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Trump DNI Nominee Is Too Pro-America to Suit the Elites

  
Via:  XXJefferson51  •  5 years ago  •  22 comments


Trump DNI Nominee Is Too Pro-America to Suit the Elites
John Ratcliffe will not walk into the National Archives, take classified documents related to the 9/11 attacks, stuff the documents DOWN HIS FREAKIN’ PANTS, walk out of the building with the documents, and destroy them. John Ratcliffe will not sell firearms to Mexican drug cartels in hopes that those weapons will be used to kill Americans. John Ratcliffe will not send a cash payment of $1 billion to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, where those funds will be overseen and handled by a member...

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President Trump has finally given the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, the boot. The Trump-hating collusion kook (Turn)Coats was a Reince Priebus hire a couple of years ago, so this comes not a moment too soon.

Coats is currently slow-walking all of Attorney General Bill Barr’s Russiagate declassification efforts. He also helped John Bolton derail Trump’s North Korea peace talks last year, so there’s that.

Trump’s nominee to replace (Turn)Coats is Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-TX). Ratcliffe is an America First patriot, so that has the usual gaggle of elites upset.

From The Guardian, “US President Donald Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced but loyal partisan to become the director of national intelligence (DNI) is an attempt to ‘neutralise’ US spy agencies as an independent and objective voice on global affairs, former intelligence officials warned.”

That pretty much sums up the entire difference between normal Americans and Democrat elites right there. The heads of US intelligence agencies are supposed to be an “independent and objective voice on global affairs,” but being a “loyal partisan” is bad.

In their view, a Director of National Intelligence is supposed to view the interests of Muslim terrorists from Yemen and cannibals from Papua New Guinea as being equal to the interests of American housewives in Iowa, or coal miners in West Virginia. Being loyal to the President of the United States or representing the interests of America is bad, in the minds of these treasonous weirdoes.

It’s funny how those same standards are never applied to partisan Democrats who are nominated to intelligence positions by Democrats in the Oval Office. Leon Panetta, for example, served as Bill Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff in the 1990s. Panetta’s office was most famous for hiring a young intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky.

Panetta’s only lifelong experience related to “intelligence” was a stint in the US Army from 1964 to 1966, when he managed to avoid going to Vietnam. That lack of experience didn’t stop Barack Obama from nominating Panetta to run the CIA in 2009.

Here are three facts about Trump’s nominee John Ratcliffe: He’s one of the most conservative Members of Congress; Ratcliffe is no Louis Gohmert, but he’s as conservative as Ted Cruz on most issues. Ratcliffe has a very America First sensibility, as evidenced by the recent Mueller hearing. And Ratcliffe won’t be telling Attorney General Bill Barr, “Oh, sure, the Russiagate documents are in the mail. You’ll be getting them any year now!”  

Here are some educated guesses and predictions as to what John Ratcliffe will not be doing if the Senate approves him as President Trump’s next Director of National Intelligence:

John Ratcliffe will not walk into the National Archives, take classified documents related to the 9/11 attacks, stuff the documents DOWN HIS FREAKIN’ PANTS, walk out of the building with the documents, and destroy them.

John Ratcliffe will not sell firearms to Mexican drug cartels in hopes that those weapons will be used to kill Americans.

John Ratcliffe will not send a cash payment of $1 billion to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, where those funds will be overseen and handled by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood whose name just happens to be Roy Obama.

John Ratcliffe will not send shiploads of weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, use those weapons to arm terrorist groups throughout Africa, and urge those Muslim terrorist groups such as Boko Haram to topple democratic governments and impose Sharia law on majority Christian nations.

Likewise, John Ratcliffe will not urge foreign governments to donate to the Clinton Foundation to rebuild infrastructure in those destabilized African nations.

John Ratcliffe will not pay signing bonuses to every foreign fighter who enlists with ISIS and travels to Syria to attempt to topple the Assad government. In addition, John Ratcliffe will not authorize US taxpayer money to be used to pay monthly salaries to ISIS fighters in Syria. Or Iraq.

John Ratcliffe will not authorize US military helicopters to drop crates of cool, refreshing bottled water in the desert for ISIS fighters in the middle of a battle with the Kurds in northern Iraq.

John Ratcliffe won’t be doing any of those things. Those actions were all taken by “intelligence” geniuses who were appointed by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. John Ratcliffe’s biggest flaw, according to the Democrat elites, is that he’ll be loyal to the United States of America and to his boss, the elected President of the United States.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

“Trump’s nominee to replace (Turn)Coats is Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-TX). Ratcliffe is an America First patriot, so that has the usual gaggle of elites upset.

