many years, he denied Russian involvement in any election, in America or elsewhere, with a feigned sincerity that I had heard many times before.
And yet Brennan did nothing when Russian actions did not cease. He let it go on unchallenged. It wasn’t until after Hillary lost that obama even got woke. Then again, hillary wasn’t supposed to lose.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) kicked Brennan’s ass for grandstanding, explaining exactly why Brennan lost his security clearance:
Director Brennan’s recent statements purport to know, as fact, that the Trump campaign colluded with a foreign power,” Burr said Thursday, questioning why, if Brennan’s assertion is based on actual intelligence, it was not included in the unclassified intelligence assessment released in early 2017.
“If his statement is based on intelligence he has seen since leaving office, it constitutes an intelligence breach. If he has some other personal knowledge of or evidence of collusion, it should be disclosed to the Special Counsel, not The New York Times,” Burr said. Burr added that Trump has the “full authority” to revoke security clearance if the statements were “purely political and based on conjecture.”
Brennan’s editorial was purely political and based entirely on conjecture.
We’re not done yet.
Stefan Halper, who helped entrap George Papadopoulos and tried to ensnare Carter Page, was a CIA asset acting as an FBI informant. How that came to be is something John Brennan needs to explain. Adam Lovinger was demoted for discovering it. The contact between Page and Halper first occurred in July of 2016 and went forward. It wasn’t until July 31 that Peter Strzok launched his infamous counter-intelligence operation on Trump. That means Brennan was spying on the Trump campaign and using an FBI informant before an operation was in place.
Hillary Clinton, the DNC and Barack Obama began pouring millions into Perkins Coie (which was then laundered into Fusion GPS) about two minutes after Trump’s foreign advisory team was named.
Then the Mysterious Mr. Mifsud appears.
Mifsud is the missing link in all this. Mifsud contacted Papadopoulos on April 26, 2016 and fed George information about Hillary.
A court document filed by the special counsel says Mifsud told Papadopoulos in April 2016 that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”
And then he vanished. I will bet money that John Brennan is involved in all of this. There is no question now that Brennan sent Halper to set up Page and Papadopoulos as a means of crippling Trump. Mifsud is the unknown card.
There was a conspiracy against Donald Trump. I’ve said it over and over and over. If there was anything to the Russian collusion nonsense Schiff, obama or Brennan would have leaked it long ago. Brennan just shot his load, and both barrels were empty.
Let’s be clear. It is suggested that Trump is trying to silence his critics. That is false.
What Trump is doing is stripping security clearances from those who conspired against him. Brennan is the first domino. There will be more.
Now I am looking forward to this Trump-Brennan moment inspired by “A Few Good Men”
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Except for liberals being foolish.
Should he stop with just the seditionists? In 2011 2 million had security clearances, in 2014 over 5 million had security clearances How many have security clearances today?
Its time to make Security secure again.
Obama was always very supportive of whistle blowers… as long as they were blowing the whistle on his political opponents.
Brennan seems to think that a person they have been investigating, overtly and covertly (and illegally) since 2015 but have not been able to find a single shred of evidence supporting collusion openly asked his collusion partner to hack Hillary on national television. Now THAT’S a special kind of stupid. Trump never “asked” anyone to hack anyone. He said he hoped Russia could find Hillary’s already missing emails (not anywhere to BE hacked)… the joke was that, most likely, they already HAD them, since Hillary kept them on an unsecured server.
Not only that, but al Qaeda was using the civilian deaths in propaganda for recruitment.
Civilians claim to be “terrorized” by drones
How the images of children killed by drones is being used
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=children+killed+by+drones&FORM=HDRSC2#a
This is the kind of guy the left will unreservedly defend. This represents liberal morality.
He’s quite obviously using his power of office in an effort to silence his critics. There are agency and department protocols for revoking security clearances. What Trump has done isn’t it.
What are the Guidelines for Revoking a Security Clearance?
How many of the listed adjudicative criteria would Donald Trump himself trip over? It only takes one.
