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 ...
Think you might be confusing him with Brennan.
I think the man might have a stroke
He is no longer useful and is in fact a liability
Big talk from a perjurer. And that is why he said it. The walls are closing on this loser.....now he will claim retaliation if prosecuted for today’s statement.
You are right. I get so confused. Their crimes are identical.
Just a few years after Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the famous essayist G.K. Chesterton wrote on March 21, 1925, that the new communist systems “are not rebelling against an abnormal tyranny; they are rebelling against what they think is a normal tyranny—the tyranny of the normal.”
“They are not in revolt against the king,” he wrote. “They are in revolt against the citizen.”
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2251601-the-dark-origins-of-communism-part-3-of-3/
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.