From The Guardian, “US President Donald Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced but loyal partisan to become the director of national intelligence (DNI) is an attempt to ‘neutralise’ US spy agencies as an independent and objective voice on global affairs, former intelligence officials warned.”

That pretty much sums up the entire difference between normal Americans and Democrat elites right there. The heads of US intelligence agencies are supposed to be an “independent and objective voice on global affairs,” but being a “loyal partisan” is bad.

In their view, a Director of National Intelligence is supposed to view the interests of Muslim terrorists from Yemen and cannibals from Papua New Guinea as being equal to the interests of American housewives in Iowa, or coal miners in West Virginia. Being loyal to the President of the United States or representing the interests of America is bad, in the minds of these treasonous weirdoes.

It’s funny how those same standards are never applied to partisan Democrats who are nominated to intelligence positions by Democrats in the Oval Office. Leon Panetta, for example, served as Bill Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff in the 1990s. Panetta’s office was most famous for hiring a young intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky.

Panetta’s only lifelong experience related to “intelligence” was a stint in the US Army from 1964 to 1966, when he managed to avoid going to Vietnam. That lack of experience didn’t stop Barack Obama from nominating Panetta to run the CIA in 2009.

Here are three facts about Trump’s nominee John Ratcliffe: He’s one of the most conservative Members of Congress; Ratcliffe is no Louis Gohmert, but he’s as conservative as Ted Cruz on most issues. Ratcliffe has a very America First sensibility, as evidenced by the recent Mueller hearing. And Ratcliffe won’t be telling Attorney General Bill Barr, “Oh, sure, the Russiagate documents are in the mail. You’ll be getting them any year now!””

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

U.S. Rep. Ratcliffe is a great choice by Trump to be our next DNI and the senate should immediately confirm him.  

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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2.1  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2    5 years ago
Rep. Ratcliffe is a great choice by Trump to be our next DNI

If they could have retracted Ratcliffe's head from Trump's ass he might have had a chance. Too bad he was spending all his time in Congress being the go to Republican glory hole to be respected enough to nominate as DNI. Perhaps if the job were "Director of National Ignorance" he would have been a shoe in.

 
 
 
luther28
Sophomore Silent
4  luther28    5 years ago

Trump DNI Nominee Is Too Pro-America to Suit the Elites

No he just is not qualified and in addition, he is a liar ( fits right in ).

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XXJefferson51
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5  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

Well the President just withdrew his nomination so this seed is a dead letter now. So now at least Coats is gone and the interim acting DNI will have more time to clean house.   

 
 
 
Split Personality
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5.2  Split Personality  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5    5 years ago

Another dreadful Trump appointment bites the dust...............

One can only wonder what the vetting found that actually forced THIS President's hand, lol.

Must be a doozy.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Split Personality @5.2    5 years ago

It was due to the MBFC approved lamestream media fake news. Might as well have a number of favored interim or acting people he likes back to  back through the election. 

 
 
 
Dulay
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5.2.2  Dulay  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.2.1    5 years ago
It was due to the MBFC approved lamestream media fake news.

So Trump caved to the 'lamestream media fake news'? 

All I can say then is that I hope they keep it up...

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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5.2.3  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Dulay @5.2.2    5 years ago

He gave the congressman the choice to avoid the MBFC media circus or plow forward and the congressman chose to remain in Congress.  He could finish his first term promoting acting interim persons that need no senate confirmation or to give up an existing job to do it. 

 
 
 
Split Personality
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5.2.4  Split Personality  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.2.1    5 years ago
Trump doesn’t just want to undermine consumer financial protection with Mulvaney; he wants to end-run the Senate and install unaccountable loyalists throughout the government by executive fiat. Across the government, acting directors who were installed without Senate approval are quietly dropping the “acting” title from their name , suggesting they have every intention of overstaying their legal welcome.

The Federal Vacancies Reform Act,  or FVRA, allows the president to install an acting leader of any federal agency or office where there is a vacancy. In the case of the CFPB, the debate is about whether the statute applies to the agency, whose specific line of succession would make Leandra English, the hand-picked deputy director , the acting director.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, sided with the president on Tuesday , refusing to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Mulvaney from office. English’s lawyers said they will push for a ruling on the preliminary injunction, which, unlike the temporary restraining order, they can appeal.

The CFPB fight is taking place against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s repeated violation of a FVRA provision that allows acting directors to serve only for 210 days, with the clock starting either when the vacancy is created or when a nominee is sent to the Senate for confirmation.