Keep in mind that a person normally wouldn’t be granted a security clearance to begin with, unless any questions about any of the listed criteria have first been fully resolved. Once he became President, Trump was automatically exempted from any such scrutiny. The lowest federal employee in the lowest sensitive position must pass a more rigorous background check than he has had.
@Greg:
Is that what Obama was doing when he attacked whistle blowers?
@Greg: Brennen has accessed the computer systems of senators to spy on them. Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the fabricated and uncorroborated “dossier. He isnt in some gulag he can speak about anything he wants, his former access to sensitive secret information and investigations is OVER.
he was doing what SOME police do to get a conviction..
just remember my cousin vinny where he was shocked and repeated “I shot the clerk”
then when in court, it was used as an admission of guilt as it was not also volunteered that it was in shock and obviously was not a confession…
and yes, some do do that… i have witnessed it in real life
I suppose you also see nothing wrong about a Chief Executive publicly expressing his views concerning the trial of his former campaign chairman while the jury is still deliberating their verdict. That’s so far out of bounds that it’s hard even to process it.
@Greg: Oh but its fine that the judge is being threatened and CNN wants the names and addresses of the jury …riiight?
This trial has nothing to do with President Trump at all. Why can everyone else comment and you want to silence the President, check your liberal privilege.
@Greg: If he woke up today and started pursuing liberal/progressive goals, told us he was part African-American and had the proof, and then said he donated his fortune to the #metoo movement, you’d still call his actions “out of bounds”.
Trump is the disruption to our political system we needed. Most effective president in my lifetime, and yours. And he’s just getting started.
Teflon Don…Dems got nothing.
@Greg: Is that why Brennan no longer speaks?
@Greg: Remember when Obama exonerated Hillary? Or the IRS?
@kitt, #8:
He hasn’t stated where those threats are coming from, has he?
@DrJohn, #11:
I don’t seem to recall Hillary Clinton ever facing criminal charges in a courtroom—or the Obama administration reeking of corruption or nepotism.
@Greg: He refused to give out the Names to CNN and other outlets to protect them, obviously the left is most violent so I suppose democrat socialists are the direction from which the threats are coming from. Cowards that make threats normally dont sign them, “dearest regards Greg”
and then add return address on the envelope.
I’ve lost three security clearances in my career! Why? Because I left the job!
Any government employee that leaves their position that does not require a security clearance should have it removed.
Idiot Brennan didn’t lose any 1st amendment rights with his clearance removed.
If idiot Brennan publicly released classified information with or without a clearance he should be charged.
@Greg:
What has the media been doing regarding selling Manafort’s guilt and any linkage to Trump? Also, the jury is sequestered and have no access to television or the media. But, what do facts matter?
Because Obama was sending the message out that she should NOT be prosecuted, as she was going to be the Democrat candidate. The difference is that everyone could hear his pronounciations… the jury cannot hear Trump’s. So, Obama was obstructing justice, Trump was not.
New revelations are exposed every day showing how corrupt, politicized and weaponized the IC, DOJ, FBI and IRS became under Obama, to unprecedented levels. Hillary was dead-bang guilty and the FBI dropped the investigation. NOTHING indicates any guilt of Trump and he has been investigated since he declared his candidacy.
@Greg: Right, because Obama killed the baby in the crib
Does Hillary still have her clearance? https://truthfeednews.com/judicial-watch-drops-a-nuke-on-hillary-releases-five-damning-emails-containing-classified-material/
@kitt: But… but… but… COLLUSION!!
@Deplorable me: But but but unicorns, bigfoot, Santa Clause, Easterbunny, Trump n-word recording I know racist…
Judge T.S. Ellis III revealed in open court Friday that he has received death threats relating to his presiding over Paul Manafort’s trial for bank and tax fraud at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
The judge has since retained the protection of the U.S. Marshals Service.
“I have the marshal’s protection,” Ellis said. “I don’t even go to the hotel alone. I won’t even reveal the name of the hotel.”
Why wont liberal Colorado leave that Baker alone?
@Deplorable me, #16:
They’ve been doing their job, which is to investigate and report known information, and to attempt to determine what that information means.
