Clapper: "Badge Of Honor" When Trump Attacks Me, John Brennan, Hayden & Comey

[highplainsdem]

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

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Video at the link.

[Wwcd]

1. K & R

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2. militant collective tribal narcissism

Link to tweet

Digitalist
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Replying to @SomeDigitalist @AmandaMarcotte

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]

3. Thanks for posting that!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. YVW highplainsdem

you are as tireless as any of us on DU

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[ffr]

6. This is my new zinger for the Russians, I mean Republicons.

[colorado_ufo]

8. I propose that we call them "Rus-publi-sians."

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9. Rus-publi-sians OUT!

Bumper sticker material.

[colorado_ufo]

10. Yes!

[FakeNoose]

7. I read James Clapper's book earlier this year

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]

11. Wow. Never expected to see this group of somewhat "staid" men

go batshit crazy when they have finally had enough!