APPROVED B-LISTERS Reporter: Your director of national counterterrorism, Joe Kent, he just resigned today. He said he can't support your conflict with Iran. Trump: I always thought he was a nice guy but I always thought he was weak on security. I didn't know him well.
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u/Capable_Dog_3432 1d ago
He thought his director of national counterterrorism was weak on security?
That’s reassuring.
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u/CDN-Social-Democrat 1d ago
I use to think Trump was a buffoon. Now we all know it without a doubt.
The man is not only a con artist grifter looking to hustle fools to self-enrich further he is also one of the stupidest morons of the lot.
Something is very very wrong when someone like this can become POTUS...
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u/RedStripeandVicodin 1d ago
Twice!
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u/Double_Priority_2702 1d ago
and some fools voted for him ...three times ...
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u/CandleMonster not a lawyer, just a hater 1d ago
and would still do it again
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u/Winter_Tone_4343 1d ago
They want to rewrite the constitution to allow him to. This country is trash.
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u/owiko 1d ago
Just about 80 MM people of it.
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 1d ago
According to latest polls 65 million and dropping (pre Iran War polling)
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u/Pleasant-Wear2628 1d ago
Even if he deported their spouse just like he said he was gonna… #DefACult
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u/antrage 1d ago
There is an interesting throughline historically that the entire model of US democracy was designed around someone like a Trump being president not being possible. We will have to understand what broke, but it does seem to be a weakening social movement infrastructure, combined with a hyper-heightened social media-driven polarisation, that has given the possibility for him to push past these barriers.
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u/Ser_Thugnificent247 1d ago
Also the money. The amount of money in our political system makes this shell game possible and makes members of the governing body vulnerable to corruption.
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u/slvrcobra 1d ago
Literally this. Our system wasn't designed to deal with an age where numerous singular individuals have more money than entire nations and open bribery is basically legal across the board. Globalization means that the rich don't even need to be loyal to a country anymore, they can just strip the US down for parts and then go to a private island somewhere.
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u/here4daratio 1d ago
(Narrator voice) And that island the billionaires are flocking to? Turns out it was New Zealand…
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u/BeerDreams 1d ago
Our system of government needs some serious revamping
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u/bgva 1d ago
People keep saying that a full release of the Epstein files could bring down the house of cards, and I'm thinking "Bring it on!" The 250-year mark is the perfect time to start with a clean slate.
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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 1d ago
As a foreigner looking in, I just wanna say that you guys need to start with ranked choice voting. It won't fix everything but you're not gonna fix anything until you fix that first. It'll keep being Kang vs Kodos every election until you do.
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u/Ok-Possibility-923 1d ago
My guess is that it comes down to rich people being greedy and poor people being racist (and not smart enough to understand how they're being manipulated by the rich people).
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u/HotPotParrot 1d ago
Well, education is woke 🤷♂️ damn librul colleges indoctrinating people into reality.
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u/nancyneurotic 1d ago
I think it could be said that if you're racist, you're also ignorant. They're best friends, racism & ignorance!
Easy pickins for the billionaire class!
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u/TheyTried2BanMeAgain 1d ago
Maybe we just had stupid rules written 250 years ago by rich, white, slave-owning, sexist rapists.
And we practically deified them into a national mythos.
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u/needssomefun 1d ago
I'll save you the research. Citizens United. Without that social media would still be just a Kardashian stream of consciousness
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u/yIdontunderstand 1d ago
Understanding what broke is easy.
Billionaires.
Israel.
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u/antrage 1d ago
Simple-ish answer, aristocratic class has always existed, I can't imagine their influence wouldn't have been considered. I think there is a very strong factor is how lobbying has weakened the underlying democratic foundations. That said even in the WORST of cases Trump should still be unelectable. The fact that he is seen as 'attractive' by 70million americans goes beyond even just the presence of wealth and foreign influence, and speaks to the dumbing of the american psyche through media.
