Biden should take advantage of his immunity and order the FBI to run security checks on all of them including Trump and JD and then send the results to everyone on the Hill.
I suspect this to be the case as well. I am profoundly disturbed by the overall lack of alarm amongst the intelligentsia thus far. Snark and flippancy seems to be the upper boundary of their critiques and "analysis".
I pray we don’t have a major situation with our national security or heaven forbid another pandemic becuase this cast of yes men and misfits are going to doom this country unlike any other cabinet we have ever witnessed
Highly unlikely, the stars are aligned for a complete and total replacement of existing corrupt system of government, he just the wrecking ball, we have to come up with a better system to replace the wreckage, question is how?
If you have sources, such as a highly placed individual in a country like Russia or Iran, you sure aren't going to want to risk them being compromised.
My guess is, this will be a nightmare for U.S. intelligence services. Especially since we rely heavily on our exchange of information with our allies.🔥
Wait a minute ….. isn’t Trump a convicted felon, with a substantial amount of foreign entanglements? The orange traitor himself, couldn’t come close to even getting a security clearance.
From the naive and uninitiated,me: Maybe he needs to be stopped where possible and, more importantly, we need to preserve the powers and resources to pick up the pieces when opportunity arises.
Not being sarcastic...but what will stop Trump from simply ordering cleared career civil service to share classified info with whoever he says to regardless of eligibility?
And half of America won’t give a shit. I had to go through a security clearance for the army and seeing how deep they go it should make everyone happy when one is done.
Wasn't there a report that came out shortly after the election that Trump was "suggesting" that he may skip the whole background check process, Mr. Nichols?
They're not a dare. None of them would ever pass clearance, but their man got elected to power and he can clear whatever he wants.
At this point, they can sit in the next room and he can pass all the docs to them and say it's all been declassified because he gave it to them.
Relax. Putin very strongly and very forcefully denied any of them are a NATSEC threat so there's no reason to think that they would be. It's the FBI who lies.
We all died and went to Hell would be an absurd idea. Right?
C'mon man. I need some confirmation here.😓
He doesn’t care. He is literally beating our system of government over the head with a bat, until we yield. He’s going to continue over and over and over again. He detest this country. He’s not going to stop. Americans, need to understand the security risk we are facing.
Agree. It is crazy how many Trump national security picks would not have passed a background clearance check. This is crazy! No ally is going to share good information with us anymore. This is going to put America at risk and make us blind!
As a political writer, what is your opinion on organized general strikes and million person coordinated marches. Our side has yet to get the attention of this country.
They’re gonna do whatever the hell they want because they have been reassured over and over that our system of checks and balances can be easily gamed, even ignored, without consequences.
He could always just direct the relevant authority to clear them, though. Except for AEA items I don't think the clearance process is legislatively set?
Given that they gave Kushner a clearance back during the first round of this nonsense, I imagine they’ll all get their SF86s rubber stamped right on through.
Yeah. Tulsi Gabbard will be a "NO", and Trump will fight that. The others would be a "NO" and Gabbard a "H*LL NO WHAT WERE YOU SMOKING?" He's hoping to wear people down, :/
Tom, how the fuck is it legal to go around the FBI for the vetting process? I know he'll be the President on 1/20, but Joe Biden is NOW the President. These fuckin' nutcases will soon have their hands on Top Secret info and I'm sure intelligence sharing with our allies will soon dry out I bet.
I knew it was going to be bad, but it has become clear to me over the last few days that I lacked the imagination necessary to see just what a shitshow it was really going to be 🤯
Jesus… Gorka will act as the deputy assistant to the president and as the senior director for counterterrorism. That’s not even a Senate confirmed position, right?
Hegseth has made statements that it was beacause of a particular tattoo. But he is also motivated to throw out a red herring the base will gobble up in this attention economy.
It's a clown show. The GOP used to be full of serious people but McConnell opened the gate for the Tea Party and the cranks and weirdos flooded in and took over.
As much as it’s fun mocking Trumps appointments, I want to give a cautionary tale. I worked in a company with all new, mostly under qualified people and a disaster struck. The consequences were near fatal for the company.Trump is playing roulette that nothing catastrophic happens.
Comments
No FBI background checks, no security clearances.
He's going to do what he wants and dare Republican Senators and Reps to defy him.
And he will try.
Its massively scary from a national security standpoint to think that he may go that route again.
More the Merrier for the Red Moscow to figure out..
This is almost denial of service attack 😂😂
NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE DEAD.
+1 of whatever. God help us.
At this point, they can sit in the next room and he can pass all the docs to them and say it's all been declassified because he gave it to them.
We all died and went to Hell would be an absurd idea. Right?
C'mon man. I need some confirmation here.😓
I'm thinking the health care peeps are feeling the same way you national security peeps are feeling.
Trump's North Star on hiring decisions 👇
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/officials-rejected-jared-kushner-top-secret-security-clearance-were-overruled-n962221
Ya..
More than any other policy, Schedule F is the greatest threat to the actual mechanics of our functioning society.
Dysfunction guaranteed.
We ALL should be concerned!!!
Badges?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/21/2287839/-We-Can-Stop-Trump?_=2024-11-21T11:19:50.000-08:00
Seb Gorka!
We're all gonna die!