At the top of his manifestations of Maga, Donald Trump liked to mix it when he reached his promise that pleased the multitude of “making the United States great again.” I would shout white filling variations while building at the end. A favorite: “Make America sure again!”
Rota promise.
Mere weeks in their return presidency, Trump's innumerable movements are causing Americans to be less safe at home and abroad. (Supermarket prices are not lower either, but that is a broken promising column for another day).
Opinion columnist
Jackie Calmes
Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. She has decades of experience covering the White House and Congress.
Consider this self -inflicted security danger to begin with: in the Department of Justice and The FBITrump Toadies are executing their revenge for their previous legal problems when firing, degrading or reassigned and potentially thousands of career employees throughout the country who, to all stories, have centuries of experience in national and foreign extremism. And yet, former FBI director Christopher Wray, who resigned instead of being fired, repeatedly warned that Extremists are a superior threat.
Fuhgedabotit: The supine Senate is expected by the Republicans soon To confirm Kash Patel as Wray's successor, a loyal to Trump who sees the president's political enemies as the real danger. Republican senators are in the tail even though Patel could lie, under oath, during their confirmation hearing. Even when the purge was under the agents assigned to the cases of documents now generated from January 6 and classified against Trump, Patel was testifying that there are no FBI employees “will be canceled for cases assignments.”
They reminded me The scene In “The Godfather” juxtapone to Michael Corleone in the church because of the baptism of his nephew, turning the ritual responses about the baby while his gangsi moved throughout New York City to execute his rivals.
Similarly, Patel's upper future, Atty. General Pam Bondi was barely confirmed last week, last week, created a “Weapons Working Group” in the Department of Justice to process prosecutors and investigate investigators in Trump cases. As the FBI agents association objectUsing Trump's own words, purges are “dangerous distractions” of work “for the United States to be safe again.” Nice.
FBI agents used to monitor terrorist suspects reportedly They are being reallocated to Bondi, make Trump's remuneration team or to help the Department of National Security to Deport to migrants. Personally, I prefer that the government monitor militia groups, lone wolves, children's traffickers and some of the VENSTATIVE JANUARY 6 that Trump forgave (one of whom was also convicted of Cosft to kill the FBI agents) that the federals spend a minute migrants of plants, construction companies and housing.
Pay attention to the Republican of a lifetime William H. Webster, the only person who serves as director of the FBI and the CIA and, after September 11, president of a National Security Advisory Council to Presidents George W. Bush, Obama and Trump. Still in flames at 100, Webster admonished last week to the President of the Judicial Committee of Senate Charles E. Grassley of Iowa to help kill Patel nomination in the committee.
“This administration intends to destroy the FBI and avoid the rule of law,” said Webster in the letter, which they gave me. “I urge you,” he added, “to consider the risks for national security, the integrity of the office, and the security of the US people [emphasis mine] Before allowing this nomination to continue without control. “
The complicity in the destruction of the FBI “would not be a legacy that I would like,” webster to Grassley told. But apparently the 91 -year -old Grassley is fine. He announced that his committee would vote on Patel maybe later this week.
Here is another new threat to the safety of Americans: thanks to the un chosen and not Vettel co -chair of Trump, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the best corporate well -being receiver in the United States, the packages of young and young musk mice And not veterans have been invading federal agencies and IT systems. . Are Obtain access to personal and tax data Of millions of Americans, including social security beneficiaries, Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Contracts and Student Loans.
Much the same purge and rupture It is happening in the CIA and other intelligence agencies that protect Americans from dangers abroad. CIA agents have been identified in emails not classifiedputting “a direct goal on his back for China,” said Virginia Senator Mark Warner, Top Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee. When pushed by the doors there are officers fluently in Arabic, Russian, Chinese and more, a cohort with essential skills that led the agencies to build.
Meanwhile, on the way of confirmation as director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former congressman who, as Trump, has previously rejected Intel in favor of the Kremlin conversation points, will be responsible for the daily informative session that is destined for the president . What could go wrong?
And, of course, there is Trump himself: the decimation of the United States Agency for International Development. For six decades, that humanitarian office under the State Department has enjoyed the bipartisan support to its contribution of “soft power” to the global security and goodwill of the United States. Through its relations in 100 countries, including problematic points, USAID has also been an early alert system for risks abroad.
As the retired Marina James N. Mattis famous Congress warned in 2013: “If you do not completely finance the State Department, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.” He reiterated that message years later as the unhappy Trump Secretary of Defense, only a good advice that Trump rejects, to our danger. The same with Mattis' Pitch to maintain American alliances: “In history, nations with allies prosper, nations without them die.”
Trump has moved away the allies, including Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Panama with their imperialist teasing. However, nothing has it inflamed the worldand especially the Tinderbox of the Middle East, as its call to take gaza, expel 2.2 million Palestinians and build a “Riviera”. Trump's DHS himself “sent a chilling message” to the police in all reported.
We should all feel the cold. Make the United States safe again? Not so.
@Jackiekcalmes