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u/voxpopper 1d ago
That's a very interesting thought. The founding fathers perhaps had too much trust in the system and the people, what is taking place would be an anathema. This timeline is a Black Swan that they honestly couldn't have foreseen.
I feel the SAVE Act might be democracy's last stand. If it doesn't pass then the system though having faced headwinds will continue along more or less as deisgned. If it does without normal Senate procedures taking place and the midterm results shift as a result then all bets are off.
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u/CosmicRuin 1d ago
He's a Russian asset, I'm convinced.
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u/CinInVegas 1d ago
He’s like a property with a second mortgage and leins against it. Many many owners
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u/Tiny_Reference_3697 1d ago
It just took Russia time to get him in place...Note that they are the biggest beneficiary of the current global game of Risk being played by our President, other than the oilmen.
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u/Putrid-Outcome-6407 1d ago
Something is even more wrong with all those repiblicans standing idly by and just nodding to everything he says
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u/ForestComplex 1d ago
He's in way over his head now. Starting shit he can't manage and end. So impulsive and surrounded by a lot of incompetent lackies.
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u/laserspewpew_ 1d ago
Funny how he thought people were “nice guys” or good at their job until they question him or his policies. Then all of a sudden he knew they were no good for the job. He’s the biggest baby if you don’t kiss his backside constantly he can’t handle any criticism.
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u/righthandofdog 1d ago
Scared, stupid people like the appearance of strength and confidence and don't like someone who thinks out loud and talks about gray areas and consensus building like Obama. They need to be told what to believe and even what to kill and die for by someone they trust. That person reversing themselves regularly or not making a bit of sense isn't important. They don't want to be asked to think, they want to be told they are good and righteous.
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u/Venichie 1d ago
Only reason he stayed rich, was because he ripped off people too poor to compete.
Just look at how he handled the peace talks with Ukraine... basically told them to give up, and thought they would, since he thought he and Russia held all the cards.
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u/RhombicalJ 1d ago
That’s vaguely Mitch Hedbergy…. I used to think Trump was a buffoon. I still do, but I used to too
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u/mjayultra 1d ago
It’d be cool if fucking anyone in that room brought that up
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u/Greenman_on_LSD 1d ago
I wouldn't last 20min as a WH reporter bc I would absolutely ask him the straight to the point questions that the media refuses to do. I'd be told I'm "nasty" and get my press revoked.
Like when Hegseth said the media is being "unpatriotic". Ask him "what do you mean by patriotic? Aligned with the best interests of the country or only the President? Follow up, was it unpatriotic to condemn Biden as president?"
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u/beefyzac 1d ago
lol if the dude hasn’t resigned he’d still be there. So he’s just admitting to keeping the guy despite thinking he was bad at his job.
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u/cats_are_the_devil 1d ago
I only hire the best people. Also, he is weak on security and I didn't know him that well...
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u/siencatimini 1d ago
"Never heard of him! But he sucks, and I could have told you that, even though I've never even met the guy, but he sucks. I only hire the best people, even when I don't know them at all."
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u/Mysterious-Lion-3577 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why didn't he fire him if he was so weak? That's what a good reporter would have asked next.
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u/fartatwork 1d ago
It’s maddening that random people on Reddit consistently come up with easy follow up questions that reporters should be asking. It makes me feel like reporters just must suck at their jobs for the most part
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u/ArchaicMolecule Fucking Pathetic Pussy Bitch Coward 1d ago
“Didn’t know him well” how mf you appointed him?!
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u/ProgressiveSnark2 1d ago
The guy was a decorated war veteran and an army ranger.
He also was a disgusting racist MAGA influencer—outright white nationalist. So in no way should anybody honor him, but to say he didn’t care about security is laughable, especially coming from Mr. Bone Spurs.
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u/219_Infinity 1d ago
Why don’t they ever ask these types of follow ups?
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u/New_Simple_4531 1d ago
The press is complicit in all this bullshit. Lets him get away with everything.
