Trump Threatens to Pull Clearance For CNN's Phil Mudd After Seeing Him on TV: He's 'In No Mental Con

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Trump Threatens to Pull Clearance For CNN’s Phil Mudd After Seeing Him on TV: He’s ‘In No Mental Condition’

President Donald Trump is adding CNN contributor Phil Mudd to the list of intelligence officials who might lose their security clearance for criticizing him.

Mudd, a former CIA officer, attracted a lot of attention last week over his explosive showdown with pro-Trump commentator Paris Dennard. The two debated whether Trump is using security clearance revocation to punish his foes, and Mudd blew up after Dennard accused officials like him of profiting from their clearance by securing media commentary positions.

As it were, Fox News’ Sean Hannity made fun of Mudd’s “complete meltdown” on his show tonight, and obviously, Trump was watching.

Just watched former Intelligence Official Phillip Mudd become totally unglued and weird while debating wonderful @PARISDENNARD over Brennan’s Security Clearance. Dennard destroyed him but Mudd is in no mental condition to have such a Clearance. Should be REVOKED? @seanhannity

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2018

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[htuttle]

1. He's asking Sean Hannity?

[highplainsdem]

2. According to stories earlier this year, he asks Hannity for advice frequently.

[Initech]

19. Someone needs to get a crowbar to pry Hannity's lips from Trump's ass

[dameatball]

28. Hannity may not be out of the woods yet either. (re: Cohen)

Hannity's ties with Cohen have sort of been overlooked as of late, but if Cohen was taping Trump he damn sure was also taping Hannity.

[left-of-center2012]

3. Hannity is Trump's #1 advisor

[paleotn]

30. Dumb and dumber

[left-of-center2012]

33. good one

[C_U_L8R]

4. He's now the arbiter of mental health?

Fucking loony toons.

[PatSeg]

9. It takes one to know one?

No one becomes totally unglued quite like Trump!

[Kali]

5. dingleberry the hairplug wants to talk about mental condition?

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Paris Dennard is a fool.

Phil Mudd did brilliantly against him in that debate.

[iluvtennis]

12. +++ agree Dennard is an idiot. I didn't see this segment, but in a year and a half that he's

been shilling for Trump, I've never seen Dennard do a cogent argument. Trump is unhinged.

[Marrah_Goodman]

13. I change the channel when I hear his voice

He is revolting.

[highplainsdem]

7. Gen. Michael Hayden's response to Trump's tweet:

Link to tweet

Phil’s a hero. Counter terrorism giant. I saw the same hit live on Friday. Saw it differently.

[Marcuse]

8. Somebody is looking for a job opening.

[YOHABLO]

10. Is there any doubt that Trump could not qualify for a security clearance on any level?

[Just Carl]

26. I doubt any of the Trump family members qualify

Security clearances for a traitor like him? He should be in solitary confinement in Leavenworth, KS with zero privileges granted.

[Grassy Knoll]

11. That Was Dumb, Steve Urkel Played The Fool...

Paris Dennard Didn't Destroy Anything But His Loose
Association With The Truth, Trump And Sean Hannity
Knew They Were Took To The Shed With That Segment
So The Have To Defend The Shit That Splattered All Over
Their Stupid Faces.

[Initech]

14. Our government right now is being run by a bunch of grade school bullies.

[rpannier]

15. I thought il douche didn't watch loser CNN

Lied again I guess

[fierywoman]

16. Oy-veh Spanky is projecting. Again.

[DemKittyNC]

17. Did Traitor'N'Chief

Delete the tweet? I do not see it on his feed anymore. Guess someone finally got to him enough to convince him that posting that is just one crazy too far?

[Mc Mike]

18. And tRump KNOWS mental stability.

[Firestorm49]

20. Really

An unhinged compromat with mental issues himself is calling someone else unstable? That would be funny if it wasn’t so SAD. Sad for the country, and sad for democracy.
We are perilously close to a game changer. The midterms are crucial, and again, conceivably rigged or influenced by Russians for the Repugs to retain control.

[DeminPennswoods]

21. Honestly, retired federal employees do not need to retain

security clearances. They just don't.

[obamanut2012]

22. Yes they do

They are often used as consultants for the Feds.

[DeminPennswoods]

24. That's exactly why they don't need it

Ensuring security clearances retire when the federal employee/political appointee does would put a quick stop to the revolving door from govt to private industry and back.

I'm a retired federal civil servant and I can assure you when the "consultants" needed information to give to the organization that hired them, they called me. There are plenty of civil servants left able to give the history of any particular action.

[handmade34]

29. see your point,

but... "ensuring security clearances retire when the federal employee/political appointee does" allows politicians like #notmypresident to keep things hidden...

[SWBTATTReg]

27. Good point, but I'm sure that there are tons of fed. workers who don't need the ...

clearances any longer. I've heard that over 4 million people have some sort of clearances...quite a few.

A ?...what if you learned something while having a high clearance, and then later, in life, you don't have that clearance any longer. They (the ones w/ the clearances before) may know something that they can only know if they had that original clearance.

So in effect, someone knows something that they no longer have the clearance for? Make sense? It doesn't to me.

[DeminPennswoods]

31. The entire federal govt classification system

is crazy. Not only do too many people hold security clearances, but way too much material is classified that doesn't need to be. I've held confidential and secret clearances and went through the top secret clearance process before the program that required it was canned. You can't really forget what you know and there are plenty of ways to discuss a problem involving classified material without disclosing actual classified material.

[SWBTATTReg]

32. Thanks for clearing up...I've heard that about the issuance of clearances, that the ...

whole process needs rework. I certainly understand the need for it, but as you say, too many things are placed into this category and too many folks probably have clearances that don't need it.

Thanks again for clearing up for me, take care!

[scarytomcat]

25. In this case some of these people need to testify in court

they may need to review their notes so they must get past security

[hughee99]

23. Mudd has already provided some cover for Trump

By saying that this wouldn’t intimidate him into shutting up and that his clearance has zero monitary value to him.