Clapper: "Badge Of Honor" When Trump Attacks Me, John Brennan, Hayden & Comey
Source: RealClearPolitics
Trump specifically called out Brennan and Clapper in the interview with Jeff Glor of CBS News that aired Wednesday night. He called Brennan a "total low-life" and that Clapper had gone "haywire."
"In the past, no, I have no confidence in a guy like Brennan. I think he's a total low-life. I have no confidence in Clapper," Trump told CBS News.
Trump's comments inspired Clapper to go on CNN late Wednesday evening to respond to the attack.
"It's reached the point, and I think I'm speaking for my case and John Brennan's. It's almost a badge of honor when the president sees fit to go after individual private citizens. And I think I can speak, as well, for all of us to say -- and I include Jim Comey in this," Clapper told CNN.
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Read more: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/19/clapper_badge_of_honor_when_trump_attacks_me_john_brennan_hayden_and_comey.html
Video at the link.
Wwcd
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(42,660 posts)Link to tweet
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I really wish more people would read the large body of psychological research into right wing authoritarianism. It would give them a much better understanding the authoritarian right are driven by a kind of militant collective tribal narcissism rather than being unwitting fools.
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I would add paranoid to this description, because everyone is against them: militant collective tribal paranoid narcissism
highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,660 posts)you are as tireless as any of us on DU
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)ffr
(22,644 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,715 posts)ffr
(22,644 posts)Bumper sticker material.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)The book is awesome and it describes his long & exemplary career in the military and in the US intelligence services.
For a bone-spurs whining creep like Cheeto to belittle Mr. Clapper, Mr. Brennan and the others is an outrage. It's because of these courageous and self-sacrificing patriots that the rest of us can sleep well at night. Thank you for your service Mr. Clapper!
BumRushDaShow
(127,270 posts)go batshit crazy when they have finally had enough!