This is as true today as the day it was written. Trump cares not a whit about ethics or laws.

This amounts to an abuse of power and open hostility to the rule of law.

Acosta's resignation means Labor secretary added to list of Trump posts with 'acting' leaders

White House Chief of Staff


Mick Mulvaney, acting White House chief of staff.  (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Mick Mulvaney is officially acting chief of staff even though he has been in the job since January.

Labor secretary

Trump named Pat Pizzella as acting secretary on Friday after Alex Acosta announced his resignation. Acosta stepped down amid the furor over a plea deal he made more than a decade ago with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein , a sex offender charged with human trafficking girls as young as 14. Acosta was the top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida at the time.

Defense secretary

The department has been operating with an acting secretary since Jim Mattis stepped down at the end of December over differences with Trump. Patrick Shanahan served as acting secretary and was Trump’s pick to assume the position full time. But Shanahan withdrew from consideration in June after USA TODAY published a story that detailed an FBI examination of a violent domestic dispute in 2010 between Shanahan and his then-wife. The current acting secretary is Mark Esper .

Office of Management and Budget

Russell Vought became acting director of the agency after Mulvaney moved into his current position as White House acting chief of staff. Mulvaney still holds the title of director, but the White House refers to Vought as acting director.

Homeland Security secretary


Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan  (Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)

Kevin K. McAleenan has been serving as acting secretary since April, when Kirstjen Nielsen resigned amid tensions with Trump and others in the White House who felt she hadn’t done enough to stem border crossings.

Nominees no more: Trump’s picks for administration jobs keep dropping out

U.N. ambassador


Nikki Haley and President Donald Trump on Oct. 9, 2018, in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Jonathan Cohen has been serving as acting ambassador since Nikki Haley ’s departure at the end of December. Trump has nominated Kelly Craft, who currently is serving as U.S. ambassador to Canada, to fill the position, but she is awaiting confirmation by the Senate.

Federal Emergency Management Agency


Brock Long, former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, resigned earlier this year amid questions over his use of government vehicles to travel back to his North Carolina home.  (Photo: Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY)

Pete T. Gaynor has been serving acting FEMA administrator since March 8, following the resignation of Brock Long amid questions over his use of government vehicles and resources to travel back to his North Carolina home. Gaynor had served as Long’s deputy.

Federal Aviation Administration

Dan Elwell has been serving as acting administrator since Michael Huerta’s five-year term ended on Jan. 6, 2018.

Food and Drug Administration

Norman Sharpless has been acting administrator since April 5, replacing Scott Gottlieb , who resigned after two years as head of the agency.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The agency has been headed for the past two years by Loren Sweatt, who is acting assistant secretary of labor.

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Ann Marie Buerkle has been serving as acting chairwoman since Feb. 9, 2017.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services


Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services  (Photo: Molly Riley, AP)

Former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli has been serving as acting director since June 10.

Customs and Border Protection


Mark Morgan is acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection  (Photo: Cliff Owen, AP)

Mark Morgan, Trump's former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officially became acting commissioner in July, replacing John Sanders, who resigned amid a public outcry over how migrant children have been treated at the border.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Matthew Albence became acting director in July following Morgan’s departure for his new role as acting commissioner of Customs and Border Patrol.

Office of Personnel Management

Margaret Weichert has been serving as acting director since October 2018.
 
 
 
Dulay
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5.2.5  Dulay  replied to  XXJefferson51 @5.2.3    5 years ago
He gave the congressman the choice to avoid the MBFC media circus or plow forward and the congressman chose to remain in Congress.

Bullshit Xx.

Ratcliffe auditioned for the job, Trump nominated him thereby putting him in the spotlight and Ratcliffe couldn't hack the scrutiny, as is true for so many of Trump's nominees. 

 He could finish his first term promoting acting interim persons that need no senate confirmation or to give up an existing job to do it. 

Right. because Trump can't even get 51 GOP Senators to confirm his nominees. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6  seeder  XXJefferson51    5 years ago

Whoever is picked will not be an apologist for the deep state or of the establishment of either party.  

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
6.1  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6    5 years ago
Whoever is picked will not be an apologist for the deep state

You mean they won't be whispering secrets to wood nymphs or leprechauns? They'll make sure and keep an eye on the Gorgon but will be careful not to turn to stone? There is far more evidence of bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster than there is of a coordinated 'deep state'.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @6.1    5 years ago

The deep state is real. It’s a threat to our individual liberty and freedom.  Regardless though, we will all find out who Trump will nominate sometime tomorrow. 

 
 

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