Posted on 01/26/2020 7:03:45 PM PST by bitt
Former national security adviser John Bolton was advised to purge potentially biased holdovers from the Obama administration from the Trump White House, according to a top Republican in Congress.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes said on Thursday that he warned Bolton, whom Democrats want to testify in the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump, of an anti-Trump spying operation by members of the National Security Council. The California congressman also said he told H.R. McMaster, who preceded Bolton, and Robert O'Brien, the current national security adviser, to take steps to cull what he called a "den of thieves."
"I have said this over and over and over again. I said this to McMaster, I said it to Bolton, and I said it to the new national security adviser, O’Brien, that they just need to get all those people out of there," Nunes told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "If you were there and worked for Obama and you were a holdover, just, you know, get a used building somewhere on the other side of the Potomac. Just get them out of there. They have done so much damage to the presidency. I couldn’t agree with you more."
Carlson asked why it appears to be so difficult to remove these officials when a new president is elected and a new government is set up, to which Nunes replied, "I have no idea."
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Do what the boss(Trump) would do: FIRE them on the spot.
Someone ought to investigate DemocRats and see if they have any ties to the United States.
“...purge potentially biased holdovers from the Obama administration ...”
That should have happened on Day Two of the administration taking control.
Security clearances should have been yanked, and boot applied to asses on the way out the door.
Ruthlessly.
The RATs made replacing staff difficult by delaying appointments in the Senate. They maximized the time it took to push them through .
My general rule of thumb is to never trust anyone whose mustache is a different color than their hair.
This is exactly why you can’t try to be nice. The other side is evil and plays for keeps.
Hopefully Robert O'Brien will start the cutting!!!!!!!!!!
If Bolton plans to criticize Trump, I wish someone had told him to cull himself from the herd too.
Bolton had began the culling process ... Fiona Hill got the boot...and Richard Hooker....
I have NEVER understood, and NEVER WILL understand why Republicans are so aFRaid to fire Democrat holdovers?
Clinton and Ophonybama holdovers have cost Republican Presidents and the USA dearly!
It is not too late, President Trump! Fire them all!
That’s the problem, he didn’t for some insane reason. If you are a member of another party’s administration, after he got elected, his first act should have been writing 30,000 or more pink slips thanking them, and warning that any material of property damage, they will be prosecuted.
Bolton had began the culling process ... Fiona Hill got the boot...and Richard Hooker....
... Since Bolton’s arrival in April, several NSC officials his predecessors had hired, including Mideast NSC officials Joel Rayburn, James Sindle, and Mike Bell, have left, as the National reported last week. Politico reported on Friday that Bolton has removed another NSC staffer, Jennifer Arangio of the international-operations office. ...
Sounds like the infestation was just very deep....
“congressman also said he told H.R. McMaster,“
Well that is laughable McMaster was one of them.
I hope future Republican administrations are paying attention.
They aren’t afraid. They want them there.
Check 14...
Now how many people has Nunes and his fellow Senators sent packing? So far talk, talk, talk, they even went pretty soft on their staffer who was sleeping with the press.
Why would you task John Bolton to do something about snakes when John Bolton is himself a snake?
On my watch, those firings would have been immediate, followed shortly in the weeks ahead, and radiating outward from that adress, with every other such creature in every agency throughout DC.
Absolutely love our President, but allowing those enemies within the gates has been a grevious error that's at the root of all the Derp State sedition ever since.
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