Ex-Homeland Security Chief ‘Deeply Frustrated’ With Giuliani

Former White House National Security Advisor Tom Bossert said on Sunday that he’s “deeply frustrated” how Rudy Giuliani and the rest of President Donald Trump’s legal team keep pushing the DNC server hack conspiracy theory.


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Bossert resigned one day after John Bolton was let go…aka fired.

ETA: Big mistake on my part. Bossert resigned one day after Bolton was hired, not fired. Thanks to @pshah for catching that.

All the exes are gonna distance their sorry asses now from what’s happening in tRump’s den of thieves. Just watch which ones have problems with what’s happening and which ones don’t. I think it will tell us a lot as time goes on and the hearings get fully underway.

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I can agree and understand that it is deeply frustrating when you are trying to care for a mentally disturbed person. One sure doesn’t that kind of interference.

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United States of Banana Republic.

Wish Woody Allen was not such an asshole. This would have been the perfect time for him to make Bananas II: The Trumping of America.

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Bus tires, meet Rudy.

Rudy, meet bus tires…

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The President has a sticky mind. It’s full of dead flies and leaves.

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The Whistleblower Complaint Form BEFORE August 2019 @ https://web.archive.org/web/20190416145617/https://www.dni.gov/files/ICIG/documents/ICIGHotlineForm.pdf

The Whistleblower Complaint Form AFTER August 2019

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Jim Jordan “TAG YOUR"E IT”. OUCH !

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“Jim Jordan looks like a schoolboy getting scolded by the school principal. Look at his body language, he’s hunched over trying to appear small because he should be embarrassed about what he’s saying. Republicans have ZERO honor or integrity!!!”

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They’re following psychological theory aimed at their followers: never recant, never back down, never concede an inch. They are deeply cynical, deeply corrupt people.

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Mr. Bossert sounds/appears to be and should be an important witness at Dim Don Ugh’s impeachment trial.

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My understanding is he left the day after Bolton took the job at NSA, presumably because Bolton wanted his own people.

Bossert goes back to the George W Bush Administration and has a strong background in cyber security. No doubt it must chafe him when Trump/Guliani deny that obvious fact that Russia interfered in our elections to advance their interests. A conclusion endorsed by literally every single American Intelligence agency.

However, his opinion that there was no quid quo pro on that July 25 phone call render his judgements suspect and quite naive for a former NSA, in my view.

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Conspiracy theorists love these obviously fabricated denials.

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Bossert’s complaint reminds me of a comment about Ronald Reagan’s advisors, that they spent increasing time battling to win some ground in the president’s limited mental real estate.

Trump’s mental real estate is as limited as Reagan’s but far more treacherous: Bossert, Bolton et al were battling with the rest and lost; that’s all.

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” —Octavia E. Butler [emphasis mine]

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Trump is very practiced at this. Bribery, even the kind that people get convicted of, is very seldom overt and blatant. It sounds like Trump on the phone.

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Dementia is more than memory loss.

Memory loss is a classic dementia symptom. But some types of dementia, particularly frontotemporal dementia and Pick’s disease, manifest themselves as personality changes rather than memory loss.

The symptoms depend on the areas of the brain that is affected by the disease. Even when memory loss is the most apparent symptom, the person with dementia is experiencing a neurological decline that can lead to a host of other issues.

A patient may develop difficult behaviors and moods. For example, a prim and proper grandmother may begin to curse like a sailor. Or a formally trusting gentleman may come to believe that his family is plotting against him or experience other delusions and hallucinations.

In the latest stages of most types of dementia, patients become unable to attend to activities of daily living (such as dressing and toileting) independently. They may become non-communicative, unable to recognize loved ones and even unable to move about.

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Duh only be as dumb as you need to be. The addition to the DNI WB form (BTW, previously it was claimed to be an extensive deletion; can’t you keep the conspiracy straight? No pay for you!) is for the IG’s investigation. The IC IG would obviously need to know if info is 1st or 2nd hand. The law makes NO distinction about 1st, 2nd, 3rd…

Go away troll. You second link to current form doesn’t even work but I have looked it up myself.

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No provable collusion, because they called it “adoption” and “that thing” and “Barr’s birthday present”.

Trump colluded. We’re not stupid.


Russia, if you’re listening…

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…and speaking of Tutti-Frutti-On-Rudy, Giulianally - to the surprise of no one with a sentient brain - went bonkers again on ABC this morning:

I am so thankful that Our Favorite President has found his new Roy Cohn.

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Wasn’t that a hoot? Translation: The president has no critical thinking skills and only remembers stuff that, you know, “gives him a liddle’ rise.” So Rudy keeps feeding him the blue pills and it’s not Trump’s fault he eats them up.

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Sad’.

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