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Former senior FBI and intel officials say he is planning to attack democracy itself.As President Trumps primetime address to the nation on Thursday draws near, former senior FBI and intelligence officials told the Daily Beast that what he touts as a speech emphasizing the importance of free and fair elections will, in fact, be part of an attack on democracy itself.
Trump has announced a 9 p.m. Thursday speech, demanding TV airtimewhich they have yet to promisefor what he claims is a matter of national importance. But to those who have worked at the pinnacle of law enforcement, something else is afoot.
If I was still working a terrorism investigation and a network started coming together and getting into key positions and they started gathering the information and the materials that they needed to carry out a plot, those are things we would call warnings and indicators, a retired and profoundly worried FBI official told the Daily Beast.
The official said that when it comes to Trump, that is what is happening.
They detailed a growing list of warnings and indicators. That list is detailed, and specific. It was led by the replacement of Paul Brown as special agent in charge of the FBI Atlanta Field Office. Browns sin was to express reservations about the Department of Justices decision to investigate the 2020 election, which Trump insists was rigged.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-issue-bombshell-warning-on-trumps-attack-on-our-rights/
Scubamatt
(364 posts)for a strongly worded letter be sent to the White House. (sarcasm).
Ponietz
(4,767 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,854 posts)But from former federal agents.
relogic
(458 posts)This coup regime has effectively washed itself clean of where remaining, honorable people become former if they exercise honor.
FakeNoose
(43,475 posts)... because their replacements are Chump-humpers and MAGA-cultists.
The "Feds" who lost their jobs had career training, and a lifetime of service to Uncle Sam. Those are the ones I would believe, and prefer to listen to anyway. Political convictions are secondary to the truth of how Chump is destroying our government.
I'm glad they are speaking up ahead of this fiasco.
orangecrush
(32,126 posts)K&R
Cirsium
(4,354 posts)A couple of anonymous former government officials are worried about things the Trump administration is doing that were already public knowledge. Behind a paywall. With a misleading headline. Can't we do better than this?
orleans
(37,630 posts)Yes, I had already found it. I should have mentioned that and included a link.
NJCher
(43,932 posts)At the end, they mention more former federal employees.
Maybe you didn't read the entire article?
The last few paragraphs tell what's at stake. The way to read this situation is that he's petrified and he's floundering, doing whatever he can think of because the game's over for him if the Dems take the House back and Dog forbid, the Senate. Here's a quote:
The rest of their administration is frozen, he said. They get nothing done. No more of their agenda, nothing.
BlueWavePsych
(3,461 posts)
WorseDayEver
(55 posts)jimmy the one
(2,877 posts)Katinfl
(965 posts)FakeNoose
(43,475 posts)I think they're starting to figure this out ....

DemocracyForever
(464 posts)Trump is doing what W did in Florida in 2000. W knew he couldn't "win" Florida without stealing it. This is exactly what Trump is now trying to do with the midterms and there are now 6 radical GOP SCOTUS judges who'll let him get away with it.
FakeNoose
(43,475 posts).... he's sowing the seeds of doubt in the crazy MAGAs, and there's no evidence that any fraud will actually happen.
ultralite001
(2,909 posts)Complete w/ videos...
+ perhaps a few memes???