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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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This president, however, may well believe that “national emergency” is a set of magic words that does allow him to do exactly that
—rob Congress of its powers and imbue him with them instead.Certainly, he has taken that view in other contexts,
from the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants
to the deployment of troops to U.S. cities
to his signature tariffs,
on which he was recently rebuffed by the Supreme Court.Trump also said in January that he regrets not seizing voting machines after his 2020 loss.
That gambit would also have relied on an invocation of a national emergency
—at least according to the copy Politico obtained of the draft executive order some of his more advisers were urging him to sign in December of that year.But how exactly would Trump attempt to pull this off?
That’s where the draft order on which the Washington Post reported may prove revealing:
The document ends with a series of directives, including to the director of national intelligence,
to revise the threat assessment in a separate, existing EO from 2018
—intending, presumably, to apply the legal analysis and stated authorities therein to new ends.This order, entitled “Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election,” does what it sounds like:
declares a national emergency to deal with the threat of foreign interference in elections,
then creates a process for imposing sanctions on individuals and governments found to have interfered.
President Joe Biden extended the order,
and his administration eventually did apply its penalties to Iran and Russia.This administration
—whether or not it has an emergency declaration in mind
—appears to be hunting for a foreign interference emergency of its own.The Washington Post’s story on the draft order mentions Chinese meddling,
but, as Lawfare’s Renée DiResta has written,
the administration and its allies have been busy chasing conspiracy theories about malign activities by other states too:
from Venezuela rigging the vote using Dominion voting machines;
to a Spanish election software company hosting “real” vote tallies;
to operatives in Italy remotely switching votes using military satellites;
to South Korea shipping fraudulent ballots with bamboo fibers in their paper into the United States;
to, finally, China hacking machines.Ticktin’s theory involves a plot among China, Venezuela
—which he said “was not just exporting cocaine and fentanyl, but [also] exporting election results to 72 different countries”
—and Serbia.The very woman who would be responsible for a formal threat assessment,
Director of National Intelligence #Tulsi #Gabbard,
last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico’s voting machines on the off-chance they’d been hacked by Venezuela.#Kurt #Olsen, one of the Trump officials in attendance at the election deniers summit—with whom Ticktin told us he had been in touch—reportedly pushed the narrative.
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Iran War Puts Tulsi Gabbard, Regime Change Critic, In An Awkward Spot
https://misryoum.com/us/trending/iran-war-puts-tulsi-gabbard-regime-change-critic/
The former Hawaiʻi congresswoman was an outspoken critic of U.S.-led regime change wars. Then she went to work for Trump. Perhaps no other person in President Donald Trump’s cabinet has been more outspoken against war with Iran than his...
#Iran #War #Puts #Tulsi #Gabbard #Regime #Change #Critic #Awkward #Spot #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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Iran War Puts Tulsi Gabbard, Regime Change Critic, In An Awkward Spot
https://misryoum.com/us/trending/iran-war-puts-tulsi-gabbard-regime-change-critic/
The former Hawaiʻi congresswoman was an outspoken critic of U.S.-led regime change wars. Then she went to work for Trump. Perhaps no other person in President Donald Trump’s cabinet has been more outspoken against war with Iran than his...
#Iran #War #Puts #Tulsi #Gabbard #Regime #Change #Critic #Awkward #Spot #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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"What we already know about Jared #Kushner: Just 2 days after leaving the WH, he had a $2B deal with the Saudi's, and in the ensuing years has been paid $112M despite showing NO PROFIT."
BUT #HunterBiden's Laptop! 🤦
#Tulsi
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/jared-kushner-emerges-as-focus-of-intel-whistleblower-complaint-about-gabbard-2487036483928 -
#aussie #bees #teddybear enjoying the sunrise and some #tulsi #basil #flowers #wildlife #bundjalung #country
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Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.
“We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”The president has no power over federal elections,
and the US constitution is not ambiguous on the matter.
Article I, section 4 of the document gives states the power to run elections.
Congress, the constitution says, can pass nationwide rules for federal elections.Nonetheless, Trump and his allies have suggested the president may still be able to wield some kind of emergency power to take control of the electoral process.
“The president’s authority is limited in his role with regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States
– as I think that we can establish with the porous system that we have,”
#Cleta #Mitchell, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally said on a podcast interview last year.
⚠️“Then, I think maybe the president is thinking he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.”Declaring a national emergency unlocks about 150 statutory powers for the president, including things like shutting down radio stations, suspending certain military regulations, and to sanction foreign countries.
But none of those powers “even come close to giving the president any authority over elections”, Weiser said.
“The president has zero emergency powers over elections.”The concern about the president using emergency powers has only been amplified by the presence of #Tulsi #Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at the Fulton county raid.
