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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday threatened to strip six former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials, including Obama-era CIA director John Brennan, of their security clearances as President Donald Trump considers striking back at critics of his summit meeting last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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golden sloth said:

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B.A. Bearacus said:

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At some point we may have to consider a self-imposed ban on referencing Trump's tweets, which of course is impossible because they are his primary way of communicating to the country and sometimes sound like they are helping instigate war. That said, with tweets like this, I just feel like dude just needs to be ignored in order to not shorten our lifespans with unneeded stress from his utter stupidity/desperate attempts to distract and gaslight.

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He is just laying the groundwork to invalidate the midterm election results if it falls in the Democrats favor. He was doing the same thing with the 2016 election, only the culprit was illegal immigrants.

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golden sloth said:

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B.A. Bearacus said:

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At some point we may have to consider a self-imposed ban on referencing Trump's tweets, which of course is impossible because they are his primary way of communicating to the country and sometimes sound like they are helping instigate war. That said, with tweets like this, I just feel like dude just needs to be ignored in order to not shorten our lifespans with unneeded stress from his utter stupidity/desperate attempts to distract and gaslight.

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He is just laying the groundwork to invalidate the midterm election results if it falls in the Democrats favor. He was doing the same thing with the 2016 election, only the culprit was illegal immigrants.

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bearister said:

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I repeat, if he works the Stars and Bars part of his base into a frenzy with this nonsense, and then gets impeached, the National Guard may have to put a few of them down.

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concordtom said:

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I just had a few thoughts that has sent me into a panic:

1) Rather than Mueller being some savior who is going to eventually blow the lid off Trump and his cohort, what if Mueller is a schill who is merely filling the opposition role so that another hope does not fill it, and he will wait until the 2020 campaigns are at their peak to announce his findings, which only maintain that Trump has done nothing wrong, it was all just an empty bag with complete minimal problems? This would put great wind in Trump's sail and he ends up getting re-elected. Oh, **** !

2) if I were Putin, I'd be doing all I could to put hard pressure on Mueller so that he does not blow the lid off Trump. Who's to say that Mueller's family isn't threatened, individually, in a way that is not concrete but has Bob thinking, "hey, wait a minute..."
what would the mob do?

3) how do we know that the voter tallies in the key states were not manipulated in a way that gave Trump the electoral college win? How do we know that couldn't happen in 2020?
When people brought up that possibility in 2016, i thought, no way. But now, these guys are so off the hook, I'm starting to think it could have happened, or will happen.

Seriously, I just listened to Sessions and Trump speech highlights from earlier today. It's all such a bunch of flicking ballshift! I can't believe these people can say this stuff and get away with it. It's like the insane Stephen Miller has a bullhorn for his crazy verbal inventions. It's frightening and very angering. Revolution!

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Another Bear said:

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Trump is an incompetent imbecile but even he and his knuckle-dragging staff had to realize Putin visiting D.C. before the election was just dumb. Too bad because Putin in D.C. before mid-term election would have sealed a few deals.

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Sen. Claire McCaskill, one of the 2018 midterms' most vulnerable Democrats, appears to have been a Russian target, per reporting from the Daily Beast.

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B.A. Bearacus said:

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This photo.

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