Everything Trump’s defenders feared about the whistleblower is true! According to a report from RealClear Investigations, the whistleblower is 33-year-old Eric Ciaramella.
Ciaramella is a holdover from the Obama administration and a registered Democrat. He’s been accused of leaking like crazy. He worked with Joe Biden, he’s a vocal critic of President Trump, and he invited a DNC operative inside the White House to attend meetings. He also helped instigate the investigation into Russia collusion. So, of course, Democrats believe his second-hand complaint about President Trump’s phone conversation with Ukranian President Zelensky over the actual transcript of the call itself.
(Via RealClear Investigations)
“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
Also, Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited from the NSC. (Schiff is the lead prosecutor in the impeachment inquiry.)
And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
The report claims that federal records show Ciaramella attended a state luncheon with Joe Biden’s office back in October 2016. You’ll never guess who else was there? Former FBI Director James Comey and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper. You can’t make this stuff up! The report says it was strange for Ciaramella, a relatively low-level GS-13 federal employee, to have been there. And it describes Ciaramella’s invitation as “unusual,” saying it “signaled he was politically connected inside the Obama White House.”
With Ciaramella’s name long under wraps, interest in the intelligence analyst has become so high that a handful of former colleagues have compiled a roughly 40-page research dossier on him. A classified version of the document is circulating on Capitol Hill, and briefings have been conducted based on it. One briefed Republican has been planning to unmask the whistleblower in a speech on the House floor. On the Internet, meanwhile, Ciaramella’s name for weeks has been bandied about on Twitter feeds and intelligence blogs as the suspected person who blew the whistle on the president. The mainstream media are also aware of his name.
No wonder Democrats and the media have kept such a tight lid on the whistleblower’s identity. Now William Barr needs to investigate the origins of the whistleblower’s complaint so we can get to the true conspiracy here, which is more and more looking like just another attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
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So America is going to be brought down by the Ukranians of all people. Starting to wish Stalin had starved to death a couple of more millions of them.
By the way, who was the obama official that said “Fuck the EU”.
edit: one can see the photo of this guy here
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html
“Fuck the EU” was (((Victoria Nuland))), wife of (((Robert Kagan))). Ciaramella was/is within her circle, and there are emails from him to her (and others).
Wasn’t it the American Colonial Governor Harriman who was starving the Ukranians around 1943 after Stalin had his breakdown?
Maybe he wanted to keep enough of them alive to start shit in the future.
The guy needs to be charged. You don’t do stuff like that and get a reward for sedition.
Get the ropes.
Look at the lawyers in Lawfare and most of the congressional leadership running the impeachment. Synagogue of satan.
Left overs are good for 2 or 3 days max, after that they’re just garbage. Why have Obama left over garbage?
Carry on…
Looks like Trump didn’t follow the directions on the bottle.
Turns out the cancerous swamp is bigger, wider, deeper than most could imagine but I love how you on the sidelines with your snarky comments have never ever struck a blow against the swamp…Get in the ring or go home to momma. What have you done?
Does Mr. Ciaramella work at the NSC/WH…no he is back to the CIA….step one of many in the critical path of swamp drainage….get the swamp rats out of the WH. Then get the Swamp Rats out of the agencies….
Dragging this swamp rat into the harsh sunlight is a huge event and will blow up the Ukraine Impeachment effort…..which is already falling on its very swampy face.
If draining the Swamp was easy even a numbnuts like you could have accomplished something.
Wrong;
I am striking a blow against the swamp by exposing the problem of an undrained swamp. What are you doing that you are NOT on any sidelines?
“Get in the ring”? How can I drain the swamp? Since you criticize me for not doing something about the undrained swamp, WTF have you done to make the swamp drain, cocksucker?
WTF do you think I just did you dumb shit motherfucker? See my comment above.
You should ratchet down the ad hominem remarks and personal attacks since myself or anyone else is not assaulting you. That’s how people get their ass whipped. Oh I forgot, your only ten feet tall and bullet proof when you’re on the internet.
Snarky comments which are not pointing anything new are worthless. You are pretending to be wise and thoughtful with the ability to see the forest for the trees….wrong…you are just the usual one-trick pony no different than Popgun22…The Deep State is unassailable, omniscient and we are screwed. Great, we heard you the first 300 times you posted that message. So now what.
You are entirely correct….so what….We are well beyond problem identification. What strategies and action steps can you offer with your towering intellect that might possibly move the needle?
