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In reply to the discussion: Oh dear gawd. Is it worse than ANYONE could have imagined??? This would be pure treason [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)11. You make an excellent point.
If a person close to a foreign adversary don't believe that our President will protect his or her identity no matter what, why would they risk death to help us? Like you pointed out, even after Trump is gone, the stain he is making will linger, potential spies will have no confidence that American voters won't install another person like Trump as president.
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Oh dear gawd. Is it worse than ANYONE could have imagined??? This would be pure treason [View all]
Roland99
Sep 2019
OP
Not as long as Moscow Mitch remains Putin's Bitch and has enough Repugnant support
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#16
Vocal opposition is not the problem there is plenty of that on our side what we need is
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#29
I think the Republicans would ignore it without giving it a second thought.
cstanleytech
Sep 2019
#40
Whether or not it's true, this will ruin our intel services for years to come
unitedwethrive
Sep 2019
#7
Ruins our chances for ANY type of treaty or agreement. Why make deal subject to whims of a child?
Midnight Writer
Sep 2019
#33
Can we have a National Sanity Week? One week with Trump placed in a straightjacket with no access to
DemocracyMouse
Sep 2019
#17
The DB article says "a search to replace Gordon appears to be the most likely explanation."
NCLefty
Sep 2019
#41
Yup. tRump scraping the barrel: "any senior employee who's been at ODNI for 90 days or more". . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2019
#48