Posted on 06/07/2017 1:06:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told an audience in Australia Wednesday that in his view, the Russia scandal facing the Trump administration is far worse than the Watergate scandal that President Nixon faced.
"I think [if] you compare the two, that Watergate pales really in my view compared to what we're confronting now," Clapper said.
According to a transcript of his remarks, Clapper said he called then-President-elect Trump when Trump dismissed the intelligence community's assessment that Russia tried to meddle in the 2016 election. Clapper said Trump called intelligence officials "Nazis" in an apparent attempt to attack anyone questioning the legitimacy of the election.
"I tried, naively it turned out, to appeal to his higher instincts, by pointing out that the intelligence community he was about to inherit is a national treasure," Clapper said.
"Ever transactional, [Trump] simply asked me to publicly refute the infamous 'dossier,' which I could not and would not do," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
What has happened to the Examiner? All of a sudden they are predicting massive Democrat electoral victories and blowing up on Trump. They read just like The Hill, and it’s the most partisan of websites.
How did a Marxist get so high in the Air Force and government.
Tailguner Joe was right. And Ike should have listened.
....of FROM a guy who was Director of National Intelligence.....who didn’t know a terrorist bomb exploded in the middle of London THREE HOURS AFTER IT HAPPENED....POS
“I’m sorry Mr. Crapper, your United States Passport is on the list of counterfeit passports, I’m afraid we will have to temporarily detain you in our facilities in Guantanamo until all this is cleared up.”
Clapper, Brennan, & Comey: Three men who allowed 20 million Americans to be spied on by the US intelligence agencies. Lock ‘em up!
Actually, Clapper is a liar with an agenda. I hope In a year or two, some dirt on him “mysteriously” appears and his career and reputation are runined.
Sedition. Charge, convict, etc.
The guy who lies only as much professionally as he has to.....
Hey, it beats a convertible ride through Dealey Plaza.
Move along ... nothing to see here.
He’ls keeping himself and The Muh Russia Narrative in the news. He’ll say under oath, when he’s inevitably called to testify, that he was referring to the “seriousness of the charge” greater than Watergate.
He’s a spineless, elitist, irrelevant, bitter dinosaur.
Clapper is a lying sack of dog crap.
Clapper has lied under oath, spied on all sorts of citizens, has failed to protect us, and is a traitorous coward
Other than that....
ROTFLOL.....they’re so stupid, they got the wrong Trump.
S-o-o-o-o- funny.
Donald can put them through the wringer on this.
Such fun ahead.
I couldn’t believe it when I seen it...it was like, are you guys this stupid, or do you hate President Trump so much you would try to pull something like this...
Answer to both: YES...
Media, talking heads and radio show hosts are the bottom of the garbage cans!!!
Great liars of old pale in comparison to James Clapper....
Media types-—dumpster divers at the back door of the Russian Embassy.
Clapper is agitating his leftist weenies toward Civil War 2.0 and believes he will be unaffected by the consequences of his outright treason.
This is part of the deep states attempted coup against the democratically elected president of the United States and the American people who believe they should be the ones who determine who leads the country.
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