Posted on 02/19/2020 5:33:42 PM PST by dontreadthis
UPDATE: Appointment Confirmed
Lots to unpack here. Maggie Haberman is warning resistance allies in the Senate to prepare all defensive weapons against a possible Trump appointment of Ric Grenell as Director of the Office of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Grenell currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He can serve as acting ODNI, but to become permanent ODNI he would need to survive confirmation railroading by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), Chairman Richard Burr and Vice Chair Mark Warner. The SSCI is deep swamp and and participated in the coup effort against the office of the president. The SSCI has a vested interest in controlling the ODNI position; hence their prior blocking of Representative John Ratcliffe.
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Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower One by one, day by day, @realDonaldTrump is taking steps to destroy Americas fact-based institutions, at the same time he eviscerates rule of law. Appointing as @ODNIgov
@RichardGrenell , who has politicized every issue he has touched & has contempt for facts, would be a travesty
Jew hater Samantha Power says what??? Richard Grenell is a good man and the right man for the job!
Senator Burr is Sen. Warners BITCH!! BURR IS PATHETIC!
cnn was going nuts over him. They seem to think he is the worst human being ever on the planet.
So that must mean he is the right man for the job.
Sounds like a good choice. Openly gay I read, big deal. What he does on his own time don’t bother me. The fact that it tweaks the libs is a plus.
Understatement
WOW an openly gay man and the lefts hair is on fire GO FIGURE!!! Every damn day Trump shows their utter hypocrisy I LOVE THIS POTUS!!!
Grinnell is openly gay. It doesn’t bother me or most FReepers. The Dems should love him in this important position. Oh, what? That’s right, Grinnell is a conservative Republican. Disqualified.
The President’s first order to Grenell should be “Close down this organization.” I remember when it was created and was skeptical about that move, it has become a hindrance rather than a help.
Sorry for the misspelling.
LOL. Power’s tweet is a fact free smear of Grenell.
I did not know Lankford had quit the corrupt and Democrat controlled SSCI. I would think that type of move is very unusual mid term.
Recess Appointment?
Come on Mitch, go on your first vacation since Obama was in office.
Never heard of him. Hope he’s not another John Bolt On.
Assignment for deep state members:
Write a 9 page essay on how you joined the deep state, your initial motives for doing so and what it now feels like to know the deep state is going down in flames. 2 of those pages should be devoted to an analysis of why you think this low IQ idea was worth the price you paid.
In your conclusion, expand on possible options for getting out of the deep state while you still can, and be sure to mention the 5 highest ranking members against whom you could turn states evidence.
Jew hater? Shes married to a jew. Cass Sunstein
Never heard of him. Hope hes not another John Bolt On.
Really? He’s been a prominent supporter of POTUS since the campaign. A real Trumpian brawler.
Recess Appointment?
Come on Mitch, go on your first vacation since Obama was in offic
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That tells you everything you need to know about who exactly McConnell really is.
Grenell has done a great job of pointing out to the Germans that they’re a bunch of virtue signaling, hypocritical, greedy, free loaders.
Bringing him home to help drain the Swamp seems like a good move - particularly if it bothers the corrupt leftist swamp creatures.
I remember in 2008 she said that she is anti israel..she wanted to give as much land to the Arabs as possible..she is a clone of Bernie Sanders
I know. Trump is purposely daring them to oppose Grinell In order to be able to charge them with homophobia. It is also a cabinet position, and Trump may want to do you have something, if only that, to defend himself against chargers of lack of attention to LGBT issues. Nobody remembers that the man was appointed to ambassador to Germany. But this is A much more public and prominent position. One question for everyone here: how long can an acting director act?
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