I doubt there is a single person on this blog that doesn’t agree with your assessment…awesome….so are you going to keep banging the gong or do you want to get off the porch and run with the big dogs?
(feeling my cliches this morning).
I answered your questions, you didn’t answer mine. All you do is come back with some pseudo philosophically sounding bullshit. You’re nothing but a pontificator who tries to portray yourself as being intellectually superior. Then you deflect with strawman arguments instead of answering the questions put to you. I answered your questions, now you answer mine.
Here’s my questions again;
What are you doing that you are NOT on any sidelines?
What have you done?
WTF have you done to make the swamp drain, cocksucker?
I guess running your pontification campaign makes you a big dog. Again, what have you done? You’re nothing but an internet pussy suffering from small penis syndrome. Why don’t you put your big boy pants on and back up the things you say pussy instead of staying in your extended state of adolescence?
Suddenly my new favorite word.
Pontificator.
Well besides going Galt and direct conversations with various elected and appointed officials, not all the much. That would seem to compare favorably though with your word salad of confusion you regularly spew here….your turn.
Thank you for your fine example of your affliction with cognitive dissonance!
Apropos of nothing…what does that even mean? More word salad BS.
I thought he and his ilk have been very specifically telling us how stupid voting is and that everything is hopeless. I still say he’s a fifth columnist. The potty mouth would indicate you struck a nerve?
Looks like you won the Obama Common Core education scholarship with that one.
Definition of fifth column
: a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders
Want to try out for the Darwin Awards next?
I share the potty mouth using Fuck as an adjective…but hey nobody is perfect. Yes the weak of personality like VoteHarder really flip out when challenged. Instead of rising to the challenge or even doing a bit of self-examination they double down on their position……that is always the give away whether it is the leftists or a blowhard on a blog….They simply cannot adjust their thinking because their ego is wedded to that argument. Oh well…
You haven’t made any challenge. Do you call personal attacks and disparaging others from cyberspace a challenge ? That’s the challenge of a soy boy, not a man.
I’ve risen to the challenge and you ignore it to launch another round of strawman arguments that had nothing to do with any original challenge. You never answered a single question.
Self-examination?? You are the one suffering from your own deluded form of cognitive dissonance. All you are is a babbler typist that doesn’t even know what word definitions mean. You try to use fancy words to make yourself appear smart, but all you do is pontificate and make yourself more stupid.
Is being challenged really that threatening to you there Pookie? Pretty weak. I asked a simple question. What are the next steps? Should be easy. You are 100% correct Trump is a failure. So tell us what we should do? Put on your big boy pants and tell us what you think not the hackneyed same old Trump sucks. Tick tock.
How do you know what snarky people are doing or not doing?
There are all kinds of non violent things you can do, but you need to implement it yourself and not rely on others.
Carry on. ….
SS, he’s an asshole. He’s just using the phrase ‘snarky comment’ to launch unprovoked attacks on any posts that threatens his preferred narratives. If you look backward or here, I have never attacked him first, only in self-defense. He is among a few others here that believe holding Trump accountable is the same thing as being a never Trumper. They are not the same. When a person is above scrutiny, then he is a ruler to them, not a president. It is our DUTY to hold those elected accountable!
As Reagan said to Jimmy Carter at POTUS debate: “There you go again”….with your straw man….I have never ever said holding Trump accountable is the same as being a never Trumper.
You are a Never Trumper because it is a simplistic approach to virtue signaling in the TBP echo-chamber.
Being the guy who throws his (tiny) hands in the air and says everything is fucked has a long tradition here and on every other Interwebs board.
My challenge to you, when I decide to periodically engage is to ask for more….I don’t disagree that everything is fucked, that Trump has not achieved everything he “promised”….OK…now what?
What I keep hoping for (too optimistically apparently) is for the next step in the conversation. We understand that things are fucked up….now what can we do to mitigate that?
Use your somewhat trained insight to offer a course of action vs. more of the same trite old recycled comments…..
You are rapidly becoming the PopGun22 of “Trump Sucks”….OK, we get it….now what?
C’mon MH, Stop trying to emulate Slick Willie again.
You have called me a never Trumper before. But you confuse accountability with never Trumper. Because all I have done is held Trump accountable for what he has done and not done by pointing it out. So when someone points it out, you say their virtue signaling?
