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Gary B Page's avatar

Not to mention that Trump has diverted resources from antiterrorism to his immigration crackdown, and appointed a 22 year old leader of an antiterrorism group in the government.

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Cliff Schecter's avatar

Yep. This alone is F-ing criminal

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Harper Thorpe's avatar

THE IRAN STORY OMMISSION

DJT did both Natanyahu & Putin favors by bombing Iran nuclear sites as he avoids drone-making sites. Russia’s fired 20.5k Iranian drones at Ukraine just this year. Earlier in June, DJT withheld 20k anti-drone missiles from Ukraine!

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Robyn Chauvin's avatar

What a beautiful description of a horrible situation.

“Like any junkie, he continually ups the dosage, provoking his opposition with greater outrage to stoke the division that fuels his political life and the petty dominance displays that apparently feed a desperate soul.“

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ConnieW's avatar

There is no way I could rally around trump, who has done more damage to this country than Iran ever could.

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Evelyn Scolman Lemoine's avatar

These are ominous--and I believe true--words. Our country is at our greatest peril since Pearl Harbor. And this time the enemy is from within. We must do everything we can to stave off the chaos and violence that this corrupt regime wants to inflict upon us if we are to save our democracy. It's a tall order. The question is, are we up to it?

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Matt Robison's avatar

As a people, everything about our history has always suggested that we are indeed up for the challenge. E pluribus unum. But the Trump effect is unprecedented. It would be amazing to see what the intelligence assessment provided to Chinese leadership or Russian leadership looks like of American vulnerabilities.

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Susan Ackley's avatar

But don't we have the 22 year old magat protecting us from terrorists?

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Paul Bourdon's avatar

How is our (and Israel's) bombing of Iran, completely unprovoked not an act of terrorism? Our own intelligence agency said there is no evidence Iran has had a nuclear weapons program since 2003! …and even if they did?

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Randall Livingston's avatar

Because the U.S. has never had such a large population of domestic terrorists.

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Will F.'s avatar

Pre 9-11, America had racial tension. 9-11 brought us together. 2016, Trump inflamed racial tension. And it's been the case for the past decade. He just pushed the first domino for another 9-11, almost 25 years later. And we are worse off today, than we were in 2001.

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Rob Roy's avatar

This writer had no in depth knowledge of Putin and Xi Jinping. None. I suggest he go to St. Petersburg, Russia a and Chongqing, China, THEN comment on those leaders.

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David Clark's avatar

We have allowed Republicans to lead us into the weakest the USA has ever been. The talking heads on Morning Joe talking about what a good job this was is nothing more than Joe kissing Trump's pucker just like Fox News. He has fired all ouor Cyber Security and hired a game store employee to run it all and dismissed the entire DNI making Gabbard come to heal after she slipped up and tolld the truth. We spent 4yrs of nothing but success and in 6months we have become a complete failure at everything. We now have Trump charging us 10-25% when we buy something and he has started puting Marines in the streets while deploying a Guastpo to deport all the people that build our homes, process our poultry and pick our food. Republicans have spent 50yrs since Reagan make us a country to Service where we lead the World in Technology and Development and we are turning into nothing more than a 3rd World country and in short order. In 6 months Republicans have given the biggest business failure in US History the power to eliminate our Democracy and when it goes so will our Freedom and our Capitalism. Also understand it you remember from COVID, every bad, stupid thing Trump does he claims no responsibility for anything. Remember 1000 COVID deaths a day and Trump's words, "it is what it is". He emake make a mess of all this like he always does and our problem is that it is the 1st of his term not the last so the Dems will not be able to fix it, again. Once the USA is in complete collapse him and Fox News will blame Biden like they have been doing and they are able because it seems 20% of the USA think this idiot is smart and just dismiss his entire life of failure. We are screwed.

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Susan OBrien's avatar

So very excellent. Thank you for bringing this important piece forward.

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