CNN: Trump Thinking Again About Tapping Unqualified Ratcliffe To Be DNI

President Donald Trump is reportedly circling back to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), one of the President’s most outspoken supporters in Congress, as a possible candidate for the position of director of national intelligence. It wouldn’t be the first time.


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Ratcliffe had little experience or even interest in matters of intelligence

A perfect match for Trump.

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The palefaces are circling their wagons again.

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The headline is misleading. Trump “thinking” never happens, so “thinking again” is also false.

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FFS. Is there ANYONE out there in the Cons World that is COMPETENT? Or is the problem there is no one competent that will suck Donnie’s … whatevers?

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I sometimes consider that having completely incompetent people in these positions is less damaging than having someone who actually knows enough to be really dangerous.

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Nevertheless, he persisted to appoint another RAT called Ratcliffe again!

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Pick your doctors this way, Donald. I can’t encourage you enough to do that.

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We’d be in better hands with Rufus T. Firefly as the DNI nominee.

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Trump thinking? Fake news.

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If Trump keeps this up, pretty soon he WILL be the smartest one in the room.

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We’d be better off if Trump flipped through the DC phone book and randomly chose a name for DNI.

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Absence of intelligence experience seems to be the primary criterion Dump is using to select these people.

Or is it absence of intelligence, per se? Both.

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Calling donaldtrumPP, urgently need at the helm of the ship of state.

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CNN: Trump Thinking Again About Tapping Unqualified Ratcliffe To Be DNI

From that look on his face, I’d venture to guess that Chiselin’ Trump has already “tapped” him.

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Yah, actual skill in doing a job these days in the trump administration is seen as a detriment.

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“Where’s my Robert Hichens?” he demanded.

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((closes front door))
Welp, that otta take care of it.

Seriously there isn’t much I can do at the moment to keep this bug away beyond having my wife quit her job and us stocking up on food at water and hunkering down and waiting for a vaccine. But that is clearly over reacting.

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̶D̶e̶b̶b̶i̶e̶ ̶R̶e̶y̶n̶o̶l̶d̶s̶ Molly Brown urged lifeboat passengers to start rowing to keep warm, and Hichens protested, declaring that he was commanding the lifeboat, and he made a move to stop her. “I will throw you overboard if you interfere,” she told him in this account.

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“Rather than going through months of slander and libel, I explained to John how miserable it would be for him and his family to deal with these people,”

He did not tweet this. This is a Kellyann lie. 45* has never thought about another human being or their family in his entire life.
Ever.

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