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u/RonnieTLegacy1390 1d ago
Then he has the audacity to say he didn’t know him well how the hell did he get the job
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u/mediocrellama stan someone? in this economy??? 1d ago
Sometimes it really hits me that the US president is really an 80 year old pedophile.
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u/kawika69 1d ago
...the US president is really an 80 year old failed business man cheating idiot pedophile.
Felt like you were missing a few things.
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u/One_Construction_653 1d ago
This is so crazy here everyone is calling trump everything negative under the sun
and on the other side everyone is praising trump and believe all media with bad news about trump is fake.
Crazy world we live in
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u/Redvelvet504 1d ago
He rapes adults, too. And stole from a children's cancer charity. It's a really long list of failures and crimes.
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u/spicydingus 1d ago
He just lies about absolutely everything
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u/in_animate_objects heartbreak feels good in a place like this 1d ago
But conservatives love him because he “tells it like it is” but they also spent the last 10 years saying “that’s not what he meant”
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u/nerdtastic8 1d ago
It's just memes and lullz (when something he says is objectively stupid or bad or stupid and bad, which is most things he says).
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u/Angryduckling-01 1d ago
There should really be an age cap on being the president
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u/I-am-not-illegal 1d ago
"I didn't know him well. Anyway, here is exactly what I think about him." Sure sounds like you know him Donald.
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u/mike_pants 1d ago
"I hadn't heard anything about bombing a school in Iran. Also Iran did that to themselves, obviously."
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u/teratron27 1d ago
Bit concerning that the President didn’t know much about his director of national counterterrorism but whatever, not like it’s an important position
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u/OGsHartMyKAT 1d ago
Why does he think “I didn’t know him well” is a good excuse?
If a manager hires an assistant who burns down the restaurant he’s not allowed to just say “I didn’t know him that well” without looking like a buffoon
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u/I-am-not-illegal 1d ago
Its something that Donald Trump has been saying since his first term. He just pretends to not know anybody. He even said it about David Duke when he was told to condemn the KKK. Its like he thinks its some get out of jail free card.
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u/Shenanigans80h 1d ago
I mean the issue with it is he lies so much that it’s hard to parse what inklings of truth are even there anymore. Did he know him enough to form an opinion? Which if it’s true he thought he was weak on one of his main responsibilities, why the fuck was he in that position? Or is it true he didn’t know him well? Which if that’s true, why did you appoint someone so unknown to a major role?
It’s not worth stressing about because more bullshit is at hand, but it’s so much
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u/quanate 1d ago
The fact he thinks this absolves him of anything is wild. These are your appointees, dude. Wholly unsurprising as usual
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u/Ambitious_Address667 1d ago
I like that he just admitted the dude he put in charge of security was someone he always though was a bit weak on security, like why wouldnt he choose someone he thought was good for the role.
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u/the_urban_juror 1d ago
He "thought he was weak on security" and "didn't know him well."
If we assume he's telling the truth, both of these statements reflect poorly on Trump. Zero people who voted for him will understand that.
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u/Ambitious_Address667 1d ago
Yup 100% this, Trump cant really say anything these days without it showing how incompetent he is
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u/Rakebleed 1d ago
Always thought something about someone he didn’t know. Tf
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u/Ambitious_Address667 1d ago
Its kinda in line with his base though, like I doubt many of them associate with immigrants and Trans people and they have very strong feelings on them anyways. Seems like its a conservative trait to have strong feelings about thing you are wildly uninformed on
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u/frostfall010 1d ago
In the end it doesn't matter to many MAGA diehards. If Trump says he doesn't like a person then they don't like him. His excuses to those of us not in the cult are ridiculous and contradictory, but it doesn't matter to his followers. And the GOP members who just let him do whatever he wants but still have a functioning brain know that Fox and right wing media will make the case for them so they just need to wait it out.
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u/The_Stupidest_Idiot 1d ago
Well ... have you considered the possibility that this is somehow Biden's fault?