Let me help you with reading comprehension again son.
virtue signalling
noun [ U ]
UK (US virtue signaling)
“an attempt to show other people that you are a good person, for example by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them, especially on social media:”
How in the fuck is holding your elected officials accountable virtue signaling? How in the fuck am I trying to show anyone that I’m a good person? And I have anti-social media personality disorder.
If anything my messages would be the opposite of virtue signaling. It say’s “by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them”. So you are against my opinions not for them.
God damn son, where are you from, where did you get educated? You have to be a Common Core school flunky from West Virginia, born by inbred parents. I swear you’re making this place into a Hee Haw factory.
Also Junior, you need to put the flame thrower down. Stop attacking whereas you are not being attacked or someone responding in self-defense to your initial attack. I’ll fly a drone over your house and drop napalm on you.
Ha ha….you really provide an example of the archetypal feckless rube. You spray your bat guano all over every thread with the Trump didn’t live up to his promises meme.
What is the point, what do you actually want a reader to do with the comments your provide?
Ok…1,2, 3, 10 comments in the same vein and then you need to come up with another hobby horse to ride.
You can’t seem to do that….and yet with all the time and energy you spend writing the same post and then aggressively defending your hobby horse riding…I am just curious as to what do you think you are actually accomplishing…..at this point your posts are just noise….I just skip them for the most part….why waste a couple of seconds to only confirm what I know you will say? Kind of boring and predictable.
You don’t seem to be capable of engaging in an intelligent conversation ….just rabidly defending yourself….showing an extreme lack of confidence undoubtedly relates to your tiny package.
It is really OK..we are here for the ideas (though Winmag is here for his government job)….and could care less about your personal inadequacies provided your ideas are making people think…..Dude at this point VoteHarder is not making anybody think. Grow a pair and step out of your comfort zone and try and develop your thoughts beyond seeking the approval of the rest of the anti-trump nihilist cohort…..
Come on in the water is fine…..start swimming with the sharks, we don’t bite…….well I do mostly because it is fun.
Seriously, can I get some vinaigrette with that word salad?
You typed all that redundant shit instead of just making clear points. You are so stupid that you think the more words you type and the longer the comment is, you are somehow intellectual superior.
You’re not even a wordsmith. You wouldn’t make a pimple on a wordsmiths ass. Particularly because you don’t even know what the words mean as I have proved. You’re more of a diatribe troll.
Whatever you do, don’t write for a living. You’ll be guaranteed to have a sleeping audience, and find yourself in the unemployment line.
You have given up even making sense at this point. I as m pretty sure I am living in a Ground Hog Day time Koop. You just keep repeating the same inane drivel.
I think, in order to restore Law and Order, we need to get rid of all the Lawyers. Or make them swear fealty to telling Truth, which will KILL them.
Probably irrelevant at this point. Demoncrat’s will get what they want and send this to the Senate. It’s looking like the Repugnants will sell ol’ Donny out, but I’d guess they’ll give him the option of resigning, giving him the Nixon treatement. (Do you think the whole Watergate thing went off without insider help from Repugnants?) Otherwise, they stall it in the Senate all through the election, thereby making Donny a ‘lame duck’ president early.
We go one step closer to CWII. Are you ready?
Private sales without background checks (aka the “gun show loophole”) are still legal in MN.
Super lame analysis.
Question? What was the point of impeaching Nixon?? He was one of them wasn’t he.
And yet another mole found inside, at the highest levels of national government agencies discovered to be undermining this administration.
Biased holdovers from the Kenyan’s eight years of corruption and destruction.
When Slick took office and that gorgeous babe of an attorney general named Reno came aboard, she broomed out something like 90+ federal prosecutors from the previous administration.
Thus, the practice of forming a DOJ that aligns with the policies of a new president, so he can get away with legally manipulated actions to further corrupt practices where integrity is abandoned, and somebody is going to get screwed, or murdered, while the perps hide behind a badge, the laws they enact, or executive privilege.
In secret, of course.
The more shit that is hidden or done quietly, the more we should be suspicious of motive.
If actions be noble, then reveal them with transparency.
Any wonder why DJT is seating as many federal judges as possible?
Corruption there, too, or at the very least, political bias directly in step with the former ruling party’s ideals.
For Trump et. al, Constitutional rule of law is the criteria. Still, an uphill battle, but progress can be seen.
