Posted on 02/25/2021 5:37:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
After four years of railing against “deep state” actors who, he said, tried to undermine his presidency, Donald Trump relented to U.S. intelligence leaders in his final days in office, allowing them to block the release of critical material in the Russia investigation, according to a former senior congressional investigator who later joined the Trump administration.
Kash Patel, whose work on the House Intelligence Committee helped unearth U.S. intelligence malpractice during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe, said he does not know why Trump did not force the release of documents that would expose further wrongdoing. But he said senior intelligence officials "continuously impeded" their release – usually by slow-walking their reviews of the material. Patel said Trump's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was instrumental in blocking one of the most critical documents, he said.
Patel, who has seen the Russia probe's underlying intelligence and co-wrote critical reports that have yet to be declassified, said new disclosures would expose additional misconduct and evidentiary holes in the CIA and FBI's work.
"I think there were people within the IC [Intelligence Community], at the heads of certain intelligence agencies, who did not want their tradecraft called out, even though it was during a former administration, because it doesn't look good on the agency itself," Patel told RealClearInvestigations in his first in-depth interview since leaving government at the end of Trump's term last month, having served in several intelligence and defense roles (full interview here).
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What is amazing is that it was an in-your-face 4-year event that became increasingly obvious even to most outsiders.
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Trump exhibited an extreme reluctance to fire people. Somewhat ironic in that this is what he was known for.
Being an outsider its understandable that he was at a disadvantage coming into and dealing with the Swamp. But his reluctance to remove people compounded his problems IMO.
The bureaucracy is a formidable force. They only respond to power and the willingness to exercise it without constraints.
Let’s not forget, as I always point out, the media is the true villain.
Imagine if the media was honest, fair and did their job? Imagine if there was still such a thing as investigative journalism??
The media, in all forms, is the true enemy of America.
The power of the intelligence agencies to influence Trump showed up early in his administration when the JFK assassination documents came up for declassification after a half century. He declassified some, but the intels convinced him that some still should not be declassified and they weren’t.
If they influenced Trump that much, imagine what sort of hold they’ve had over other presidents.
Trump will be MY age in 2024, and I don't have the Zip I had just four years ago. (And he'll need ALL the Zip possible!)
Correct and the Swamp will never allow Trump The Outsider to get within a hundred miles of DC ever again. They learned their lesson in 2016; protect the Swamp from intruders at all costs.
Not only that; according to this article, his hands were apparently tied so often there was little he could accomplish. The judges he added to the SCOTUS have all turned out to be libs because that was all the Swamp would approve.
>>> during the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe
Crossfire Hurricane was a triangulation of Alphabet agencies to thwart Trump campaign and administration and it was directed from the top down by Barack Obama and Joe Biden was in the loop, even unsealing names a week before he left office in 2017 (like what was Joe B. going to do at that point?).
I’m certain most every government entity is full of chinese and muslim subversives. And hundreds of thousands of not millions of individuals are beholdened to the CCP.
You make a good point but mass media wasn’t around in Roman times. Other factors contributed to the decline of the empire and we see many of the same ones now. Just saying.
>>. For four long years we watched the federal bureaucracy try to buck an elected president out of the saddle against the will the American people.
And now they are again trying to criminalize and blacklist those who discuss it.
Recall in the mid-1990s Clinton and the FBI tried to blame the OKC bombing on Rush/Liddy/talk radio (even though the bombing had been plotted years earlier).
Recall Bloomberg trying to blame a Times Square bomb plot on some obese middle aged white guy upset over the passage of Obamacare.
Then the protest to preserve historical statues was pitched as a deadly white supremacist rally.
Now the protest gathering over the stolen election has become another “deadly white supremacist riot” and anyone who attended Trump’s speech is being investigated.
Maybe... but I'm not willing to believe Trump was/is as helpless as you portray him.
I think he had & has lots of genuine friends and chose the best course available to not just him but the country.