Trump’s linkage to Manafort is well established. He was selected to be his campaign manager—despite his well known history as a highly paid operative of Putin’s puppet, Viktor Yanukovych, and long standing connections with the Russian oligarchy. He’s not on trail for that, however. What he’s on trial for are numerous criminal acts related to the concealment of just how well paid he actually was, and for what he kept hidden that he was required by law to reveal.
That’s only his first trial. A second will soon follow, involving charges for which Mueller reportedly has evidence even more convincing than the current trial.
And how did Trump, then the president-elect, pick his “foreign advisory team?”
He didn’t.
He was in the middle of a free-wheeling meeting with the WaPo editorial board when some of them pressured him to name people he would use as foreign policy advisers.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-foreign-policy-advisers-221058
He named a few people he knew of who MIGHT serve as such.
Just names of people he had been seeing around the transition team.
The Hillary-Deep State took those named and ran with them.
Some, perhaps many of those named never really became paid advisers to Trump.
Carter Page was one like that.
Papodopolus was another.
@Greg: You are right Greg Trump should have known better than to have anyone near him that ever dealt with the Podestas.
A few minutes ago, CNN reported that the number of former senior CIA officials—former Directors and Deputy Directors—who have taken a public stand opposing Trump’s action against John Brennan is now up to 15. In spite of which:
White House drafts more clearance cancellations demanded by Trump
The list of additional cancellations under consideration apparently consists entirely of those who have been supportive of the Russia investigation or critical of him.
This presidency is going down. It’s only a matter of time.
@Greg:
AAAAaaannnd no one cares what ex spooks think. Which is why CNNs ratings are below Ancient Aliens and American Pickers.
Did they report on this Obama era State Dept employee? https://www.newsweek.com/us-state-department-official-arrested-working-china-spies-576356
These are the people on the front lines, who know the most about what the serious threats are, and who devote careers and lives to protecting the nation. They’re dedicated soldiers. And now they’re being systematically pissed on by a vainglorious reality television host, who doesn’t bother to read his daily briefings, and in the realm of geopolitics doesn’t know his butt from a barn door. So yeah. A LOT of people care. As Donald Trump is going to eventually discover.
@Greg:
Had they left it there, that would be great. When they go political, they forfeit our trust. And their clearances
@Greg:
BTW, Brennan was never on the front line
@Greg: It costs thousands to get high level clearance those with clearance get 6 and 7 figure jobs when they leave its all about the money they are panicking they will become useless without clearance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/10/12/what-do-former-cia-spies-do-when-they-quit-the-spy-game/#203681322374
If they are of true benefit to our country let them apply to keep the clearance. Talking heads on propaganda shows not a benefit.
Why these people have clearances once they leave government service is beyond me. They no longer have a need to know. Based on Brennans past behavior makes one wonder if he passed classified info to his new boss, the fake news network. Every one that is involved in this overt coup to overthrow a sitting president ( which is sedition at the very least) even if they are still working in the government needs to have their clearances revoked. Just like brennan, they are a clear and present danger to our national security .
It appears to be beyond a lot of people, even though there’s a simple and entirely sound reason for it. In fact, the sort of continuity it provides is essential for effective national security.
Putin has got to love what Trump is selling. This is exactly the sort of totally moronic development they hoped to get.
@Greg: @Greg: They monetize their having a clearance. Without it they can’t get a big check in the private sector. That’s the real issue for these people. Money, it always comes down to that. That is also why you see the list of 12 or 15 you mentioned. A combo of democrats and others who fear the possible loss of a meal ticket. Brennan isn’t gong to provide any kind of value to anyone else at this point. Execpt maybe the Russians, he like to vote communist you know.
Brennan is a liar and a leaker. If he had kept his mouth shut he would have not lost it. But he decided to be a political pundit. So he lost the priviledge. It was a choice he made and the consequences of that choice are now evident.
Rand Paul has come out in favor of doing just what Trump has done. I hope he does more.