For Dems, it seems a team player is always recruited, funded by international wealthy people of influence, looking to buy influence from corrupt whores in high positions.
And with such infestation across so many platforms, Donnie’s detractors are constantly pissing and moaning at the pace and volume of sewage, scum, and creatures exiting the swamp.
There are too many fucking vermin scurrying about the barn for a team of cats to try and eliminate.
Yet the farmer who feeds the cats is pissed at them, because he has a rodent crisis where he stores the hay he’s worked so hard to cultivate.
Could draw other parallels, but will just leave you with this.
Cycles being cyclical, we may need the Dee Jay’s to start playing this song to draw attention to the plight of the little guys.
Once again.
Any wonder why DJT is seating as many federal judges as possible?
Whenever possible Trump appoints Christian Dominionists to his cabinet (starting with Pence) and SCOTUS like Kavanaugh, DeVos, etc.
https://www.texasobserver.org/dominion-theology/
https://www.alternet.org/2018/07/why-margaret-atwoods-handmaids-tale-isnt-so-far-fetched-2018/
There are people here who know more a lot about this stuff than I do. Maybe they’ll comment. All I can say is that if folks like Pence and Kavanaugh and DeVos are representative of Christian Dominionists, I want nothing to do with it!
For Christ’s sake, and yours, consider reading Zman’s post on Ethics and Authority.
If it comes down to seeking authoritative leaders possessing a religious upbringing vs. a Luciferian Globohomo NWO advocate, I’d turn to the ones who at least have a shred of integrity and a sense of morals, founded on Christian beliefs.
Not saying they’re without blemish, but, Jesus, they are better than the alternative liberal progressive devils who advocate Anything Goes.
Without authority, civilization would evaporate into chaos.
Rare indeed, is the leader that leads, without a bias toward some type of moral guidelines.
Lesser of two evils?
No. One is way more evil than the traits of the other.
Not even close.
If disagree, then submit your version of a suit that should run the show.
If one ideal candidate from your way of thinking exists, he is most likely intelligent enough to not wade into the swamp of government.
A ship without a rudder gets tossed about on the waves, with no direction, and when the storm comes, gets dashed to pieces on the reef.
You prefer to bitch and doubt, regardless of the type of rudder that gets installed or suggested.
Christian Dominionism is about a reflective of genuine Christianity
as Nazisism was reflective of genuine German Nationalism (it wasn’t).
I don’t know anything about Christian Dominionism, but I would like to make angry lesbians wear those bonnets.
Fun Fact…Mellencamp has become much more conservative over the last two decades….no wonder he doesn’t get air time, articles or interviews much anymore though he is still playing a reduced schedule even with his heart problems.
He’s from Indiana, and not NYC, or L.A.
Flyover country.
Surprised he’s still with us.
Used to smoke like a chimney, and might still.
Has quite a few good tunes I’ve liked through the 70’s & 80’s.
Creative rock artist.
One of the earlier ones, rarely heard on radio, with a good beat is A Little Night Dancin’
Mmmmmm, Indiana, the state the sent more Union troops south than any other.
What do you eat, Glum?
Habitually drop a deuce in every punchbowl at every gathering.
“We’re doomed”
“It’ll Never Work.”
I’ll defer to EC on this one.
If people wanted to visit an echo chamber, they wouldn’t come here.
Psssst…. he always wuz what he iz. That “Cougar” crap was for “show.”
I saw him in the late 80s in OKC and he roared onto stage with R.O.C.K. in the USA and told everyone how great it was to be in TULSA. I laughed and laughed. No one else did.
I knew a chick would had TULSA for a license plate so people would get the message in their rearview mirrors.
You didn’t realize she was ASLUT or did you?
(Oklahoma only has rear license plates fyi, so it was a front vanity plate.)
I did get the message, but had to settle for her friend who wasn’t so bad either.
This was 25 years ago and in Oklahoma, but being on Fort Sill, the plate was probably out of state.
Are you saying OK offers a state-issued front vanity plate to compliment the rear, or that the front plate was a novelty item?
pssssssst….A favorite photo of mine quite cleverly composed without the subject’s realizing it.
I stopped reading at “Now William Barr needs to investigate…”
Too bad it wasn’t in the first paragraph.
There is no Rule of Law presently, so articles like this are moot and suspect and laughable.
Town Hall must be a Zio newsrag.
