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reader1

(55 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:13 PM Jan 2021

Trump Pillow Man

Great another nut-winger aka Trump pillow guy is now busy advising him how to enact Martial Law.



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wishstar

(5,270 posts)
5. Axios just reported that Pence and Cipolone squelched the plan to make Kash Patel CIA director
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:35 PM
Jan 2021

Scoop: CIA director Gina Haspel almost resigned over plan to install Kash Patel as deputy

After the briefing ended and Haspel had left the room, Trump asked a small group of his senior aides what they thought about Haspel. Pence delivered a full-throated defense, calling the CIA director a patriot, praising her job performance and trying to reassure Trump that she had his back. Cipollone had also repeatedly defended Haspel to the president.
Trump abruptly switched course, deciding to call off the plan to install Patel. But there was one glitch: Just down the hall in the chief of staff's office, Meadows had already told Haspel that Patel would be taking Bishop's job.

Haspel responded with the flinty aggression she was renowned for. She said she wouldn't stand for it, and that she would resign before allowing Patel to assume a position as her deputy.
Meadows had presented it as a fait accompli, but this was not a decision Haspel would take lying down. And now Trump had changed his mind. Meadows had to swallow his pride and reverse the order

https://www.axios.com/kash-patel-cia-gina-haspel-757b92c0-82a5-457b-bde8-d0d683ee222e.html

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