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Ex-CIA officer claims hes flooded with requests from Democrats on how to take Trump down: Theyre going after him with a hatchet
Appearing on CNN on Friday morning to address Donald Trumps defense of the Saudi cover-up of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an intelligence and security analyst said Democratic House members are ready to come after the president over possible financial entanglements with the Middle Eastern nation.
Speaking with host Jim Sciutto, former CIA case officer Robert Baer said he is already being flooded with calls from the newly empowered Democrats who will chair and hold majority positions of the House committees with the power to investigate Trump.
The Saudi foreign minister already parroted back the presidents doubts about the CIA assessment [of the murder], Sciutto began. We are in a different situation because you have Democrats taking over the House.
That gives Democrats powerful chairmanships of committees, and we have Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) now who will be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee saying, among the things, that he wants the committee to investigate is whether Trump Organization has financial ties in Saudi Arabia that is influencing the presidents decision here, the CNN host continued. How impactful could an investigation like that be?
Oh, Jim, its going to be huge, Baer enthused. I have already gotten e-mails this morning from Congress asking who should they put in front of committees.
Theyre going to come after this president with hatchets, these Democrats, he explained. Theyre going to uncover a lot of financial connections that go back years. I mean, essentially Russia and Saudi Arabia floated, you know, the Trump property empire in its bad times a lot of investments from the royal family, current ones I dont know.
But thats certainly going to go on, these hearings, for the next two years, you can count on it, he assured the CNN host.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/ex-cia-officer-claims-hes-flooded-requests-democrats-take-trump-theyre-going-hatchet/
brush
(53,735 posts)the orange pustule.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Unless he is trying to help trump, he should keep his mouth shut, that is exactly what he learned at the CIA, to keep his mouth shut in situations like this. By opening his mouth he is preparing trump to take cover.
Nitram
(22,755 posts)other president. But Trump is an egotistic ignoramus.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Speaking with host Jim Sciutto, former CIA case officer Robert Baer said he is already being flooded with calls from the newly empowered Democrats who will chair and hold majority positions of the House committees with the power to investigate Trump.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)fierywoman
(7,668 posts)Nitram
(22,755 posts)as a presidential candidate. They would love nothing better than the opportunity to testify, under oath, that he is a traitor to the country.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Hekate
(90,538 posts)So to speak.
forgotmylogin
(7,519 posts)...
diane in sf
(3,912 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,366 posts)KARMA.
BSdetect
(8,994 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)actually take effective action and to be savvy. Demoralizing to see GOP and #fatnixon get away with so much. To know that inaction is only happening because we have had no control of anything.