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Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 11:31 AM Feb 2020

Trump has severely compromised our national security.


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Stephanie Kennedy
@WordswithSteph
“By the end of the day, almost all of the roles created after 9/11 literally to prevent the next 9/11 will be either vacant or lack permanent appointees.”

Trump has successfully hollowed out US national security. ISIS knows it. Russia knows and loves it. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-hollowed-out-us-national-security-vacancies-acting/


How Trump Hollowed Out US National Security
Acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell is just the latest in a cascade of temporary or vacant personnel in critical government positions.

wired.com
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Trump has severely compromised our national security. (Original Post) Arkansas Granny Feb 2020 OP
And the jobs that are filled are all Trump flunkies with zero qualifications... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #1
And don't care about this country nor her people . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #3
k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Feb 2020 #2
I hope that nothing horrible happens to this Country with these very incompetent people... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #4
Sadly shanti Feb 2020 #7
Trump works for Putin. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #5
Exactly shanti Feb 2020 #6
by extension, GOP works for Putin. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2020 #9
Republicans have severely compromised our national security JHB Feb 2020 #8

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
4. I hope that nothing horrible happens to this Country with these very incompetent people...
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 12:36 PM
Feb 2020

in these offices that rump is filling with them.

If something should happen, and the department head of the federal agency tasked with the role of stopping such attacks based upon reasonable intelligence reports, failed to even do the bare minimum of what their task is in that department or federal agency, they should be charged with treason, aiding and abetting the enemy, along w/ rump, who continues to put the Country's national security interests at risk. Serious risk.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
7. Sadly
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:58 PM
Feb 2020

It would be too late by then. At least we still have control of our military and LEO....right?

shanti

(21,675 posts)
6. Exactly
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:57 PM
Feb 2020

He's basically given Putin the keys to our country. As a former intelligence officer in Russia, he knows exactly where to look for our secrets. Damn him to hell.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,324 posts)
9. by extension, GOP works for Putin.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 02:05 PM
Feb 2020

It's not clear how Trump came to be Putin's willing puppet, other than narcissism and money, but the GOP has been cultivating extremism and eliminating others from their party for years. It's now a cult so in love with Russia's oligarchy and it's white supremacist policies that the GOP is willing to destroy our democracy to attain what Russia has.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
8. Republicans have severely compromised our national security
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 02:03 PM
Feb 2020

Everything he does has their approval. A few of them may make noises about it, but none of them take real action to stop him.

He is the undisputed leader of their party, and they are responsible for all the damage he has done and continues to do.

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