Gabbard, whose presence as an intelligence official on a domestic matter has caused widespread outrage, is said to be investigating voting equipment and foreign interference.Among others, Gabbard is briefing Mitchell and #Kurt #Olsen, another lawyer who was involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the election, on her investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Mitchell declined to comment on those briefings, but said she understood Trump’s comments to be more about the need to change federal voting laws.
“All of the election statutes need significant revision, updating, and reform. And many of us are working on that,” Mitchell said in an email. “Clearly there are far too many election officials nationwide who treat the law as optional suggestions. And have instituted procedures that are contrary to law. That happened in spades in 2020 and is all too common every election. Sloppy, poor administration and intentional disregard of basic statutory requirements. We see it everywhere.”There is no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020 or in any other election.
The White House press secretary, #Karoline #Leavitt, has framed Trump’s comments similarly.
Trump subsequently undercut those efforts to downplay his comments,
criticizing Democratic cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta, saying:
🔥“If they can’t count the votes legally and honestly, then somebody else should take over.”Beyond unspecified actions to take control of state election processes, there are other pathways for Trump to try to interfere in the election process.
#Steve #Bannon, the influential conservative personality and former Trump strategist, has called for Trump to deploy ICE agents at the polls.
Such an effort would violate a federal law that prohibits federal troops from being at the polls “unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States”.
❌“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November.
We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again,”
Bannon said on his podcast on Tuesday.
“And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”The Trump administration has already shown its willingness to use emergency powers to try to expand the president’s authority.
Last spring, the Trump administration invoked the
💥"Alien Enemies Act",
an 18th-century law that allows the government to deport immigrants without full due process.The United States, the government argued, was subject to an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Federal judges have since blockedthat order and expressed skepticism it is a legitimate invasion.
Trump has also claimed he has emergency powers to impose tariffs, though the supreme court appears poised to reject that argument.Part of the reason Trump is talking about nationalizing elections now may be to try to get the public to accept an idea that is obviously illegal.
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#PuppyKillerNoem has company.
#Tulsi Gabbard is also playing the "If I go down, I'm taking you with me" Blame T**** game:
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Tulsi Gabbard against unprecedented Obama and ‘Osbournes’ Cultural Impact: Morning Rundown star-news.press/wp
,Tulsi Gabbard against unprecedented Obama and 'Osbournes' Cultural Impact: Morning Rundown star-news.press/wp, 2025-07-24 11:03:00 Elizabeth Robinson #Tulsi #Gabbard #unprecedented #Obama #Osbournes #Cultural #Impact #Morning #Rundown
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I #transplanted some free #tulsi #plants too. With one baby cucumber plant.
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I thought it was clear to everybody, but maybe not.
To restore checks and balances, the Legislative Branch must reclaim the power to oversee the Executive Branch and remove all the criminals from that branch through the impeachment process.
The only other option is American Fascist Dictatorship.
#SignalGate #Dolts #Morons #Hegseth #Waltz #natsec #Tulsi #Fascist #FascistTakeover #MAGA #impeach #impeachment #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #NoKings
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The Greatest National Security Threat Our Nation Has Ever Faced Is Named Donald Trump.
He must be impeached, convicted, and removed immediately.
#ImpeachTheFascist #SignalGate #Dolts #Morons #Hegseth #Waltz #natsec #WMD #Tulsi #Fascist #FascistTakeover #MAGA #impeach #impeachment #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #DoSomething #NoKings #FireTheClown
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Yes.
The Orange Dolt should be impeached, convicted, and removed for this along with J.D. Vance
and the new POTUS should fire all the idiots and nominate mentally stable and mentally competent professionals to do those jobs.
#SignalGate #Dolts #Morons #Hegseth #Waltz #natsec #Tulsi #Fascist #FascistTakeover #MAGA #impeach #impeachment #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #DoSomething #NoKings
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Republicans have been incompetent lying morons for a long time. They are walking National Security Risks. They must be impeached, convicted, removed and or fired immediately.
#SignalGate #Dolts #Morons #Hegseth #Waltz #natsec #WMD #Tulsi #Fascist #FascistTakeover #MAGA #impeach #impeachment #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #DoSomething #NoKings
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Gabbard reverses course on key intel-gathering tool as nomination teeters
News: Former Rep. #Tulsi #Gabbard (Hawaii), who is Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
is changing her tune on a key intelligence-gathering authority she once sought to repeal as her Senate confirmation hangs in the balance.
Gabbard’s past criticisms of #Section702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act have emerged as a central issue in her confirmation process,
leaving GOP senators — including some in leadership — increasingly skeptical about the former Democrat’s confirmation prospects.Section 702 of FISA authorizes the targeted collection of foreign intelligence information from non-U.S. persons located abroad.
In her first public comments since being nominated, Gabbard told us that she now supports Section 702,
-- saying the program is “crucial” and “must be safeguarded to protect our nation while ensuring the civil liberties of Americans.”