We don't usually think of the words "Trump" and "self-sacrifice" in the same sentence, but that might be what we're seeing, as the only way possible to show Americans how truly dangerous Democrats have become.
As for blaming all Republicans equally... that's a stretch, a bridge too far, and I don't buy it.
That Georgia SOS, sure, apparently a compromised villain.
Maybe also some of our Pennsylvania Rs, impossible to say about any of them without a lot more evidence.
I don't buy the idea that since Democrats stole the election, the solution must be: let's destroy the Republicans!
Makes no sense.
They don’t even need to insert moles anymore. Just get them hired and into key positions where they can openly influence policies.
To some extent this is true. Yertle allowed him to make some judge appointments and pass legislation Yertle thought would benefit Yertle.
Everything else Trump did, he had to do through Ex Orders, which Biteme is now undoing.
Republicans in general are weak. They are simply not fighters. You can’t win wars without fighters.
Strength, resolve and determination are the only things that matter and Republicans don’t have them. And they never will.
We need Pattons, not pansies.
I’m certain most every government entity is full of chinese and muslim subversives. And hundreds of thousands of not millions of individuals are beholdened to the CCP.
Unfortunately, that’s kind of how I saw it, across the board. And I watched Bannon’s show twice a day, every day, and posted (lived) on FR till the bitter end.
Now, this was nothing like GWB’s complete disappearing act, and Trump had a couple of good rallies for some Senate candidates down in Georgia that I really enjoyed. But, that was really pretty much it.
I’m sure many others here see it completely differently, and some may even curse my name for thinking such thoughts, bit it wasn’t a strong finish. He even got booted from Twitter, which which seemed to be his main weapon.
This is not to say it wasn’t a great term, which it was. The ending however, left much to be desired.
We’ll see what the future holds, but as a new Independent, I’m looking at all options going forward.
IMO his training and business instincts led him while in the WH to hire based primarily on the applicant's resume and the advise of trusted individuals. We can surmise the latter often were naïve or subscribed to a different agenda.
But his reluctance to remove people compounded his problems IMO.
Deceit and betrayal in the commercial world that framed Trump's experience is generally horizontal whereas can be of equal parts vertical in the Swamp's political world. It was reported he was restrained by trusted individuals in his own political party who warned of the great likelihood of removal from office were he to fire as he thought necessary. I.e., he spent 4 years essentially walking on a knife edge.
I think it likely we will see a robust counter-punch, albeit in the making one in slow-motion, even if he does not contend for a future presidency.
Given this ever more obvious truth, and the attempts to keep that truth from US, it is ever more remarkable that President Donald J. Trump accomplished as much as he did ... and only to watch dictator Biden sign it all away with a smile.
Perhaps one purpose of President Trump has been to show US all how deeply corrupted we have become and how utterly untrustworthy our once most respected institutions, government and media, both now are.
With this growing realization come questions about how much longer those two institutions can maintain their power and control over US.
And “they” now know it, too, as we see with their panic driven manipulations and censorship of events, opinions and people, especially President Donald J. Trump!
I hate to sound critical of Trump or fault him for anything. Coming in as a despised outsider he faced impossible odds and yet was still able to accomplish amazing feats. Very few people could ever dream of doing what he did under the circumstances. He was a great president. But he was not infallible.
Like with all projects and business ventures, we do need to analyze his presidency and capture some of the lessons learned so they can hopefully be applied in the future. As they say, those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
So it is in that spirit that I try to point out a few constructive observations. Hopefully most people will see it that way.
Candace is a lovely person and an eloquent conservative. But she has not even finished college. Wikipedia:
Owens pursued an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Rhode Island. She dropped out after her junior year because of an issue with her student loan.Afterwards, she worked as an intern for Vogue magazine in New York. In 2012, Owens took a job as an administrative assistant for a private equity firm in Manhattan, New York, later moving up to become its vice president of administration
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