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Michael Hayden Warns: Impeachment Would Be Viewed as ‘Soft Coup’
Big Government ^ | 8/24/18 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 08/25/2018 5:49:30 AM PDT by markomalley

Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), warned Thursday that impeaching President Donald Trump would have unintended consequences and could further delegitimize the intelligence community.

Hayden, a frequent critic of President Trump, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton that he believes “impeachment would be a bad idea.”

“If President Trump is somehow forced to leave office before the end of his first term, one-third of America will believe it was a soft coup conducted by people, well frankly like everybody here at the table would be their view,” Hayden said. “I think the only way we move beyond this in any way that’s healthy for our democracy is we vote,” the Obama-era intelligence official added.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bucksexton; coup; coupplot; hayden; jamescomey; krystalball; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; michaelhayden; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; smearmachine; thehill
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To: Shady

What a hero in his own mind that little Cuomo is. Too bad some of the Untouchables era guys can’t reduce his little big man stature a peg or two.

I thought banks were run by GOP business moguls who secretly kept minorities and liberals down. Guess they collapse like a house of cards if someone pressures them about gun ownership.


181 posted on 08/25/2018 4:11:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

We cannot let that happen. We can’t allow America to go under while we are here.


182 posted on 08/25/2018 4:12:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Mariner

4 idiots shut down 2 major cities, one for weeks, the other for a weekend.


183 posted on 08/25/2018 4:13:00 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: markomalley

That’s the way I like my coups, nice and soft. Soft coup .... WFT?


184 posted on 08/25/2018 4:14:58 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: elcid1970

spark gap baby yeah! Flood the spectrum. The words is going out if you ever vote to impeach Trump as an elected official over this Russia crap you have no idea when and where someone is going to retaliate against your despotic ass. In a country of half a billion fire arms and 330 million people is that something you want really want?


185 posted on 08/25/2018 4:25:10 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: JonPreston

Perfect fix.... and while not all will respond with weapons...some will, and that means “its on!”


186 posted on 08/25/2018 4:26:15 PM PDT by Heff
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To: markomalley

Just a word of caution to those who will try to remove Our President...

There’s an ARMY of us that will not let that happen.

Just sayin’.


187 posted on 08/25/2018 4:30:32 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Pollster1

Agreed. And they are fellow Americans even though they seem to hate this fact.


188 posted on 08/25/2018 4:36:53 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“I say to the American people, all of them, you have no choice but to make certain that on this upcoming Mid-Term election cycle, to cast your votes for all “535” Republican Senator & House of Representative candidates to insure that both The Senate & the House remain firmly in Republican control.”

Only a third of senators are voted on each two years.


189 posted on 08/25/2018 4:38:49 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

I am sorry, you are correct...I should have noted “435” House seats and about thirty or so, Senate seats.


190 posted on 08/25/2018 4:51:27 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: jhastey

...day at the gallows or guillotine.”

Yes, today’s events in America make understanding the French Revolution much easier.

Donald J. Trump won the election, those with TDS need to now move on and like Hayden said vote.


191 posted on 08/25/2018 5:10:16 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Sixty-Three million Americans voters & more remain firmly in the POTUS Trump’s corner.

Many MORE now, 1 1/2 years in. Don’t we all know peeps who were on the fence, now firmly behind DJT?

You bethcha. VOTE...… VOTE and get your friends and relatives to vote for Republicans.

A MUST.


192 posted on 08/25/2018 5:15:57 PM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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To: rfp1234

Spend the day among junkies and psychos that know you make decent money. Sounds like fun.


193 posted on 08/25/2018 5:27:02 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: WaterWeWaitinFor

We need a nationwide Get Out the Vote Campaign (GOTV), like right now. RNC Chairman, Ronna McDaniel...get with the program. Forget your silly GOP survey mail-outs...contact every registered Republican in the entire USA via, mail-outs, TV ads, radio, ads, telephone calls, billboards, social media ads, etc, and they must vote come election day November 6, 2018.

Bottom line: No impeachment ever of POTUS, Donald J. Trump and even better, the political destruction of the Democrat Party for many years to come.

Note: The early voting in the state of Florida which has now just about ended except for a very few counties reveals the Democrats are badly trailing the Republicans in the early voting process. The Democrats are just not showing up to vote, especially in Miami-Dade and Broward County. we shall see those full results next Tuesday evening when the primary election votes come in. Go, Trump. Go Republicans, MAGA!!!


194 posted on 08/25/2018 5:30:26 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Jim Noble

may be 30 traitors among GOP in Senate to vote against Trump….


I would not argue against you.

Everyone is listening to an inner radio all day, every day: WIIFM (What’s In It For Me).

Lindsay Graham would say, “After my makeup artist finishes with me I’ll be right in there to vote against Trump.”

Will President Pence be the new Gerald Ford or surprise us and firmly take charge to attack the enemy? Any psychics out there to predict for me?


195 posted on 08/25/2018 6:07:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End noncitizen & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Sooth2222

#15. A charging mob of leftist women and men-hating lesbians, all armed with dildoes and armadildos, is a frightening thing to behold.

However, it is war and while I would like to wait to see “the whites of their eyes”, I prefer a longer range shot to stop the first couple of waves in their tracks.

My son was a sharpshooter (qualified at 1,000 yards) in Iraq and my son-in-law was a Marine ground pounder/enemy pounder in Kosovo and Iraq. They both prefer different ranges and some heavier weapons for effect.

However since you can’t own a Vulcan minigun (damn it), we have to settle for the legal stuff and just fire as fast as a Vulcan. (Saw a Spooky in action at night while having dinner in Saigon. Would not like to have been the recipient of that fire).

And just to make the fight against Leftist women fair, we would also be armed with back-up rolling pins, frying pans, and fish-filleting knives. The poor bastards.

Tally ho and once more into the breach!


196 posted on 08/25/2018 7:16:30 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: markomalley

Blah, Blah, Blah. I’m still waiting for Articles of Impeachment to correspond with the explicit Article and paragraph in the Constitution. Talk about nothing there.


197 posted on 08/26/2018 2:08:45 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: CMailBag

yep, already 80% complete, no justice system, slow fall to tyranny, then it is too late


198 posted on 08/26/2018 4:46:14 AM PDT by aces
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To: PA-RIVER

There was 20 million hunting permits passed out last year.
How’s that for a sniper team:)


199 posted on 08/26/2018 10:37:39 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: markomalley

Some things to consider... People who are overly proud won’t pay much attention to this.

* There are many millions of people of northwestern European descent in the United States, and they haven’t been replaced, yet. This country is different from third world countries in that important way.

* In some situations, ingenuity and sophisticated tactics could be much more common than expected.

* Anti-American people could suddenly lose mobility and be rather confined.


200 posted on 08/26/2018 12:13:31 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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