As a retired CIA operations officer – a real CIA officer, not a desk jockey like Brennan or this disloyal piece of filth – I am disgusted that such a person weaseled his way into the Agency and then the White House. But who do I blame the most? The idiots Trump put in charge of the White House and its component parts, like the NSC. There are no words to describe the feckless morons who kept Obama people there after Trump was elected. Trump, get off your damn Twitter machine for five minutes and purge the CIA, the FBi, DOJ and DOD of Obama/Bush/Clinton holdovers! Do it now!
Well, your naivete is showing there….swamp rats wear many cloaks…..some are DEM some are SES, some are RINO cloaks….Trump had a serious challenge….how to run the Titantic Leviathan of the Executive branch when he couldn’t qualify enough people…remember the raft of shit he was getting for not having people confirmed……that was not by accident of course. The Deep States (again) colluded with the Media to push that “slow to confirm” meme allowing more swamp rats to get through. A default was to allow holdovers…. It turns out both were bad decisions in terms of outcome but not unreasonable at the time. I suspect the GOP party leadership Prience Rebis (or whatever his fucking name is) Paul Ryan and yes Cocaine Mitch were all singing the party line……”You got to get these people in place ASAP”….First 100 days and all that crap.
So having worked at a large agency….how many would old Donald have to purge?
The top 20 people, top 100, 1000?
Let’s call it 100…..so the top 100 people at the 16+ Intelligence Agencies…is 1,600 people, let’s go with 1,000 from the State Dep’t and DOJ. Now we are 3,600 folks, top 100 at all of the other agencies….call it another 5,000….so would firing 8,600 people be “swamp drainage” for you?
How exactly would he do that? Issue executive orders…..do you really think they would be followed when Brennan’s security clearance wasn’t revoked?
Was your security clearance ended…..of course not, it means a lot to you and hey you never know if you might be needed? A nice courtesy from a grateful nation but when it is abused like Brennan….and the POTUS can’t even get that bit of swampiness drained….what does that tell you about the magnitude of the challenge?
BTW what is the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
You are a special kind of stupid shill. Who is it that made the campaign promise, pledge and slogan to “Drain The Swamp”? Now you’re saying it’s an impossible or near impossible task.
Pay attention Junior! If it was that difficult then why did Trump make it a campaign promise? Why would he promise something that was impossible or improbable? Oh that’s right, to get elected!
Don’t worry Charlie Brown, you can always take another stab at it in 2020.
Yeah, Martel is about as slick as they come.
Soft on Communism among other things if you read between the lines.
Sage comes off as another Steve Pieczenik from where I’m sitting. You nailed him to the wall on something a couple days back.
He’s not that slick but he does kind of try to weasel like ole Slick Willie used to do. He also uses brute force offensiveness because it makes him think he’s going to win that way, you know pea brain neanderthal shit, then when someone fires up on his head, he cries afoul and acts like the victim.
Nice projection of your own weakness…but keep trying and I am sure you will make a cogent point after sufficient failed attempts. We might be dead of old age or boredom by then but I have faith that like a blind squirrel eventually you will an acorn of truth.
How am I projecting? Am I wrong in saying you make brute force offensive responses to people who are not attacking you? Then go back to the beginning of the articles comments and see who attacked who.
Now either you don’t again know word definitions or you are the one projecting.
Your wormy little philosophical lame poetic wannabe comments are not proving a damn thing boy. How about facts instead of bullshit?
Come to think of it, I don’t recall anyone else suggesting that I’m a threat to the health and welfare of this much-esteemed blog, and that I should apologize and/or leave for my speech transgressions.
Hmmm so proposed to do the right thing and then having difficulty doing it is a problem for you….Gosh, that really makes you an ingenue of the worst sort…..Grow up buttercup.
Trump provided a vision and proposed a set of policies…..instead of kvetching like an old woman help him….lead, follow or get out of the way…..
There you go with deflecting again and using word games. Proposals are not promises and promises are not proposals. If so then why are they referred to as ‘Campaign promises’ instead of ‘campaign proposals’?
See, how does it feel to look so stupid when you try to pawn yourself off as being more knowledgeable than anyone here? You need to take reading comprehension classes. For instance, your use of the phrase ‘one trick pony’ serves as proof that you don’t even know the definition of it.
