Posted on 01/25/2025 11:43:52 AM PST by lasereye
Whoever steered President Trump into removing of the security teams protecting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others facing Iranian death threats was way off-base — and the prez should reverse that dangerous call at once.
Pompeo tops Tehran’s hit list for his part in taking out Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani in January 2020, a massive strategic win for Trump in his first term.
The threats are neither hypothetical nor vague: In 2022, Supreme Leader (and Grand Ayatollah) Ali Khamenei’s website published the video “Revenge is definite” that showed animated versions of Pompeo and Trump being scoped out by a remote weapon.
It’s not just that this looks like petty, vindictive retaliation: Does he want his new national-security team making policy while fearing they won’t get protection if they do something that earns them a spot on Tehran’s target list?
And not only did Trump yank protection; his team publicized it, all but giving Iran a green-light.
Trump waved off the issue by insisting, “You can’t have [protection] for the rest of your life.”
The Biden team put the security in place in 2021, and nothing suggests the threat has lessened — or that Trump was even fully briefed on the situation before pulling the protection.
Plus, Trump himself has been on the wrong end of an assassin’s scope, twice; he should understand better than anyone how important adequate protection is when you’re being targeted.
Worse, this public move can only encourage Iran to mount operations against the newly vulnerable now, with an eye on displaying its power and weakening Trump.
The instinct to get even runs deep in MAGA-world, but any salivating adviser telling Trump this makes sense is a fool: Should any of these people suffer an attack, the prez will get blamed — and rightly so.
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If any of these people get killed by Iran he will rightly be blamed.
My logic says Iran should be blamed.................
No. Just blame the guns or bombs, never the perp. That’s what libs do.
I would suggest that Trump will send a strong message that testing by Iran will be met with a devastating response. Yeh, go hide in a hospital or a school, but Iran won’t be safe.
So how long should we pay millionaires for secret service? Why can’t they hire their own security?
This isn’t about Pompeo.
This is a clear message to all current and future aides and associates that they best be totally on board the Trump Train or be tossed aside like Bolton and Pompeo.
Pres Trump was asked about this, by the LAME SM ....
Whiney reporter.....Will you feel bad if one of these people get harmed?
Pres Trump: (paraphrasing) ... these folks have made a LOT of money....they can pay for their own detail if they feel they still need it.
“these folks have made a LOT of money....they can pay for their own detail if they feel they still need it.”
Exactly.
Trump would put a golf club back in its bag and order the US military to whack Iranian facilities in return.
The esteemed FBI, CIA, and all the other wonderful intelligence agencies will have this covered.
If not, then they really have no intelligence, right?
How about he assigns the same secret service agents he had guarding him in that field.
Then they red to find a deep bunker to hide in.
There’s something particularly repulsive about a draft-dodger like John Bolton spending his entire career as a government employee and a lobbyist pushing for U.S. military campaigns all over the world — only to whimper and sh!t his pants when he loses his taxpayer-funded security detail and he ends up exposed to just a tiny fraction of the risks faced by U.S. soldiers who he was perfectly happy to send into harm’s way.
To summarize this article: Deep state fag hags haz a sad.
I’ll just point out two things:
1. These people HELPED Biden’s people pretty much give Trump a DEATH SENTENCE, but not defending him and by calling him a Fascist (or whatever language they may have used). That was the mindset that gave Trump two assassination attempts and nearly a life sentence in jail (due to his age).
2. They have PLENTY of money to provide for their own security, and I’m sure that any credible threats to them will be relayed to their bodyguards.
“Dead wrong.”
Might be bad taste to use a pun in this argument.
You sound like the Liberal Media.
John Bolton net worth: $18 million
Mike Pompeo net worth: $1 million
Tony baloney Fauci net worth: $12.6 million
They can hire their own security.
It would be win win for the left..
bury the bad guy (dead guys tell no stories) and blame trump for it.
They were never HIS officials; they were deep state plants that thwarted his every move.
Their safety is their own business. If the Trump Admin does it’s job, the Iranians won’t be a threat to them if they stay in the USA.
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