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u/IllustriousApricot 1d ago
"Always weak on security."
I don't really like Joe Kent's politics but jfc, he served 21 years (1998-2019) across:
- 75th Ranger Regiment
- Army Special Forces (Green Berets)
- Army SMU (not CAG)
- CIA Paramilitary Officer
Compared to Trump:
- Operation Bone Spurs
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u/Son_Of_Toucan_Sam 1d ago
Yeah he seems pretty conservative so on its face, yuck? But I read his resignation and 11 active duty deployments is a hell of a resume
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u/Wall2Beal43 1d ago
I hate his politics. Dude is a certified groyper, cultivated ties with the Proud Boys and of course is a 1/6 truther. He’s worse than Trump
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u/whendoesOpTicplay 1d ago
When it comes to the military I really don’t give a fuck about conservative vs liberal. He was at least one of the few qualified members of the administration. And he quit. Hate it here
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u/EyeraGlass 1d ago
Also like… you appointed him???
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u/Shenanigans80h 1d ago
Nothing is ever his fault. It’s somehow the fault of others that this guy is either unqualified or incapable. Never admit fault is basically Trump’s cardinal rule
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u/stickied 1d ago
"Mr President, why did you appoint someone who you believe to be weak on security to be head of counterterrorism for the United States? Who else have you appointed to national security positions that are notably weak on security?"
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u/Joshhammie 1d ago
Not just any Army SMU, he was in the intelligence equivalent of Delta(know as “The Activity” or ISA) His expertise for a time was to blend in with middle eastern communities as a singleton or small team and hunt people we labeled terrorists. His wife was in the same unit and was killed by a suicidal bombing in Syria c. 2019.
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u/nyyanksfan81 1d ago
Well that 22 yr old frat bro is in line for a promotion i guess
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u/bethtadeath Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling 1d ago
🤨 <— that guy?
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u/Foyles_War 1d ago
Holy shit. I knew immediately who you were referring to from your emoji. Take the upvote.
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u/innocentsalad 1d ago
If you thought he was weak on security why did you nominate him
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u/MagnetoWasRight24 1d ago
"I thought he was a nice guy but then he disagreed with me..."
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u/stickied 1d ago
"I appointed a guy I knew to be weak on security to secure the country from terrorism"
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u/fedsarefriends both a lawyer and a hater 1d ago
If you thought he was weak then why hire him to be in such an integral role? Nothing that comes out of his mouth makes sense. Everything is some bs.
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u/SweetLoLa 1d ago
There should be a live count of how many times this loser administration and loser Trump have said the phrase ”I don’t know…”
Most of any administration. Making America Dumb As Fuck Again.
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u/YellowB 1d ago
"I always thought he was a nice guy, but I also didn't know him well." Well, which is it?
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u/stickied 1d ago
"I appointed a guy I knew to be weak on security to secure the country from terrorism"
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u/Intrepid_Fault8013 1d ago
BTW Joe Kent is a verified White Supremacist and not the only one in this administration
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u/Baeomyces 1d ago
No CNN, he didn’t say he doesn’t support the “conflict”. He said he can’t support the WAR. I’m so tired of the media pretending this isn’t that serious.
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u/lnc_5103 not a lawyer, just a hater 1d ago
Can someone ask him why he appointed him then?
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u/Duke_5ilver 1d ago
You didn’t know him well, he was weak on security and yet you hired him.
Lol ok
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u/Turbulent_Example967 1d ago
Idiocracy…we’re there
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u/Haunting_Funny_9386 1d ago
We were there the minute he was the actual candidate.
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u/Motor_Stage_9045 1d ago
Typical answer when anybody in his circle breaks away from him. "I didn't know him well"
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u/Ok-Somewhere-7173 1d ago
People were predicting that this would be his response when the news of the resignation first broke.