‘one trick pony’ Definition;
I have commented on various topics, (not just one as the definition states) with great success as some of the respondents have thanked me for my insight and voted accordingly. So your just using that as a catchy phrase thinking that it makes you smart, when in fact you don’t even know the definition of the phrase as is shown by your retarded use of the phrase. And to think that there are two other retards here on TBP (you know who you are cocksuckers) that copied and pasted your usage of the phrase shows that your stupidity and retardedness is contagious to other retards. The
blindretard leading theblindretards.Check with your local adult education for the mentally impaired in your area. Maybe you can pay for it with your mothers welfare check.
Sounds like your jockstrap is tight and chafing a bit, maybe you should slow down on self-medicating with comfort food…
Look son, I know adolescence is tough. You’ll make it when your around 50 though. It comes much later for you soy boys.
How many pounds overweight are you? 50+? When was the last time you saw your unit? Been a awhile I bet no wonder you somewhat a discombobulated commentator.
Were you involved in the MI6/5 controversies or were those before your time?
Three years. Three long years.
He could have easily replaced every single person in the government by now with carefully selected and vetted replacements from the private sector, people with real life experience and without a political grudge against his administration, but instead he stayed with the same mandarins and wheedling toadies that the communists have installed over the last two decades.
Kinda makes ya think he doesn’t really want to drain the swamp. He never talks about draining the swamp anymore.
Yep, but he keeps on pumping “Fake News” which is like 3 years old now.
Fake news keeps your mind off fake money, fake elections, failed promises, and so on.
That would have been a better strategic plan….rope a dope with the swamp rats and attrit them out with vetted folks…and lock down the budgets of the worst offenders. Not a sexy war and I think that is where DJT misstepped….too much desire for the limelight vs. working on the plumbing. He could have done both but I think he let the fleeting successes in the limelight overshadow the much harder work of cleaning out the agencies. In any bureacracy money/people is power he should have spent way more time gutting the budgets and sending as many bodies home….would have swept out some goods ones but a small price vs. getting rid of the good Lt Col and Ciaramella’s….
Seriously? They wouldn’t even let him pick a known commodity, US Congressman John Ratcliffe, to replace Coats as DNI. Once Sessions recused – whether out of stupidity or venality, Trump was stuck with Rosenstein as acting AG – Rosenstein who’d suggested wearing a wire to secretly record Trump and invoke the 25th Amendment. If he’d fired Rosenstein it would have been called “obstruction of justice”. Hell, the Left claimed that firing Comey was obstruction- and they hated Comey. The only reason he was able to get Barr confirmed 53-47 was because Barr had previously been AG under Bush I. The FBI and CIA are still run by Swamp Creatures Wray and Haspel – who can’t easily be replaced because no replacement will get confirmed.
We’ve found out how things work: a president only has power when he’s following orders from the CIA.
If Trump takes orders from the CIA, then he really isn’t Commander in Chief, is he?
He would be a pretender.
My bet is the Hidden King makes the decisions and speaks through his pretender.
He is the CEO oif the Executive Branch. It would be mere child’s play for the POTUS to remove any Executive Branch employee … if that actually were the intent.
Issue explicit direct written orders, when they refuse to carry them out … terminate them. Done And Done.
How did that work out in 1963? And No JFK was not the secret POTUS after that…he was dead.
You notice the pattern of both coup attempts.
In this case CIA remella recieved information. What was he supposed to do with the information?
It’s the same with all the actors . Even Obamma himself. This is how you know it’s by design.
Yes!
By design… and has almost everyone fooled.
I don’t have a dog in this fight or a shred of confidence in government, which helps my perspective
Holdovers from the Obama administration should have all been fired 3 years ago. If they were civil service they should have been reassigned to the foreign affairs desk in Antarctica. I wouldn’t trust anyone who worked for Big Mikes Bitch.
That is the challenge….95% of the entire Ferderal Government personnel are active or passive leftists/Obama supporters….they know where their bread is buttered….that 95% includes the visible heads of agencies but down to Admiral McRaven, Lt Col Vindman, HR McMaster as well as the whistle blower Ciaramella…..so the correct answer would have been to fire all Federal employees….but just not realistic absent a civil war….
One department at a time, top to bottom. Three years max and the entire government is rebuilt to suit the President. At least he would have accomplished enough of a roadblock that whoever followed would have to spend an equal amount of time undoing it.
Either way, it didn’t happen so that kind of tells you everything there is to know.
That might have avoided the shitstorm But the storm clouds are blotting out the sun.