Posted on 01/13/2021 11:27:07 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem rejected calls for unity Tuesday on CNN.
CNN national security analyst on Tuesday called President Donald Trump the "leader of a terrorist organization," calling for the "complete isolation" of a president 74 million Americans voted for in the 2020 election.
Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at Harvard University and former member of the Obama administration's Homeland Security Advisory Council, appeared on a CNN panel with Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow, during which she made the case that Trump is the "spiritual" and "operational" leader of a "domestic terrorism effort."
"Trump is the spiritual, but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort. He tells them where to go. He tells them what to do. He tells them why they're angry," Kayyem charged.
She argued that the United States government needs to begin a counterterrorism effort against elements of the president's supporters who participated in the violent riots at the Capitol building Jan. 6, during which five people died, and that such an effort requires going after Trump first.
"And so we need to start at the top, like any counterterrorism effort, which is total isolation of the president of the United States. Impeachment, yes. 25th Amendment, yes. Deplatforming, yes. All of the above. No money. No access to campaign funds," Kayyem said.
She called for Trump's "complete isolation" because Trump, "as the leader of a terrorist organization," will have a more difficult time recruiting followers if he is "viewed as a loser."
"He's going to have his radical elements. We will arrest them, we will isolate them. But what we have to make sure is that Donald Trump does not have a second act. I know I sound incredibly harsh right now calling the president this, but we are in the tactical response right now. Enough with the 'let's unity' and stuff, this is a tactical effort right now to make sure that we protect American citizens and, of course, the next president of the United States."
Kayyem laid out her argument in more detail in a column published by the Atlantic Tuesday in which she accused the president of being a "rallying point for a coalition of theocrats, internet fantasists, white supremacists, and various other authoritarians who are in no way committed to peaceful transitions of power."
"The way to unite this country is to isolate acts of violence—and a leader who incites it—from legitimate expression," Kayyem wrote. "Trump was a north star for a certain kind of radical. Americans will be safer the more that star loses its shine."
Patriots are terrorists
They have been pushing this narrative since their staged play at Charlottesville.
Another CFR member.
The hyperbole and projection coming out of the left lately is shocking.
Soon airports everywhere will be CNN free. MAGA: Make airports great again.
BLM - trashing and destroying cities all summer not a terrorist organization.
AntiFa - trashing and destroying cities all summer not a terrorist organization.
One protest March on the capital - TERRORISM!
This - is - BS.
January 6 was America’s Reichstag Fire
Prove Me Wrong.
Expect an attempt to have mass executions.
We are all watching a real communist Insurrection. I personally think Trump is letting America witness this insanity and become horrified. Otherwise they will never accept the remedy.
Juliette Kayyem, straight from Central Casting.
Violence is a two way street.
.......says the leaders of blm, antifa, bds, weater underground, etc...
TA DAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
There ya have it!!
CNN is a communist front.
Hmmmm, come on Trump where’s my membership card and secret decoder ring?
CNN
DOMESTIC ENEMY
Can you imagine the things she wrote and did as a DHS employee?
Her parent were Lebanese according to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Kayyem
She has the lips of a camel.
It’s so normal for them and expected that it’s the farthest thing possible from shocking.
Enough shit has been flung at our President for him to legitimately declare a national emergency, reject the election and the unacceptable circumstances it was held in, and start the arrests and free helicopter rides.
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