“If confirmed as DNI, I will uphold Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights while maintaining vital national security tools like Section 702 to ensure the safety and freedom of the American people,” Gabbard said.In private meetings, senators are questioning Gabbard about legislation she introduced in 2020 that would repeal Section 702.
However, Gabbard now appears to be walking that back, citing Fourth Amendment protections implemented since then to prevent the incidental collection of Americans’ data
If confirmed as DNI, Gabbard would need to certify the statute annually in order for intelligence collection to continue under the 702 program.
Next steps:
Gabbard’s public statement is likely to reassure Republicans who are on the fence about her nomination.
But there are a handful of other issues that have come up during her meetings with senators,
including her views on #Ukraine,
as well as #secret #visits to Syria and Lebanon while serving in Congress.There’s also the fact that Gabbard’s foreign policy views are anathema to defense hawks.
Gabbard isn’t expected to get any Democratic votes,
so she can’t afford to lose more than a few Republicans.Senate GOP leaders were hoping to schedule Gabbard’s confirmation hearing for next week,
but paperwork-related delays have caused that to slip,
likely into the following week.The Intelligence Committee is instead starting with former Rep. John Ratcliffe’s nomination to serve as CIA director.
https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/gabbard-changes-stance-on-section-702/
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If you live in Pennsylvania, call Senator Fetterman's office and tell him to stop enabling fascists.
#Hegseth #Tulsi #TulsiGabbard #Gabbard #Stein #SamStein #FascistEnablers #uspol #uspolitics #Confirmation #resistance #FascistTakover
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I don't know enough about Stefanik to comment on her, but taking the time to meet well-known friend of the Butcher of Damascus and agent of the Russian Despot, gives the fascist scum an appearance of legitimacy that they absolutely do not deserve.
Fetterman is enabling fascists.
#Tulsi #TulsiGabbard #Gabbard #Stein #SamStein #FascistEnablers #uspol #uspolitics #Confirmation #resistance #FascistTakover
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John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into #Sebastian #Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for
👉counter-terrorism chief, as a “#conman”
whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement”.
But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.
The arch-conservative, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump’s picks,
including former Democrat and Iraq veteran #Tulsi #Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he “wouldn’t have him in any US government”.Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation’s The Hill that up until Gorka was nominated by Trump as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counter-terrorism, he would have said that Gabbard’s nomination “was the
💥worst cabinet appointment in recent American history”.Bolton’s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called
“a far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America’s counter-terrorism strategy”.Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.Gorka also claimed that Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
He’s come under fire for showing up at Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the
⭐️Hungarian nationalist organization #Vitézi #Rend
and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, #Viktor #Orbán.Bolton said Gorka “needs a full FBI field background investigation” and his “education claims” need to be investigated.
“I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told the outlet.
“He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants. …
“He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions, he wants Gorka to say ‘yes, sir’, and I’m fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/john-bolton-sebastian-gorka-counter-terrorism-chief?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Gabbard nomination puts Senate GOP in a bind
Former Hawaii Democratic Rep. #Tulsi #Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
is on record calling for the U.S. government to “drop all charges” against #Edward #Snowden,
wanting to repeal key intelligence-gathering tools
and sometimes embracing Russian talking points regarding the wars in Syria and Ukraine.That’s even before examining Gabbard’s foreign policy views,
which are far outside the mainstream of American political discourse
— and even further away from the center of gravity in the Senate Republican Conference.
It’s presenting a unique challenge for Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That panel — which is responsible for processing Gabbard’s nomination — is stacked with hawks on both sides of the dais.
Trump’s choice of Gabbard is in keeping with his desire to completely overhaul the federal bureaucracy.
But GOP senators are already indicating they’ll be interested in probing Gabbard’s controversial and often outright hostile posture toward the very intelligence apparatus she’d run if confirmed.The Snowden praise is particularly troubling to lawmakers,
the vast majority of whom believe the NSA leaker caused irreparable damage to U.S. national security.
Snowden is now a Russian citizenhttps://punchbowl.news/article/senate/gabbard-nomination-senate-gop-in-bind/
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#tulsi gabbard
#seditious domestic terrorism
#the 'new' republican party
#tre45on
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This #tea. My goodness. Instant relaxation and feeling of calm happiness. Great night's #Sleep. #Tulsi #Ashwaghandha #Cardamom #Chamomile #Peppermint #Shankhpuspi #Brahmi (no affiliation whatsoever with this brand!)
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I tried to watch the #HouseCommitteeHearing on the #WeaponizationofGovernment and it’s a clown show. #Tulsi Gabbard and Jonathan #Turley have testified. 😂
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I tried to watch the #HouseCommitteeHearing on the #WeaponizationofGovernment and it’s a clown show. #Tulsi Gabbard and Jonathan #Turley have testified. 😂
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I tried to watch the #HouseCommitteeHearing on the #WeaponizationofGovernment and it’s a clown show. #Tulsi Gabbard and Jonathan #Turley have testified. 😂