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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:23 PM Sep 2020

Jeffrey Goldberg on CNN: His...sources...refused to be named because "they don't want to be..."

.@JeffreyGoldberg on CNN says his senior admin & military sources...apparently combat veterans and career senior military officers... refused to be named because "they don't want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest."




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spooky3

(34,303 posts)
5. It's not just tweets--people Dump hates get threats
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:29 PM
Sep 2020

from his unbalanced disciples. And Dump is retaliatory and powerful.

2naSalit

(86,070 posts)
6. It's the death threats to themselves and families...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:30 PM
Sep 2020

Along with the fact that they are followed and harassed wherever they go and you never know when a trumpeteer will decide to just kill you.

It's what the tweets incite that is the issue.

agingdem

(7,759 posts)
9. look what he does to whistleblowers
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:36 PM
Sep 2020

and anyone with integrity that testifies at congressional hearings...he taunts them and encourages his reprehensible sycophants to go after them...I think about Fauci and the threats to him and his family...I don't blame them for not coming forward...they have more than themselves to protect

Sanity Claws

(21,822 posts)
12. Anyone who goes against Trump
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 06:02 PM
Sep 2020

Is subjected to death threats from his cult members. Example is Dr Fauci. He said things based on science that contradicted 45 and he got threats and had to get protection for his family.

coti

(4,612 posts)
7. All the rest, like having their character dragged through the mud by Trump's cultists.
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:31 PM
Sep 2020

Strategically and as far as credibility is concerned, it might just be better for them to stay anonymous so that the reflexive disbelievers and smearers don't have anything to shoot at. You can't "discredit" an unnamed person.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
8. If the AP & other news agencies have confirmed this story, that's proof it's true & not just a
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:35 PM
Sep 2020

statement by an author. Certainly proof enough for me against the denial by a liar!

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