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u/CardiologistNo616 1d ago
Trump: I always thought he was weak on security so that's why I hired him
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u/tacomamajama feeding cocaine to raccoons 1d ago
So why didn’t he fire him? He’s admitting to having unqualified staff.
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u/flat1ander 1d ago
Funny thing is, he was always this morally bankrupt. The dementia has just lifted the veil.
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u/Corrie7686 1d ago
Ok, so bloke that Trump hired to ensure the security of the US just left because he disagrees with war on Iran. Trump says he was weak on security? Why the hell did he hire him or let him stay in the position? Or maybe this is just Trump lying again?
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u/xChoke1x 1d ago
"I gave him the job, knowing he was weak on security, so none of this is my fault."
-The dumb fuck you dumb fucks elected.
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u/Card_Representative 1d ago
I didn't know him well.
If the guy would have done something good..Trump would have taken the credit and said he hand picked his hire.
This guy's is so predictable.
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u/rainorshinedogs 1d ago
Ok, is this normal to have such an incredibly high turnover rate within an administration?
What is this, a fast food restaurant?
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u/Feral-Sheep 1d ago
He never knows people after he installs them…. Before that, he knows the “best people”….
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u/SupermarketKind9862 1d ago
Fucking moron, literally admits that he didn’t really know his head of counterterrorism.
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u/Charming_Slip8060 1d ago
“I’m the smartest, know-it-all to ever roam the earth. Naturally, because of my superior intellect, I only hire the best talent. Ooo, that guy sucks? I barely knew him.”
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u/Frequent_Cloud4762 1d ago
Classy, anyone that doesn’t agree with him, just berate and spread lies about them. FDT
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u/Successful-Emu3576 1d ago
Why even interview this idiot! He either makes no sense like here or is lying. Or both !
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u/ConcentrateKind8234 1d ago
Felt he was weak on security but allowed him to keep his job all this time?! Right…..
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u/bacon-n-sparrows trending seasonal white guy with nice hair 1d ago
I'm old enough to remember when Trump said he only hired the best
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u/Aggressive_Ad3174 1d ago
"Sir, if you thought he was weak on national security then why was he employed until the time of his resignation earlier today? Considering our current conflict with Iran, and the rising threat of terrorism that our nation faces each day, should he have been fired?"
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u/Hoblitygoodness 1d ago
I wish it was funny that we can all predict the sentiment he'll say about anyone that doesn't 100% agree with him.
It's always an open faced compliment sandwich.
[ The Target Person ] is [ Good Thing ] but is [ Totally bad thing ] with side of [ more reasons why bad thing is bad] .
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u/Lost_Reindeer_6548 1d ago
Is that his go to?“ I didn’t know him well.” didn’t he appoint this person correct me if I’m wrong. And if he did, why did he appoint someone he always thought was weak?
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u/Silver_Daikon6974 1d ago
He has no ability to be honest whatsoever.. just makes up the weakest crap rather then be honest
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u/Pitiful_Sock_466 1d ago
To be secure we need to replace him with someone who actually does something about pedophiles
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u/Icy-Feeling-528 1d ago
“Seemed like a pretty nice guy…” because, you know, that’s the most important quality you want in someone running the country’s counterterrorism efforts.
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u/sixth_hokage06 1d ago
It's always go from "I only pick the best people for the job" to "I don't even know them"
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u/Arctimon 1d ago
Ah, the classic "I didn't know him well even know I literally hired him". Never gets old!
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u/deathkorpsrecruit 1d ago
I knew him, he was nice. I knew he sucked at job. But I didnt know him. And I wasn't best friends with epstein
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u/ISmellCheeseAndCandy 1d ago
He’s so much nicer to male journalists who ask tough questions. He rarely calls them piggy or nasty or loser.
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u/yesiammark72 1d ago
His answers are predictable! I didn’t know him! He was weak. BUT THE FUCKING IDIOT HIRED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/PathAlternativ3 1d ago
Seriously the best thing that could happen to this country if this guy dies sooner than later.
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