Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that the whistleblower’s complaint that prompted the House of Representatives to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions was the best documented he had ever seen.
At a minimum, it is witness retaliation
SOP for tRump.
Current Occupant calls for Clapper to be “taken care of” in 3,2,1…
“It actually conflicts with the spirit of the intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, because one of the purposes is to insulate complainants from retaliation. Clearly, this is retaliation threatened in the worst way.”
Oh, boy!!! Another article of Impeachment.
Donnie should just shut his piehole before he talks himself right into Leavenworth.
Trump’s trash. All the way to the bone.
I look forward to the depths to which he’ll descend - hopefully in one of his calls to F&Friends, so they can sit there trying not to look horrified.
He’s done, toast, politically dead man walking. He’ll try to drag this out but there’s basically no way he can survive this, it’s that bad. The only question is whether he lasts till the end of his turn, is removed, resigns, or croaks, which Repubs and minions are dumb enough to stick with him, and which ones get taken down along with him. Those are details, though. Main thing is he’s over.
Smart Repubs realize that if they don’t deal with this, they’ll pay a big price.
the purposes [of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act] is to insulate complainants from retaliation. Clearly, this is retaliation threatened in the worst way.”
Clapper seems to be implying that Trump violated the spirit and letter of the law. Color me (insert phrase of choice).
I think he is trying to provide preemptive protection for the character assassination that is just around the corner.
I like what Jennifer Rubin has to say here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/26/perfect-call-those-dense-enough-say-so/):
The reason Trump makes idiotic arguments (such as “Look, there’s nothing in the transcript!”) is that he knows there are people intellectually and politically corrupt enough to repeat them. In this case, that includes Vice President Pence, who declared in an interview on Wednesday that the transcript entirely vindicates Trump. By contrast, Trump suggests that the media start investigating Pence’s conversations with Ukraine.
In essence, Trump has to give Fox News, talk radio hosts, right-wing activists and lackeys in Congress something to say while the legitimate media is pointing out that Trump has committed impeachable offenses and was too dense to understand the import of his own words. (Did Trump even read the rough transcript? It’s a few pages long, so it is quite possible he did not.)
If you keep waiting for that moment when Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) or the comical Fox News hosts and panelists throw up their hands and say, “I can’t do this anymore! Trump is indefensible!,” do not hold your breath. Graham and McCarthy, as well as most of their Republican colleagues, have either lost the capacity or the will to think rationally and independently; they feel compelled to act like cornered animals facing the snarling teeth of the presidential monster they created. Trump’s media boosters, some of whom know better, are so dependent on their Trump-cult audience that they dare not betray any hint of independent and rational thinking. (Pretending to be as dense as the Trump cult must be demoralizing at some level.)
At this point, witness tampering seems almost quaint by comparison with some of the other charges.
It is time for the FBI to investigate because a credible threat has been made to the WH informant and by extension to the whistleblower!
Saying this again…Trump has been vocal about killing someone eg “I could shoot someone in 5the Ave and not lose a vote” and in the 80’s, Trump asked his then bodyguard/driver Matty, if he would kill for him!
Trump: “You’d do anything for me, wouldn’t you, Matty?”
Matty (bodyguard): “Yes, sir, Mr. Trump”
Trump: “Would you kill for me, Matty?”
Matty: “Yes, sir,”
So today’s implied threat should be taken seriously by the FBI and other authorities, Coverup General Barr should be recused!
Rudy’s complete meltdown is a precursor to what is coming with Trump.
Here it comes:
Trump said he knew that the CIA was listening. So that makes Trump the leak.
‘heavily populated call’???
Anyone believe he wrote this? That’s not a term he would begin to understand.
Look, I’d say from your mouth to God’s ears, but I don’t think even God can penetrate the layers of case-hardened stupid that surrounds his base, or the willful blindness by the elected officials around him, or the apathy / ignorance of the mushy middle.
@iamsmartypants At this point, witness tampering seems almost quaint by comparison with some of the other charges.
Well, perhaps it’s another one we can boil down to one sentence for the people who don’t get the rest of it. “Trump wants to kill a person who’s devoted their life to your safety because they decided to uphold their oath of office.”
I was waiting for Clapper to comment. Thanks!
“At a minimum, it is witness retaliation,” Clapper said."
Yeah. And our president is a cheap, low tier thug. Just a criminal.
Don’t mess with the CIA.