One last thing. History, it can sometimes bite you in the rear.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-director-john-brennan-lied-senate
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1030464753263620096
@Greg:
Ohhh… they’ve been investigating. I guess that’s why they never report that after being under illegal surveillance and investigation since he announced as running for President, NOTHING has been found that makes him even LOOK guilty… of ANYTHING. That’s why, instead of defending Brennan, they are exposing his numerous lies and security leaks, all of which were necessary to make it appear Trump needed to be investigated. That’s why they aren’t reporting on the numerous and much WORSE crimes committed by Hillary instead of conducting a witch hunt against Trump. Because they are working so hard “doing their job”. In reality, you live in a fantasy world.
Uh, hold on there a minute, cowboy. As soon as Trump found out Mueller had been working with Ukraine, he fired him. It took Master Investigator Mueller a YEAR to come up with the charges against Manafort. If the FBI had any such information on Manafort while Trump was employing him, why didn’t they notify him? So, that is utter BS; no one knew this about Manafort until it was revealed about his dealings with Ukraine and Trump fired him then and there.
Actually, and at long last, they are seeing their politically-biased and anti-American leadership flushed out so their hard and dangerous work can be applied to national security instead of some seditious plot carried out by liars and criminals.
In reality, Putin is undoubtedly please with the destruction you liberals are spreading around the country. No one does our enemies’ work better than liberals, spreading propaganda, intimidation and violence to try and silence the opposition. Maybe Putin has some old Hero of the Soviet Union medals he can award you.
@kitt: Golly, I wonder why the media didn’t cover that bombshell? Oh, that’s right… that happened during the Obama administration and the media (which is “doing it’s job”) had to help maintain Obama’s “scandal-free” status. THAT’S what’s important to our hard working media.
@Greg:
Once you conspire against a candidate and then a President you no longer deserve to keep your clearance.
Brennan had the Benghazi survivors sign non-disclosure statements so they could not refute Obama and Hillary’s lies
https://www.chicksonright.com/youngcons/2018/08/17/benghazi-hero-exposes-massive-cover-up-brennan-tried-forcing-survivors-to-sign-nda-to-hide-what-really-happened/2/
Why does the left support nothing but scum?
When I retired from the USAR in 2009, my clearance was lost because of my retirement. I was a vocal critic of BHO. Does that mean my First Amendment rights were violated?
Obama’s DOJ, FBI, DoS, and Intel communities were weaponized at the highest levels to A) get Hillary elected and B) should that fail, remove PDJT. Brennan was the point man. This is beyond dispute based on the evidence that has come out.
Recently, twelve intel heads (some of whom I respect a great deal) have come out bashing POTUS for this. They will be proven to be on the wrong side of history.
One name currently not on the list is Admiral Rogers. He knows more about what happened than the other twelve combined as he is the one who blew the whistle on the coup. He has kept very quiet publicly. Rest assured, privately, he has had LOTS to say. Trump knows EVERYTHING and right now he is backing the rats into a corner. That is why they are squirming more and more.
If McRaven (someone I respect), feels Brennan did nothing wrong and that the Constitutional way we elect our Presidents is outdated and we should have a Praetorian Guard to select the President, then he should surrender his clearance in support of Brennan. But that would be getting rid of a status symbol.
@another vet: These conspirators on the left feel our Constitutional system is just fine… as long as the results serve the leftist and globalist agenda. If it does not, they feel righteous to circumvent the Constitution and commit treasonous acts.
The man in the White House doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the Constitution. His world revolves around the imagined greatness of Donald effing Trump. All else is secondary, and anyone who openly challenges that dangerous delusion becomes an enemy, who will be belittled and attacked. The man truly is psychologically unhinged. Read his damn Twitter posts.
@Greg:
Really. Obama trampled all over it, using the federal government to attack political opponents as a fascist regime would, and to try and protect a confirmed criminal to lead their party. Trump is not only restoring the respect for the Constitution, but is protecting and following it.
@Greg:
That’s pretty funny coming from someone who supports a party that turned a blind eye to the violations of our Constitution by Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Barack Obama. Carter was an anomaly, he actually tried to honor the Constitution.
Get back to us when DT lets the world know he can do what he wants because he “has a pen and a phone”, Constitution be damned.
