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johnny9fingerswww.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/08/trump-removes-secret-service-director-homeland-security
Wherein we find that:
"Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will remove the Secret Service director, Randolph “Tex” Alles, from his position, as one anonymous official described “a near-systematic purge” at the Department of Homeland Security."
The pretext for this is apparently border security and catching a Chinese lass with dodgy equipment and computer viruses in the Donald's private resort, the latter of which appears to be a success - they caught the lass, after all.
Now I guess he will have to purge all the Intelligence/Security Services under his jurisdiction. Then he can ensure there are no challenges to his narrative of events.
As we now know (ahem) there was no collusion; just folk joining in with the chorus because it is so catchy.
And when Trump has purged the security services and put his own folk in place I guess he will be the one dictating how the history of these events is told from here on in. Excepting of course that he can't change the people in the rest of the Five Eyes network, and they all know what's been going on.
I predict the Five Eyes network will have to get dismantled as well, because I doubt Trump can persuade the other security networks not under his jurisdiction to forget all the info they have on him and his election. If he throws the Five Eyes network under a bus to preserve his version of events we will know just what sort of patriot he is.
Wherein we find that:
"Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will remove the Secret Service director, Randolph “Tex” Alles, from his position, as one anonymous official described “a near-systematic purge” at the Department of Homeland Security."
The pretext for this is apparently border security and catching a Chinese lass with dodgy equipment and computer viruses in the Donald's private resort, the latter of which appears to be a success - they caught the lass, after all.
Now I guess he will have to purge all the Intelligence/Security Services under his jurisdiction. Then he can ensure there are no challenges to his narrative of events.
As we now know (ahem) there was no collusion; just folk joining in with the chorus because it is so catchy.
And when Trump has purged the security services and put his own folk in place I guess he will be the one dictating how the history of these events is told from here on in. Excepting of course that he can't change the people in the rest of the Five Eyes network, and they all know what's been going on.
I predict the Five Eyes network will have to get dismantled as well, because I doubt Trump can persuade the other security networks not under his jurisdiction to forget all the info they have on him and his election. If he throws the Five Eyes network under a bus to preserve his version of events we will know just what sort of patriot he is.
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Date: 2019-04-09 12:03 pm (UTC)The Republicans are putting up with Trump because he is helping them stuff the courts with conservative judges.
The rest of us are not putting up with him, but sadly, there is no one obvious alternative candidate and even more sadly, the various candidatorial options are bashing one another. Also, the stock market continues to do well and the unemployment numbers (though I don't entirely trust them, having trained myself as a policy wonk and knowing how understaffed all those statistics-generating agencies now are) continue to drop. So, it's unclear what will happen in 2020.
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Date: 2019-04-09 12:55 pm (UTC)One thing you can say is that the Donald appears to be remarkably fortunate in the way things just fall into place for him. Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. The Republican Party appear to have a lucky incumbent at the moment.