Posted on 01/22/2025 6:05:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
When Republican Ohio Rep. Mike Turner was unceremoniously ousted as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) just ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, reports claimed that Trump had ordered Speaker Mike Johnson to orchestrate the shakeup. However, sources close to the decision-making process explained to the Daily Caller the real reasons behind Johnson giving Turner the boot.
In early January, Tablet Magazine published a piece that said Turner was boasting that he would be “taking over Trump’s IC [Intelligence Community]” by trying to get his staff director, Adam Howard, hired as the National Security Council’s senior director for intelligence. Tablet reported that Howard “is meant to be [Turner’s] instrument” in the position. Turner and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz both disputed the idea that Turner was influencing staffing decisions at the NSC.
“No one’s making personnel decisions outside of President Trump and his transition team. I mean, that’s it,” Waltz said in an exclusive interview with the Caller.
Regardless of its veracity, sources [...] told the Caller that the report is still among a range of factors that influenced Turner’s removal from the top post on the Intelligence committee. However, these sources explained, Turner would have likely still have been pushed out even if the Tablet report had never dropped.
With Johnson being reelected speaker [...], he has the opportunity to choose his own chairs for select committees, like HPSCI, without input from the steering committee. One of the biggest factors for Turner’s dismissal was the view of most of the Republican conference that Turner is “in bed with the intelligence community,” the Caller’s sources explained. Turner was considered to be more aligned with former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and, although Johnson and Turner got along personally, Johnson was looking for change.
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Crud RINOs.
Yep. Turner is a snake. He’s in the pocket of the big military contractors in Ohio and the IC.
by the Roots Mr. President. by the Roots.
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“the view of most of the Republican conference that Turner is “in bed with the intelligence community,”
The Republican conference is 100% correct.
Turner should wear flair on his suit with the names of the different intelligence agencies on it.
He should also wear a gold chain that says “No Such Agency—You Have No Need To Know”.
Lol.
Sounds like the same thing that got Vivek booted.
Trying to plant infiltrators inside of the Trump Admin.
Hope the rest of the RINOS get the message.
I hadn’t heard that. Do you have any link? Thx.
Thx for the heads up. I just found some articles on this matter.
Thank goodness he’s also so stupid to say the quiet part out loud and thus expose himself
I read the report in Tablet last year. I was surprised that Rogers owuld htink he was in line to remain a chairman.
I am thinking that Susie Wiles had a larger influence on his dismissal. She knows where the skeletons are buried, and which are gasping for notoriety.
Gwjack
It is stupid to boast a complete untruth.
Hope the rest of the RINOS get the message.
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I hope to see them stumbling out of their offices with a boot up their butt!
Hope the rest of the RINOS get the message.
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We need to do everything we possibly can to persuade those unaware, that the Marxist-Democrats and their RINO sycophants are the arch enemies of the precious freedoms forever enshrined in America’s founding documents, and that their ignorance is as dangerous to all Americans as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and possibly even more so!
Musk is an egocentric too, but he can get along with people.
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Egocentrism is a major character trait in the political world.
Sounds more like he’s just an egocentric who couldn’t get along with people
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May sound prejudicial to say it but I’ve been hearing comments for decades that our brothers from the Sub-Continent are naturally contentious and not easy to get along with.
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