January 25, 2019 — Trump appointee ‘overruled’ rejection of Jared Kushner’s top security clearance
Yep. Wunder Kinder couldn’t pass muster for a national security clearance—how astonishing—but got the highest level clearance anyway, because a Trump appointee overruled the denial. Kushner is one of 30 in the Trump administration who received clearances in the same fashion, in spite of having been denied following their security clearance background checks.
@Greg: I’m sure there was no political influence on denying his clearance, just for the fun of it.
I think there were probably damn good reasons why it was concluded that Jared Kushner and 29 others should not have access to the nation’s most highly classified material.
Donald Trump himself would never have been entrusted with a security clearance.
@Greg: Really. How long did it take for Hillary to no longer have access to classified information though it was shown her “carelessness” shared all her State Department emails with any nation in the world that wanted to look at it? No, beyond any possible doubt, the decisions are based on politics.
@Deplorable Me: Slick hasn’t lost his clearance, she gave up nothing, not a damn thing.
Greg actually thinks Obama with his communist ties was fine to have clearance, with his Islamic conflicts of interest AOK there.
Security Clearance Barack Obama would not qualify for a security clearance due to his relationship with Bill Ayers.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/01/26/pentagon-obamas-dod-granted-security-clearances-to-contractors-charged-with-pedophilia/
security meant nothing to Obama and his administration.
What in Trumps background would prevent security clearance, dont count the fairy tale the Clinton camp pushed into the media.
The one promise Barry kept is his administration was the most transparent, to our competitors and enemies. They saw everything in real time as it happened.
@kitt, #45:
How about receiving unexplained, highly unlikely multi-million dollar loans from a foreign bank proven to be deeply involved in Russian money laundering, after defaulting on a previous loan?
How about having lied on multiple occasions about ongoing business initiatives in Russia?
How about multiple secret contacts between known Putin factotums and highly-placed Trump campaign figures, some of whom followed him to the White House?
How about a campaign manager having a long prior history of working to further Putin’s interests for pay, who is now a convicted felon?
How about numerous personal indiscretions involving secret hush money payments, suggesting long-established patterns of behavior that could render him susceptible to old-fashion blackmail? Who knows what audio tapes, video tapes, or incriminating photographs might be out there?
A person with any of these problems wouldn’t normally be granted a security clearance. Not in a million years. Anyone reviewing such a case would likely suspect that it had come to them as a joke.
Trump didn’t require a clearance. Access came with the job you have so wisely handed to him. Kushner, however, did, and his background is as shaky as his father-in-law’s. He was denied, as he should have been, but that denial was overruled, by an appointee of Person No. 1.
Vladimir Putin’s master stroke, folks. He appreciates your assistance.
How is a LOAN “unexplained”? If a LOAN is worrisome, $150 million in DONATIONS from Russians around the time approval to sell our uranium to a Russian company should be driving you NUTS!! I mean, talk about SUSPICIOUS and THREATENING to NATIONAL SECURITY! Whomever was involved in THAT should be in JAIL! Right?
Not a single lie.
There were none.
Actually, he worked AGAINST Putin for Ukraine, but who knew about it before it was exposed early in the campaign… when Trump fired him?
You must mean non-disclosure agreements, which many, many people utilize… including Obama’s State Department and IC to try and force the Benghazi survivors not to tell the truth about how they were left to die.
Obama got a security clearance and we didn’t even have his birth certificate. His scholastic files couldn’t be accessed. Obama had ties with know terrorists and anti-American ministers. Hillary violated security protocols as First Lady in addition to criminal insider trading. It doesn’t sound like those doing the background checks are too particular.
The dangers to the government are INSIDE the government, in the form of Obama’s deep state legions.
@Greg:
And which, if any, of your bullshit claims have been proven?
@retire05: No, but to a liberal only the seed of suspicion is necessary to suspect a Republican. A truckload of evidence dumped on them proving a liberal’s guilt, though, is meaningless. The liberal stupid-ray controls their minds.
@retire05, #48:
Of the items cited in #46? Every one of those “claims” has been documented. Normally I would have expected, But none of that was illegal. You know, that Deutsche Bank loaned Trump more money after the first loan default because he’s a financial genius and they knew he’d make good on it, that Trump isn’t a criminal simply because he has hired criminals, etc.