NYT: Trump To Name Richard Grenell Acting DNI | Talking Points Memo

President Trump intends to name Ambassador to Germany and right-wing political operative Richard Grenell to the position of acting Director of National Intelligence, the New York Times reports.


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We went to war against Germany twice to save them from themselves.

Isn’t it about time they returned the favor?

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So, a real-life Nazi?

“Grenell is a longtime GOP political operative and former aide to Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) who made a habit of enraging the German government as ambassador in part due to his [stated desire] to “empower” the right in the country.”

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Sebby Gorky passed over once again…

Sad!

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Oh look, another Fascist in Trump’s transnational crime syndicate, masquerading as a government.

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shitshow

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Brilliant. Put a political hack in charge of the entire national intelligence apparatus of the United States.

Think Heinrich Himmler.

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What self respecting gay man goes to work for Trump right after he tells Rush Limbaugh to never apologize for his homophobic slurs against Pete Buttigieg?

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Least qualified person - acting or confirmed - to ever hold the job.

No background in or with the intelligence community.

Very little intelligence.

But he was a FOX contributor and must look good on TV … to Trump.

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My God. I thought Bolton was bad. This guy looks like an actual goose-stepping shit-heel.

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A white supremacist is gonna white-supremacist.

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Time for the IC to spill a few secrets, for the greater good.

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Once he gets the German right in power, they can slap a pink
triangle on him and send him to a concentration camp. Those guys don’t play around

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Susan Hennessey: of Lawfare: This should frighten you. Not just brazen politicization of intelligence, but also someone who is utterly incompetent in an important security role. The guardrails are gone.

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Just when I thought the word kakistocracy had left my brain, Trump sends it thundering right back.

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in the meantime, in Germany, an attack on a shisha bar:

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With people like this in charge Putin can, say, go into the Baltics and we’ll stand by sucking our thumbs.

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Just what I was thinking.
After all, if those are the job requirements, Jared’s enormous talents are certainly being underutilized.

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Isn’t this the guy that got fired or was asked to leave because he beat his wife and then recently came back? Or is that some other tRump lackey? Maybe not. I must be thinking of some other nazi tRump had employed. All nazis tend to look alike to me.

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He sounds nice.

s/

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