Politico: Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who defied him on whistleblower complaint
The president informed Congress of the move in a Friday-evening letter to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
President Donald Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, who was the first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he received from an intelligence official involving Trump’s communications with Ukraine’s president.
Atkinson's decision set in motion the congressional probe that culminated in Trump's impeachment and ultimate acquittal in a bruising political and legal drama that consumed Washington for months.
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WNU Editor: Sending this letter to US Senate minority leader Schumer two weeks ago in the middle of a global pandemic that is going to kill hundreds of thousands of lives was probably the straw that broke the camel's back .... (click here for letter). More here .... 'A searing time for whistleblowers': Ousted intel watchdog wrote private letter to Schumer (Politico). In any other past administration Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson would have been fired immediately. The fact that he is trying to resurrect President Trump's and Ukraine President Zelinsky's phone call and the impeachment fiasco that followed in the middle of a global crisis impacting billions of people is bewildering. But what is even more bewildering is that it took President Trump this long to fire him.
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Trump defends firing intelligence community watchdog -- CNN
An intelligence post, obviously a comment job for Secret Squirrel!
ReplyDeleteTrump’s overall job approval rating has settled back to very close to its normal net negative range of (-5). Trump’s approval rating is split 47%/52%.
ReplyDeleteAs the crisis deepens, Trump’s numbers are worsening. Trump voters believing that he was unprepared for the virus is not the same as a statement that they will not be voting for him in November, but for a candidate who became president based on 80,000 votes in three states, the argument that he was unprepared for the worst public health crisis to hit the country in the last century creates a huge opening for Joe Biden to swing enough of those voters to make Trump a one-term president.
Trump’s numbers are bad. The Trump bump was a mirage, and it possible that his approval numbers could hit George W. Bush during the financial crisis lows in the months to come.
In your dreams.
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ReplyDeleteDid Fred Link a PoliticsUSA story, but did not want to take credit for putting it on the thread?
www.politicususa.com/2020/04/04/trump-is-crashing-and-burning-with-his-own-supporters-in-new-coronavirus-poll.html
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